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Course	Code	Faculty	Detail
Financial Accounting and Reporting	ACC 500	Sabancı Business School	Financial Accounting is the information system organizations use to identify, record and communicate relevant economic events and as such all management students should have a strong background in accounting. The purpose of this course is to familiarize the students with basic accounting concepts, principles, and methods as well as to teach them the basic business terminology they will encounter in future management courses and in the business world. The course will help the students appreciate the role of accounting information in financial decision making and is intended to serve as a foundation for subsequent Accounting and Finance courses. The topics covered include demand for accounting information by internal and external users in making investment and credit decisions; supply of accounting information and the institutional background for generally accepted accounting principles; the format and the content of the four basic financial statements; analysis and recording of business transactions through the recording cycle; accounting for current assets including trade receivables and inventories; plant- property- equipment and depreciation; financing through short and long-term debt versus equity; and basic financial ratio analysis.
Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis	ACC 501	Sabancı Business School	The course provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic concepts, principles, and standards of financial accounting with an emphasis on how financial information is reported to external users and how it is used in resource allocation decisions. The topics covered include the preparation and use of the financial statements, the recording cycle, sales and receivables, inventories and cost of goods sold, plant assets and intangibles, liabilities and owner's equity, cash flow, EBIT, EBITDA and financial statement analysis.
Managerial Accounting	ACC 521	Sabancı Business School	Management accounting provides internal users of the organization with information for controlling and decision making purposes. Today managerial accountants serve as business consultants and often work together with cross-functional teams and managers. In the course the student will learn both to produce the required information and to understand how managers are able to use and react to it. The student will learn the fundamental traditional management accounting such as product costing, budgeting, cost-volume-profit analysis and variance analysis . Moreover, modern approaches to cost management and controlling such as ABC costing and the balanged scorecard will be introduced. The student is expected to play an active role in learning mainly through class discussions as well as oral and written presentations. Practical applications of management accounting will be playing a crucial role all through the course by solving real life problems through cases.
Applied Turkish Taxation Systems	ACC 523	Sabancı Business School	This course covers a general overview of taxation systems, followed by an introduction to Turkish tax laws. The topic includes corporate taxation, tax planning, tax treaties, income tax, social security and values added tax.
Financial and Managerial Accounting	ACC 551	Sabancı Business School	Accounting is mainly a system of external reporting that is used in decision making by users external to the firm. To understand this external reporting role of accounting, the following topics will be covered: the generally accepted concepts, assumptions, principles, and practices used ın the preparation and use of the financial statements; basic business terminology used in the business world and other management courses; accounting valuation of financial assets, inventories, plant assets, liabilities, owners' equity; basic ratio analysis. A second role of accounting, aiding managerial decision making, will also be introduced in the last part of the course and the following introductory topics will be covered: managers' information needs, identifying and classifying cost behavior, and cost-volume-profit relationships.
Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis	ACC 801	Sabancı Business School	The course provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic concepts, principles, and standards of financial accounting with an emphasis on how financial information is reported to external users and how it is used in resource allocation decisions. The topics covered include the preparation and use of the financial statements, the recording cycle, sales and receivables, inventories and cost of the goods sold, plant assets and intangibles, liabilities and owner's equity, cash flow, EBIT, EBITDA and financial statement analysis.
Managerial Accounting	ACC 802	Sabancı Business School	A comprehensive introduction to the design of management accounting procedures and systems that support managerial planning and control of operations. Topics include: cost classifications; analysis and design of product cost systems and product mix decisions; cost-volume-profit relationships; overhead cost allocations; behavioral effects of budgeting, cost variances and responsibility accounting systems; managerial incentives and compensation systems.
Financial Statement Analysis	ACC 810	Sabancı Business School	Financial Statement Analysis The course focuses on how finance professionals use and interpreting financial tables. Creation and use of financial ratios are discussed. Assessment of the financial strength of companies is examined.
Financial Reporting	ACC 901	Sabancı Business School	The course offers an introduction to the principles and concepts of accounting along with the preparation and analysis of financial statements. The purpose is to make managers intelligent consumers of financial reports for managerial decision making.
Managerial Accounting	ACC 902	Sabancı Business School	A comprehensive introduction to the design of management accounting procedures and systems that support managerial planning and control of operations. Topics include: cost classifications; analysis and design of product cost systems and product mix decisions; cost-volume-profit relationships; overhead cost allocations; behavioral effects of budgeting, cost variances and responsibility accounting systems; managerial incentives and compensation systems.
Advanced Managerial Accounting	ACC 905	Sabancı Business School	A comprehensive introduction to the design of management accounting procedures and systems that support managerial planning and control of operations. Topics include: cost classifications; analysis and design of product cost systems and product mix decisions; cost-volume-profit relationships; overhead cost allocations; behavioral effects of budgeting, cost variances and responsibility accounting systems; managerial incentives and compensation systems.
Advanced Financial Accounting and Reporting	ACC 906	Sabancı Business School	The course offers an introduction to the principles and concepts of accounting along with the preparation and analysis of financial statements. The purpose is to make managers intelligent consumers of financial reports for managerial decision making.
Financial Statement Analysis	ACC 910	Sabancı Business School	The course focuses on how finance professionals use and interpreting financial tables. Creation and use of financial ratios are discussed. Assessment of the financial strength of companies is examined.
Etnographic Approaches to Law and Conflict	ANTH 513	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The ways in which conflicts are understood and acted upon show a significant degree of variation from one social context to another. In this course we will try to understand the cultural processes that create this variation. We will use ethnographic material that is often the result of at least a year of field work, where the researcher observes and participates in the social and cultural life of the particular group. The ethnographies we will read will be about a diverse set of contexts such as Mexico, Iran, Turkey, New Guinea and urban America. Some of the questions we will tackle in particular will be; what are the different notions of justice -including fairness, equity etc.- that can be found in different cultural contexts? What is the relation of these different notions to the particular methods and mechanisms of resolving conflicts? When and how do these meanings and practices of justice contribute to the re-making of existing hierarchies-such as gender, age, status- and when and how do they come to challenge them?
Anthropology of the State	ANTH 515	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course examines the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute and question the nation-state. It draws on perspectives on the state developed within other disciplines. Simultaneously, a distinctively anthropological understanding of the state is articulated by focusing on systems of meaning and belief; personhood and agency; everyday practices; and persistent structures and emergent forms. The course also examines how institutions which are considered to define the modern state, such as citizenship, sovereignty, territoriality, secularism, and violence, are manifested in and represented by ethnographic research and writing.
Anthropology of Migration and the City	ANTH 521	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Migration stands out as one of the most characteristic and complex features of the 21st century as more people than ever, coming from increasingly more disparate places, are migrating to new destinations for a greater variety of reasons and under distinct circumstances. A shared aspect though is that most of these migrations are urban in nature, being concentrated in cities attracting human, financial and other flows from across the globe. This course explores how anthropological research is engaging with these new trends in global migration and urbanism, by focusing on different theoretical and ethnographic discussions around some of the key concepts emerging urban encounters, contact zones, everyday multiculture, everyday cosmopolitanisms and conviviality
Anthropology of Affect	ANTH 525	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course explores the realm of the intangible and the unseen to think through `vibes', `energies', and `sentiments? that are associated with situations in which cultural formations are blocked, suspended or mobilized. The task at hand is to attend to the ways in which non-cathartic states of feeling create affective spheres that mobilize public opinion. Building up on a multiplicity of resources ranging from visual material, Marxism, critical race theory, queer studies, feminism, psychoanalysis, and ethnographies of militarism, the course explores a domain of politics where that which is repressed is denied further by or returns in spectral forms in cultural memory. The course aims to stimulate reflection on affective concepts in the ethnographic contexts where they seem most at stake to explore the intersections of gender, race, labor, and militarism and to problematize the nationalist processes of fact and memory building.
Anthropology of the Body	ANTH 526	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The biological body has an undeniable physicality, yet at the same time, our experiences of our bodies and the ways in which we make sense of those experiences are inevitably embedded in and defined by the social. Taking an anthropological and paying attention to both discursive and phenomenological approaches, this introductory course will investigate the ways in which the body has been observed, classified, experienced and modified in different cultural contexts and disciplinary regimes.
Anthropology of Hope	ANTH 528	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	In social theory, popular discourse and everyday practice, hope is often an assumed or desired sentiment but albeit one that is rarely seen as being in need of critical elaboration. This course takes hope as a key category of social analysis. It first compares different historical approaches that locate in hope the utopian spirit of times of revolution and certain religious doctrines that link hope to faith in the face of experiential misery. It then delves into contemporary ethnographies that engage with theories of affect as they pertain to hope. How does hope relate to other affective states such as desire and optimism (hope’s presumed affines) and melancholy and despair (its presumed opposites ?) Under what conditions does hope become cruel? Building on a critical tradition in social theory, it also assesses the potential role of hope in progressive politics and thought as a method of critique.
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)	ANTH 550	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Geographic regions such as the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) are human constructions based on ideas about space and difference, rather than naturally existing categories. This course starts with a critical analysis of the making of the MENA region, which covers about 25 countries from Morocco to Iran, as a historical and political process. In an effort to move beyond the predominantly Orientalist constructions of this region in mainstream discourses, we will read critical ethnographic studies of the historical, political and cultural processes that have shaped human lives in this diverse cultural space.
Migration and Citizenship	ANTH 554	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This seminar will inquire into the global movement of people in relation to the increasingly variegated definitions and practices of citizenship. Through ethnographic accounts of border-crossings around the world, we will pay particular attention to the everyday experiences of migrants on the one hand, and to the political, cultural and legal discourses of citizenship that shape and constrain those experiences on the other. We will assess the significance of the spread of global capitalism and of transnational legal norms in relation to the changing relationship between state sovereignty, immigrants, and citizenship. We will also pay attention to the ways in which hierarchies of class, ethnicity and nation find expression in the politics of international migration and citizenship.
Social Mobilization, Resistance and Protest	ANTH 565	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will expore the nature of social protest in various parts of the world. It will examine the dynamics of massive revolutionary movements, and yet also the challenges of understanding diverse and less-publicized forms of protest and mobilization. We will examine forms of protest related to human rights, labor conditions, indigenous mobilization, ethnicity and nationalism, religion and gender in the context of increasing globalization. The course will both explore particular case studies of mobilization as well as introduce students to key questions about the role of culture, memory, mass media, and other forces in the making of social mobilization.
Ethnography: Fieldwork and Writing in Anthropology	ANTH 568	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Ethnography refers both to the main qualitative research methods and the written product of anthropological research. This course aims to familiarize students with the tools of conducting ethnographic research, while also giving them an opportunity to put these tools into practice. Throughout the course, various aspects of and approaches to doing and writing ethnography will be critically examined.
Anthropology and History	ANTH 569	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	What happens when anthropologists take up history? The recent interest of anthropology in history will be examined in this course through the close reading of a selection of contemporary ethnographies (books produced by anthropologists on the basis of field research).
Anthropology of Europe	ANTH 571	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Anthropology is conventionally perceived as the study of non-European societies, however, recent critical approaches have stressed the importance of turning the anthropological gaze to western societies, and in particular, of ''provincializing Europe.'' Through recent ethnographies of different nation-states and social spaces in Europe, the course will examine historical and contemporary constructions of ''Europeanness,"; debates over multiculturalism, cultural citizenship and ''Islamaphobia''; migration and ethnicity; and the uneasy relation of Eastern Europe and postsocialism to Western Europe an the EU.
Islam in Turkey	ANTH 591	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Etnographic Approaches to Law and Conflict	ANTH 613	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The ways in which conflicts are understood and acted upon show a significant degree of variation from one social context to another. In this course we will try to understand the cultural processes that create this variation. We will use ethnographic material that is often the result of at least a year of field work, where the researcher observes and participates in the social and cultural life of the particular group. The ethnographies we will read will be about a diverse set of contexts such as Mexico, Iran, Turkey, New Guinea and urban America. Some of the questions we will tackle in particular will be; what are the different notions of justice -including fairness, equity etc.- that can be found in different cultural contexts? What is the relation of these different notions to the particular methods and mechanisms of resolving conflicts? When and how do these meanings and practices of justice contribute to the re-making of existing hierarchies-such as gender, age, status- and when and how do they come to challenge them?
Writing Culture	ANTH 669	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	In this course, current debates in the field of anthropology will be examined through in-depth reading of a selection of contemporary ethnographies, or books produced by anthropologists on the basis of field research.
Action Research Methodologies and Approaches	AR 601	Sabancı Business School	It is important for students to understand the history, or histories, of AR, and to be aware of the many current varieties of AR. There is an international community, with a tradition of dialogue and debate. This core course will include contributions from leading researchers, and an underpinning from the literature. From the start, students will write reflection papers on their own practice, and locate themselves in the various traditions, including: Participatory AR; Socio-Technical Systems Thinking; Scandinavian (Dialogical) AR; Southern (Emancipatory) AR; Collaborative Inquiry; Appreciative Inquiry; Educational AR. For each, the course will consider cases and core literature. Students will interact directly with course faculty, as the Sabanci AR culture develops through the Transformation Project.
Philosophy of Science and Action Research	AR 602	Sabancı Business School	The course uses insights from Aristotle on ways of knowing (empeiria, praxis, poíêsis, khrêsis etc) and ways of speaking/writing (dialogue, rhetoric, didactics, phronesis, tekhne etc) and more, not merely as our curious historical predecessors, but as important distinctions in analyzing the modern / postmodern situation for knowledge production and the institutionalization of knowledge production (knowledge management regimes). The different forms of Action Research and conventional research are analyzed accordingly, showing that our modern / postmodern predicament needs several different forms of AR (collaborative, practitioner, organizational learning, symbiotic learning etc) but especially a form of immanent critique which unites conventional research, apprenticeship learning, critical theory, praxis-research, and Action Research
The Practice(s) of Action Research:	AR 603	Sabancı Business School	A contemporary stakeholder approach to participative change. After a brief grounding in pragmatic worldview, this course emphasizes an experiential approach. Through the use of articles, books, cases, video and live-interviews with senior action researchers, students will become familiar with a selection of contemporary approaches of action research, selecting one for a deeper application to enrich their own field projects.The student is successful in this course when they link their personal leadership development to their learning edge within their own field project. Students may expect to leave with a better understanding of herself (himself) as an agent of change, more awareness of the variety of action research practices, as well as more understanding and experience with a "participative learning" oriented approach to stakeholder engagement. Students may expect support with "just in time" peer coaching.
Context and Transformation	AR 604	Sabancı Business School	The course explores transformation, covering theoretical perspectives that examine organizational, social, economic and political contexts. We construct an interdisciplinary framework, drawing from social theory, organization theory, political theory, political economy, and moral philosophy. Our primary objective is to learn the paradigms of structure and agency. We focus on functionalist, interactionist, conflict, and critical theory, and explore how we may use each of these paradigms in particular case studies. We consider power, and how it influences transformation processes, as both a constraint and facilitator. We problematize and differentiate macro and micro contexts. We study contemporary global and local issues that business executives and other organizational leaders, as change agents, face in their professional contexts and everyday life. We examine managing disruptions in international trade and international finance; interstate conflicts regarding global governance; social, economic and political concerns about governmental policies on problems such as unemployment, social and gender inequality, environmental sustainability, climate change, and rapid and never-ending technological change towards robotics and Artificial Intelligence; and growing social demand for corporate social responsibility and ethical conduct from business executives. Students are required to work on a live transformation process, through teaming up with local organizations or joining in an ongoing project in their organizations.
The Social Ecology and Socio-Technical Systems Design	AR 605	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on the Open System Theory/Thinking (OST) originally associated with researchers at the Tavistock Institute, and its long tradition of Action Research. OST, also called Social Scology, is a distinctive school in management and organization studies developed over the past 60 years, with Action Research at its core. The course discusses its origins and history, recent developments, distinctive conceptual and intervention principles, and practical applications using Action Research method. OST’s 3 levels of analysis and intervention: socio- psychological, socio-technical and socio-ecological, will be examined in detail. The course situates OST in relation to other schools in management and organization studies, and to other approaches to Action Research. Illustrative topics Origins and history; recent developments: connections to strategy, dynamic capabilities and design thinking; pioneers and recent/current practitioners; Intervention principles and modalities; levels of analysis and intervention: socio-psychological, socio-technical, socio- ecological; workplace interventions: factory, office, digital/virtual, transorganizational settings; domain-based, ecological and other large-scale interventions: community, regional, interest group settings.
Systems Thinking	AR 606	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces PhD students to a range of transdisciplinary systems methodologies that have been used in an Action Research mode to address complex organisational, social and environmental issues. Systems methodologies are particularly useful when there is a need to appreciate the ‘bigger picture’ rather than focus down on just one part of the issue and an introduction to cutting-edge research on theories and frameworks for exploring problem situations and mixing methods The aims of the module are to provide students with: (1) An overview of representative systems methodologies, their different paradigmatic assumptions and the systems thinking skills that they emphasise; (2) An understanding of their main purposes, strengths and weaknesses in the context of Action Research projects; (3) Experience of planning and engaging an intervention within their Project.
Facilitating Action Research Interventions	AR 607	Sabancı Business School	Action research invariably involves gathering groups of participants to engage their perspectives and invite their collaboration. This requires some skill on the part of the action researcher in facilitating meetings, workshops and other participative processes. In this course we shall examine the art and theory of facilitation, locating it in the organizational history of interventions. We shall find inspiration in the organizational planning methodology Appreciative Inquiry and draw on insights about autonomy and intrinsic motivation articulated within Positive Psychology. Exercises in facilitation will be conducted in class, using the real challenges that students face in their respective organizations. Students should take away from this course some experience with the very proactive role of the action-research facilitator.
Insider Action Research	AR 608	Sabancı Business School	The phenomenon of doing Action Research in one’s own organization has become established as an important way of understanding and changing organizations. When complete members of an organization seek to inquire into the working of their own organizational or community system in order to change something in it and generate actionable knowledge, they can be understood as undertaking Insider Action Research. Complete membership is contrasted with those who enter a system temporarily for the sake of conducting research. It may be defined in terms of wanting to remain a member within a desired career path when the research is completed. Insider Action Research offers a unique perspective on systems, precisely because it is from the inside. The context of Insider Action Research is the strategic and operational setting that organizational members confront in their working lives. Issues of organizational concern, such as systems improvement, organizational learning, the management of change and so on are suitable subjects for Insider Action Research, since (a) they are real events which must be managed in real time, (b) they provide opportunities for both effective action and learning, and (c) they can contribute to the development of theory of what really goes on in organizations. The course explores the challenges faced by Insider Action Researchers this course introduces and explores being a scholar-practitioner-researcher in one’s own organizational system.
