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Admit Term: Summer 2019-2020

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM (BAIS)

  Diploma Area Advisor: Oya Yeğen, Senem Aydın Düzgit

!!!This program will not be offered to the new students who will be placed to the University with YKS as of 2020-2021 Academic year. Registration of students, who have been enrolled to the university before 2020-2021 Academic year, will be kept if they have already been placed to this program. Those, who are planning to declare for this program or to apply for internal transfer to this program in the following semesters, are recommended to contact with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.!!!

The International Studies BA program aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge required to understand the complex economic, cultural and political transformations that are taking place at the global level. The program offers a strong background in economics and international political economy in the context of globalization and develops an awareness of world societies, business relations, cultures, global institutions and politics. Students are thus formed to successfully operate in global political and economic environments, on the other hand, to equip themselves with the necessary background for graduate studies in fields ranging from international relations and management to economics.

Students planning to declare international studies as their major should choose their courses in their sophomore year by taking into account the economics requirements of the program. The program also strongly encourages students to have some familiarity with another foreign language.

SUMMARY OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Course Category Min. ECTS Credits Min. SU Credits Min. Courses
University Courses - 44 -
Required Courses - 18 7
Core Electives I (Economics and Quantitative Methods) - 6 -
Core Electives II (International Relations) - 9 -
Core Electives III (International Management) - 3 -
Area Electives - 18 -
Free Electives - 27 -
Faculty Courses - - 5
Total 240 125 -
 

University Courses

From the University Courses listed below, 17 courses and 44 SU credits must be completed.

- All freshman courses (1XX coded courses, including PROJ 201) and SPS 303 are required.

- Only two of the HUM coded courses listed below are required.

(Please visit Foundations Development Directorate web site (fdd.sabanciuniv.edu) for general information about University Courses.)

  Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty
     IF 100 Computational Approaches to Problem Solving 5 3 FENS
     MATH 101 Calculus I 6 3 FENS
     CIP 101N Civic Involvement Projects I-N 1 0 FASS
     NS 101 Science of Nature I 6 4 FENS
     SPS 101 Humanity and Society I 6 3 FASS
     TLL 101 Turkish Language and Literature I 3 2 SL
     AL 102 Academic Literacies 5 3 SL
     MATH 102 Calculus II 6 3 FENS
     NS 102 Science of Nature II 6 4 FENS
     SPS 102 Humanity and Society II 6 3 FASS
     TLL 102 Turkish Language and Literature II 3 2 SL
     HIST 191 Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution I 3 2 FASS
     HIST 192 Principles of Atatürk and the History of the Turkish Revolution II 3 2 FASS
     HUM 201 Major Works of Literature 5 3 FASS
     PROJ 201 Undergraduate Project Course 1 1 FENS
     HUM 202 Major Works of Western Art 5 3 FASS
     HUM 203 Major Works of Ottoman Culture 5 3 FASS
     HUM 204 Major Works of Classical Music 5 3 FASS
     HUM 206 Major Works of Drama 5 3 FASS
     HUM 207 Major Works of Western Philosophy 5 3 FASS
     HUM 211 Major Works of 20th Century Literature 5 3 FASS
     HUM 212 Major Works of Modern Art 5 3 FASS
     HUM 214 Major Works of the Opera 5 3 FASS
     HUM 221 Major Works of the Novel 5 3 FASS
     HUM 224 Major Works of 20th Century Music 5 3 FASS
     HUM 231 Major Works of Poetry 5 3 FASS
     HUM 232 Major Works of Asian Art 5 3 FASS
     HUM 241 Major Works of Short Fiction 5 3 FASS
     HUM 261 Major Works of World Literature 5 3 FASS
     HUM 271 Major Works in Islamic Literature 5 3 FASS
     SPS 303 Law and Ethics 5 3 FASS
     HUM 304 Major Works of Classical Music 5 3 FASS
     HUM 311 Major Works of Literature: The World Before Modernity 5 3 FASS
     HUM 312 Major Works of Modern Art 5 3 FASS
     HUM 317 Major Works of Moral Philosophy 5 3 FASS
     HUM 321 Major Works of Literature: The Modern World 5 3 FASS
     HUM 322 Major Works of Art: The World Before Modernity 5 3 FASS
     HUM 324 Major Works of 20th Century Music 5 3 FASS
     HUM 371 Major Works of Literature: The Islamic World 5 3 FASS
 

Required Courses

It is enough to complete one of these courses: IR 391 or IR 394. All the other courses are required.

  Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty
 * 
ECON 202 Macroeconomics 6 3 FASS
 * 
ECON 204 Microeconomics 6 3 FASS
 * 
IR 201 International Relations Theory 6 3 FASS
 * 
IR 301 Globalization and International Relations 6 3 FASS
 * 
IR 391 International Political Economy 6 3 FASS
 * 
IR 394 World Politics 6 3 FASS
     IS 300 Project and Internship 5 0 FASS
     PROJ 300 Project and Internship 3 0 FASS
     SPS 311 Research Methods I 7 3 FASS
 

Core Electives I (Economics and Quantitative Methods)

At least 2 courses from the pool below. The extra courses taken from this pool are directly counted towards Area Elective Course requirements.

  Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty
 * 
ECON 201 Games and Strategies 6 3 FASS
     ECON 340 International Economics 6 3 FASS
     ECON 345 International Finance 6 3 FASS
 * 
MATH 203 Introduction to Probability 6 3 FENS
 

Core Electives II (International Relations)

At least 3 courses from the pool below. The extra courses taken from this pool are directly counted towards Area Elective Course requirements.

  Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty
     CONF 400 International Conflict and Peace 6 3 FASS
 * 
HIST 205 History of the Twentieth Century 6 3 FASS
 * 
HIST 349 Diplomatic History of the Modern Era II (1945-2004) 6 3 FASS
     IF 401 Energy: Supply Chain, Economics and Geopolitics 6 3 FENS
     IR 342 Turkish Foreign Policy 6 3 FASS
     IR 392 Foreign Policy Analysis 6 3 FASS
     IR 400 International Conflict and Peace 6 3 FASS
     IR 403 Political Violence in the Post-Cold War Era 6 3 FASS
     IR 405 European Foreign Policy 6 3 FASS
     IR 410 International Security 6 3 FASS
     IR 493 International Negotiation 6 3 FASS
     LAW 311 International Law 6 3 FASS
     SPS 384 Climate Change and Environmental Politics 6 3 FASS
 

Core Electives III (International Management)

At least 1 course from the pool below. The extra courses taken from this pool are directly counted towards Area Elective Course requirements.

  Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty
     LAW 403 Internartional Business Law 6 3 FASS
     MGMT 403 International Business 6 3 SBS
     MKTG 403 International Marketing 6 3 SBS
 

Area Electives

Minimum 6 courses from the list below and all IR coded courses are automatically counted as area elective. Maximum 3 courses from the graduate courses could be taken and counted towards the degree requirements, if the student is at his/her senior year and upon the advisor's and the course instructor's approvals.

The extra courses taken from this pool are directly counted towards Free Elective Course requirements.

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Free Electives

27 SU credits, excluding "University Courses" must be completed. At most 2 of the Beginning / Basic level language courses can be used to fulfill the requirements for this area.

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Faculty Courses

  • At least 5 courses should be completed from FENS, FASS and SOM Faculty Courses, At least three of these courses must be from the pool of FASS Faculty Courses,
  • These five courses must be distributed over at least three out of eight areas: the FENS and SOM pool of faculty courses counting as seventh and eighth area in addition to the six FASS areas (CULT, ECON, HART, PSYCH, SPS/POLS/IR, VA)
  • These courses may have been taken while fulfilling the other degree requirements for the program.
  • Click here for general information about Faculty Courses.

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    Click For FASS Faculty Courses

    Click For SBS Faculty Courses

    * Faculty Courses

    **Courses in more than one areas are listed in the area according to order of appearence in Summary of Degree Requirements list. That is, if a course is both area elective and core elective,then it is listed in core elective courses list.

    ***Graduate courses are not listed in undergraduate area requirements even if they are among them.

    ****Since graduation requirements may change dependent to the enrollment year to the University, we advise our students who enrolled at SU in previous years and still continue their education, to track their graduation requirements completion via Information System - Degree Evaluation.