General rules

GENERAL RULES

Regulations related to course load, number of credits and graduation, senior year courses, course repeats, course conflicts, summer term courses and electives for the Undergraduate Program of the Department of Economics are detailed below.

All questions can be directed to the Undergraduate Coordinator per e-mail (econstudents@boun.edu.tr). Inquiries about academic or career related questions can be directed to the Academic Advisor.

Orhan Aygün
Undergraduate Coordinator
Office: NB 213

 

Saniye Öner Dönmez
Administrative Support Staff
Office: IB 209

COURSE LOAD

Regular course load comprises 17 credits per semester.

Regular students (students neither repeating nor on probation) are obliged to take a minimum of 15 credits, except for the last two semesters.

Regular students (students neither repeating nor on probation) are allowed to take up to 21 credits with the consent of their advisor.

Under certain circumstances, the number of credits can be raised up to 25 with the consent of both the student's advisor and the Department of Economics.

Students on probation, i.e. students with a GPA lower than 2.00, cannot take more credits than designated in the departmental curriculum for that semester. For example, a freshman student on probation in his/her second semester can take at most 19 credits (20 if he/she is taking HIST 106). If the student has completed 107 credits required for graduation, this rule does not apply. Instead, he/she will be subject to the same regulations as regular students.

Repeating students, i.e. students with a GPA lower than 2.00 and SPA lower than 2.00 for two consecutive semesters (summer term does not count as a semester), can take a maximum of two new courses in addition to repeating failed courses as long as they do not exceed the 17-credits limit. In addition, repeating students are not allowed to take any courses from other universities. If the student has completed 107 credits required for graduation, this rule does not apply. Instead, he/she will be subject to the same regulations as regular students.

Students can withdraw at most from three courses that were taken in total during their undergraduate trainings

FIRST YEAR REGISTRATION

Students are obliged to register to all of the courses of the first two semesters in the departmental program. The courses of the first two semesters cannot be withdrawn. During the first two semesters students cannot register to additional courses except for the non-credit courses.

Students who passed Proficiency Exam with A or B must take 2 HSS elective and 1 unrestricted elective courses in their first two semesters.

Students who passed Proficiency Exam with C must take 1 HSS elective and 2 AE courses in their first two semesters (AE 1XX courses included).

HSS Elective Course List: HUM101, HUM102, HIST105, HIST106, PHIL101, PHIL105, PHIL111, PHIL112, LIT211, LIT212, PHYS111, PHYS112, PHYS205, PHYS206, PHYS225, PHYS226.

Freshman Students of the Department of Economics cannot take the required courses with EC codes in the Summer semester. Students can register for the required EC courses offered in the summer term only if they have previously failed them. An exception to this rule is applicable to irregular students who have completed their preparatory period at the end of the fall semester, and began taking courses offered by the Department in the spring semester. Such students can take the course EC 101 in the summer term.

If they fail a course from their first year they should register to this course as soon as it is available in the following semesters. 

NUMBER OF CREDITS and GRADUATION

Students have to complete 139 credits for graduation.

For graduation, students must achieve passing grades in all courses they are enrolled in. Failed required courses must be repeated and a passing grade must be achieved, and failed elective courses must be completed either by repeating the same course or another elective course, with a passing grade. This regulation also applies to courses that are not required for graduation. When this condition is satisfied the numbers for ‘attempted credits' and ‘completed credits' on the academic records will be equal to each other.

SENIOR YEAR COURSES

A minimum of 107 credits must have been completed to take the course EC 470 

COURSE REPEATS

Regular students can repeat the following courses:

1. Courses from the first two years of the curriculum (including the first unrestricted elective they have taken) for which they have received DC, DD, or F. Students can repeat these courses in the following 4 semesters after the first time they take.

2. All other courses for which they have failed.

Students who are on probation or repeating are allowed to repeat the courses from the third and the fourth year of curriculum for which they have received a DC or DD.

Note that regular students can not repeat the courses from the third and the fourth year of curriculum for which they have received a DC or DD. These rules apply to all courses.

Also note that at most six of the courses with a DC or DD grade (from the first and second years) could be repeated. Only one such course can be repeated in a given semester and the course should be repeated within the four semesters following DC or DD grade.

COURSE CONFLICTS

1. The class sessions of two required courses cannot overlap.

2. Two conflicts are not allowed for a given course.

3. Maximum of two overlapping class sessions are permitted in the schedule of the student. These overlaps should not violate conditions 1 and 2.

4. For foreign language courses which has more than three class sessions per week, exceptions can be made with the consent of the advisor and in line with the condition below:

Exception to be made with the consent of the advisor: If a student is taking a foreign language course that has more than three class sessions per week (e.g. if the course load for German is 6 sessions per week), then a maximum of three overlapping class sessions is permitted overall, only if two of these conflicts arise due to the language course in question. Courses other than foreign language courses are subject to conditions 1 and 2.

For example, if one session of German language course overlaps with EC 203, and another session overlaps with EC 205, and if EC 223 overlaps with another elective course, this program can only be accepted with the consent of the advisor. But if two sessions of German language course overlap with the same course, this program cannot be accepted.

If two sections of a course are taught by the same instructor and the instructor allows students to follow either section, an exception may be allowed regarding course conflict rules. Students are requested to e-mail to 'econstudents@boun.edu.tr' if they believe their situation fits this description.

SUMMER TERM COURSES

Students of the Department of Economics should take the required courses with EC codes in the fall or spring semesters but not in the summer semester. Students can register for the required EC courses offered in the summer term only if they have previously failed them.

An exception to this rule is applicable to irregular students who have completed their preparatory period at the end of the fall semester, and began taking courses offered by the Department in the spring semester. Such students can take the course EC 101 in the summer term.

Students who have completed their preparatory period at the end of the spring semester can only enroll in unrestricted electives in the summer term, prior to taking departmental courses in the following semester. Students can only enroll in a maximum of two such unrestricted electives.

REGULATIONS FOR ENROLLING IN ELECTIVE COURSES 

Courses with an EC code may also be considered as unrestricted elective courses.

For the students of the Department of Economics art and sport courses taken on Pass/Fail basis can be counted towards completion of up to 2 unrestricted elective courses (a maximum of 6 credits). In combinations to reach the necessary number of credits for an elective course the number of courses with one credit cannot exceed two.  Example:

1 PA + 1 PE --> 1 Unresticted Elective 

2 PA --> 1 Unresticted Elective

2 PA + 2 PE --> 2 Unresticted Elective 

3 PA --> 2 Unresticted Elective

The following courses cannot be considered as unrestricted elective courses for the students of the Department of Economics. Except when clearly stated, for students doing double-major with Economics, these courses cannot be counted towards graduation credits. The students can enroll in these courses only as non-credit courses:

Courses with the codes ED, CET, PRED, SCED, FLED, TRM, INTT and MIS,

MATH105, MATH106, MATH344 

AD 251, AD 252 (These courses cannot be counted for any course in the AD-EC program)

For similarity in the content, only one of AD 312 (as unrestricted elective) and EC 344 (area elective or unrestricted elective) can be counted for graduation credit.

POLS 203, POLS 204 (these courses cannot be counted for any course in the POLS-EC program)

CE 202, CHE 383, CMPE 343, EE 313, IE 255, IE 256, ME 207

PSY 201, PSY 202 (except for EC-PSY and PSY-EC students)

SOC 303, SOC 304 (except for SOC-EC students)

From Institute of Environmental Sciences, only courses with code ESC 301 and above can be taken as unrestricted elective.