FIRST SEMESTER
INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS
Aims at providing the students with an understanding of the basic economic principles, theories, structures and relationships related to such concepts as resources and their use in production, demand, supply and the basic operations of goods markets as well as an introduction to the theory of consumer behaviour and the theory of the firm.
INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
An introductory survey of the business world, government and society; primary business functions such as marketing, production, finance, and their management under an organisational framework are studied to develop an understanding of their interrelationships and their institutional make up at an introductory level.
MATHEMATICS I
Relations and functions, inequalities, linear functions, applications of linear functions in economics, exponential and logarithmic functions, limit, continuity, derivative, applications of derivative in economics.
SOCIAL POLICY
This course aims to provide students with the theoretical and practical aspects of social and public policies, their historical roots as well as the intervention of the modern state both in institutional and legal terms, with special emphasis on Turkey.
ATATÜRK'S PRINCIPLES AND THE HISTORY OF TURKISH REVOLUTION I
A two-semester course worth a total of four credit hours which students take during their freshman year.
TURKISH LANGUAGE I
A two-semester course worth a total of four credit hours which students take during their freshman year.
INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE (ELECTIVE)
Politics, nation and state, political ideologies, culture, intellectuals and ideology, power, freedom and state, politics and the media, structures and processes of the state, the institutions of government, elections and electoral systems, political parties, interest groups, presidential and parliamentary systems, contemporary global concerns: challenging modernisation.
COMMUNICATIONS AND LEARNING TECNIQUES (ELECTIVE)
Techniques which will enable students to think freely and make critical analysis for being successful in university education, such as: fast reading, effective methods of communication, understanding and being able to explain texts, preparing academic reports, presentation techniques...
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (ELECTIVE)
Constitution and state, democracy and its elements, political regimes, constitutional movements in Turkey, Turkish Republic State’s characteristics according to 1982 Constitution...
SECOND SEMESTER
LABOUR ECONOMICS
This is a course that focuses on people’s functions in economic life, especially on the “labour supply” side. Labour markets, labour supply models (leisure, work and family models), determinants of labour demand in the short and long run, wage determination, legal and institutional aspects of wage determination, the nature, causes, and various explanations of unemployment, models related to wage bargaining...
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS THEORY
The purpose of this course is to convey to students basic principles and institutions of employee relations, mainly in union settings: the system of industrial relations, theoretical concepts and definitions, characteristics of western labour movements and unions in developing economies, the development of industrial relations in Turkey, union freedoms and their protection, collective bargaining, its scope and functioning, authorisation, negotiations and settlement of labour disputes.
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
Methods in sociology, culture and society, social mobility, social development, integration and disintegration, ethnicity and ethnic group, social and cultural aspects of economic progress, alienation and anomie, tendencies of communalism, social structure and social change, problems arising out of globalisation...
HISTORY OF ECONOMICS
Approaches to economic history, neolithic revolution, economy and society in ancient times, economy in medieval Europe, the emergence of modern age, the changing balance of economic power in Europe, the dawn theory, the European economy in the nineteenth century, the world economy in the twentieth century.
ATATÜRK'S PRINCIPLES AND THE HISTORY OF TURKISH REVOLUTION I
A two-semester course worth a total of four credit hours which students take during their freshman year.
TURKISH LANGUAGE II
A two-semester course worth a total of four credit hours which students take during their freshman year.
COMPUTER (ELECTIVE)
General structure of computers, computer hardware, computer software and general information about operating systems, MS – DOS operating system/ MS- DOS commands, introduction to Windows/ WinWord and Excel
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (ELECTIVE)
This course aims to investigate the behavior of individuals and groups in work and social life; it is different from the organizational behavior course with macro character but which focuses on smiliar subjects in organizational settings.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (ELECTIVE)
Basic concepts such as international politics, foreign policy, globalisation, world systems, evolution of international thought, different approaches to international relations such as realism, pluralism and structuralism, analysis of current issues and international problems: custodian problem, Middle Eastern issues, the analysis of basic technical concepts: strategic approach, cold war, etc.