Organizational Learning and Action Research	AR 609	Sabancı Business School	This course examines how individual and organizational learning lead to knowledge creation as well as examining the processes and structures for forming learning organizations. A theory of action, action science, and action learning perspectives will be provided so that students understand, appreciate and engage in the constructive and action to remove the inhibitors and to embrace facilitators. The course will start with the neural aspects of individual learning, i.e.,how humans learn and make decisions based on their learnings and vice versa; that is to say, how they learn as they make decisions and/or act. The role of exploitation and exploration in learning will also be covered at this part. Laws of thermodynamics and evolution, biases associated with human decision- making, evidence from neuroscience, techniques and methodologies developed by operations research and decision sciences are all going to provide a comprehensive framework to understand why utilizing both of them (i.e., exploitation and exploration) hand in hand, is the key for resilience, agility, flexibility, individual happiness and in a sense success. The course operates at several levels: taking account of the extensive literature on organizational and action learning, supporting the individual action research projects of the students, and reflecting on the experience of the Transformation Project, which operates over the four years of the program.
Gender, Diversity and Action Research	AR 610	Sabancı Business School	Gender cuts across all aspects of inequality and lies at the center of current debates around sustainable development. The course enables participants to recognize the linkages between gender and sustainability and specifically the role of gender diversity in transforming the role of business in society. The course explores gender both from a diversity perspective and from a feminist ethics perspective in relation to the quality of business decision making, ethical conduct as well as the broader implications of gender diversity and equality for the society at large. The course positions companies as transformational agents in changing the way the business is run, products and services are developed, human capital is managed, and the business objectives are set through empowering women and embracing diversity. The course will provide instruction on feminist pedagogies in action, specifically feminist Participatory Action Research, and present theoretical and empirical perspectives on the dialogue use across difference, and in identifying and dealing with resistance. The course also explores actor networks and enabling initiatives around the world as instruments available for business transformation. The course will also allow students to study and/or take part in initiatives for social change towards gender equality in the intersection of business, civil society and education at different levels.
Sustainability Transition and Action Research	AR 611	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of the course is to understand how business transition to sustainable development can be guided and accelerated with action oriented, interdisciplinary and applied approaches. The course takes a critical perspective on business as usual by exploring the intersections between sustainable development agenda, markets and business organisations from a multi stakeholder-multi actor perspective. Topics covered include the reconceptualization of the purpose of the firm and its implications for governance, the transformation of financial markets and transformative networks as change agents. The course uses problem-based learning (have students discuss different perspectives on complex real-life issues and dive into different literatures to formulate critical analysis, hypotheses and ideas for change) with experimental learning-by-doing (co-creating solutions, testing and refining and evaluating).
Business Ethics and Action Research	AR 612	Sabancı Business School	The course provides a practical framework for using ethics as an instrument to address dilemmas actors face in the conduct of business. The course analyses current ethical issues, conflicts and dilemmas that emerge in the interactions between companies and their political, social and physical environment, with a focus on developing capabilities for moral framing for mobilising actors for action. During the course the students explore critical perspectives on legal and ethical conduct, discuss real world complex ethical issues such as negative externalities, unconscious discrimination, unfair-competition, gender, animal welfare, misleading disclosures, nationalism, privacy and human capital management using sustainability as an overarching ethical framework. Positioning the business organisation as a medium through which human rights are exercised, students develop in- depth intellectual capabilities for a moral inquiry and mobilising actors for ethical conduct
Workplace Innovation	AR 613	Sabancı Business School	This course addresses the workplace as a context for innovation, which may be driven by employees, and related to aspects of the work environment, work organisation, partnership and learning. The work builds on strong research foundations, including evidence of effects of Workplace Innovation on organizational performance and job quality. Lessons are learned from national and European programs. There is a central facilitating and enabling role for Action Research, which is supported by collaboration, networking and learning from differences. Students will be linked to company projects, and to the European Workplace Innovation Network (EUWIN), which is active in 30 countries, and associated with programmes supported by the European Commission.
Research Methods	AR 614	Sabancı Business School	From the perspective of Action Research, the course considers a range of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, equipping students to conduct their individual research and to understand scholarship from other traditions. Action Research can be understood as a goal oriented meta-method utilizing any and all other methodologies to acquire learning relevant to the objectives at hand. As such, expertise in Action Research requires an understanding of the broad range of methodologies used to learn and appreciation of their strengths and limitations. In this course, we introduce key concepts of epistemology and provide an overview of the principal methodologies employed in management and organization studies , including case studies, interviews, observation, ethnography, quasi- and natural experiments, and survey research.
Educational Action Research	AR 615	Sabancı Business School	This course addresses the long tradition of reflective practice in education, which affects the work of individual professionals, and provides evalution of innovative activities, for example involving new technologies and race relations in the classroom. This is a growing research field internationally. The course will demostrate the power of action research as a methodology that is very practical in educational settings in transforming organizations. Structural, strategic, individual and personal dimensions of action research projects will be illuminated within a perspective of building a community of practice to transform the educational organizations.
Futures and Foresight	AR 616	Sabancı Business School	This module covers a range of conceptual and methodological approaches to futures and foresight. Broadly speaking, there are three types of question we can ask ourselves about the future: What do we think is likely to happen? What do we want (or not want) to have happen? What could possibly happen - whether we like it or not, and irrespective of likelihood - and if it happened it could potentially be important to the success or failure of our endeavours? These three question types map loosely onto projective, normative and exploratory approaches to futures and foresight. Within the projective category we cover horizon scanning, trends analysis and quantitative modelling. Within the normative category we cover a range of approaches to visioning, associated mapping of values, priorities and goals, as well as back-casting. Within the exploratory category we cover a range of techniques for exploratory scenario development, both inductive and deductive approaches, the two-axes approach, cross impact analysis, morphological analysis, and field anomaly relaxation. The 3 Horizons approach, which can be used in multiple ways to delve into all 3 types of questions is also explored. We also cover a range of participatory techniques that are useful across these three spheres including the Delphi Technique, causal loop diagrams, influence diagrams, fuzzy cognitive maps and participatory development of system dynamics models.
Special Topics in Management I	AR 617	Sabancı Business School	This course will be based on the analysis of contemporary issues, problems and changing paradigms in the world of transformations. It will focus on the selected topics in the process and transformation of management knowledge in the dynamic business environment. Some examples to selected topics are digital transformation, creativity, innovation, agile enterprise and teaming, holocracy, mindfulness, regional development, the university of the future and global action networks
Beginning Arabic I	ARA 501	School of Languages	Introduces students to the script and the basic grammar of Modern Standard Arabic. Emphasis on the development of reading skills with some attention to writing and aural comprehension.
Beginning Arabic II	ARA 502	School of Languages	Designed to enchance the reading skills of students who have already taken ARA 501 or an equivalent course.
Intermediate Arabic I	ARA 503	School of Languages	Reinforcement of grammar and vocabulary to help students develop better reading fluency. Tailored for students in social sciences and humanities intending to take the reading proficiency test as a degree requirement. Focuses on selections from contemporary Arabic media and academic texts.
Intermediate Arabic II	ARA 504	School of Languages	Continuation of ARA 503.
Basic Arabic I	ARA 510	School of Languages	Introduces students to the script and the basic grammar of Modern Standard Arabic. Emphasis on the development of reading skills with some attention to writing and aural comprehension.
Basic Arabic II	ARA 520	School of Languages	Continuation of ARA 510. Designed to enhance the reading skills of students who have already taken ARA 510 or an equivalent course.
Intermediate Arabic I	ARA 530	School of Languages	Intermediate Arabic I reinforcement of grammar and vocabulary to help students develop better reading fluency. Tailored for students in social sciences and humanities intending to take the reading proficiency test as a degree requirement Focuses on selections from contemporary Arabic media and academic texts.
Intermediate Arabic II	ARA 540	School of Languages	Continuation of ARA 530. Prerequisite: ARA 530 or the equivalent.
Advanced Arabic I	ARA 550	School of Languages	The main goal set at this stage is to reach a superior level of proficiency in modern standard Arabic language. The materials are designed to strenghten students’ reading skills, increase their vocabulary, refine and expand their knowledge of sentence construction and the Arabic verb system, and widen their cultural background. Lessons are structured as follows: beginning with vocabulary acquisition, followed by a humanities related basic text (if needed the latter is preceded by background information and exercises), grammatical explanations and drills, additional reading texts, review drills and suggested speaking and writing activities. Learners should have done at least two years of Arabic prior to starting with the course. According to the CEF, the level would be the equivalent of Level B1All the texts use clear language, useful vocabulary and appropriate grammar suited to this level. This ensures that the course remains sufficiently demanding to take the learner to the next level.
Advanced Arabic II	ARA 560	School of Languages	At this level, the texts contain opinions, hypotheses, and intellectual discussions. Great care has been taken as in the preceding Advanced Arabic I stage in the selection of the texts to include humanities related writings (with special stress on History) of respected Arab intellectuals: literati, journalists and professors from Morocco to the Gulf. The lenght of the texts provided increases steadily so that by the end of the course students are reading full-length editorial articles. In addition, classical texts and poetry with superior linguistic and cultural content are also included. All these texts help students develop competence in reading Classical prose , “heritage” texts and scientific reasearch, which enables them to use Arabic language in their own academic careers.
Introduction to Business Analytics	BAN 500	Sabancı Business School	As an introductory course to the program, the course will cover topics on the conceptual framework of business analytics, various sectoral application areas and a general introduction to analytical methods used. The course will also cover success stories from different sectors where business analytics is applied, and big data analytics in general, including its application areas, as a new and emerging area of interest.
Judgment and Decision Making	BAN 502	Sabancı Business School	This course presents an overview of decision making support methodologies and emphasizes the design of decision support systems using management science models such as production planning, logistics, employee scheduling, stock trading simulation, and portfolio optimization. These systems are developed using Microsoft Excel and VBA. VBA fundamentals are also covered in the course.
Management Information Systems	BAN 503	Sabancı Business School	Informational roles of a manager include receiving, processing, and transmitting information for the purpose of organizational decision-making. This course covers topics such as basics of information technology, the concept of information itself within the context of organizational decision-making, information system design and implementation, managerial implications of information systems for competition and cooperation, e-business and information-decision systems.
Data Mining with SAS Enterprise Miner	BAN 504	Sabancı Business School	The ability to understand, analyze and interpret Big Data for business purposes has become ever more important in the last few years. In order to make intelligent decisions, one must have access to data and information. The main issue is thus, how does one approach large quantities of data with the purpose of intelligent decision- making? The purpose of this course is to introduce the concepts, techniques, tools, and applications of data mining, using a commercially available data-mining software. The material is approached from the perspective of a business analyst, with an emphasis on supporting tactical and strategic decisions. Students should expect to get hands dirty with real data and analysis software, to perform some common data-mining tasks and earn skill as a business analyst.
Predictive Analytics	BAN 505	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces basic concepts and models of supervised and unsupervised statistical learning models . The topics include, multiple regression, logistic regression, classfication, resampling methods, subset selection, the ridge, the lasso, tree-based methods, support vector machines, principal component analysis, and clustering.
Fundamentals of Data Driven Business Decisions	BAN 506	Sabancı Business School	This course covers basic statistics tools and concepts to teach students how to apply statistical analysis to managerial decisions. By requiring hands-on statistical analysis using MS Excel, the course also aims to develop the students’ data analysis skills. Descriptive statistics, statistical significance, hypothesis testing and linear regression topics are covered and their applications for a variety of business decision are discussed.
Markov Decision Process	BAN 520	Sabancı Business School	Markov Decision Process (MDP) is a decision-making framework solved by dynamic programming. This powerful mathematical tool optimizes decisions in situations where the state of the system dynamically evolves and the decision maker is not in full control of the outcome of her actions. This course is divided in three parts. The first part will focus on modelling business and engineering situaitons via MDPs. Problems such as inventory managemen, healthcare and medical decision-making, revenue management and production planning and control will be discussed and modelled as MDP. The second part discusses popular and effective solution algorithms such as linear programming, value iteration and policy iteration. Finally, in the third part scientific literature on various application of MDPs is reviewed and open problems are discussed.
Prescriptive Analytics	BAN 521	Sabancı Business School	The main goal of this course is to present the basic principles and techniques of mathematical modeling that will aid managerial decisions. With case analyses, assignments, and classroom discussions, students will learn the assumptions, limitations and the effective use of the analytical methods such as optimization, Monte Carlo simulation, discrete-event simulation and decision trees. The focus will be on model formulation and interpretation of results, not on mathematical theory. This course is designed for program students with an interest in formal decision modeling. Therefore, the emphasis is on models that are widely used in diverse industries regardless of the functional areas.
Revenue Management	BAN 522	Sabancı Business School	Revenue management is concerned with two types of demand decision: quality (how to allocate capacity to different market segments, when to withhold a product from sale etc.) and price (how to set prices, how to price across product categories, over time etc.). This course aims to introduce students to the tools and conceptual frameworks of revenue management and its applications in diverse industries such as tourism, hospitality, manufacturing and fashion.
Group Decision Making under Multiple Criteria	BAN 523	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces the students to various methods of enhancing creativity and group decision-making; the various phases and stages of group decision making, It provides students the context for; the scope of; the similarities and the differences in; the breadth and the depth of; Group decision making processes and techniques using hands-on learning techniques as much as possible and practicable. The content is based on pros and cons of group decision making, when and why’s, Classification of approaches , Analyzing Decision making methods for implicit(voting) and explicit multiattributes and multiple decision makers.
CRM using Location Intelligence	BAN 524	Sabancı Business School	This course combines customer relationship management (CRM), a key notion in modern-day customer-centric marketing activities, with the emerging field of location intelligence, i.e. use of location data in business decision making. The course is co-taught with a Division Manager in banking industry who is also a CRM expert. After introducing fundamental concepts in CRM as well as geographic data and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the instructors cover several banking cases where location information is used in CRM and marketing activities, campaigns and promotions to increase the accuracy of customer segmentation and targeted marketing. A leading GIS software package is used throughout the course for hands-on exercises and project work. The final deliverable of the course is a project analysis team report.
Microeconomics I	BAN 525	Sabancı Business School	Consumer and demand theory, production and theory of the firm; competitive markets, partial and general equilibrium theory.
Business Intelligence and Decision Support Systems	BAN 526	Sabancı Business School	The main objective of this course is for the student to develop an understanding of the role of computer based information systems in direct support of managerial decision making (nowadays commonly referred as business intelligence). Spesifically, at the end of this course each student should develop : a) Knowledge about managerial decision making, business intelligence, decision support systems and how to they relate to other types of information systems, b) Knowledge about DSS development methodolies and enabling technologies (such as Expert Systems, Neural Networks, Knowledge Management, Data Warehousing and Data Mining) c) Knowledge about DSS enabling software packages -a general understanding and some hands-on capabilities.
Descriptive Analytics	BAN 527	Sabancı Business School	This course aims to provide a review of methods for statistical inference, and develop an understanding of how these tools can be applied in a variety of business problems. The emphasis of this course would be on applications, through practical examples and cases. A variety of statistical software will be introduced. Topics covered include descriptive statistics, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, regression, design of experiments and analysis of varience.
Microeconomics II	BAN 528	Sabancı Business School	Choice under uncertainty; basic game theory; imperfect competition, strategic interaction, entry; adverse selection, signalling, screening, moral hazard; mechanism design; general equilibrium under uncertainty; axiomatic and coalitional bargaining, cooperative models.
Econometrics	BAN 529	Sabancı Business School	Classical linear regression model, generalized least squares generalized method of moments, qualitative dependent variable models, time series analysis.
Systems Simulation	BAN 531	Sabancı Business School	Modeling and analysis of production and service systems through the use of discrete-event simulation; world views in simulation; input modeling; random number and variate generation; output analysis; verification and validation issues.
Machine Learning	BAN 532	Sabancı Business School	Machine learning aims to develop computer programs that improve their performance through experience by capturing relevant abstractions of past training input. This course will cover topics in machine learning such as concept learning with version spaces, learning decision trees, statistical learning methods, genetic algorithms Bayesian learning methods, explanation-based learning, and reinforcement learning. Theoretical aspects such as inductive bias, the probably approximately correct learning, and minimum description length principle will also be covered.
Stochastic Processes	BAN 533	Sabancı Business School	Poisson and renewal processes; discrete and continuous Markov chains; applications in queuing, reliability, inventory, production, and telecommunication problems; introduction to queuing networks and network performance analysis.
Neural Networks	BAN 535	Sabancı Business School	This course covers neural networks as computational models. Topics include the classification problem and the modeling of a basic neuron as a classifier, perceptrons, perceptron convergence theorem, class separability, multi-layer perceptrons, backpropagation algorithm for training, recurrent networks, associative memory, Hopfield and Kohonen networks, applications to speech, vision and control problems.
Systems Dynamics	BAN 537	Sabancı Business School	Systems thinking and the system dynamics worldview; methods to elicit and map the structure of complex systems and relate those structures to their dynamics; tools for modeling and simulation of complex systems; applications including corporate growth and stagnation, the diffusion of new technologies, business cycles, the use and reliability of forecasts, the design of supply chains, service quality management, project management and product development, the dynamics of infectious diseases.
Data Mining	BAN 539	Sabancı Business School	Data mining can be viewed as lossy data reduction and learning techniques that are designed to handle massive data sets containing large numbers of categorical and numeric attributes. This course covers topics in data mining and knowledge discovery structured and unstructured databases such as data integration, mining, and interpretation of patterns, rule-based learning, decision trees, association rule mining, and statistical analysis for discovery of patterns, evaluation and interpretation of the mined patterns using visualization techniques.
Graduate Seminar	BAN 599	Sabancı Business School	This seminar course provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty member from the relevant field.
Master Thesis	BAN 600	Sabancı Business School	Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty member from the relevant field over the second year of their course-work.
Data Driven Decision Making	BAN 800	Sabancı Business School	This course covers basic statistics tools and concepts to teach students how to apply statistical analysis to managerial decisions. By requiring hands-on statistical analysis using MS Excel, the course also aims to develop the students’ data analysis skills. Descriptive statistics, statistical significance, hypothesis testing and linear regression topics are covered and their applications for a variety of business decision are discussed.
Marketing Analytics	BAN 801	Sabancı Business School	This course is about generating marketing insights from empirical data in such areas as segmentation, targeting and positioning, satisfaction management, customer lifetime analysis, customer choice, and product and price decisions using conjoint analysis. This will be a hands-on course based on the Marketing Engineering approach and Excel software
Operations Analytics	BAN 803	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces analytical methods for various operational, tactical, and strategic decisions in operations management function of the firms. Topics covered in detail are forecasting techniques, planning under deterministic and uncertain demand, operations planning and scheduling, queuing theory, service operations management, capacity and revenue management, and supply chain management
Artificial Intelligence	BAN 804	Sabancı Business School	This course is a broad technical introduction to fundamental concepts and techniques in artificial intelligence. Topics include expert systems, rule based systems, knowledge representation, search, planning, managing uncertainty, machine learning, and neural networks. Important current application areas of artificial intelligence, such as computer vision, robotics, natural language understanding, and intelligent agents.
Predictive Analytics	BAN 805	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces basic concepts and models of supervised and unsupervised statistical learning models. The topics include, multiple regression, logistic regression, classfication, resampling methods, subset selection, the ridge, the lasso, tree- based methods, support vector machines, principal component analysis, and clustering.
