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.
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
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
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.
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.
You may find out the class lists for each branch in our OEPP program by clicking here.
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 |
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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 |
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|
|
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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 |
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|
Final exam |
TOTAL |
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Assessment type |
Face-to-face test |
50% |
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TOTAL |
100% |
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
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 |
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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 |
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.
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.
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
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