ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
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
ELT5887	Seminar	Spring	0	0	0	10

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Prerequisites:	ELT5888-1 - Thesis
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ENİSA MEDE Prof. Dr. KENAN DİKİLİTAŞ
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	Graduate Seminar course is a systematic study that prepares students for their thesis writing. To help students conduct a thesis study, the course involves augmenting critical thinking, researching, and academic writing skills.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Critique research articles on current topics
2. Formulate a specific research topic and research questions
3. Conduct literature review relevant to a research topic they have selected
4. Collaborate with faculty to develop applicable research methodology for data collection and analyses
5. Write a research proposal outlining key elements of the proposed project and present it orally in seminar

Course Content

The seminar course introduces students with various current research ideas widening their perspectives and awareness of topics of interests through invited speakers and their presentations. The course orients students to conduct literature review on a pre-determined subject, to help them gain competence in synthesizing the literature, collect data, analyze, interpret and discuss the findings.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction to the seminar course	Syllabus
2)	Academic study aim, academic writing, and plagiarism	Reading articles
3)	Identifying a research problem and writing research questions	Reading related book chapters and articles
4)	Literature review	Reading articles
5)	Data collection methods: Quantitative	Inviting a guest speaker for a seminar
6)	Data collection methods: Qualitative	Inviting a guest speaker for a seminar
7)	Data analysis	Reading articles
8)	Discussion based on the findings	Reading articles
9)	Discussion and conclusion
10)	Feedback on projects
11)	Feedback on projects
12)	Project presentations
13)	Project presentations
14)	Project presentations

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	The instructor may assign readings, handouts, web-based activities throughout the semester.
References:	American Psychological Association. (2009). Publication manual of the American psychological association (6th edition). Washington, DC: Author. (or other appropriate style manual)

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	2	% 10
Homework Assignments	5	% 50
Project	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	10	14	140
Presentations / Seminar	1	1	1
Project	1	10	10
Homework Assignments	5	19	95
Total Workload			246

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)	Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works.	3
2)	Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies.	2
3)	Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events.	1
4)	Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa.	3
5)	Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches.	2
6)	Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating.	2
7)	Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form.	3
8)	Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence.	2
9)	Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments.	2
10)	Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues.	3