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FIRST YEAR

First Semester

  

İKT 101 Introduction to Economics I                                                                               

Concepts and subjects of economics, main economical matters of society and economic systems. Price mechanism; market process and perfect competition market. Demand and supply concepts and  elasticities.Demand theory and consumption balance, marginal utility and indifference curves analysis, production theory and firm balance.

 İŞL 103 Business Administration  I                                                                                

Definition of business enterprise, basic concepts, related sciences, organisation theories, business enterprise as an economic unit, classifying and kinds of business enterprise, establishment of business enterprises and choosing establishment place, functions of business enterprise, management function.

 İŞL 105 General Accounting  I                                                                                        

Identifying the business administration and accounting concepts and relation between them, business administration and Merchant concepts, classification of merchants, legal bookkeepers, books kept according to balance sheet, style, business administration account and in independent business, basic account equation, concepts wed in account, introducing financial tables, tracing financial transaction over balance sheet, account concept, terms about account, double-sided registration system, asset characterized accounts, liability characterized accounts, accounts classification, uniformcharts of accounts and accounts plan accounting process, financial books that must be kept and registration on them, registration principles, identifying uniformcharts of accounts system and is operating.

 KYO 107  Sociology                                                                                                          

Introduction to the study of sociology, its definition, boundaries and development. Place of sociology among social sciences. Status, role and system. Socialization process, culture and society.

 KYO 109 Basic Concept of Law                                                                                       

Basic concepts of law and general information. Branches of law, sources of law. Rights, examination of private law. Lawful act and procedures. Rules of good intention, loss of rights, protection of rights.

 EKO 111 Mathematics  I                                                                                                  

Functions and numbers. Derivations and differentials. Application of derivatives. Complex numbers.

 English  I                                                                                                                           

Grammatical Aims: Gerund-Infinitive, Comparisons, Order of  Yabancı dil Adjectives, Modals, Relative Clause-Defining and Non-defining, Reported Speech, Conditionals, Linking Words, Passive Voice, Causative Structure, Inversion. Writing Skills: Transactional Letters, Letter of Application, CV, Letter to a friend, Essay for and Against Opinion, Article, Story, Lexıcal Aims: Phrasal Verbs, Verb-Noun  Combinations.

 Turkish Language I                                                                                                         

Definition and characteristics of language; the relationships between language and nation, thought and culture; the world languages; the place of the Turkish language among other languages; the historical development of the Turkish language; Ataturk’s language revolution, his perception of language and his efforts in terms of language; accustic characteristics of the Turkish language; grammar and syntax; punctuation marks; the concept of vocabulary and vocabulary applications.

 Principles of Ataturk and Revolution History  I                                                              

Related Concepts: Revolution, Rebellion and the like; French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Structure of Ottoman Empire, Causes of Collapse, Political Reforms in 1839, Constitution Government I-II, World War I, National Liberation War, Armistice Agreement of Mudanya, Agreement of Lozan.

 

Second Semester

 İKT 102 Introduction to Economics II                                                                              

National income, definition and calculating methods, determination of national income balance level, inflationary and deflationary gap, multipler and accelerator coefficient effect, national income distribution theory, labor, employment and unemployment, money and bank, international economic relations.

 İKT 104 Economic History                                                                                                                

Method at history of economics, definitation and area of history of economics, reasons which reveal economic growth,  industry revolution, factors that support development of industry,  humane results of industry rerevolution, appearing of first industry society, factors that prove England’s industrialization, developments in transforming area, wars,crises and improving in twentieth century and economic results of these. 

İŞL 106 Business Administration II                                                                                 

 Functions of management; production, marketing, personnel, finance, supporting functions, techniques of decision making 

İŞL 108 General Accounting II                                                                                            

Identification of commercial documents, correcting registration mistakes, introducing other accounts of uniform charts of accounts system from commercial properties account and examples about its operation, applications about accounting process and as a result defining profits and loss by organizing financial tables, generally accepted accounting principles. 

KYO 110 Constitutional Law                                                                                                

Constitutional law, state and democracy. Pluralist democracy and democratic regimes, other political regimes (Marxism, fascism). Basic principles of democracy, application of sovereignty, separation of powers. Political parties, elections and public freedoms 

EKO 112 Mathematics II                                                                                                                                  

Multi-variables functions, integrals, differantial equations, vectors and matrix, introduction to linear  programming. 

