| Course Name | Introduction to Business |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| GEEC 201 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Service Course | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionGroup WorkLecture / Presentation | |||||
| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Course Objectives | The course examines the roles businesses play in the community, and their aims by focusing on the free market system and competition. It provides knowledge about what should a company do to provide its services or manufacture its products for the customers. The course aims to inform the students about fundamental issues of business like, managerial functions, marketing, finance, accounting and international business. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course has been designed to teach the students the types of business, basic functions of business and all the issues related to running a business. |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Welcome & Introduction to the Course | Readings provided by the instructor |
| 2 | Business and its Environment | Readings provided by the instructor |
| 3 | Organizational Structures & Functions | Readings provided by the instructor |
| 4 | Management of Processes | Readings provided by the instructor |
| 5 | Marketing Management | Readings provided by the instructor |
| 6 | Global Business & Trade | Readings provided by the instructor |
| 7 | Human Resources Management | Readings provided by the instructor |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | - |
| 9 | Economics & Business | Readings provided by the instructor |
| 10 | Social Responsibility, Ethics and Business Law | Readings provided by the instructor |
| 11 | Accounting and Finance | Readings provided by the instructor |
| 12 | Operations Management & Supply Chain Management | Readings provided by the instructor |
| 13 | Tutorial for the Individual Report | Readings provided by the instructor |
| 14 | Semester Wrap up | |
| 15 | Review of Semester | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Readings provided by the instructor |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Bovee, C.L. and Thill, J.V., 2023. Business in action. Pearson Higher Ed.10th Edition
Ebert, R.J. and Griffin, R.W., 2018. Introduction to Business. Pearson. 13th Edition
Mirze, S. Kadri (2013). Introduction To Business. Literatür Yayıncılık https://www.nytimes.com/section/business https://www.ft.com/ https://www.bloomberg.com/businessweek |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weighting |
| Participation | 1 | 30 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
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| Presentation / Jury | ||
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| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 2 | 60 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
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| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 20 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 23 | |
| Total | 119 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able master and use fundamental phenomenological and applied physical laws and applications, | |||||
| 2 | To be able to identify the problems, analyze them and produce solutions based on scientific method, | |||||
| 3 | To be able to collect necessary knowledge, able to model and self-improve in almost any area where physics is applicable and able to criticize and reestablish his/her developed models and solutions, | |||||
| 4 | To be able to communicate his/her theoretical and technical knowledge both in detail to the experts and in a simple and understandable manner to the non-experts comfortably, | |||||
| 5 | To be familiar with software used in area of physics extensively and able to actively use at least one of the advanced level programs in European Computer Usage License, | |||||
| 6 | To be able to develop and apply projects in accordance with sensitivities of society and behave according to societies, scientific and ethical values in every stage of the project that he/she is part in, | |||||
| 7 | To be able to evaluate every all stages effectively bestowed with universal knowledge and consciousness and has the necessary consciousness in the subject of quality governance, | |||||
| 8 | To be able to master abstract ideas, to be able to connect with concreate events and carry out solutions, devising experiments and collecting data, to be able to analyze and comment the results, | |||||
| 9 | To be able to refresh his/her gained knowledge and capabilities lifelong, have the consciousness to learn in his/her whole life, | |||||
| 10 | To be able to conduct a study both solo and in a group, to be effective actively in every all stages of independent study, join in decision making stage, able to plan and conduct using time effectively. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of Physics and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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