Courses

This course aims to introduce the academic and administrative units, library, laboratories, campus life, student clubs, regulations, Erasmus program and alumni association to freshmen students.

This course aims to enable students to improve their foreign language skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing and grammar with the help of materials that meet academic standards. This course also involves various applications in order to improve academic study skills. Furthermore, the lesson aims at improving thinking faculties of students, as well as encouraging them toward critical thinking and research by providing them with in-class and outside classroom activities.

The social order, principals of law; hierarchy of law; branches of the judicial system; legal relationships and rights; law for financial tools; Commercial Law; individual rights; Private contracts (leasing, franchising, factoring, forfaiting)

Foreign Trade Terminology, international business and management terminology, relations between the sub-disciplines of Foreign Trade (law, customs, economic and financial concepts).

Sets, real numbers, algebraic operations and basic identities, Cartesian coordinate system, linear and quadratic equations and their graphs, functions, limit, continuity, derivative, integral, exponential and logarithmic functions, mathematics of finance, matrices and determinants, systems of linear equations, Cramer's rule, introduction to linear programming.

Nature of scientific knowledge and introduction to social sciences; specific topics in philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, political science and economics.

The aim of this course is to examine socioeconomic, political and cultural changes from industrial society to now, information society, in the context of consumption and to enable students to understand the consumer society within critical and analytical thinking.

Communication concept, communication process, verbal and nonverbal communication, inter-individual communication, group communication, inter-organizational communication, mass media, online communication, intercultural communication.

Essentials of microeconomics and macroeconomics: the economic problem; demand, supply, and price determination; theory of consumer behavior; theory of the firm; market structures; national income and its determination; problems of economic growth, unemployment, and inflation; macroeconomic policy tools.

Definition of globalization, theories, globalization process, reasons of globalization; economic, cultural, political, technological and sociological dimensions; results and criticisms of globalization.

Politics and legitimacy, classification of political orders, political culture and political development.

Aim of the course is to introduce Enlightenment Era, origin of democracy, industrialization, imperialism, political and cultural revolutions.

This course aims to enable students to improve their power of thinking and world view, to contribute improvement and enrichment of our language and culture by preserving it from universal culture. This course also involves origins of languages, world languages in terms of root and structure, the place of Turkish over world languages, historical improvement of Turkish, structure of Turkish, incoherency, writing petition, preparing curriculum vitae, reading books.

Accounting as the language of business; Financial statements; Accounting records: The Ledger, the journal, the trial balance; Measuring business profit and completing the accounting cycle; Adjusting entries and preparing the financial statements; Accounting for merchandising activities; Accounting for current assets, fixed assets and current liabilities.

The development of management theory; management functions and evaluation of management; environment, corporate culture and impact of globalization; decision-making: goal setting and planning; strategic management; planning tools and techniques; organizing and coordinating; Human resources management; leadership; control.

Demand, supply, and price determination; elasticity; theory of consumer behavior; theory of production and costs; determination of output level in competitive and non-competitive markets; pricing of factors of production; general equilibrium analysis; welfare economics.

Basic concepts, modes of international transportation, Structure and practices of international physical distribution, Packing, marking and shipping, Documents in international transportation, Insurance.

Descriptive statistics; fundamental concepts of probability; random variables; probability distributions (binomial, geometrical, hyper-geometrical, Poisson, normal and Student's distributions); sampling theory; point estimation and interval estimation.

First World War, Armistice of Mudros, general glance to the life of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, associations and their activities, congresses, union of Meclis-I Mebusan, Misak-ı Milli, Grand National Assembly of Turkey, national struggle, victory of Sakarya, financial sources of national struggle, Armistice of Mudania, abolition of the sultanate, treaty of Lausanne, proclamation of the republic, abolition of the caliphate, 1924 constitution, multi-party system, rebellion of Şeyh Said, other criticisms to the republic, Menemen incident, principles of foreign policy; legal, economic, educational, cultural and social reforms, six arrows of Atatürk; republicanism, nationalism, populism, revolutionizm, secularism, statism.

The marketing concept, the marketing environment and its interaction with the marketing mix, identifying the constituent elements of the marketing mix, information needs and marketing research for developing marketing mix elements.

The role and importance of research for scientific studies. Establishing the research problem, research question and hypothesis. Reliability and validity. Data collecting and sampling. Preparing questionnaires. Analyzing the data.

Essential computing concepts; productivity and multimedia software; files and data storage; computer architecture; networks; the Internet. Practical sessions covering computer usage, word processing, spreadsheet, database, web-page development, and presentation software packages.

National income and models of national income determination; problem of economic growth, unemployment, and inflation; fiscal policy; money and monetary policy; international trade and finance.

Introduction to business finance; financial environment and interest rates; analysis of financial statements; financial planning and control; risk and rates of return; time value of money; bond and stock valuation; working capital policy; management of cash, marketable securities, accounts receivable and inventories; short-term financing.

Case studies in import and export practice, custom regulations, custom taxation and fees, legal dismounts.

Capital budgeting; project cash flows and risk; the cost of capital; capital structure; dividend policy; common stock financing; investment banking; long-term debt financing; financial derivatives; corporate restructuring; multinational finance.