English II                                                                                                                               

Grammar: Causative Form: have someone do something, get someone to do something, make someone do something, have something done, get something done, Infinitive Without To: make and let, Verb Noun Combinations: make/do, The Passive, Inversion, Contrasting Words: although, despite, in spite of, even though, Vocabulary: Words Often Confused: lie/lay, bring/take/fetch, Phrasal Verbs, Reading/Writing: Article, Story

Turkish Language II                                                                                                            

 The meaning of vocabulary; examination of words in several angles; various dimensions of words; phrasal words, concepts and phrases; fault usages in the Turkish language; written expression methods such as novels, articles and essays, and poems; examples of presentations, reports and minutes and records; petitions, business letters and CV writing; and discussins and debates. kullanmanın önemi. Yazarken ve konuşurken temel kurallar tartışma ve dinlenme üslubu, bakış tarzı, eleştiri, toplu yerlerde konuşma çalışmaları. Roman , hikaye ve fikir esaslarının incelenme, değerlendirilme tarzları, yazışmalar, cevaplar. 

Principles of Ataturk and Revolution History  II                                                               

Declaration of Republic; Abolishment of Sovereignty and Caliphate; Revolutions on Education, Culture and Law; Properties of Atatürkist Thinking System and Modernization; Changes in.

  

 

SECOND YEAR 

First Semester 

 

İKT 201 Micro Economics I                                                                                                   

General appearance of price mechanism; demand, supply and elastcities. Consumer balance, marginal utility and indifference curves approach. Firm balance, production theory and costs, market balance; perfect competition and monopol theory.Monopolistic competition theory and full cost matter. 

 

İKT 203 Macro Economics I                                                                                                                                                        

Definition and elements of national income. Calculating methods of national income, relationship with national income and economic prosperity.Extent and limits of labor, employment, definition  of incomplete employment and unemployment sorts, definition and elements of full employment, relation with wage rate and employment.Consumption spending and function.Definition, elements and sorts of investment, sources of investment; save and  except for save sources, factors that effect investment desicions. 

İKT 205 Turkish Economic History                                                                                      

Sources of Turkish Economic History, basics of economy before Ottoman, Classic term Ottoman Economy; social structure and land system and legal-fiscal basic principles, commercial and industrial life, money policies,economic developments in modern terms,national economy period (1908-1918). Economic inheritance whick took over with Republic,Economic policies at the beginning years of Republic. 

İŞL 207 Inventory-Balance Sheet                                                                                      

Inventory concept, evaluation concept, inventory and evaluation transactions about the current assets, inventory and evaluation transactions about the fixed assets, inventory and evaluation transactions about revenue and expense accounts, making financial tables 

KYO 209 Methods of Social Sciences Research                                                             

Business administration and scientific research, constituting research plan, validity and trustworthy of means used in scientific researches, defining the research subject and environment, research strategies, areas and tecniques, measuring and scale in research, exemplifying methods that will be used in researches, analyze and interpreting of datas, benefiting from (using) libraries and referance books, making research report, shape and orthography (writing) rules, computer word (işlemci??) that can be used in orthography       

            EKO 211 Statistics I                                                                                                        

Scales of Measurement; Empirical and Theoretical Distributions; Measures of Location, Dispersion, Skewness, Kurtosis and Similarity; Calculus of Probabilities; Random Variables; Important Discrete and Continuous Distributions; Sampling Methods; Random Sampling; Confidence Intervals; Sample Size Problem..

EKO 213 Basic Computer Technology                                                                                

Windows 95 Microsoft Word, Excel and Internet. 

MAL 215 Public Finance I                                                                                                                 

Topics, definition, branches of finance, public revenues, structure of taxation and principle of justice in taxation. Categorization of taxes, incomes and wealth income, public expenditures, essentials of budget, budget system in Turkey, public debt

 

 

Second Semester 

 

İKT 202 Micro Economics II                                                                                            

İncome distribution, estimating a price of production factors, balance in using production factors, production factor incomes; wage,interest, unearned income, profit. Welfare economics, general equilibrium and Pareto optimum. 

