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
IB3310	International Business Law	Spring	3	0	3	5

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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 :	Instructor İSMAİL PAMUK
Course Lecturer(s):	Instructor İSMAİL PAMUK Dr. Öğr. Üyesi AYŞE ŞAHİN
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	An examination of the principles, foundations, and institutions of international law regulating financial, commercial, maritime, and trade transactions across international frontiers. This is private international law, which is distinguished from public international law, or traditional interstate relations, and international organization. International business law includes, but is not limited to, the World Trade Organization (WTO), international business transactions, international conflict of laws, problems of international trade and investment, and the overall legal structure of international economic relations.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
The students who have succeeded in this course knows;
1. Basic characteristics of Public International Law, its sources and persons;
2. Relevance of Private International Law to international business disputes;
3. International Economic Organizations to include their establishment, mandates and organs;
4. Issues of International Economic Law to include regulation of the international trade and international monetary system;
5. Rules governing International Sales Contracts as regulated under CISG.
6. Major contracts types covered by INCOTERMS and responsibilities of the parties for every type.
7. Rules of Conventions regarding the international carriage of goods with different methods to include carriage by road, by sea, by rail and by air;
8. Payment methods and documentation in international sale contracts;

Course Content

Public International Law;
Subjects of the International Business Law;
International Economic Organizations;
Private International Law;
Regulation of the International Trade:
International Monetary System;
International Sales Contracts;
Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods;
Payment Methods and Documentation in International Sale Contracts
Foreign Investment

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	-Discussion on Syllabus, class rules and requirements. -Introductory remarks -Public International Law	Bülent SÖZER, Legal Environment of Business (Beta Publishing), pp.249-261.
2)	-Subjects of the International Business Law -International Economic Organizations	Bülent SÖZER, Legal Environment of Business (Beta Publishing), pp.281-311
3)	Private International Law	Bülent SÖZER, Legal Environment of Business (Beta Publishing), pp.262-281. Tuğrul Ansay& Eric. C. Schneider, Introduction to Turkish Business Law, (2nd Edition) pp.221-232
4)	Regulation of the International Trade	Bülent SÖZER, Legal Environment of Business (Beta Publishing), pp.311-338
5)	-Regulation of the International Trade -International Monetary System	Bülent SÖZER, Legal Environment of Business (Beta Publishing), pp.311-338 and pp.339-374.
6)	International Monetary System	Bülent SÖZER, Legal Environment of Business (Beta Publishing), pp.339-374
7)	Midterm
8)	International Sales Contracts	Bülent SÖZER, Legal Environment of Business (Beta Publishing), pp. 375-408
9)	-International Sales Contract	Bülent SÖZER, Legal Environment of Business (Beta Publishing), pp. 375-408
10)	Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods	Bülent SÖZER, Legal Environment of Business (Beta Publishing), pp. 409-438
11)	Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods	Bülent SÖZER, Legal Environment of Business (Beta Publishing), pp. 409-438
12)	Payment Methods and Documentation in International Sale Contracts.	Bülent SÖZER, Legal Environment of Business (Beta Publishing), pp. 440-465.
13)	International Commercial Arbitration in Turkey	Tuğrul Ansay& Eric. C. Schneider, Introduction to Turkish Business Law, (2nd Edition) pp. 245-257
14)	Foreign Investment	Tuğrul Ansay& Eric. C. Schneider, Introduction to Turkish Business Law, (2nd Edition), pp. 233-245

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	- Bülent SÖZER, Legal Environment of Business (Beta Publishing). -Tuğrul Ansay& Eric. C. Schneider, Introduction to Turkish Business Law, (2nd Edition)
References:	Milletlerarası Ticaret Hukuku, Nuray Ekşi 2010

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	2	% 70
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 30
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 70
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	3	42
Midterms	1	25	25
Final	1	35	35
Total Workload			144

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.