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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / İKT-801 - ECONOMICS (MA-WITH THESIS)

Code: İKT-801 Course Title: SPECIALIZATION FIELD COURSE Theoretical+Practice: 4+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 2 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department ECONOMICS (MA-WITH THESIS)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer SERDAR ÖZTÜRK (serdarozturk@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s) SERAP ÇOBAN, HAKAN KUM, METİN DUYAR, ALPER ASLAN, ÖZLEM ÖZTÜRK ÇETENAK,
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The aim of this course is to provide students with necessary knowledge to literature review of thesis study and to understand the results of empirical social research; to teach quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Be able to identify appropriate research design and methodologies. PO-12 can know the stages that need to apply in a research and do research.
Presentation
LO-2 Be able to conduct a research project PO-12 can know the stages that need to apply in a research and do research.
Presentation
LO-3 Be able to analyze qualitative and quantitative data in social research. PO-8 have ability on working with quantitative data about economics and using the tools about statistically data analysis.
PO-11 have ability on defining economic variables and comment on the relationships between these variables.
PO-12 can know the stages that need to apply in a research and do research.
Presentation
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
The course is structured to help students to design and carry out a social research project.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Determining the research project application
2 Acceptance of research proposal application
3 Footnote and references application
4 Ethics in social research application
5 Literature review and planning of thesis application
6 Methods of qualitative and quantitative measurement tecniques application
7 Data mining and sampling application
8 mid-term exam
9 Literature review application
10 Literature review application
11 Literature review application
12 Literature review application
13 Literature review application
14 Literature review application
15 Literature review application
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 American Psychological Association-APA (2001). Publication manual (5th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Required Course instruments and materials

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report 8;16 2 100
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 4 14 56
Outside Class
       a) Reading 4 14 56
       b) Search in internet/Library 5 10 50
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 2 2 4
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 0
mid-term exam 0
Own study for final exam 0
final exam 0
0
0
Total work load; 166