Course Catalog

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - NON THESIS MASTER'S PROGRAM (MAIR-NT)

Diploma Area Advisor:

The M.A. Program in International Relations is an interdisciplinary program designed to improve understanding of theoretical debates and practical applications of the discipline. It aims to link theory and practice with a focus on approaches, methodologies and policy practices in international relations. For this purpose, the program encourages and promotes: -Analyses of planning and practice of international politics in Turkey and the world. -Analyses of regional, inter-governmental and international organisations to understand their development and functions. -Analyses of bureaucratic structure, policy making process, agent-structure relations and interaction of domestic actors and foreign policy in international relations. -Discovery of roots, debates and new discussions on the theory of international relations.

SUMMARY OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS Course Category Min. ECTS Credits Min. SU Credits Min. Courses Term Project - - 1 Required Courses - 9 3 Area Electives - 21 7 Total 120 30 11

Term Project

Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty      IR 597 Term Project 20 0 FASS

Required Courses

All courses below.

Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty      CONF 512 Research Methods 10 3 FASS      POLS 540 International Relations Theory 10 3 FASS      POLS 555 Turkish Foreign Policy 10 3 FASS

Area Electives

21 SU credits from the pool below.

Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty      CONF 501 Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution 10 3 FASS      CONF 502 Correlates of War and Peace 10 3 FASS      CONF 504 Foreign Policy and Conflict Resolution 10 3 FASS      IR 501 Globalization and International Relations 10 3 FASS      IR 510 International Security 10 3 FASS      IR 530 American Politics and Government 10 3 FASS      IR 535 Russian Politics and Foreign Policy 10 3 FASS      IR 537 Central Asia and Caucasus in International Perspective 10 3 FASS      IR 592 Foreign Policy Analysis 10 3 FASS      LAW 511 International Law 10 3 FASS      POLS 541 International Organizations 10 3 FASS      POLS 543 International Negotiation 10 3 FASS      POLS 549 Middle Eastern Politics and Government 10 3 FASS      POLS 550 Turkish Politics 10 3 FASS      POLS 563 Political Violence in the Post-Cold War Era 10 3 FASS      POLS 564 Energy Politics 10 3 FASS      POLS 580 Political Economy 10 3 FASS      POLS 583 Ethnicity and Nationalism 10 3 FASS      POLS 592 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 10 3 FASS      POLS 640 Seminar in International Relations 10 3 FASS

* 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.