Review of descriptive statistics and basic research methodology. Experimental methods and research design including, research and publication ethics, one-way analyses, factorial designs, repeated measures, analysis of covariance, and the analyses of main effects, simple effects and interaction comparisons.

An introduction to picturebook design and research. Evaluating the educational, cultural, social and economic impact of children's books and interactive electronic storybooks. Overview of projects in relation to language development. Understanding how picturebooks work. Analysis of multilingual, multicultural, experimental, creative, postmodern books.

Brief history of interface design in human-computer interaction from solid user interfaces to wearable interfaces. The stages of interface design and planing the process. Methods used in interface design and its testing. Elements of user interface (UI) design, look & feel, layout, information architecture, navigation, dialogue, patterns, guidelines and standards. Case studies from different fields: command line interfaces, graphical user interfaces, object oriented user interfaces, tangible, wearable, gestural interfaces. User interface design in the future.

Introduction of re-reading method in design and practices. Overview of methods in design, specifying parameters to select and examine the objects, selection of objects, object analysis, reinterpretation, discussions about the challenges.

Topics will be announced when offered.

Topics will be announced when offered.

Re-reading in Design This course introduces and practises the Re-reading Method in Design. In this respect, students learn each week the following design issues : overview of methods in design, specifying parameters to select and examine the objects, selection of objects, object analysis, reinterpretation, discussions on the challenges .

Interaction with the Uncertain The information has brought together more visible uncertainty in the daily life. This course explores the ways of exploring, visualizing and interacting with the uncertain. The first quarter of the course starts with very basic notions of sensation, perception and cognition while understanding how the brain works and how human being reacts when confronting the uncertainty. Second quarter is about different methods for exploring the world around us, taking notes and projecting the world onto a registry (analog or digital, maps, books, journals, mindmaps). Third quarter deals with drawing the figures of thought, reflecting the self-projection, visualizing the uncertain and spatio-temporal data, using metaphors and abstraction. In the final quarter, students work on case studies regarding autism by analyzing, imagining and reflecting how an autistic brain interacts with the world.

A series of presentations by faculty, outside speakers and students.

Seminars where faculty, outside speakers and Ph.D. students present their academic research.

This two day course describes fundamental principles of evidence based medicine in an interactive manner. Critical appraisal of research articles is carried out.

Main approaches to various institutions and actors that make up the field of international political economy. Question of who gets what at a global level from a multi-actored, multi-level and mul-disciplinary perspective. Interactions between states, markets, firms, NGOs, and not-for-profit organizations at the local, national, regional, and supranational levels. Global trade, production, finance, and knowledge structures and relations in the context of international organizations, transnational corporations, global financial structures, regional integrations, North-South relations, discourses and practices of development, and problems of global poverty.

Introduction to the role of the state and other political actors in Turkish economic development from a comparative and global political economy perspective; key policy phases and institutional transformations; the role of multilateral institutions ; the politics of economic crises and reforms; regional integration and external economic relations of the Turkish economy; the political economy of trade and capital flows; poverty, inequality, labor market dynamics and social policy: gender and environmental dimensions of Turkish development.

Economic reasoning; basic concepts and processes in microeconomics and macroeconomics; identification and discussion of current economic issues covered in popular economics publications.

Economic reasoning; basic concepts and processes in microeconomics and macroeconomics; identification and discussion of current economic issues covered in popular economics publications.

Economic reasoning; basic concepts and processes in microeconomics and macroeconomics; identification and discussion of current economic issues covered in popular economics publications.

Human behavior and rationality; introduction to the principles of individual decision making in the presence of resource constraints; functioning of the market economy: demand, supply, and equilibrium; price mechanism and the allocation of resources; economic efficiency, types of market competition, and government intervention.

Human behavior and rationality; introduction to the principles of individual decision making in the presence of resource constraints; functioning of the market economy: demand, supply, and equilibrium; price mechanism and the allocation of resources; economic efficiency, types of market competition, and government intervention.

Human behavior and rationality; introduction to the principles of individual decision making in the presence of resource constraints; functioning of the market economy: demand, supply, and equilibrium; price mechanism and the allocation of resources; economic efficiency, types of market competition, and government intervention.

An introduction to the analysis of the economy as a whole; overview of macroeconomic issues, such as the determination of output, unemployment, inflation, and interest rates; basic models of macroeconomics and illustration of basic principles with examples from Türkiye and other countries; economic fluctuations and stabilization policies; long-run economic growth; money and monetary policy; government spending, taxes, and fiscal policy.

An introduction to the analysis of the economy as a whole; overview of macroeconomic issues, such as the determination of output, unemployment, inflation, and interest rates; basic models of macroeconomics and illustration of basic principles with examples from Türkiye and other countries; economic fluctuations and stabilization policies; long-run economic growth; money and monetary policy; government spending, taxes, and fiscal policy.

Conceptual foundations and modeling tools towards an understanding of economic decisions and interactions; theory of the consumer: preferences and utility maximization, with application to different choice contexts; theory of the firm: profit maximization, cost minimization; market equilibrium with perfect competition, monopoly, and oligopoly; markets for factor of production; introduction to general equilibrium and welfare; public goods and externalities; basic concepts of game theory and strategic interaction; information and market failure.

Conceptual foundations and modeling tools towards an understanding of economic decisions and interactions; theory of the consumer: preferences and utility maximization, with application to different choice contexts; theory of the firm: profit maximization, cost minimization; market equilibrium with perfect competition, monopoly, and oligopoly; markets for factor of production; introduction to general equilibrium and welfare; public goods and externalities; basic concepts of game theory and strategic interaction; information and market failure.

Real and financial sides of the aggregate economy; determinants of long-term economic growth and the Solow growth model; the business cycle and the behavior of aggregate consumption, savings, investment , and unemployment; aggregate price dynamics and inflation; monetary and fiscal policies in the context of IS-LM framework; open economy: real exchange rate and balance of payments. Impact of financial crises and macroeconomic policy response.