ARCHITECTURE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
IB4611 | Business Ethics | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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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. |
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. |
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) |
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) |
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. |
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 |
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 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Using the theoretical/conceptual and practical knowledge acquired for architectural design, design activities and research. | |
2) | Identifying, defining and effectively discussing aesthetic, functional and structural requirements for solving design problems using critical thinking methods. | |
3) | Being aware of the diversity of social patterns and user needs, values and behavioral norms, which are important inputs in the formation of the built environment, at local, regional, national and international scales. | |
4) | Gaining knowledge and skills about architectural design methods that are focused on people and society, sensitive to natural and built environment in the field of architecture. | |
5) | Gaining skills to understand the relationship between architecture and other disciplines, to be able to cooperate, to develop comprehensive projects; to take responsibility in independent studies and group work. | |
6) | Giving importance to the protection of natural and cultural values in the design of the built environment by being aware of the responsibilities in terms of human rights and social interests. | |
7) | Giving importance to sustainability in the solution of design problems and the use of natural and artificial resources by considering the social, cultural and environmental issues of architecture. | |
8) | Being able to convey and communicate all kinds of conceptual and practical thoughts related to the field of architecture by using written, verbal and visual media and information technologies. | |
9) | Gaining the ability to understand and use technical information about building technology such as structural systems, building materials, building service systems, construction systems, life safety. | |
10) | Being aware of legal and ethical responsibilities in design and application processes. |