Course Descriptions

Charge and matter, electric field and Gauss' law, electric potential, capacitors, DC circuits, magnetic field, Ampere's law, Faraday's law, inductance, magnetic properties of matter, Maxwell's equations.

Experiments on: capacitors; DC circuits; magnetic field; Ampere's law; Faraday's law; inductance; magnetic properties of matter.

Illustration of “narration” and its types; writing and communication modes; exemplified by masterspieces chosen from Turkish and world literature; exercises in effective writing and public speech.

Objects and classes, constructors, static variables, constants and methods, visibility modifiers, passing objects and object arrays to methods, immutability, variable scopes, class abstraction and encapsulation, super and subclass concepts, inheritance, polymorphism, overriding, overloading, abstract classes, object-oriented design.

Definitions of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Essentials of microeconomics. Operations of markets. Scarcity and resource allocation. Demand and supply analysis and elasticities. Market efficiency and welfare. Consumer and producer surplus. Cost analysis of firms. Perfect competition and imperfect competition. Monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition. Externalities and internalities. Economics of factor markets.

This course aims to discuss political, social, cultural and economic transformations in the 19th century in their relation with the formation of the Republican Turkey and focuses on the modernization process in the early republican period until 1945.

Matrices, matrix addition, matrix and scalar multiplication, algebraic properties of matrix operations, special types of matrices, solving linear systems, elementary row and column operations, echelon form of a matrix, Gauss and Gauss-Jordan method, elementary matrices and finding the inverse of a matrix by using elementary operations, real vector spaces, definition, subspaces, span and linear independence, basis and dimensions, homogeneous systems, rank of a matrix, linear spaces with inner product, definition of the inner product, Gram-Schmidt process, orthogonal complements, linear transformation and their matrix representations, kernel and range of a linear transformation, matrix of a linear transformation, determinants, definition and properties of determinants, cofactor expansion, finding inverses by using cofactors, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, characteristic polynomial and equation of a matrix, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of symmetric matrices.

Political, social and cultural development of Turkey since WWII. Transition to multi-party system, social transformation in 1960s and 1970s, as well as the demographical change, industrialization and new social movements. The coup d'état of 1980 and its aftermath, political and social polarization in 2000s.