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.

English Speaking Skills

The agricultural revolution, the rise of civilizations in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Classical Greece and the Hellenistic world, Rome and its empire. The spread of civilizations and the movement of peoples. Byzantium and Europe. The rise and spread of Islam, African civilizations, Western civilization.

Sets of real numbers. Functions, special functions. Symmetry, translations and reflections. Lines. Systems of equations. Exponential and logarithmic functions, properties of logarithms. Limits and continuity. The derivative., Rules for differentiation, Derivatives of logarithmic and exponential functions. Implicit differentiation. Logarithmic differentiation. Local and absolute extrema. Concavity. Asymptotes.

Introduction to the field of psychology. Scientific methodology and the biological basis of behavior that govern learning, memory and perception. Motivational, cognitive, developmental, social and personality dimensions of behavior and social relationships including psychopathology.

Professional definitions of psychologists. Examination of various ethic codes. Ethics in research, psychotherapy, and psychological education.

Explanation of communication, explanation of language and its relationship with the thinking proces, culture, society and literature; written and oral communication; main characterisrics of the Turkish language; phrases and types of narration; expressional failure.

Academic writing and speaking skills with a focus on organizing a research project involving a proposal, preliminary and ongoing research, annotations, thesis proposal, works cited and an interview to demonstrate the results of their work. Critical thinking, reasoning, logical argumentation, and presentation skills.

Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment period, the French and the Industrial revolutions. The world economy, the rise of Russia, industrialization outside of the West, The world war I, second global conflict, globalization: world history 1990- 2004.

The meaning and definiton of philosophy. The fundamental issues, problems and theories in philosophy. Major philosophers in the history of philosophy. Philosophical theories developed on issues like knowledge, science, being, morality, politics, religion, language and art. The relationship between wisdom, knowledge, reality and justification. Rationalism, empiricism, emotivism, universalism, relativism, objectivism, subjectivism, scepticism. Problems of free will and determinism, alienation, freedom and justice.