خطة قراءات في العلوم الأسرية HED 614

كلية الاقتصاد المنزلي

قسم الاقتصاد المنزلي التربوي

خطة المقرر

Course Syllabus

Course Description (as in the catalogue):

The course’s emphasis is on developing English reading skills from various resources. The course also includes English terms as well as the issues related to the field of family life sciences and education.

Course Philosophy:

Being the only English-based course provided by the department of Home Economics Education (H.E.E) to the graduate students, the aim is two folds; the first is to explore the nature of home economics education as presented in the English-based informational resources. Secondly, such exploration would implicitly help students develop English skills as they read, listen, and speak about these resources in English. Moreover, instructor will use English language, as much as possible, to deliver the content of this course. Thus, this course involves the integration of the subject matter (what to talk about) and linguistic matter (how to talk about it) for the purpose of accomplishing the course objectives outlined below.

Although , written texts are the dominant format of the learning materials, audio and visual resources related to home economics education are also explored. The learning environment respects the individual differences as well as the students social and intellectual needs by operating a verity of teaching and evaluation methods and strategies. Even though different teaching methods are implemented (such as cooperative learning, lectures, dialogue, mastery learning, reciprocal teaching, and educational games), self-learning strategy is on the top due to the nature of this course. Moreover, class activities would range from structured daily assignment to fully independent group activities/projects.

To better assess the process and the product of the students' performance, a variety of evaluation methods are used, such as self and peer evaluation as well as instructor evaluation focusing on summative and formative evaluation models. Students are assessed through open-reflection strategy in addition to rubrics developed by the instructor, the student, or both.

Course Objectives:

This course will:

1       enrich the students' awareness about locating and utilizing H.E.E English-based informational resources,

2       develop the students' reading skills as they relate to reading styles.

3       help students develop critical thinking skills as they interact with the learning materials, and

4       increase the students' appreciation as well as competencies of communicating in English.

Intended Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course, the student would be able to:

1-    show evidence in locating desired H.E.E. English-based resources,

2-    identify, comprehend, and report the important themes within the H.E.E. English-based resources,

3-    show comprehension of audio/visual H.E.E. English-based resources, and

4-    carry out basic writing task (such as asking questions, identifying self and reporting)

Student's Expectation:

1-    abide by the university rules and regulations,

2-    attend and participate in class activities unless having an authorized medical report,

3-    respect the intellectual rights and show independent academic effort,

4-    visit the instructor during the office hours at least three times throughout the semester .

5-    contact the instructor when missing the assignments' due dates,

6-    do the weekly readings and assignments,

7-    apply effective distance communication skills,

8-    turn-off the cell phone during the class time, and

9-    be on time …J

Grading system                                               Class activities

Course references:

Due to the nature of this course, there are no specific resources. However students are encouraged to access the following resources, in addition to other resources in the content area:

Association for Career and Technical Education  .

Family and Consumer Sciences Education

http://www.acteonline.org/

http://www.acteonline.org/resource_center/lpl/facs.cfm

Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society Human Sciences

http://www.kon.org/

 International Federation for Home Economics

http://www.ifhe.org/

United Nation

http://www.un.org/arabic/cybrschl/

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

http://www.unicef.org/arabic/siteguides/36257_36377.html

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

http://typo38.unesco.org/ar/unesco-home.html

National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

College of Human Sciences at The Florida State University

"What Was Home Economics?" web pages at the Cornell University library on the history and influence of home economics

Home Economics Institute of Australia

Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences at University of Florida/IFAS

The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE)

Family and Consumer Science Education Association   www.facse.org

College of Home Economics at the University of the Philippines Diliman

Detailed plan :

Note: this plan is flexible to the students' upcoming needs as well as environmental factors.

Weekly Assignments:(individual assignment)

Each student will read 4 articles from professional peer reviewed journals, summarize it using different techniques and present them to the class considering the following criteria:

·        Citation.

·        Comprehensive summary,

·        Oral presentation

·        Accuracy, and

·        Reflection,

Research Abstract:(individual assignment)

Students are expected to choose a topic and justify the selection and/or the rejection of 3 related research abstracts considering the following criteria:

·        Citation 

·        Article selection

·        Clear justification in Arabic/English

·        Abstract translation in Arabic

·        Paper organization

·        Submit the assignment on time

·        Reflection

Audio/Visual Project: (Individual/Dual assignment)

Students have to identify and report orally in Arabic/English the key points of an audio/visual home economics related resources considering the following criteria:

·        Citation 

·        Importance

·        Coverage

·        Written summary

·        Reflection

Proceedings:

Each student has to select a conference in the area of her specialty and report its proceedings to the class orally, clarifying the conference general information as well as the conference events considering the following criteria:

·        Citation 

·        Comprehensiveness

·        Relatedness  

·        Written summary

·        Reflection

Website Presentation: (Individual/Dual assignment)

In this project, student browse home economics education related websites, such as discipline organizations, colleges, profession websites, community-based websites, ... ext.) for the purpose of educating others about these resources through PowerPoint presentation. Students are expected to meet the following criteria:

·        outline general information,

·        specify the purpose of the presentation and the target group,

·        present at least 2 different websites thoroughly, and

·        submit the assignment on time.

Academic list: (Individual assignment)

Each student has to develop her own academic list consisting of at least 400 words that emerged from the readings of the course in respect to the field of family life sciences. Students are expected to know the meaning as well as the different format of these words.

Writing a letter: (Individual assignment)

Each student has to contact a home economics professional/institution using the contact information available on the website questioning and/or clarifying about a specific issue or topic.

Project criteria will be developed later with the students.

College Activity: (Group assignments )

Students have to creatively and cooperatively show their collective English skills in the College Day using educational games and/or hand-on activities.

Project criteria will be developed later with the students.