COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INFORMATION SOCIETY AND WORKING LIFE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇIN 5011 INFORMATION SOCIETY AND WORKING LIFE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Human Resources

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SEVDA DEMIRBILEK

Offered to

Human Resources

Course Objective

To teach students about the structural characteristics of information society, and to gain students the ability of evaluate working life in terms of organizations, management practices and contemporary issues in information society.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to define the concept and characteristics of the information society
2   Being able to know describing theories of the information society
3   Being able to illustrate the problems of the information society
4   Being able to analyze the working life of the information society
5   Being able to evaluate organizations and management practices of the information society

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Economic and Socio-Culturel Structure of the Information Society
2 Theories of the Information Society 1: Alvin Toffler, Daniel Bell, Alain Touraine
3 Theories of the Information Society 2: Manuel Castels, Krishan Kumar, Ulrich Beck
4 Information Economy
5 Professions of the Information Society
6 Problem Areas of the Information Society
7 Information Literacy
8 Midterm Exam
9 Information Technologies and Working Life
10 Working Values in the Information Society
11 Information Worker
12 Organizations of the Information Society
13 Management Practices of the Information Society
14 Leadership in the Information Society

Recomended or Required Reading

Ana kaynak:
Daniel BELL, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, Basic Books Inc. Publication, New York, 1973.
Veysel BOZKURT, Enformasyon Toplumu ve Türkiye, Sistem Yayıncılık, Istanbul, 1996.
Cihan DURA ve H. ATIK, Bilgi Toplumu, Bilgi Ekonomisi ve Türkiye, Literatür, Istanbul, 2002.
Hüsnü ERKAN, Bilgi Toplumu ve Ekonomik Gelişme, Türkiye Iş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, Istanbul, 1997.
Yoneji MASUDA, Managing in the Information Society, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1990.
Eileen M. TRAUTH, Culture of an Information Economy, Springer Press, Norwell, 2002.
Frank WEBSTER, Theories of the Information Society, Routledge, New York, 1995.
Yardımcı kaynaklar:
Peter F. DRUCKER, Kapitalist Ötesi Toplum, (Çev.: Belkıs Çorakçı), Inkilap Kitapevi, Istanbul, 1993.
Peter F. DRUCKER, Geleceğin Toplumunda Yönetim, (Çev.: Mehmet Zaman), Hayat Yayınları, Istanbul, 2003.
David HARVEY, The Condition of Postmodernity, Basil Blackwel, Oxford, 1989.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion, Assignment and Presentation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Exam and presentation

Assessment Criteria

All learning outcomes are measured by semester exam and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

+902323010361
s.demirbilek@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Friday 04:00 pm-05:00 pm

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 8 8
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 124

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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