Information Of Programmes

SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES / ETI310 - TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING (ENGLISH)

Code: ETI310

Course Title: CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

Theoretical+Practice: 2+0

ECTS: 4

Year/Semester of Study

3 / Spring Semester

Level of Course

1st Cycle Degree Programme

Type of Course

Optional

Department

TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING (ENGLISH)

Pre-requisities and Co-requisites

None

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Teaching Period

14 Weeks

Name of Lecturer

MEHMET TUNAZ (mehmet.tunaz@nevsehir.edu.tr)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Language of Instruction

English

Work Placement(s)

None

Objectives of the Course

The aim is this course, understand to important of thinking and thinking skills, basic thinking skills, apply critical and analytical thinking in daily and professional life.

Learning Outcomes		PO	MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1	Can describe thinking and thinking skills	PO-4 To be able to think analiytically PO-12 To easily be attuned to the current changes in the sector	Examination
LO-2	Can explain basic and advanced thinking skills	PO-4 To be able to think analiytically PO-5 Not to swerve from the proffesional and ethic responsibilities	Examination
LO-3	Can create activities related to the application of critical and analytical thinking skills in educational environments	PO-1 To be able to make interdisciplinary research within the field PO-4 To be able to think analiytically	Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Basic concepts and definitions; brain as thinking center, ways of thinking and grouping of thinking; involuntary thinking and its features; voluntary thinking and its characteristics; methods of voluntary thinking; arguments; invalid reasoning; fallacies and their types; critical and analytical thinking; basic features and criteria of critical and analytical thinking, stages of critical and analytical thinking; factors affecting critical and analytical thinking; scope of critical and analytical thinking; critical and analytical reading; critical and analytical listening; critical and analytical writing.
Weekly Course Content
Week	Subject	Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1	Definition of thinking and thinking skills, effective cognitive processes in thinking structures	Lecture, presentation, discussion
2	Voluntary and involuntary thinking, Basic and advanced thinking skills	Lecture, presentation, discussion
3	Arguments and invalid reasoning	Lecture, presentation, discussion
4	Fallacies	Lecture, presentation, discussion
5	Formal and informal fallacies	Lecture, presentation, discussion
6	critical and analytical thinking; basic features and criteria of critical and analytical thinking	Lecture, presentation, discussion
7	Factors affecting critical and analytical thinking	Lecture, presentation, discussion
8	mid-term exam
9	critical and analytical reading	Lecture, presentation, discussion
10	critical and analytical listening	Lecture, presentation, discussion
11	critical and analytical writing	Lecture, presentation, discussion
12	Thinking skills training programs applied in the world	Lecture, presentation, discussion
13	Examining critical and analytical thinking skills in curricula	Lecture, presentation, discussion
14	Creating activities that support critical and analytical thinking for students	Lecture, presentation, discussion
15	General revision	Lecture, presentation, discussion
16	final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
Required Course instruments and materials
Course book

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment	Week	Hours	Weight(%)
mid-term exam	1	1	40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam	1	1	60

Student Work Load
Type of Work	Weekly Hours	Number of Weeks	Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice)	2	14	28
Outside Class
a) Reading	2	14	28
b) Search in internet/Library	3	14	42
c) Performance Project			0
d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report			0
e) Term paper/Project			0
Oral Examination			0
Quiz			0
Laboratory exam			0
Own study for mid-term exam	10	1	10
mid-term exam	1	1	1
Own study for final exam	14	1	14
final exam	1	1	1
			0
			0
Total work load;			124