Course Descriptions

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.

Data description. Text analysis. Summary and paraphrase of simplified research articles and data charts. IMRAD Summary. Critical thinking and logical argumentation skills to express an informed opinion. Presentation of information to an audience in an academic setting.

The transition from a hunting-gathering society to agricultural production and sedentary life. The main political, economic, scientific, philosophical, artistic and religious developments in the history of humanity from the beginning of the agricultural revolution until the medieval period. The ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Roman civilizations and their impact on later civilizations.

Introduction to basic IT theory and terminology. Basic skills in a word processor programs, such as MS Word to create documents, format text, apply styles. Basic skills in a spreadsheet program, such as MS Excel, to create and format spreadsheets, including the use of mathematical formulas and to summarize given data in the form of graphics.

Sets of real numbers. Functions. Special functions. Symmetry, translations and reflections. Lines. Quadratic functions. Systems of equations. Exponential and logarithmic functions. Properties of logarithms. Limits and continuity. The derivative. Rules for differentiation. The chain rule. Derivatives of logarithmic and exponential functions. Implicit differentiation. Logarithmic differentiation. Higher order derivatives. Relative extrema. Absolute extrema on a closed interval. Concavity. The second derivative test. Asymptotes.

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.

Communication, items of communication, types of communication, oral and written communication and presentation, effective communication skills. The definition and the importance of language. The relationship between language and society, language and culture. The relationship between language and literature. Spoken language, written language, native language, standard language, dialect, special languages. Features of meaning, sound and style (structure) of Turkish. Rules of writing and punctuation. Features and types of narration. Subject and limitation of the subject. Written language and its features. The layout of written narration (planning of written narration), wording, types of written narration, features of written narration, expressional failure.

General principles, Major topics and essential terminology of the over-expanding area of business. Issues of general management. The dynamics of Turkey and actual Turkish business cases.

Essentials of macroeconomics. Measuring a nation's income and cost of living. Inflation, unemployment, investment and saving. Money and banking. Open economy macroeconomics. International integrations. Introduction to economic growth and development.

Critical thinking and logical argumentation. Academic research. Annotations, citations, quotations. Identification of arguments, reasoning, logical cohesion. Debates. Evaluative summary. Interview.