Course Description: Lecturer Raed Nasser.
This course description provides a summary of the most important characteristics of the course and the learning outcomes that the student is expected to achieve, demonstrating whether he or she has made the most of the learning opportunities available. It must be linked to the program description.
1. Educational institution, Imam Jaafar Al-Sadiq University / College of Arts
2. Scientific Department/Center, Department of history
3. Name/code of the computer course/first stage
4. Available attendance forms: Weekly attendance
5. Semester/Year Quarterly
6. Number of academic hours (total) 60
7. The date this description was prepared is 9/1/2022
8. Course objectives
Introducing the student to computer services in teaching the history, its readings, and its sciences
Training the student to deal with computer programs in general and what serves history studies in particular
Employing innovations and modern methods in the service of learning and teaching history studies
Learning outcomes, teaching, learning and assessment methods
A- Cognitive objectives
A1- Knowledge of the concept of computer.
A2- That the student understands computer concepts and its development.
A3- To classify the relationship between study and technological requirements.
A4- Preparing the student psychologically and intellectually to accept the academic material.
A5- Preparing the student to benefit from sources and references related to the subject.
A6- Students absorb as much of the prescribed curriculum as possible.
B- The skills objectives of the course
B1 - Empowering the student mentally through training, practice and learning, which are organized through knowledge and experiences
B2 - Acquire the greatest amount of knowledge about the history of the subject.
B3 - The ability to participate collectively and dialogue.
B4- Knowledge of concepts and terminology related to the subject.
Teaching and learning methods
1 - Learning strategies, such as strategies for activating memory, cognitive processing, and increasing speed and capacity during learning.
2 - Thinking strategies through the semantics of thinking, such as analysis and deduction, planning and self-organization strategies.
3- Presenting the course vocabulary to the students.
4 - Assigning students to daily duties and demanding them in an organized manner.
5 - Informing students about how grades are calculated for students during the semester and their exam results, and discussing failures and successes.
6 - Informing students of the methodological books and auxiliary books they need in the course vocabulary.
Evaluation methods
1 - The oral exam through dialogue and discussion, the written exam assigned to the student, and the scientific research and report.
2 - Proposing highly comprehensible ideas that lead to a deep field of thought, and thinking through the points presented, which leads to helping the learner in developing his thinking skills, organizing ideas, discussions, and scientific tests.
C- Emotional goals
C1- Encouraging the student to read books according to the stage they are in, focusing on the emotional aspects of them.
C2- Presenting the lessons in different ways and in a variety of ways, using suspense. These methods include the style of stories, poetry, novels, or conversations that attract the student’s attention.
C3- The speed of retrieving information and the obviousness of the conclusion.
C4- Analysis, reasoning and comparison.
Teaching and learning methods
1 - Scientific discussions, dialogue, and the use of modern technologies to absorb the most prominent ones, smart screens, and benefit from Internet sites and electronic and paper books.
2 - Managing the lecture in an applied manner linked to the reality of daily life to attract the student to the topic of the lesson without straying from the core of the topic so that the material is flexible and capable of being understood and analysed.
3- Assigning the student to some group activities and duties.
4- Allocating a percentage of the grade to daily assignments and tests.
5 - Creative thinking among students and keeping pace with the latest scientific methods available in teaching and learning.
Evaluation methods
1 - Active participation in the classroom is evidence of the student’s commitment and responsibility.
2- Commitment to the specified deadline for submitting assignments and research.
3 - Semester and final tests express commitment and cognitive and skill achievement.
D- General and qualifying transferable skills (other skills related to employability and personal development)
D1- Classroom management skills.
D2- Planning for teaching and preparation.
D3- Evaluation and observation skills.
D4- Evaluation skills and differentiation between groups according to scientific abilities and mental skills.
D5- Developing the student’s ability to dialogue and discuss.
11- Course structure
Week, Hours, Required Learning Outcomes, Name of the Unit/Subject, Teaching Method, Evaluation Method
1- 7 2 Knowing the concept of the computer, for the student to understand computer concepts and its development, to classify the relationship between study and technological requirements, computer basics, a lecture, an oral discussion, and a discussion class activity.
7 - 15 2 Knowing the concept of the computer, for the student to understand the concepts of the computer and its development, components of the computer, a lecture, an oral discussion, and a discussion class activity.
15 - 23 2 Knowledge of the concept of the computer, for the student to understand computer concepts and its development, computer security and software licenses, a lecture, an oral discussion, and a discussion class activity.
23 - 30 2 Knowing the concept of the computer, for the student to understand the concepts of the computer and its development, operating systems, a lecture, an oral discussion, and a discussion class activity.
31 2 Review A comprehensive review of the subject’s vocabulary. A lecture, an oral discussion, and a class discussion activity
12- Infrastructure
1- Required textbooks: Ziad Muhammad Ayoud: Computer Basics
And Ghassan Hamid Abdel Majeed
2-Main references (sources)
3- Recommended books and references (scientific journals, reports...........) by Dr. Ziad Muhammad Abboud, Yusr Al-Mustafa Science Series, “Basics of Computers and the Internet,” Office 2010.
B- Electronic references, Internet sites... educational YouTube available for free on the Internet.
13- Course development plan
Program development is a process between all faculty members concerned with the specialization according to the requirements of the graduate