PAÜ .:. Eğitim Öğretim Bilgi Sistemi

COURSE INFORMATION

Course Code	Course Title	L+P Hour	Semester	ECTS
OMB 5026	SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC ISSUES AND ITS TEACHING	2 + 0	8th Semester	2

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Elective
Course Objective	The aim of this course is to examine the methods and techniques that will help prospective teachers on how to carry out and structure the teaching of SSI subjects and to teach these techniques.
Course Content	It consists of sample teaching activities that prospective teachers, who are the implementers of the curriculum, can use in their lessons regarding SSIs and how they can be a mentor in bringing SSIs to the classroom environment. It covers the characteristics and dimensions of socioscientific issues, the relationship between science and society, morality and ethics, their importance in education, informal reasoning and argumentation on socioscientific issues, and the evaluation of socioscientific reasoning.
Prerequisites	No the prerequisite of lesson.
Corequisite	No the corequisite of lesson.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	Knowing the general characteristics of socioscientific issues
2	Recognizing the place and importance of socioscientific issues in education
3	Knowing the applications of socioscientific issues
4	Understanding the relationship between socioscientific issues and argumentation
5	Improving the reasoning skills of prospective teachers

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

	PO 01	PO 02	PO 03	PO 04	PO 05	PO 06	PO 07	PO 08	PO 09	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12	PO 13	PO 14
LO 001						4		4	4	4	4			4
LO 002						4		4	4	4	4			4
LO 003						4		4	4	4	4			4
LO 004						4		4	4	4	4			4
LO 005						4		4	4	4	4			4
Sub Total						20		20	20	20	20			20
Contribution	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	4	4	4	4	0	0	4

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Work Load (Hour)
Course Duration (14 weeks/theoric+practical)	2	14	28
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	7	1	7
Mid-terms	1	7	7
Final examination	1	10	10
Total Work Load ECTS Credit of the Course			52 2

COURSE DETAILS

Select Year

	Course Term	No	Instructors
Details	2026-2027 Fall	1	ZEHA YAKAR

Course Details

Course Code	Course Title	L+P Hour	Course Code	Language Of Instruction	Course Semester	Mode of Delivery
OMB 5026	SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC ISSUES AND ITS TEACHING	2 + 0	1	Turkish	2026-2027 Fall	Face to Face

Course Coordinator	E-Mail	Phone Number	Course Location	Attendance
Prof. Dr. ZEHA YAKAR	zyakar@pau.edu.tr		EGT A0232-02	%80

Goals		The aim of this course is to examine the methods and techniques that will help prospective teachers on how to carry out and structure the teaching of SSI subjects and to teach these techniques.
Content		It consists of sample teaching activities that prospective teachers, who are the implementers of the curriculum, can use in their lessons regarding SSIs and how they can be a mentor in bringing SSIs to the classroom environment. It covers the characteristics and dimensions of socioscientific issues, the relationship between science and society, morality and ethics, their importance in education, informal reasoning and argumentation on socioscientific issues, and the evaluation of socioscientific reasoning.

Topics

Weeks	Topics
1	Overview of Science and Technology Originated Problems
2	Science and Technology Related Problems and Ethics
3	Bioethics Overview
4	Autonomous Vehicles
5	Vaccines
6	Animal Experiments
7	Genetically modified organisms
8	Gene Therapy
9	Stem Cells
10	Biological warfare
11	Nanotechnology
12	Artificial intelligence
13	Evaluation of solutions for science and technology based problems in the context of bioethics
14	Evaluation of solutions for science and technology based problems in the context of bioethics

Materials

Materials are not specified.

Resources

Course Assessment

L+P: Lecture and Practice
PQ: Program Learning Outcomes
LO: Course Learning Outcomes

Prospective Student