COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

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Course Name

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
	Fall/Spring

Prerequisites

	ECON 101	To succeed (To get a grade of at least DD)
and	ECON 102	To succeed (To get a grade of at least DD)
or	ECON 100	To succeed (To get a grade of at least DD)

Course Language

Course Type

Elective

Course Level

Mode of Delivery

Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course

Course Coordinator

Course Lecturer(s)

Assistant(s)

Course Objectives
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; The students who succeeded in this course will be able to; Explore various social and economic networks and edit the raw data into a network database Understand how typical/generic networks can form Calculate adequate network measures essential for comparative analysis of networks Examine which factors can influence the stability and robustness of networks Analyze the interaction between the individual behavior on the networks and the macro outcomes
Course Description

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses	X
	Supportive Courses
	Media and Managment Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week	Subjects	Required Materials
1	ıntroduction: Network examples	SEN, chapter 1
2	Network types and network measures	SEN, chapter 2
3	Significance of social and economic networks	NCM, chapter 1
4	Random Network dynamics	SEN, chpater 3
5	Strategic Network Formation	SEN, chapter 4
6	Cliques and communities	NCM, chapter 3
7	Small Worlds, Preferential Attachment	SEN, chapter 5
8	Midterm
9	Diffusion on networks	SEN, chapter 6
10	Learning on networks	SEN, chapter 7
11	Collective action on networks	SEN, chapter 8
12	Games on networks	SEN, chapter 9
13	Games on networks	SEN, chapter 9
14	Review of the Semester
15	Individual behavior and macro outcomes	SEN, chapter 10
16	Cool Network Applications

Course Notes/Textbooks	Social and Economic Networks, 2008, Matthew O. Jackson, Princeton University Press. (SEN)
Suggested Readings/Materials	Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World. By David Easley and Jon Kleinberg. Cambridge University Press, 2010. Complete preprint on-line at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/, (NCM)

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation	15	10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	4	20
Presentation / Jury
Project	1	10
Seminar / Workshop	1	10
Oral Exam
Midterm	1	20
Final Exam	1	30
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade		50
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade		50
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	2	32
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	1
Study Hours Out of Class	16	4
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	4
Presentation / Jury
Project	1
Seminar / Workshop	1
Oral Exam
Midterms	1	23
Final Exams	1	30
		Total	165

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	To have a sound knowledge of the quantitative and qualitative methods that will help to examine the premises of different theories for an applied subject so that a contribution to solving current economic problems can be made.				X
2	To have the experience of writing, using software, and doing presentations in the newspapers, magazines, meetings, panels, and in equivalent virtual platforms (internet), in order to share their accumulated knowledge and problem solving ability acquired during their education.					X
3	To be able to participate in academic, professional, regional, and global networks and to utilize these networks efficiently.			X
4	To have adequate social responsibility and awareness with regards to the needs of the society and to have sufficient experience and qualifications to organize and support the activities to influence the social dynamics in line with the social goals.
5	To be able to integrate the knowledge and training acquired during the university education with personal and work experience and produce a synthesis of knowledge she requires.				X
6	To have the ability to evaluate his/her advance (post graduate) level educational needs and do necessary planning to fulfill those needs through the acquired capability to think analytically and critically.					X
7	To have sufficient practical and theoretical knowledge base in order to define the economic agents and their interaction both in the national and global level, to process economic data and to implement scientific research for development of economic policies.				X
8	Keeping in mind that economics is a social science, to have the skills to integrate social dynamics into economic process both as an input and an output and to be open to theoretical innovations in this direction.				X
9	To associate accumulated knowledge acquired during the university education with historical and cultural qualities of the society and to convey it to different groups.
10	To be able to follow knowledge and change in economics and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language.			X
11	To possess social, scientific and ethical values at the data collection, interpretation and dissemination stages of economic analysis.
12	To have advanced level of speaking and writing skills of a second foreign language to support continuation of post graduate professional and individual development

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest