German Language Teacher Education Department has first been established as a unit within Bursa Teachers’ School in 1981 to meet the needs of Turkish Republic for German Language Teacher. In 1982 it was established under the Faculty of Education at Bursa Uludağ University within the re-structuring framework. The department, which has been carrying on its self-designed BA curriculum until 1998, has started to apply a new curriculum in 1998-1999 academic year, which was prepared by HEC. In addition to the 4-year BA program the German Language Department runs a preparation class since 1990-1991 academic year.

German Language Teacher Education Department’s qualification system is tied to the first cycle grading system of the higher education with 240 ECTS points. After finishing the department successfully and acquiring the provided competences a bachelor degree is obtained.

Second Cycle

The candidates have to own a high school or equivalent degree and pass the student selection examination with a sufficient score. The students enrolled start with preparation class or graduate study according to the results of a placement examination.

The provisions in “Regulation on Transfer among Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, and Subspecialty and the Principals of Credit Transfer among Institutions in Higher Education Institutions” are applied.

To obtain a bachelor degree the students have to accomplish all the compulsory and elective courses (total 240 ECTS points) of the programme and their weighted grade-point average must be at least 2.0 on the basis of 4.00 system.

The aim of the programme is to educate and train German teachers to be well equipped for the present time individually, professionally and socially.

1. Transferring their feelings, thoughts and discussing them to improve their cross-cultural competences using German and general culture knowledge.
2. Acquiring knowledge about national and international education systems and comparing related education models.
3. Using scientific research methods develops an analytical, critical and scientific approach in learning and enriches their own thoughts, knowledge and competence.
4. Acquiring skills to teach German to children, youngster and adults with all cultural, audio-visual and communicative features.
5. Assessing the strengths and limitations of different methods and techniques in German language teaching.
6. Acquiring basic skills to construct relations between different disciplines.
7. Creating an appropriate German learning environment for different language learning purposes and for students at various proficiency levels.
8. Designing appropriate instruments for German language testing.
9. Acquiring skills to prepare appropriate learning environments considering the learners’ individual differences and to manage classes effectively.
10. Analyzing the native language and the foreign language in terms of grammatical and linguistic structures; and uses the similarities and the differences in foreign language teaching.
11. Acquiring language skills relevant to The Common European Framework B2 Level.
12. To act in the learning environments and society proper to democracy, human rights and social, scientific and professional ethical values.
13. To identify all aspects of teaching profession and educational sciences and Turkish national education system and school management.
14. To grasp the characteristics of students ' development and to grasp the use of different approaches to learning in the classroom.
15. To have knowledge and skills to do lesson planning, to use different measuring techniques.
16. To grasp the tasks of the teacher's guidance and the ways of how to recognize students.

SKILLS

Cognitive - Practical

To have knowledge and skills to do lesson planning, to use different measuring techniques.
Analyzing the native language and the foreign language in terms of grammatical and linguistic structures; and uses the similarities and the differences in foreign language teaching.
Transferring their feelings, thoughts and discussing them to improve their cross-cultural competences using German and general culture knowledge.
To grasp the characteristics of students ' development and to grasp the use of different approaches to learning in the classroom.
Acquiring skills to teach German to children, youngster and adults with all cultural, audio-visual and communicative features.
Using scientific research methods develops an analytical, critical and scientific approach in learning and enriches their own thoughts, knowledge and competence.
Designing appropriate instruments for German language testing.
Assessing the strengths and limitations of different methods and techniques in German language teaching.
Acquiring skills to prepare appropriate learning environments considering the learners’ individual differences and to manage classes effectively.
Acquiring knowledge about national and international education systems and comparing related education models.
Acquiring basic skills to construct relations between different disciplines.
To grasp the tasks of the teacher's guidance and the ways of how to recognize students.
Creating an appropriate German learning environment for different language learning purposes and for students at various proficiency levels.

KNOWLEDGE

Theoretical - Conceptual

Acquiring language skills relevant to The Common European Framework B2 Level.
Creating an appropriate German learning environment for different language learning purposes and for students at various proficiency levels.
Acquiring basic skills to construct relations between different disciplines.
To grasp the tasks of the teacher's guidance and the ways of how to recognize students.
To have knowledge and skills to do lesson planning, to use different measuring techniques.
Designing appropriate instruments for German language testing.
Acquiring skills to prepare appropriate learning environments considering the learners’ individual differences and to manage classes effectively.
Acquiring knowledge about national and international education systems and comparing related education models.
Assessing the strengths and limitations of different methods and techniques in German language teaching.
Acquiring skills to teach German to children, youngster and adults with all cultural, audio-visual and communicative features.
Using scientific research methods develops an analytical, critical and scientific approach in learning and enriches their own thoughts, knowledge and competence.
Transferring their feelings, thoughts and discussing them to improve their cross-cultural competences using German and general culture knowledge.
To grasp the characteristics of students ' development and to grasp the use of different approaches to learning in the classroom.

COMPETENCES

Field Specific Competence

Transferring their feelings, thoughts and discussing them to improve their cross-cultural competences using German and general culture knowledge.
Designing appropriate instruments for German language testing.
Acquiring skills to prepare appropriate learning environments considering the learners’ individual differences and to manage classes effectively.
Creating an appropriate German learning environment for different language learning purposes and for students at various proficiency levels.
To act in the learning environments and society proper to democracy, human rights and social, scientific and professional ethical values.
Analyzing the native language and the foreign language in terms of grammatical and linguistic structures; and uses the similarities and the differences in foreign language teaching.
Acquiring basic skills to construct relations between different disciplines.
Assessing the strengths and limitations of different methods and techniques in German language teaching.
Acquiring skills to teach German to children, youngster and adults with all cultural, audio-visual and communicative features.
Using scientific research methods develops an analytical, critical and scientific approach in learning and enriches their own thoughts, knowledge and competence.
Acquiring knowledge about national and international education systems and comparing related education models.

