Business Administration

Courses Details

Semester I
Code Syllabus Course Name Course Content
ENG 101   Academic English I

This course is an integrated skills-based course in the four language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) along with grammar and vocabulary. With its engaging content and systematic skill exercises, students will be able to express their ideas and improve their communication skills. It also includes a strong focus on study skills that encourage independent learning.

EHS 101 Occupational Health and Safety This course covers occupational health and safety and occupational health and safety culture, national occupational health and safety system, occupational health and safety approach and legislation, occupational health and safety services to be provided by the employer, the concept and costs of work accident and occupational disease, occupational health and safety. It will provide an overview of issues such as risk factors in safety, individual and organizational factors, records to be kept in occupational health and safety, occupational health and safety in electrical works.

 

EPR 121   Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship In order to become an entrepreneur and carry out projects, our students receive information such as business establishment and management, business accounting, business establishment and incentives in this field, R&D and design center activities, project supports.

 

IUL 151   Introduction to University Life

It is a program that aims to adapt to the new environment of the university in a pleasant way, consisting of various activities that will be offered in addition to academic studies, in order for our students to adapt to university life. These activities will support students as an active individual with programs that can help students to achieve their goals and contribute to their personal development. The program, which is focused on socio-cultural activities, aims to create an awareness about intellectual curiosity, cultural sensitivity and taking responsibility, by giving you a weekly break, and to improve students’ vision as well as to educate them as a beneficial individual to the society and the world.

ECON 100   Introduction to Economics

This course aims to provide a basic understanding of microeconomics to students by concentrating on the behavior of individual decision makers, namely consumers, producers and government and the functioning of individual markets and industries in the economy. Topics covered are major microeconomic concepts, theories of supply and demand, consumer theory, firm theory, functioning of the product and factor markets, various market structures, theory of distribution, market failures and the role of government.

BUS 103   Business Mathematics I

This course covers the basics of Calculus which is required to be used in economic analysis. The course includes functions and models, limits and derivatives, differentiation rules, integral, integral applications and techniques. The course is designed to enhance students’ ability to integrate mathematics into economic analysis to improve quantitative research skills and research.

BUS 105

 

Computer Applications in Business I 

This course aims to link computer technology with problem solving skills. The contents of the course are applications in word processing, spreadsheets, presentation and introduction to some package software.

BUS 101   Introduction to Business

The role and function of business enterprise within our economic framework. Includes organization, finance, marketing, personnel administration, production and economics. The  course  will  focus  on  business  systems,  workforce  demographics,  social  responsibility,  business  ethics,  forms  of  business  organizations,  entrepreneurship,  small  business  and  franchise  systems,  management  processes,  human  resource  management,  marketing  management, business finance, business decision making, MIS and quantitative tools used in business, international business and the future dimensions of business opportunities in a global  economy.

LAW 101   Fundamentals of Law 

 

In this course, basic legal concepts such as the concepts of rights and law, the purposes, sources, elements of law, the distinction between public law and private law, the application of law, legal relations and legal transactions will be discussed.

 

 

Semester II
Code Syllabus Course Name Course Content
ENG 102   Academic English II

This course is based on integrated skills in four language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), together with grammar and vocabulary. With its engaging content and systematic skill studies, students will be able to express their opinions and improve their communication skills. It also includes a strong focus on study skills that encourage independent learning.

EPR 122   Entrepreneurship Project 

For our students to become entrepreneurs and makers, to prepare them to the real business life and the world this course will cover the topics of business plan preparation and scheduling, business plan analysis and business modeling, cost preparation, specification and specification, evaluation, invoicing, innovation-realization, commercialization, incorporation.

IUL 152   Building the Future

This course, which is the continuation of the Introduction to University Life Course, aims to raise the competence of the student in subjects such as career planning, interview processes, image and communication and to train highly qualified people. In addition, the course aims to provide students with the knowledge of science, technique, industry, creative thinking, developments in R & D, rational and critical thinking, reasoning ability, generating rational solutions and evaluating future business opportunities through various seminars. This course contributes to the development of the basic sciences in our country, giving students the opportunity to make applied research, renewing the existing knowledge and ideas, enriching and educating the elements needed by the profession branches.

