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The course reinforces academic reading skills (finding the main idea, skimming, scanning, inferring information, guessing vocabulary from context, etc.) through reading selections on a variety of topics. It also aims at developing critical thinking, which enables students to respond to the ideas in a well organized written format. Other reading related writing skills such as paraphrasing and summarizing are also dealt with.

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The course reinforces academic writing skills. In this course students write different types of essays based on the ideas they are exposed to in the reading selections. The emphasis is on the writing process in which students go through many stages from brainstorming and outlining to producing a complete documented piece of writing.

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Intermediate work in translating texts from English into Turkish in three stages: (a) starting with samples including the basic structures in English at sentence level, (b) moving on to short paragraphs in which these structures are found in more complex form, (c) exposing students to short essays covering a wide variety of subjects as representative as possible of the styles and registers found in contemporary written English.

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Intermediate work in translating texts from Turkish into English in three stages: (a) starting with samples including the basic structures in English at sentence level, (b) moving on to short paragraphs in which these structures are found in more complex form, (c) exposing students to short essays covering a wide variety of subjects as representative as possible of the styles and registers found in contemporary written Turkish.

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The course aims at developing oral presentation skills. To this end, students are engaged in classroom discussions following advanced reading texts on a variety of topics. In the course students study effective presentation techniques, do extensive reading and carry out research to give presentations of different functions with mature content and topical vocabulary.

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A course designed to guide students in library research and the production of academic papers. Students follow basic steps of research: choosing and narrowing a topic, compiling a working bibliography, outlining, note-taking, writing the first draft and writing the final paper with documentation of sources.

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In this class, students will explore the theory and practice of creative nonfiction by reading and writing in a variety of forms, including list essay, memoir, travel writing and personal essay. Students will also learn the core elements of nonfiction such as voice, character, point of view and scene.

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This course is designed to provide an introduction to discourse analysis, the study of language in context, for non-specialists in the area of language study. The course aims to take a holistic approcah to multifactorial textual analysis. Advanced Textual Analysis makes use of the findings from semantics, etymology, lexicology, lexicography, discourse analysis and pragmatics in analyzing a variety of selected texts developing further reading skills, putting a special emphasis on improving vocabulary development strategies. Students are sensitized to subtle distinctions or variations in meaning between synonyms, idioms, phrasal verbs, and proverbial sayings by dealing with discionary skills in depth and are provided with the means to achieve vocabulary development autonomously.

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This course aims to study some chosen thinkers who escaped crucifixion, burning or imprisonment, and who sometimes did not. We will discuss their life stories, what they thought, what they lived through, what they achieved, and even what they did not achieve, for there are times when their failures are as important and valuable to us as their achievements. We have chosen to study not professional philosophers, although there are times when they come in handy, but intellectual leaders of human civilization: Scientists, artists, authors, musicians...

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The course covers some of the well-known poems of English language. They cover a wide variety of topics and themes, but they have all found their way into the songs of some famous musicians. Therefore, in addition to reading, students will have an opportunity to listen to them. Appreciation of literature and music will go hand in hand. The course is not a strictly literature course. It is more like a personal exploration of literature.

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Literary texts is a learner-centred course that will be offered at a technical university. Therefore, specific needs and background of technical university students as well as those studying social sciences are taken into consideration during the design process. The course aims to provide students with practice in four skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening). The course also appeals to students who are interested in literature, since it offers literary materials either as reading texts or as writing prompts to which students can respond to either in the form of an essay or an extended research on the assigned theme of the week. At production level, higher-order thinking skills such as synthesizing and evaluating information as well as producing ideas and forming judgements will be required. In this course, a thematic approach will be adopted, and course materials will be chosen among literary texts that revolve around certain thematic concerns such as war, migration, city, nature, house and body. Each theme will be discussed for two weeks. At the end of two weeks, students will be assigned paragraphs, presentations, group presentations on the theme of the week.

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This course is designed for students in any field of study who would like to raise their awareness the requirements of functional communication in intercultural contexts. The course deals with how language is a sociocultural medium of communication, how it is interwoven with culture, and the implications of this relation on our learning and behaviour.

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English through Seminars on Films is a course for students who like watching and discussing movies. The course encompasses all four skilis of language, Class hours mainly focusing on speaking and listening skills, homework assignments focusing on listening, reading and Miting skills. it aims to facilitate oral communication with the academic discussion method of seminar, which is a scholarly discussion technique that Will be taught by the instructor at the beginning of the semester. Each week, students watch a different movie and think about a set of open-ended questions assigned by the instructor as homework. In the Class, students discuss the questions using the seminar method. The seminars Will focus on the story in the movies. As homework assignment, students write one essay and make one presentation elaborating on one of the questions given by the instructor to discuss the debate/issue in the movies further in more detail.

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The course aims to assist students in raising awareness of the issues centered on the development of the English language and its forms of use today and, most importantly, for the future of the language in terms of becoming a Lingua Franca. The course involves assignments, presentations, group discussions, and critiques. Hence, active participation in all sessions is expected from students. The course requires extensive reading before each session and active involvement in class discussions to be carried out.

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This course is designed for students to develop a basic understanding of Turkish higher education system as prospective higher education professionals. Specifically, it aims to increase undergraduate students? understanding of fundamental concepts related to higher education such as history, organization and governance, sociology, economy, internationalization, career, laws, science and research, campus life and student body, ethics, and technology. Students analyze and synthesize information from scholarly publications on higher education and apply what they have learned in output activities. Students also write short critical reflections on these scholarly publications. They finally present a future research plan at the end of the course.

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This is a course designed to develop communication skills in a business context. The course is divided into two parts, namely job-seeking skills (CV and application letter writing, interview skills, etc.) and on-the-job skills. Emphasis is given to accuracy, fluency and effectiveness of students in certain business tasks such as socializing, telephoning, presenting information, holding meetings, etc.

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Intermediate-advanced work on English as it is used in the international media by native writers/speakers, in a variety of different registers such as newscasts (CNN and BBC), video documentaries, popular sit-coms and authentic unabridged texts. Emphasis will be on language and on critical thinking.
Students will have some autonomy and flexibility in their choice of learning strategies, themes and registers, and in turn, they will make on-going, active contribution to the course.