Course Descriptions

Definitions of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Essentials of microeconomics. Operations of markets. Scarcity and resource allocation. Demand and supply analysis and elasticities. Market efficiency and welfare. Consumer and producer surplus. Cost analysis of firms. Perfect competition and imperfect competition. Monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition. Externalities and internalities. Economics of factor markets.

Basic grammatical structures and sentence patterns. Basic range of simple expressions about personal details and needs of a concrete type. Basic greeting and leave-taking expressions. Daily routines. Definitions about people and places. Personal profiles. Social networking. Informal e-mails.

Management programs curricula and intended student skills and qualifications . University and faculty rules and regulations. Information about opportunities and resources available to students during their education. History of business administration education. Introduction to sub- disciplines of business administration.

Origins and development of law.Basic concepts in law. The hierarchy of law, The making of law.Legislative, executive, and judiciary powers in a state, laws and constitution.Rights and freedom of citizens.

Sets of real numbers. Functions. Special functions. Symmetry, translations and reflections. Lines. Quadratic functions. Systems of equations. Exponential and logarithmic functions. Properties of logarithms. Limits and continuity. The derivative. Rules for differentiation. The chain rule. Derivatives of logarithmic and exponential functions. Implicit differentiation. Logarithmic differentiation. Higher order derivatives. Relative extrema. Absolute extrema on a closed interval. Concavity. The second derivative test. Asymptotes.

Nature and methodology of political science, basic concepts, political institutions and political behavior, political parties and pressure groups, political participation, elections and voting behavior, state and bureaucracy.

Communication, items of communication, types of communication, oral and written communication and presentation, effective communication skills. The definition and the importance of language. The relationship between language and society, language and culture. The relationship between language and literature. Spoken language, written language, native language, standard language, dialect, special languages. Features of meaning, sound and style (structure) of Turkish. Rules of writing and punctuation. Features and types of narration. Subject and limitation of the subject. Written language and its features. The layout of written narration (planning of written narration), wording, types of written narration, features of written narration, expressional failure.

Introduction to basic IT theory and terminology. Basic skills in a word processor programs, such as MS Word to create documents, format text, apply styles. Basic skills in a spreadsheet program, such as MS Excel, to create and format spreadsheets, including the use of mathematical formulas and to summarize given data in the form of graphics.

Essentials of macroeconomics. Measuring a nation's income and cost of living. Inflation, unemployment, investment and saving. Money and banking. Open economy macroeconomics. International integrations. Introduction to economic growth and development.

Simple grammatical structures and sentence patterns. Description or presentation of people, living or working conditions, daily routines, likes/dislikes. Phrases and expressions related to areas of most immediate priority (e.g. personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment.) Comparisons. Formal e-mails.