|
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.
|
