COURSE UNIT TITLE

: M.SC. SEMINAR

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CIE 5096 M.SC. SEMINAR COMPULSORY 0 2 0 3

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ALI HAKAN ÖREN

Offered to

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES
Structural Engineering

Course Objective

The aim of the seminar is to enable and encourage the students to do literature search on a given or selected topic, to give them the opportunity to learn synthesizing the information gathered from the searched literature, to analyze, interpret and discuss the findings in the light of available literature, to compile the results in the form of a report and to submit them before an audience.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Search literature to do a detailed research on a given or selected subject.
2   Apply ethical rules that should be followed during a scientific study.
3   Present the obtained results in written, oral and visual ways.
4   Analysis and evaluation of the data with proper scientific methods.
5   Prepare scientific report.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Determining the seminar subject.
2 Literature search.
3 Literature search.
4 Literature search.
5 Gathering and analysis of the data.
6 Gathering and analysis of the data.
7 Gathering and analysis of the data.
8 Gathering and analysis of the data.
9 Evaluation of the results and the anaysis.
10 Evaluation of the results and the anaysis.
11 Preparing report
12 Evaluation of the results and the anaysis.
13 Presentation
14 General Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Books and articles about seminar subject

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Student will come to see Instructor and able to discuss the article that he/she read. Student should be able to submit a report as summaries of these articles. In addition, studies to improve the presentation ability will be made.

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students are assessed by their study on literature survey on the topic, data collection, compilation, analysis and reporting on the results and their ability to report on the subject prepared by the end of the term and the presentation of the report.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 77

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.1433
LO.24
LO.35
LO.43434
LO.54

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