Public Speaking (KAM432) Course Detail

Course Name	Course Code	Season	Lecture Hours	Application Hours	Lab Hours	Credit	ECTS
Public Speaking	KAM432	8. Semester	3	0	0	4	5

Pre-requisite Course(s)
NONE

Course Language	English
Course Type	Compulsory Departmental Courses
Course Level	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery	Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice, Team/Group.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)	Instructor Şebnem Aykaç Ömeroğlu
Course Assistants
Course Objectives	The general aim is to help the students succeed in their academic goals as well as personal communicative goals. KAM 432 Public Speaking aims at providing the Political Science and Public Administration students with opportunities to develop their skills in using English through short and various mini speeches based on written preparation and doing research and preparing a step by step written outcome for making public speech for various occasions. The students will have improved their speaking and presentation skills
Course Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; Have knowledge about the importance of public speaking, Have knowledge about the speech types and speech text patterns so that they can define the type of the speech they are listening Learn where to use which type of the speech in their speaking. Recognize basic language forms and patterns, and use them to produce short texts to express their ideas both in spoken and written form meaningfully Have experience in listening, speaking and writing in English.
Course Content	English language course.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week	Subjects	Preparation
1	Course information.
2	What is Communication? What is effective communication?	Class notes
3	Types of speeches	Class notes
4	Informative speech - outline a speech	Class notes
5	Body language	Class notes
6	Informative speech	Class notes
7	How to prepare a presentation ?	Class notes
8	MIDTERM EXAM
9	Persuasive speech	Class Notes
10	Persuasive speech	Class notes
11	Special occasion speech	Class notes
12	Special occasion speech	Class notes
13	Importance of colors in speech	Class notes
14	Job interviews	Class notes
15	Revision of the term	Class notes
16	Final exam presentation (%60)

Sources

Course Book	1. - English for Presentations, by Marion Grussendorf (2007),Oxford Bussiness English series.

Evaluation System

Requirements	Number	Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation	1	10
Laboratory	-	-
Application	-	-
Field Work	-	-
Special Course Internship	-	-
Quizzes/Studio Critics	-	-
Homework Assignments	-	-
Presentation	-	-
Project	-	-
Report	-	-
Seminar	-	-
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury	1	30
Final Exam/Final Jury	1	60
Toplam	3	100

Percentage of Semester Work	40
Percentage of Final Work	60
Total	100

Course Category

Core Courses
Major Area Courses	X
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

#	Program Qualifications / Competencies	Level of Contribution
#	Program Qualifications / Competencies	1	2	3	4	5
1	Students can learn the basic concepts, theories and methods of political science and public administration and use them in the analysis of national and global political developments and cause-effect relationships.
2	It enables one to understand how policies are created and implemented in real life at the local, national, regional and/or global level, to recognize the important institutions and actors that play a role in these processes, and to know the functioning of public administration.
3	It provides a basic level of knowledge about other fields related to political science and public administration disciplines (such as international relations, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, economics, law, history, etc.) and thus provides an interdisciplinary understanding that takes into account the relationships between different areas of life and establishes connections.
4	Learning the use of quantitative and/or qualitative research techniques that can be used in the field of political science and public administration, software, hardware and/or technical tools that can be useful; gaining experience in designing and executing research projects to develop their application skills in this field.
5	By promoting critical analytical thinking, intellectual debate and lifelong learning, the development of the ability to act with an open mind, to avoid discrimination and to be sensitive and respectful of different points of view, thus developing skills for acting in partnership.
6	To develop decision-making and initiative taking, work completion and time management competencies by understanding business ethics in public administration, politics and all related fields.
7	Developing communication skills, oral and written expression, presentation techniques; learning the writing principles and procedures required to write an academic article on political science and public administration disciplines.					X
8	The aim of the course is to master the English terminology in the disciplines of political science and public administration and to gain foreign language knowledge at a level to follow the studies written in English, so that current political developments and events in various countries can be analysed comparatively.					X
9	To know the political history of both Turkey and the world in terms of periods, important turning points and actors, to comprehend the impact of the social-historical backgrounds of countries on current political and administrative issues.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours)	14	4	56
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class	14	3	42
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury	1	10	10
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury	1	17	17
Total Workload			125