COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GENERAL COMMUNICATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SEC 2025 GENERAL COMMUNICATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Tourism Management

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ÖZAY EMRE YILDIZ

Offered to

Tourism Management

Course Objective

To teach the importance of communications in the social and professional world.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   General concepts of communication
2   The reasons for human communications
3   Verbal, non-verbal, written and organisational communication
4   Noise and noise cancellation in communications

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General concepts of communication
2 Reasons for human communication
3 Communication process
4 Verbal communication, advantages and disadvantages
5 Forms of verbal communication
6 Written communication tools
7 Fields of written communication
8 Non-verbal communication and its importance
9 Components of non-verbal communication
10 Body language in non-verbal communication
11 Colours in non-verbal communication
12 Organisational communication, its importance and functions
13 Forms of organisational communication
14 Noise in communication

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures
Discussions
Case studies
Research

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.15555
LO.255555
LO.35555
LO.455555