COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CALCULUS FOR BUSINESS II

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
LGM 1004 CALCULUS FOR BUSINESS II COMPULSORY 4 0 0 4

Offered By

Logistics Management

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR HANDE TUNÇEL GÖLPEK

Offered to

Logistics Management

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 Linear programming
8 Mid-Term Exam
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
15 Review
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Applied Calculus, by Hughes-Hallet, Gleason et al., ISBN: 0-471-68121-0, 3rd edition, 2006

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 4 48
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 4 40
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 107

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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