WED 124   Workplace Education

Students make observations and experience in the workplace one day of the week. Students take this course in business environment. The tasks and activities of the vocational candidates in this course should provide them with the opportunity to observe experienced superiors and workplace trainers on-the-job, to work individually with the students, even if they are limited. The activities carried out in the workplace experience course will provide candidates with various skills that will enable them to become an experienced employee. The students' progress in understanding the future profession and gaining the competencies constituting the profession will be evaluated by the university instructors who are in close cooperation with them and the application trainers and mentors who have gained experience in their work.

BUS 104   Business Mathematics II

This course introduces deeper knowledge of Calculus covering differential equations, parametric equations and polar coordinates, infinite sequences and series, vectors and the geometry of space, vector functions, partial derivatives, multiple integrals, vector calculus and second-order differential equations. The course is designated to further improve students’ quantitative research skills in order to excel in mathematical economic analysis

BUS 106

 

Computer Applications in Business II 

The aim of this course is to teach students basic computer programming and to apply computer programming skills in solving business and decision making problems.

The content of the course includes the logic of creating algorithms, basic coding steps, the working principles of the programming language to be used in the course, logical operations, and the steps of developing a computer program.

PSYC 101

  Introduction to Psychology 

 

The aim of the course is to provide a general introduction to the discipline and concepts of psychology and to learn the basic approaches used to make sense of basic psychology theories, application areas, and human mental and behavioral processes.

 

LAW 102

  Commercial Law 

 

The aim of the course is the basic concepts of commercial law; especially the importance of the distinction between commercial enterprise and artisan enterprise; accordingly, the distinction between merchants and artisans is to ensure that the students who take the course are informed about the terms and consequences of being a merchant. It also aims to enable students to develop their ability to apply this knowledge to concrete events.

 

BUS 108 

  Design-Based Entrepreneurship

 

Based on the positive effects of visual-spatial intelligence and multidimensional thinking on entrepreneurship, proven by research, this course aims to guide students to develop themselves in basic design and multidimensional thinking and to use these skills in the field of entrepreneurship.

 

 

Semester III
Code Syllabus Course Name Course Content
ATA 101   Principles of Atatürk and History of Turkish Revolution I

This course will cover the topics of; The concept of revolution, the factors leading to Turkish revolution and the reasons of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Empire in the rescue efforts, flows of ideas, World War I, Mustafa Kemal Anatolian transition and congresses, Turkey opening of the Grand National Assembly, the liberation war, foreign policy, Mudanya cease-fire, the Lausanne conference.

TUR 101   Turkish I

Definition of the language, social value of language; Characteristics of written and oral expression; Sentence knowledge; Speech disorders; written and oral expression; Effective reading and text analysis will be included during this course.

WAP 225   Workplace Application I

Within this course, students practice in the workplace one day of the week. Students apply this course in business environment. Candidates of the profession will have the opportunity to know the work environment and fully participate in what is happening at the workplace. The work to be carried out during the workplace application is planned according to the workplace before the beginning of the semester and by taking the opinions of the students and the application trainers who will guide them. Since each workplace's eco system will be different, the term plan is prepared after getting acquainted with the workplace's eco system, so that each student's weekly schedule may change.

ENG 221   English for Business Life I

The objectives of this course are: Developing the skills of reading, comprehending, evaluating, interpreting and writing English. Besides, developing technical terms and vocabulary in English and providing awareness about reliable sources. Expanding students' knowledge of a particular subject with suitable for academic life awareness of ethical norms of research.

BUS 205

  General Accounting I

Definition, Characteristics and Importance of Accounting, Basic Concepts of Accounting, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and Accounting Standards, Business Transactions and Accounting Fundamental Equation, Basic Financial Statements (Balance Sheet and Income Statement), Definition of Account, Qualifications and Rules of Operation, Classification of Accounts, Recording in Accounting Tools (Books and Documents) Accounting Flow Chart, Sample Applications, Operation of Commercial Goods Account, Operation of Commercial Goods Account, Liquid Values ​​Account Group, Securities Account Group, Sample Applications. 

