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
GEP1366	Practicing Sustainability	Fall Spring	3	0	3	5

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:	E-Learning
Course Coordinator :	Prof. Dr. AHU ERGEN
Course Objectives:	The aim of the course is to provide students with information about how to integrate sustainability into daily life and business life. and to gain skills. In this course, sustainable development goals, sustainable consumption, business world It is aimed to raise awareness among students about sustainability practices.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
The student who successfully completes this course:
1) Knows sustainable practices in daily life and business world
2) Understands the factors that hinder sustainable consumption
3) Knows human behaviors that support sustainability
4) Understands the role of consumers in finding solutions to sustainability-related problems
5) Knows sustainable development goals
6) Understand the role of businesses in finding solutions to sustainability-related problems
7) Have knowledge about sustainable ways of doing business

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.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Meeting and reviewing the program
2)	Global Risks - Opportunities
3)	Sustainability
4)	Sustainable Development
5)	UN Sustainable Development Goals
6)	UN Sustainable Development Goals
7)	Quiz
8)	Midterm Week
9)	Sustainable Consumption
10)	Sustainable Consumption
11)	Doing Sustainable Business Formats
12)	Quiz
13)	Doing Sustainable Business Formats
14)	Circular Economy

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

References:

UNDP Türkiye, https://www.tr.undp.org/content/turkey/tr/home/sustainable-development-goals.html
Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals, https://datatopics.worldbank.org/sdgatlas/
Dünya Ekonomik Forumu, https://www.weforum.org/
Hedefler için İş Dünyası, https://www.business4goals.org/
Jeffrey D. Sachs, “Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Çağı”, Yeditepe Üniversitesi Yayınları.
Canan Madran; Mustafa Tanyeri, Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçları ile Kurumsal Dönüşüm,
Akademisyen Kitabevi.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Quizzes	2	% 25
Presentation	1	% 25
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	13	3	39
Study Hours Out of Class	12	4	48
Presentations / Seminar	1	10	10
Quizzes	2	10	20
Final	1	2	2
Total Workload			119

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.	4
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.	3
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.	3