ECTS - - Political Science and Public Administration
Compulsory Departmental Courses
ATU100 - Orientation (1 + 0) 1
President's Speech; Life at Atılım (Presentations by Administrative Units); Library Seminars; Book Borrowing-Returning Session; Department Promotion Meetings; Promotion of Sports Activities; Visits to Kiosks of Student Clubs and Communities; Informative Presentation on Education Technologies; participation in events organized within the scope of ATU 100.
HIST101 - Principles of Atatürk and History of Turkish Revolution I (2 + 0) 2
French Revolution; structure and geopolitic positioning of Ottoman Empire, reasons of its decline; Westernization movements, First and Second Constitutional Monarchy declarations; Libya and Balkan wars; First World War; period before the War of Independence, congresses, National Pact, establishment of Turkish Grand National Assembly.
HIST102 - Principles of Atatürk and History of Turkish Revolution II (2 + 0) 2
War of Independence; Lausanne Treaty; declaration of the Republic; removal of sultanic rule and caliphate; Atatürk`s revolutions; establishment of national economy; Second World War, before and after; Turkish Republic after 1960.
KAM105 - Introduction to Sociology (3 + 0) 6
Situating sociology in social science and in our life, basic nature and scope of sociology; sociological explanations: theories, social change, method in sociological inquiry; socialization and social interaction; social structure and social institutions; groups; family; political, religious and educational institutions; social stratification and
KRY111 - Career Planning (1 + 0) 1
Being a student at Atilim University, Student-centered programs at Atilim University, Faculty, Department presentations, Career Planning and Coop Program, Erasmus, CV writing types, Interview techniques, Effective Communication and presentation techniques, Intelligence and Personality
TURK401 - Turkish Language I (2 + 0) 2
Languages and their classification; history of Turkish language, its spread over the world and its place among other languages; Turkish language in the republic era; orthography; expressions; foreign words, suffixes and prefixes; punctuation; language and verbalism.
Elective Courses
ART201 - Introduction to Photography (3 + 0) 4
Definition of photography and the photographer, the uses of photography in life, camera and its parts (aperture, iso, shutter, lens), light and its use in photography, composition rules in photography, the works of photographers from the world and Turkey.
ART222 - History of Jazz (3 + 0) 4
The history of music before 1900`s; Blues and Ragtime music genres; the impacts of musical, social and cultural structures of jazz music in New Orleans before its emergence in the region; main jazz movements starting from the very first Dixieland music to Fusion jazz movement today.
ART266 - Jewelry Design (3 + 0) 4
Shape elements, point-line-surface relation, drawing techniques, form-shape, measure-ratio, light-dark, shadow-light, volume information, texture types and touch; hand tools; production using simple modeling techniques; cutting and leveling techniques, assembly and skidding procedures; design preparation, metal and different material shaping and
ART269 - Entrepreneurial World of Contemporary Art (3 + 0) 4
The function and global organisation of contemporary art, which are considered as one of the most important investment tools in the world by international institutions, the socio-economic dimension of the events and the relationship between the world of art: collector, sponsor, and entrepreunership.
ART281 - The Healings of Art (1 + 2) 4
Contribution to the self's personal inner journey through art, artist's inner essential through art and healing techniques (breath, meditation etc.), discovery of the appropriate artistic space, the self through movement, body percussion, music, storytelling, visual arts (photography, collage, inspirational drawing, meditative painting, clay, etc).
ART284 - Stage Management of Theater and Movie Review (3 + 0) 4
Analysing theater plays that dominated the history of theater in philosophical theme; finding the substances and determine in search of theatric space at the world theater journey, discussion of the predeterminated movies that made the breakthrough in world history within the context of Sartre/Existentialist philosophy and Spinoza/Ethica.
ART291 - Body Language and the Art of Persuasion (3 + 0) 4
Posture, mimic, gesture, a correct and accurate way of using the intonation of speech; leadership skills and abilities to convince or persuade someone to accept a desired way of thinking in the business and social environment; convincing others to adopt new ideas using body language.
ENG393 - Basic English Speaking Skills (3 + 0) 4
This course provides students with a range of basic communicative activities aimed at activating their existing skills to participate effectively in basic communicative contexts. Students will practice how to communicate accurately in academic or professional environments with confidence.
