Information Package / Course Catalogue
Economics
Course Code: AGE301
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

The aim of the lesson is to build up the students’ abilities of understanding and making analysis about the subjects of macroeconomy and microeconomy at the undergraduate degree.

Course Content

The lesson contains basic concepts about economy,microeconomical subjects like theory of prices,markets and the macroeconomal subjects like inflation ,economical growth,money policy,foreign payments balance

Name of Lecturer(s)
Assoc. Prof. Onur İÇÖZ
Learning Outcomes
1.To be able to comprehend the basic economical concepts and principles
2. To be able to participate the discussions about economical subjects
3.To be able to analyse the process of market mechanism
4.To be able to explain the economical cases and problems narrated at daily speechs with economical literature language
5.Understand and interpret macroeconomic events.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Dinler, Z. (2011). İktisada Giriş, Ekin Kitapevi Yayınları, Bursa.
2.Ünlüönen, K ve Tayfun, A (2005), Ekonomi, Nobel Yayın Dağıtım, Ankara.
3. Ertek, T., (2005), Makro Ekonomiye Giriş, Beta Basım Yayım Dağıtım A,Ş. Istanbul.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Definition and Importance of Science in Economics, basic concepts
Week 2 - Theoretical
Targets of Each economy, Full Use Problem, Effective Usage Problem, increase the amount of goods and services produced, Economic Systems
Week 3 - Theoretical
Demand, Law of Demand, Price Elasticity of Demand, Income Elasticity of Demand, Factors Affecting the Price Elasticity of Demand
Week 4 - Theoretical
Supply, Supply Act, Supply Flexibility, Factors Affecting Supply Flexibility, Market, Market Types, Perfect Competition Market, Perfectly Competitive Market Properties, Fully Competitive Market Equilibrium
Week 5 - Theoretical
Producer Theory and Costs, Production, Production Function And Features, Law of Diminishing Returns and the reasons of arise, Costs, Short-Term Costs, Long -Term Costs, Economies of Scale
Week 6 - Theoretical
Price Theory, Company Balance Profit or Maximization, Perfect Competition Market and Company Balance
Week 7 - Theoretical
Imperfect Markets And The Reasons to Check Out, Monopoly Market, Monopoly Market Characteristics, The Reasons for monopoly, Monopoly Price Discrimination, Monopoly Firm's Short-and Long-Run Equilibrium
Week 8 - Theoretical
Monopolistic Competitive Market, Market characteristics of the Monopolistic Competition, Placements in the company's short-and long-term balance of Monopolistic Competition, Oligopol market
Week 9 - Theoretical
Internal and External Debt, Budget deficits and public debts Balance
Week 10 - Theoretical
National Income and National Income Calculation Methods, Money Theory, Definition and functions of money, Types of Money
Week 11 - Theoretical
Balance of Payments, causes of the Balance of Payments deficits, Foreign Exchange Market, Exchange Rate Systems, Devaluation
Week 12 - Theoretical
Basic Macro Economic Issue, Economic growth, Measurement of Economic Growth, Inflation, Definition and types of inflation, Measurement of inflation (PPI, CPI), The effects of inflation on the economy, The fight against inflation
Week 13 - Theoretical
Employment and Unemployment, Concept of Employment, Types of Unemployment and Unemployment, Policies to combat unemployment
Week 14 - Theoretical
Introduction to behavioral economics
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory141242
Reading140114
Midterm Examination1808
Final Examination111011
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)75
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026