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
IB2522	Import and Export Management	Fall Spring	3	0	3	10

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:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Assist. Prof. FADİME İREM DOĞAN
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	The course is designed to prepare students for the ever-changing environment of international trade. Topics include company policies towards exports, investigating and choosing export markets, international trade terminology, import-export risks, pricing and payment methods, export-import organization, logistics and financing. Topics are covered in class and within a company environment assigned by the department.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1.Defines the characteristics of doing business in a cross-cultural environment.
2.Develops managerial and policy-making aspects associated with trading internationally. Formulate procedures for international trade and ultimately manage this function on behalf of a company.
3.Helps understand and develop professional working skills in investigating and choosing export markets.
4.Develops professional working skills in export - import organization.
5.Develops practices in foreign trade pricing.
6. Helps understand the procedures related to payment methods and financing.
7.Helps understand the nature of foreign trade logistics.
8.Develops familiarity with the details of export-import documentation and steps
9.Makes knowledgeable of the basics of containerization and leasing practices.
10. Develops the basic skills for successful negotiations in importing and exporting.

Course Content

This course focuses on the practical aspects of managing export and import operations, including documentation, logistics, financing, and risk management in international trade.
The teaching methods of this course include Technology-Enhanced Learning, and lectures.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction & Explanation of the Syllabus
2)	Introduction Definition of Foreign Trade
3)	International Export and Import
4)	Planning and Negotiating
5)	Selling with E-commerce
6)	Market Entry Decisions
7)	Entry Modes, Licensing and Franchising
8)	Midterm
9)	Customs and Foreign Trade Legislation
10)	Free Zones
11)	Incoterms
12)	Foreing Trade Regulations
13)	Types of Payments, Types of Documents
14)	Foreign Trade Incentives

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	International Marketing and Export Management, 6th Ed. Gerald Albaum & Edwin Duerr Prentice Hall, 2008
References:	none

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Quizzes	1	% 10
Midterms	1	% 40
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
Study Hours Out of Class	20	10	200
Midterms	3	1	3
Final	1	2	2
Total Workload			247

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