COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CAREER GUIDANCE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PDR 3023 CAREER GUIDANCE COMPULSORY 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR DIĞDEM MÜGE SIYEZ

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Course Objective

With this course, it is aimed that students comprehend vocational choice process and role and functional of vocational guidance and counseling in vocational choice process.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Know basic concepts: occupation, job, vocationa guidance and career counseling
2   2. Comprehend the factors influencing vocational choice
3   3. Comprehend the theories of career counseling
4   4. Explain the career development according to life stage
5   5. Evaluate the vocational guidance and counseling activties in different education settings
6   6. Evaluate the vocational guidance and counseling in Turkey

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic concepts related to career choice, history and development of vocational guidance and career counseling
2 Factors that influence career choice
3 Factors that influence career choice
4 Trait factors theories: trait factor, work adjustment theory
5 Trait factors theories: Holland typology theory
6 Psychodynamic approaches: psychoanalitic approach, Adlerian approach
7 Psychodiynamic approaches: Roe s approach, Myer briggs type theory
8 Rehearsal, Midterm exam, and evaluation
9 Developmental approaches: Ginzberg
10 Developmental approaches: Super
11 Developmental approaches: Super
12 Developmental approaches: Gottfredson
13 Vocational Guidance and Counseling in Turkey
14 Vocational Guidance and Counseling in Turkey
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Yeşilyaprak, B. (2011). Mesleki rehberlik ve kariyer danışmanlığı: kuramdan uygulamaya. Ankara: Pegem Akademi
Kuzgun, Y. (2000). Meslek danışmanlığı: Kuramlar ve uygulamalar. Ankara: Nobel.
Sharf, R. S. (1992). Applying career development theory to counseling (3rd Ed.). California: Brooks/Cole.
Zunker, V. G. (2002). Career counseling. Applied concepts of life planning (6th Ed). California: Brooks/Cole.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

- Presentation
- Question and answer
- Case analysis
- discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE Midterm Exam
2 DTK Other Activity
3 FN Semester final exam
4 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.30 + Student examDTK * 0.10 + FN * 0.60
5 BUT Make- up note
6 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.30 +Student examDTK * 0.10 + BUT * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

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 11 2 22
Tutorials 2 2 4
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 56

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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