Course Catalog

HISTORY - NON THESIS MASTER'S PROGRAM (MAHIST-NT)

The aim of History non-thesis 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.

SUMMARY OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS Course Category Min. ECTS Credits Min. SU Credits Min. Courses Term Project - - 1 Required Courses - 6 3 Core Electives I (Language Courses) - 6 2 Core Electives II (Sources and Methods Courses) - 3 1 Core Electives III (Research Seminars) - 3 1 Area Elective - 18 6 Total 150 36 14

Term Project

Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty      HIST 595 MA Term Project 20 0 FASS

Required Courses

Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty      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 this pool. 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 one 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 one 1 course from this pool. Any and all Research Seminars 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 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 Elective

Students have to take a minimum of 6 courses from HIST coded graduate 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.