Course Catalog
TURKISH STUDIES - WITH THESIS MASTER'S PROGRAM (MATS)
The MA Program in Turkish Studies defines itself as a
gateway-graduate program that is designed to bring
together interdisciplinary expertise on a wide
range of topics about Turkey in the past and present.
The program trains the next generation of scholars,
policymakers, and practitioners by equipping them with
the necessary skills to understand, analyze, evaluate, and
design policies in the key areas of constitutionalism,
democracy and electoral politics; foreign policy and global
governance; energy, environment (the global warming and the
climate change); cities; economy, gender, migration,
religion, identities and society.
The graduate curriculum couples interdisciplinary
theoretical knowledge about Turkish history,
society and politics with rigorous training on the
state-of-the-art methodologies and novel approaches in
Digital Humanities.
The program provides graduate students with the
necessary knowhow and skills to find career
opportunities in outstanding academic institutions as well
as outside academia, in the public and private sectors,
companies, and organizations in Turkey and abroad. For
candidates who are interested in further specialization in
academic research, the program provides strong foundations
in history, sociology and political science.
The core components of the program include a flexible
structure to allow students to specialize according to
their needs and interests in diverse fields, methodological
focus on one or more discipline; internship and research
assistantship opportunities in the renowned centers, forums
and labs of Sabancı University, including the Sakıp Sabancı
Center for Turkish Studies at Columbia University.
SUMMARY OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Course Category
Min. ECTS Credits
Min. SU Credits
Min. Courses
Master Thesis
-
-
1
Required Courses
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9
9
Core Electives I
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3
1
Core Electives II
-
9
3
Free Electives
-
6
2
Total
158
27
16
An original thesis of around 70 pages on a
previously submitted and approved topic is
called for.
Course
Name
ECTS Credits
SU Credits
Faculty
TS 599
Master Thesis
30
0
FASS
The following courses are all required.
Course
Name
ECTS Credits
SU Credits
Faculty
GR 501S
Academic Practices and Development
7
0
FASS
GR 502S
Academic Practices and Development 2
7
0
FASS
GR 503S
Academic Practices and Development 3
7
0
FASS
GR 555S
Academic Writing for Graduate Students
7
0
FASS
POLS 553
Current Issues in Turkish Politics
10
3
FASS
TS 500
MA Pro-seminar
5
0
FASS
TS 550
Social Change in Turkey
10
3
FASS
TS 551
Turkish Studies and History:
10
3
FASS
TS 590
Internship
5
0
FASS
Students have to choose at least 1 course from this pool
considering their prospective research area.
Extra courses taken from this pool are counted towards the
Core Elective II degree requirements.
Course
Name
ECTS Credits
SU Credits
Faculty
CULT 503
Cultural Analysis Workshop
10
3
FASS
HIST 512
Trends, Debates, Historians II
10
3
FASS
POLS 529
Methods and Scope of Political Analysis
10
3
FASS
TS 520
Digital Humanities
10
3
FASS
Students have to choose at least 3 courses from this pool.
Extra courses taken from this pool are counted towards the
Free Elective degree requirements.
6 SU credits from FASS graduate courses
catalog, subject to program coordinator' s approval.
Click For Free Electives
**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.
***Undergraduate courses are not listed in graduate 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.
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The MA Program in Turkish Studies defines itself as a gateway-graduate program that is designed to bring together interdisciplinary expertise on a wide range of topics about Turkey in the past and present. The program trains the next generation of scholars, policymakers, and practitioners by equipping them with the necessary skills to understand, analyze, evaluate, and design policies in the key areas of constitutionalism, democracy and electoral politics; foreign policy and global governance; energy, environment (the global warming and the climate change); cities; economy, gender, migration, religion, identities and society. The graduate curriculum couples interdisciplinary theoretical knowledge about Turkish history, society and politics with rigorous training on the state-of-the-art methodologies and novel approaches in Digital Humanities. The program provides graduate students with the necessary knowhow and skills to find career opportunities in outstanding academic institutions as well as outside academia, in the public and private sectors, companies, and organizations in Turkey and abroad. For candidates who are interested in further specialization in academic research, the program provides strong foundations in history, sociology and political science. The core components of the program include a flexible structure to allow students to specialize according to their needs and interests in diverse fields, methodological focus on one or more discipline; internship and research assistantship opportunities in the renowned centers, forums and labs of Sabancı University, including the Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies at Columbia University. |
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**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.
***Undergraduate courses are not listed in graduate 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.