Time Series Analysis	BAN 806	Sabancı Business School	This course provides an overview of forecasting techniques and models. Models for time series: Time- dependent seasonal components. Autoregressive (AR), moving average (MA) and mixed ARMA- models. The Random Walk Model. Box-Jenkins methodology. Forecasts with ARIMA and VAR models. Dynamic models with time-shifted explanatory variables.
Financial Analytics	BAN 807	Sabancı Business School	An introduction to methods and tools useful in decision-making in the financial industry, including: macroeconomic event studies, analysis of term structures, Morningstar equity data, style analysis, credit card receivables, trading analytics, execution algorithms, etc. This course blends easy-to-use statistical tools with complex machine learning tools and algorithms to equip the participants with the requisite skill set in analyzing data.
Project Management in Analytics	BAN 809	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces students to the theory and practice of project management. This course examines the management of complex projects and the tools are available to assist managers with such projects. Some of the specific topics we will discuss include project life cycle models, work break down structure, organization break down structure, cost break down structure, graphical presentations and precedence diagramming, network analysis and scheduling techniques, concepts of system life cycle costing, and cost estimation methods and trade-off analysis, risk management, and monitoring and control.
Cyber Security Law	BAN 810	Sabancı Business School	This course examines legal and policy challenges stemming from rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats. Topics include cybercrimes; digital signature law; intellectual property law; digital communication law; cybercrime incidences; laws and regulations for cyber security in the world; ethical issues in cyber security.
Social Media Analytics	BAN 816	Sabancı Business School	This course will examine topics in social data analysis, including influence and centrality in social media, information diffusion on networks, topic modeling and sentiment analysis, identifying social bots, and predicting behavior. This course will demonstrate how AI, network analysis, and statistical methods can be used to study these topics.
Optimization and Simulation	BAN 821	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces the basic principles and techniques of mathematical modeling that will aid managerial decisions. Students will learn how to develop analytical models and use techniques such as linear and mixed integer programming, Monte Carlo simulation, discrete-event simulation and decision trees. The applications are on models that are widely used in diverse business functional areas.
Descriptive Analytics	BAN 827	Sabancı Business School	This course aims to provide a review of methods for statistical inference, and develop an understanding of how these tools can be applied in a variety of business problems. The emphasis of this course would be on applications, through practical examples and cases. A variety of statistical software will be introduced. Topics covered include descriptive statistics, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, regression, design of experiments and analysis of variance.
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence	BAN 831	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces the basics of structured data modeling, gain practical SQL coding experience, and develop an in-depth understanding of data warehouse design and data manipulation. It also allows working with large data sets in a data warehouse environment to create dashboards and introduces a variety of business intelligence solutions.
Computational Tools and IT for Analytics	BAN 835	Sabancı Business School	This course explores both the functional and technical environment for the creation, storage, and use of the most prevalent source and type of data for business analysis. Students will learn how to access and leverage information via SQL for analysis, aggregation to visualization, MapReduce, Apache Spark and Graph databases. This course will also give an introduction to a set of tools and techniques for dealing with large data such as Python and R.
Digitial Transformation & Innovation	BAN 840	Sabancı Business School	The digital transformation that has been happening in the industry is leading to the disappearance of borders between cyber and physical systems and creating synergies between them. In order to maintain and improve their firms’ competitiveness, decision makers need to know the technologies, approaches, and best practices that further this transformation. Digital transformation has also helped recognition of the role of innovation in global competitive environment among other operational priorities (cost, quality, flexibility, and delivery). This course, involve an in -depth discussion into such topics, cases, and best practices.
Digital Transformation	BAN 845	Sabancı Business School	This course is an overview to prepare strategic and organizational transformation of the organizations in today’s digital age. It will cover such topics as environmental analyses for enablers for digital transformation, business transformation, business process management in the digital age, design thinking, the role of IT in business transformation, organization change management, and critical success factors for business transformation.
Database Management	BAN 853	Sabancı Business School	This course gives students hands-on practice and experience in database design and administration along with the fundamental concepts and techniques involved. Topics covered include the entity-relationship model, relational database theory, file structure, indexing and hashing, query processing, crash recovery, concurrency control/transaction processing security and integrity. Creation of tables, views, synonyms and indexes are examined in detail. The use of SQL is considered and highlighted with the help of examples, and used to build the underlining database of an application.
Design Thinking and Power of Story Telling in Business	BAN 871	Sabancı Business School	This course aims at introducing students to new concepts and methods: design thinking and storytelling. Design thinking promotes user-centered innovation, experimentation to cope with the uncertainties that firms face during the innovation process, which rests on some principles, such involvement of users to the innovation or product/service development and design process, problem framing, leveraging empathy with users, experimentation, and diversity. Offering a new method of problem solving, Design Thinking emphasizes the importance of experimenting, learning-by-doing, listening customers, iterations until fin finding a satisfying solution to the problems. Entrepreneurs or managers challenge with not only creating viable solutions to the problems and solutions/innovations to customers and stakeholders where narratives and stories always helped to communicate their vision, and how their innovations would shape the future. Although these stories have improved the communication between and within the firms and their stakeholders, the power of storytelling in business has been widely ignored. Today, with the rise of social media and new communicational channels and tools, storytelling has become more and more critical talent/competence. Providing students with practice-based skills is critical in this course, for this aim, they are required to work on two projects. One of them is based on practicing design thinking process and principles, which students are requested to frame a problem, develop a viable solution, develop a prototype as ensuring user/customer involvement and conduct various experiments to understand the viability of the solution. Second project focuses on storytelling practices; tudents are required to craft an effective story for for the innovation/solution that they develop for the first project. They are also requested to deconstruct and analyze the stories told by classmates.
Business Simulation	BAN 872	Sabancı Business School	This course provides an opportunity for the participants to integrate knowledge and experience through a computer-based simulation environment. As student teams compete, they develop a deeper understanding of how the various functional areas of management (finance, marketing, production) are integrated.
Applied Advanced Analytics	BAN 892	Sabancı Business School	This is a hands-on course to equip students with ways to prepare a culminating project that follows a multifaceted approach in business analytics. The course employs an end-to-end approach by following CRISP-DM (Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining) throughout the module. The course also recapitulates earlier courses in the program and dives into further intricacies of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics.
Graduation Project	BAN 899	Sabancı Business School	The program requires the conduct and completion of a project. The project topic and content is based on the interest and background of the student. It is to be approved by the faculty member serving as the project supervisor. At the completion of the project, the student is required to submit a final report. The report is to be approved by the project supervisor.
Data Driven Decision Making	BAN 900	Sabancı Business School	This course covers basic statistics tools and concepts to teach students how to apply statistical analysis to managerial decisions. By requiring hands-on statistical analysis using MS Excel, the course also aims to develop the students’ data analysis skills. Descriptive statistics, statistical significance, hypothesis testing and linear regression topics are covered and their applications for a variety of business decision are discussed.
Advanced Molecular Biology	BIO 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	An integrated approach to the study of biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology. Topics include; biochemistry and molecular biology of nucleic acids, DNA, RNA and protein biosynthesis, mutation, genetic code and mechanisms of gene expression.
Immunology	BIO 502	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This is an introductory course which surveys most areas of immunology. Immunology is the study of how higher organisms deal with infectious agents. The course is designed to provide a basic understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying the development of the immune response. Topics will include molecular mechanisms of innate immunity, the structure of antibodies and T cell receptors, antigen- antibody interactions, the major histocompatibility complex, antigen presentation, generation of antibody diversity, signaling through immune system receptors, the molecular basis of immune attack, immunological tolerance, and immune memory. There will be topics from medical or bench-side immunology in last few weeks, depends on the conditions and time availability.
Plant Pathology	BIO 503	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Symptoms and diagnosis of viral, bacterial and fungal diseases; disease management strategies; physiology and genetics of host-pathogen interactions; resistance mechanisms and gene expression during host-pathogen interaction; application of genetic engineering in plant pathology.
Applied Protein and Genetic Engineering	BIO 504	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is directed to studies of recent methods used in molecular biology; cell culture, cloning of genes and expression of recombinant and engineered proteins. Practical work will include approaches used in functional genomics where protein function is considered in the context of expression of several different genes in an integrated general cellular function.
Advanced Bioinformatics	BIO 511	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Local and global sequence alignment using dynamic programming, scoring matrices (Pam, Blossum), multiple sequence alignment algorithms, database search algorithms (Blast, Fasta), distance matrices and construction of phylogenetic trees, motif determination.
Advanced Computational Biology	BIO 512	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Physical mapping of DNA, fragment assembly algorithms, gene sequence rearrangement, structure determination using simulated annealing, genetic algorithms and dynamic programming, gene discovery using Hidden Markov Models (HMM), docking.
Tissue Engineering	BIO 521	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Tissue engineering combines the skills of engineering and knowledge of principle biology to generate, restore and replace damaged tissues and organs. To engineer living tissues mimicking conditions in living organism is essential. Therefore, tissue engineering is considered a biomedical engineering discipline and a potential alternative to tissue and organ transplantation. This course is built on three main pillars of tissue engineering: cells, scaffolds, and growth factors. Initially stem cells and differentiation is discussed as well as cell-based tissue engineering applications. Then design and characterization of biomaterials and nanomaterials as tissue scaffolds are covered. Here, various bio- fabrication techniques including 3D bioprinting are detailed. This course also covers the interaction with biomaterial surface, mechanical loading, biologic regulators, and culture conditions. Finally, examples of tissue engineering-based procedures that can alleviate specific diseases and clinical translation of regenerative therapies are analyzed as case studies with student presentations. This course also contains a laboratory session. At this session students will learn to handle mammalian cell cultures, prepare hydrogel and polymer scaffolds, perform tissue culture and characterization.
Neurobiology	BIO 523	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The study of the nervous system and its elements such as neurons and neural pathways, and how these mechanisms mediate behaviour is called neurobiology. It is a broad and rapidly evolving field in biology. This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of molecular and cellular neurobiology, as well as a basic understanding of general neurobiology. Emphasis is placed on mammalian neurobiology, particularly humans. The first part of the course covers neuroanatomy and essential neurocellular signalling pathways, including chemical and electrical signalling and neurotransmission. The course then looks at how the nervous system develops in childhood, how it evolves as a result of life experiences, how it behaves during everyday activities, and how it is disrupted by injury and disease. The course also covers emerging neuroscience research techniques.
Structural Biology	BIO 532	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Approaches used in 3D structure determination of biological macromolecules as well as those used in determination of larger structures in cells will be discussed. Topics include X-ray spectroscopy and crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, time-resolved measurements using X-ray solution scattering. For larger structures microscopic techniques including electron and fluorescence microscopy and indirect imaging methods will be discussed.
Agricultural Biotechnology	BIO 541	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Principles and applications of animal cell culture; artificial insemination and super ovulation; transgenic animals; principles of plant tissue culture; meristem culture and in vitro mass propagation of plant material; somatic embryogenesis ad synthetic seeds; genetic engineering and plant breeding; legal and ethical issues related to agricultural biotechnology.
Principles of Biosafety	BIO 542	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is aimed at increasing awareness of students on risk assessment and risk management strategies used in biosafety systems. Overview of biotechnological applications. Elements of biosafety systems. Concepts of substantial equivalence and the precautionary principle. International Biosafety Protocol and the regulatory framework in different countries. The methods used in GM food safety and environmental risk analysis. Socio-economical and ethical issues related to biotechnology. Risk perception and communication.
Plant Stress Physiology	BIO 543	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will provide basic information on the reactions of plants to environmental stress factors. Lecture topics will include crop productivity under stress; gene expression in response to stress and development of transgenic plants with elevated stress tolerance; adaptation of the photosynthetic apparatus to stress conditions; drought and salinity stress; high light and heat stress; low temperature and freezing stress; mineral nutrient deficiency and heavy metal toxicity; root responses to mineral deficiencies and toxicities; phytoremidation; responses to plant pathogens; flooding and oxygen deficiency. A special attention will be given to synthesis and detoxification of oxygen free radicals and oxidative cell damage under stress conditions.
Bioengineering	BIO 544	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The Bioengineering course provides a foundation in engineering design and the natural and biological sciences. The course is designed to acquaint students with current research and problems in bioengineering by introducing them to the application of engineering principles to biological and medical problems. It provides students with an understanding of the breadth of bioengineering and the knowledge and skills required to contribute to the development of the rapidly growing field of bioengineering. The course introduces the fundamentals of bioengineering, provides information on cell and tissue engineering and stem cell technologies, introduces biomechanics and mechanobiological aspects, and explains the biological performance of materials. Applications of bioengineering are then explored, particularly for biosensors and diagnostic systems, therapeutic approaches, and drug delivery technologies, followed by applications in various disciplines, including but not limited to genetics, chemical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and environmental engineering.
Plant Growth and Development	BIO 545	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will focus on developmental processes of plant growth at both cellular and organizmal level. Plant cells and cytodifferentiation; biosynthesis and mechanisms of action of phytohormones in particular auxins, cytokinins, gibberellins, absicic acid and ethylene; signal perception and transduction; secondary messangers; organogenesis; embryogenesis; seed development, dormancy and germination; flower development; photomorphogenesis will be covered in detail
Biology of Aging	BIO 546	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course intends to provide an up-to-date overview of the field of aging and gerontology While all of us intuitively know what the aging is, many basic questions about aging are mysterious. Is aging itself a disease, and can we successfully intervene in the aging process? Or is it a program that one can hack? The course will start with a discussion of aging systems both from the view of biologist but also from the point of view of a system engenderer. We will explore the scientific discoveries made from studies of model organisms, which have led to revelations about the molecular biology of aging. We will look at aging at different angles – from population genetics to the “reliability theory”. The second part of the course will describe methods for studying aging, descriptions of population aging, and theories on how and why we age We are going to understand why older people more likely to experience neurodegenerative disorders, stroke, and cancer and what kind of changes happen at the molecular and cellular levels that are associated with these diseases. The third part of the course provides an in depth discussion of the processes of aging in various body systems. In combination with this we will discuss some medical treatments that can extend the lifespan of organisms as diverse as yeast and primates, and the implications for successfully intervening in age-related diseases. Finally, students will explore biological changes that occur with aging at the molecular and organismal levels and how they can be viewed from the perspectives of various disciplines.
Functional Genomics and Proteomics	BIO 550	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Studies of when and where genes are active, identification and determination of the properties of the proteins encoded. Studying how proteins interact with each other and the role these interactions play in normal function and disease.
Graduate Seminar I	BIO 551	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar II	BIO 552	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Signal Transduction	BIO 567	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The molecular mechanisms by which environmental signals are received by cells and translated into a biological response such as development, cell behavior, immune response are currently one of the most-studied areas in modern biology. In this course several prototype- signalling pathways to discuss the mechanistic concepts in signal transduction, to present state-of-art research, and to discuss various experimental approaches will be presented. The most relevant concepts of signal transduction, i.e. protein-protein interactions, phosphorylation and GTP-binding proteins will be discussed.
Gene Regulation & Diseas	BIO 568	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	1)The lectures will cover aspects of several rare diseases, common infectious viral diseases and multifactorial diseases like AMD. 2)The outcome of disease mutations for protein-protein or protein-nucleic acid interactions and protein functions at the molecular level will be coupled with model organism studies and its consequences for tissues, organs and the whole animal. 3)Both failed and successful therapeutic approaches for a given disease condition will be discussed. Moreover, where available, ongoing clinical trials and the discussion of its disease mechanism and the therapautic aproach that is used will be a part of the course. 4)A short essay will be written covering the etiology, diagnostics and ongoing or possble therapautic appraoches of a given disease. Disease condition will be decided by students at 7th week of the course
Climate Change, Plant Health & Food Security	BIO 569	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Climate change is predicted to adversely affect plant production in most of the agricultural areas around the world. Many established agricultural production systems are being questioned for their vulnerability to climate change, forcing farmers to adopt new management practices and modify their accustomed cropping systems. “Climate Change, Plant Health and Food Security’’ course will study the individual climate change variables in two sections. The first section will discuss the variables that have a broader and direct effect, viz., (i) elevating atmospheric carbon dioxide (eCO2) and (ii) rising global temperature. The second section will highlight localized effects of climate change (i.e. changing precipitation patterns, heat waves, frequency of agricultural droughts) on plant health and food security. In the first section, the contradictory interactions of eCO2 and high temperatures will be examined in light of recent literature. It is known that eCO2 alone can bring about significant profit in gross agricultural production, mostly by means of cultivation of C3 crop species and due to increased carbon abundance and the concomitant water-use efficiency. However, students will comprehend that the rising global temperatures challenge any optimistic predictions about the effect of global climate change on crop productivity. In the final part of the first section students will be given the task of performing a literature review on effects of major climate change variables on deterioration of the nutritional value of cereal grains (i.e. due to enhanced carbohydrate accumulation and thus dilution of protein and micronutrients in grain tissue). The second section will focus on increases in frequency and severity of abiotic stressors including but not limited to heat, drought, waterlogging, and salinity as a consequence of changes in the local climate. Topics will extend to impact of global and local climate change variables on crop pests and diseases. Potential effects of climate change-induced biotic stress factors will be discussed in particular of farm biosecurity and food security. In the final section of the course, mitigation and adaptation strategies for tackling local and global climate change variables will be introduced. Strengths and weaknesses of current breeding and agricultural management strategies will be discussed.
Chromosome Biology	BIO 570	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course deals with major concepts in exploration of the relationships between chromosome structure, function and behaviour. Topics include; basic properties of chromosomes, specialized chromosomes (polytene chromosomes, lampbrush chromosomes) chromatin and higher-order structure of chromosomes, bacterial and eukaryotic chromosomes, centromeres, dynamic behaviour of telomeres, genome organization and function, control of mitotic and meiotic segregation, chromosome aberrations, transposons, chromosome purification, chromosome banding, in situ hybridization, chromosome polyploidy, aneuploidy and haploidy. Necessary equipment and facilities of the molecular cytogenetics laboratory, microscopy, analysis of signal and imaging will be also covered.
