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
GEP1304	Music Business and Turkish Music Industry	Spring Fall	3	0	3	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:	GE-Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course serves the student who is wishing to increase their knowledge of the basic business practices of the Turkish Music industry and the student who is considering further study of the music business. The course utilizes guest speakers from the music and entertainment industry with respect to career development. The course has a strong emphasis on practical applications of classroom knowledge to the music business environment.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
At the end of the course attendants will be informed about: Main Actors of the Music Industry, Recording, Producing, Legal Issues, Packaging, Digital Music Industry. The course focuses on skills necessary for beginning and maintaining a professional career in the music industry.

Course Content

Music Business and Turkish Music Industry is an introduction to the basic concepts of the business practices related to the music industry and actors in Turkish Music Industry .

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Main Actors in the Music Business	Text
2)	Music & Musicians	Text
3)	Music Recording & Record Business	Text
4)	Production of Music	Text
5)	Legal Issues & Packaging	Text
6)	Personal Manager & Booking Agent	Text
7)	Music Organizations, Festivals & Concert Promoters.	Text
8)	Digital Music Industry	Text
9)	Midterm
10)	Music Societies	Text
11)	Music Publishers	Text
12)	Music TVs & Radios & Magazine…	Text
13)	Music Education	Text
14)	Music Shops, Distribution & Instrument Repair, Design	Text

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

References:

Mike King (2009) Music Marketing: Press, Promotion, Distribution, and Retail. ISBN 978-0876390986

David Baskerville (2009) Music Business Handbook ISBN 978-1412976794

Shelly Field (2004) Career Opportunities In The Music Industry. ISBN 978-0816059966

Paul Allen (2011) Artist Management for the Music Business, Second Edition ISBN 978-0240815015

Mike King (2009) Music Marketing: Press, Promotion, Distribution, and Retail. ISBN 978-0876390986

David Baskerville (2009) Music Business Handbook ISBN 978-1412976794

Shelly Field (2004) Career Opportunities In The Music Industry. ISBN 978-0816059966

Paul Allen (2011) Artist Management for the Music Business, Second Edition ISBN 978-0240815015

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	1	% 10
Homework Assignments	1	% 15
Project	1	% 10
Midterms	1	% 25
Final	1	% 40
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	3	42
Project	1	10	10
Homework Assignments	1	6	6
Midterms	1	12	12
Final	1	30	30
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.