COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BUSINESS I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISL 1001 BUSINESS I COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Business Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MERT TOPOYAN

Offered to

Economics
Econometrics (Evening)
Economics (Evening)
Econometrics

Course Objective

The aim of the course is identifying the place, importance, role of businesses in economic and social system, explaining the fundamental principles of business and business management, presenting fundamental business functions, and facilitating the understanding and analysis of effects of economic events on businesses.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to possess fundamental information about businesses and business management.
2   Being able to define techniques, models and approaches of business science; understand the historical developement.
3   Being able to understand the place and importance of businesses in economic and social system.
4   Being able to possess the knowledge about analysis and problem solving related to internal and external environmental conditions of businesses and determination to apply that.
5   Being able to make rational decisions in businesses considering economic facts.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Fundamental concepts of business science, place and importance of businesses in economy
2 Relationship of business science with other science branches and business environment
3 Intentions of businesses, rationality principles and business functions
4 Classification of businesses regarding functioning, consumers, products-services, and ownership
5 Classification of businesses regarding size and legal status
6 Establishing a business and stages, feasibillity studies
7 Market studies and demand forecasting
8 Midterm exams
9 Midterm exams
10 Demand forecasting techniques
11 Facilities location selection, tecqniques for selecting optimal location
12 Capacity conceps and planning, techniques for determining optimal capacity
13 Business establishment (investment) decision
14 Management philosophies and development

Recomended or Required Reading

Muammer Doğan, Işletme Ekonomisi ve Yönetimi, 6. Baskı, Nobel Yayın Dağıtım,2010
Nurel Üner, Hulusi Demir, Mete Oktav, Oktay Alpugan, Işletme Ekonomisi ve Yönetimi, Beta Basım Yayım Dağıtım, Istanbul

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentations, case studies

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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 86

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51