Special Topics in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering	BIO 580	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in BIO: Climate Change, Plant Health and Food Security	BIO 58000	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Climate change is predicted to adversely affect plant production in most of the agricultural areas around the world. Many established agricultural production systems are being questioned for their vulnerability to climate change, forcing farmers to adopt new management practices and modify their accustomed cropping systems. “Climate Change, Plant Health and Food Security’’ course will study the individual climate change variables in two sections. The first section will discuss the variables that have a broader and direct effect, viz., (i) elevating atmospheric carbon dioxide (eCO2) and (ii) rising global temperature. The second section will highlight localized effects of climate change (i.e. changing precipitation patterns, heat waves, frequency of agricultural droughts) on plant health and food security. In the first section, the contradictory interactions of eCO2 and high temperatures will be examined in light of recent literature. It is known that eCO2 alone can bring about significant profit in gross agricultural production, mostly by means of cultivation of C3 crop species and due to increased carbon abundance and the concomitant water-use efficiency. However, students will comprehend that the rising global temperatures challenge any optimistic predictions about the effect of global climate change on crop productivity. In the final part of the first section students will be given the task of performing a literature review on effects of major climate change variables on deterioration of the nutritional value of cereal grains (i.e. due to enhanced carbohydrate accumulation and thus dilution of protein and micronutrients in grain tissue). The second section will focus on increases in frequency and severity of abiotic stressors including but not limited to heat, drought, waterlogging, and salinity as a consequence of changes in the local climate. Topics will extend to impact of global and local climate change variables on crop pests and diseases. Potential effects of climate change-induced biotic stress factors will be discussed in particular of farm biosecurity and food security. In the final section of the course, mitigation and adaptation strategies for tackling local and global climate change variables will be introduced. Strengths and weaknesses of current breeding and agricultural management strategies will be discussed.
Special Topics in BIO: Genome Engineering	BIO 58001	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Genome engineering is a new and very popular field in health sciences. The development of CRISPR/Cas9 reagents has enabled many molecular biology laboratories to easily make changes in DNA of living cells and organisms. In this course we will survey the literature to understand the historical development of genome engineering, including previous incarnations of the method before CRISPR/Cas9, namely zinc finger nucleases (ZFN) and transcription activator like effector nucleases (TALEN). We will discuss the mechanisms of homology directed repair versus non- homologous end joining. Every week, two primary research papers will be discussed. Students will read these papers in their own study time and in class will present the findings of selected papers. We will also design CRISPR/Cas9 reagents using in silico tools. Off target specificity will be assessed using on line 3 tools. The laboratory component of the course will allow students to construct a CRISPR/Cas9 expression plasmid, use this plasmid to transfect and induce mutations in tissue culture cells and to detect these mutations using different techniques such as T7 endonuclease and/or restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) techniques.
Special Topics in BIO: Genome-wide Sequencing Techniques and Analysis	BIO 58002	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	With the developments in molecular biology and DNA sequencing technologies, some biological problems can be addressed genome-wide. After Next- generation Sequencing (NGS) technology was established, the cost of DNA sequencing has been decreasing which leads molecular experiments to change their form. These experiments can now be designed to solve DNA-related problems at the genome scale. Consequently, a number of new NGS- based technologies are developed every year. Massively accumulating sequence datasets are often reanalyzed with the aim of answering related but distinct questions from different perspectives. Therefore, it is important to understand not only how these techniques work and but also how their outcomes are in silico analyzed. This course will cover a part of available sequencing techniques such as whole genome sequencing, exome sequencing, RNA-seq, GRO-seq, NET-seq, ChIP-seq, DNase-seq, FAIRE-seq, Hi-C-seq, XR-seq, Damage-seq, etc. The students will learn how to perform these techniques theoretically and how to analyze them practically. The students will be assigned to read and present related articles. Students will also perform an NGS-related project with the skills they will learn during the course flow.
Special Topics in BIO: Autophagy in Health and Disease	BIO 58003	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in BIO: Single-cell analysis techniques Single-cell analysis techniques	BIO 58004	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Cellular signaling networks determine the fate and (dys)function of cells in response to a variety of environmental stimuli. The discovery of genetically encoded fluorescent proteins based biosensors over 2 decades ago enabled the detection and real-time measurement of cellular dynamics and signal transduction pathways with high spatial and temporal resolution. In this lecture, we will study how to engineer genetically encoded biosensors and chemogenetic/optogenetic tools and will also discuss many of the molecular designs that can be utilized in their development. We will also study how the high temporal and spatial resolution afforded by fluorescent biosensors can be aided for our understanding of the spatiotemporal regulation of signaling networks at the cellular and subcellular level. It is also planned to highlight some emerging areas of research in both biosensor design and applications that are on the forefront of biosensor development
Special Topics in BIO: Systems and Integrative Biology	BIO 58005	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Students will take part in the following sections of this course 1)Literature survey to gain more background knowledge: this aims to introduce the students from a range of backgrounds in the biological and physical sciences, mathematics, computer science, and engineering to the basic concepts and theories behind Integrative and Systems Biology. 2)An introduction to integrative data collection and analysis: this section will cover experimental design and analysis and then use actual datasets previously collected from integrative biology experiments to explore the various analytical tools for integrating ‘omics’ approaches (transcriptomics, proteomics and and metabolomics), to arrive at testing a hypothesis. This section will emphasize the pros and cons of dealing with large amounts of data. 3)Systems engineering and mathematical modelling approaches: this section of the course will involve computer -based network modelling and a systems engineering framework required for studying a multifactorial complex problem. Students will embody tools of mathematics, informatics and statistics. 4)Wetlab experimental tools used in integrative biology: the molecular and cellular tools commonly used to integrate across behavioral, physiological, and neurological levels will be introduced. Students will have to devise their own experimental design to test a novel hypothesis generated on their own that will enhance their current thesis work. This section will include possible practical work if it is deemed feasible and results obtained will be presented orally by the end of the course. In addition to the above sections which incorporate lectures and practical classes, students will be required to carry out an independent research project of their own, applying what they have learned in class.
Special Topics in BIO: Gene Regulation and Disease	BIO 58006	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	1)The lectures will cover aspects of several rare diseases, common infectious viral diseases and multifactorial diseases like AMD. 2)The outcome of disease mutations for protein-protein or protein-nucleic acid interactions and protein functions at the molecular level will be coupled with model organism studies and its consequences for tissues, organs and the whole animal. 3)Both failed and successful therapeutic approaches for a given disease condition will be discussed. Moreover, where available, ongoing clinical trials and the discussion of its disease mechanism and the therapautic aproach that is used will be a part of the course. 4)A short essay will be written covering the etiology, diagnostics and ongoing or possble therapautic appraoches of a given disease. Disease condition will be decided by students at 7th week of the course
Special Topics in BIO: Retinal Cell Biology and its Evolutionary Perspectives	BIO 58007	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	1) Introduction to course will cover all type of retinal cells in a typical mammalian retina and their unique architecture. 2) Fundamentals of retinal cell biology; visual cycle, retinal circuitry as well as signal transmission to receptive fields in brain will be included. 3) A more depth organizational perspective will be given by cross comparing several organisms including human, mouse, octopus, jellyfish, drosophila, sea urchin and further. 4) An evolutionary comparison of retinal cell types and their origin will be covered. 5) Finally, retinal development and its gene regulatory networks will be studied. Specific attention will be given to the transcription factors including Math5, Pou4f1, Pou4f2, NeuroD1 and especially Pax6 which can form ectopic eyes solely by its overexpression in flies.
Special Topics in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering II	BIO 581	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Introduction to Graduate Research Assistantship I	BIO 587	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Practical courses aiming at preparing graduate students (both at MSc and PhD level) to their work in biology laboratories and evaluating their performances until the thesis period. The course will cover the following topics: How does a biology research lab and a research team function? How to do biology research? What are the commonly used techniques? What are the safety regulations? How to handle sensitive equipment? The performance of the student will be evaluated and graded in the light of the feedback provided by her/his supervisor both on technical skills as well as willingness in teamwork.
Introduction to Graduate Research Assistantship II	BIO 588	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Practical courses aiming at preparing graduate students (both at MSc and PhD level) to their work in biology laboratories and evaluating their performances until the thesis period. The course will cover the following topics: How does a biology research lab and a research team function? How to do biology research? What are the commonly used techniques? What are the safety regulations? How to handle sensitive equipment? The performance of the student will be evaluated and graded in the light of the feedback provided by her/his supervisor both on technical skills as well as willingness in teamwork.
Introduction to Graduate Research Assistantship III	BIO 589	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Practical courses aiming at preparing graduate students (both at MSc and PhD level) to their work in biology laboratories and evaluating their performances until the thesis period. The course will cover the following topics: How does a biology research lab and a research team function? How to do biology research? What are the commonly used techniques? What are the safety regulations? How to handle sensitive equipment? The performance of the student will be evaluated and graded in the light of the feedback provided by her/his supervisor both on technical skills as well as willingness in teamwork.
Master Thesis	BIO 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Project Course	BIO 592	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The objective of project course is to improve the research and problem solving capabilites and communication and presentation skills of the students by conducting work on a preferably real-life problem under the supervision of his/her Project Supervisor(s).
Free Radicals in Biological Systems	BIO 601	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Studying the reactions of free radicals, which are, produced during the normal metabolic functions or under stress conditions. Their effects on life processes, cell signalling and gene expression patterns. Oxidant and antioxidant interactions will also be studied.
Genes and Behaviour	BIO 602	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Behavior is what a plant or animal does in the course of an individual's lifetime, in response to some event or change in its environment. The major aim of this course is to explore the possible links between an organism's behavioral traits and its behavior. Historical development of "Nature Nurture" controversy, how behavior is measured and evaluated, genetic roots of such behaviors as aggression and sexual preference are among the subjects to be discussed.
Interaction of Chemicals and Biosystems	BIO 604	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Genetic, mutagenic, teratogenic and carcinogenic effects effects of drugs, pesticides, industrial chemicals, food contaminants, and known carcinogenic molecules. Understanding their effects at the molecular level and approaches to counteract.
Advanced Immunology	BIO 606	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Analysis of genetic recombination events that program the immune system to recognize foreign molecules. We will examine topics such as VDJ recombination in T and B lymphocytes, immunoglobulin class switching, and somatic hypermutation. Students will gain an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of cellular and developmental events that make up the mammalian immune system. Similarities between the mammalian immune system the innate immune system of plants and the olfactory system of higher eukaryotes will be discussed.
Computational Genome Analysis	BIO 610	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Application of Hidden Markov Models (HMM) to discover genes developing algorithms to rearrange genes, cluster algorithms DNA sequence alignment, gene identification by using known sequences.
Dynamics of Biological System	BIO 631	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This is an advanced graduate course which surveys cellular responses to environmental stimuli. We will examine how receptors are engaged by their ligands, cytoplasmic signaling events, activation of new gene transcription, tissue specificity of gene transcription and cell death pathways. The course is designed to provide an advanced understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying the signal transduction in development, disease and stres conditions.
Mechanisms of Programmed Cell Death	BIO 633	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This is an advanced graduate course which surveys concepts in programmed cell death (apoptosis and non-apoptotic alternative mechanisms). We will examine how extracellular and intracellular signals activate cell death, which cytoplasmic signaling events are involved and how the cell is finally destroyed. The course is designed to provide an advanced understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying programmed cell death under physiological and disease-related conditions and in various organisms including yeasts, plants and humans.
Molecular Medicine	BIO 634	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	A graduate level course that aims at analyzing molecular mechanisms of disease. Mechanisms leading to disease and observed molecular changes will be dissected in diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington?s disease, infectious diseases and some inherited diseases. The lectures will involve discussion of recent advances in the light of current litterature. Genetic and environmental causes of cancer, cancer types, molecular changes causing cancer, metastasis, treatment of cancer, genetics and molecular mechanisms leading of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, major causes of infectious diseases, viruses, bacteria and parasites, molecular mechanisms of AIDS, hepatitis and common bacterial infections, genetic basis of inherited disease, common genetic diseases and molecular mechanisms will be covered during the course.
Nanotoxicology	BIO 635	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The number of materials and devices produced using nano technology is rapidly growing. With recent advances in the field, nano materials and nano particles start to be widely used in all fields of life. In order to avoid eventual health problems, documentation of the effects of nano particles and materials on organisms and cells is of utmost importance. During the nanotoxicology course, the effects of nano particles and materials on human health and, stress, disease and death responses of the organisms and cells to nano particles and materials will be analyzed and discussed from a molecular biology perspective. Nano particles/materials in industry and in the environment, methods to study nanotoxicology, organismal responses to nanomaterials, entry-uptake, faith of nano particles in cells and cellular and molecular stress and death responses against them will be covered during the course.
Cancer Biology	BIO 636	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course aims at analyzing molecular mechanism of cancer. Genetic and environmental factors of cancer, types of cancer, molecular changes causing cancer, angiogenesis, metastasis, role of cellular stress response, autophagy, in cancer and treatment of cancer will be discussed during the course. The lectures will involve discussion of recent advances in the light of current literature. Active participation to the course will be expected.
Signal Transduction in Biology	BIO 641	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Molecular analysis of signal transduction pathways which effect cellular mechanisms. Topics such as growth hormones, G-proteins, second messengers and ion channels will be studied with reference to articles in the literature.
Plant Molecular Biology and Genetics	BIO 642	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course was divided into two sections. In section 1, structural and functional organization of plant genomes and various approaches to identify and mark genes will be highlighted. Learn about genetic and molecular mechanism of recombination, concepts and methodologies of various marker systems, mapping populations, distribution and types of genes. In section 2, cytoplasmic inheritance, gene silencing and epigenetic, genetic dissection of biochemical pathways, mitochondrial gene expression, virus gene expression, plant model system and their value, and modern genomic tools and system biology will be covered.
Plant Adaptation to Adverse Soil Conditions	BIO 643	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Distribution of acid, saline, alkaline and flooded soils globally; plant growth and yield under adverse soil conditions; plant responses and genotypic variation in acid soils, aluminium toxicity and aluminium tolerance; alkaline soils, physiological and morphological adaptation mechanisms of plants to mineral nutrient deficiencies (i.e.,phosphorous, iron and zinc); adverse effects of salinity on plant growth, genotypic variation in adaptation to saline soils; heavy metal contamination; genotypic differences in uptake and transport of heavy metals, phytoremediation and metal-hyperaccumulators.
Plant Genomics	BIO 644	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The objective of this course is to understand the plant genome analysis and basic approaches in plant functional genomics underlying forward and reverse genetics, transposon insertion, RNA interference (RNAi) and micro RNA (miRNA), gain of function (activativation tagging) mutagenesis, TILLING (Targeted Induced Local Lession IN Genomes) and fine structure genetics (Modifier screens, Enhancer trap, GAL4 mediated over expression) and methods for trasncriptome analysis (cDNA microarrays, Oligonucleaotide arrays, Rapid Analysis of Gene Expression (RAGE) and Serial analysıs of gene expressıon (SAGE) will also be covered in detail.
Plant Tissue Culture Techniques	BIO 645	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This is a practical course on both principles and practices of plant tissue culture techniques. The laboratory organization and requirements; principles of plant cell, tissue, and organ cultures; organic and inorganic components of the plant tissue culture media; physiology of in vitro grown plants and acclimatization; meristem culture; cell suspension culture; somatic emryogenesis; organogenesis; adventitious shoot and root formation; commercial applications will be covered in detail.
Metal Homeostasis in Plant Systems	BIO 676	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Metal homeostasis plays a critical role in all kingdoms of life including plants. This course will start with an overview of metals in plant systems and an introduction to concepts related to molecular and cellular mechanisms of metal homeostasis. The focus of the first half of the course will then be on the physiological and biochemical functions of essential metallic nutrients in plants and plant responses to their deficiencies including tolerance mechanisms. The second part of the course will begin with a discussion of Al and heavy metals toxicities (Cd, Fe, Mn, Cu, Ni etc.) and focus on the relevant tolerance and detoxification mechanisms. Metalloids in plant systems, soil and environmental parameters affecting metal homeostasis, metal hyperaccumulation and phytoremediation will also be covered. Finally, the discussion will focus on the biofortification of food crops with micronutrients (Zn, Fe, Se etc.) and the connection between metal homeostasis in plants and human nutrition.
Selected Topics in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering I	BIO 680	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Selected Topics in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering II	BIO 681	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar I	BIO 751	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar II	BIO 752	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Ph.D. Dissertation	BIO 790	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Brand Management	BP 501	Sabancı Business School	Branding has become a very critical tool for achieving and maintaining success in marketing. This course is designed to focus on the strategic brand management process and will cover concepts/issues/approaches in building, measuring and managing brand equity. Hence, the objective will be to get an in-depth understanding of branding and strategic brand management and their applications in practice. The course develops the knowledge and skills necessary in the essential aspects of formulating and implementing branding strategies and decisions. The course provides you with a systematic framework for effective strategic brand management and planning process Our other objective will be to develop skills in analysis and reasoning, group interaction, oral and written presentation, theory application and decision-making.
B2B-B2C Marketing	BP 502	Sabancı Business School	B2C - B2B Marketing course elaborates critical topics in the journey of a brand. Approaches to the end users vary hugely in the fields of B2B and B2C, and our course reflects upon that. The instructors, expertise and real life practices are the core of the course. B2B part will be designed in a “blended” manner.
Project–Brand Action Paradigm	BP 503	Sabancı Business School	Brand management requires high adaptation skills, ability to work under fierce competition. In order to better prepare the students for a game of “gaining and retaining competitive advantage”, course aims at to equip them with a tool kit.
Consumer Behaviour	BP 511	Sabancı Business School	Consumer behaviours course conceptualizes variances that determine and affect consumer’s decision-making process and consumer behaviors, consumer behavior models, explanatory and descriptive models, and addresses the main objective and evolution of consumer behaviours from past to present in the transition from modernism to postmodernism. The place of consumer behaviour in marketing in consumption society, symbolic consumption and hedonism in terms of interdisciplinary approaches to consumer behaviors, the definition of new consumer according to consumer behavior and marketing strategy relationship in businesses, experience economy, customer experience management, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, new trends of consumer researches in consumer century and customer capital management are examined.
International Marketing I	BP 512	Sabancı Business School	International Marketing Strategy is a problem-solving-oriented marketing course designed for marketing executives and second-year MBA students who expect to undertake marketing assignments as part of their career paths to general management, and students planning functional careers in multinational, global, and internationalizing enterprises. My objective in this course is to present a systematic application of strategic marketing in the global environment. I present an integrated treatment of conceptual and managerial issues in contemporary international marketing based on the state-of-the-art research in the field. The focus is on the formulation of comprehensive marketing strategies by multinationals from developed economies, such as the United States, but also from emerging economies, such as India, China, S. Africa, and Turkey, competing in global industries. The course is designed to provide an appreciation for cross-functional and interdisciplinary perspectives in international business. This is because today’s global operations increasingly require these proficiencies in managing core business processes.
Brand Action / BAP / Established Brand	BP 513	Sabancı Business School	Brand management requires high adaptation skills, ability to work under fierce competition. In order to better prepare the students for a game of “gaining and retaining competitive advantage”, course aims at to equip them with a tool kit - conducting detailed analysis when faced with real problems, effectively work and communicate in a teamwork environment and deliver results, all under the tutorage of leads and mentors. Brand Action Project or BAP, aims to provide the students with hands-on experience and opportunity for action-learning in a real brand practice environment from different established brands. BAP companies or stakeholders will provide data, expert view and contribution of various management levels during the process of BAP.
Big Picture in Marketing	BP 521	Sabancı Business School	Big Picture method integrates strategy development and implementation decisions in order to increase the effectiveness of marketing decisions and efficiency of investments. It helps to identify the relationship between target customer, their needs, customer's change of behaviour depending on their changing perception, and the effect of this change to the brand. From strategic design to implementation decisions, a complete study is applied in the course. In order to bridge the gap between marketing strategy concepts and strategy designing, Big Picture management is implemented on different markets and brand dynamics through simulation or applied case studies.
