GEP0821 Classical LogicBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs ECONOMICS AND FINANCEGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
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
GEP0821 Classical Logic Spring 3 0 3 5
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
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: To make students to be acquainted with subject-matters and concepts of logic and to learn the way of thinking on those subject-matters and concepts.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
After successfully completing this course the student will be able
•Recognises main problems of logic.
•Explains the relation between classic logic and other disciplines
•Identify main concepts of philosophy and relation between them.
•Thinks correct and consistently.
•Describes the concept fully.
•Improves mental execution.

Course Content

Concept, definition, predicables, proposition, reasoning, fallacies

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction
2) Definition of logic, principles of reason and the essence of logic Course notes
3) Subject-matter, aim, importance and uses of logic Course notes
4) Short history of logic Course notes
5) Concept, its kinds and denotations, inter-conceptual relations Course notes
6) Predicables and categories Course notes
7) Definition, its kinds and conditions Course notes
8) Errors in definition, indefinables, division and classification Course notes
9) Proposition and its kinds Course notes
10) Modal propositions, distributivity in propositions and inter-propositional relations Course notes
11) Reasoning, syllogism, the structure and the elements of syllogism, categorical syllogisms Course notes
12) Reasoning, syllogism, the structure and the elements of syllogism, categorical syllogisms Course notes
13) Hypothetical and disjunctive syllogisms, compound syllogisms, irregular syllogisms Course notes
14) Induction, analogy, the five arts Course notes

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Emiroğlu, İbrahim, Klasik Mantığa Giriş, Ankara 2004,
References: Öner, Necati, Klasik Mantık, Ankara 1991
Çapak, İbrahim, Gazali’nin Mantık Anlayışı, Ankara 2005

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Homework Assignments 2 % 20
Midterms 1 % 20
Final 1 % 50
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 50
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Homework Assignments 2 10 20
Midterms 1 15 15
Final 1 20 20
Total Workload 97

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