FILM AND TELEVISION
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
IB4611	Business Ethics	Spring	3	0	3	6

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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 :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi AHMET AYDEMİR
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. BİLGE UYAN ATAY
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	The purpose of this course is to enable students to consider the role of ethics in business administration in a complex, dynamic, global environment. Specific course objectives include: 1. To recognize ethical issues in business situations. 2. To apply several important frameworks for moral reasoning to complex business issues. 3. To appreciate the role of ethics as central in business decision making. 4. To develop a general management perspective that includes an ability to formulate, analyze, and defend decisions in ethical terms. 5. To analyze the ethical issues that appear in other Darden courses. 6. To allow students to critically examine their own ethics and test them in conversation with peers.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. Defines business ethics and identifies morality in business.
II. Imparts the reasoning and analytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions.
III. Identifies the moral issues involved in the management of specific problem areas in business.
IV. Understands the social, technological, and natural environments within which moral issues in business arise.
V. Describes the unethical practices in the marketplace.
VI. Identifies the unethical behavior of the individuals in the workplace.

Course Content

1st Week: Ethics and Business
2nd Week: Ethical Principles in Business
3rd Week: Ethical Principles in Business (continued)
4th Week: The Business System: Government, Markets, and International Trade
5th Week: Ethics in the Marketplace
6th Week: Ethics and the Environment
7th Week: Midterm
8th Week: Ethics and the Environment (continued)
9th Week: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
10th Week: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
11th Week: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing (continued)
12th Week: The Ethics of Job Discrimination
13th Week: The Individual in the Organization
14th Week: The Individual in the Organization (continued)

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	1st Week: Ethics and Business
2)	2nd Week: Ethical Principles in Business
3)	3rd Week: Ethical Principles in Business (continued)
4)	4th Week: The Business System: Government, Markets, and International Trade
5)	5th Week: Ethics in the Marketplace
6)	6th Week: Ethics and the Environment
7)	7th Week: Review
8)	8th Week: Ethics and the Environment (continued)
9)	9th Week: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
10)	10th Week: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
11)	11th Week: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing (continued)
12)	12th Week: The Ethics of Job Discrimination
13)	13th Week: The Individual in the Organization
14)	14th Week: The Individual in the Organization (continued)

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Required Text: Business Ethics (2006, 6th edition), by Manuel G. Velasquez, Prentice Hall.
References:	Optional Text: Managing Business Ethics (2011), by Linda K. Trevino and Katherina A. Nelson, Wiley. İş Hayatında Etik (2007), by Suna Tevrüz, Beta Yayınları, İstanbul.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 80
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 80

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	40
Study Hours Out of Class	15	54
Midterms	1	2
Final	1	2
Total Workload		98

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)	Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society	4
2)	Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art	3
3)	Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area	1
4)	Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey	1
5)	Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product	2
6)	Being able to write a script ready to be shot	2
7)	Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment
8)	Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations
9)	Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages
10)	Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage
11)	Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white	3
12)	Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility	5