BUS 203   Business Statistics

This course will cover the topics of; Sampling theory and sampling distributions; central limit theorem; Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; hypothesis testing for multiple preterms; Goodness of fit tests.

BUS 201

Management and Organization

Organizations and organization theory, organization design, external environment and interorganizational relations, principles of organizational structure, organizational culture and ethical issues, organizational conflict, power and policy, production and service technologies, information technology and control, organizational size, life cycle, organizational change Topics are covered in this course.

SOCI 101

  Introduction to Sociology  The emergence and development process of sociology as a scientific discipline, basic sociological theories, basic concepts such as society, social structure, class, bureaucracy are examined within the scope of this course.
EPR 221   Entrepreneurship and Social Activities I

Within the scope of this course, students can participate in seminars, conferences, etc. organized inside and outside the school. Participation in social activities is encouraged. In addition, social responsibility (elderly care home visits, etc.) activities carried out outside of school are also evaluated within the scope of this course. Students get points for each activity they participate in and they have to reach the determined total score in order to pass the course.

Semester IV
Code Syllabus Course Name Course Content
ATA 102   Principles of Atatürk and History of Turkish Revolution II

This course will cover the topics of; The proclamation of the Republic and political, social and cultural reforms. Problems that Lausanne Peace Treaty could not be solved and their conclusions movements against the new order. Multiparty life experiments and results. Turkish Foreign Policy in the period of Atatürk. İnönü Period and the Second World War years, Turkey's transition to multi-party life during and after the Democratic Party.

TUR 102   Turkish II

This course will cover the topics of; Turkish suffixes; Word types. Sentence knowledge; Reading and examining selected texts.

WAP 226   Workplace Application II

Within this course, students practice in the workplace one day of the week. Students apply this course in business environment. Candidates of the profession will have the opportunity to know the work environment and fully participate in what is happening at the workplace. The work to be carried out during the workplace application is planned according to the workplace before the beginning of the semester and by taking the opinions of the students and the application trainers who will guide them. Since each workplace's eco system will be different, the term plan is prepared after getting acquainted with the workplace's eco system, so that each student's weekly schedule may change.

ENG 222   English for Business Life II

Students develop skills in applying effective text reading techniques, analyzing secondary sources and parsing appropriate information, in-depth text analysis, planning, writing and evaluating writing in accordance with the plan. Students who continue reading and writing academic texts in parallel, write cause-effect and discussion compositions in accordance with the rules of academic writing in both assignments and exams. They also discuss the texts they read orally in class.

BUS 204

  Organizational Behavior

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basic concepts of behavioral dynamics at individual, group and organizational levels. The course will cover topics such as attitude, personality, values, decision making, motivation, team behavior, communication, power, politics, leadership, conflict, culture, change and stress management.

BUS 206   General Accounting II

Trade Receivables Account Group, Tangible Fixed Assets Account Group, Financial Fixed Assets Account Group, Short and Long Term Payables, Equity, Income and Expense Accounts, Periodic Concept and Accounting Application, Errors and Corrections Trial Balances, Period-End Transactions, Period-End Financial Statements Arrangement and Closing Records, Sample Applications.

LAW 203

 

Obligations Law

The aim of the course is to make a general introduction to the law of obligations and to provide students with information on concepts such as debt, debt relationship, source of debt, contract provisions and results, and performance of debts, and to improve their interpretation skills in the light of this information.

BUS 202

  Business and Professional Ethics  The aim of the course is to teach the necessity of acting within the framework of business ethics and social responsibility principles in the relations established by the organizations with their internal and external environments, and to teach the ways, methods and tools of this.

EPR 222

Entrepreneurship and Social Impact II Within the scope of this course, students can participate in seminars, conferences, etc. organized inside and outside the school. Participation in social activities is encouraged. In addition, social responsibility (elderly care home visits, etc.) activities carried out outside of school are also evaluated within the scope of this course. Students get points for each activity they participate in and they have to reach the determined total score in order to pass the course.

