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GENDER STUDIES - WITH MASTER'S DEGREE DOCTORAL PROGRAM FOR HOLDERS OF MASTERS'S DEGREE (PHDGEN)

As an inter- and transdisciplinary PhD program, Gender Studies at Sabancı University investigates how relations of gender and sexuality are embedded in social, political, economic, and cultural formations through a wide variety of academic backgrounds to introduce the doctoral students to the concepts, methods and cutting-edge research that shape gender analyses.

The degree program has two objectives: first, to provide advanced education and research oppportunities for educators and scholars-to-be; and second, to serve the needs of professionals for careers in areas such as public policy, non-governmental organizations, and human rights research and advocacy. The PhD program is designed as a collaborative, cross-divisional enterprise with faculty members from the disciplines of Anthropology, Sociology, Literature, Political Science, Conflict Studies, History, Philosophy, Psychology, and Management, as well as the Natural Sciences.

PhD students must write and present a research paper in a faculty seminar with the participation of thesis committee, faculty members and students before their thesis defense in order to meet the graduation requirement besides fulfilling other program requirements.

SUMMARY OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Course Category Min. ECTS Credits Min. SU Credits Min. Courses
PhD Dissertation - - 1
Required Courses - 9 5
Area Electives - 6 2
Free Electives - 6 2
Total 244 21 10
 

PhD Dissertation

  Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty
     GEN 699 PhD Thesis 141 0 FASS
 

Required Courses

  Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty
     GEN 600 Gender: Fundamental Concepts and Approaches 10 3 FASS
     GEN 601 Methodology for Gender Studies 10 3 FASS
     GEN 605 Theories of Gender and Sexuality 10 3 FASS
     GEN 690 PhD Pro-thesis Seminar 5 0 FASS
     GR 555S Academic Writing for Graduate Students 7 0 FASS
 

Area Electives

  Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty
     ANTH 526 Anthropology of the Body 10 3 FASS
     ANTH 568 Ethnography: Fieldwork and Writing in Anthropology 10 3 FASS
     CONF 511 Culture and Conflict 10 3 FASS
     CULT 500 Core Issues in Cultural Studies 10 3 FASS
     CULT 501 Core Works in Cultural Studies 10 3 FASS
     CULT 503 Cultural Analysis Workshop 10 3 FASS
     CULT 561 Oral History 10 3 FASS
     CULT 562 Memory Studies 10 3 FASS
     GEN 541 Gender in the Middle East 10 3 FASS
     GEN 542 Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence 10 3 FASS
     GEN 544 Gender and Sexuality in Turkey 10 3 FASS
     GEN 585 Migrations and the Family 10 3 FASS
     GEN 610 Gender and Politics 10 3 FASS
     GEN 680 Men and Masculinities 10 3 FASS
     GEN 683 Gender and Migration 10 3 FASS
     GEN 700 Readings and Research on Gender 10 3 FASS
     HIST 524 Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey 10 3 FASS
     HIST 585 Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey 10 3 FASS
     IF 501 Gender in Science and Technology 10 3 FENS
     LIT 534 Literary Theory 10 3 FASS
     LIT 540 Literature and Psychoanalysis 10 3 FASS
     LIT 545 Gender and Sexuality in Literature 10 3 FASS
     POLS 504 Turkish Social and Political Thought 10 3 FASS
     SOC 526 Gender and Work 10 3 FASS
     SOC 532 Sexualities, Sociabilities 10 3 FASS
 

Free Electives

Minimum 6 SU credits are required with advisor's approval.
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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.