Serhan Yarkan

Important Note: By registering the course whose details given here, students agree to the following terms, conditions, and regulations.

General Rules:

• Academic Integrity
  • No matter what happens, which overwhelming situation takes place, the instructor expects students to maintain their honesty and integrity. Students who do, attempt to, try to attempt to cheat in any form and/or violate the University rules, regulations, and guidelines regarding academic integrity and dishonesty will be taken seriously. The instructor/supervisor will submit a formal complaint to CoD. A discipline file including the letter defining the type of violation will be formed and documented for those students who violate the University rules, regulations, and guidelines regarding academic integrity and dishonesty. The discipline file then will be stored and affiliated with the student’s academic records. Major academic integrity and honesty topics along with relevant prohibited actions are listed below:
    • Plagiarism
      • Do NOT have someone carry out/prepare any form of project, research, homework for yourself.
      • Do NOT take, copy, replicate, reproduce, imitate data, result, comment, idea, etc. of anyone else with or without the permission of his/her.
    • Unauthorized collaboration/cooperation
      • Do NOT collaborate/cooperate with others unless otherwise stated by the instructor.
    • Cheating
      • Do NOT ask somebody else to do your work for you.
      • Do NOT fabricate, fake, and/or misrepresent your results.
      • Do NOT use any form of portable electronic devices and/or computers during the exam.
      • Do NOT let somebody else cheat.
• IA
  • According to the University rules, regulations, and guidelines (Chapter Four, Section related to the attendance, Item 25, first clause [in Turkish]), all students who have already enrolled the course should attend at least 70% of the lectures throughout the semester of interest. Students who do not meet the attendance criterion will fail with the letter grade “IA“. It is students’ responsibility to follow up with their intermittent attendance status throughout the semester. The instructor will not announce and/or disseminate the attendance status of the students.
• PuQ
  • According to the University rules, regulations, and guidelines (Chapter Five, Section related to the exams, Item 29, first clause [in Turkish]), the instructor could make PuQ. The number of PuQs, their dates and times at a specific date will not be announced in advanced.
• Homework, assignments, and other in-semester activities
  • In case the instructor announces homework and/or assignments, students are supposed to turn in them in time. Any homework or assignment which is not turned in within the announced period will not be evaluated.
• Mid-Term Exam
  • According to the University rules, regulations, and guidelines (Chapter Five, Section related to the exams, Item 29, first clause [in Turkish]), mid-term exam will take place between the dates announced in the university academic calendar. Note that the exact date, time, location, and duration of the mid-term exam will be announced within the semester on the Istanbul Commerce University, official website.
• Final Exam
  • According to the University rules, regulations, and guidelines (Chapter Five, Section related to the exams, Item 29, first clause [in Turkish]), mid-term exam will take place between the dates announced in the university academic calendar. Note that the exact date, time, location, and duration of the mid-term exam will be announced within the semester on the Istanbul Commerce University, official website. Furthermore, as stated with the item (c), each and every student should provide their official government ID cards and university ID cards with the exam proctors and bring all of the tools necessary for the exam.
• Course logistics and organization
  • Students are responsible for checking with the course webpage for any announcements, updates, changes, modifications, and so on throughout the semester.
  • Office hours designated for the course are going to be carried out on FCFS basis. Students are expected to respect other students in terms of sharing the office hours in a fair way.
  • Instructor will cover all of the topics announced on the Bologna portal webpage. However, based on the performance of the students throughout the semester, instructor could change, modify, and update the organization of the course without prior notice.
  • Numerical grades for exam results will be posted on the course homepage as soon as they are available. It is highly recommended for students to check with their exam results in time, which roughly covers the following week of the day on which the results are announced online. In case students feel that there might a problem in grading, they are encouraged to view their exam papers at the discretion of the instructor. Viewing the exam paper of somebody else is not allowed.
  • It is not allowed to use any form of digital/analog recording, transmitting, receiving mechanism and/or device within the classroom/office during the lectures and/or office hour sections without the permission of the instructor.
  • Many of the details related to the course logistics are given in here.

Grading Policy:

• Assessment of the activities to be carried out throughout the semester is as follows:
  • [50%] Prior to The Final Exam Part (which consists of):
    • [10%] Homework, assignments, PuQ, and all other activities
    • [40%] Mid-term Exam
  • [50%] Final Exam Part
• Based on the items listed above, a numerical grade is obtained.
• Numerical grades will be converted into letter grades based on the following rules:
  • There will be a threshold value below which will be considered to correspond to “fail.” Value of the threshold will be determined by the instructor at the end of the semester.
  • A statistical curve will be applied to those students whose numerical grades are equal to or above the threshold value.

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