COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SHIPBUILDING ECONOMICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MBA 4016 SHIPBUILDING ECONOMICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Maritime Business Administration (English)

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SADIK ÖZLEN BAŞER

Offered to

Maritime Business Administration (Evening)
Maritime Business Administration (English)

Course Objective

This lecture concerns with shipbuilding which is a heavy engineering business, selling a large and sophisticated product built mainly in facilities located in the industrialized countries of Japan, Europe, South Korea, China and Taiwan.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand the complex shipbuilding processes
2   To gain the ability to get the necessary knowledge covering the subsidies in shipbuilding
3   To comprehend the role of merchant shipbuilding and scrapping industries
4   To understand the regional structure of world shipbuilding
5   To comprehend the shipbuilding market cycles
6   To understand the shipbuilding market supply and demand model

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The role of merchant shipbuilding and scrapping industries
2 Regional structure of world shipbuilding
3 The decline of British shipbuilding
4 European shipbuilding
5 Merchant shipbuilding in the United States
6 The Japanese shipbuilding
7 Midterm exam I
8 The rise of South Korean, Taiwan, China shipbuilding
9 Shipbuilding market cycles
10 The shipbuilding market supply and demand model
11 Shifts of supply and demand curves
12 The shipbuilding production process
13 Shipbuilding costs and competitiveness
14 Currency movement and competitiveness

Recomended or Required Reading

Shipping Investment in Recession, Beth Hans Ludwig, Bremen, Institute of Shipping Economics.

Shipbuilding Credit, Riddle Ian Bangor, Cardiff, University of Wales.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Cooperative and active teaching and learning strategies

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 * 0.10 + FINS * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

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 4 48
Preparation for midterm exam 2 10 20
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Midterm 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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