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Optional English Preparatory Program (OEPP)

Optional English Preparatory Program (OEPP) Guide

In this guide, web site visitors may find the information about OEPP for the students who receive education at our School of Foreign Languages (SFL) for a year voluntarily as part of their education in associate's and undergraduate degrees.  

arrow right icon png ile ilgili görsel sonucuStudent Handbook

OEPP students may find below the handbook prepared for the details of instructional and some extra-curricular issues during their education at SFL. 

OEPP Student Handbook

arrow right icon png ile ilgili görsel sonucuCourses

All Optional English Preparatory Program (OEPP) students take the following courses automatically, so they do not have to do course registration through the academic year.

Main Course:
12 hours per week

Listening & Speaking: 4 hours per week

Writing & Reading: 4 hours per week

Both the course code and branch code are written in your course schedules. When you are placed in a class, the branch name of this class is shown as PREP A, PREP B, PREP C, and Prep D. These codes do not represent a physical environment, they are just your branch code. However, the codes written as HAZ 101, HAZ 102 are your course codes. The course schedule will be announced at https://fla.bartin.edu.tr/ after the class lists are prepared.

Course Definitions

HAZ 102 - Main Course
'Main Course' is a compulsory foreign language course given in English preparatory classes in the fall and spring semesters. The course starts at the intermediate level A1, and it is aimed for students to have English language skills at the intermediate level B1 by the end of the year.


HAZ 103 - Listening and Speaking
'Listening and Speaking' is a compulsory foreign language course given in English preparatory classes in the fall and spring semesters. The course starts at the intermediate level A1, and it is aimed for students to have English listening and speaking skills at the intermediate level B1 by the end of the year.


HAZ 104 - Reading and Writing
'Reading and Writing' course is a compulsory foreign language course given in both semesters of English preparatory classes. The course starts at the intermediate level A1, and it is aimed for students to have English reading and writing skills at the intermediate level B1 by the end of the year.


Course Hours for OEPP
For all compulsory preparatory classes, classes are held three to six hours a day, four days a week. Each class takes face-to-face lessons on a daily basis.


Duration of Education
The courses last for 15 weeks per semester in an academic year with a total of 30 weeks.
arrow right icon png ile ilgili görsel sonucuWeekly Course Schedule

You may find out the weekly schedules for the lessons delivered at our OEPP program by clicking here

Please click here to see the course catalog.

    arrow right icon png ile ilgili görsel sonucuClass Lists

    You may find out the class lists for each branch in our OEPP program by clicking here.

      arrow right icon png ile ilgili görsel sonucuAssessment

      Students undergo five different assessments throughout the academic year. The table below shows the evaluation methods, score weights, and what type of evaluation they will undergo for each semester.
       

      In-year assessment

      Fall Term

      MC Quiz 1

      MC Quiz 2

      RW Quiz 1

      LS Quiz 1

      I. Mid-term

      Portfolio

      TOTAL

      3%

      3%

      3%

      3%

      10%

      3%

      25%

      Assessment type

      Online test

      Online assessments

      Face-to-face test

      Presentations

      Face-to-face test

      (RW+LS online assignments )+portfolio presentations

      6 tasks

       

       

       

       

      Spring Term

      MC Quiz 3

      MC Quiz 4

      RW Quiz 2

      LS Quiz 2

      II. Mid-term

      Portfolio

      TOTAL

      3%

      3%

      3%

      3%

      10%

      3%

      25%

      Assessment type

      Online test

      Online assessments

      Face-to-face test

      Presentations

      Face-to-face test

      (RW+LS online assignments )+portfolio presentations

      6 tasks

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

      End-of-year assessment

       

      Final exam

      TOTAL

      Assessment type

      Face-to-face test

      50%

      TOTAL

      100%

       

      arrow right icon png ile ilgili görsel sonucuClass Advisors

      An academic staff member is appointed as the class advisor in charge of each OEPP class and is responsible for conveying the demands, expectations, requests, and complaints of the relevant class students to the relevant advisor and solving the problems. OEPP class advisors for the 2023-2024 academic year are as follows.

      Prep A: S. Sarıkaya / sbasic@bartin.edu.tr
      Prep B: K. Tiryaki / tiryaki@bartin.edu.tr
      Prep C: N. Topal Kaya / ntopal@bartin.edu.tr
      Prep D: N. A. Ay / nay@bartin.edu.tr

      For the questions, problems, or any other queries of the students, meetings can be held with the instructors who teach in the Optional English Preparatory Program within the scope of office hours below. 

       

      Office Hours Saatleri

      Instructors

      Day - Hour

      Inst. Koray TİRYAKİ

      Tuesday 14:30-15:30

      Wednesday 13:30-14:30

      Inst. Murat KÖROĞLU

      Monday 13:30-14:30

      Wednesday 13:30-14:30

      Inst. Niyazi Alkan AY

      Monday 15:00-16:00

      Wednesday 11:00-12:00

      Inst. Nurcan TOPAL KAYA

      Tuesday 11:00-12.00

      Wednesday 09:00-10:00

      Inst. Serap DURMUŞ

      Wednesday 11:30-13:30

      Inst. Süheyda SARIKAYA

      Monday 14:30-15:30

      Wednesday 09:30-10:30

      Inst. Şirin ORAL

      Tuesday 14:00-15:00

      Thursday 14:00-15:00

      Inst. Zafer TAKIR

      Wednesday 09:30-10:30
      Thursday 09:30-10:20

      arrow right icon png ile ilgili görsel sonucuStudent Orientation

      As the Foreign Languages Department of our school, we organize an orientation meeting for our students who will study in our programs at the beginning of each academic year. You can click here to access the 2023-2024 academic year Optional English Preparatory Program orientation presentation.

      arrow right icon png ile ilgili görsel sonucuCourse Materials

      Coursebooks
      During the preparatory education in both semesters, the books to be covered in three different courses that students take can be seen below.

      Fall Term
      ENGLISH FILE ELEMENTARY LEVEL 4TH ED.
      Q SKILLS READING & WRITING INTRO. LEVEL 3RD ED.
      SPEAK NOW 1

      Spring Term
      ENGLISH FILE PRE-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL 4TH ED.
      Q SKILLS READING & WRITING LEVEL 1 3RD ED.
      SPEAK NOW 2


      E-platforms
      Office 365 Account
      To take online quizzes, students must activate their Office 365 account allocated to each student by our university. Steps for activating the Office 365 account are available on the website of the Information Technology Department. For online assignments, the online platforms of each above-mentioned book will be used. How to access these platforms is included in the cards obtained along with the books, which also contain user passwords. Additionally, students must attend online classes using the class codes given by the instructor of each course.

      The corporate e-mail accounts of our newly registered students for 2023 have been opened and their usernames and temporary passwords are as follows;

      Username: student no@ogrenci.bartin.edu.tr (23000000000@ogrenci.bartin.edu.tr)
      e.g. The temporary password of the student with T.R. ID number 12345678910 is 12******910Baru.

      Click here for more details

      If you have technical problems with the Office 365 installation, you can contact the Information Technology Department at bim@bartin.edu.tr. You can start using your e-mail account by creating your new password on this website www.office.com.

      When you have created your e-mail account, you can access Office 365 applications over the internet, or if you want to install them on your device, you can install Office desktop applications on up to 5 devices from the "Install Office Application" button in the upper right corner. To perform licensing, you must log in to the "File/Account" tab in any of the Office 365 programs you have installed (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

      You can use 5 TB cloud storage with the OneDrive application within Office 365. You can also access databases remotely by becoming a member of the library catalog system.

      arrow right icon png ile ilgili görsel sonucuAccess to UBYS, Requests for Documents and Verifications

      With the UBYS application, which is the abbreviation of University Information Management System, students can access weekly course schedules, faculty members responsible for relevant courses, weekly absences, and exam grades. They can also request documents such as student certificates and transcripts through this platform.

      UBYS username: Your Student Number
      UBYS password: T.R. Your ID Number (For international students, it is the ID number obtained after residence permit and starts with 99.)

      Click the following for access the pages:
      UBYS login page
      The video for requesting a document from the UBYS page
      The relevant page to create your electronic document requests via the E-Government application
      Verifying the documents issued by our university

      arrow right icon png ile ilgili görsel sonucuLegislation (Regulations and Directives)

      The students receiving education in the programs affiliated to our school are subject to the following legislation. 

      BARU School of Foreign Languages Education and Testing Directive

      Higher Education Students Disciplinary Regulations