THIRD SEMESTER
MICROECONOMICS
The course aims at building on the foundations provided by introduction to economics so as to provide a sound understanding of mainstream microeconomic theories and models. Within the scope of this course; theories of consumer behaviour and demand, consumer equilibrium, theories of cost and production, market structures, the meaning of general equilibrium, theory of distribution, welfare economics are discussed.
STATISTICS
Graphical and tabular methods for organisation and summarisation of data, measures of location, measures of dispersion, introduction to probability, combinatorics, discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions, special probability distributions, instruction on the use of statistical computer packages.
INTRODUCTION TO FINANCE
Focus of finance science, its historical development, method and links with other disciplines/ reasons of activities of public economy, conditions of optimal source allocation in the economy, theories of state intervention in the economy, optimal level of public expenditures, etc.
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
Definition of accounting, basic accounting concepts, balance sheet, cost-volume-profit analysis (single and multiple product analysis, margin of safety, operating leverage, limitations of cost-volume-profit analysis), variable costing (variable costing and absorption costing, segmented reporting, variable costing and decision making), budgeting (the mechanics of budgeting, preparation of the operational and financial budgeting, the master budget) , case studies.
LAW OF OBLIGATIONS
Basic concepts, reasons for invalidity of obligations, representation, some important types of contract, conditions for cancelling, fulfilment and results of fulfilment of obligations, special cases in obligation relations and ending of obligations...
TURKISH ECONOMIC HISTORY (ELECTIVE)
Study of Ottoman economic and social history starting from the 16th century up to early 20th century; survey of the economic and social conditions of Turkey (1923-1960), analysis of the dynamics of change of the Turkish economy in the context of the world economy.
Industrilization and emergence of the working class, the labour movement and its determinants in Europe and America in the 19th century, socialism, utopic socialism and its effect on worker movements, Marxism and its effects on labour movements, labour movement in the 20th centruy, effects of new production techniques, globalization and its effect on worker movements.
PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING (ELECTIVE)
Subject, Focus and Developement of the Marketing Discipline, Strategic Planning in Marketing, Marketing Research, Consumer Markets and Behavior, Industrial Markets, Market Segmantation and Choosing Target Markets, Product, Price, Distribution, Promotion Strategies.
FOURTH SEMESTER
MACROECONOMICS
Aggregate Demand and Supply Analysis (Real Income, Employment, and Price Level Determination), Theories of Wages and Labour Supply, Effectiveness of Monetary and Fiscal Policy (Multiplier Analysis), Demand for Money (Simple Portfolio Models), Theories of Consumption and Investment Behaviour.
LABOUR MARKET MANAGEMENT
The aim of this course is to give basics about the organization of labour market. Some of the subjects included are below: concepts about labour markets, reasons of state intervention in labour markets, official and private employment offices, functions of employment offices in labour market, planning of manpower, control of labour market, unemployment insurance and its functions.
This corse will be lectured as an applied economics course. Theoritical knowledge leaned by other courses will be used in analytical way to understand Turkish economy and its reasons and results. More than one resource will be recommended to the students.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Subject and function of public administration, duties of administration, orginizational struction of administration, public administration instruments, state management, local goverments, public officials, judicial control over administration, public administration and law.
THEORY OF COOPERATIONS
Description and developement of cooperatives in Turkey and the world, principles and aplications of cooperatives, cooperative models and organization types, cooperatives and legal procedure, relations between cooperatives, unions, states and banks, financial sources of cooperatives, comparison of cooperatives in Turkey and world.
METHODS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
Method In Social Sciences course aims to lead the students to research, scan resource and use research techniques. In this course science and subject method subjects are discussed, description of science is made and distinction between social and natural sciences is drawn. Thinkers and social scientists that drew attention to social sciences are discussed.
APPLIED STATISTICS (ELECTIVE)
Indexes, time series analysis: composites of time series, season movements, q-square analysis, sampling: data collection, sampling types, hypothesis tests.
