The Cultural Studies Program is committed to addressing the critical relations between culture, power, and history through multi-disciplinary engagement, innovative research, methodological openness, and critical pedagogical practice. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars with a commitment to fostering new ways of analyzing and participating in contemporary cultural dynamics in Turkey and the world at large.

The program covers a wide range of topics and theories, but is particularly strong in gender and sexuality, nationalism and transnationalism, globalization, violence and trauma, memory, law, popular culture, and new media technologies.

Since the program's inception, Cultural Studies at Sabancı University has been at once an intellectual endeavor and a medium of public involvement and engagement, occasioning various opportunities for faculty and students to participate in social and political debates both on and off campus. The program's unique focus on critical pedagogical practice affords students the opportunity to carry out original research/writing projects.

Career Prospects for graduates include:

• The cultural sector: tourism, museums, festivals, cultural centers, and the heritage industries, as well as E.U. and other international projects
• The private sector: especially advertising, public relations, media, publishing, and marketing
• The public sector: government funded projects, local government initiatives
• Non-governmental organizations (NGOs): community work and action research, particularly in the areas of cultural politics/policy, social policy, education, human rights, women's rights, refugees and asylum seekers
• MA and Ph.D. track: Graduates of the Cultural Studies program will be competitive candidates for MA and Ph.D programs in the social sciences and humanities, especially in the fields of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Sociology, and Media Studies.