MATHEMATICS
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
DES3936	Design Thinking	Spring	2	0	2	4

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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:
Course Coordinator :	Instructor MURAD BABADAĞ
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	approaching to problems of proffesion by the helping of history of thinking and philosophy. Meditating the purpose and the meaning of everyday things

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
perception of thinking methods
awarness of the religious base of life styles
awarness of the moral base of life styles
awarness of the hierarchy of life styles
understanding of dynamics of thinking pratics
to improve the approach of proffesion by helping of these pratics

Course Content

skepticism, ethics, will to power,aesthetics, and the nature of art will be discussed as we read primary philosophical texts including those by Plato, scholastic approach,renaisanse, Descartes,spinoza, Kant,Hegel,Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger and frankfurt school will be discussed. From "Zeno's Paradox" in ancient Greece to Michel Foucaut's "Discipline and Punish," we will grapple with the intellectual watersheds that continue to haunt the modern mind.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	briefing about course, giving reading list and introduction, tracing the first steps of philosophy before Ancient Greek. Explanation of mythology and identifing the context. First cosmological designs, preliminary thoughts about humankind	-
2)	Ancient Greek thoughts Before Socrates, problem solving about life and existence at the tragedias Parmenides,Platon,Socrates and after logic approaches about "good", "beauty" and existance( world od ideas, allegory of cave)	-
3)	Parmenides,Platon,Socrates and after logic approaches about "good", "beauty" and existance( world od ideas, allegory of cave) Thinking about freedom,happiness, good and beauty out of ethic for nikomakhos and Aristoteles	-
4)	impact of individuality and social life at the Early christianity (nicaean consul, agustinius) differentiation between good and beauty	-
5)	establishing world view with scolastic toughts, invention of perspective, renaisance, reform and the rise of the individuality	-
6)	Descartes, penetration sceptisism in to blief, necessity of intelligence for faith	-
7)	Spinoza, first written utopias, working on potential worlds, scottich enlightment( Hume,Hobbes, Locke and social contract)	-
8)	Enlightment!Necessarily Kant! Sapere aude! Baumgarten and definition of aesthetic	-
9)	Hegel and the up side down dialectic ! Nietszche, beyond the good and evil, will to power	-
10)	Marx and corrected dialectic. The impact of industrial revolution to the social classes	-
11)	Heidegger and existance(sein und zeit) individualisation on design, setting identities,state of belongings	-
12)	Frankfurt school, Adorno, Horkheimer, to instrumentalisation of reason, dialectic of enlightment	-
13)	Existantialism,Jean Paul Satre, Simon de Bevoir, Albert Camus	-
14)	Deleuze and the metastabilisation of individual, Foucault, investigations about gender and identities, other current approaches

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	-
References:	-

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	1	% 5
Quizzes	4	% 5
Homework Assignments	10	% 5
Presentation	1	% 20
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 35
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 65
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 35
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	16	3	48
Study Hours Out of Class	10	2	20
Presentations / Seminar	1	1	1
Homework Assignments	10	2	20
Quizzes	4	1	4
Midterms	1	3	3
Final	1	3	3
Total Workload			99

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 have a grasp of basic mathematics, applied mathematics and theories and applications in Mathematics
2)	To be able to understand and assess mathematical proofs and construct appropriate proofs of their own and also define and analyze problems and to find solutions based on scientific methods,
3)	To be able to apply mathematics in real life with interdisciplinary approach and to discover their potentials,
4)	To be able to acquire necessary information and to make modeling in any field that mathematics is used and to improve herself/himself,	4
5)	To be able to tell theoretical and technical information easily to both experts in detail and non-experts in basic and comprehensible way,
6)	To be familiar with computer programs used in the fields of mathematics and to be able to use at least one of them effectively at the European Computer Driving Licence Advanced Level,
7)	To be able to behave in accordance with social, scientific and ethical values in each step of the projects involved and to be able to introduce and apply projects in terms of civic engagement,
8)	To be able to evaluate all processes effectively and to have enough awareness about quality management by being conscious and having intellectual background in the universal sense,	4
9)	By having a way of abstract thinking, to be able to connect concrete events and to transfer solutions, to be able to design experiments, collect data, and analyze results by scientific methods and to interfere,
10)	To be able to continue lifelong learning by renewing the knowledge, the abilities and the competencies which have been developed during the program, and being conscious about lifelong learning,
11)	To be able to adapt and transfer the knowledge gained in the areas of mathematics ; such as algebra, analysis, number theory, mathematical logic, geometry and topology to the level of secondary school,
12)	To be able to conduct a research either as an individual or as a team member, and to be effective in each related step of the project, to take role in the decision process, to plan and manage the project by using time effectively.