The aim of this course is to equip our students with an elementary level of English which will enable them understand and talk about everyday topics.
Prerequisite(s)
None
Corequisite(s)
None
Special Requisite(s)
None
Instructor(s)
Lecturer Seval SARIYILDIZ AKSU, Lecturer Ayşegül Gezek, Lecturer Dr. Sinan Bataklar, Lecturer Özay Şeker, Lecturer Mehmet Altay, Lecturer Ebru Temiz, Lecturer Gonca Dayı
Course Assistant(s)
None
Schedule
Online education
Office Hour(s)
The office hours are announced on oline education portal CATS at the beginning of evert academic term.
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Online education.
Principle Sources
Weekly prepared voiced powerpoint slides.
Other Sources
Practice worksheets.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Names of some places in a city; there is, there are.
Online education.
2. Week
Talking about future events with be going to and will.
Online education.
3. Week
Prepositions of location, talking about past situations using was and were; vocabulary about home.
Online education.
4. Week
Talking about past activities using the simple past tense, regular and irregular verb forms.
Online education.
5. Week
Talking about job routines and your abilities, necessities, offering advice, making suggestions with "can, can't, should, shouldn't, have to and don't have to"
Introducing and describing people using adjectives, statements with be and have, information questions.
Online education.
8. Week
Ordering food and drinks at a restaurant, talking about quantities with "many much, a lot of, some, a few, a little. Countable and uncountable nouns. - MIDTERM EXAM
Quiz
9. Week
Talking about abilities and necessities, giving advice and instructions, adverbs of manner.
Online education.
10. Week
Asking for and giving directions, prepositions of location, prepositions of place.
Online education.
11. Week
Comparing two or more things, places or people using comparatives. Vocabulary about renting an apartment.
Online Education
12. Week
Talking about outdoor places, describing and comparing places using superlatives.
Online education.
13. Week
Expressions with "do" and "make", phrases with "get", definite and indefinite articles, vocabulary related with kinds of stores you can find around you.
Online education.
14. Week
Asking for and giving advice, gerunds and infinitives, vocabulary about going out.
Online education.
15. Week
Final Exam
FINAL EXAM
16. Week
Final Exam
FINAL EXAM
17. Week
Final Exam
FINAL EXAM
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Quizzes
1
20
Final Exam
1
80
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Critical Thinking: Ability to inquire, use abstract ideas to interpret information, consider diverse points of view, reach well-reasoned conclusions.
PO-2
Communication: Ability to use appropriate representational media to transmit essential formal elements at design process.
PO-3
Investigation: Ability to gather, record, apply, and comparatively evaluate relevant information within design processes.
PO-4
Design: Ability to reproduce the design information in the creative thinking process, to reach new and original results through universal design principles such as sustainability and accessibility.
PO-5
World Architecture: Understanding world architecture in terms of their historical, geographical and global factors.
PO-6
Local Architecture / Cultural Diversity: Understanding the architectural formations and samples of a geography through its historical and cultural context. Understanding the divergent canons of cultural values, behavioral, social and spatial patterns.
PO-7
Cultural Heritage and Conservation: Understanding of conservation discourses and methods, and the subjects of cultural heritage, conservation awareness, environmental concerns and ethical responsibility.
PO-8
Sustainability: Ability to design projects by using the information regarding the natural and built environment to reduce the undesirable environmental impacts on future generations through means.
PO-9
Social Responsibility: Understanding of the architect’s responsibility about protecting the commonweal, having respect for historical/cultural and natural resources and improving the life quality.
PO-10
Nature and Human: Understanding of the relationship between human, the natural environment and the design of the built environment.
PO-11
Geographical Conditions: Understanding the relationships of site selection, settlement and building design by considering the cultural, economical and social properties as well as the natural characteristics such as soil, topography, vegetation and watershed.
PO-12
Life Safety: Understanding the basic principles of security and life-safety systems in the conditions of natural disasters, fire, etc. through building and environment scales.
PO-13
Structural Systems: Understanding of the basic principles of structural behavior in withstanding gravity and lateral forces and the evolution, range, and appropriate application of contemporary structural systems.
PO-14
Environmental Systems: Understanding the principles of physical environmental systems’ design such as lighting, acoustics, climatization and the use of appropriate performance assessment tools.
PO-15
Building Envelope Systems: Understanding of the basic principles involved in the appropriate application of building envelope systems and associated assemblies.
PO-16
Building Service Systems: Understanding of the basic design principles of building service systems such as plumbing, electrical, vertical transportation, security, and fire protection systems.
PO-17
Building Materials and Assemblies: Understanding of the basic principles utilized in the appropriate selection of construction materials, products, components and assemblies, based on their inherent characteristics and performance, including their environmental impact and reuse.
PO-18
Integration of Building Service Systems: The ability of assessing, selecting and integrating the structural, environmental, security, envelope and service systems of the buildings for building design.
PO-19
Programming and Evaluation: Ability to prepare and evaluate an architectural project program by considering the public benefits in regards of client and user needs, appropriate examplers, space and equipment requirements, financial limitations, site conditions, relevant codes, laws and design principles.
PO-20
Comprehensive Project Development: Ability to produce a comprehensive architectural project that demonstrates to make design decisions across various scales.
PO-21
Considering Building Costs: Understanding the fundamentals of building construction and use costs.
PO-22
Architect-Client Relationship: Understanding of the responsibility of the architect to elicit, understand, and reconcile the needs of the client, owner, user groups, and the public and community domains.
PO-23
Collaboration: Ability to work in collaboration with others and in multidisciplinary teams to successfully complete design projects.
PO-24
Project Management: Understanding of the methods for competing for commissions, selecting consultants and assembling teams, and recommending project delivery methods.
PO-25
Practice Management: Understanding the basic principles in the architectural practice processes like financial management, business planning, quality management, risk management, discussion and reconciliation.
PO-26
Leadership: Understanding of the techniques and skills architects use to work collaboratively in the building design and construction process and on environmental, social, and aesthetic issues in their communities.
PO-27
Legal Rights and Responsibilities:
Understanding of the architect’s responsibility to the public and the client as determined by regulations and legal considerations involving the practice of architecture.
PO-28
Professional Practice: Understanding and fulfillment of employer and intern rights and responsibilities for development of profession.
PO-29
Ethics of Profession: Understanding of the ethical issues involved in profession regarding social, political and cultural issues in architectural design and practice.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
LO-2
Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.
LO-3
Can write descriptive paragraphs,postcards and thank-you letters.
LO-4
Can make short presentations and respond to questions.
LO-5
To make suggestions, to compare things and to talk about life.
