| International Trade and Business (English) | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| Course Code: | UNI236 | ||||
| Course Name: | Critical Thinking | ||||
| Semester: | Spring | ||||
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| Language of instruction: | English | ||||
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| Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
| Type of course: | University Elective | ||||
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| Mode of Delivery: | E-Learning | ||||
| Course Coordinator: | Dr. Öğr. Üy. İBRAHİM EYLEM DOĞAN | ||||
| Course Lecturer(s): | Dr. Öğr. Üy. Hanife Bilgili | ||||
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| Course Objectives: | This course aims at expanding students’ capacities on how to distinguish the premise/s and the conclusion of arguments, how to analyze the logical structures of arguments, how to tell well-formed arguments from ill-formed ones. |
| Course Content: | A selective course which provides students from all departments with reasoning, critical, and analytical skills in everyday contexts as well as professional. It is a weekly 3-hour course. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Analyze arguments of others and categorize their reasoning as weak or strong 2) Recognize common fallacies in reasoning 3) Construct good arguments with their acquired skills 4) Read texts or listen to talks and draw the internal structure of the arguments |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction: What is an argument, premises, and conclusion? | |
| 2) | What does it mean to follow? | |
| 3) | Fallacy: an introduction | |
| 4) | Formal vs Informal fallacies | |
| 5) | Formal Fallacies: Examples and applications | |
| 6) | Non-sequitur: Affirming the consequent Denying the antecedent | |
| 7) | Aristotelian Fallacies: Undistributed middle Fallacy of 4 terms Illicit Major-Illicit Minor | |
| 8) | MIDTERM | |
| 9) | Informal Fallacies: Examples and applications | |
| 10) | Ad Hominem, Straw Man, False Analogy, Red Herring | |
| 11) | Confusing what is Necessary with Sufficient | |
| 12) | Fallacy of Composition, Fallacy of Division, Slippery slope, Loaded Question | |
| 13) | False dilemma, Hasty Generalization, Sweeping Generalization, Begging the question | |
| 14) | Statistical Fallacies: Cherry picking, Data dredging, False causality | |
| 15) | Statistical Fallacies: Survivorship bias, Gambler’s fallacy, Regression to the Mean | |
| 16) | FINAL |
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation, Douglas N. Walton |
| References: | Walter Sinnott Armstrong and Robert Fogelin, Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic. 8th Ed. Wadsworth Cengage Learning. |
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| 1) Has a broad and interdisciplinary perspective on international business and trade by the use of social sciences and mathematics, | |||||||||||||
| 2) Possess the knowledge and skills related to different functions and interactions of international business and trade. | |||||||||||||
| 3) Possess the knowledge and skills to interpret the data, concepts and ideas in the field of international business and trade with scientific and technological methods. | |||||||||||||
| 4) Use different theoretical approaches to understanding and solving various business and trade problems. | |||||||||||||
| 5) Explains the competitiveness of the countries with the requirements of international competition and interprets the functioning of the actors and regulatory structures in the international environment. | |||||||||||||
| 6) Understands the value of developing new trade projects and generating strategies within international market needs. | |||||||||||||
| 7) Solves complex business and global trade problems by using various statistical techniques and numerical methods and makes analyzes by using statistical programs effectively. | |||||||||||||
| 8) Uses a foreign language at the B1 General Level in terms of European Language Portfolio criteria according to the level of education. | |||||||||||||
| 9) Develops teamwork, negotiation, leadership and entrepreneurship skills. | |||||||||||||
| 10) Possess the knowledge of universal ethical values, social responsibility and sufficient legal and regulatory knowledge. | |||||||||||||
| 11) Develops positive attitudes related to lifelong learning and identifies individual learning needs and carries out studies to correct them. | |||||||||||||
| 12) Students will be able to communicate their ideas and solutions both written and orally, and present and publish them on both national and international platforms. | |||||||||||||
| 13) Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Using License required by the field. | |||||||||||||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Has a broad and interdisciplinary perspective on international business and trade by the use of social sciences and mathematics, | |
| 2) | Possess the knowledge and skills related to different functions and interactions of international business and trade. | |
| 3) | Possess the knowledge and skills to interpret the data, concepts and ideas in the field of international business and trade with scientific and technological methods. | |
| 4) | Use different theoretical approaches to understanding and solving various business and trade problems. | |
| 5) | Explains the competitiveness of the countries with the requirements of international competition and interprets the functioning of the actors and regulatory structures in the international environment. | |
| 6) | Understands the value of developing new trade projects and generating strategies within international market needs. | |
| 7) | Solves complex business and global trade problems by using various statistical techniques and numerical methods and makes analyzes by using statistical programs effectively. | |
| 8) | Uses a foreign language at the B1 General Level in terms of European Language Portfolio criteria according to the level of education. | |
| 9) | Develops teamwork, negotiation, leadership and entrepreneurship skills. | |
| 10) | Possess the knowledge of universal ethical values, social responsibility and sufficient legal and regulatory knowledge. | |
| 11) | Develops positive attitudes related to lifelong learning and identifies individual learning needs and carries out studies to correct them. | |
| 12) | Students will be able to communicate their ideas and solutions both written and orally, and present and publish them on both national and international platforms. | |
| 13) | Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Using License required by the field. |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Midterms | 1 | % 40 |
| Final | 1 | % 60 |
| total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
| total | % 100 | |
| Activities | Number of Activities | Preparation for the Activity | Spent for the Activity Itself | Completing the Activity Requirements | Workload | ||
| Course Hours | 14 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 98 | ||
| Midterms | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 12 | ||
| Final | 1 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 17 | ||
| Total Workload | 127 | ||||||