COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKT 4006 DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Economics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHTAP TUNÇ

Offered to

Economics
Economics (Evening)
Public Finance
Public Finance (Evening)

Course Objective

Learning development economics, examining development theories.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to distinguish differences between development and growth
2   To be able to explain fact of underdevelopment, cause of underdeveloped country
3   To be able to discuss what the meanining of development is for Türkiye ecenomics
4   To be able to discuss about changed development comprehension
5   To be able to analayse the countries according to their levels of development
6   To be able to discuss differences between underdeveloped, developing and developed countires in a traditional and new development theories
7   To be able to evaluate how a country can go beyond the development problems
8   To be able to evaluate sustainability of development for developed countries

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Evolution of development eonomics, meaning of development concept, features of development, growth
2 Stages of socio-economic development, comparision between industrial and knowledge society, concept of underdevelopment
3 Approaches about explaining underdevelopment and based to economic factors, vicious cycle approaches and three sector theory.
4 Socia-cultural approaches
5 Economic development and population
6 Human capital and economic development, income distribution and development, KUZNETS approach, LECAILLON approach,
7 Resource distribution theory
8 Midterm Exam
9 Midterm Exam
10 Unbalanced Development Theories
11 Sustainable development
12 New development approaches
13 Foreign trade and development, social capital and development
14 Strategies of new and traditional development

Recomended or Required Reading

1) ADELMAN, Irma, Ekonomik Büyüme ve Kalkınma Teorisi
2) AMIN, Samir, Eşitsiz Gelişme
3) BAŞKAYA, Fikret, Azgelişmişliğin Sürekliliği
4) BAŞKAYA, Fikret, Kalkınma Iktisadının Yükselişi ve Düşüşü
5) CIRHINLIOĞLU, Zafer, Az Gelişmişliğin Toplumsal Boyutu

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Explaning by lecturer, discussing with the students about the topics

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


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 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Others 14 3 42
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 134

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.11
LO.21
LO.311
LO.411
LO.511
LO.611
LO.71
LO.811