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
GEP0805	Ontology	Spring	3	0	3	5

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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
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	First of all, the aim of this course is to establish a framework by reasoning upon being with the help of some basic concepts. Then some philosophers who tried to solve the problem of being are going to be analyzed with in this framework. And at last, the problem of being is going to be evaluated in a historical context

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
After successfully completing this course the student will be able;
To see a philosophical problem and reasoning about it
To identify the problem of human in contemporary philosophy
To look at the problem with texts of the philosopher.
Understanding the problem with the help of a philosophical text.
To put down an evaluation with the help of a philosophical text.
Understanding the current age

Course Content

Metaphysics- Ontology-Theology; Relationship between Being and Essence; Types of Being; The Problem of Universals, The Problem of Freedom; Theories of Being; Border-Line of Knowing

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	A general viewto problem of being	Reference books
2)	Understanding relation between being, science and knowledge	Reference books
3)	To explain notions of God, being, metaphysics, theology, substance, arche, appearance	Reference books
4)	To explain the problem of being in terms of history of philosophy and to make classification of the problem	Reference books
5)	General look to the problem of being in Islamic philosoph	Reference books
6)	General look to the problem of being in Islamic philosophy	Reference books
7)	Midterm
8)	Analyzing the concept of being in modern philosophy
10)	Analyzing the concept of being in contemporary philosophy	Reference books
11)	Analyzing the concept of being in contemporary philosophy	Reference books
12)	Analyzing the concept of being in contemporary philosophy	Reference books
13)	Analyzing existence in the existential philosophy	Reference books
14)	Analyzing existence in the existential philosophy Analyzing the concept of time and temporarity	Reference books

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:
References:	Varlık Felsefesi, A. Kadir Çüçen, Melek Zeynep Zafer, Adnan Esenyel, Bursa: Ezgi Kitabevi, 2009. İslam Felsefesi Tarihi, ed. Bayram Ali Çetinkaya, Ankara: Grafiker Yayınları, 2012.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Midterms	1	% 35
Final	1	% 55
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 45
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 55
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	1	14
Midterms	1	20	20
Final	1	30	30
Total Workload			106

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