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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.

SUMMARY OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Course Category Min. ECTS Credits Min. SU Credits Min. Courses
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 517 Introduction to Orientalism and Oriental Studies 10 3 FASS
     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
     HIST 592 Sources and Methods for Late Republican History, 1938-1950 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.

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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.