 

Semester V
Code Syllabus Course Name Course Content
WAP 325   Workplace Application III

This course is the continuation of the Workplace Application II course, and the students continue their workplace experience which they started in the previous semester with their mentors.

BUS 303   Financial Management

Basic concepts of business finance, the place and purpose of financial managers in the business, financial analysis, financial markets, financial institutions, management of working capital, short-term financial planning, interest markets, time value of money (problem solving and applications), cost of capital, capital budgeting (problem solving and applications)

MAR 100   Principles of Marketing

This course will cover the topics of; Importance of marketing in business functions; The concept of marketing; Company and marketing strategy, consumer markets and consumer buying behavior; Organizational markets and organizational purchasing behavior; Segmentation; Target market selection and positioning.

MIS 131   Management Information Systems

This course focuses on topics such as information technology concepts, spreadsheet, VBA programming language Excel / VBA business applications. The course content includes topics such as information systems and technologies, computer networks and the internet, system analysis, process analysis, mapping and modeling, process measurement and improvement, database management systems.

BUS 301   Human Resources Management

This course covers the topics of the development and elements of HRM, its activities, responsibilities and roles; organization of the Human Resources Department; roles of an HR manager; job descriptions and job analysis; human resources planning; employee recruitment and selection; codes of ethics; orientation, training and development; performance and career management; job evaluation and wage management, motivation and rewards; discipline, work and employee-employer relations; occupational health and safety; employee rights; strategic human resources management; human capital management and talent management and the course aims to equip students with competences regarding the HRM function through case studies.   

BUS 305   Problem Solving Techniques

Within the scope of the course, the methods that students can use to solve the problems they may encounter in business life will be explained. Among these methods, there are methods such as brainstorming, Pareto analysis, and six hat thinking techniques.

ELEC 1   Elective Course I

 The student can choose the appropriate course from the department's elective course pool. 

ELEC 2  

Free Elective Course I (From other faculties and departments)

The student can choose the appropriate course from faculties and departments other than his/her own department.
EPR 321

Entrepreneursip and Social Impact III

Within the scope of this course, students can participate in seminars, conferences, etc. organized inside and outside the school. Participation in social activities is encouraged. In addition, social responsibility (elderly care home visits, etc.) activities carried out outside of school are also evaluated within the scope of this course. Students get points for each activity they participate in and they have to reach the determined total score in order to pass the course.

 

Semester VI
Code Syllabus Course Name Course Content
WEX 326   Workplace Experience I

Within this course, students practice at work one day a week. Students take this course in a business environment. Candidates of the profession have the opportunity to get to know the working environment and to participate fully in activities in the workplace.

MIS 401   Project Management The aim of the course is to introduce the concepts related to project management to the students who take the course and to improve the project management skills of the students. The scope of this course includes Project definition, classification, project organization, project structure plans, programming techniques, time-resource-cost planning, project risk analysis, project documentation and computer aided project planning.

 

BUS 302   Production Management

The aim of the course is to define the basic concepts in the field of production management, to show the appropriate solution ranges, to introduce the main methods and tools in this field, to teach the methods of producing a product with the lowest price in accordance with the desired quantity, quality and time conditions by using the available resources in the most economical way.

BUS 304   Financial Accounting 

Cost Accounting course consists of topics such as the concept of cost, the objectives of cost accounting, the role of cost accounting in the business accounting system, cost types such as material costs, labor costs, general production costs, cost calculation methods and the process of creating the cost system.

BUS 306   Data Analytics for Business and Economics 

This course covers the management and analysis of data that decision makers will use in their business processes. The course is designed to be given in a structure that integrates theory and practice. Within the scope of the course, which can be expressed as applied decision making, students will be tried to gain skills in data visualization. Various quantitative methods including statistical analysis, estimation/extrapolation, predictive modeling (such as data mining), optimization and simulation will be given in practice.

