Course Catalog

HISTORY - WITH THESIS MASTER'S PROGRAM (MAHIST)

The aim of History MA program is to provide an opportunity for all undergraduate students with diverse undergraduate backgrounds to acquire a solid academic basis on Ottoman and modern Turkish history. Students aiming to further their academic studies towards a PhD degree in the history of the Ottoman Empire, the Balkans or the Middle East, are strongly encouraged to select the MA program with thesis.

Within the framework of the MA Thesis course, they are expected to research and write an MA thesis of around 80 pages on a previously submitted and approved topic.

Any student who has successfully completed his/her coursework within the usual four semesters, but who needs additional thesis completion time, may, be granted a maximum of two more semesters for this purpose.

Course Category	Min. ECTS Credits	Min. SU Credits	Min. Courses
SUMMARY OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Master Thesis	-	-	1
Required Courses	-	6	4
Core Electives I (Language Courses)	-	6	2
Core Electives II (Sources and Methods Courses)	-	3	1
Core Electives III (Research Seminars)	-	3	1
Area Electives	-	9	3
Total	142	27	12

Master Thesis

	Course	Name	ECTS Credits	SU Credits	Faculty
	HIST 599	Master's Thesis	35	0	FASS

Required Courses

Course	Name	ECTS Credits	SU Credits	Faculty
GR 555S	Academic Writing for Graduate Students	7	0	FASS
HIST 500	M.A. Pro-Seminar	10	0	FASS
HIST 501	Explorations in World History I	10	3	FASS
HIST 502	Explorations in World History II	10	3	FASS

Core Electives I (Language Courses)

Students have to choose 2 courses from ARA, PERS, TLL coded graduate language courses. Extra courses taken from this pool are not counted towards the degree requirements of the MA program.

Course	Name	ECTS Credits	SU Credits	Faculty
ARA 510	Basic Arabic I	10	3	SL
ARA 520	Basic Arabic II	10	3	SL
ARA 530	Intermediate Arabic I	10	3	SL
ARA 540	Intermediate Arabic II	10	3	SL
ARA 550	Advanced Arabic I	10	3	SL
ARA 560	Advanced Arabic II	10	3	SL
PERS 510	Basic Persian I	10	3	SL
PERS 520	Basic Persian II	10	3	SL
PERS 530	Intermediate Persian I	10	3	SL
PERS 540	Intermediate Persian II	10	3	SL
PERS 550	Advanced Persian I	10	3	SL
PERS 560	Advanced Persian II	10	3	SL
TLL 510	Ottoman Turkish I	10	3	SL
TLL 530	Ottoman Turkish II	10	3	SL
TLL 550	Ottoman Paleography	10	3	SL

Core Electives II (Sources and Methods Courses)

Students have to choose at least 1 course from this pool. Any and all Sources and Methods courses taken and passed in excess of this minimum may be counted towards completion of the student's Area Electives requirement.

Course	Name	ECTS Credits	SU Credits	Faculty
HIST 561	Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	10	3	FASS
HIST 572	Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	10	3	FASS
HIST 581	Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	10	3	FASS
HIST 591	Sources and Methods for Early Republican History, 1920-1938	10	3	FASS

Core Electives III (Research Seminars)

Students have to choose at least 1 course from this pool. Any and all Research Seminars taken and passed in excess of this minimum may be counted towards completion the student's Area Electives requirement.

Course	Name	ECTS Credits	SU Credits	Faculty
HIST 609	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	10	3	FASS
HIST 610	Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers, 17th-18th Centuri	10	3	FASS
HIST 613	Readings in Ottoman Legal Culture	10	3	FASS
HIST 625	Topics in Ottoman Cultural History	10	3	FASS
HIST 672	Seminar for Early Modern Ottoman History	10	3	FASS
HIST 681	Seminar for Late Ottoman history	10	3	FASS
HIST 682	Politics and Society in Ottoman Cities, 16th -18th centuries	10	3	FASS
HIST 692	Modern Dictatorships, and the One-Party Period	10	3	FASS

Area Electives

Students have to take a minimum of 3 courses from HIST coded gradute courses or the courses from the pool below.

Course	Name	ECTS Credits	SU Credits	Faculty
HIST 504	Six Key Global Challenges: A Historical Perspective	10	3	FASS
HIST 511	Trends, Debates, Historians I	10	3	FASS
HIST 512	Trends, Debates, Historians II	10	3	FASS
HIST 521	Rites of Power	10	3	FASS
HIST 524	Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Türkiye	10	3	FASS
HIST 525	Law, State and Property in the 19th Century	10	3	FASS
HIST 535	The Gunpowder Empires of the Islamic World, ca. 1450-1800	10	3	FASS
HIST 571	History of a City II : Ottoman Istanbul, 1450-1900	10	3	FASS
HIST 573	The Ottoman Mediterranean (1453-1900)	10	3	FASS
HIST 589	From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	10	3	FASS
HIST 601	Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts	10	3	FASS
HIST 602	Advanced Readings in Research Languages	10	3	FASS
HIST 702	Literature Survey: Historiography	10	3	FASS
HIST 712	Literature Survey : the Middle Ages in Europe	10	3	FASS
HIST 714	Literature Survey: The Early Modern Era	10	3	FASS
HIST 715	Literature Survey: From the Age of Revolution	10	3	FASS
HIST 742	Literature Survey: Modern Balkan History, 1800 to the Present	10	3	FASS
HIST 751	Literature Survey : Central Asian and Turkic History	10	3	FASS
HIST 762	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 1300-1600	10	3	FASS
HIST 771	Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 17th and 18th centuries	10	3	FASS
HIST 781	Literature Survey : Ottoman-Turkish History, 1800-1918	10	3	FASS
HIST 791	Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1918 to the Present	10	3	FASS
HIST 799	Literature Survey: Cultural History	10	3	FASS
POLS 504	Turkish Social and Political Thought	10	3	FASS
POLS 583	Ethnicity and Nationalism	10	3	FASS
POLS 594	Turkish Political Thought	10	3	FASS
TS 509	Ottoman Intellectuals in the Long-nineteenth Century	10	3	FASS
TS 521	Economic History of Türkiye	10	3	FASS
TS 551	Turkish Studies and History: Debates and Topics	10	3	FASS

**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.

HISTORY - WITH THESIS MASTER'S PROGRAM (MAHIST)

SUMMARY OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS