COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IBF 2005 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ÖZLEM ÇAKIR

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
Econometrics
Public Administration
Business Administration
Econometrics
Economics
Economics
Business Administration
Management Information Systems
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
Public Administration

Course Objective

To provide the ability to develop approaches to social issues in the frame of human rights and democratic values at both individual and society levels, awareness to social issues, cooperation, solidarity, teamwork and the ability to develop and manage a project.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To identify social issues
2   To perform teamwork
3   To participate in voluntary work
4   To have individual and social responsibility
5   To carry out cooperation and active involvement with civil society
6   To develop social responsibility projects and campaigns for public and private organizations
7   To communicate with social groups and civil society effectively
8   To present project results in public

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic concepts of social responsibility, history of social responsibility, models and approaches. Project presentation
2 Social issues at global, national and regional levels Project presentation
3 Determining social problem areas, target group, project groups, and project management. Project presentation
4 Volunteering, conscience and ethic Project presentation
5 Children and youth: Children rights, child abuse, working children, destitute children, sick children, drug abuse etc Project presentation
6 Elderly people: Elderly people quality of life, elder rights, violence against elderly people, poor elders etc. Project presentation
7 Women: Women rights, violence against women, women and working life etc. Project presentation
8 Disabled people: Disabled rights, disability abuse, disabled people and working life etc Project presentation
9 Environment: Environment problems, nature conversation, environment ethics, environmental risks etc. Project presentation
10 Disaster: Interest groups in disasters, aid and donation mechanisms etc. Project presentation
11 Discrimination: Gender, age, immigrants, refugees, minorities etc. Project presentation
12 General assessment of projects, addible current issues in accordance with request Project presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

Farklı Bakış Açılarıyla Sosyal Sorumluluk, Ören Kenan, Istanbul Pelikan Tıp Teknik Yayıncılık, 2012.
Işletmelerin Sosyal Sorumlulukları ve Paydaş Grupları ile Ilişkilerinin Yönetimi Tak, Bilçin,
Istanbul Beta Yayınevi 2010. Bayrak, S., Iş Ahlakı ve Sosyal Sorumluluk, Beta Basın Yayım Dağıtım A.Ş., Yayın, No:1135, Istanbul, 2001.
Jeff Buckstein Corporate Socıal Responsıbılıty The Fundamentals, CGA, http://www.cga-pdnet.org/pdf/free_csr_ebook.pdf.
Halkla Ilişkiler, Gönül Budak-Gülay Budak, Nobel Yayınevi, Istanbul, 2014.
Şirketlerin Toplumsal Sorumluluğu, Harvard Business Review, MESS Yayın No: 470, Istanbul, 2005.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

- Participation
- Organizing project teams
- Civil society organization visits.
- Project owner organization visits
- Project development
- Project presentation
- Exams

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE STT * 0.50 +MTE * 0.50
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Project performance will evaluate as midterm seminar

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Addible current issues in accordance with request.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ozlem.cakir@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 15.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 5 3 15
Student Presentations 7 3 21
Preparation for midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for final exam 1 3 3
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Project Preparation 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Field study 1 6 6
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 98

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.15445
LO.2455
LO.355
LO.455
LO.5555
LO.645
LO.7455
LO.8555

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