HUM109 - The History of Early Modern Mediterranean (1450-1789) (3 + 0) 4
The description of the early modern Mediterranean in general terms from the geographical discoveries to the French Revolution; political, social, historical and economic developments and transformations in the early modern Mediterranean; wars and trade in the axis of Ottoman-Spanish hegemony struggle in the Mediterranean basin.
HUM112 - Preparation for Professional Life (3 + 0) 4
Greeting others kindly and politely; personality traits, body language and smiling; introduction to professional life; preparing CV and resume and preparation for interviews; the concept of being a good human: ethical conduct; the manners of new generation in business life; time management and its importance; addiction in business life, the limits of the work environment, challenges in professional life.
HUM204 - Volunteering Studies (1 + 0) 4
Participating voluntarily in the work of aid organizations established within public institutions, local governments and non-governmental organizations in order to support those who face difficulties, especially children, the elderly, the disabled and disadvantaged groups, and sharing what they acquired through the university education.
HUM211 - Gender Studies and Women Rights (3 + 0) 4
Introduction; gender perceptions; woman and health; woman and politics; woman and law; modernism, gender and women rights; types of violence against women and their prevention; woman and literature; woman labor in the global economy; worklife and woman; woman and entrepreneurship; woman and environment.
HUM212 - Gender Equality (3 + 0) 4
This course focused on examine main subjects and current issues of Gender Studies by precisely taking the principle of equality and discrimination at hand, Help students follow gender studies in Turkey and across the globe and develop abilities of students to examine and generate behavioral patterns in their daily social life in a gender-mainstrea
HUM291 - Body Language and Communication Methods (3 + 0) 4
Posture, mimic, gesture, a correct and accurate way of using the intonation of speech; leadership skills and abilities to convince or persuade someone to accept a desired way of thinking in the business and social environment; convincing others to adopt new ideas using body language.
HUM318 - Introduction to Logic (3 + 0) 4
Basic logical concepts, reasoning, argument analysis, informal logic, language and definitions, fallacies, syllogistic logic, categorial propositions, syllogisms in ordinary language, modern symbolic logic, propositional logic, truth functions and arguments, methods of derivation, predicate logic.
IKT125 - Economic History (3 + 0) 6
Main characteristics of a feudal economic system, prerequisites of the formation of industry; legal system, guilds, technological accumulation, manpower, entrepreneurs, capital market; the industrial revolution 1780-1840,the sociological results of the industrial revolution ;second phase standards of living 1850-1914
IKT313 - International Economics I (3 + 0) 5
Labor productivity and comparative advantage: the Ricardian model, comparative advantage, the standard trade model, economies of scale, imperfect competition, and international trade, international factor movements, the instruments and the political economy of trade policy, trade policy in developing countries, controversies in trade policy.
IKT324 - Public Finance and Fiscal Policy (3 + 0) 6
Fiscal functions and institutions; types of budgetary activity; public provision for social goods; public choice and fiscal politics; public expenditures; case studies in expenditure policies; principles of taxation; tax structure; fiscal federalism; fiscal policy and stabilization; economics of the public debt.
IKT381 - Analysis and Design of Algorithms (3 + 0) 5
The main contents are: review of algorithm analysis ; divide and conquer algorithms ; graphs ; dynamic programming ; greedy algorithms ; randomized algorithms ; P and NP ; approximate algorithms for NP-hard problems or polynomial algorithms for subproblems of NP-hard problems ; partial recursive functions ; computations and undecidable problems.
IKT401 - Turkish Economy (3 + 0) 7
Oveview of the economic policy from 1923 to 1980; (January) 1980 stabilization and structural adjustment program; new financial cycle and economic-financial crisis (1994,1998, 2000, 2001), 17th, 18th, 19th stand-by arrangements and structural reforms; the impact of the 2008-2009 financial crisis and further developments.
IKT407 - Seminar in Economics (3 + 0) 7
The origins and development of global capitalism and the capitalist state through its various stages; the characteristics of the neo-liberal globalization; the causes and the nature of the financial crisis in the context of globalization and its impact on economic and social grounds.
IKT481 - Advance Data Modelling (3 + 0) 5
The main contents are; statistical inference, regression, generalized least squares, instrumental variables, simultaneous equations models, and evaluation of policies and programs. Students will learn the principles and best practices for how to use data in order to support fact-based decision-making. Emphasis will be given to applications in various data which has big data facilities.
