Course Information

Course Information
Course Title Code Language Type Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
. PEM018 Turkish Compulsory 1. Semester 2 + 0 2.0 3.0
Prerequisite Courses
Course Level Undergraduate
Mode of delivery Face to face.
Course Coordinator Prof. Dr. Engin EROĞLU
Instructor(s)
Goals This course covers two distinct areas: microeconomics and macroeconomics. The objective of this course is to teach forestry students the basics of both areas.
Course Content (Information, skill, attitude, and competence outcomes; no less than a total of seven). 1. Students will acquire knowledge of the basic concepts including Scarcity, Opportunity Costs, and Production; demonstrate how they affect economic decisions. 2. Students should be able to recognize and interpret a Demand Curve and a Supply Curve, and should be able to identify the underlying determinants of each. 3. Students should be able to explain and apply the concepts of Marginal Benefits and Marginal Costs to determine optimal economic decisions for both consumers and firms; and interpret them for forestry. 4. Students should be able to identify the differences between a perfectly competitive market and an imperfectly competitive market and the implications of each for economic outcomes. 5. The student will be acquainted with Factor Markets, GDP, Growth and Development, inflation, 6. The student will use Graphs to explain and demonstrate economic concepts. 7. Students will be able to deal with any forestry decision with an economists’ point of view.
Learning Outcomes
# Öğrenme Kazanımı
1 1. Students will acquire knowledge of the basic concepts including Scarcity, Opportunity Costs, and Production; demonstrate how they affect economic decisions.
2 2. Students should be able to recognize and interpret a Demand Curve and a Supply Curve, and should be able to identify the underlying determinants of each.
3 3. Students should be able to explain and apply the concepts of Marginal Benefits and Marginal Costs to determine optimal economic decisions for both consumers and firms; and interpret them for forestry.
4 4. Students should be able to identify the differences between a perfectly competitive market and an imperfectly competitive market and the implications of each for economic outcomes.
5 5. The student will be acquainted with Factor Markets, GDP, Growth and Development, inflation,
6 6. The student will use Graphs to explain and demonstrate economic concepts.
7 7. Students will be able to deal with any forestry decision with an economists’ point of view.
Lesson Plan (Weekly Topics)
Week Topics/Applications Method
1. Week Course orientation: syllabus, examination and attendance policy, assignments, course format, textbooks and other resources required for the course. Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
2. Week Course objectives, Choice and scarcity concepts, definition of economics, and methods in economics Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
3. Week Transactions of economics with other sciences, basic concepts of economics, Production and scope and types of it Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
4. Week Conditions affecting economics, population theories, consumer behaviors. Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
5. Week Finding consumer equilibrium, Market Demand Curve Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
6. Week Elasticity analysis, Short and long term production and diminishing marginal product Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
7. Week Efficiency, Market failures, Market interventions Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
8. Week Efficiency, Market failure, Government intervention in the market
9. Week Producer equilibrium, Costs of production, Firm supply curve, Elasticity analysis of supply, forest sector case Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
10. Week Price, Competitive market, Monopoly, Price analysis Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
11. Week Factor markets, Factor supply and demand, Factor incomes Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
12. Week GDP analysis and its elements, Savings and Investments Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
13. Week Multiplier, Money theories, inflation, employment Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
14. Week Economic growth and development, sustainable development Preparation, After Class Study, Other Activities, Interview, Presentation (Preparation)
*Midterm and final exam dates are not specified in the 14-week course operation plan. Midterm and final exam dates are held on the dates specified in the academic calendar with the decision of the University Senate.
The Matrix for Course & Program Learning Outcomes
No Program Requirements Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Knowledge: Within the framework of environmental and social sustainability principles (considering the public interest and value), to have the knowledge and understanding to gain and reflect up-to-date information that will carry out planning, design, management activities and research,
2 Knowledge: To have knowledge in planning and design approaches regarding sustainable resource management, healthy living and access to food, resilience, climate change management, rural / urban development and use of technology,
3 Knowledge: To have knowledge about universal, corporate and professional ethical values related to the field,
4 Knowledge: To have knowledge of national and international norms, conventions, professional principles, laws, regulations and standards related to the field,
5 Skill: The ability to use the necessary tools for the holistic perception, planning, design and creation of management models of processes within the landscape in the context of spatial / temporal scale, in the effects, pressures and changes faced by the inhabited geography,
6 Skill: The ability to develop alternative constructions and solutions in accordance with field-specific theories and methods in planning and design processes,
7 Skill: The ability to take responsibility in an interdisciplinary / transdisciplinary team, to set goals in a collaborative and inclusive manner, to plan tasks and to work in a participatory manner,
8 Skill: The ability to discuss individual views on field-specific issues and to improve oneself
9 Competence: Competence to act with the awareness of lifelong learning and research by internalizing sustainable, innovative and entrepreneurial approaches,
10 Competence: Competence of foreign language skills at a level to communicate and follow the developments in the field,
11 Competence: Competence to make decisions with a fair and participatory consciousness, with respect to environmental rights, social and cultural rights, showing the necessary sensitivity in the protection of natural environment and cultural heritage, based on universal principles in the field of profession,
12 Competence: Competence to prepare, implement, manage and monitor projects about the field, taking into account of knowledge in Landscape Architecture theory and methodology, open green space planning, green and blue infrastructure, management, protection and interpretation of cultural landscapes and landscape management,
13 Competence: Competence to produce projects in interdisciplinary collaborations in landscape planning, design and materials with the experience of tree nursery, application and office internship by integrating knowledge on the management of landscapes of different scales, planning and design of infrastructure projects, material and construction techniques with information technologies in the field,
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program Requirements DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 DK5 DK6 DK7
PY1 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
PY2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
PY3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
PY4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
PY5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
PY6 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
PY7 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
PY8 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
PY9 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
PY10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
PY11 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
PY12 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
PY13 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Recommended Sources
Ders Kitabı veya Notu Ders Kitabı veya Ders Notu bulunmamaktadır.
Diğer Kaynaklar
  • İktisat, Michael Parkin, Akademi Yayıncılık, İktisada Giriş, Editor: İlyas Işıklar, Anadolu University, Eskişehir. ISBN:975-06-0204-8
  • 1.Other introductory textbooks on economics 2.www.tuik.gov.tr
ECTS credits and course workload
ECTS credits and course workload Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Ders İçi
Class Hours 14 2 28
Ders Dışı
Preparation, After Class Study 10 1.2 12
Research 4 1.5 6
Presentation (Preparation) 10 1.2 12
Practice 10 1.2 12
Other Activities 1 2 2
Sınavlar
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2.5 2.5
Total Workload 76.5
*AKTS = (Total Workload) / 25,5 ECTS Credit of the Course 3.0