COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Foreign Trade (English)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AYSUN KAPUÇUGIL IKIZ

Offered to

Foreign Trade (English)

Course Objective

This course is designed to enhance students' awareness of quality assurance approaches and standards, to provide the students with deeply understanding the principles and requirements of standardization, certification, accreditation, and quality in foreign trade as an integrated approach to increasing the competitiveness of goods and services, achieving the fair competition among traders, and protecting the domestic consumers'.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Quality Systems and Standards for a Competitive Edge; J. Luis Guasch, Jean-Louis Racine, Isabel Sanchez, Makhtar Diop, Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2007.

Certified Quality Manager Handbook; Okes, Duke and Westcott, Russell T.; ASQ Quality Pres; 2000.

International Standards:
- BS OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety
- ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems
- ISO 22000 Food Safety Management Systems
- ISO 27000 Information Security Management Systems
- ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility
- EurepGAP and HACCP Guidelines
- CE Mark

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course consists of lectures, class discussions, assignments, and case analysis.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. Case Analysis will offer an excellent opportunity for students to deepen their knowledge to recognize and use the relevant international standards and quality assurance approaches to facilitate trade operations. For the case analysis, a team including two students should be formed. Any deviation from this target number requires approval of the instructor. The cases will be assigned to each team by the instructor in the beginning of the semester.
2. The case analysis requires a cooperative effort. It is the responsibility of the team to assure that each team member has contributed approximately equally to the group work. Cases will be graded by the instructor and by the team members. Each member of the group will be asked at the end of the semester to evaluate his or her own contribution, and those of other team members. A peer evaluation form will be supplied during the last week of class.
3. Case reports will be evaluated for such factors as apparent understanding of the topic, originality of treatment and discussion, accuracy of results, comprehensiveness of the report s content and depth of the analysis, clarity and mechanics of presentation such as organization, format, punctuation, grammar, and quality of exhibits and charts.
4. Grade for Student Participation will depend on (i) class attendance, (ii) the quality of answers the student provides to questions posed by the instructor during class, and (iii) the general contribution the student makes to the creation of a positive learning environment.
5. A good attendance record may bring the grade up one level, for grades on the boundary between two grade levels.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. It is obligatory to attend at least 70% of the classes.
2. Violations of Plagiarism of any kind will result in disciplinary steps being taken.
3. Absence will not be considered an excuse for submitting homework assignments late.
4. Delayed project reports will suffer grade decay equivalent to one letter grade per day late.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ozkan.tutuncu@deu.edu.tr, aysun.kapucugil@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes