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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
ISL 3001	RESEARCH METHODS	COMPULSORY	3	0	0	4

Offered By

Business Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ALI ÖZDEMIR

Offered to

Business Administration
Business Administration (Evening)

Course Objective

This course aims to
Ensure the students be able to use the scientific research methods based on analitic thinking to solve the problems be faced about business administration.
Gain the students data collection, modeling, data analysis, reporting skills to solve the business problems in the scientific research methods process.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Define problems about business and make literature review about research topic
2	Define veriables about research topic.
3	Model and solve real problems about corresponding business functions
4	Hypothesize about research problems and analyze the business data by SPSS in order to test these hypothesis about research problems
5	Interpret and report analysis findings and results with scientific basis.
6	Using of analysis results in decision making process of businesses.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	General Structure of Scientific Research
2	Adopting Research topic, Defining research s Problem Statement
3	Literature Review
4	Research Design: Defining Veriables
5	Research Design: Preparing Research Model
6	Determining the Population and the Sample of Research
7	Data and Data Resources
8	Validity and reliability in research
9	Managing Data and Data Organizing Menus at SPSS
10	Statistichal Data Analysis in Management Science and SPSS Applications: Descriptive Statistics
11	Statistichal Data Analysis in Management Science and SPSS Applications: Interpretive Statistics
12	Statistichal Data Analysis in Management Science and SPSS Applications: Inferential Statistics
13	Statistichal Data Analysis in Management Science and SPSS Applications: Creating Forecasting Model
14	Writing Research Report

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Yönetim Biliminde Ileri Araştırma Yöntemleri ve Uygulamalar, Beta Basım Yayım Dağıtım A.Ş. Istanbul, 2008-Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ali Özdemir
2. Işletme Istatistiği, Beta Basım Yayım Dağıtım A.Ş. Istanbul, 2007, Prof. Dr. Hülya TÜTEK & Prof. Dr. Şevkinaz GÜMÜŞOĞLU.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, Class Discussions, Questions-Answers, Data collection with survey, Data analysis with SPSS, Reporting, Homework presentation and various sample applications.

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)

- Doç. Dr. Ali Özdemir
E-mail: ali.ozdemir@deu.edu.tr Web: http://kisi.deu.edu.tr/ali.ozdemir

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	14	3	42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	14	3	42
Preparation for midterm exam	1	8	8
Preparation for final exam	1	8	8
Preparing assignments	0	0	0
Preparing presentations	0	0	0
Midterm	1	1	1
Final	1	1	1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			102

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9	PO.10	PO.11	PO.12	PO.13	PO.14	PO.15
LO.1								1
LO.2								1
LO.3								1
LO.4								1
LO.5								1
LO.6								1

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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