Course Catalog
TURKISH STUDIES - NON THESIS MASTER'S PROGRAM (MATS-NT)
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
Term Project
-
-
1
Required Courses
-
9
8
Core Electives I
-
3
1
Core Electives II
-
15
5
Free Electives
-
6
2
Total
161
33
17
An original work on a previously
approved topic is called for.
Course
Name
ECTS Credits
SU Credits
Faculty
TS 595
MA Term Project
20
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 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 5 courses from this pool.
Extra courses taken from this pool are counted towards the
Free Elective degree requirements.
Course
Name
ECTS Credits
SU Credits
Faculty
CULT 553
Spaces of Migration
10
3
FASS
CULT 555
Urban Spaces and Cultures
10
3
FASS
CULT 593
Thematic Approaches to Contemporary Turkish Culture
10
3
FASS
GEN 544
Gender and Sexuality in Turkey
10
3
FASS
HIST 585
Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey
10
3
FASS
HIST 589
From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State
10
3
FASS
POLS 504
Turkish Social and Political Thought
10
3
FASS
POLS 510
Comparative Politics
10
3
FASS
POLS 550
Turkish Politics
10
3
FASS
POLS 555
Turkish Foreign Policy
10
3
FASS
POLS 557
The Politics of Authoritarian Regimes:
10
3
FASS
POLS 565
Rise and Fall of Democracy
10
3
FASS
POLS 580
Political Economy
10
3
FASS
SOC 508
Religion and Politics
10
3
FASS
SOC 525
Power, Economy, and Society
10
3
FASS
TS 521
Economic History of Turkey
10
3
FASS
TS 552
The Founding Generations: The Young Turks, The Unionists and The Kemalists
10
3
FASS
TS 555
Cultural Heritage in Turkey
10
3
FASS
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.
TURKISH STUDIES - NON THESIS MASTER'S PROGRAM (MATS-NT) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.