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| SEC 417 | Economic Development | 3+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | none | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Objective of course is understanding dynamics and process of economic development; teaching what causes to be developed and underdeveloped country, how knowledge, population and technology affect development of a society.
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| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Understanding of development progress
| 1,5,9,10 | 1 | | LO - 2 : | Grasping development policies in Turkey and the World
| 2,5,6,7,9 | 1 | | LO - 3 : | reading and understanding fundemantal literature
| 5,6,7,10 | 1 | | LO - 4 : | understanding of the relationship between other diciplines
| 1,3,5,8,9 | 1 | | LO - 5 : | giving solutions about current economic problems
| 4,6,9,10 | 1 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Less Developed Economies,The terms of Economic development and Economic Growth, Evolution of Development Economics, Causes, measures, and eliminating policies about poverty, Traditional Developmentalist Approaches, Export-led and import substition industrialisation, Causes of Under Developement, Structural Changes in Developement, Population, Agriculture, Technology, Globalization and Less Developed Economies, Sustainable Development.
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Characteristics of Less Developed Economies
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Economic development and Economic Growth: Concepts and Terminology
| | | Week 3 | Evolution of Development Economics
| | | Week 4 | Poverty: Causes, measures, and eliminating policies
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Traditional Developmentalist Approaches
| | | Week 6 | Foreign Trade and Development: Export-led and import substition
| | | Week 7 | Causes of Under Development: Dependency Theories
| | | Week 8 | Structural Changes in Development Process
| | | Week 9 | Mid-Term exam
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Population and Economic Development
| | | Week 11 | Technology and Economic Development
| | | Week 12 | Industrialization | | | Week 13 | Agriculture and Economic Development
| | | Week 14 | Globalization and Less Developed Economies
| | | Week 15 | Sustainable Development | | | Week 16 | End of term exam | | | |
| 1 | Muhteşem KAYNAK, Kalkınma İktisadı, Gazi Kitabevi, 2007. | | | |
| 1 | Feride Doğaner Gönel, Kalkınma Ekonomisi, Efil Yay, 2010. | | | 2 | James M. Cypher ve James L. Dietz, The Process of Economic Development, Routlegde:London, 1997. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 12/12/2012 | 30 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 12/01/2012 | 60 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 10 | 1 | 10 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 9 | 2 | 18 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 100 |
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