Syllabus

2023-2024

This course will cover an overview of occupational health and safety and safety culture, national occupational health and safety system, occupational health and safety approach, occupational health and safety legislation, occupational health and safety services to be conducted by the employer, the concept of occupational accident and occupational disease and the costs, occupational accident and occupational disease concept and its costs, risk factors in occupational health and safety, individual and organizational factors in occupational health and safety, records to be kept in occupational health and safety, occupational health and safety in electrical works.

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.

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.

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.

The course aims at introducing the basic concepts used in research and scientific social research methods and their approaches. It includes discussions on sampling techniques, research designs and techniques of analysis. The course also introduces statistical reasoning, emphasizing how Statistics can help us understand the world. Topics include numerical and graphical summaries of data, data acquisition and experimental design, probability, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, correlation and regression. Students will learn to apply statistical concepts to data and reach conclusions about real-world problems with the applications of Excel, R and Gretl.

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.

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.

The course focuses on the topics of basic macroeconomic concepts; macroeconomic aggregates and averages, national income determination; national income theory, fiscal policy, monetary theory and policy, international trade and finance. The aim of this course is to equip the students with necessary skills and tools which will enable them to have a firm understanding of macroeconomic theory and policy, so that they can understand and explain basic macroeconomic phenomena, in particular macro-economic problems such as inflation, unemployment, low income, low output, low level of growth and national debt using basic tools of economic analysis and to propose solutions to such problems.

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the principles and practicalities of doing research by using statistical methods. Topics include multiple regression, analysis of variance methods and model building with multiple regression. By the end of this course, students will be able to learn how to develop and investigate a research question in economics and have a knowledge about the Excel, R, Gretl, Python and MATLAB programs with hands on applications.

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.

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.

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.

The aim of this course is to present a treatment of the methods of microeconomics that would allow students to apply these tools on their own. In this respect, the fundamental conceptual foundations of microeconomics are explained and concrete examples of their application are provided. This course provides an understanding of microeconomics by concentrating on the behavior of decision makers, namely consumers, producers and government and functioning of markets in the economy. Topics covered are market, budget constraint, consumer preferences, utility function, optimal choice, consumer demand, market demand, market equilibrium, profit maximisation, cost minimisation, cost curves and markets such as perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition and oligopoly.

The aim of this course is to acquaint students with the historical development of economic processes and institutions, changes in production, distribution and consumption patterns and the unique development of factors of production in the world in general and Western European context in particular. The course is taught with the understanding that economic history is a branch of social sciences situated in between economy and history. While concepts and methods of history are applied to the realm of economics and a narration of successive economic events are given; due emphasis is also put on the description and evaluation of economic institutions. This approach facilitates the comparative analysis of regional, national and international economic developments in an historical context.

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.

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

The aim of this course is to analyse the behaviour of the overall economy and to enable the students to apply tools of analysis used in macroeconomics on their own. The course provides a detailed understanding of how economies’ overall levels of employment, production, and growth are determined. This course concentrates on national income accounting, economic growth, aggregate demand and aggregate supply, product and money markets, unemployment, inflation, monetary and fiscal policies and the IS-LM model.

This course follows Statistics I and expands on the basic rules and applications of various statistical methods. The course content covers hypothesis testing and estimation, simple and multiple regressions, chi-square distribution applications, analysis of variance, linear correlation and regression, non-parametric statistics, and quality management. In addition, this course aims to teach the topics by giving empirical economic examples and using R, Jamovi, JASP, E-Views, SPSS, and Microsoft Office Excel programs.

The main objective of this course is to stimulate student’s understanding of the evolution and development of economic reasoning across time. The course is designed to focus on the interrelationships between the historical environment and the economic theories applied to the daily economic life. The course will help students to understand the history of economic thoughts from the ancient Greek period to the medieval period and to the early 21^st century period. Since the course is intended to help students to understand the historical evolution of economic thoughts, it will start with the economic theories of ancient Greek philosophers; then, of medieval philosophers; and afterwards, of mercantilism at the pre-capitalist era. Consequently, the course will focus on the modern economic theories of the era of capitalism: A. Smith, R. Malthus, D. Ricardo, K. Marx, J.M. Keynes and discuss the subjects of rationalistic subjectivism, utilitarian economics, neo-classical theories and other new developments in Economic Theory.

The main goals of this course are to develop an understanding of the role of government and government intervention in the economy and to analyze the effect of government expenditure programs and taxation systems on the welfare and behavior of citizens and societies. Course also focuses on current fiscal policy debates and the discussion of a range of issues in public finance area including global issues, as well as the presentation of simple empirical methods used to evaluate the effect of public expenditure, revenue and financing programs. Practical exercises are also carried out on the public finance topics covered in the course.

Ordinary least squares method, basic assumptions and desired properties. Bivariate and multivariate regression models and various estimation and inference issues related to these models. Maximum likelihood estimate. Coupling with dummy variables. Diesel approach to classical linear regression model.

The aim of this course is to the analyse the basic concepts of international trade. International trade analysis focuses primarily on the real transactions in the international economy. In this course, comparative advantage, Ricardian model, the specific factor model, Heckscher-Ohlin Model, the standard trade model, economies of scale, labor productivity, instruments of trade policy and trade policy in developing countries are examined.

Functions of money. Evolution of payment systems. Money supply. Money demand. Monetary transmission mechanism. Inflation. Determination of interest rates. Determination of exchange rates. Money substitution and dollarization. Aims and tools of monetary policy.

This course follows Econometrics I and expands on the basic rules and application of econometric methods. The course content covers analysis and interpretation of coefficients and other outputs of models, multicollinearity, heteroskedasticity, autocorrelation problems, qualitative response regression models, panel data models, and time series estimations. In addition, this course aims to teach the topics by giving empirical economic examples and using R, Stata, and E-Views programs.

This course deal with the economic activity lasting from the pre-republican period, Republican Turkey to today's Turkey, industrial policies and efforts to resist and change against the rising western economy, the implemented industrial policy by young Republic for the development; liberal, mixed economy, statist economy implemented to date. Shortly, this course basicaly and essantialy overviews information about last 100 years economic history of Turkey.

This course will cover all processes from production to consumption of agriculture and food sector. Structural policies and implementation processes in the agricultural sector in both developing and developed countries will be discussed in terms of supply and demand analysis in agricultural production, consumer behaviour, government interventions and agricultural price mechanisms. While doing this, the changing socio-economic structure in rural areas and the effects of climate change on the agricultural sector will be evaluated on a global and regional level.

The objective of this course is to provide the students with a comprehensive understanding of the role and activities of international economic institutions in the global economy and the challenges they face in the 21st century. The course focuses on the institutions’ philosophy and their principles as well as issues that they try to deal with. This course has three parts. In the first part, we examine the architecture of the Bretton Woods, post Bretton Woods Era and the key institutions created in this period. In the second part, our focus will be on the regional development banks followed by the third part, where international investment banks will be explained.

This course aims to enable students to learn about energy, environment, and natural resource economics and to reflect a current perspective on modern environmental issues. In this course, the concepts of energy and economic development, pollution, climate change, renewable energy, global environmental trends, green economy, and sustainable development are discussed with theoretical emphasis and current situation examples.