EPOKA UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING
COURSE SYLLABUS
2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR
COURSE INFORMATIONCourse Title: DEVELOPMENT OF READING AND WRITING SKILLS IN ENGLISH II |
Code | Course Type | Regular Semester | Theory | Practice | Lab | Credits | ECTS |
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ENG 104 | D | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) | Dr. Mirela Alhasani malhasani@epoka.edu.al |
Main Course Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours: | Dr. Mirela Alhasani malhasani@epoka.edu.al |
Second Course Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours: | NA |
Language: | English |
Compulsory/Elective: | Compulsory |
Study program: (the study for which this course is offered) | Bachelor in Computer Engineering (3 years) |
Classroom and Meeting Time: | Office room number 205 D building |
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours: | NA |
Code of Ethics: |
Code of Ethics of EPOKA University Regulation of EPOKA University "On Student Discipline" |
Attendance Requirement: | 75% Mandatory |
Course Description: | This course is a well-balanced and harmonized combination of ELT methodology with real functional professional setting. Its aim is to improve students’ professional communication skills and content understanding in genres of engineering and architecture. The course is comprehensive in its scope of topics and themes by offering opportunities of high- priority language useful to any branch of engineering (mechanical, electrical, civil, computing, environmental) and to architecture by focusing on tasks and skills related to drawings, description of technical problems as well the dimensions and precision. It is designed with an emphasis on all four dimensions of ESP learning: authentic activities illustrating daily engineering situations, original listening to professionals at work, speaking and writing tasks affiliated to contemporary problems and sensitive issues of engineering and architecture by making the course practical, and motivating. |
Course Objectives: | The course is designed for intermediate to advanced-level students ( B2-C 1 level of proficiency) who need to use the English of computing for academic study and afterward, for work purposes. It will equip students with tailored jargon to describe devices and gadgets. English for Communication Technology offers social, linguistic, and educational reasons for taking the course. the main linguistic aim of this ICT English course is to provide technical IT vocabulary, syntax, and discourse functions beneficial for developing linguistic competence for computer, electronic, and software engineering students. |
BASIC CONCEPTS OF THE COURSE
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1 | This ESP class is based on needs assessment analysis. |
2 | it is designed to foster learner's English competence in reading, writing, speaking and listening in the IT domain |
3 | Learner-centered classroom |
4 | To Encourage professional and academic usage of the Computer Engineering English for university requirement. |
5 | To enrich the upper intermediate and advanced English competence in reading, speaking , writing about IT themes |
6 | To equip students with the contemporary key terminology about computer engineering and software engineering domains |
7 | 7: To read, analyze, defend and present verbally and orally IT case studies |
COURSE OUTLINE
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Week | Topics |
1 | Unit 1 -Information Systems ( pp6-14) reading , analyzing and writing in this thematic terminology from authentic source plus listening to authentic lecture Harvard,edu. 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NgNicANyqM&authuser=0 Youtube lecture. |
2 | Unit 2-Database Management Systems ( pp 14-21) Building vocabulary in this theme form text reading and exercises. Computer science terminology https://www.youtubeeducation.com/watch?v=LtoBGQPuu1c lecture 2023. Video-lecture https://youtu.be/X7v0O8yiUuY?si=tGXzAXSxW1l72-HI |
3 | Unit 3- Computer Networks ( pp 21-28)/Cybernetics birth of the science (PP 6-11); Information Technology: the first 2,500 years | Chris Blackwell | TEDxFurmanU Mar 10, 2017 https://youtu.be/V1qHNrQQHZI?si=wngqJBWP9udOoE43 |
4 | Unit 4-Networking Media and Hardware (pp28-35) - Online Guest Lecturer from Lisbon insitute of Human Language Technology- online video-lecturehttps://youtu.be/DYgRqIeuwVQ?si=LNqUlSECZVNntQtO |
5 | Unit 5 -The Internet and the World Wide Web ( pp 35-41) Network and Society pp 58-62 cybernetics book |
6 | Unit 6- Understanding the Inherent in technology - Why we need to understand the inherent in technology | Evan Barba | TEDxTysonsSalon Jul 17, 2018 https://youtu.be/QhOGWy9kvj8?si=XuP2s31Diot0MOzX Duan , John S. Edwards , Yogesh K Dwivedi, “Artificial intelligence for decision making in the era of Big Data – evolution, challenges and research agenda”,in International Journal of Information Management Volume 48, October 2019, Pages 63-71 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.01.021 |
7 | Unit 6- Online communication morality and security (pp 41-48) Online Guest ESP lecturer- University of Batna, ALgeria; AI Regulation: Balancing Risk and Opportunity YouTube OECD Jan 23, 2023 https://youtu.be/-CXkHs3cxa4 |
8 | The Social and Political Implications of Technology | Donald Temple | TEDxHowardUniversity https://youtu.be/HkaPhCPi0Jw?si=o9-WxVWnpY05WitJ |
9 | Midterm exam |
10 | Unit 7- Cryptology in the Computer Era (pp 48-54) key terminology from the literature; Audio- visual lecture : https://youtu.be/05Uy-hFFkRU?si=0dQoyt0mC1ARr2G3 |
11 | UNIT 8- Multimedia and the WEB (PP 54-60) What is REGTECH | Regulatory Technology | RegTech in Fintech | Future Tech! [UPDATED 2022] |
12 | UNIT 9 - E-commerce/Green technologies (pp 60-67) Online Guest Lecturer UNiversity of Nis, Serbia - video-lecture on Green technology : https://youtu.be/TCtIRAFyTIY?si=nYRtbgUDGS32WL-k |
