GEP0821 Classical LogicBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
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
GEP0821 Classical Logic Fall 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) 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.