| Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Introduction |
none |
| 2) |
Beginnings: Max Planck and Quantum, Picasso in Paris, Nietzsche, Veblen, Spencer |
Coursebook |
| 3) |
Einstein, Rutherford, Russell and Whitehead, the intellectual consequences of war, Wittgenstein. |
coursebook |
| 4) |
Spengler, Economic consequences of peace, idea of progress, Whig history |
coursebook |
| 5) |
Golden Age of Physics, Freud and the West, Jung and Modern Man. |
coursebook |
| 6) |
Benjamin, Keynes, German Academics in Turkey |
Coursebook |
| 7) |
Sartre, Merleu-Ponty, Camus, Beckett, Hannah Arendt |
coursebook |
| 8) |
Wittgenstein, Skinner vs. Chomsky, Hayek, Martin Luther King. |
coursebook |
| 9) |
Moon Landing, Braudel and Annales Okulu, Pulsars |
coursebook |
| 10) |
Oil Crisis, The contradictions of Capitalism, Studies on Genetics. |
coursebook |
| 11) |
AIDS, Susan Sontag, Lyotard, Rorty. |
coursebook |
| 12) |
Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Culture Wars |
Coursebook |
| 13) |
Revision |
Coursebook |
| 14) |
Final Exam |
Coursebook |
| |
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 |
BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
