2021 Summer course list
CODE |
NAME |
SECTION NUMBER |
INSTRUCTOR |
DESCRIPTION |
DATE AND TIME |
| ACCT 201 | FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING | 01 | GEORGIOS EMMANOUIL IATRIDIS | An introduction to financial reporting designed to create an awareness of the accounting concepts and principles for preparing the four basic financial statements: the income statement, statement of stockholders’ equity, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. The course is designed to benefit all students who will be future users of accounting information | Monday and Tuesday 8:30 AM – 11:15 AM |
| ARBC 201 | ARABIC I : BEGINNERS | 01 | MAZEN RABIA | Basics of grammar and vocabulary, listening, and speaking. Readings include newspapers, poems, and authentic documents. Language labs using multimedia systems are part of the language courses. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM |
| ASIU 100 | LITERATURE AND THE SOCIAL WORLD | 01 | ANAIS AMANDINE FUSARO | Examining how social ideas are expressed through and portrayed in works of the creative imagination. A selection of literary texts, films, visual representations, and/or essays that speak to a particular social issue or set of interrelated social issues. A variety of themes, such as feminism, globalization, migration, environmentalism, post-colonialism and nationalism. Developing students’ competencies in: written and oral communication skills; creativity and scepticism; and critical thinking. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM |
| CHIN 201 | CHINESE I: BEGINNERS | 01 | MEHTAP ATALI DAĞTEKİN | Basics of grammar and vocabulary, listening, and speaking. Readings include newspapers, poems, and authentic documents. Language labs using multimedia systems are part of the language courses. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM |
| ECON 101 | INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS | 01 | ALPER YILMAZ | Human behavior and rationality; introduction to the principles of individual decision making in the presence of resource constraints; functioning of the market economy: demand, supply, and equilibrium; price mechanism and the allocation of resources; economic efficiency, types of market competition, and government intervention. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM |
| ETHC 105 | ETHICS AND EVERYDAY LIFE | 01 | ELİS ŞİMŞON | Understanding how we experience freedom, justice, equality, rights, good&evil, judgments, and discrimination in our everyday life from the corner of a grocery store to a doctor’s office, to a court-house or to a class at the university. Analyzing the various ways of ethical reasoning already happening in our everyday interactions in order to enrich and sometimes to challenge the philosophical theories of ethics. Analyzing the already existing theories of ethical reasoning in the history of philosophy to challenge our at times non-reasoning habits. Connections between theory and practice in everyday life through very open discussion of everyday examples in connection to our readings of ethical reasoning from Plato, Aristotle, Mill, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, Arendt, De Beauvior, etc. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM |
| ETHC 105 | ETHICS AND EVERYDAY LIFE | 02 | ELİS ŞİMŞON | Understanding how we experience freedom, justice, equality, rights, good&evil, judgments, and discrimination in our everyday life from the corner of a grocery store to a doctor’s office, to a court-house or to a class at the university. Analyzing the various ways of ethical reasoning already happening in our everyday interactions in order to enrich and sometimes to challenge the philosophical theories of ethics. Analyzing the already existing theories of ethical reasoning in the history of philosophy to challenge our at times non-reasoning habits. Connections between theory and practice in everyday life through very open discussion of everyday examples in connection to our readings of ethical reasoning from Plato, Aristotle, Mill, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, Arendt, De Beauvior, etc. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM |
| ETHC 113 | A QUEST FOR ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS | 01 | NALAN SARAÇ | A historical introduction to ethical reasoning in order to develop skills to examine our lives. Recognition of the principal problems of ethics in a variety of works. Reading, thinking and writing critically about ethical issues and problems. Examination of theory of knowledge, origins of ethics, ethical responsibility and critiques of ethical theories under the guidance of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant and Nietzsche. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM |
| ETHC 113 | A QUEST FOR ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS | 02 | NALAN SARAÇ | A historical introduction to ethical reasoning in order to develop skills to examine our lives. Recognition of the principal problems of ethics in a variety of works. Reading, thinking and writing critically about ethical issues and problems. Examination of theory of knowledge, origins of ethics, ethical responsibility and critiques of ethical theories under the guidance of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant and Nietzsche. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM |
| FREN 201 | FRENCH I : BEGINNERS | 01 | HİLAL ÜÇÜNCÜ | An introduction of beginners to the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing and to the French culture in order to develop basic communication in the target language. Common European Framework of Reference for Language: first half of level A1. | Monday, Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM |
| FREN 201 | FRENCH I : BEGINNERS | 02 | HİLAL ÜÇÜNCÜ | An introduction of beginners to the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing and to the French culture in order to develop basic communication in the target language. Common European Framework of Reference for Language: first half of level A1. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM |
