COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMPARATIVE COUNTRY INFORMATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YAÖ 1010 COMPARATIVE COUNTRY INFORMATION COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3

Offered By

German Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR SELMA KIRIŞ

Offered to

German Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

In this course it is aimed to get the ability of making the comparison of cultures and intercultural communication, to acquire federal states of Germany, holy and national days in Germany and Turkey, to gain intercultural awareness.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student will be able to define and explain the basic approach to cultural studies.
2   The student will be able to distinguish the contrastive cultural studies from other ones.
3   The student will be able to compare the Turkish and German culture and to distinguish their similarities and differences.
4   The student will be able to discuss the role of contrastive cultural studies in foreign language teaching.
5   The student will be able to look at cultures from different points of view.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction of the course, distribution of presentations
2 The definition of country information and its types
3 Federal states of Germany and central management system in Turkey.
4 The German writers awarded with Nobel literature prize
5 Holy and national days in Germany and Turkey
6 The types of behaviour in Germany and Turkey (The advice given to a person who wants to come from Germany to Turkey, and to go to Germany from Turkey.
7 Revision of the subjects
8 Midterm Exam
9 Family in Germany and Turkey, marriage and its types. How is marriage in Turkey and Germany
10 The history of migration to Germany, its past and today Turkish writer in Germany.
11 Haecceity and collectivity in Turkey and Germany (neighborliness in both countries)
12 Authoritarian non authoritarian family structure and education in the family.
13 The education system in Germany
14 The education system in Turkey Revision of the subjects
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

- Biechele, M. /Padrós, A.:Didaktik der Landeskunde. Fernstudieneinheit 31. Langenscheidt, München, (2003)
- Kirchmeyer, Susanne: Blick auf Deutschland, Ernst Klett, Stuttgart, 2002
- Berger, Maria Cristina; Martini Maddalena: Generation Deutschsprachige Landeskunde im Europäschen Kontext, Ernst Klett, Stuttgart, 2005
- Thomsen, Heinke Behal; Mog, Angelika Lundquist; Paul Mog: Typisch deutsch Arbeitsbuch zu Aspekten deutscher Mentalität, Langenscheidt, Berlin und München, 1993, - Luscher,Renate: Landeskunde Deutschland, Verlag für Deutsch Luscher, München, 2005 - Faigle, Iris: Rundum Einblicke in die deutschsprachige Kultur, Ernst Klett, Recanati, 2010 - Macaire, Dominique; Hosch, Wolfram, Meese, Herrad: Bilder in der Landeskunde, Fernstudieneinheit 11, Langenscheidt, 2000
- Lege, Peter: Wer, was, wann, wo Das D-A-CH Landeskunde- Quiz Fragen und Antworten zu Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, Langenscheidt, Berlin und München, 2005

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Project- presentation- discussion, Collage Technique and Cluster Method

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

German

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

selma.kiris@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Theoretical 13 3 39
Pre Class Self Study 13 1 13
Midterm Preparation 1 8 8
Final Preparation 1 9 9
Research Presentation 1 6 6
Final Exam 1 2 2
Midterm Exam 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 79

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.15
LO.231
LO.35
LO.451
LO.5543

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