SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
DIS2003	International Economics	Spring	2	0	2	3

This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction:	Turkish
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Instructor AYBİKE ELİF BOLCAN
Course Lecturer(s):	Instructor AYBİKE ELİF BOLCAN Dr. Öğr. Üyesi MEHMET SITKI SAYGILI
Recommended Optional Program Components:	This course does not have any recommended optional components.
Course Objectives:	The object of the course is to provide knowledge to Foreign Trade program students about theories of international trade and ability to analyze effects of political economy, economical consequences with the concepts of foreign exchange transactions, capital flows and balance of payments.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1.Find answer to the questions of why countries make trade with each other, what are the components of foreign trade and in which prices foreign trade can be done
2.Identify policies,objectives and instruments of foreign trade
3.Have theoretical knowledge about foreign exchange market
4.Are able to analyze the formation of exchange rate
5.Have knowledge about balance of payment accounts
6.Are able to analyze the causes of balance of payments disequilibrium
7.Are able to analyze the policies of balance of payments deficits
8.Have knowledge about counterpoising balance of payments
9.Have knowledge about international capital flows
10.Have theoretical knowledge about internatonal monetary and capital markets

Course Content

Issues such as foreign trade operations, policies of production factors, effects on foreign economic relations on development, international economic mergers and world monetary system is included in the context of this course.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Analysis of international trade theory: Theory of competitive advantage	None
2)	International trade theory: Analysis with supply and demand factors	Review of previous lesson
3)	Factor endowment (Heckscher-Ohlin) theory	Review of previous lesson
4)	Foreign trade policy	Review of previous lesson
5)	Customs tariffs	Review of previous lesson
6)	Non-tariff instruments of trade policy	Review of previous lesson
7)	The liberalization of world trade	Review of previous lesson
8)	Globalization and economic mergers	Review of previous lesson
9)	European Union	Review of previous lesson
10)	Analysis of the currency market	Review of previous lesson
11)	Balance of payments	Review of previous lesson
12)	Equivalance of balance of payments	Review of previous lesson
13)	International monetary system	Review of previous lesson
14)	Economic development and foreign trade policies	Review of previous lesson

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Halil SEYİDOĞLU (2009), Uluslar arası İktisat: Teori, Politika ve Uygulama, Güzem Can Yayınları, İSTANBUL
References:	Bu derste başka kaynak kullanılmamaktadır.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Homework Assignments	1	% 20
Midterms	1	% 20
Final	1	% 50
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 50
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	2	28
Study Hours Out of Class	12	4	48
Presentations / Seminar	11	1	11
Homework Assignments	2	5	10
Midterms	1	1	1
Final	1	2	2
Total Workload			100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.
2)	Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.
3)	Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.
4)	Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.
5)	Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.
6)	Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.
7)	Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.
8)	Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.
9)	Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.
10)	Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities.
11)	Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life.
12)	Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.
13)	Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions.