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
BA1011	Introduction to Business	Spring	3	0	3	8

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Assoc. Prof. HAVVA PINAR İMER
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi AYLA ESEN Assoc. Prof. HAVVA PINAR İMER Prof. Dr. AHMET ERKUŞ Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÜLBERK GÜLTEKİN SALMAN
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	The objective of this course is to develop an understanding of the roles, responsibilities, and skills required of individuals (managers and non-managers) in today’s changing organizations by analyzing the characteristics of successful managers and organizations. This process will also develop an awareness of the environmental conditions and pressures facing today’s managers and organizations. Specifically, students will become acquainted with the language of business management and the application of key concepts and theories to the “real world.”

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
Upon the completion of the course, students will learn:
1. the basic business terminology
2. the dynamics in the environment within which a business operates
3. social and ethical responsibility of businesses
4. the ownership of businesses and business structures
5. the role of management in a business setting and its functions
6. the major business functions including operations, marketing and finance

Course Content

The course will be carried out by examining the relationships between the businesses (including their management and structures) and their owners, employees, customers, as well as the global economic environment, the governments and the community. In this sense, in addition to reviewing the general business concepts, and economic environment; we will be focusing on the main functional areas of businesses and make the students understand how business dynamics interact.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction to the course
2)	The Business Environment	Ebert & Griffin, Ch.1
3)	Business Ethics and Social Responsibility	Ebert & Griffin, Ch.2
4)	Entrepreneurship, New Ventures and Business Ownership	Ebert & Griffin Ch.3
5)	The Global Context of Business	Ebert & Griffin, Ch.4
6)	Business Management	Ebert & Griffin, Ch.5
7)	Organizing the Business	Ebert & Griffin, Ch.6
8)	Midterm Exam
9)	Operations Management and Quality	Ebert & Griffin, Ch.7
10)	Employee Behavior and Motivation	Ebert & Griffin, Ch.8
11)	Leadership and Decision Making	Ebert & Griffin, Ch.9
12)	Marketing Processes and Consumer Behavior	Ebert & Griffin, Ch.11
13)	Marketing, Distributing and Promoting Products	Ebert & Griffin, Chs.12 & 13
14)	Finance and Businesses	Ebert & Griffin, Chs. 16 & 17

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Business Essentials (2017, 11th Global Edition) by Ebert, R. & Griffin, R., Pearson Education.
References:	Contemporary Management (2019, 11th Edition) by Gareth R. Jones & Jennifer M. George, McGraw-Hill Education. İşletme Yöneticiliği (2018), Tamer Koçel, 17. Baskı, Beta Yayıncılık. The Financial Times, New York Times, Fortune, Business Week, The Economist, Harvard Business Review, Business Strategy Review and other business periodicals.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments	2	% 20
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 50
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 50
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	40
Study Hours Out of Class	15	48
Homework Assignments	14	29
Final	14	63
Total Workload		180

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.