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.