Integrated Marketing Communication	BP 522	Sabancı Business School	Today's brand manager has to manage and make his/her brand successful in a much more complicated marketing environment than the brand managers of the last two decades. A brand manager must interact with his/her customers, making decision with his/her emotions and producing content by operating and managing different communication agencies specialized in their fields around the idea of one single brand in an environment where s/he is surrounded by many traditional or brand new communication channels. Integrated Marketing Communication course aims to develop the skill of using all communication disciplines and channels in an integral manner in this complicated consumer, media and agency environment. It shares necessary theoretical knowledge for this purpose and helps students gain total brand communication practice by means of case studies to be brought by managers of agencies with different expertise.
Brand Action - BAP / Challenging Brands	BP 523	Sabancı Business School	Brand management requires high adaptation skills, ability to work under fierce competition. In order to better prepare the students for a game of “gaining and retaining competitive advantage”, course aims at to equip them with a tool kit - conducting detailed analysis when faced with real problems, effectively work and communicate in a teamwork environment and deliver results, all under the tutorage of leads and mentors. Brand Action Project or BAP, aims to provide the students with hands-on experience and opportunity for action-learning in a real brand practice environment from different challenging brands. BAP companies or stakeholders will provide data, expert view and contribution of various management levels during the process of BAP.
Economics and Practice of Finance	BP 531	Sabancı Business School	Objectives of the course are; a) to elaborate how different market mechanisms work, b) to discuss about various drivers behind economical growth, c) to review essential accounting principles and analyze financial statements d) to discuss various budgeting techniques.
New Product Development	BP 532	Sabancı Business School	The companies today are being transformed from product-focused structures into brand-focused structures. This transformation shows itself in development of new products, as well as in all processes. The New Product Development course focuses on transformation in these processes. The concepts of product, innovation, brand pillars, product portfolio management constitutes the focus of the course. Management of brands in an innovative company is discussed over different sectors.
Brand Action / Non -Profit Brands	BP 533	Sabancı Business School	Brand management requires high adaptation skills, ability to work under fierce competition. In order to better prepare the students for a game of “gaining and retaining competitive advantage”, course aims at to equip them with a tool kit - conducting detailed analysis when faced with real problems, effectively work and communicate in a teamwork environment and deliver results, all under the tutorage of leads and mentors. Brand Action Project or BAP, aims to provide the students with hands-on experience and opportunity for action-learning in a real brand practice environment from different Non -Profit Brands. BAP companies or stakeholders will provide data, expert view and contribution of various management levels during the process of BAP.
Digital Paradigm	BP 541	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Digital Paradigm covers the changes created by sociological facts and judicial issues in a new environment and the opportunities and risks created by these changes in the business world, as well as products and services moving from physical environments to digital environments faster than expected. Due to Digital Paradigm many firm has been founded or disappeared in the last 10 years. Moreover, the new lines of business have been formed or some of them disappeared or become smaller. The course will follow these changes and will be lectured as seminars. Also, case study and role study methods will be applied.
Design	BP 542	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Design course aims at not educating designers, but improving the skills of a manager working with designers, developing the skill of communicating with designers, and developing the skill and criteria of evaluating a design. The process starts with comprehending the concept of " design thinking" that can be used in every field of the business world, and continues with the place and importance of design in building a brand. It will also address the importance of proper brief preparation, presentation and package design for the brand, and contemporary marketing issues such as service and experience design. At certain points of all these studies, the concepts will be analyzed through real examples and practices by means of studies to be conducted with different brands related to the topic.
International Marketing Strategy II	BP 552	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this course is to present a systematic application of strategic marketing in the global environment. It covers an integrated treatment of conceptual and managerial issues in contemporary international marketing based on the state-of-the-art research in the field. The focus is on the formulation of comprehensive marketing strategies by multinationals from developed economies, such as the United States, but also from emerging economies, such as India, China, S. Africa and Turkey. The objectives are: <br/> • Globalization and its impact on marketing in the new world economy<br/> • Building global market participation and localizing marketing activities effectively<br/> • Designing a global marketing strategy and executing it effectively<br/> • Conducting cross - national consumer behaviour analysis based on market research<br/>
Marketing 3.0	BP 562	Sabancı Business School	The new consumer is highly aware, demanding and has the ability to use technology effectively. Ready-made marketing practices are no longer effective. The new consumer requires brands to begin a constant exchange of values, forces them o establish genuine relationship with themselves. This course will focus on the marketing tools in the digital era and best marketing practice where constant dialogue with the consumer prevails.
Electrochemistry	CHEM 505	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Fundamentals of electrochemistry including thermodynamics of electrochemistry, electrode kinetics, electrode potentials, electrochemical cell, Faradays law, electrical conductivity, mass transfer. Basic techniques in electrochemistry including potentiostatic and galvanostatic methods, cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Applications of electrochemistry: electrochemical polymerization, conducting polymers, batteries, fuel cells, biofuel cells.
International Conflict and Peace	CONF 500	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides an overview of the related fields of peace studies and conflict resolution by exploring different definitions, perspectives, actors, and tools available to practitioners and scholars. It is a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the causes and conditions of international conflict and peace. It examines the history and development of contending approaches to conflict and peace, their basic assumptions and methodologies, and their application to current conflict situations, with particular emphasis upon the following: peace through coercive power; peace through nonviolence; peace through world order; and peace through personal and community transformation.
Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution	CONF 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is an overview of the field of international conflict analysis and resolution. It examines major social scientific theories of conflict and weaves together ideas ideas from various disciplines with new approaches especially to causes of deep-rooted conflict. The courses emphasizes sources and responses to conflict in the international system.
Correlates of War and Peace	CONF 502	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This seminar surveys theories of international conflict. Assigned readings will cover major theoretical perspectives, debates, and empirical research on the causes of international conflict and war with an emphasis on recent developments in the field. The seminar will also touch upon factors that influence the duration, severity and termination of international conflict.
Foreign Policy and Conflict Resolution	CONF 504	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The use of conflict resolution approaches in the development and implementation of a nation's foreign policy. Addresses the challenge of how policy making and diplomatic practice can be influenced by theories of conflict resolutions. Students will compare security oriented foreign policy approaches with innovative foreign policy formulations.
Multilateral Negotiations in the EU	CONF 508	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Multilateral negotiations are complex interactions. This course investigates social structure of mutilateral negotiations in the context of the EU negotiations, and offers theoretical frameworks to explain different angles of multilateral negotiations. At empirical level the course addresses the negotiations in the EU in three different levels. First, the course analyzes negotiations between the member states and the EU institutions and the institutionalized Patterns of bargaining, second the course addresses the negotiations between the major EU institutions, namely, the Commission, the Council of the EU and the European Parliament. Third, the course addresses the negotiations patterns between the EU and non-members, specifically through the enlargement negotiations underway since 1997.
Third Party Roles in Peace Processes	CONF 510	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will examine the role of various third parties in different stages of a conflict and peace processes, such as conflict prevention, peacemaking, and peacebuilding. The objectives of the course are to introduce the students to the concept of "third party intervention" and the range of third party roles and perspectives, to understand the different strategies and tactics used by third parties, and to discuss the effectiveness of their interventions.
Culture and Conflict	CONF 511	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designated to introduce students to the cultural roots of conflict taking place around the world. We will explore the systematic attempts to understand the relationship of cultural difference and conflict both in theory and in practice. The aim of the course is to integrate international conflict resolution methods and culture as they pertain to different conflict zones. In this course we will study this emerging literature and field of study and practice. We will critically evaluate its usefulness in confronting contemporary global political and humanitarian challenges. Specific attention will be given to such cultural causes as ethnicity, language, race, and gender in the development and resolution of conflict in domestic and international arenas.
Research Methods	CONF 512	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces research design and analysis and aims to expose them to ethical consideration in research and publishing. Students will learn techniques for gathering analysing and interpreting data. The techniques include laboratory and field experiments, simulation, surveys and sampling approaches, archival analysis, and ethnographic filed work. Both qualitative and quantitaive techniques are covered including an introduction to probability theory and statistical analysis. Students will also have experience with SPSS and qualitative computer programs.
Issues, Concepts and Theories in Conflict Resolution	CONF 523	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Considers the key substantive themes in conflict resolution. Senior scholars will present their approaches to each of these themes in two-week modules, including identity conflicts and nationalism, language and culture and institutions, the global context of conflict, and the dynamics of the peace process. Students will be expected to complete a concept essay on each of these thematic modules.
Advanced Topics in Conflict Resolution	CONF 524	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is a continuation of Pro-seminar I. Senior scholars will cover such topics as war, violence, and conflict resolution, conflict termination, peace-keeping, peace building, negotiation, mediation and other forms of third-party decision making
Conflict Resolution Practice	CONF 531	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides both a framework and experience for integrating theory and practice in conflict resolution. Reviews types of practice and theories of intervention and change, discusses the analytic process of conflicts before interventions and assessing the impacts of interventions and the conflict. Students will experience third party options for intervention, in a variety of types of international conflicts including way to build trust among parties for obtaining and implementing agreements.
Managing Conflict in Organizations	CONF 532	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course examines the intersection between organizational behavior and human conflict. Organizations are basic units of society that require interdependence and effective conflict analysis and management skills. This class will enable students to develop conceptual understandings of the psychological and behavioral dynamics of interpersonal, intergroup, and systemic conflict in an organizational context. Students will also gain practical skills related to effective diagnosis and intervention in organizational systems and learn about the strategic prevention and management of conflict. A variety of didactic techniques will be used, including lecture, small group work, and fieldwork in an organizational setting.
Media in Conflict Resolution	CONF 534	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Events, characters, images and stories we see everyday in the media shape our perceptions and values. Moreover, the way the media presents such issues as cultural diversity/clash, conflicts and wars have a powerful and long-lasting effects in societies and the way the conflict and peace are structured. This course will critically examine the representations of conflict in the media to determine whether such representations are an accurate or distorted reflection of reality; study the effects (if any) of such representations on the public to provide the students with a critical understanding of the role of media in shaping society and social norms. The scope of this course includes how media creates stereotypes leading cultural intensity, how it reflects times of conflicts and wars (with an emphasis on embedded journalism), how media's presentation of reality affects peace process and post-conflict phase.
Organizations in Conflict Resolution	CONF 536	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Since the establishment of the League of Nations, a wide range of literature on the role of organizations in international relations has emerged. Recently, some scholars also focused on the role of local NGOs in conflict prevention and creating a peaceful, trustful political environment. This course studies the role of organizations as a) sources of conflict, b) conflict prevention c) mediators and d) peace builders. We will, first analyze how to study organizations in general and then, their roles in conflict settings. More specifically we will discuss the role of local and international non-governmental (NGOs) and governmental organizations (IGOs).
Integration of Theory, Research and Practice	CONF 541	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is the review and synthesis of the students prior course-work. It is intended to provide a holistic perspective of the field, emphasising the most recent scholarship. Students are expected to to prepare an integrative paper that shows connections among theory, research and practice in the context of particular conflicts.
Collective Violence, Healing, and Transformation	CONF 542	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Promoting healing, enabling reconciliation and cultivating transformation in countries affected by mass violence remains a pressing question facing the global community. This class will explore the effects of collective violence, such as genocide, ethnic, inter- and intra-state conflict, and the recovery process. Focus will be on understanding the concepts of trauma and resiliency and exploring mechanisms for healing, fostering reconciliation, and transforming the trauma of war at multiple levels of analysis. Students will become familiar with current conceptual frameworks in the fields of trauma studies, social and political psychology, and international development related to these topics. Both historical and current cases of collective violence will be used to consider the effects of violence and the healing process at social, communal, and individual levels. Students will gain familiarity with and consider the challenges to and effectiveness of healing, reconciliation, and transformation processes that have been undertaken in post-conflict countries.
Issues In Post-Conflict Environments	CONF 544	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Analyzing post-conflict phase is as important as understanding the roots and escalation of conflicts What happens when the conflict starts to de- escalate and an agreement is reached? If and when can the conflicts be reconciled? Conflict transformation, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction entail a variety of components, including creating institutions that will foster lasting peace and stability, designing and implementing mechanisms for bringing accountability to perpetrators of war crimes and human rights abuses, and fostering reconciliation in post-conflict societies. This course will explore the complex legal, political, and moral considerations that shape efforts to promote peacebuilding. We will look at various methods developed over the last half-century to reconstruct societies divided by war, political repression or ethnic conflict.
Advanced Conflict Resolution Practice	CONF 552	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course discusses and uses a variety of role-plays and simulations to explore the issues involved in negotiation, coalition building, representation, facilitation, meeting management, mediation, communication, rules of decision, consensus building and other issues which are presented when multiple parties seek to resolve their conflicts and disputes outside of conventional models. The course will focus on issues of group dynamics and processes of decision making. Students will learn how to be an effective part of a group and will experience leading and managing group processes. Thus, they will learn from being inside group processes and complex conflict situations, as well as standing outside of them to analyze and lead them.
Human Rights, Democracy and Conflict Resolution	CONF 561	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This corse analyzes the issues of human rights and democracy as they pertain to conflicts and conflict resolution methods The course covers such issues of philosophical and political bases for the international human rights movement (including the ongoing debate over universality, culture and human rights), the United Nations and regional systems for human rights protection and promotion to provide a tool for analyzing conflict and various forms of interventions attempting to promote peace and justice, the controversial meanings of democracy and how it causes conflict between and within states, and finally the means in which these terms can be used to evercome various forms of conflicts. We will also analyze the development of international criminal courts, truth commissions,and other attempts at transitional justice to deal with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocides;and the human rights dimensions of terrorism.
Conflicts in Contemporary Turkish Society	CONF 580	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides an overview of the conflicts that define the political consciousness of the contemporary Turkish society from the perspective of the conflict resolution field. These cases include the Cyprus, Kurdish and Armenian questions, Islam and Turkish Secularism, Modernization/ Europeanization and military-civilian relations. Main conflict frameworks are introduced that cover a wide range from personal to international levels of analysis. Students are encouraged to work in groups and asked to develop their own intervention models to each specific case.
Approaches To Ethnic Conflict	CONF 582	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Ethnic conflicts all around the world started escalate in the post-Cold War era. Many students of ethnicity and nationalism try to explain ethnic roots of conflicts and examine cases where these conflicts with various level of violence took place. In the conflict resolution field, there also emerged a body of literature on how to resolve conflicts. What are the causes of these conflicts? What are the strategies to prevent them? Why and how do they end? Can they be reconciled? What can the international community do to facilitate peaceful settlement? This course will provide the students with the analytical tools to tackle with these questions.
Seminar in Group and Organizational Dynamics	CONF 585	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This Seminar offers students the opportunity to develop an introductory overview of group and organizational dynamics, leadership, and authority, and to learn about their own behavior in groups. Students will study experientially the nature of authority and leadership and how they take up their own roles in groups and organizations.
Internship	CONF 590	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students are expected to work in an organization where they will combine theory and practice through observation and experience.
Pro-seminar in Conflict Resolution	CONF 592	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides students and the academic community a global perspective on seminal theory, research, and practice in the arena of peacebuilding and conflict resolution. The course is comprised of presentations by visiting scholars and practitioners, followed by an opportunity to engage in dialogue about their work and current issues in the field. The course will include participants from different world regions and both academic and practice-related backgrounds. In this way, students will be exposed to varying cultural, epistemological, and disciplinary approaches to addressing the complex issues inherent in resolving conflicts. They will also gain models for the application of theory to and design of interventions in real-world settings. It will be conducted in the format of a seminar series, thus allowing for maximum participation of visitors and a rich intellectual discourse on these topics.
Directed Reading	CONF 593	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A multi-purpose course that can be used flexibly for extra preparation in research methods, including deepening mastery of the relevant research through special readings, whenever necessary.
Pro-seminar in Conflict Resolution II	CONF 594	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides students and the academic community a global perspective on seminal theory, research, and practice in the arena of peacebuilding and conflict resolution. The course is comprised of presentations by visiting scholars and practitioners, followed by an opportunity to engage in dialogue about their work and current issues in the field. The course will include participants from different world regions and both academic and practice-related backgrounds. In this way, students will be exposed to varying cultural, epistemological, and disciplinary approaches to addressing the complex issues inherent in resolving conflicts. They will also gain models for the application of theory to and design of interventions in real-world settings. It will be conducted in the format of a seminar series, thus allowing for maximum participation of visitors and a rich intellectual discourse on these topics
Term Project	CONF 597	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Term project students taking this course are expected to write a research paper on atopic agreed upon by a faculty member.
Master Thesis	CONF 599	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty member from the relevant field over the second year of their course-work.
Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution	CONF 601	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is an overview of the field of international conflict analysis and resolution. It examines major social scientific theories of conflict and weaves together ideas ideas from various disciplines with new approaches especially to causes of deep-rooted conflict. The courses emphasizes sources and responses to conflict in the international system.
New Approaches to International Conflict	CONF 602	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	In the latter half of the twentieth century, war among states has become increasingly rare. More significantly, states in some regions of the world, i.e. in Europe, Southeast Asia, and South America, have come to neither expect nor prepare for war against each other. Such zones of peace (or security communities), through their proliferation and expansion, hold the promise for a fundamental transformation of world politics. After briefly introducing students to the range of International Relations theories on interstate war and peace, this course will focus on constructivist approaches that explain the formation of such zones of peace through the development of shared norms, values, and a sense of collective identity among states. Then, these constructivist arguments will be applied to analyze the possible transformation of Turkish/Greek relations through the expansion of the European zone of peace.
Foreign Policy and Conflict Resolution	CONF 604	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The use of conflict resolution approaches in the development and implementation of a nation's foreign policy. Addresses the challenge of how policy making and diplomatic practice can be influenced by theories of conflict resolutions. Students will compare security oriented foreign policy approaches with innovative foreign policy formulations.
Multilateral Negotiations in the EU	CONF 608	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Multilateral negotiations are complex interactions. This course investigates social structure of mutilateral negotiations in the context of the EU negotiations, and offers theoretical frameworks to explain different angles of multilateral negotiations. At empirical level the course addresses the negotiations in the EU in three different levels. First, the course analyzes negotiations between the member states and the EU institutions and the institutionalized Patterns of bargaining, second the course addresses the negotiations between the major EU institutions, namely, the Commission, the Council of the EU and the European Parliament. Third, the course addresses the negotiations patterns between the EU and non-members, specifically through the enlargement negotiations underway since 1997.
Third Party Roles in Peace Processes	CONF 610	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will examine the role of various third parties in different stages of a conflict and peace processes, such as conflict prevention, peacemaking, and peacebuilding. The objectives of the course are to introduce the students to the concept of "third party intervention" and the range of third party roles and perspectives, to understand the different strategies and tactics used by third parties, and to discuss the effectiveness of their interventions.