İKT 204 Macro Economics II                                                                                           

Spending and income equilibrium, definition and elements of multipler mechanism and preventing real factors operation of multipler mechanism, definition and elements of accelerator coefficient mechanism, inflationary and deflationary gap,money demand and supply, interest rate, money theories, income and spending theory,  quantity theory of money. Definition of economic growth, growth models, economic growth problems in less developing coutries, dinamic powes of economic growth. 

İŞL 206 Corporate Accounting                                                                                           

Basic concepts about corporations, common corporations, individual corporations, capital corporations, cooperative organizations mergers and acqusition, accounting transfer transactions 

İŞL 208 Obligation Law                                                                                                        

 

General introduction, obligation and responsibility, sources of obligations, responsibilities stemming from unrightful acts. Payments of debts.

 

KYO 210 Public Administration                                                                                                                              

The characteristics of public administration, centralized administration, decentralized administration, city council, local governments, local government institutions, bureaucracy, public personnel management, inspecting public administration 

EKO 212 Statistics II                                                                                                                                          

Point andI Interval Estimation; Hypothesis Testing; Nonparametric Tests; Multivariate Distributions; Analysis of Variance and Covariance; Analysis of Correlation and Regression; Multivariate Nonparametric Statistics; Index Numbers

EKO 214 Basic Computer Sciences                                                                                    

 

Several computer languages 

MAL 216 Public Finance II                                                                                               

Subject of public treasury, description, the structure of public revenue.Tax, types and description of taxes.

 

 

THIRD YEAR

 

First Semester

 İKT 301 Money Theory and Policies I                                                                             

Money, Credit and international monetary system, definition, kinds and functions of money, banking, central banking, controling of  money and credit supply, monetary systems, international monetary system and problems in last terms. Quantity theory of money and ordinary classic system, Keynesian monetary theory, generalized clasic system, IS-LM analysis, inflation analysis.

İKT 303 International Economics I                                                                                                            

Reasons of foreign trade, supply and demand side foreign trade theories, factor endowment theory,economic growth and foreign trade theory, foreign exchance market, balance of payments, foreifn trade and national income. 

İKT 305 History of Economic Thought                                                                             

Methodology problem in Economic Thought, trading capitalism, mercantilism, development of industrial capitalism, Physiocrats, classic doctrine and laisser-faire; neo- classical school, partial and ideoligical reactions to liberal doktrine, socialism, modern economy, marginalists, monetarism and new classics.

ÇEK 307 Labor Economics                                                                                                  

Labor market, labor mobility, labor supply, unemployment, wages, payment systems, productivity, the characteristics of collective bargaining system, relations between full employment and inflation. The effects of trade unions on the distribution of national income and productivity

İŞL 309 Commerce Law I                                                                                                   

Turkish Code of Obligations; Contracts, Definition and Classification, Valid Contracts, Void Contracts, Voidable Contracts; Valid Aggreement, Ofter, Offerer, Offeree, Acceptance; Capacity, Natural and Legal Incapacity; Genuineness of Assent, Mistake, Fraud, Duress; Legal Ground; Freedom of Contract, Limitations of Freedom of Contract; Form of Contract, Simple Written Form, Authentic Form; Termination of Contracts, Relase, Novation, Impossibility; Torts, Condition For Torts, Acts Against Law, Damage, Existence of Proximate Cause, Intent to an Act, Negligence, Vicarious Liability, Compensation, Third Party Injuries; Statue of Limitations; Unjust Enrichment.. 

EKO 311  Ekonometrics I                                                                                                      

Subject and short story of econometry, econometric research method : Data variable and models, Classic statistics estimates and features.

Mal 313 Taxation Law I                                                                                                       

 

Subject and sources of taxation law. Participation of law and judicial causes. Procedures concerning assessment, actualization, and collection of taxes. Tax evasions (crime) and punishment of tax. Legislation of taxation procedures, Turkish taxation system and types of taxes in Turkey.

