COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DLU 7008 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Logistics and Maritime Transport Non-Thesis (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR DIDEM ÖZER ÇAYLAN

Offered to

Logistics and Maritime Transport Non-Thesis (Evening)

Course Objective

Analyzing international business environment hrough the perspective of business management.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learning the international business environment
2   Analyzing international business environment hrough the perspective of business management
3   Learning and applying actors, relations and business management functions in international business
4   Understanding the procedures in international business
5   Solving and managing international business problems and sharing their solutions in written/oral forms

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 International Business: General Introduction
2 Cultural Environment of International Business
3 Political and Legal Environment of International Business
4 Economical Environment, Foreign Trade Theory, Trade and Governmental Effect
5 Local Collaboration and Integration Agreements
6 Foreign Direct Investmens, Exchange Markets
7 Midterm Exam
8 Determining foreign exchange, FDI and governmental effects, Diplomacy in international business
9 Country selection, Collaboration strategies, Control strategies
10 Marketing, Export and Import Strategies
11 Global production and supply chain management
12 Accounting and taxation in multinational companies Multinational finance function
13 International Human Resource Management
14 Homework Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Main international business resources, maritime and logistics resources, publications of international economics organizations.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Literature survey, data analysis, case studies.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + RST * 0.40

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Achieving specialist level of knowledge, skill and competency and researching, commenting, expressing (oral-written forms) through the perspective of business management in in logistics and maritime transport sector will be evaluated.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Asst. Prof. Dr. Didem Özer Çaylan, Tel: 18822

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 6 72
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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