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
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)	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.