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
IF3552	International Finance	Fall Spring	3	0	3	7

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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 :	Assist. Prof. BAHAR KÖSEOĞLU
Course Lecturer(s):	Assoc. Prof. UMUT UĞURLU
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	The course provides appropriate tools and methods to the students in order to study and analyze international financial issues and problems. This course will focus on four main areas of international finance: (1) key economic theories, (2) various financial instruments for risk management, (3) exchange risk management, and (4) international financing and investment issues. The purpose of this course is extending the principles of finance from a single-country setting to a multinational setting and analyzing the dynamics of international finance.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
The student who have succeeded in this course;
1. Understand the environment and factors associated with foreign exchange rate determination.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of international finance terminology.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the various forms of financial instruments available for foreign exchange risk management.
4. Understand key economic theories that underlie the foundation of international finance.

Course Content

foreign exchange rate determination, international finance terminology, foreign exchange risk management, foundation of international finance.
Teaching methods of the course are “Lecture, Individual Study, Reading, Problem Solving, Discussion”

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Course Overview
2)	International Monetary System
3)	The Balance of Payments
4)	The Foreign Exchange Market
5)	The Foreign Exchange Market
6)	International Parity Conditions
7)	International Parity Conditions
8)	MIDTERM EXAM
9)	Foreign Exchange Rate Determination and Forecasting
10)	International Investment and Financing Decisions
10)	Foreign Currency Derivatives
11)	Interest Rate Risk and Swaps
12)	Transaction Exposure
13)	Operating Exposure
14)	Course Review

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Multinational Business Finance (Eiteman, D. K., Stonehill, A. I., Moffett M. H., 15th ed, Pearson, 2021, ISBN: 9781292270081)
References:	Multinational Business Finance (Eiteman, D. K., Stonehill, A. I., Moffett M. H., 15th ed, Pearson, 2021, ISBN: 9781292270081)

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Midterms	1	% 40
Final	1	% 60
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 60
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	13	3	39
Study Hours Out of Class	14	9.5	133
Midterms	1	1.5	1.5
Final	1	1.5	1.5
Total Workload			175

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.	4
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.	3
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.	3