| HUMS 120 | TRUTH AND POLITICS | 01 | ANDREA ROSSI | An examination of the relationships between truth and power through the history of philosophy from the Greeks to the 20th century. Assessment of the relations between knowledge and political authority through the examination of key texts from Plato, Descartes, Kant, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Marx, etc. Contextualized elucidation of various models of government through their reliance on philosophical and theological worldviews. Examination of the political implication of scientific and philosophical developments. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10:00 AM –11:15 AM |
| HUMS 120 | TRUTH AND POLITICS | 02 | ANDREA ROSSI | An examination of the relationships between truth and power through the history of philosophy from the Greeks to the 20th century. Assessment of the relations between knowledge and political authority through the examination of key texts from Plato, Descartes, Kant, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Marx, etc. Contextualized elucidation of various models of government through their reliance on philosophical and theological worldviews. Examination of the political implication of scientific and philosophical developments. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11:30 AM –12:45 AM |
| ITAL 201 | ITALIAN I : BEGINNERS | 01 | PAOLA MARTANI | An introduction of beginners to the four language skills listening, speaking, reading and writing and to contemporary everyday Italian culture in order to be able to communicate simply in the target language. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: first half of level A1. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:30 AM –9:45 AM |
| ITAL 201 | ITALIAN I : BEGINNERS | 02 | PAOLA MARTANI | An introduction of beginners to the four language skills listening, speaking, reading and writing and to contemporary everyday Italian culture in order to be able to communicate simply in the target language. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: first half of level A1. | Monday, Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday 10:00 AM –11:15 AM |
| LANG 290 | SIGN LANGUAGE I | 01 | HASAN DİKYUVA | Aiming to increase the possibilities of communication of hearing and speech impaired in society through equipping university students with sign language skills. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 1:00 PM –2:15 PM |
| MATH 101 | FINITE MATHEMATICS | 01 | DOĞAN BİLGE | Linear algebra and matrix theory; mathematics of finance; counting and the fundamentals of probability theory; game theory. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10:00 AM –11:15 AM |
| PSA | Problem Session: Tuesday 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM |
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| MATH 106 | CALCULUS I | 1 | DOĞAN BİLGE | Limits and continuity; derivative and properties of differentiable functions; mean value theorems, Taylorʼs formula, extreme values; indefinite integral and integral rules; Riemann integral and fundamental theorem of calculus; LʼHospitalʼs rule; improper integrals; sequence and series of numbers; power series and their properties; Taylor and Maclaurin series. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 2:30 PM –3:45 PM |
| PSA | Problem Session: Wednesday 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM |
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| MATH 107 | INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR ALGEBRA | 01 | MEHMET SARIDERELİ | Vectors; matrices and systems of linear equations; vector spaces; linear maps; orthogonality; algebra of complex numbers; eigenvalue problems. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 1:00 PM –2:15 PM |
| PSA | Problem Session: Thursday 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM |
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| MBGE 200 | INTRODUCTORY BIOLOGY | 01 | İBRAHİM BARIŞ | Principles of biochemistry; molecular and cell biology. General introduction to cell structure and function. Genetics, bioenergetics, anatomy and physiology; introduction to biotechnology. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11:30 AM –12:45 PM |
| RUSS 201 | RUSSIAN I: BEGINNERS | 01 | INNA KÖSELİ | Designed to introduce beginner students to the four language skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing and to the Russian culture in order to develop basic communication in the target language. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: first half of level A1. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10:00 AM –11:15 AM |
| RUSS 201 | RUSSIAN I: BEGINNERS | 02 | INNA KÖSELİ | Designed to introduce beginner students to the four language skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing and to the Russian culture in order to develop basic communication in the target language. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: first half of level A1. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11:30 AM –12:45 PM |
| SOCI 100 | INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY | 01 | TBA | Introduces basic concepts, methods and approaches to the study of society. Focuses on social, cultural, and political systems and structures, social conflict and social institutions. Topics include family, education, gender, race and ethnicity, social class, the economy, organizations, social groups, aging and generations. | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 4:00 PM –5:15 PM |
| UNIV 199 | INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING WITH PYTHON | 01 | BUKET YÜKSEL | A general introduction to programming using the Python programming language. Explore key components of problem solving using logically ordered steps and apply them to problems across disciplines. Gain a solid foundation in algorithmic design of programs and implementing them in Python. |
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11:30 AM –12:45 PM |
| LABA | Laboratory: Monday 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM |