Curriculum

The first part of this course presents the history, basic concepts and terminology of information technology, basic hardware and software components of a computer system, and integration of computer system components. In the second part, basics of problem solving approaches, components and construction of computer programs, flowcharting, and modular programming issues are discussed. Basics of C programming language are covered in classroom.

This course is designed to introduce students to contemporary information systems and demonstrate how these systems are used throughout global organizations. The focus of this course will be on the key components of information systems - people, software, hardware, data, and communication technologies, and how these components can be integrated and managed to create competitive advantage. The necessary topics that will be covered in this course are; how and why information systems are used today, how organizations are using information systems for competitive advantage vs. competitive necessity, information technology concepts such as hardware and software, telecommunication and networks, internet, intranet, extranet, electronic and mobile commerce, enterprise systems, decision support systems and knowledge management.

The aim of the course is to develop students’ listening, speaking, reading, writing and study skills. In this course, students learn how to structure a paragraph by focusing on unity and coherence. Moreover, they identify topic sentences, main ideas, supporting details and irrelevant sentences in a paragraph. They will analyze a paragraph and then, write a three-paragraph descriptive essay which includes introduction, body and conclusion. Furthermore, students will present the required topics regarding presentation techniques. In addition, students will practice pre-reading strategies (i.e. previewing, predicting, scanning) and outlining. The course also provides the opportunity to the students to process new information and to learn how to apply that information to a new situation and to pose questions which are catalysts in the critical thinking process.

This course is designed for students in several faculties such as pharmacy, architecture, applied sciences and communication. The objective of the course is to introduce the student fundamental principles about basic concepts of mathematics. It gives an introduction to the real number system and continue with inequalities, solution of inequalities and its applications, which are related with each faculty. Rectangular coordinate systems, Phytagorean Theorem, finding distance between two points, slope and Mid-Point on XY plane are also covered in this course. Functions such as type of functions, domain and range considerations, and graphical representation of the functions are important topics which are also discussed in this course.

Basic concepts; internal and external factors leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman State; Ottoman reform efforts; Tripoli and Balkan wars; World War I; Mondros Armistice; communities established during the armistice; Mustafa Kemal, Havza and Amasya Memorandums; Congresses; the National Pact; the opening of the Grand National Assembly; the riots; fronts and battles of the National Forces and the regular armies; the foreign relations and treaties of the Grand National Assembly; the Great Offensice and Victory; Mudanya Armistice; abolition of the sultanate; Lausanne Peace Treaty; proclamation of the republic; multiparty experience; secularization and modernization in law; nationalization in education and culture; socioeconomic reforms; Atatürk's six principles; Atatürk’s foreign policy; İnönü and World War II; establishment of the multi-party system, are the main content of the course.

The aim of this course is to outline the development of civilizations in the course of history. It firstly focuses on the concepts such as “Civilization”, “Prehistoric”, and “Historic” and on the factors forcing the emergence of the first civilizations. After examining the prehistoric periods and their characteristics in the course of human life since the first appearance of human being on earth, the course mainly focuses on the early civilizations, namely the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Aegean, Classical Greek, Hellenistic, Indian, Chinese and Roman Civilizations. Political, social, economical, cultural, entellectual, philosophical and scientific aspects in these entities are also examined in this course.

The course will introduce basic and fundamental programming constructs and techniques through using the C++ programming language in order to generate algorithmic solutions to problems. Upon completion of the course, students will learn an introduction to algorithms, solving problems by flowcharts and pseudo codes, header files, data types, arithmetic & logic operators, control statements (if, if/else, switch-case) and use them as inner statements, loop statements (while, do/while, for), functions, standard functions of programming language, random number generation and their area of use, user-defined functions, global and local variables, recursion, arrays, searching algorithms on arrays, sorting algorithms on arrays, pointers, pointer operators, using pointers with arrays and functions. In the laboratory hours, students are writing full programs or modifying existing programs for other solutions.

The aim of this course is to provide the students a comprehensive introduction to start building websites from the ground up. The students will learn how to create web pages using XHTML; including images, links, lists, tables, forms, CSS; which provide the standard way of imposing style on the content specified in XHTML tags and JavaScript; a powerful language that could be used for variety of different applications including object models, control statements, pop-up windows, arrays, functions, constructors and pattern matching. All web content will be hand coded using a simple text editor with a strong emphasis on well-formed valid code.

This course provides orientation to modern Turkish language for foreign students who wish to communicate in this language for their needs. It mainly focuses on the differences between Turkish and English Alphabets, especially the sounds and letters which are not included in the English alphabet (i.e. Turkish ones ç-ğ-i-ö-ş-ü). Also basic grammar and sentence structure forms in Turkish are practiced. The required grammar and vocabulary will be developed through exercising daily situations in contexts such as introducing themselves, greeting, talking about the things they possess by using possessive adjectives, forming positive, negative and questions sentences by using present simple, telling the time, talking about their own timetables, using demonstrative pronouns when describing the place of objects and becoming familiar with vocabulary related to family members.

The aim of the course is to develop language consciousness, to improve the grammatical knowledge, and to increase the understanding and writing skills. This course is based on the educational development of the usage of the language and improvement of expressions. Improvement of basic knowledge about the Turkish language is the main target.

Course involves introduction to economics, what is economics? Micro and Macro Economics, Needs, wants, preferences, scarcity and consumer preferences, Production Possibilities Frontier, Opportunity Cost, Budget Line, Cost-Benefit Principle, Explicit and Implicit costs, Elasticity -Inferior goods, normal goods, luxury goods, complement goods and substitute goods, Demand Curve and Supply Curve, Excess demand and supply,Demand and Supply functions, Equilibrium price and quantity by using functions, Types of taxes and their effects on demand and supply,Types of Costs; Fixed costs and variable costs. Calculating total revenue and total costs,Calculating profit and loss,Calculating Break even quantity,Drawing Break Even chart,Types of Depreciation and calculating depreciation.

This course is the continuation of ENG 101. The aim of the course is to develop students’ listening, speaking, reading, writing and study skills. In this course, students will learn how to write comparison and contrast essay by drawing Venn diagram. Moreover, they will study comparison and contrast connectors. Furthermore, students will recognize the differences between facts and opinion sentences and write a four-paragraph opinion essay which includes counter-argument and refutation sentences. So, students will realize the differences between comparison and contrast essay and opinion essay writing. Furthermore, students will present the required topics regarding presentation techniques. And, students will summarize texts and make inferences by using a variety of reading strategies.

This course presents the basic tools for the design and analysis of digital circuits and provides methods and procedures suitable for a variety of digital design applications in computers, control systems, data communications, etc. The course introduces data representation in binary systems, complements, Boolean algebra, logic gates, truth tables, logic circuits, timing diagrams, De Morgan's law, algebraic manipulation, minterms and maxterms, Sum of Products (SOP) and Product of Sums (POS) forms, Boolean function simplification tools and Karnough Map method, NAND and NOR implementations, don't care conditions, combinational circuit design and analysis procedures, and design of Adders, Subtracters and Code Converters.

The course mainly focuses on software implementations in C Programming Language. Firstly, basic concepts of algorithms are discussed and then structures of programming are studied. Then, arrays and searching and sorting algorithms on arrays are studied. Fundamentals of basic data structures, which are arrays, structures and unions are discussed together with bitwise operations and enumerations in C. Pointers, functions and file processing are studied in the second part of the course, after midterm examination. Case studies related to searching and sorting algorithms are also studied. Functions, characters and strings are studied as last topics of algorithm developments and course is finalized with complexity analysis of algorithms.

This course is an introductory programming course for visual programming. Event-driven, visual and structured programming concepts will be presented. Initially, the emphasis will be on fundamentals of visual programming and basic controls. Then, advanced controls, file and database management features will be presented. Programming projects will involve common problems that require data entry, display of calculated results, conditional testing, arithmetic operations, array processing, searching, sorting, reading and writing files, and operations on databases.

The objective of this course is to provide the basics of data structures and data organization. The course will introduce C/C++ and algorithms for the implementation of data structures which are stack, queue, linked list, tree. Also, the applications of data structures covering stack applications which are paranthesis checker, infix to postfix and prefix conversions, recursion, dynamic stack and queue, tree traversals. Theoretical aspects of most widely used data structures will be covered during the lectures. Programming assignments and labworks cover the C/C++ implementations of applications of data structures that are discussed in the lectures.

This course introduces students to the major concepts necessary for designing, using, implementing database systems and applications. The students will learn how to model databases using a number of techniques and approaches such as Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD), Relational Algebra, and Normalization etc. They will also learn how to write Structured Query Language (SQL) to query data in the database to retrieve, update and delete data. In addition they will be made aware of certain issues and trends connected with database software. On completion of this course they will be able to design and implement a relational database on Oracle DBMS Server.

The objective of this course is to provide fundamentals of computer networks. In this course, required information about computer networks operations will be provided with following subjects: how packets are transmitted, how packets are routed, what to do when there is network congestion, and etc. OSI reference model, TCP/IP networking architecture and various protocols at the physical, data link, network, and transport layers will be studied.

The objective of course is to identify the classes (including attributes, behaviors and methods), object and their relationships by reading the problem description, draw objects diagrams by looking to the defined problem description, implement Java class by looking at the given UML Class Diagram, use existing industry standard coding and formatting conventions, event mechanisms in Java, construct a GUI based applications using Java and Eclipse and debug those applications, technically identify the differences between classes, objects, inheritances, polymorphism, interfaces, aggregation, composition and abstract class. In addition, the issues of code re-use and software quality will be discussed and the use of inheritance will be shown through for code re-use.

The course will introduce basics and fundamentals of Software Engineering, as well as will introduce principles, methods, techniques, and tools for multi-person construction of multi-version software systems. Starting from the main objective which is the understanding the importance of Software Engineering, following will be covered in detail; introducing techniques for the development of software within an engineering project perspective, creating awareness for the quality and the severity of software aspects, effective Communication, Requirements Engineering, Project Management Fundamentals, Software Testing Principles, Software Architecture Concepts, CASE (Computer-aided software engineering) Tools for Configuration Managements and Unit Testing, introduction to Methodologies and Quality Systems.

Introduction to Internet Programming. Overview of Html language. Brief overview of CSS and Javascript. The building blocks of Php. Flow control and functions. Working with forms. Cookies and User Sessions. Interaction with MySQL using Php. Sample applications.

In order to gain practical experience, IT students spend minimum of four weeks for industry training. They work in several areas that interest them. area which they can choose to work include designing and/or developing content management systems/web sites, project management, software development, cloud management, network troubleshooting, database management systems, embedded systems, e-Government, e-Business, e-Learning and Business Intelligence. At the end of the training, they submit report of all activities they have been involved in. they also write a report to explain what they have learnt, mistakes they have made and the challenges they faced while carrying out this training

The purpose of the capstone project is to evaluate students' ability to complete a project without a given detailed structure usually found in undergraduate courses. The capstone project is multidisciplinary, student from different department come together to undertake a project that are related to each students department. In the course of the project, students undertake a feasibility study explaining the aims, objectives, tasks, milestones, duration and development of the project. At the end of the project, students will gain knowledge on subject from other department. Student will be able to relate its field of expertise to that of others in the departments. After completion of the project they need to submit a thesis and attend an oral presentation.