 

İKT 315 Mathematical Economics I                                                                                 

 

Basic qualifications of mathematical economics, static balance analysis, comparative static analysis,

 

İŞL 317 Management and Organisation                                                                                          

 

Management concept, characteristics of management process, administrator concept, definition, importance and process of organization, classifying organization, structure of organization, basic problems about corporate structure, organisational variation, shaping organizations’ structure,  classic management approaches (F.W.Taylor, H. Fayol, Max Weber), human relations approaches in management 

İŞL 319 Cost Accounting I                                                                                                  

Cost concepts, direct materials costs, direct labor costs, manufactuing overheads and budgets, the types of manufacturing and costing, job order cost system, process cost system. 

İŞL 321 Marketing                                                                                                              

Conception of marketing management, analysing marketing opportunities, organizing for marketing, planning marketing programme, inspecting marketing effort, expanding marketing.

 KYO 323 Political Science                                                                                                    

Topics of political science. Concepts of state, power and political power. Limitation of political power, Legitimacy of political power 

EKO 325-Applied Statistics                                                                                                              

Practicing of statistical methods to economic events; professions, employment, industry, industrial production, agricultural production, foring trade, national income statistics and Turkey’s practices.

  

Second Semester

 

İKT 302 Money Theory and Policies II                                                                           

Site of monetary policies and basic approaches, monetarist and keynesian view.Targets and indicatior of monetary policies, aims and instruments of monetary policies, role of central bank on monetary policies, relations between central bank and treasury, balance sheet of cental bank and definitions of monetary quantities. Monetary policies in respect of foreign exchange. 

İKT 304 International Economics II                                                                                 

Foreign trade policies, customs taxes and instruments except for costoms taxes. Liberalization of of world trade: GATT and regional economic integration trends.Foreign trade policies and industrialization, international development problems and less developed countries, international monetary system, history, problems and policies. 

İKT 306 Economic Systems                                                                                              

Capitalist system, reasons that create liberal capitalism, changing process of liberal capitalism, appearing of interference capitalism, mixing economic policies in capitalist system. Socialist System; arising and and development of socialist system, ideological basics of socialism.Marxist Socialism, collapse of socialist system, analysis of this development. 

İKT 308 Banking and Financial Institutions                                                                    

Financial Systems,  Emphasises the Turkish Financial System , the Structure and Functions of the Central Bank,  the Banking System and Other Public and Private Financial Institutions , Securities Markets Developments in Banking Operations,  Financial Innovations , Competition , Conglomeration. 

İŞL 310 Commerce Law II                                                                                               

Joint stock companies, limited company, securities law, general judgments, classification of securities, in several aspects, exchange documents, bill of exchange, bond, cheque, commudity documents, general shop, receipt documents 

EKO 312- Ekonometrics II                                                                                                  

Deviations from hipothesis of classic lineer regretion, multiple connection, simultaneous equations, heteroscedasticity, otocorelation. Errors at variables, covariances analysis, horizontal crossection, time series. Polinomial distributed-lag models. 

MAL 314 Taxation Law II                                                                                                       

Turkish Tax System, income taxs, corporation tax, property tax, taxes on wealth, spending taxes, value added tax, bank and insurance treatment tax, charges and other tax types,tax conflicts, tax penalties, financial judgment. 

İKT 316 Mathematical Economics II                                                                               

Optimisation problems, dinamic analysis, mathematical programming. 

İKT 318 Sociology of Economics                                                                                      

Formation of social stratums in Marxist thought and social straum struggles, at crossing to capitalist-industrialization community, Durkheim’s thoughts about division of labor and solidarity, Weber’s thoughts on rasyonalization.Economic liberalism, Karl Polanyi, theory of industry society, relationship between economic thought and culture, social structure and kinds. Production, excahange and distribution, ownership, factors that affecting economic developing. 

İŞL 320 Cost Accounting II                                                                                   

Joint production costing, variable costing, standart costing system, standart job order costing system, standart process costing system,  standart costing in formulled production 

ÇEK 322- Industrial Relations                                                                                                   

Arising of modern industrial society , Theoretical problems of industrial relations, industrial relations and trade unionism, effect of automation to industrial relations , legal context of industrial relations in Turkey, trade unionism and collective bargaining practices in Turkey. 

