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LOGISTIC MANAGEMENT
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
Fall
2 0 2 4
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

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: -
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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 correctly identify the problems and to be able to ask the correct questions
2) To have the ability for problem solving and to utilize analytical approach in dealing with the problems
3) To be able to identify business processes and use them to increase the productivity in logistics system.
4) To be fully prepared for a graduate study 2
5) Awareness of the new advancements in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and to be able to use them in logistics management effectively. internet and the electronic world
6) To understand the components of logistics as well as the importance of the coordination among these components.
7) To know the necessary ingredients for improving the productivity in business life
8) To think innovatively and creatively in complex situations 4
9) To act and think both regionally and internationally
10) To understand the demands and particular questions of globalization
11) Aware of the two way interaction between globalization and logistics; as well as to use this interaction for increasing the productivity.
12) To be able to use at least one foreign language both for communication and academic purposes 2
13) To acquire leadership qualities but also to know how to be a team member
14) To understand the importance of business ethics and to apply business ethics as a principal guide in both business and academic environment