Culture and Conflict	CONF 611	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designated to introduce students to the cultural roots of conflict taking place around the world. We will explore the systematic attempts to understand the relationship of cultural difference and conflict both in theory and in practice. The aim of the course is to integrate international conflict resolution methods and culture as they pertain to different conflict zones. In this course we will study this emerging literature and field of study and practice. We will critically evaluate its usefulness in confronting contemporary global political and humanitarian challenges. Specific attention will be given to such cultural causes as ethnicity, language, race, and gender in the development and resolution of conflict in domestic and international arenas.
Research Methods	CONF 612	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces research design and analysis. Students will learn techniques for gathering, analysing and interpreting data. The techniques include laboratory and field experiments, simulation, surveys and sampling approaches, archival analysis, and ethnographic filed work. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques are covered including an introduction to probability theory and statistical analysis. Students will also have experience with SPSS and qualitative computer programs.
Issues, Concepts and Theories in Conflict Resolution I	CONF 623	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Considers the key substantive themes in conflict resolution. Senior scholars will present their approaches to each of these themes in two-week modules, including identity conflicts and nationalism, language and culture and institutions, the global context of conflict, and the dynamics of the peace process. Students will be expected to complete a concept essay on each of these thematic modules.
Issues, Concepts and Theories in Conflict Resolution II	CONF 624	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is a continuation of Pro-seminar I. Senior scholars will cover such topics as war, violence, and conflict resolution, conflict termination, peace-keeping, peace building, negotiation, mediation and other forms of third-party decision making
Conflict Resolution Practice	CONF 631	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides both a framework and experience for integrating theory and practice in conflict resolution. Reviews types of practice and theories of intervention and change, discusses the analytic process of conflicts before interventions and assessing the impacts of interventions and the conflict. Students will experience third party options for intervention, in a variety of types of international conflicts including way to build trust among parties for obtaining and implementing agreements.
Role of Media in Conflict Resolution	CONF 634	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Events, characters, images and stories we see everyday in the media shape our perceptions and values. Moreover, the way the media presents such issues as cultural diversity/clash, conflicts and wars have a powerful and long-lasting effects in societies and the way the conflict and peace are structured. This course will critically examine the representations of conflict in the media to determine whether such representations are an accurate or distorted reflection of reality; study the effects (if any) of such representations on the public to provide the students with a critical understanding of the role of media in shaping society and social norms. The scope of this course includes how media creates stereotypes leading cultural intensity, how it reflects times of conflicts and wars (with an emphasis on embedded journalism), how media's presentation of reality affects peace process and post-conflict phase.
Role of Organizations in Conflict Resolution	CONF 636	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Since the establishment of the League of Nations, a wide range of literature on the role of organizations in international relations has emerged. Recently, some scholars also focused on the role of local NGOs in conflict prevention and creating a peaceful, trustful political environment. This course studies the role of organizations as a) sources of conflict, b) conflict prevention c) mediators and d) peace builders. We will, first analyze how to study organizations in general and then, their roles in conflict settings. More specifically we will discuss the role of local and international non-governmental (NGOs) and governmental organizations (IGOs).
Integration of Theory, Research and Practice	CONF 641	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is the review and synthesis of the students prior course-work. It is intended to provide a holistic perspective of the field, emphasising the most recent scholarship. Students are expected to to prepare an integrative paper that shows connections among theory, research and practice in the context of particular conflicts.
Issues In Post-Conflict Environments	CONF 644	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Analyzing post-conflict phase is as important as understanding the roots and escalation of conflicts What happens when the conflict starts to de- escalate and an agreement is reached? If and when can the conflicts be reconciled? Conflict transformation, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction entail a variety of components, including creating institutions that will foster lasting peace and stability, designing and implementing mechanisms for bringing accountability to perpetrators of war crimes and human rights abuses, and fostering reconciliation in post-conflict societies. This course will explore the complex legal, political, and moral considerations that shape efforts to promote peacebuilding. We will look at various methods developed over the last half-century to reconstruct societies divided by war, political repression or ethnic conflict.
Advanced Conflict Resolution Practice	CONF 652	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course discusses and uses a variety of role-plays and simulations to explore the issues involved in negotiation, coalition building, representation, facilitation, meeting management, mediation, communication, rules of decision, consensus building and other issues which are presented when multiple parties seek to resolve their conflicts and disputes outside of conventional models. The course will focus on issues of group dynamics and processes of decision making. Students will learn how to be an effective part of a group and will experience leading and managing group processes. Thus, they will learn from being inside group processes and complex conflict situations, as well as standing outside of them to analyze and lead them.
Human Rights, Democracy and Conflict Resolution	CONF 661	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This corse analyzes the issues of human rights and democracy as they pertain to conflicts and conflict resolution methods The course covers such issues of philosophical and political bases for the international human rights movement (including the ongoing debate over universality, culture and human rights), the United Nations and regional systems for human rights protection and promotion to provide a tool for analyzing conflict and various forms of interventions attempting to promote peace and justice, the controversial meanings of democracy and how it causes conflict between and within states, and finally the means in which these terms can be used to evercome various forms of conflicts. We will also analyze the development of international criminal courts, truth commissions,and other attempts at transitional justice to deal with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocides;and the human rights dimensions of terrorism.
Approaches To Ethnic Conflict	CONF 682	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Ethnic conflicts all around the world started escalate in the post-Cold War era. Many students of ethnicity and nationalism try to explain ethnic roots of conflicts and examine cases where these conflicts with various level of violence took place. In the conflict resolution field, there also emerged a body of literature on how to resolve conflicts. What are the causes of these conflicts? What are the strategies to prevent them? Why and how do they end? Can they be reconciled? What can the international community do to facilitate peaceful settlement? This course will provide the students with the analytical tools to tackle with these questions.
Internship	CONF 690	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students are expected to work in an organization where they will combine theory and practice through observation and experience.
Directed Reading	CONF 693	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A multi-purpose course that can be used flexibly for extra preparation in research methods, including deepening mastery of the relevant research through special readings, whenever necessary.
Term Project	CONF 697	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Term project students taking this course are expected to write a research paper on atopic agreed upon by a faculty member.
Master Thesis	CONF 699	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty member from the relevant field over the second year of their course-work.
Logic in Computer Science	CS 500	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Propositional and first-order logic (soundness and completeness, incompleteness, undecidability, etc.). Logical issues in computer science (decision procedures, formal systems, definability, etc.).
Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms	CS 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course emphasizes fundamental algorithms, advanced methods of algorithmic design and analysis, and the use of advanced data structures. Topics include understanding of the inherent complexity of natural problems via polynomial-time algorithms, randomized algorithms, NP-completeness, on-line algorithms, graph and network flow algorithms, linear programming, approximation algorithms, tools for probabilistic analysis of algorithms.
Automated Reasoning	CS 502	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Formal principles, and algorithms for reasoning about knowledge represented in a logical language (e.g., methods used by the state-of-the-art SAT solvers, QBF solvers, and theorem provers, algorithms for knowledge compilation, logical entailment, and model counting), and their applications in computer science (e.g., prediction, diagnosis and testing, planning, model checking, automated theorem proving, constraint satisfaction).
Theory of Computation	CS 503	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Turing machines; recursive numbers and Turing computability; solvability and unsolvable problems; concepts of and results on computational complexity; some NP complete problems
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning	CS 504	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Mathematical foundations of various knowledge representation and reasoning formalisms (e.g., classical logic,answer set programming, action languages, situation calculus, description logic, constraint programming), and their applications to computer science and other sciences (e.g., commonsense knowledge representation, belief/theory revision/update, Semantic Web, graph theory, planning, diagnosis, VLSI design, historical linguistics, computational biology, biomedical informatics).
Numerical Methods	CS 505	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course cover techniques in numerical analysis such as numerical solution of linear systems, sparse matrix techniques, linear least squares, singular value decomposition, numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors, optimization techniques, interpolation and approximation of functions, solving systems of nonlinear equations, numerical handling of ordinary and partial differential equations.
Cognitive Robotics	CS 506	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Kinematic and dynamic modeling of robots. Architectures for robot control. World maps and localization. Object recognition. Manipulation and path planning. Human-Robot interaction. Artificial Intelligence planning. Sensing and monitoring. Diagnosis. Robotic learning. Representation and reasoning formalisms and algorithms. Methods for coupling high-level reasoning with low-level control.
Cryptography	CS 507	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This is an introductory course on cryptography. Topics include: Classical cryptosystems, basics of number theory, symmetric key cryptography (stream and block ciphers), hash functions, public key cryptosystems (RSA, discrete logarithm based algorithms, and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)), digital signatures, implementation issues, secure key establishment techniques, secret sharing, and zero-knowledge proof.
Virtual Reailty	CS 508	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is about virtual reality technologies: interaction techniques, rendering pipeline, VR system design, perception, and Augmented Reality; and aims to introduce students to the concept of interactive and real-time synthetic worlds. The course should be appropriate for graduate students in all areas and for advanced undergraduates.
Formal Methods for Reliable Digital Systems	CS 510	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course introduces the formal verification and testing methods for digital systems, which includes both software and digital hardware. In the first part of the course, formal testing based on finite state machine representation of digital systems is studied. Black box and white box testing methods are also covered. In the second part of the course, model checking is introduced as a formal approach for verification. The practical problems of model checking, and some complexity relief techniques are also discussed.
Machine Learning	CS 512	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This is an introductory machine learning course that will aim a solid understanding of the fundamental issues in machine learning together with several ML techniques such as decision trees, k-nearest neighbor, Bayesian classifiers, neural networks, linear and logistic regression, clustering, SVM and ensemble techniques.
Topics in Natural Language Processing	CS 513	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will cover various aspects of natural language processing. Topics include parsing algorithms, application of finite state methods to language processing tasks such as morphological analysis and morphological disambiguation statistical language processing, and applications such as machine translation, information extraction.
Network Science	CS 514	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Network science is a framework to analyze the complex systems of technological, biological, and cultural networks. This course will present the fundamentals of networks, mathematical toolsets to study and characterize networked data, and develop skills for network thinking. Special network topics such as network models, communities, and dynamics on networks will be presented.
Deep Learning	CS 515	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course covers the theory and foundations of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and various ANN architectures, such as the single and multi- layer perceptrons, Hopfield and Kohonen networks, and deep learning architectures (convolutional neural networks, autoencoders, restricted Boltzman machines, recurrent networks and LSTMs, and generative adversarial networks). Students will be expected to develop systems for machine learning problems from the computer vision and natural language understanding areas.
Biometrics	CS 516	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is designed to cover state-of-the-art biometric identification and verification technologies. The topics covered will include the following: Overview of biometrics and design of a biometric system; fundamentals of fingerprint, iris, face, signature, hand geometry, and voice verification and identification technologies; multimodal biometrics; template protection and privacy issues in biometrics; security analysis of biometric systems; pattern recognition techniques used in biometric systems.
Advanced Cryptography and Data Security	CS 517	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Information theoretic aspects of cryptography, homomorphic encryption, lattice-based cryptography, oblivious transfer, commitment schemes, zero- knowledge proofs, secure two-party computation, secure multi-party computation, electronic voting applications, side-channel and fault attacks.
Computer Vision	CS 518	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course provides a comprehensive introduction to computer vision, starting from digital Image analysis (filtering, image pyramids, frequency based processing, Hough transform and invariant feature extraction), advancing to geometry based computer vision (2D transforms, homographies, camera models and stereo), and ending with the presentation of state-of-the-art deep learning based computer vision techniques (convolutional networks, vision transformers, object detection and semantic segmentation).
Advanced Topics in Databases	CS 522	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course covers advanced topics in databases such as serializability theory, optimistic concurrency control, multiversion and distributed concurrency control, realtime database systems, object-oriented database systems, advanced hashing and multi-key access methods, mobile databases, data warehousing, web databases, multimedia-databases, searching by content in video and image databases.
Information Retrieval	CS 523	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will cover the theory, design, and implementation of text-based information retrieval systems including topics such as statistical characteristics of text, representation of information needs and documents, several important retrieval models (Boolean, vector space, probabilistic, inference net, language modeling), clustering algorithms, automatic text categorization, and experimental evaluation.
Data Mining	CS 525	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Data mining can be viewed as lossy data reduction and learning techniques that are designed to handle massive data sets containing large numbers of categorical and numeric attributes. This course covers topics in data mining and knowledge discovery structured and unstructured databases such as data integration, mining, and interpretation of patterns, rule-based learning, decision trees, association rule mining, and statistical analysis for discovery of patterns, evaluation and interpretation of the mined patterns using visualization techniques.
Motion Planning	CS 526	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Motion planning aims at generating sequences of motions for physical/virtual entities, such as robots, robot teams, animated characters, and molecules. This course provides an elementary but algorithmically solid introduction to motion planning as well as an understanding of some of its applications in robotics. It covers the major topics of motion planning including (but not limited to) configuration spaces, search-based motion planning, sampling-based motion planning, and integration of task and motion planning.
Big Data Processing	CS 528	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	To understand the big data storage and big data processing problems that arise with the growth of the data. To teach the tools and environments that are necessary to deal with the problems that come with big data. This course will give students the hands-on ability to perform data analysis and machine learning operations using open source technologies on big data environments by introducing them.
Parallel Processing and Algorithms	CS 531	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course covers parallel computing architectures and interconnection networks, issues such as speedup, efficiency cost, granularity and scalability, and topics in parallel algorithms for many important problems such as sparse and and dense matrix operations (e.g., transposition, matrix-vector multiplication, matrix-matrix multiplication, solution of linear system of equations), graph problems and other computationally intensive problems in numerical applications.
Computer and Network Security	CS 532	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Overview of Cryptography, Identification and Authentication, Access Control, Operating System Security (UNIX and Windows Environments), Key Distribution, TCP/IP Security, IPSec, DNSSEC, WWW Security, SSL and TLS, E-mail Security (PGP, S/MIME), PKI and certificate systems, Viruses, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, E-commerce Security
Computer Networks	CS 533	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will cover advanced topics in local and wide area networking technologies, ATM networks, protocol design, flow control, traffic management, routing, internetworking, quality of service, performance analysis, congestion control, switching and routing, multicast, IPv6, and network security.
Distributed Systems	CS 534	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course focuses on the design, implementation and management of distributed computing systems. Topics include: naming, security, reliability, resource sharing, and remote execution; network protocol issues above the transport level; electronic mail; network and distributed file systems and databases; handling transactions and coordination of multiple machines, consistency models and distributed semantics, fault tolerance.
Wireless Network Security	CS 535	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course covers security and privacy issues in wireless networks and systems, such as cellular networks, wireless LANs, wireless PANs, mobile ad hoc networks, vehicular networks, satellite networks, wireless mesh networks, sensor networks and RFID systems. Security problems of MAC and especially upper layers will be emphasized. Attacks and proposed solutions at several layers, authentication, key distribution and key management, secure routing, selfish and malicious behaviors, and secure group communication are analyzed for applicable wireless network types. A short overview of cryptography and wireless networking principles will be given at the beginning of the course.
Software Design and Engineering	CS 538	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course introduces the object-oriented paradigm. Object-oriented concepts will be discussed thoroughly and their application to the entire software life cycle, from analysis through design to implementation will be demonstrated. The course assumes no prior knowledge of the object technology but requires knowledge on basic computing concepts.
Software Verification and Validation	CS 539	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course covers some of the fundamental concepts, methods, strategies, and techniques related to software verification and validation. Topics included are: software quality assurance concepts, issues, and principles; boundary value testing; equivalence class testing; decision table-based testing; test coverage metrics; unit testing; path testing; control and data flow testing; usage-based statistical testing; integration testing; combinatorial testing; model-based testing; regression testing; static and dynamic program analysis; software inspections and walkthroughs; continuous integration; problem analysis and reporting; and program debugging.
Multimedia Information Processing	CS 541	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Digital representations of audio, video, and images are commonly called continuous media because they represent quantities that vary continuously over time and/or space. The rapid proliferation of the web is making computers the technology of choice for continuous media production, manipulation, and distribution. Consequently, an understanding of continuous media is essential for many modern computing tasks. This course covers the topics related to capturing, processing, compressing, searching indexing, storing, and retrieving various kinds of continuous media.
Software Design Patterns	CS 542	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course introduces the use of design patterns Creational, structural and behavioral patterns, enterprise software architecture patterns, anti-patterns, object-oriented design principles and processes will be discussed.
Computer Graphics and Visualization	CS 543	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course provides a study of computer graphics representation schemes and rendering algorithms such as advanced methods for representing, displaying, and rendering two- and three-dimensional scenes, general algebraic curves and surfaces, splines, Gaussian and bump-function representations, fractals, particle systems, constructive solid geometry methods, lighting models, radiosity, advanced ray-tracing methods, surface texturing, animation techniques data visualization methods.
Human Computer Interaction	CS 545	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course focuses on the context of designing and using of computer interfaces and covers methodologies for obtaining and interpreting human behaviour as it applies to the design of user interfaces. It is intended to provide insight and experience into issue within work and consumer settings that influence the design of computer interfaces. Students will develop skills in observing and working with people in interdisciplinary design groups, identifying constraints and trade-offs on designs within the context of use, and using models of work and other activity as guides to interface design.
Deep Natural Language Processing	CS 546	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course studies the theory, design and implementation of natural language processing systems which use neural networks. Topics include word embeddings, neural language modeling, use of CNN and RNNs for text, seq2seq modeling, attention mechanisms, transformers, recursive neural networks, transfer learning for NLP.
Immersive Systems Development	CS 547	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course aims to introduce fundamentals of immersive systems (VR/AR/MR/XR, simulations, gaming) and related concepts together with giving development knowledge of virtual environments, immersive interaction techniques and implementation of various display technologies. It is facilitated by a series of design/development assignments where the students individually or in groups code, prototype and test interactive XR/Game/Simulation projects. The course covers related literature and practice starting from the original Computer Science and HCI concepts following all related technologies including spatial computing for XR, motion capture, 2-D & 3-D modeling, multisensory interaction with IoT, games and experience design.
Human Computer Interaction	CS 549	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course provides students with a sound introduction to the discipline of HCI and examines the issues of human factors, user experience (UX), the design and test of computer application interfaces. It focuses on the context of designing and using of computer interfaces and covers methodologies for obtaining and interpreting human behaviour as it applies to the design of user interfaces. Students will develop skills in observing and working with users in interdisciplinary groups, identifying constraints and trade-offs on designs within the context of use, and using models of work and other activity as guides to interface design.
