Course Catalog 2007-2008

KIEP-3656 COMPUTER ENGLISH 2, 1 cr
Computer English 2

Courses persons responsible
Marketta Rostedt

Lecturers
John Rogers

Implementations
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Summer
Lecture - - 2 h/week 2 h/week -
Exam  
(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
Common European Framework of Reference, Level B2. Objectives: To bring students into an experience of using technical vocabulary in their everyday spoken English. Vocabulary and information from Computer English 1 to be used in group exercises. Explaining technical English in a working environment. Students to prepare and deliver a presentation on a chosen technical subject (subject chosen by the student). Students will work and prepare and deliver their presentations in pairs or groups of three. (Presentations can be shot on a video camera with the permission of the student.)

Content
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Computer networks. How the internet works.       
2. How software works. How programming languages work.       
3. Input/output devices, eg how scanners and digital cameras capture images.       
4. Using information that has been collected during Computer English 1.       
5. Students' specialized subjects.       

Requirements for completing the course
75% attendance

Evaluation criteria for the course

  • Continuous assessment throughout the course. 75% attendance. Well prepared and presented presentation.

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)

  • Prerequisites
    Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

    Distance learning

  • ITC utilized during the course

  • - In compiling teaching material, particularly for online use or other electronic media
    - In the visualization of objects and phenomena, e.g. animations, demonstrations, simulations, video clips
    - In video conferences, video lectures

  • Estimate as a percentage of the implementation of the course
  • - Contact teaching: 50 %
    - Distance learning: 50 %
    - Proportion of a student's independent study: 0 %

    Last modified 31.01.2007
    Modified byTiina Suominen