Course Descriptions

Bu dersin amacı: Ahlaklı bir hayat nasıl tanımlanır? İyi ve erdemli birey kimdir? “İyi” ve “kötü”, “doğru” ve “yanlış” arasındaki çizgiyi kim belirler? İyi yurttaş kimdir? Bir yurttaş olarak, kadın/erkek olarak, toplum üyesi olarak hayatlarımızı nasıl yaşamamız gerekir? Modern birey kimdir? Teknoloji, ahlaki yargılarımızı nasıl etkiler? Etik, hukuk, ahlak ve kültürel alanları ilgilendiren bu tarz sorgulamaları günlük hayatımızda sıklıkla yapmaktayız. Bu ders, bu tür soruları tartışmak amacıyla birey ve yurttaş olmanın anlamlarına değinmekte; toplumsal hayatın düzenleyici bileşenlerini ahlak, hukuk, etik ve normlar ile ilişkilendirerek tartışmakta; birey ve iktidar arasındaki ilişkiyi devlet, toplumsal cinsiyet, aile, din ve gözetim gibi konular üzerinden ele almaktadır. Ayrıca, modernleşme kavramını merkeze alarak, değer yargılarının “evrensel” boyuttaki inşasını Doğu ve Batı kültürleri arasındaki iktidar ilişkileri bağlamında sorgulamaktadır.

The themes of microeconomics. The basics of supply and demand. Consumer behavior. Individual and market demand. Uncertainty and consumer behavior. The cost of production. Profit maximization and competitive supply. Market power, monopoly and monopsony. Pricing with market power. Monopolistic competition and oligopoly. Game theory and competitive strategy. Markets for factor inputs. General equilibrium and economic efficiency. Markets with asymmetric information. Investment and capital markets. Externalities and public goods.

Introduction to the use of statistics in economics and administrative science analysis. Basic statistical concepts used by social scientists. Displaying data. Measures of central tendency and variability. Frequency distributions. Normal distribution. Basic concepts of probability. Sampling distribution and hypothesis testing. One-sample hypothesis testing in social research.

Introduction to the use of statistics in economics and administrative science analysis. Basic statistical concepts used by social scientists. Displaying data. Measures of central tendency and variability. Frequency distributions. Normal distribution. Basic concepts of probability. Sampling distribution and hypothesis testing. One-sample hypothesis testing in social research.

Introduction to accounting principles and concepts, the recording process. Adjusting the accounts and preparing the statements.Completion of accounting cycle. Accounting for a merchandising operations and internal control and cash account.

National income and wealth. Macroeconomic stability and instability. Business cycles. Unemployment and inflation. The self-correcting economy. Causes of unemployment. Classical economics. Introduction to Keynesian economics. Income and employment determination. Fiscal policy and national debt. Monetary economics and macroeconomic equilibrium. Central banking. Modern quantity theory. Monetarism and new classical economics. Rational expectations. Philips curve analysis. The open economy macroeconomics.

Introduction to academic genres. Key figures in particular areas of academic life. Synthesizing different sources. Key scientific figure. Reading about and listening to a scientific process. Choosing and describing a scientific process in speech and writing. Reports of different research methods. Lab report or literature search. Passive voice, adverbial clauses and adjective clauses. Understanding and using key vocabulary from a particular domain.

Correlation and regression for social research in the fields of economics and administrative sciences. Multiple regression analysis. Two-sample hypothesis testing. Analysis of variance. Application of Chi-square test in social sciences.

Nature and methodology of political science, basic concepts, political institutions and political behavior, political parties and pressure groups, political participation, elections and voting behavior, state and bureaucracy.

Finance and the financial manager. Present value and the opportunity cost of capital. Calculation of present values. Annuity and perpetuity formulas. Introduction to valuation of bonds and common stocks. Capital budgeting. NPV and its competitors. Risk and return. Capital budgeting and risk. Corporate financing and market efficiency. Issuing corporation securities.