Course Descriptions
Course Name / Course Code
Hours
Credit
ECTS
Introduction to Microeconomics
ECO101
Definitions of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Essentials of microeconomics. Operations of markets. Scarcity and resource allocation. Demand and supply analysis and elasticities. Market efficiency and welfare. Consumer and producer surplus. Cost analysis of firms. Perfect competition and imperfect competition. Monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition. Externalities and internalities. Economics of factor markets.
( 3 + 0 + 1 )
3
6
AKTS
6Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 1 )Academic English Skills 1
ENG101
English Speaking Skills
( 4 + 0 + 0 )
3
5
AKTS
5Kredi
3Saatler
(4 + 0 + 0 )History of Civilization I
HSS101
The agricultural revolution, the rise of civilizations in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Classical Greece and the Hellenistic world, Rome and its empire. The spread of civilizations and the movement of peoples. Byzantium and Europe. The rise and spread of Islam, African civilizations, Western civilization.
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
5
AKTS
5Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )Social Sciences Orientation Seminars
HSS111
( 0 + 0 + 0 )
2
4
AKTS
4Kredi
2Saatler
(0 + 0 + 0 )Mathematics I
MATH103
Sets of real numbers. Functions, special functions. Symmetry, translations and reflections. Lines. Systems of equations. Exponential and logarithmic functions, properties of logarithms. Limits and continuity. The derivative., Rules for differentiation, Derivatives of logarithmic and exponential functions. Implicit differentiation. Logarithmic differentiation. Local and absolute extrema. Concavity. Asymptotes.
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
5
AKTS
5Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )Turkish I
TUR101
Explanation of communication, explanation of language and its relationship with the thinking proces, culture, society and literature; written and oral communication; main characterisrics of the Turkish language; phrases and types of narration; expressional failure.
( 2 + 0 + 0 )
2
2
AKTS
2Kredi
2Saatler
(2 + 0 + 0 )Academic English Skills 2
ENG102
Academic writing and speaking skills with a focus on organizing a research project involving a proposal, preliminary and ongoing research, annotations, thesis proposal, works cited and an interview to demonstrate the results of their work. Critical thinking, reasoning, logical argumentation, and presentation skills.
( 4 + 0 + 0 )
3
5
AKTS
5Kredi
3Saatler
(4 + 0 + 0 )History of Civilization II
HSS102
Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment period, the French and the Industrial revolutions. The world economy, the rise of Russia, industrialization outside of the West, The world war I, second global conflict, globalization: world history 1990- 2004.
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
5
AKTS
5Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )History of Literature
HSS108
The history and development of literature. The earliest examples of literature in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India and Ancient Greece. Literature during the Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment period and 19th century in Europe. Literature in Asia, Latin America, North America and Africa. Major figures in the history of literature such as Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Hugo, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
( 3 + 0 + 0 )
3
6
AKTS
6Kredi
3Saatler
(3 + 0 + 0 )Introduction to Computing
IT101
Introduction to Computing
( 0 + 0 + 0 )
3
5
AKTS
5Kredi
3Saatler
(0 + 0 + 0 )