SOCIOLOGY
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
ADV3631	Project Management	Spring	3	0	3	5

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ÖNDER YÖNET
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ÖNDER YÖNET
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	The objective of this course is, within the concept of "project management", to gain the students the ability of designing many projects in life (and in advertising). Hence, in other words, the objective is from the organization of their weddings to designing advertising campaigs, to teach them the steps, main concepts of project management and mediate in their becoming effective and efficient project managers.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) To clarify what project is
2) To differentiate what project management is
3) To describe the project life cycle
4) To identify the stakeholders of a project
5) To employ project initiation to any given project
6) To develope a project plan
7) To analyse how to execute a project
8) To determine how to control a given project
9) To formulate how to communicate about a project
10)To organise how to close a project
11)To assess any given project
12)To design a project
13)To manage a project

Course Content

The course will be held two-sided, on one side the students will learn theoretical knowledge about project management, on the other side, by the same time, they will analyse case studies and practise designing their own real-time projects.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction
1)
2)	What is a project? What is project management? The players of projects: Who is who in the project management?
3)	Project life cycle
4)	scope management
5)	stakeholder analysis & management
6)	Stakeholder analysis & management
7)	WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) and OBS (Organizational Breakdown Structure) The project in the organizational structure
8)	Quiz-Review-Improving or Catching Up! past subjects.
9)	Risk management
10)	Risk management, Project budgeting
11)	PERT Diagrams and the Critical Path Method
12)	PERT Diagrams and the Critical Path Method and resource allocation Determining the final project topics
13)	The Monitoring-Controlling Cycle, Determining how to control a given project - The fundamental purposes of control
14)	Organising how to close a project

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Project Management: A Managerial Approach, Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J. Mantel Jr.,2011. Managing Projects Large and Small: The Fundamental Skills to Deliver on budget and on Time by Richard Luecke, Harvard Business School Press (March 31, 2004) / Proje Yönetimi,Richard Luecke, Türkiye İş Bankası Yayınları,2009.
References:	The Principles of Project Management (SitePoint: Project Management), Mari Williams, 2008. Project Management Case Studies,Harold Kerzner,2009

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments	8	% 40
Final	1	% 60
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 60
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	4	56
Homework Assignments	8	3	24
Final	1	3	3
Total Workload			125

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)	To learn and compare major sociology perspectives, both classical and contemporary, and apply all of them to analysis of social conditions.
2)	To be able to identify the basic methodological approaches in building sociological and anthropological knowledge at local and global levels
3)	To be able to use theoretical and applied knowledge acquired in the fields of statistics in social sciences.
4)	To have a basic knowledge of other disciplines (including psychology, history, political science, communication studies and literature) that can contribute to sociology and to be able to make use of this knowledge in analyzing sociological processes
5)	To have a knowledge and practice of scientific and ethical principles in collecting, interpreting and publishing sociological data also develop ability how to share this data with experts and lay people, using effective communication skills
6)	To develop competence in analyzing and publishing sociological knowledge by using computer software for quantitative and qualitative analysis; and develop an attitute for learning new techniques in these fields.
7)	To identify and to have a knowledge of the theories related to urban and rural sociology and demography, and political sociology, sociology of gender, sociology of body, visual sociology, sociology of work, sociology of religion, sociology of knowledge and sociology of crime.
8)	To have knowledge of how sociology is positioned as a scientific discipline from a philosophical and historical perspective
9)	To have the awareness of social issues in Turkish society, to develop critical perspective in analysing these issues and to have a knowledge of the works of Turkish sociologists and to be able to transfer this knowledge
10)	To have the awareness of social issues and global societal processes and to apply sociological analysis to development and social responsibility projects
11)	To have the ability to define a research question, design a research project and complete a written report for various fields of sociology, either as an individual or as a team member.
12)	To be able to transfer the knowledge gained in the areas of sociology to the level of secondary school.