Rules organizing industrial relations, scope of business law, labor contracts and responsibilities created by labor contracts, termination of contracts, working hours and pay leave; labor unions.

The basic concepts and theories of accounting, accounting process, accounts accounting and bilateral registration system, foreign trade transactions, export and import types, export transaction accounting, import transaction accounting, foreign currency transactions, foreign currency valuation.

Pre-classical trade theory, mercantilism, emergence of classical theory, the law of competitive advantages, Standard theory of international trade, demand and supply models, offer curves, and the terms trade, factor endowment theory, economics scale, monopolistic competition, transportation costs and international trade, economic growth and international trade.Government intervention in trade, Targets and tools, tariffs and import quotas, non-tariff barriers and new protectionism, economic integration, Custom unions and free trade areas, integration movements in the world economy, European Union, liberalization of international trade. Foreign trade regulation of Turkey

Letters of credit, exchange rates and regulations, import-export drafts, trust receipts, basic of foreign exchange markets, international trade and exchange risk. In the whole Turkish custom regulations and practice are introduced, Custom regulations and practices for import, custom regulations and practices for export, transit regime, custom taxation and fees.

Terminology of nongovernmental organizations, its meaning, duties, problems and relations with the state, the role among factors citizen-individual-state.

Overview of multinational finance; International flow of funds; Foreign exchange, futures and option markets; Government influence on exchange rates; Parity conditions in International Financial markets; exchange rate risk management; Measurement and management of translation, transactions and economic exposures; Short term asset and liability management: Long term asset and liability management; International banking; International capital markets.

Nature and organization of project management; the commercial and financial framework of project analysis; planning and scheduling; computer applications; purchasing and materials management; managing work and costs.

Review and analysis, E-correspondence, technological infrastructure of e-commerce, Internet and e-commerce relations, Design developing and applying web-based communication, security issues.

Global Economic Institutions particularly those which directly related to Global Trade, such as World Trade Organization; their original and the current missions and duties - The relations between trade and growth (trade barriers/ trade liberalization and growth) - Important events, agreements and scientific studies both in Turkey and in the world; shortly the current agenda of trade in Turkey and in the globe as well.

Introduction to global marketing; an overview of global economic, trade, political, legal, regulatory, social and cultural environments; global information systems and market research; global market segmentation, targeting and positioning; global market entry strategies; global product and brand decisions; global pricing decisions; global marketing channels and physical distribution; global marketing communications decisions. Differences in marketing strategies under different trade laws, customs and regulations, interaction between trade and marketing.

Understanding about; the concepts of  technology, innovation, research & development, commercialization, project planning, What are the management responsibilities to create the technological organizations, Technology improvement centers, New technologies, high technologies and  developing sectorsi Innovation management, project planing and applications. To develop the interest of new technologies and creativity of the students.

Basic principles of labor law, employer and employee, labor contract, debt of employer and employee, working hours, termination of the contract.

Cargoes and ships in maritime business; types of ship operations; liner and tramp shipping, intermediaries in maritime transportation, documents in shipping, the role and functions of ship agents, ship brokers and freight forwarders in shipping; world seaborn trade, main trade routes and cargo flows; the importance of ports, the main functions and features of a port, port classification; port state control, port security; port administration, ownership and management, types of port ownership; port policy; management and organization structure of ports, human resources management in ports.

Globalization; new wave of globalization and institutional changes; economic development; new millenium goals of development; human development and sustainable development

Increasing globalization and diversity in the business world forces employees to work effectively in intercultural mix in international trade. More and more people will interact with people from other cultures. For this reason, training for intercultural studies has become a "necessity" regardless of the type of work. The lesson gives this content.

Academic and business report writing skills for trade communications, business writing, legal documents.

The purpose of lesson is to explain the basics concepts of entrepreneurship and to gain to the students of basic entrepreneurship skills.

The nature of International Business, historical aspects of international business, theory of international trade, entrance of foreign markets, the process of internationalization, international environment, International organizations, Balance of Payments, foreign environmental powers such as socio-cultural, politics, physical, economic, human, financial and legal.

To let students know more Chinese language and Chinese cultures, especially Chinese current ecomonic situation; the students have to know more details about Chinese Daily using vocabulary and can able to use them to make sentences as well, start to learn Chinese characters such as history, strokes and rules to write, the students have to able to write few basic words.

A brief history of foreign trade in Turkey; structural analysis of exports and imports by product and country; the trade policies before and after the opening process of Turkish Economy, strategies of development (Import substitution and export promotion); In Neo-liberal period and particularly in last decade, structural analysis of foreign trade, policies (an axis shift or not) with special reference to the focus on Turkey's foreign trade in the strategic objectives of Turkish government, towards 2023.

Students are required to write and present a research project in order to qualify for graduation. The project will be written under the supervision of an advisor, and has to be defended orally in front of a jury. Students are expected to prove that they can utilize the knowledge and skills they have acquired during their studies. This experience will furnish them with the opportunity to apply scientific methods, improve their written and oral skills.

Development of human rights, the understanding of modern human rights; United Nations, European Court of Human Rights, right to live, right to freedom and security, child rights.