ULİ 324 Political History                                                                                                      

 

History and political history; rural civilizations; city states; political impacts of religions, Middle Eastern civilizations, Industrial revolution, emergence of the West, colonialism, modern age and emergence of nation-state system, world systems in the twentieth century, globalization and New World Order. 

EKO 326 Time Series Analysis                                                                                            

Quality of time series, wave typies at time series, method at tredn calculation, measuration of conjoncture waves, measuration of season waves, chance events.

 

 

FOURTH YEAR

 

First Semester 

İKT 401 Economic Integration I                                                                                       

Historical trend of international economic integration,its mean and its stages. The reasons which push countries to integration. Theory of economic integration and less developed countries. Economic integrations in Europe, America, Africa and Asia. Economic integrations that are’nt relatet to geographical field, economic integration and adaptation of national economy policies, international integrations and competition in developed and developing countries. 

İKT 403 Economic Growth                                                                                                             

Models of growth and business cycles: classic growth model, Marx’s views related to growth.Schumpeter’s economic  development and business cycles views. Neo-classic and Keynes’s views  Which related to  long term improvements, Harrod-Domar model, production function, growth in full capacity and full employment.Developing countries and growth.W.W. Rostow’s development theory, production function and demand analysis for developing countries.Harrod-Domar for developing countries, Singerian growth model, basis rules and practice of market economy. 

İŞL 405 Business Finance                                                                                                   

Business finance concept, aim of the financial management and its fonktions, its organizing, ratio analysis and comparative techniques of analysis, fund flow analysis, profit planning (breakeven point) analysis, activity lever, financial planning, budgeting, proforma financial statements, cash budgets and the other financial planning techniques. 

İŞL 407 Capital Markets                                                                                                  

General approaches to capital markets, first and secondary markets, collective investment establishments, Capital markets in Turkiye, interest and risk concepts, share note and obligation notes evaluation, analysis of the capital market, types of the stock markets index, basic analysis, technical analysis, billfold management. 

ÇEK 409 Labor  Law                                                                                                            

 

Introduction to labor law, its definition, scope. Case studies of various aspects of labor law in Turkey. 

MAL 411 Fiscal Policy                                                                                                                           

Subject and goals of fiscal policy,conflicts between goals of fiscal policy,relatively importance of public economy.Fiscal policies at realizing economic stability, voluntary policies, automatic stabilizations, inflation and fiscal policy, deflation and fiscal policy, stagfilation and fiscal policy, fiscal policy in developing countries, stabilization policies in Turkey, Fiscal policies devoted to economic growth and developing,Fiscal policies relation to equitable income distribution. 

İKT 425Thesis (for previous students)                                                                                

A minimum fifty pages-length graduation paper in the field 

İKT 413 Agricultural Economics                                                                                         

The structure of agricultural production. Demand and supply of agricultural products. Theoretical approaches in agricultural economics. Government intervention in agriculture. Agricultural developments. Marketing of agricultural products. Adjustment problem of Turkish agriculture to the EU. 

İŞL 415 Managerial Accounting                                                                                         

The role of the accounting in structure of business, the importance of balance sheet and revenue structure for management, the solutions about the problems of money value changings, cost and expence concepts and its importance for management, the importance of costing systems for management, revenue and profit concepts, planning concept, periods of planning and its types, investment planning, budgeting, flexible budgeting 

İŞL 417 mMmMethods of Project Evaluation                                                                                                                  

Describe of the capital investments, its importance and types, time value of money, techniques of project evaluating, evaluating of the projects cash flows, cost of capital, evaluating projects which include risk, financial leasing. 

İŞL 419 Business Auditing                                                                                                                      

Approved audition standarts generally, audition  report, aqudition process and planning, internal control system, audition of balance and revanue table items, statistical illustration in audition, event working related to audition.

KYO 421 Criminal Law                                                                                                         

Topics of criminal law, its purpose, principles and sources. Theory of crime, concepts of crime, components of crime. Theory of punishment, origins and evolution of punishment, punishments and security measures, measurements of punishment, vacation of a punishment

KYO 423 Urbanization and Environmental Problems                                                          

 

Approaches to the environmental problems, concepts. Basic principles of environmental policies. Economic sides of environment. Sustainable development and environment. Different aspects of Turkish environmental policies.

