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INDIVIDUAL COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course Unit Title
Introduction to Microeconomics
Course Unit Code
Type of Course Unit
(Compulsory, Optional)
Compulsory
Level of Course Unit
(Short Cyle, First Cycle,
Second Cycle, Third Cycle)
First Cycle
Number of ECTS Credits
Allocated
6
Theoretical (hour/week)
3
Practice (hour/week)
-
Laboratory (hour/week)
-
Year of Study
1. Year
Semester when the course
unit is delivered
1. Year 1. Semester
Name of Lecturer(s)
Mode of Delivery (FaceTo-Face, Distance
Learning)
Face to face
Language of Instruction
(Turkish, English, German)
English
Prerequisities and corequisities (Ön Koşul olan
dersler ya da bu dersi
başarmak için alınmış
olması önerilen dersler
varsa yazılması gerekir. Ön
koşul dersi yoksa “None”
diye belirtilmesi gerekir.)
None
Recommended Optional
Programme Components
(Ders için önerilen konular
varsa yazılması, yoksa
“None” diye belirtilmesi
gerekir.)
None
Work Placement(s) (Bu
dersle ilgili herhangi bir
staj uygulaması varsa
yazılması, yoksa “None”
diye belirtilmesi gerekir.)
None
Objectives of the Course
The general objective of this course is to gain a basic information to students
about nature, scope and methods of microeconomics; a general view of the price
system; theories of supply and demand; consumer behavior and preferences;
utility maksimization; production process; production costs, and market
structures, income distribution
Learning Outcomes
1. Learning basic microeconomics concepts
2. Being a rational decision-maker and an informed citizen
3. Able to analyse consumer and producer behavior
4. Learning determinats of demand and supply in market
5. Able to analyse the structure of markets
6. Learning the role of government in microeconomy.
7. Learning about the income distribution
Course Contents
Weekly Detailed Course
Contents (yarıyıllık dersler
için arasınav ve final
sınavları dahil edilerek 16
haftalık, yıllık dersler için
arasınav ve final sınavları
dahil edilerek 30 haftalık)
Economic concepts, scarcity and choice, consumer demand, firm supply and
market equilibrium, elasticity, household behavior, consumer equilibrium,
production and costs, producer equilibrium, goods market, input market, general
equilibrium, income distribution tüketici dengesi, üretim ve maliyetler, üretici
dengesi, mal piyasaları, girdi piyasaları, genel denge, gelir dağılımı.
TOPIC
Week
Theoretical Course Content
Application
1
Microeconomics Concepts (economics, wants, needs, goods
and services, scarcity, choice and opportunity costs,
Reading
production possibility frontier, demand, supply, economic
systems, and so on).
2
Demand, supply and shifts in demand and supply;
Reading
determinants of demand and supply.
3
Market equilibrium and changes in equilibrium and
Reading
government inventions (price floor and price ceiling)
4
Elasticities of demand and supply; determinants of
Reading
elasticities.
5
Preferences and choices; measuring utility
Reading
6
Budget Constraint and utility maksimization (consumer
equilibrium); changes in equilibrium.
Reading
7
The Production process in the short-run and in the long-run.
The behavior of profit maximizing firms in both periods
Reading
Midterm
Reading and
research
homework
Short-run and long-run costs and output decisions; scale
economies.
Reading and
research
homework
Output markets: perfectly competitive market
Reading and
research
homework
Monopoly market and Monopolistic competition
Reading and
research
homework
Oligopoly and game theory
Reading and
research
homework
Introduction to Input Markets
Reading and
research
homework
General equilibrium and efficiency
Reading and
research
homework
Income distribution and poverty
Reading and
research
homework
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Final
Karl E.Case, Ray C.Fair ve Sharon M.Oster , Principles of Economics, Nineth Edition, 2010.
Michael Parkin, Economics, Sixth Edition 2003
Erdal M. Ünsal, Mikroiktisada Giriş, 6. Baskı, 2005.
Recommended or
Required Reading
ASSESSMENT
Term (or Year) Learning Activities
Weight, %
Midterm
40
Final
60
TOTAL
100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success
Grade
40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade
60
100
TOTAL
Planned Learning Activities, Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods and Student Workload
Activities
Quantity
Duration
(hour)
Total Work Load
(hour)
16
4
64
9
3
27
13
1
13
Homework Assignments
12
1
12
Mid-Terms
a)Exam
b) Student’s preparation
1
10
2
2
2
20
Final
a)Exam
b) Student’s preparation
1
20
2
2
2
40
TOTAL
90
16
180
Course hours
Lab
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study hours out of class
Presentations/ Seminar
Project
ECTS Credits
180/30=6 ECTS
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes*
Programme Outcomes
Learning
Outcomes
PO
1
PO
2
PO
3
PO
4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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11
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12
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13
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14
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15
PO
16
PO
17
LO1
5
5
4
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5
4
5
4
4
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5
4
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4
4
LO2
4
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3
4
LO3
4
5
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3
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3
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4
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3
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3
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LO4
4
2
4
3
4
3
4
3
4
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3
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3
3
3
4
4
LO5
4
5
4
3
4
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4
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3
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3
4
3
4
4
LO6
4
5
4
3
4
5
4
3
4
5
2
2
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4
LO7
4
5
4
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3
5
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5
2
2
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4
*Contribution Level:
1 Very Low
2 Low
3 Medium
4 High
5 Very High