TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Professor Mustafa Necat Coşkun Professor Hacı Ahmet Şahinöz
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Examine the processes of globalization in the flows of products, services and capital and, accompanying these, increasing formation of economic blocs and analysis of the logic and forces underlying these processes. 2) Understand the process of globalization, the forces behind it and the causes and effects of the formation of economic blocs.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This course analyzes the effects of the globalization process on local economies, international trade and the transfer of factors of production.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Definition of Globalization and Its Extent; Global Organizations: WHO, IMF, WB. 2nd Week Financial Markets and Financial Globalization 3rd Week Direct Foreign Investments; Globalization of Production Process, Multinational Firms, Globalization of Economic Policies 4th Week Globalization and Economic Growth; Theories of Comparative Advantage and Infant Industries 5th Week From Limited Free Trade to Conditional Free Trade; Newly Industrialized Countries and Selective Globalization 6th Week Theory of Integration, Types of Integration, Economic Unions 7th Week Static and Dynamic Effects of Custom Unions, The EU Experience, The Turkish Experience 8th Week Midterm 9th Week Regional Blocks; Theoretical Aspects of Regionalization 10th Week Globalization Through Regionalization 11th Week Economic Effects of Regionalization 12th Week The EU Experience: From Economic Union to Political Union 13th Week Global Distribution of Unions and Their Effects 14th Week Global Distribution of Unions and Their Effects
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	William D. Coleman and Geoffrey R. Underhill (eds.) , Regionalism and Global Economic Integration: Europe, Asia and the Americas, London: Routledge. 1998 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Handbook of Economic Integration and Cooperation Groupings of Developing Countries. NewYork:United Nations, 1996 Bela A. Balassa, The Theory of Economic Integration. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 40 Total(%) 40 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 40 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 60 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 1 1 Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 3 42 Preparation for Final exam 1 30 30 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 25 25 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 1 1 Homework Total Workload 141 Total Workload / 30 4,7 ECTS Credits of the Course 5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No