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
BA2312	Business Research Methods	Spring	3	0	3	4

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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 :	Prof. Dr. AHMET ERKUŞ
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÜLBERK GÜLTEKİN SALMAN Prof. Dr. İPEK ALTINBAŞAK FARİNA
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course is intended primarily for those who expect business and marketing intelligence to be an important part of their professional work. This includes not only those who plan to do marketing research, but those planning to go into other marketing jobs or who expect to be users of marketing research or clients of research departments or research vendors. Thus this course is aimed at the manager who is the ultimate user of business and marketing research and who is responsible for determining the scope and direction of research activities conducted on his/her behalf.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. Helps students understand the business and marketing research process and why it takes time and money to do it right.
II. Develops ability to think conceptually and develop abstract ideas or concepts to more concrete solutions or results.
III. Improves teaming and group effectiveness skills.
IV. Develops skills in obtaining and interpreting secondary data using internet and library sources.
V. Develops ability to conduct primary and secondary research, analyze results, develop findings, report and interpret results.
VI. Improves written and verbal communication skills.
VII. Builds up the knowledge of data analysis techniques.

Course Content

1st Week: Introduction and Early Phases of Business/Marketing Research
2nd Week: Defining the Business/Marketing Research Problem
3rd Week: Research Design
4th Week: Exploratory Research Design: Secondary Data and Qualitative Research
5th Week: Descriptive Research Design: Survey and Observation
6th Week: Measurement and Scaling: Fundamentals and Comparative Scaling
7th Week: Measurement and Scaling: Noncomparative Scaling Techniques
8th Week: Midterm
9th Week: Questionnaire Form Design
10th Week: Sampling: Design and Procedures
11th Week: Data Analysis: Examining Differences and Investigating Associations
12th Week: Qualitative Data Analysis
13th Week: Data Analysis by SPSS: Preliminary Steps
14th Week: Report writing

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	1st Week: Introduction and Early Phases of Business/Marketing Research
2)	2nd Week: Defining the Business/Marketing Research Problem
3)	3rd Week: Research Design
4)	4th Week: Exploratory Research Design: Secondary Data and Qualitative Research
5)	5th Week: Descriptive Research Design: Survey and Observation
6)	6th Week: Measurement and Scaling: Fundamentals and Comparative Scaling
7)	7th Week: Measurement and Scaling: Noncomparative Scaling Techniques
8)	8th Week: Review
9)	9th Week: Questionnaire Form Design
10)	10th Week: Sampling: Design and Procedures
11)	11th Week: Data Analysis: Examining Differences and Investigating Associations
12)	12th Week: Qualitative Data Analysis
13)	13th Week: Data Analysis by SPSS: Preliminary Steps
14)	14th Week: Report writing

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Required Text: Marketing Research: An Applied Orientation by Naresh K. Malhotra, Prentice-Hall, 6th edition.
References:	Optional Texts: Research Methods for Business by Uma Sekaran and Roger Bougie, Wiley and Sons, 5th edition, 2010. Research Methods for Business Students, Mark Saunders, Adrian Thornhill, and Philip Lewis, 5th edition, Pearson Education Europe, Middle East & Africa.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Quizzes	5	% 25
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 45
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 55
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 45
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	40
Study Hours Out of Class	15	56
Quizzes	5	5
Midterms	1	2
Final	1	2
Total Workload		105

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.