Graduate Seminar I	CS 551	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar II	CS 552	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Automated Debugging	CS 560	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Program debugging is a process of identifying and fixing bugs. Identifying root causes is the hardest, thus the most expensive, component of debugging. Developers often take a slice of the statements involved in a failure, hypothesize a set of potential causes in an ad hoc manner, and iteratively verify and refine their hypotheses until root causes are located. Obviously, this process can be quite tedious and time-consuming. Furthermore, as software systems are getting increasingly complex, the inefficiencies of the manual debugging process are getting magnified. Many automated approaches have been proposed to facilitate program debugging. All these approaches share the same ultimate goal, which is to help developers quickly and accurately pinpoint the root causes of failures. This course will cover state-of-the-art automated debugging approaches from both practical and research perspectives and will consist of two main parts. The goal of the first part is two folds: 1) To turn program debugging from a black art (as many believe) into a systematic and well-organized discipline; and 2) To provide students with enough background information to read and understand the scientific literature. The topics which will be covered in the first part are: How Failures Come To Be, Tracking Problems, Making Programs Fail, Reproducing Problems, Simplifying Problems, Scientific Debugging, Deducing Errors, and Mining and Detecting Anomalies. The second part of the course will survey the related literature by dividing it into four broad categories, namely static- analysis-based, dynamic-analysis-based, model-based, and empirical approaches.
Special Topics in Computer Science I	CS 580	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in CS: Lattice-based Cryptography and Its Applications	CS 58000	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Mathematical Background, Ring-LWE problem, the LLL Algorithm , NTT Algorithm and its implementation, Lattice-Based Cryptography (Public-key Encryption/Key-establishment and Digital Signature Algorithms), Homomorphic Encryption Schemes
Special Topics in CS: Deep Natural Language Processing (DeepNLP)	CS 58001	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course studies the theory, design and implementation of natural language processing systems using deep learning models. Topics include neural language models, word embeddings, CNNs and RNNs, attention mechanisms, memory networks, transformers and their applications to NLP tasks.
Special Topics in CS: Network Science	CS 58002	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Network science is a framework to analyze the complex systems of technological, biological, and cultural networks. This course will present the fundamentals of networks, mathematical toolsets to study and characterize networked data, and develop skills for network thinking. Special network topics such as network models, communities, and dynamics on networks will be presented.
Special Topics in CS: Parallel Computer Architecture	CS 58003	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course focuses on the design principles of parallel computer architectures. The course covers the following topics: Instruction-Level Parallelism: Superscalar Architectures, Speculative Execution, Multicore-/ Multiprocessor-Architectures, Interconnection Networks, Caches in Shared Memory Architectures, Cache-Coherency, Shared Memory Architectures and Memory Consistency, Quantitative Principles of Computer Architectures, Vector Architectures, Systolic Arrays, GPUs, Case Studies and Emerging Trends
Special Topics in CS: Graph Mining	CS 58004	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course focuses on advanced graph mining algorithms for understanding graphs and extracting patterns and relationships from them. The course covers the following topics: Graph data structures and graph databases, paths flows and fundamental graph algorithms, mining subgraph patterns, subgraph pattern matching, nearest-neighbors search, graph centrality, spectral graph theory, graph similarity & graph kernels, modularity & influence maximization, graph embeddings & graph classification, linear-algebra-based graph algorithms
Special Topics in CS: Software Design Patterns	CS 58005	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course introduces the use of design patterns. Creational, structural and behavioral patterns, enterprise software architecture patterns, anti-patterns, object-oriented design principles and processes will be discussed.
Special Topics in CS: Internet of Things Sensing System	CS 58007	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to the Internet of Things, Examples of mobile and embedded systems, and sensors, Sensing Pipelines, Signal Processing for sensor data, Machine Learning for sensing, System Considerations, Networking for IoT, Energy preservation, Privacy in Sensing, Embedded Sensing Architectures, On-device sensing on smartphones, Sensing with purpose-built devices on the edge, Wearable devices, Edge/Cloud Computing in Sensing, Remote inference, Offloading computations, Prominent Applications
Special Topics in CS: Automated Program Repair	CS 58008	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is about introducing automatic software repair and its fundamental concepts and, exploring the current state-of-the-art in the field of automated program repair.
Special Topics in CS: Lattice-Based Cryptography and Homomorphic Encryption Schemes	CS 58009	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Mathematical Background, Partial Homomorphic Encryption Schemes (Paillier and Damgard-Jurik Encryption Schemes), Lattice-Based Cryptography, Ring-LWE problem, the LLL Algorithm, Homomorphic Encryption Schemes (BGV, BFV, CKKS), Bootstrapping, Scheme Switching, Multi-key Homomorphic Encryption, Applications of Homomorphic Encryption on Machine Learning, Acceleration of NTT Algorithm for Homomorphic Encryption
Special Topics in CS: Scalable Learning Systems	CS 58010	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course provides a broad overview of ofstate-of-the-art parallel and distributed machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms and systems, with a strong focus on the scalability, resource efficiency, data requirements, and robustness of the solutions. This course covers effective ways to map state-of-the-art ML and DL solutions to parallel AI accelerators such as GPUs and TPUs. A set of techniques are presented to efficiently scale ML and DL workloads to a large number of distributed machines in the presence of system failures and malicious attacks. Finally, methods for improving the scalability and efficiency of generative learning and graph learning approaches are covered.
Special Topics in Computer Science II	CS 581	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in Computer Science III	CS 582	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Master Thesis	CS 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Project	CS 592	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	All graduate students pursuing a non-thesis M.Sc. Program are required to complete a project. The project topic and contents are based on the interest and background of the student and are approved by the faculty member serving as the project supervisor. At the completion of the project, the student is required to submit a final report. The final report is to be approved by the project supervisor.
Computational Complexity	CS 601	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This is an advanced graduate course on the theory of computational complexity. The course will cover basic machine models and complexity measures along with their properties and relationships, complexity classes and their properties, reductions and complete problems, concrete representative problems from important complexity classes. Techniques will be covered for establishing limits on the possible efficiency of algorithms, and concrete lower bounds based on the following models of computation decision trees, straight line programs, communication games, branching programs, PRAMs, boolean circuits. Approximation algorithms and the complexity of approximations. Pseudo-randomness and cryptography.
Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence	CS 611	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will cover advanced topics in different areas of artificial intelligence, such as search, constraint satisfaction, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning, reasoning and decision making under uncertainty, multi-agent systems, machine learning, natural language processing, and robotics.
Selected Topics in Computer Science I	CS 680	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in CS:	CS 68000	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in CS: Advanced Machine Learning (AML)	CS 68001	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Clustering (Expectation/Maximization, Gaussian Mixture Models); Active learning; Online learning; Dimensionality reduction (PCA, LDA, Spectral clustering); Kernel methods; Deep learning (Convolutional Neural Networks); Sequence learning (Hidden Markov Models, Recurrent networks)
Special Topics in Computer Science II	CS 681	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Ph.D.Dissertation	CS 790	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Core Issues in Cultural Studies	CULT 500	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces the students to the theoretical frameworks of graduate study in Cultural Studies by focusing on the debates around the definitions and uses of the concept of culture as well as on such specific issues as orientalism/occidentalism, cultural constructions and contestations of gender and sexuality, media and popular culture, and the changing configurations of private and public spheres. It combines the overview of the major theoretical and methodological approaches in the field of cultural politics and criticism with a critical discussion of various applications of these approaches in specific social, political, and historical contexts.
Core Works in Cultural Studies	CULT 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designed to broaden and deepen the students' understanding of cultural theories and to develop their ability to think critically about cultural issues through a sustained engagement with a selection of works by some of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. The questions raised in the course will concern the ways in which these theories have shaped contemporary research and pedagogical agendas, the negotiations and interventions they have enabled, their social and political contexts, and to what extent they can "travel" across cultures.
Epistemological Foundations of Cultural Analysis	CULT 502	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	With its focus on the epistemological foundations of cultural analysis, this course will prepare students for an applied course in methodology. The course will analyze the construction of knowledge, reviewing the history of methodology in the social sciences and humanities and will introduce the students the research methods, analysis and design. The course will also focus on recent critiques and the emergence of new approaches and methodologies of cultural analysis. Issues such as reflexivity, the positionality of the researcher and research ethics will be discussed. The course will be taught in module format by several faculty members.
Cultural Analysis Workshop	CULT 503	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	In this course, students will complete a research project of their own in which they learn to use a a variety of methods of cultural analysis including observation, interviewing, oral history, textual and documentary analysis and visual analysis. The course will track all the stages of research from proposal-writing to data collection, analysis and writing. The course will be taught in module format by several faculty members.
M.A. Term Project	CULT 505	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students taking this course are expected to write a research paper on a topic agreed upon by a Faculty member.
Technology and Culture	CULT 520	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Aiming to destabilize some of the routine assumptions about the neutral or autonomous role of technologies, this course will explore how they are embedded in social and cultural life. Of special importance is how conceptions of time and space are shaped through the interaction of culture and technology. The course will start with some specific examples of the 'old' technologies (eg. telephones or radios) to understand their social uses when they were new. It will proceed to examine comparable processes in relation to 'new' technologies (eg. cell phones or home computers). Throughout, theoretical readings on the link between old/new technologies and the organization of time and space as critical dimensions of modernity and postmodernity will be discussed.
Digital Humanities	CULT 521	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Digital Humanities is a catch phrase of 21st century; since 2000, more and more Digital Humanities projects received funding, many archives and collections are digitized, and even PhD programs and institutes are build. This course offers an understanding of `digital humanities' by taking a look at its first years, its historical development and the continuing academic discussions around it. Besides theoretical discussions of digital humanities, prominent digital humanities projects will be reviewed and discussion sessions will be devoted to the main areas of production within the digital humanities, such as text analysis, digitization, data management and visualization. The focus is on the usefulness of this type of practical humanities research and how humanities questions can be translated to the computational methods of digital humanities in a successful way.
Youth Culture	CULT 522	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course focuses on youth culture viewed within the wider frame of age and generation. It asks, how have youth and youth culture been defined and theorized historically? What challenges does the study of youth culture pose in a transnational world? The course also investigates how youth culture (and generational identity) have been studied in Turkey. It includes a unit in which students undertake a research project of their own on youth culture and/or generational identity in Istanbul.
Media Worlds	CULT 525	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The aim of this course is to explore the cultural/political changes brought about by transnational media expansion. We will seek answers to such questions as: How do transnational media participate in the (re) making of national and local cultures? How do hegemonic media texts intersect with real lives of people in different parts of the world? What kinds of cultural spaces do they create for resistance, subversion and appropriation, and for whom? The organizing framework of the course will be based on three broad headings: a) transnational media and emergent geographies of power and marginality b) media production and cultural production c) mediation of hegemonic meanings and cultural politics.
Art and the Body	CULT 527	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will explore the many ways in which art represents, shows, displays, suggests or otherwise makes bodies part of its concerns. How and in what ways do representations of bodies determine senses of identity or of space? How successful have moves away from the representation of bodies been? How are senses of corporeality conveyed in cultures which do not characteristically represent human bodies? Students may expect to develop a critical vocabulary for assessing how senses of the body are communicated.
Modernism/Postmodernism	CULT 532	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Modernism and postmodernism have been two of the dominant trends of the 20th century in fields ranging from literature to visual culture and beyond. This course will explore some of the debates around modernism and postmodernism through theoretical texts as well as through works which have influenced or have been influenced by the course of these ideas.
Representations of Violence	CULT 535	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Much attention has been devoted in recent years to understanding violence. As creative works have sought to document violence and understand its causes, accurate description and representation have often been deemed necessary to the process of healing and the prevention of future violence. At what point, however, do such representations end up perpetrating violence as they aestheticize it? And more importantly perhaps, can these works also suggest solutions to violence? This course will explore answers to these questions through theoretical works, as well as through textual and visual representations of violence. This is a research seminar and requires the active participation of students in presentations and class discussions. Graduate students are also expected to carry out original research towards the final paper. Subject to these conditions, CULT 535 may be taken for graduate credit. For the possibility of taking this course at the undergraduate level see CULT 435.
Postcolonial Theory and Its Discontents	CULT 537	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Postcolonial theory is the body of scholarship that tackles the heritage and current impact of multiple waves and types of colonialism. In this course students will be introduced to the presumptions of this scholarship, its central questions and shortcomings. We will also explore the relationship of post-colonialism to feminist and post-structuralist theory. The course is designed to facilitate students' engagement with these different empirical and theoretical approaches in the light of their experiences and ideas.
Gender in the Middle East	CULT 541	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces the key issues and debates in the study of gender in the Middle East. It aims to provide a gendered analysis of the prevailing discourses, ideologies and social movements in the region and to equip students with skills and methodologies to analyse the shaping of the gender identities in relation to social, political and cultural processes from the late 19th century to the present. The course also aims to link the historical questions and issues regarding gender to contemporary discussions and discourses on femininities and masculinities in the Middle East. Core topics include the interconnections between feminism and nationalism, the veiling debate, women’s agency, Islamic feminism, masculinities, and politics of sexuality during and after the Arab Spring.
Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence	CULT 542	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	20th century has been ''a century of wars, global and local, hot and cold'' (Catherine Lutz). The course explores the different ways in which war and political violence are remembered through a gender lens. Central questions include: what are the gendered effects of war, political violence, and militarization? How have wars, genocide and other forms of political violence been narrated and represented? How do women remember and narrate gendered violence in war? How are post-conflict processes and transitional justice gendered? What is the relationship between testimony, storytelling, and healing? How is the relationship between the ''personal'' and the ''public/national'' reconstructed in popular culture, film, literature, and (auto)biographical texts dealing with war, genocide, and other forms of political violence? How are wars memorialized and gendered through monuments, museums, and other memory sites? Besides others, case studies on Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Rwanda, former Yugoslavia, and Argentina will be used to elaborate the key concepts and debates in the emerging literature on gender, memory, and war.
Seminar on Gender, War and Peace	CULT 543	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The 20th century has been a century of wars, hot and cold. This course explores the gendered aspects of wars, militarism, and peace politics. The first part of the course War, Militarism and Gender, focuses on the ways in which wars, militaries and military service have shaped gendered self - understandings in the 20th century. The second part, Women and Peace, is based on a historical survey of women's peace activism in different parts of the world. The third section, Feminism and Peace Politics, highlights feminist theorizing on peace and peace politics. The course will be organized as a seminar. The active participation of students in class discussions and presentations will be essential. Students are expected to carry out original research towards the final paper. Subject to these conditions, CULT 643 may be counted towards the fulfillment of the seminar requirements for the History MA and PhD programs. For the possibility of taking this course at the undergraduate level see CULT 443.
Gender and Sexuality in Turkey	CULT 544	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will explore a wide variety of texts ranging from academic, literary and political writings to films and documentaries on gender and sexuality in Turkey. Topics include the evolution of the feminist movement from the late nineteenth century till today, the experiences and narratives of masculinity, violence against women, virginity debates, the interconnections between gender and nationalism, religious and state discourses on the body, the politics of secularism and Islam the writings and experiences of minorities, politics of sexuality and queer politics.
Nation, History and Culture in Museums	CULT 551	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course investigates the relation of the museum to modernity and its role in negotiating history, culture and nation. It highlights the role of certain selected objects in remembering history and interpreting culture. In light of the readings and museum visits, students will discuss how the museum represents the notions of heritage, and how it contributes to the reconstruction of collective memory.
Myth, Art and Politics	CULT 552	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The notions of "myth" and "mythology" acquired a new meaning at the end of the 18th century. This "invention" of myth has given birth to the field of comparative mythology. As the cradle for the Romantic dreams of a "new mythology", it became a constant reference for the theories and philosophies of art in the 19th and 20th centuries. Finally, it has become the vade mecum of Nazi politics. The course explores this modern concept of myth through a number of texts where the same questions are broached from different perspectives. It also aims to examine how the philological invention of myth presides over the self-invention of ''ethnographic'' nations and nationalisms.
Spaces of Migration	CULT 553	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course explores how migratory movements and attempts at their regulation produce space as well as scale, and reviews the theoretical constructs (such as transnationalism and translocalism) that account for the emergent spatialities of migrant connections. Topics to be covered include how migrants make place and negotiate home in their everyday lives, how experiences of localization vary among cities, how life in camps may differ from or resemble life in the city, how states undertake spatial strategies to deter migrant flows (including excision of territories, pushbacks of border-crossers and creation of ‘hotspots’), how migration routes come into being (including through smuggling networks), are governed and closed off only to be re-channeled elsewhere, and what moral geographies correspond to processes of migration by assigning social legitimacy to particular mobilities
Cultures of Migration	CULT 554	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course investigates forms of culture that arise out of migration. In rap music, internet blogs, puppetry and bilingual theater, as well as in the more traditional genres of literature and poetry, the course looks at how migrants and their descendents use cultural work to explore questions of identity, citizenship and community. The course may include work by migrants in and across Europe, the Americas, Asia or Africa; it will also look at the transnational connections migrants make among these different spaces. Students are encouraged to discover and analyze new cultural production in any media, using the theoretical resources developed over the semester.
Urban Spaces and Cultures	CULT 555	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	How do we begin to understand te diffrences ,commonalities, and interconnections between 'World Cities' - such as Cairo, New York, Istanbul or Singapore? This course provides a ciritical guide to diverse ideas, concepts and frameworks used to study such cities. It explores how city spaces and cultures are constituted, divided and contested, by focusing such topics as: colonial landspaces of power and exclusion, modernist projects of urban renewal and dislocation, 'post-modern' spaces of spectacle and consumption, ghettoes of affluence and poverty, ethnic divisions of labor and informal economies behind the facades of the global capital.
Cultures and Politics of Law Reform	CULT 560	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Law reform is often seen as a technical issue that involves the transplantation of existing 'successful' models into new social contexts. Our course begins with a theoretical questioning of this common sense view of 'models' and 'prescriptions'. We will try to rethink the context of law reform as a field of social relations that enable multiple actors to construct a variety of cultural meanings and enter into power struggles with each other. Our discussions will revolve around case studies - from Turkey, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America - that involve particular proposals and actions of law reform. We will examine the actors, their interests, the cultural idiom through which they transmit those interests, and whatemerges out of their contestations. In this way we will try to develop a dynamic, culturally and politically informed understanding of law reform.
Oral History	CULT 561	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will introduce students to the study of oral history. Oral histories are spoken memories about the past recorded by oral historians in a dialogue with individuals providing testimony. The study of oral history allows us to examine events and experiences not recorded by history (based on the study of written documents), as well as to analyze and interpret the meaning of events and experiences to individuals in the present. In this course, students will learn the techniques of doing oral history, read selected case studies, and conduct an oral history project of their own.
Memory Studies	CULT 562	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	In recent years, memory has become one of the most widely debated issues in the social sciences. While modernity focused largely on the future, how do we explain the enormous preoccupation with the past in the postmodern era? This course will pose some answers to this question. Beginning with a look at the way memory operates, the course will review major debates on memory in diverse fields such as psychology, sociology, and history. It will then focus on particular themes, including memory's relationship to place, identity, trauma, narrative, commemoration, media and the body. The course will rely on a number of case studies, including studies of memory in Turkey.
Postsocialism	CULT 563	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will examine how experiences of communism in different contexts in Eastern Europe were lived, how they are remembered, and how they bear on present processes of "transition" and European integration. Topics include: collectivisation and privatisation; nationalism, internationalism and minorities; women and work; models of development.