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS (ELECTIVE)
Abstract international commerce theory; demand analysis; economic growth; monetary international commerce theory, foreign commerce and national income; government intervention into international economics; globalisation; liberalisation of foreign commerce; economic integrations; international economics and economical development; international capital movements; international monetary system.
TURKISH TAXATION SYSTEM (ELECTIVE)
An inquiry into the tax structure before the Republic; Republican period of Turkish tax system; an economic look at the contemporary Turkish tax system; the free rider problem in the Turkish tax system; the impact of the Turkish tax system on the saving supply and economic growth; the efficiency and equity issues of the Turkish tax system; the legal aspects of the Turkish tax system; income tax; corporations tax; value added tax.
FIFTH SEMESTER
INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY
This course aims to focus on the democraticization of economics with the conceps of “industrial democracy”; economic democracy is studied by focusing on economic systems; labour relations; industrial organizations and structural changes both on macro level and micro level.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL POLICY AND INSTITUTES
Importance of international social policy; focus of the subject; International Labour Organization; other ynternational arrangements; international trade union movement; its history; structure; functioning and aims; membership of Turkish unions to international union organizations.
This subject is mainly the study of the employment contract between the employee and the employer from the stand point of legal aspects; sources of labour law; scope and job security.
Labour relations in the Ottoman period: organization of commerce before the constitutional monarchy; constitutional monarchy and labour movements; characteristics of industrial relations before the Republic; work relations in the Republican period: period before The World War II, between WW II and 1961 Constitution, 1961 Constitution period and 1982 Constitution period.
Fundamental concepts of work sociology; relation of generic sociology and economic sociology with work sociology; work throughout history; industrial revolution; work in Marxist; Weberian and Durkheim sociology; modernization and work; formal and informal groups in work life; class; globalization and work.
WAGE THEORIES AND POLICIES (ELECTIVE)
Concept of wage and ymportance of wage; its functions; wage theories and their effects on wage policies; economical criteria on determining wage; wage policy and its position in economic policy; wage policy based on productivity.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (ELECTIVE)
This course studies possible physical and psychological risks to workers in the working-place and the way to pretent these risks from legal, medical and organizational aspects.
COMMERCIAL LAW (ELECTIVE)
Various types of contracts sale, barter, donation, rent, labour, and procuration, the way various types of business corporations are handled by the law of corporations, the way business enterprises are regulated.
ACCOUNTING: ANALYSIS AND POST-PERIOD OPERATIONS
Descriptions and concepts, analysis scales, analysis of balance sheets, analysis of active and passive accounts, period closing operations.
SIXTH SEMESTER
Individual and collective union freedoms and their protection, employee and employeer unions, activites and control of activities of trade unions, collective agreement, yts focus and level, authority and license, mediation, strike and lockout decisions and results, forbidding and cancelling of strikes, arbitration, the changing of the collective agreement.
COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
The aim of this course is to study in a comparitive way industrial relations in developed and developing countries. The rise and developement of industrial relations in indusrialized countries, union types and structures, relations of unions with state and social dialogue models, industrial relations practices in various countries.
This course studies unions and collective agreements from the economic perspective. Factors determining unionization and labour elasticity; unions’ effects on wages and employment; main models of collective agreements and strike; unions and efficiency; inflation; income distribution; structural changes affecting unions; relations between unions and technological developements.
THEORY OF SOCIAL SECURITY
The concept, functions of traditional and modern social security institutions, factors determining the focus of social security, income sources and payments of social security benefits, incentive payments, social security funds, economic functions of social security, social security’s place in income redistribution, social security as a public service, public social security expenditures...
MONETARY THEORY AND POLICIES (ELECETIVE)
Survey of the role of money and monetary policy, the functions and definitions of money, monetary transmission mechanisms, demand for and supply of money, classical and Keynesian systems, monetarism, monetary control and monetary policy tools.
Values, norms, attitudes and opinions, perception and communication processes, learning motivation processes, individual decision process, work disputes, power and influence process, group decision process, morality, psychological and social aspects of strike and lockouts.
