INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND BUSINESS | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code: | GEP0366 | ||||||||
Ders İsmi: | Practicing Sustainability | ||||||||
Ders Yarıyılı: |
Fall Spring |
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Ders Kredileri: |
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Language of instruction: | English | ||||||||
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Ders İş Deneyimini Gerektiriyor mu?: | No | ||||||||
Type of course: | GE-Elective | ||||||||
Course Level: |
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Mode of Delivery: | E-Learning | ||||||||
Course Coordinator : | Dr. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ | ||||||||
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Course Objectives: | The course shows how the sustainability topics can be integrated into daily life and business. The course aims to create awareness regarding sustainable lifestyle, business practices and ethic. |
Course Content: | The course is focused on the concepts, challenges and solutions for sustainability, sustainable daily practices and business implementations. The course includes principles of sustainable consumption and lifestyle, corporate sustainability and ethic. |
The students who have succeeded in this course;
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Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Understanding the Sustainability | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
2) | Sustainable Development Goals | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
3) | Understanding attitudes towards consumption and sustainability | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
4) | Sustainable Consumption | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
5) | Consumer Culture, Overconsumption and Voluntary Simplicity | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
6) | The Attitude-behaviour Gap in Sustainable Consumption, Motivating behavioural change | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
7) | LOHAS: A sustainable lifestyle | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
8) | Sustainable Business Practices | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
9) | Sustainability and Marketing | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
10) | Sustainable Supply Chains | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
11) | Creating Social Impact | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
12) | Ethics and Responsible Business Practices | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
13) | Communicating and Managing Sustainability | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
14) | Sharing Economy | Class slides / Articles /Cases |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Robertson, M. (2017). Sustainability principles and practice. Taylor & Francis. Lee, N. R., & Kotler, P. (2015). Social marketing: Changing behaviors for good. Sage Publications. Sustainability Marketing, Belz / Peattie (2012) Wiley ISBN: 978-1119966197 Additional readings will be posted in Itslearning. |
References: | Nidumolu, R., Prahalad, C. K., & Rangaswami, M. R. (2009). Why sustainability is now the key driver of innovation. Harvard business review, 87(9), 56-64. Kotler, P. (2011). Reinventing marketing to manage the environmental imperative. Journal of marketing, 75(4), 132-135. Griskevicius, V., Cantú, S. M., & Van Vugt, M. (2012). The evolutionary bases for sustainable behavior: Implications for marketing, policy, and social entrepreneurship. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 31(1), 115-128. Chouinard,Y., J. Ellison. ve R. Ridgeway. (2011). The Sustainable Economy. Harvard Business Review. 52-62. |
Ders Öğrenme Kazanımları | ||||||||
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Program Outcomes | ||||||||
1) Has theoretical and practical knowledge on management, business, trade, economy, entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainable development related to International Trade and Business and can use this information | ||||||||
2) Can collect data from different sources in the global business world and successfully apply research techniques, use information and communication technologies. | ||||||||
3) Can analyze opportunities and threats with strategic thinking skills by using different resources and channels in the ever-changing global business world. | ||||||||
4) Can communicate orally and in writing with a good knowledge of English grammar. | ||||||||
5) He / she can transfer the knowledge and skills he / she has acquired in the field to the relevant people in written and oral form and evaluate them critically. | ||||||||
6) Adopts the principles of business ethics with the awareness of professional responsibility and can apply these principles within the framework of legal rules in the field of global trade and business. | ||||||||
7) He / she can collaborate in and out of the field, take responsibility, respect cultural differences and have ethical values. | ||||||||
8) Has sufficient awareness of social rights, justice, cultural values, environmental awareness, occupational health and safety. | ||||||||
9) With the lifelong learning skill acquired, she/he can identify learning needs and improve herself/himself |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Has theoretical and practical knowledge on management, business, trade, economy, entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainable development related to International Trade and Business and can use this information | |
2) | Can collect data from different sources in the global business world and successfully apply research techniques, use information and communication technologies. | |
3) | Can analyze opportunities and threats with strategic thinking skills by using different resources and channels in the ever-changing global business world. | |
4) | Can communicate orally and in writing with a good knowledge of English grammar. | |
5) | He / she can transfer the knowledge and skills he / she has acquired in the field to the relevant people in written and oral form and evaluate them critically. | |
6) | Adopts the principles of business ethics with the awareness of professional responsibility and can apply these principles within the framework of legal rules in the field of global trade and business. | |
7) | He / she can collaborate in and out of the field, take responsibility, respect cultural differences and have ethical values. | |
8) | Has sufficient awareness of social rights, justice, cultural values, environmental awareness, occupational health and safety. | |
9) | With the lifelong learning skill acquired, she/he can identify learning needs and improve herself/himself |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Project | 1 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 50 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 13 | 3 | 39 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 12 | 4 | 48 |
Project | 1 | 25 | 25 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 116 |