COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CALCULUS FOR BUSINESS I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MBA 1009 CALCULUS FOR BUSINESS I COMPULSORY 4 0 0 5

Offered By

Maritime Business Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ALI CEMAL TÖZ

Offered to

Maritime Business Administration
Maritime Business Administration

Course Objective

A course designed to develop mathematical skills considered important for business students and prepare them business for calculus

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The fundamental purpose of the course is to give students a strong sense of the practical and conceptual applications of calculus as a tool for solving problems encountered in the business world.
2   Find a company s cost, revenue, or profit function.
3   Find higher-order derivatives and interpret for cost, revenue, and profit functions.
4   Compute the elasticity of demand to determine if prices should be raised or lowered.
5   Find the cost, revenue, and profit functions, given the marginal revenue, cost, and profit.
6   Calculate definite integrals to find revenue, cost, profit, sales, and population.
7   Solve related rates problems and differentiate implicitly

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Algebra review
2 Linear functions
3 Linear functions
4 Linear functions
5 Systems of linear equations and matrices
6 Systems of linear equations and matrices
7 Midterm Exam
8 Linear programming
9 Linear programming
10 The mathematics of finance, logic, sets, elementary probability and statistics
11 The mathematics of finance, logic, sets, elementary probability and statistics
12 Game theory
13 Digraphs and networks
14 Nonlinear functions

Recomended or Required Reading

*Applied Calculus, by Hughes-Hallet, Gleason et al., ISBN: 0-471-68121-0, 3rd edition
* Mathematics with Application in the Management, Natural and Social Sciences, 9th edition, by Margaret L. Lial, Thomas W. Hungerford and John P. Holcomb Jr., Pearson Education (Addison-Wesley), 2007, ISBN 0-321-33433-7.
* Laurence Hoffmann , Calculus for Business, Economics and the Social and Life Sciences Mcgraw Hill Higher Education; 8th edition (September 2003)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Cooperative and active teaching and learning strategies.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Cpt. Ali Cemal TOZ
Gsm: 05318462591
E- mail: ali.toz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday-Friday 1200-1300

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 4 48
Preparing presentations 10 4 40
Preparation for midterm exam 2 5 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 4 4
Reading 5 2 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 2 2 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 128

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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