COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INFORMATION ECONOMY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MSH 0073 INFORMATION ECONOMY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Efes Vocational School

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR HAKAN SÖNMEZ

Offered to

Catering Services Programme
Tourism and Hotel Management
Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Civil Aviation and Cabin Services
Civil Aviation Transportation Management
Food Technology

Course Objective

To understand importance of knowledge economy and to be able to make its conceptual analysis in present day's information based society.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will be able to learn basic economic concepts and theories
2   Students will be able to interpret economic processes and developments with perspective of economic theory
3   Students may have study discipline and researcher structure
4   Students will be able to continuously improve themselves in the ever-changing world
5   Students will be able to understand the historical events of economic events and global-regional economies

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Information economy concept, globalization process and knowledge economy relation
2 The role of technological change in the emergence of the information economy
3 The formation of information society, innovation economy and information society
4 The microeconomic effects of the information economy
5 Macroeconomic effects of the information economy
6 The effects of the information economy on the economic policy
7 The effects of the information economy on the economic policy
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 The effects of the information economy on the monetary policy
10 Information economy and central banking
11 The effects of the information economy on the fiscal policy
12 The development of electronic commerce
13 Security of electronic commerce transactions
14 Security of electronic commerce transactions
15 Security of electronic commerce transactions
16 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Ibrahim Güran Yumuşak, Cemil Erarslan ve Yüksel Bayraktar, Küreselleşme Sürecinde Yeni Ekonomi ve Iktisat Politikaları, Istanbul, Nobel Yayınevi, 2. Baskı, 2010.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing and preparing to subjects

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Exams: There will be held on two in class exams; midterm exam and final exam during the semester.
Grades: 50 % Midterm Exam, 50 % Final Exam, 50 % Make-up Exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1) Attending at least 70 percent of lectures and fulfill the requirements of the course are mandatory.
2) Plagiarism of any type will result in disciplinary action.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

hakan.sonmez@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday, 13:00 - 16:30, Ground Floor, No: Z-08, Efes Vocational School, Selçuk / IZMIR.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 64

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16
LO.14
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.54