GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES | Principles of Ataturk and History of Modern Turkey

Principles of Ataturk and History of Modern Turkey

PRINCIPLES OF ATATURK and HISTORY OF MODERN TURKEY MA PROGRAM

Academic Unit: Department of Principles of Ataturk and History of Modern Turkey

Program Objectives: The primary aim of the program is to help students improve their knowledge on political, social, economic and cultural developments of Turkey. Courses offered within the program are designed to improve students’ critical and analytical thinking skills. Students are encouraged to apply these skills into their research area and carry out an interdisciplinary research with the contributions of different disciplines of Social Sciences. Elective courses offered within the program provide larger possibilities to build bridges between various disciplines. The goal of the program is to train students to evaluate modern Turkey and current issues within the perspective of Modern Turkish History and to carry out scientific research and share the outcomes with others.

Medium of Instruction: Turkish

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?

In-Field Quotas	Bachelor degree holders of History, History Teaching, International Relations, Law, Economics, Public Administration, Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Business Administration, Sociology, Turkish Language and Literature, Social Sciences Education, programs should apply to in-field applicant quotas.
Out-of-Field Quotas	Others should apply to out-of-field applicant quotas.

Compulsory Courses:

Code	Course Title in Turkish	Course Title in English	Course Type	Number of Credits
ATA5106	Türkiye'de Tarih Yazımı	Historiography in Turkey	Required by the program	3
ATA5124	Türkiye’de Siyasal Partiler	Political Parties in Turkey	Required by the program	3
ATA5123	XX. Yüzyıl Siyasi Tarihi	XX. Century Political History	Required by the program	3
ATA5004	Araştırma Yöntemleri Bilimsel Etik	Research Methods and Scientific Ethics	Required by the Council of Higher Education	2
ATA5001	Seminer	Seminar	Required by the Council of Higher Education	0

Elective Courses:

Code	Course Title in Turkish	Course Title in English	Number of Credits
ATA5100	Osmanlı Türkçesi	Ottoman Turkish	3
ATA5101	Osmanlı Türkçesine Giriş	Introduction to Ottoman Turkish	3
ATA5102	Osmanlıca Belge Türleri ve Okumaları	Document Types and Readings in Ottoman Turkish	3
ATA5103	Tanzimattan Cumhuriyete Hukukta Modernleşme	Modernization in Law from the Tanzimat to the Republic	3
ATA5104	Kurtuluş Savaşı	War of Independence	3
ATA5105	Türkiye’de Kültür ve Siyaset	Culture and Politics in Turkey	3
ATA5107	Türkiye’de Kimlik Politikaları	Identity Politics in Turkey	3
ATA5108	Türkiye'de Kadın ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet	Woman and Gender in Turkey	3
ATA5109	Sözlü Tarih	Oral History	3
ATA5111	Türk Modernleşme Tarihi	The History of Turkish Modernization	3
ATA5113	Atatürk İlkeleri ve Devrimleri	The Principles and Revolutions of Atatürk	3
ATA5114	Tarih Yazımında Yöntem ve Kaynaklar	Method and Sources in Historiography	3
ATA5115	Cumhuriyet Dönemi İktisat Tarihi I	Economic History of Turkish Republic I	3
ATA5116	Cumhuriyet Dönemi İktisat Tarihi II	Economic History of Turkish Republic II	3
ATA5117	Jön Türkler	Young Turks	3
ATA5118	Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türk Dış Politikası	Turkish Foreign Policy in the Republican Period	3
ATA5119	Devlet Teorileri ve Kemalizm	State Theories and Kemalism	3
ATA 5183	Osmanlı İmparatorluğundan Cumhuriyete Savaş ve Toplum	War and Society From the Ottoman Empire to Republican	3

Academic Staff:

Prof. Dr. Selim Hilmi ÖZKAN
Prof. Dr. Fatma Gül DEMİREL
Prof. Dr. Esra DANACIOĞLU
Prof. Dr. Elçin MACAR
Prof. Dr. Mustafa GÜNDÜZ
Prof. Dr. Mehmet HACISALİHOĞLU
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet BEŞİKÇİ
Asst. Prof. Dr. Fahriye DİNÇER
Asst. Prof. Dr. Reşat SARAOĞLU
Lect. Dr. Eray YILMAZ
Lect. Dr. Zafer DOĞAN
Lect. Gülsema LÜYER
Lect. Neslihan ERKAN
Lect. Şebnem GELMEDİ

Graduation Requirements:

In order to graduate from the program, students are required;

to take at least 7 courses (21 local credits/ 120 ECTS), two of which are required by the department
to pass the “Seminar” and “Research Methods and Scientific Ethics” courses,
to pass all courses with at least CB grade and have at least 2.50/4.0 GPA,
to comply with the publication requirement,
to register to “Lecture on Specialized Field” and “MA Thesis” courses in order to write a thesis, after completing the required number of credits,
to pass the MA thesis defense successfully.

Publication Requirement:

MA students are required to meet at least one of the following requirements which has to be related to their thesis and done in cooperation with their thesis supervisor(s):

An oral/ poster presentation at a national/ international refereed academic congress
An academic article published or accepted for publication at a national/ international refereed academic journal

Department Location: Davutpaşa Campus, Esenler, Istanbul, Turkey

Admissions Contact:

	E-mail Address	Website
Graduate School of Social Sciences	gsss@yildiz.edu.tr, sbemdr@yildiz.edu.tr	http://sbe.yildiz.edu.tr/

Department Contact:

Name- Surname	E-mail Address	Phone Number
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selim Hilmi ÖZKAN	shilmi@yildiz.edu.tr	+90 212 383 39 20/21
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet BEŞİKÇİ	mbesikci@yildiz.edu.tr	+90 212 383 39 23/21