COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TUR 1009 BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Tourism and Hotel Management

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR OSMAN AVŞAR KURGUN

Offered to

Tourism and Hotel Management

Course Objective

This course aims to assist the students to better understand the society in which they live and themselves as a member and also to examine the reasons behind people's behavior from the societal, individual and socio-pychological perspectives. As a result, this course is a combination of both sociology and pyschology.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to define the terms of sociology, psyhcology and social psychology
2   To be able to talk about the elements of social structure
3   To be able to explain the process of socialisation by giving proper examples
4   To be able to define the terms related to culture
5   To be able to compare the processes of basic learning with each other
6   To be able to become familiar with behavior and its factors.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to sociology: methods and techniques
2 Theoretical approaches and appearance of sociology
3 Society and societal structure
4 Culture: definitions and characteristics
5 Socialisation, societal groups, and family
6 Societal clustering, mobility and change
7 Globalization
8 Psychology as a science (description,it's place among other disciplines, sub-branches and research methods)
9 Modernisation
10 Internalisation and globalisation
11 Introduction to psychology: methods and techniques
12 Theoretical approaches to behavior
13 Motivation, feelings, perceptions, and learning
14 Factors influencing behavior
15 Term final exam
16 Term final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı ve Zeynep Cemalcılar (2016). Dünden Bugüne Insan ve Insanlar -Sosyal Psikolojiye Giriş, Evrim Yayınevi, 18. Basım.
Ş. Şen Demir ve M. Kozak (2013). Tüketici Davranışları, Detay Yayıncılık.
M Kozak ve A. Decrop (2010). Handbook of Tourist Behavior, Routledge.
Nuri Bilgin (2014). Sosyal Psikoloji. Ege Üniversitesi Yayınları. 6. Basım.
Alparslan Usal ve Zeynep Kuşluvan (2006). Davranış Bilimleri (Sosyal Psikoloji). Fakülteler Kitabevi, Barış Yayınları, 5.Basım.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

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

Yrd.Doç.Dr. Emir Özeren
emir.ozeren@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thursday 13.00 - 16.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Teaching, course participation 12 3 36
Preparations for course (textbooks, articles etc) 12 1 12
Preparations for mid-term exam 1 8 8
Preparations for final exam 1 10 10
Presentation design 1 5 5
Mid-term exam 1 2 2
Final exam 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55
LO.65

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