 

ELEC 3   Elective Course II

The student can choose the appropriate course from the department's elective course pool.

ELEC 4   Free Elective Course II (From other faculties and departments)

The student can choose the appropriate course from faculties and departments other than his/her own department.

EPR 322 Entrepreneursip and Social Impact IV

Within the scope of this course, students can participate in seminars, conferences, etc. organized inside and outside the school. Participation in social activities is encouraged. In addition, social responsibility (elderly care home visits, etc.) activities carried out outside of school are also evaluated within the scope of this course. Students get points for each activity they participate in and they have to reach the determined total score in order to pass the course.

 

Semester VII
Code Syllabus Course Name Course Content
WEX 425   Workplace Experience II

This course is the continuation of the Workplace Experience I course and the students continue their workplace experience which they started in the previous semester with their mentors.

BUS 401   Strategic Management and Business Policies

Within the scope of the course, an introduction to the concept of strategic management in businesses with an overview of businesses, tools and methods for analyzing a business situation, analyzing a company's strengths and weaknesses, creating a strategy, implementing a strategy, evaluating a strategy, company ethics and Strategy evaluation issues for global companies will be discussed.

BUS 402   Research Methods in Social Sciences

Within the scope of the course, scientific research process (determining research question, data collection, data analysis and interpretation of results), basic scientific research methods (quantitative and qualitative research techniques) and reporting the research results are discussed.

BUS 499   Designing and Building A Company

It is a compulsory course in which final-year students adapt to basic business design and construction. The goal of the lesson is to give detailed information about business design and establishment through legal regulations, application examples, and experience-sharing methods. It helps seniors familiarize with design, establishment and dissolution of the business. Students will gain knowledge on topics such as business design, types of businesses, business formation, financial matters, employee rights, business management, the industry in which the business will operate, relations with chambers and commodity exchanges, legal regulations related to businesses, and finally, the dissolution of the business.

BUS 404   Managerial Accounting

The aim of the course is to provide the understanding of various accounting concepts and techniques within the framework of the role of providing information to managers for planning, control and decision-making purposes. For this purpose, it is expected that students will be able to master the reciprocal relations between behavioral economics and numerical applications and other factors that affect management accounting activity, and it is aimed to improve their ability to use some important cost and management accounting techniques. 

ELEC 5   Elective Course III

The student can choose the appropriate course from the department's elective course pool.

ELEC 6   Free Elective Course III (From other faculties and departments) The student can choose the appropriate course from faculties and departments other than his/her own department.
EPR 421 Entrepreneurship and Social Impact V Within the scope of this course, students can participate in seminars, conferences, etc. organized inside and outside the school. Participation in social activities is encouraged. In addition, social responsibility (elderly care home visits, etc.) activities carried out outside of school are also evaluated within the scope of this course. Students get points for each activity they participate in and they have to reach the determined total score in order to pass the course.

 

Semester VIII
Code Syllabus Course Name Course Content
WEX 426   Workplace Experience III

In the last semester of the program, all of the students will carry out practical training in a factory / production unit located in all provinces of Ankara or in Ankara in accordance with the predefined principles and principles that OSTIM Technical University deems appropriate. In addition, internship / on-the-job training will be carried out in a factory / production unit located in Ankara within the framework of the cooperation protocol between the OSTİM Technical University and the OSTİM Clusters within the framework of the development and cooperation. During this internship / on-the-job training, students will simultaneously take the “Project Management” course as internship / on-the-job training course. In this course, each student will be able to jointly identify the problem areas related to the Design, Production, Installation and Maintenance of various systems in the areas encountered in the factory / production unit where he / she is doing internship / on-the-job training, and jointly identify with the company the new generation creative solution proposals and will create a project idea, design it, develop it and reflect it on the field of application. This project will be evaluated in the performance of internship / on the job training.

BUS 400   Graduation Project

In enterprises, each student prepares his / her project on a company basis, and the study is managed with the visits of the consultant lecturer to the company. This course includes the project working process that will solve the company's problem.

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