COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKT 2066 PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE I ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Economics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FIRAT GÜNDEM

Offered to

Economics
Economics

Course Objective

This course provides students to learn fundamental concepts and theoretical explanations about economics at a basic level, and follow English literature, and able to write English papers about these subjects.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to learn fundamental concepts of economics in English
2   To be able to learn and explain the concepts and analysis about microeconomics in English
3   To be able to learn and explain the concepts and analysis about macroeconomics in Englis
4   To be able o learn and explain concepts and analysis about monetary economy in English
5   To be able to understand English papers about international financial markets and crisis

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Fundamental concepts about economics
2 Fundamental concepts of microeconomics
3 Producer and consumer equilibrium
4 Perfect Competition Market
5 Imperfect Competition Markets
6 Factor Markets
7 Mid-Term Exam
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Fundamental concepts of microeconomics
10 Equilibrium at Commodity and Money market
11 Some comparisons between macro theories
12 Economic crisis and economic policy
13 Financial markets and institutions
14 International finance and monetary policy

Recomended or Required Reading

Case, Fair and Oster (2012). The Principles of Macroeconomics. Pearson.
Greenaway, David (2012). The World Economy: Global Trade Policy 2012. USA: Wiley.
Krugman, Paul and Robin Wells (2012). Microeconomics. Thirth Edition. WorthPublishers.
Lipsey, R.G., P.O. Steiner (1987). Economics. Harper International Edition.
Mankiw, N. Gregory (2012). Principles of Economics. 6th Edition. South-
Mishkin, Frederich S. (2005). Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets. Wesley.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Active partıcipation of students motivated by the presentations done by the professor

Assessment Methods

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


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

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)

husnu.erkan@deu.edu.tr, +90 232 420 41 80

Office Hours

Wednesday 13:00-14:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Reading 2 10 20
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 122

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.11111
LO.211111
LO.3111111
LO.4111
LO.51111

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