BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
| 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 |
| GEP0502 | Great Discoveries and Inventions in the History of Science | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 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: | GE-Elective |
| Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Dr. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ |
| Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi DERYA TARBUCK |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
| Course Objectives: | The aim of this course is to survey the development of science and technology in a historical context. |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course; Explains the method regarding the production of scientific knowledge and history of science. Exemplifies important scientific discoveries throughout history. Executes historical method to identify the contribution of civilizations to science. Attributes the ideas of historians regarding the Scientific Revolution. Critiques the applicability of scientific discoveries to technology using historical method. Explains the reasons why Industrial revolution came into being. |
Course Content
| This course will begin with earliest scientific ideas and technological developments and will proceed to medieval, early modern and modern era. |
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction: Guiding Themes | Coursebook |
| 2) | Tools and Toolmakers | coursebook |
| 3) | Pharoes and Engineers | coursebook |
| 4) | Greek Science | coursebook |
| 5) | Alexandria and Science in the East | coursebook |
| 6) | Science in China and India | coursebook |
| 7) | Science in the New World | coursebook |
| 8) | Science in the New World II | coursebook |
| 9) | Copernicus and Galileo | coursebook |
| 10) | Isaac Newton | coursebook |
| 11) | Industrial Revolution | coursebook |
| 12) | Legacy of the Revolution | coursebook |
| 13) | New Aristotelians | coursebook |
| 14) | The Bomb and the Genome | coursebook |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | James E. McLellan ve Harold Dorn, Science and technology in world history: an introduction (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) |
| References: | Seçme Okuma Parçaları |
Evaluation System
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | 14 | % 20 |
| Midterms | 2 | % 40 |
| Final | 1 | % 40 |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
ECTS / Workload Table
| Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Midterms | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| Final | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Total Workload | 92 | ||
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) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 2 |
| 2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 1 |
| 3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
| 4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
| 5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
| 6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
| 7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
| 8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 1 |
| 9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
| 10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |