| Academic Unit: |
Economics |
| Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
| Prerequisites: |
None |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Course Unit: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
- - |
| Course Objectives: |
1. Developing an ability to provide alternative economic policies to current economic problems.
2. Developing an ability to analyze and process economic data.
3. Gaining an insight regarding the importance of economic policies and to be able to critically analyze them.
4. To be able to apply principles, theories, concepts and analytic methods of macroeconomics. |
| Course Contents: |
1. Macroeconomic Policies
2. Labor Markets
3. Social Policy |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
- 1- To learn the main concepts in macroeconomics.
- 2- To learn the main concepts in microeconomics.
- 3- To be able to develop analytical skills in order to analyze economic data.
- 4- To critically analyze economic policies.
- 5- To be able to provide alternative policies.
- 6- To be able to engage in research and present the outcomes.
- 7- To be able to realize the ethical side of economics as a social science.
- 8- To be able to interpret graphs, tables, and data.
- 9- To analyze economic data.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: |
In class discussions and applications |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
| 1 |
Economics and Economic Policy |
Chapter 1 |
| 2 |
Equilibrium and Disequilibrium |
Chapter 2 |
| 3 |
Economic Policy and Institutions |
Chapter 5 |
| 4 |
International Framework for Economic Policy |
Chapter 6 |
| 5 |
Establishing the Framework for Economic Policy |
Chapter 12 |
| 6 |
Economic Policy in Turkey |
Chapter 13 |
| 7 |
Crisis and Economic Policy |
Chapter 14 |
| 8 |
Analyzing Economic Policies |
Chapter 15 |
| 9 |
Labor markets – wage earners |
Class notes and current articles |
| 10 |
Labor markets – self-employed etc. |
Class notes and current articles |
| 11 |
Labor markets – informality |
Class notes and current articles |
| 12 |
Social policy – pensions |
Class notes and current articles |
| 13 |
Social policy – health policy |
Class notes and current articles |
| 14 |
Social policy – social assistance |
Class notes and current articles |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
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Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High
