Academic Unit: Humanities and Social Sciences

Program Objectives: Cultural Studies, an interdisciplinary program, seeks to understand the individual, society, “other” within the framework of complex meanings, and their relationship with each other, by introducing a holistic and critical view of the problems faced by today's societies. Although Cultural Studies emerged as an academic discipline related to critical theory and literary criticism,  it is an important discipline that focuses on the political dynamics, historical foundations, conflict and struggle areas of contemporary culture. In this sense, Cultural Studies focuses on cultural practice, meaning, message and code, how they are produced and disseminated, ideology, social class, nationality, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, how they relate to social meaning and power relations, identity, representation and expression of a critical view. The most important goal of the doctoral program in Cultural Studies, which focuses on cultural production and cultural policies, minorities, ethnicity, refugees, migration, media and society, gender and sexuality, is to contribute to the training of qualified academicians in the Cultural Studies field.

Medium of Instruction: English

Admission Requirements:

International Student Quotas: International student quotas are announced on the Graduate School of Social Sciences web site (http://www.sbe.yildiz.edu.tr/en) before the applications are open, each fall and spring semesters.

Admissions Calendar: Admissions calendar is announced on the Graduate School of Social Sciences web site (http://www.sbe.yildiz.edu.tr/en) before the applications are open, each fall and spring semesters.

Application Link: https://lisansustu.yildiz.edu.tr/sbe/en/ (Applicants are advised to check the academic calendar first and send their applications only during the application period.)

Admission Requirements: Admissions requirements announced on the Graduate School of Social Sciences web site (http://www.sbe.yildiz.edu.tr/en) before the applications are open, each fall and spring semesters.

Who can apply?

Compulsory Courses:

Elective Courses:

Academic Staff:

• Prof. Dr. M. Sait Özervarlı
• Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Baykan
• Prof. Dr. Niyazi Kahveci
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nalan Turna
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süleyman Doğan
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kerem Karaosmanoğlu
• Asst. Prof. Dr. A. Teyfur Erdoğdu
• Asst. Prof. Dr. Fatma Tunç Yaşar
• Lect. Dr. Setenay Nil Doğan
• Lect. Dr. Yusuf Öz
• Lect. Mahmut Zeki Erbay

Graduation Requirements:

In order to graduate from this program;

• Students who were admitted to the PhD program with an MA degree are required;
  • to take at least 7 courses (21 local credits/ 240 ECTS), two of which are required by the department,
  • to take Seminar and Research Methods and Scientific Ethics courses,
  • to pass all courses with at least BB grade and have at least 3.0/4.0 GPA,
  • to pass the PhD Qualifying Exam, to submit a thesis proposal and 3 thesis follow-up reports,
  • to comply with the publication requirement,
  • to pass the PhD thesis defense successfully,

• Students who were admitted to the PhD program with a BA degree are required;
  • to take at least 14 courses (42 local credits/ 300 ECTS), two of which are required by the department,
  • to take Seminar and Research Methods and Scientific Ethics courses,
  • to pass all courses with at least BB grade and have at least 3.0/4.0 GPA,
  • to pass the PhD Qualifying Exam, to submit a thesis proposal and 3 thesis follow-up reports,
  • to comply with the publication requirement,
  • to pass the PhD thesis defense successfully.

PhD Publication Requirement: PhD students are required to make both of the following publications about their thesis in cooperation with their thesis supervisors:

a) An oral presentation at a national/ international refereed academic congress

b) At least one article published or accepted for publication at a national/ international refereed academic journal

Location: Davutpaşa Campus, Esenler, Istanbul, Turkey

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