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS (ELECTIVE)
Function of financial analysis, basic financial tables, financial analysis methods, analysis of yndustrial and commercial enterprise tables, liqiudity ratios, activity ratios, ratios on financial structure, profitablity ratios.
Descriptions, economic thought in old eras, economic thought in mediaval times, Islamic economic thought, mercantilist thougght, birth of economics as a science and classical liberal thought, reactions to calssics: protectionism, socialism, communism, neo classics, modern economics.
SEVENTH SEMESTER
“Human Resources Management” which is currently changing its content is in one way continueing as an application area studying structure of employement relations and in another way studying the differantiation in the function of human resource management specially connected to the changes in technology.
This course aims to discuss labour law cases by selecting problems of individual labour law from actual practices, court decisions, etc.
TRADE UNIONISM AND COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT IN TURKEY
Development, structure and function of Turkish unionism, main union types, founding and administration of unions, union democracy, union membership, representatives and administrators of unions, organizational structure of Turkish unions, unions rivalry, union, employer and state relations, political systems and unions, future of Turkish unionism.
Main approaches in organization and management theories, system and situational approaches, leadership and motivation processes, communication, behavioral dimensions of decision making and planning, sources of power and authority in organizations, study of negotiation and resolution of labour disputes from the stand point of behavioral concepts / organizational change.
Basic information about demography, demographic information sources, errors and corrections of errors in population counts, population structures, movements, distribution and developement of population, economic activities of population, projections of population.
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT (ELECTIVE)
What is strategic management, its historical developement, cost-profit comparison in strategic management, organization of strategic management, analysis of growth models from the strategic perspective, strategic management and crisis, leadership and strategic management, strategic management applications in developing countries and Turkey, applied examples at enterprise level, model developement techniques.
Importance of the subject, principles, approaches to the subkect according to different business market models, environmental ethics, analysis of discrimination, responsibilities of employees and employers, rights of employees.
Subject and boundaries of finance policy, general economic influences of public sector, evolution of finance policy, efficiency in economic and finance policies, yncome theory and public economy variables, stabilising finance policies, finance and monetary policies, alternatives and models.
EIGHTH SEMESTER
The study of work relations between the administration and public sector employees employed as public scruant’s and workers; collective bargaining in the public sector.
Importance of human resources in economic development, study of international human resources, sociological, psychological, cultural dimensions of human resources, ynstitutes studying international human resources, applied examples, Turks working in foreign institutions, comparison of Turkey and other countries in terms of human resources.
The study of the theoritical subjects covered in the collective labour law course in real life situations by discussing certain cases. The course aims to discuss with student participation legal court and arbitration decisions on collective labour law.
Orijins of the urbanization movement, fundemantal concepts about urbanization, results of urbanization, environment and ecological systems, factors causing pollution, relations of enviromental problems and economic system, market mechanism, public goods and services, economic approach to pollution control, development model based on environmental protection.
SOCIAL SECURITY LAW
Principles and concepts of social security law, scope according to people and place, types according to workers and public servants, types according to independent workers, joining of different social security systems’ services, regimes without contribution payments, social work and services, legal devices in social security law, main problems of Turkish social security law.
The study of the subjects covered in theoretical course by discussing certain cases. The course aims to give a minimum framework to students.
COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT APPLICATIONS (ELECTIVE)
The course aims to stimulate theoritecal knowledge learned in previous courses by role-playing with students to help them solve real life problems on collective disagreements.
The course aims to discuss cases in order to enlighten students about problems such as environment problems, unemployment, wage distribitution, discrimination, education, habitat, social security and health. This course requires an intermediate economics knowledge and mathematics.
Transformation from yndustrial society to information society and return to home-centered society, communication technology, computer, telemathic technologies forming ynformation technologies, change in work structure, reorganization of work, tele-working and telemathic technologies.
The study of the methods and institutions for solving disputes and conflicts between groups and organizations.