13 | IT acronyms/ Developing writing proficiency in IT genre (pp109-149 cybernetics book) Videolecture: https://youtu.be/etZCr0Qc3Uk?si=xTjWQ7rifBaitIPw |
14 | Revision of ITC terminology prior to final exam |
Prerequisite(s): | Students should have taken fall semester English 103 Development of Reading and Writing Skills level1. |
Textbook(s): | Main textbook: Professional English in IT: Textbook for Students of Information Technology, 2019 by O.Krasneko, L. Kucheriava, M Rebenko, Kyiv University PRESS Other illustrative case lectures from YouTube/ Internet |
Additional Literature: | Maryana Rebenko, 2020 English Proficiency in Cybernetics, Kyiv University PRESS Floridi, Luciano, Josh Cowls, Monica Beltrametti, Raja Chatila, Patrice Chazerand, P., Virgina Dignum, and others (2018). AI4People—An ethical framework for a good AI society: Opportunities, risks, principles, and recommendations. Minds and Machines, 28(4), 689-707. Lee, Francis (2020) Enacting the Pandemic: Analyzing Agency, Opacity, and Power in Algorithmic Assemblages. Science & Technology Studies; Ziewitz, Malte. 2017. “A not quite random walk: Experimenting with the ethnomethods of the algorithm”, Big Data & Society 4 (2), https://doi.org/10.1177/205395171773; Arquilla, John, and David F. Ronfeldt. Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror Computers and the Early Cold War, Edwards, The Closed World, Chapter 1 and Chapter 3 Castells, The Internet Galaxy, Schott, “Global Webs of Knowledge” |
Laboratory Work: | |
Computer Usage: | For research, writing, source citation, and presentations |
Others: | No |
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
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1 | At the End of the Academic course students will be able to develop four English skills about technology |
2 | They will be able to conduct individually and in teams, research on a phenomenon. |
3 | They will cover Sophisticated literature , be selective on credibility of the information |
4 | They will be able to gather data, build up convincing arguments and express them effectively both in written and verbal forms |
5 | Students will be able to enrich and enhance their vocabulary and linguistic patterns on professional English for Informatics. |
6 | Students will be able to present case studies in fluent computer engineering English on a theme of their studies. |
COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES
(Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution) |
No | Program Competencies | Cont. |
Bachelor in Computer Engineering (3 years) Program | ||
1 | Engineering graduates with sufficient theoretical and practical background for a successful profession and with application skills of fundamental scientific knowledge in the engineering practice. | 5 |
2 | Engineering graduates with skills and professional background in describing, formulating, modeling and analyzing the engineering problem, with a consideration for appropriate analytical solutions in all necessary situations | 5 |
3 | Engineering graduates with the necessary technical, academic and practical knowledge and application confidence in the design and assessment of machines or mechanical systems or industrial processes with considerations of productivity, feasibility and environmental and social aspects. | 4 |
4 | Engineering graduates with the practice of selecting and using appropriate technical and engineering tools in engineering problems, and ability of effective usage of information science technologies. | 5 |
5 | Ability of designing and conducting experiments, conduction data acquisition and analysis and making conclusions. | 5 |
6 | Ability of identifying the potential resources for information or knowledge regarding a given engineering issue. | 4 |
7 | The abilities and performance to participate multi-disciplinary groups together with the effective oral and official communication skills and personal confidence. | 5 |
8 | Ability for effective oral and official communication skills in foreign language. | 5 |
9 | Engineering graduates with motivation to life-long learning and having known significance of continuous education beyond undergraduate studies for science and technology. | 4 |
10 | Engineering graduates with well-structured responsibilities in profession and ethics. | 5 |
11 | Engineering graduates who are aware of the importance of safety and healthiness in the project management, workshop environment as well as related legal issues. | 5 |
12 | Consciousness for the results and effects of engineering solutions on the society and universe, awareness for the developmental considerations with contemporary problems of humanity. | 4 |
COURSE EVALUATION METHOD
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Method | Quantity | Percentage |
Homework |
5
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6
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Presentation |
1
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15
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Final Exam |
1
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55
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Total Percent: | 100% |
ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)
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Activities | Quantity | Duration(Hours) | Total Workload(Hours) |
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) | 8 | 3 | 24 |
Mid-terms | 1 | 6 | 6 |
Assignments | 1 | 9 | 9 |
Final examination | 1 | 13 | 13 |
Other | 0 | ||
Total Work Load:
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100 | ||
Total Work Load/25(h):
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4 | ||
ECTS Credit of the Course:
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4 |
CONCLUDING REMARKS BY THE COURSE LECTURER
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Students showed interest and commitment to achieving the written and oral goals of the class. They actively interacted in pairs and groups discussion and successfully completed individual analytical tasks through the utilization of computer engineering English vocabulary. |