IKT484 - Machine Learning (3 + 0) 5
The main contents are, supervised learning unsupervised learning ; learning theory ; reinforcement learning and adaptive control. The course will also discuss recent applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing and evaluation of policies and programs.
ISL328 - Financial Literacy and Legislation for Entrepreneurs (3 + 0) 5
Tax legislation, business law information and obligations related to legal legislation in start ups, different company and business types and selection principles, interpretation of financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement).
ISL332 - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2 + 1) 5
This course introduces fundamental concepts and techniques in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery within a business-oriented framework. Students will explore topics such as data collection, preprocessing, exploratory data analysis, classification, clustering, and association rule mining. They will also learn how to apply these techniques to solve business problems.
ISL407 - E-Business (3 + 0) 5
Types of e-commerce, business paradigms, fundamental concepts, tools of e-commerce, types of payment, types of infrastructure such as communication, technology and payment infrastructure, current positions of Turkish companies in e-commerce and data storage technologies for e-business.
ISL408 - Introduction to Sustainability (3 + 0) 5
What is sustainability; sustainability and related polices; climate and global change; environmental and resource economics; sustainable business practices; sustainability: ethics, culture, and history; sustainable development; sustainability indicators.
ISL409 - Entrepreneurship (4 + 0) 5
The nature, importance and history of entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial mind, creativity, innovation and the business idea, marketing and financial planning, franchising, entrepreneurial strategy and strategic management in operations, entrepreneurship background of Turkey, changes in Turkish entrepreneurial features and activities, characteris
ISL414 - Entrepreneurship and Business Plan (3 + 0) 5
Fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship, personal characteristics of entrepreneurs, innovative thinking techniques and types, strategic management and planing, alternative ways of launching a business, business plan and fundamental elements of busines plan, techniques of preparing a business plan, from planning to practice, marketing, production
KAM451 - Regional Studies I (3 + 0) 5
The study of the political, historical, economic and military structures of Russia and Central Asia; the study of the political, historical, economic and military structures of Balkans and Central Europe; the study of the political, historical, economic and military structures of North and South America.
KAM452 - Regional Studies II (3 + 0) 5
The study of the political, historical, economic and military structures of the Black Sea and the Caucasus region; the study of the political, historical, economic and military structures of the Middle East region; the study of the political, historical, economic and military structures of the Far East and South Asia region; the study of the political, historical, economic and military structure of the Africa.
KOR301 - Korean III (3 + 0) 4
This course includes more vocabulary, structure and communicative skills at elementary level. The class activities are grouped around various themes such as occupations, hobbies, countries, and functions such as asking for and giving information, offering and responding.
MLY203 - Public Budget (3 + 0) 5
Definition and nature of budget; evolution of budget; development of budget and budgeting systems; functions of budget; budgeting principles: classical and modern budgeting principles; deviations from budget principles; budget concepts and theory of industrial budgets; budgeting process: preparation, approval and implementation of budget, budget and treasury transactions, budget appropriation
MLY206 - Criminal Law (3 + 0) 5
Selected topics in substantive criminal law: principles underlying the definition of crime such as the requirements of actus reus and mens rea and general doctrines such as ignorance of fact and ignorance of law, causation, attempt, complicity and conspiracy; principles of justification and excuse with particular attention to the doctrines of
MLY302 - Public Accounting (3 + 0) 6
Definition, scope, development process and legal bases of government accounting; administrative structuring; accounts used in government accounting; collection and payment; reporting transactions; problems and solutions in government accounting; State Procurement Law and its functioning.
MLY304 - Turkish Taxation System (3 + 0) 6
Overview of the Turkish tax system; tax classification; taxes on income: Income tax, corporation tax; taxes on expenditures: value-added tax, customs tax, etc; taxes on wealth: inheritance and transfer tax, real estate tax, etc.; tax issues in taxes, income elements, forms of liability, reductions, exceptions and exemptions; taxes in taxies, decla
MLY322 - Public Economics (3 + 0) 5
Public sector and public economics; structure, composition and scope of public sector; fundamentals of welfare economics; market failure and government intervention; public goods and theory of social goods; externalities; natural monopolies, regulation and privatization; public choice; income distribution and redistribution; social cost-benefit
MLY412 - Current Finance Problems (3 + 0) 5
Analysis of the current financial subjects with theoritical backgrounds specially related with Turkey; Turkish budget system implementation and results, financial public institutions in Turkey, Turkey and the EU, the global financial crisis and fiscal policies.