COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS CONTROL

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MSI 2005 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS CONTROL ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Faculty of Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR EROL KAYA

Offered to

Environmental Engineering
Textile Engineering
Mining Engineering (Evening)
Geological Engineering (Evening)
Geophysical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Mining Engineering
Mechanical Engineering (Evening)
Civil Engineering (Evening)
Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Geological Engineering
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Course Objective

1. Teach students how to know themselves.
2. Teach students how to be aware of their skills.
3. Teach students how to keep themselves away from limiting thoughts and behaviors.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knows limiting/normal/unlimited human behaviors.
2   Knows effective communication rules.
3   Defines setting goals and making plans for future.
4   Defines energy levels of our behaviors.
5   Knows time management and setting priorities (20/80 rule).
6   Defines aim of education, teachers duty, learning, proactive person, wise person/engineer, enlightened person/engineer, leader/manager, mature/valuable person, rationalism, love, trust, responsibility, discipline, differentiating oneself, ethics, individuate.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Class content, objective, expectations, homework, exams. Aim of education, duty of the teacher, definition of learning
2 Behaviors of self limiting people
3 Behaviors of normal and no limit people
4 Effective comminucation rules
5 Energy levels of our behaviors (low/high)
6 Goal setting (planning the future)
7 Time management, setting priorities (20/80 rule)
8 Homework 1 Reading book and oral presentation
9 Differentiating yourself, nose difference, being valuable/imporatant.
10 Leader/manager, love, trust, responsible, discipline, smart engineer, intellectual person
11 Ethics
12 Scientific thinking, rationalism
13 Importance of love and health, content/ enlightened person
14 Student presentations Self help topics.

Recomended or Required Reading

Stephen R. Covey, 1989, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
Wayne W. Dyer, 1976, Your Erroneous Zones.
Doğan Cüceloğlu, 1999, Anlamlı ve Çoşkulu bir Yaşam için Savaşçı.
Ben Sweetland, 1953, I can.
John C. Maxwell, 1995, Developing the Leaders Around You.
Stephen R. Covey, 1991, Principle-Centered Leadership.
David J. Schwartz, 1965, The Magic of Thinking Big.
Brian Tracy, 1993, Maximum Achievement.
David Campbell, 1974, If You Don t Know Where You Are Going You Will Probably End Up Somewhere Else.
Mary Walton, 1986, The Deming Management Method.
Adnan Nur Baykal, 1999, Atatürk ün Liderlik Sırları.
Charles B. Corbin, and Ruth Lindsey, 1994, Concepts of Physical Fitness.
Ayn Rand, 1993, The Fountainhead.
Charles J. Given, 1993, Superself Doubling Your Personal Effectiveness.
Wayne W. Dyer, 191980, The Sky s The Limit.
M. Scott Peck, 1978, The Road Less Traveled.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoretical presentations
Interactive presentations
Class discussions

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.30 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

HOMEWORK 1 %20 (Reading book and oral presentation)
HOMEWORK 2 %20 .(5-20 years and lifetime goals will be submitted as MSWord file with e-mail, and from hand in the class)
PARTICIPATION %10
FINAL %50
Not: HOMEWORK 1 ve 2, PARTICIPATION (toplam %50) will be graded as one item.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

erol.kaya@deu.edu.tr; 232 301 7514

Office Hours

Open door policy any time.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 0,5 6
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 48

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.1334333
LO.2222222
LO.3344433
LO.4343333
LO.5334433
LO.6343333

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