PSIR111 STUDY SKILLS IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES
| Course Code: | 3540111 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Political Science and International Relations |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assist.Prof.Dr HAYRİYE KAHVECİ |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course is designed to equip students with the basic skills required by all social and political science students to successfully conduct their studies to a high academic standard. The course will achieve this in the following ways:
- Introduce students to Teaching, Learning and research practices and platforms of the University
- Introduce students to writing social and political science bibliographies
- Instruct students on academic citation and referencing
- Instruct students in critical reading and discussion of academic texts
- Introduce students to the use of social and political science data bases and library resources
- Introduce students to the skills necessary for the interpretation of quantitative data sets and statistical tables
Course Content
For course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr.Course Learning Outcomes
When students have completed the course they will have acquired the necessary academic skills and knowledge in the following areas:
- Students will be able to use teaching platforms used in Campus
- Students will be able to cite and reference authors in their written work according to the requirements of the university
- Students will be able to write an academic bibliography
- Students will be fully aware of the concept of plagiarism and understand the negative consequences of committing such an act during their studies at METU NCC
- Students will be able to conduct their own literature searches
- Students will be able to analyse and use basic statistical data, drawing out its wider social and political significance
- Students will be able to summarise texts and materials which constitute required reading for their various courses.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Having academic knowledge in Political Science and International relations disciplines | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Developing an interdisciplinary perspective incorporating other areas of the social sciences as well | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Being capable of evaluating political, economic and social matters at local, national and international levels | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Being capable of making sense of, follow and analyze political, economic and social events | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Being sensitive to global, environmental and social problems | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Developing a critical mind capable of making constructive criticisms, open to lifelong learning, researching, inquiring, questioning and problems solving | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Being capable of individual work, entrepreneur, good time management and able to actively take part in group work for common purposes | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Having effective communication skills in Turkish and English languages | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Being capable of using communication technologies in reaching to information and organizing and presenting this information in a systematic way | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution