COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TOTAL QUALITY AND ACCREDITATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FSH 0026 TOTAL QUALITY AND ACCREDITATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Faculty Of Science

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MUHITTIN AYGÜN

Offered to

Physics(Evening)
Chemistry
Biology
Statistics(Evening)
Computer Science
Mathematics (Evening)
Statistics
Chemistry (Evening)
Mathematics (English)
Physics
Faculty Of Science

Course Objective

In this lecture the students will learn issues of Basic Definitions about Total Quality and Accreditation, Total Quality and Accreditation in Türkiye and The World, Total Quality and Accreditation Standards, Total Quality Management, Processes in Total Quality and Accreditation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   have knowledge about the concepts of total quality and accreditation, and their importance, associate to each other
2   have knowledge about basic definitions in total quality and accreditation
3   have knowledge about total quality and accreditation in Türkiye and the world, follow the latest developments
4   have knowledge about total quality and accreditation standards, research extensively
5   have knowledge about processes in total quality and accreditation, generate ideas
6   have knowledge about the issues of accreditation systems in university education, follow the latest developments
7   have knowledge about quality control and accreditation applications in laboratory

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic Definitions about Total Quality and Accreditation
2 Total Quality and Accreditation in The World
3 Total Quality and Accreditation in Türkiye
4 Total Quality Standards
5 Accreditation Standards
6 Total Quality Management
7 Processes in Preparation of Total Quality
8 Mid-term exam
9 Processes in Preparation of Accreditation
10 Processes in Total Quality
11 Processes in Accreditation
12 Monitoring and Evaluation of Accreditation Process
13 Accreditation Systems in University Education
14 Quality Control and Accreditation Applications in Laboratory

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
S. Schwarz, D. F. Westerheijden, Accreditation and Evaluation in The European Higher Education Area, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

Supplementary Book(s):
V. K. Omachonu, J. E. Ross, Principles of Total Quality, CRC Press LLC, 2004

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1.Presentation
2.Question-answer technique
3.Application
4.Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in presentations, association of concepts with each other, establishing the cause-result relationships and making comments by using the information available for problems and evaluating idea generation are carried out with mid-term and final exams, active participation to the lecture, homework

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

DEU Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
e-mail: leman.tarhan@deu.edu.tr,

Office Hours

will be announced later

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Tutorials 0
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 0
Preparation for Quiz etc 0
Preparing Individual Assignments 0
Preparing Group Assignments 0
Other (please indicate) 0
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 2 2
Preparation for Final Exam 1 10 10
Preparing Presentations 2 4 8
Ouiz etc 0
Final 1 2 2
Mid-term 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 50

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.144
LO.244
LO.334
LO.43
LO.54
LO.64
LO.73