COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LOGISTICS ENGLISH I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
LGM 1019 LOGISTICS ENGLISH I COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Logistics Management

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NAZLI GÜLFEM GIDENER

Offered to

Logistics Management

Course Objective

Acquire the ability to comprehend any written texts related to international logistics related telex messages.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Read and understand maritime business related articles appearing in the relevant journals and/or books
2   Summarize in oral and/or written forms what has been underlined in such readings
3   Fill out maritime business related forms and/or documents such as Bill of Ladings and Charter Parties
4   Carry out decent, clear and neat correspondences, communications in maritime business and logistics related activities
5   Carry out negotiations in logistics

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Focusing on pronunciation, mastering the phonetic sounds, weak and strong stresses
2 Reviewing the basic reading skills: Anticipation and guessing the meanings in context
3 Reviewing the basic reading skills: Reading between line, drawing conclusions, making inferences
4 Reviewing the basic reading skills: Developing dictionary using skills
5 Reviewing the basic reading/writing skills: Summarizing paragraphs and articles, finding main ideas and recognizing topic sentences
6 Reviewing the basic reading/writing skills: Enhancing the skill for summarizing, focusing on producing the summary through phrases rather than complete sentences
7 Midterm Exam
8 Reviewing the basic listening skills: Summarizing, discussing and answering the questions about what has been listened to
9 Charter Party Clauses: Sentence analysis, distinguishing main clause / subordinate clause.
10 Charter Party Clauses (cont d): Focusing on sentence analysis as well as the maritime law terms.
11 Bill of Lading Clauses: Enhancing sentence analysis, simplifying long sentences.
12 Bill of Lading Clauses (cont d): Reviewing adjectives, adverbs and noun clauses
13 Chartering telex negotiations: Recognizing, abbreviations, comprehending telex messages
14 Presentations
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Cooperative and active teaching and learning strategies

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.10 + FINS * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

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 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Preparing assignments 1 6 6
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 81

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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