COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRITICAL READING STUDIES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MSH 0230 CRITICAL READING STUDIES ELECTIVE 2 1 0 4

Offered By

Civil Aviation and Cabin Services

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PINAR GÜNEL

Offered to

Civil Aviation and Cabin Services

Course Objective

The main purpose of the course is to contribute to students' reading, understanding and analysis skills and to enable them to use these skills in both their academic and business lives. While doing this, it is aimed to make the learning permanent by practicing through Turkish and Western literature stories.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. The student acquires the habit of regular reading
2   2. The student understands and analyzes what he reads
3   3. Students become acquainted with the literatures of different countries,
4   4. The student increases his/her reading speed, develops different perspectives and integrates this vision into his/her life.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Course Introduction, Planning
2 Yellow Wallpaper-Charlotte Perkins Gilman/One Hour Story-Kate Choplin
3 Sevgili Arsız Ölüm-Latife Tekin
4 Aziz Bey Hadisesi-Ayfer Tunç
5 Fear-Stefan Zweig
6 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button-F. Scott Fitzgerald
7 Like Water for Chocolate -Laura Esquivel
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 The Duchess and the Jeweler-Virginia Woolf
10 A Rose for Emily-William Faulkner
11 Red Monday-Gabriel García Márquez
12 Boarding House Woman -Roald Dahl
13 Call of the Wild-Jack London
14 Kürk Mantolu Madonna-Sabahattin Ali
15 Letter to a Child Never Born-Oriana Fallaci
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

It will be announced later

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Face to face expression technique in the classroom, discussion and problem solving, reading research, classroom applications.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Exams: There will be held on two in class exams; midterm exam and final exam during the semester.
Grades: 50 % Midterm Exam, 50 % Final Exam, 50 % Make-up Exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1) Attending at least 70 percent of lectures and fulfill the requirements of the course are mandatory.
2) Plagiarism of any type will result in disciplinary action.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

pinar.gunel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

It will be announced later

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 4 56
Tutorials 3 1 3
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 6 1 6
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 93

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.111
LO.211
LO.311
LO.411