COMPETENCES

Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility

Using scientific research methods develops an analytical, critical and scientific approach in learning and enriches their own thoughts, knowledge and competence.
Transferring their feelings, thoughts and discussing them to improve their cross-cultural competences using German and general culture knowledge.
To grasp the tasks of the teacher's guidance and the ways of how to recognize students.
Designing appropriate instruments for German language testing.
Creating an appropriate German learning environment for different language learning purposes and for students at various proficiency levels.
Analyzing the native language and the foreign language in terms of grammatical and linguistic structures; and uses the similarities and the differences in foreign language teaching.
To identify all aspects of teaching profession and educational sciences and Turkish national education system and school management.
Acquiring skills to teach German to children, youngster and adults with all cultural, audio-visual and communicative features.
Acquiring skills to prepare appropriate learning environments considering the learners’ individual differences and to manage classes effectively.
To have knowledge and skills to do lesson planning, to use different measuring techniques.
Acquiring basic skills to construct relations between different disciplines.

COMPETENCES

Communication and Social Competence

Acquiring skills to prepare appropriate learning environments considering the learners’ individual differences and to manage classes effectively.
To have knowledge and skills to do lesson planning, to use different measuring techniques.
Assessing the strengths and limitations of different methods and techniques in German language teaching.
Acquiring skills to teach German to children, youngster and adults with all cultural, audio-visual and communicative features.
Using scientific research methods develops an analytical, critical and scientific approach in learning and enriches their own thoughts, knowledge and competence.
To identify all aspects of teaching profession and educational sciences and Turkish national education system and school management.
Acquiring basic skills to construct relations between different disciplines.
Transferring their feelings, thoughts and discussing them to improve their cross-cultural competences using German and general culture knowledge.
Analyzing the native language and the foreign language in terms of grammatical and linguistic structures; and uses the similarities and the differences in foreign language teaching.
Acquiring language skills relevant to The Common European Framework B2 Level.
Designing appropriate instruments for German language testing.

COMPETENCES

Learning Competence

Analyzing the native language and the foreign language in terms of grammatical and linguistic structures; and uses the similarities and the differences in foreign language teaching.
Designing appropriate instruments for German language testing.
Acquiring skills to prepare appropriate learning environments considering the learners’ individual differences and to manage classes effectively.
To grasp the tasks of the teacher's guidance and the ways of how to recognize students.
To identify all aspects of teaching profession and educational sciences and Turkish national education system and school management.
To grasp the characteristics of students ' development and to grasp the use of different approaches to learning in the classroom.
Transferring their feelings, thoughts and discussing them to improve their cross-cultural competences using German and general culture knowledge.
To have knowledge and skills to do lesson planning, to use different measuring techniques.
Assessing the strengths and limitations of different methods and techniques in German language teaching.
Acquiring skills to teach German to children, youngster and adults with all cultural, audio-visual and communicative features.
Using scientific research methods develops an analytical, critical and scientific approach in learning and enriches their own thoughts, knowledge and competence.
Acquiring knowledge about national and international education systems and comparing related education models.

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Occupational Profiles of Graduates With Examples

The graduates find employment primarily in public and private schools, national and international business, in the field of public relations, translation offices, tourism and media.

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Access to Further Studies

The graduates might attend a master’s degree providing that they score ALES examination eligible and have the required foreign language level.

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Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

The students have to enroll at the beginning of each semester, and attend 70 % of theoretical lessons and 80 % of the practices to take part in the end-term exam. The students are subjected to at least 1 interim audit and 1 end-term exam for each lesson. The final grade consists of 40 % of interim audit’s performance (scores taken from assessment and evaluation instruments such as seminar paper, laboratory test, quiz etc. can be counted in interim audit) and % 60 of end-term exam’s performance. From the end-term exam one must get at least 50. Students that get AA, BA, BB, CB and CC are accepted as successful. DC and DD labels are conditioned successful scores. To be successful in lessons with scores DC and DD the students’ weighted grade-point average must be at least 2.0.

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Graduation Requirements

To graduate from German Language Teaching Department the candidates have to accomplish all the compulsory and elective courses (total 240 ECTS points) of the programme and their weighted grade-point average must be at least 2.0 on the basis of 4.00.

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Mode of Study

Full-Time

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Address and Contact Details

Program Başkanı:
Prof. Dr. Anastasia ŞENYILDIZ
Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Alman Dili ve Eğitimi Ana Bilim Dalı Görükle Kampüsü
16059 Bursa
Tel: 0224 294 22 74
E-mail: asenyildiz@uludag.edu.tr
Bologna Koordinatörü: Doç. Dr. Arzu ORHAN
Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Alman Dili Eğitimi Ana Bilim Dalı Görükle Kampüsü
16059 Bursa
Tel:0224 294 22 71
E-mail: mollaoglu@uludag.edu.tr

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Facilities

The German Language Teaching program of the Foreign Languages Teaching Department currently has 2 professors, 1 assistant professor, 1 assistant professor, 1 Dr. Lectures, and 1 research assistant. In addition, 1 DAAD Lecturer. The department is in cooperation with institutions such as DAAD. These faculty members have attended international academic conferences for years and have a lot of international publications. The department has a rich library and offers online resources.

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Curriculum