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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS & ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES / ULS102 - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Code: ULS102 Course Title: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS-II Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer İLHAN GÜLLÜ (igullu@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
This course aims to provide the main concepts of economics and to analyse relationship between micro-economic units.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 the students can learn to analyse economic problems by using concepts of micro and macro economics. PO-13 To be able to abide by social, scientific, cultural, and ethical values regarding the collection, interpretation and propagation of data related to international relations.
 		Examination
LO-2 Can define goods and factor market. PO-7 To be able to monitor developments using a foreign language at B1 level.
 		Examination
LO-3 Can explain the terms of money and banking. PO-13 To be able to abide by social, scientific, cultural, and ethical values regarding the collection, interpretation and propagation of data related to international relations.
 		Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
The features of markets of complete and incomplete competition and firm equilibrium in different market structures, macroeconomy, Keynes, national income and employment, the functions of consumption, investment and savings, Money and Quantity Theory, Philips Curve, analysis of inflation.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Introduction to Macroeconomics explanation graphing case study
2 Measuring National Output and National Income explanation graphing case study
3 Unemployment, Inflation, and LongRun Growth, explanation graphing case study
4 Aggregate Expenditure and Equilibrium Output explanation graphing case study
5 Aggregate Expenditure and Equilibrium Output explanation graphing case study
6 The Government and Fiscal Policy explanation graphing case study
7 The Government and Fiscal Policy explanation graphing case study
8 mid-term exam
9 The Money Supply and the Federal Reserve System explanation graphing case study
10 Money Demand, the Equilibrium Interest Rate explanation graphing case study
11 Aggregate Demand in the Goods and Money Markets explanation graphing case study
12 Aggregate Demand in the Goods and Money Markets explanation graphing case study
13 Aggregate Supply and the Equilibrium Price Level
14 Aggregate Supply and the Equilibrium Price Level explanation graphing case study
15 Review of the Semester explanation graphing case study
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 İktisat, Erdoğan Alkin, Filiz Kitabevi, İstanbul, 2011.
2 İktisada Giriş, Zeynel Dinler, Ekin Basım Yayım, Bursa, 2001.
Required Course instruments and materials
• ?ktisat, Erdo?an Alkin, Filiz Kitabevi, ?stanbul, 2011.

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 3 10 30
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 14 28
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 1 7 7
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 1 11 11
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 120