COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GOVERNANCE AND E-GOVERNMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YBS 3028 GOVERNANCE AND E-GOVERNMENT COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Management Information Systems

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR VAHAP TECIM

Offered to

Management Information Systems

Course Objective

The course aims to examine the main and different properties of government and governance by defining their concepts, to investigate the international process and documents of revealing concept of governance, to evaluate the governance in global/spatial scale, to investigate the applications of governance in central and local governments of Turkey and detect the change, to explain the concept of e-government, to evaluate the changes in purpose and management of e-government and to examine the examples of e-government in Turkey.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understanding the concept of governance and difference between the government and governance concepts.
2   Evaluating the global background
3   Recognizing of the scope and characteristics of the governance in national and international manner.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 The Concept of Governance
4 Transition from Government to Governance and Governance in International Documents
5 Dimensions and Features of Governance
6 Recommendations of Governance
7 Governance in the Context of Spatial Scales
8 Mid-Term
9 Mid-Term
10 Applicability of Governance in Turkey
11 National and Local Governance Practices in Turkey
12 E-Government: A Conceptual Description
13 E-Government: Objectives and Application Areas
14 E-Government Applications and Developments in Turkey

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Textbook: J. E. J. Prıns (Ed.), Desıgnıng E-Government, Hague: Kluwer Law Internatıonal, 2001.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Activities are given in detail in the Assessment Methods and Total Workload sections.

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

Students will undergo two exams, one mid-term and one final.

Assessment Criteria

Assessment criteria will be announced later.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The rules applied by the department are valid.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Contact details will be announced later.

Office Hours

Office hours will be announced later.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Tutorials 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 98

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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