ULİ 425 European Union and Turkey                                                                                 

Historical background of the relations between Turkey and the European Union. Ankara Agreement and its aftermath, Turkey’s application in 1987 for the full membership, 1991 Maastricht Treaty and its repercussions, Customs Union Treaty of 1996. Current relations between Turkey and the European Union. Prospects and Problems of Turkey’s integration with the EU.

Second Semester

İKT 402Economic Integration II                                                                                       

The structure and development of EU and relationships with Turkey: the historical development of Europen Communities, the committees of European Communities, EU and the relationships with third side countries, economic and monetary union, Maastricht Summit, The economic situation of EU, The relations, of Turkey and EU and costums union, treaties, problems, politics. 

İKT 404 Turkish Economy                                                                                                

The methods of determining of the general development of Turkish Economy and national income accounts. General characteristics of Turkey’s natural resources, labour force and capital accumulation. The economic policies applied in different times and the results of these policies. The improvements realized in production of service and goods as in branch of economic activities. The external economic relationships of Turkey.

İKT 406 Economic Development                                                                                        

Concept of underemployment and development. Theories of development. Financing of development. Foreign savings, foreign aids, foreign debt, foreign capital. Multinational Corporations. The choice and the transfer of technology in the development process. Development strategies. Inequality and Development , Poverty and Famine , Population and Development , Education and Development , the Role of Agriculture  , Land Reform ,Strategies of Industrialisation in Developing Countries , Globalisation and Development.

İKT 408 Regional Economics                                                                                           

Analysis of economicfield, the reasons of regional distributions of economic activities and the factors that affect the choise of construction areas of firms.Theoretical analysis of regional imbalances, the reasons of regional imbalances in Turkey and policies intend to reduce regional imbalances.

İKT 410  Economic Policy                                                                                                 

The definition of political economy, the elements of political economy, the fundamental purposes and elements of political economy, classic theory and the classic macro policy model,fiscal tools and fiscal policy, monetary tools and monetary policy, open economy and foreign policy, control tools and control policy, institutional-structural changes, dynamic analysis and political economy, choice of political economy policy under uncertainty.

İkt 412 Thesis                                                                                                                    

A minimum fifty pages-length graduation paper in the field.

İKT 414 Tourism Economics                                                                                             

Temel kavramlar ve tanımlar, turizm sektörünün makro planlaması; turistik talebin tahmini ve planlanması; turistik ürün arzının planlanması, konaklama ihtiyacının belirlenmesi; turizmde tanıtma, talep yaratma ve turist çekme faaliyetlerinin planlanması; turistik mal ve hizmetlerin fiyatlandırılması;; turizm sektöründe insan kaynaklarının, yatırım ve finansmanın planlanması, turizmden kaynaklanan çevre sorunları.

İKT 416General Equlibrium and Welfare Economics                                                  

History of general equlibrium, proving of existence and assumptions. The relationship of pareto optimum and general equilibrium and community preferences. The value judgements of pareto optimum, basic characteristics and obligatory provisions.pareto optimum and competitive stability, second best theory. Community prefences, optimality concepts and the limits of welfare economics. 

İKT 418 Philosophy of  Economics                                                                               

Science, ideology, metaphysics, ethics, concepts of mentality.Thoughts on the relationship of industrial revolution and economic thought. İdeology of development. Turk-Ottoman economic philosophy in historical perspective and transformation in modern times, critique of modern economies.

İKT 420 Rules andApplication of Foreign Trade                                                         

Risk factor in foreign trade. Types of delivery and payment, applications and legal requirements of import and export, legal requirements and applications of exchange and customs

ÇEK 422 Social Security Law                                                                                         

Social security concept and techniques, means of social security, social insurance and social riscs, labour accident insurance, old age insurance. 

KYO 424 Administration Law                                                                                              

Basic principles, concepts and sources of administrative law, administrative jurisdiction, discretion, Transactions of administrative law, administrative decision, administrative contracts, systems of administrative organizations. Public goods and public services 

 

 

Sakarya University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics, Esentepe Campus, 54040 SAKARYA/TURKEY    iktisat@sakarya.edu.tr