Globalization and Health Inequalities	CULT 568	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces recent theoretical perspectives and ethnographic work which explore how the political and medical authorities as well as the lay people, discuss the effects of globalization and global encounters on health inequalities, and how the global and local health policies address these inequalities. It covers such topics as the role of global health institutions in addressing the health inequalities, tensions between states’ priorities and global impositions in defining and applying health policies, competition between biomedicine and alternative medical systems, local interpretations of global medical technologies and local conceptualizations of global epidemics. The course also includes nuanced approaches to the global and local ethical issues around the body, gender, life, illness, birth, death and pharmaceutical industry
Everyday Life	CULT 570	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	What is everyday life? Is it a routine that we take for granted and have a difficult time to take an analytical distance from, or is it critical in informing our identity and subjectivity? How does what we do in our everyday life shape who we are and where we belong? How do different conceptions of time and space, and philosophical debates on public/private and nature/nurture play a role in these processes? This course is designed to broaden and deepen the students’ understanding of everyday life, based on relevant social sciences and humanities literature across different time periods and cultural contexts, starting from the capitalist societies in 19th century Europe. It will also cover how the major developments in the first two decades of the 2000s, such as digitalization, virtual reality, new social movements and the COVID-19 pandemic have changed our everyday life and our conceptualizations of it.
Political Ecology and Society	CULT 584	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The broad goal of this course is to cultivate a critical theoretical understanding of the relation between the society and nature, and develop a nuanced perspective of thinking about environmental problems. More particularly, the objectives of this course are: 1) To locate environmental politics within the context of broader social, political and economic dynamics; 2) To learn about alternative forms of being and knowing that challenge common anthropocentric thinking; 3) To develop familiarity with the political ecological dimension of the global and local environmental problems, policies, and social movements.
Pro-thesis Seminar	CULT 590	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Pro-Thesis Seminar provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty member from the relevant field.
Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies I	CULT 591	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course addresses current issues in the field of Cultural Studies at a level appropriate for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. The specific focus of the course will be announced each semester that it is offered. Topics and approaches may be drawn from anthropology, history, literature, sociology or visual studies.
Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies II	CULT 592	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course addresses current issues in the field of Cultural Studies at a level appropriate for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. The specific focus of the course will be announced each semester that it is offered. Topics and approaches may be drawn from anthropology, history, literature, sociology or visual studies.
Thematic Approaches to Contemporary Turkish Culture	CULT 593	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Based on readings of urban space as well as analyses of visual and written texts, this course will trace and map current cultural dynamics and ambivalences of contemporary Turkey. Each semester the course will be structured around a different theme, emphasizing the ways in which politics and culture are articulated in present-day Turkey.
Independent Study	CULT 598	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course allows graduate students to explore an area of academic interest not covered in regular course offerings. As in any graduate seminar, the course must terminate in a research paper or its equivalent. Students may enroll in this course only after they have received the approval in writing of the faculty member with whom they would like to work. Before the supervising faculty member grants approval, the student must submit a preliminary reading list and an indication of the kind and scope of the final product (e.g. 20-page paper, ten-min. video).
Master's Thesis	CULT 599	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty member from the relevant field over the second year of their course-work.
Seminar on Gender, War and Peace	CULT 643	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The 20th century has been a century of wars, hot and cold. This course explores the gendered aspects of wars, militarism, and peace politics. The first part of the course War, Militarism and Gender, focuses on the ways in which wars, militaries and military service have shaped gendered self - understandings in the 20th century. The second part, Women and Peace, is based on a historical survey of women's peace activism in different parts of the world. The third section, Feminism and Peace Politics, highlights feminist theorizing on peace and peace politics. The course will be organized as a seminar. The active participation of students in class discussions and presentations will be essential. Students are expected to carry out original research towards the final paper. Subject to these conditions, CULT 643 may be counted towards the fulfillment of the seminar requirements for the History MA and PhD programs. For the possibility of taking this course at the undergraduate level see CULT 443.
Introduction to Data Analytics	DA 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course teaches the fundamental ideas to clean, manipulate, process and analyze data. The students will work on data analysis problems arising in various data- intensive applications. The course involves many in-class coding exercises where the students are expected to work on several case studies. Through these exercises, the course shall also serve as an introduction to data analytics and modern scientific computing.
Applied Statistics	DA 503	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is an applied statistics course with an emphasis on data analysis. In this course we will study several statistical modeling techniques and discuss real- life problems over which we’ll have a chance to apply statistical tools to learn from data. We will be covering some of the fundamental statistical methods like linear regression, principal component analysis, cross-validation and p-values. The lectures are designed to help the participants apply these techniques on data sets using a statistical programming language.
Introduction to Data Modeling and Processing	DA 505	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	In this course, we will cover fundamental aspects of Data Management including traditional data management as well as new models for big data. We will start with conceptual data modelling (ER and UML models), then study relational model, and how conceptual models could be converted to relational model. We will cover SQL language for querying relational data. We will continue with more recent models such as key-value stores, document databases and graph databases. Students will do practical work on relational and non-relational (NoSQL) database systems.
Modeling and Optimization	DA 507	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The aim of this course is to introduce the concept of analytical modeling, optimization problems and the fundamental properties of an optimization problem. Students will learn basics of transforming problems into analytical/quantitative/mathematical models, and how to formulate and solve simple mathematical models that represent optimization problems. Both exact algorithms and approximate algorithms, particularly heuristic techniques will be covered in order to form an understanding of algorithms and algorithm design to solve optimization problems. Throughout the course linear, nonlinear and integer optimization problems, network flow and network design problems will be the main focus with examples from the data science and data analytics domain.
Data Mining	DA 510	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	In the scope of this course we will begin with data extraction, cleaning, and normalization to prepare the data for Data Mining Algorithms. We will then cover Data Mining techniques including association rule mining, sequential patterns, clustering, text mining. Students are expected to understand the fundamental theory behind each technique, as well as implementing them using an environment such as RapidMiner or Weka.
Big Data Processing using Hadoop	DA 512	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will provide the essential background to start to develop programs that will run on Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). The course will also show the students the limitations of traditional programming techniques and how Hadoop addresses these problems. After learning the basics of a Hadoop Cluster and Hadoop Ecosystem, students will learn to write programs using MapReduce framework and run these programs on a Hadoop Cluster. There will be introductory level information about Pig, Hive.
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting	DA 513	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will provide a basic introduction to univariate and multivariate time series analysis and forecasting which covers a wide range of forecasting methods including classical (Autoregressive and Moving Average models) and Machine Learning approaches. Students will learn how to deal with basic concepts such as stationarity, series decomposition, trend, seasonality and time series smoothing to be able to apply different forecasting techniques.
Machine Learning I	DA 514	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	In this course, we will cover fundamental aspects of Machine Learning. We will start with fundamentals of machine learning, including different learning paradigms, regression and classification problems, evaluation methods, generalization and overfitting. We will then cover some of the fundamental machine learning techniques such as decision trees, Bayesian approaches, Naive Bayes classifier, and logistic regression, k-Nearest neighbor, and online learning algorithms. Besides understanding the basic theory behind the techniques, students are expected to apply them on different platforms.
Practical Case Studies in Data Analytics	DA 515	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course aims at discussing the key principles of the knowledge-discovery process through various case studies arising from different application areas. The students are expected to learn the main steps to traverse when they face new data analytics problems. With each case study, the tools for cleaning, processing and altering the data shall be visited. A particular attention shall be given to data inspection, feature reduction and model selection. Each case study will be completed by a thorough discussion and interpretation of the results.
Social Network Analysis	DA 516	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Different types of social networks and connectivity are a crucial part of the underlying models of the new generation of applications we use. These connections include people, places, activities, businesses, products, social and integrated business processes happening in personal and business networks or communities. In this course we will study different applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Foursquare, and discover different networks formed by connectivity. We will introduce tools that will give us insight into how these networks function: We will introduce fundamentals of graph theory and discover how these graphs can be modeled and analyzed (Social Network Analysis). We will also study the interaction dynamics using game theory. Learning objectives are: 1. Study different social applications and how they can be modeled. 2. Understand the basics of graph theory. 3. Understand and perform basic social network analysis 4. Understand the basics of game theory 5. Apply these concepts to model the Web and new social applications.
Machine Learning II	DA 517	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course covers various supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms and is intended as a sequel to Machine Learning I. The first half of the course focuses on unsupervised learning with an emphasis on clustering techniques, recommendation systems and dimensionality reduction. In the second half, supervised learning methods will focus on text classification and artificial neural networks. Students are expected to understand the fundamental theories behind these techniques and gain the ability to apply these algorithms to various problems. This is a hands-on course in which students are expected to work on end-to-end machine learning solutions.
Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization	DA 518	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is an approach to data analysis for summarizing and visualizing the important characteristics of a data set. EDA focuses on exploring data to understand the data’s underlying structure and variables, to develop intuition about the data set, and decide how it can be investigated with more formal statistical methods. EDA is distinct from Data Visualization in that EDA is done towards the beginning of analysis and data visualization is done towards the end to communicate one’s finding. This course particularly pays attention to the applied techniques to data visualization narratives. We will draw on case studies from business world, industry to news media.
Causal Data Science	DA 519	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Causal data science has recently become a sub-discipline of general data science. The aim of this area is to draw cause-effect relationships from experimental and especially observational data. With this, the possible effects of the plannned interventions will be better understood. Application areas of causal data science consist of medicine, economy and finance, marketing, political sciences, management and tech industry. The main output of this course will be that the students will be able to obtain cause-effect relationships with modern machine learning methods. The course will be taught with applications in Python.
Deep Learning	DA 520	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Recent advances in deep learning have led to groundbreaking advances in many fields, including computer vision and naturallanguage processing. This course aims to equip students withpractical skills and theoretical knowledge to leverage cutting-edgedeep neural network architectures and algorithms to solve real-worldchallenges. Students will gain a thorough understanding of deeplearning fundamentals such as network architecture design, activation functions, loss functions, optimization algorithms, andregularization techniques that collectively enable neural networks tolearn complex patterns and representations from data. Students willthen gain practical knowledge on deploying deep learning models,conducting exper experiments, and optimizing model performance through throughhands-on experience with real-world datasets using the Pythonprogramming language and the PyTorch framework.
Information Law and Data Ethics	DA 522	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Given the widespread distribution of data in today’s business world, the legal and ethical issues related to the use of data have been, and will be, of critical importance in establishing a corporate policy. Within the framework of these legal and ethical issues, students will gain an understanding of the following concepts: private, confidential, anonymous and open data; private versus public data; data ownership and proprietary rights; intellectual property; overview of existing legal framework; constraints, rules and legislative procedure in access and use of data.
Project Management and Business Communication	DA 525	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is intended to provide industry insight into the world of project management and business communication. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to have a clear understanding of the tasks and challenges that are fundamental to project management requirements. The course will also cover issues on team management and other aspects of project management on schedules, risks and resources for a successful project outcome. The second part of this course will concentrate on effective communication with team members, presentation techniques for a wide range of audiences and communicating results and recommendations to upper management and clients.
Special Topics in Data Analytics I	DA 580	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Term Project	DA 592	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	All graduate students pursuing a non-thesis MSc. Program are required to complete a project. The project topic and contents are based on the interest and background of the student and are approved by the faculty member serving as the Project Supervisor. At the completion of the project, the student is required to submit a final report and present the project. This course aims to provide the students with skills and training to conduct research in a certain area, manage a project on time and to interpret the outcome of the research study. In addition, students are expected to gain experience and further skills in creating a proper project proposal, identifying and evaluating the principal components that will establish the project scope, conducting a literature survey and compiling the results, deciding on the formal methodology and analyzing the outcome, gaining experience in teamwork, cooperation and information sharing, publishing a project report in a format accepted by the scientific communities, and finally preparing and executing a presentation of the project outcome.
Graduate Seminar I	DS 551	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar II	DS 552	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Master Thesis	DS 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Making Decisions in Digitalized World	DT 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will focus on methods and approaches that will assist in making decisions in an environment that has become more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous with the digital transformation process. In the first part of the course, developments in neuroscience regarding learning and decision-making processes and the weaknesses of intuitive decision-making methods used by people will be shared, and it will be underlined why making decisions based on data is much more important today in the environment created by digital transformation. Within the scope of the course, various methods and tools (decision trees, multi-criteria decision solution methods, mathematical modeling and programming, heuristic/meta-heuristic methods, etc.) which enable decision making in different decision conditions, in a systematic way and based on data will be covered.
Quantitative Methods for Digital Transformation	DT 502	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course covers the basic mathematical concepts that will be required within the scope of Digital Transformation in Industry Non-Thesis Master's Program. The course consists of three modules: probability and statistics, linear algebra and calculus for optimization. The probability and statistics module will focus on conditional probability, Bayes’ Theorem, distributions, descriptive statistics, statistical inference, forecasting, hypothesis testing, regression, and maximum likelihood estimation. The linear algebra module will focus on vectors, matrices, linear transformations, inner product, orthogonality and eigenvectors. In the calculus for optimization, local and global optimization concepts, gradient descent/accent method and Lagrange multipliers methods will be covered.
Introduction to Data Analytics	DT 503	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Data Analytics aims to reveal the hidden information within the data by means of various methods, which would improve the decisions and the subsequent actions in order to create value from the data. In this process, there are various sub-processes such as business understanding, data understanding, data preparation, modeling, evaluation and deployment of the model. Within the scope of this course, metrics and methods that would be used to validate the models, supervised learning techniques (i.e., regression and classification), unsupervised learning techniques (e.g. clustering, association rule mining, principal component analysis) and feature engineering and feature subset selection methods will be discussed and various use cases in real life applications will be presented.
Enabler Technologies for Digitalization	DT 504	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will focus on various technologies such as the Internet of Things, Cloud/Edge Computing, Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Smart and Collaborative Robots, Robotic Process Automation, Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality, Metaverse, and Additive Manufacturing, which enable digital transformation. In the course, the history, status, and future trends of these technologies, various use cases and best practices in business and social life, and their potential in realizing possible new business models will be discussed.
Digital Operations and Supply Chain Management	DT 511	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Digitization is also having a transformative effect on operations in businesses and supply chains. There are radical changes in the structure and dynamics of various decision problems such as supplier selection, purchasing, warehousing, stock monitoring and inventory management, job scheduling, production and capacity planning, distribution and transportation optimization, vehicle planning and route optimization, end-to-end tracking and management of supply chains. Within the scope of this course, various use cases, best practices and potential trends in digital supply chain management, and analytical approaches and methods that can be used in decision-making processes will be discussed.
Smart Manufacturing Systems	DT 512	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course will first focus on sensors and data acquisition in manufacturing. Monitoring and controlling manufacturing processes, digital twins and digital factory, manufacturing optimization and data-driven manufacturing processes and applications will be the other concepts that will be covered in the scope of the course.
Project and Investment Management	DT 513	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The main purpose of this course is to deal with project management in all aspects and introduce the fundamentals of project investment evaluation. The course will cover, introduction and basic definitions, the relationship of organizational strategy and projects, systems approach to projects, specification of the content and relevant data of work packages, project scheduling, project scheduling in uncertainty, resource constrained project scheduling, budgeting, risk analysis and management, project performance management, agile and hybrid project management, interest calculations and cash flow, feasibility analysis, project selection, program and portfolio management, project applications.
Digital Transformation Strategies	DT 514	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	In this course, the digital transformation will be discussed from strategic point of view, the organizational point of view and the innovation point of view. Topics that will be covered as part of the course includes: competitive strategies on the axis of enabler technologies of digital transformation; business models; business processes; product design and manufacturing processes; organizational culture and human resources; organizational structures; agile management; innovation management and design thinking; lean startup; case studies.
Strategy and Leadership in Digitalized World	DT 521	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The success of digital transformation will only be possible with the transformation of people. One of the primary objectives of this course is to enable students to gain an in-depth understanding of the transformative leadership competencies needed in the digital age, to realize their own strengths and to see how to strengthen their weaknesses. Other topics that will be covered in the course will be building and developing learning teams, strengthening and motivating collaborations between people, effective communication and coaching, strategy formulation and implementation under uncertainty, and change management.
Digital Human Resources Management	DT 522	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Human Resources Management (HRM) has a central role in digital transformation since the transformation of the people is the key for the success of any sort of transformation in organizations and as one of the functions that is expected to make maximum use of the opportunities provided by digital transformation technologies. This course will focus on key performance metrics and their measurement, robotic process automation, human resource analytics applications and best digitalization practices in HRM. Within the scope of the course, how the information obtained from human resources data, which starts to be accumulated even before the recruitment of the employees and continues to be acquired until their last days in the organization, by means to visualization, reporting and data analytics applications, changes the role of HRM in the organization will also be discussed.
Digitalization in Finance	DT 523	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course consists of two modules. In the first module, the interpretation, analysis and applications of the tables in which financial transactions are reflected will be discussed and financial literacy will be developed for non-financiers. In this context, topics such as general accounting and financial statements, cash flow statements, financial analysis, key performance indicators will be covered. In the second part of the course, the effects of digitalization on the financial world will be emphasized, and the current situation and future trends in Blockchain technologies, decentralized finance, token economy, cryptocurrencies, FinTechs, and similar components of the broad digital finance ecosystem will be shared with various best practices and use cases.
Digital Marketing Analytics	DT 524	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The primary aim of the course is to increase the competencies of companies in creating, implementing and measuring digital marketing strategies alongside with the conventional marketing activities. Within the scope of the course, topics such as the basic components of digital marketing strategies, digital media impact measurement, customer experience mapping, search engines and optimization, social media marketing, online marketing and internet analytics will be covered, various cases and best practices will be discussed and hands-on training will be provided.
Negotiation and Conflict Management	DT 532	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course will cover theory, concept and practice on why and how conflicts arise, how they flare up, their consequences, prevention methods and approaches, possible constructive solution methods, and how different negotiation styles and approaches at every stage of the process will affect the dynamics of the process. During the course, students will discuss past and current examples of interpersonal, inter-group, intra-firm and inter-firm conflicts, and they will have the opportunity to develop their negotiation practices and test the theory's compatibility with real life firsthand through role-playing games.
Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship	DT 533	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Roughly speaking, one can define innovation as “novelties that yields profit”. This definition involves three basic components: (1) “Profit making” (i.e., the market), (2) The operations that deliver these innovations to the market (i.e., the innovation practices), and (3) The process of creating new ideas (i.e., the creative process). Innovations that need coordination of these three components have different types such as product, process, business model innovations. Within the scope of the course, various concepts, approaches and tools that are both related to the innovation theory and innovation practices such as: process of creating new ideas; 4P model of creativity; creative destruction; theory of diffusion; disruptive innovations; innovation portfolio and innovation funnel; ten faces of innovations: ten types of innovation; design thinking; the lean start-up will be covered.
Systems Thinking and Analysis	DT 541	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	In the complex, dynamic and ambiguous problems that appear even more in our daily lives with digital transformation, the systems thinking aims to help people make better decisions by making them understand the subject by looking at it whole rather than by splitting it to parts. Within the scope of the course, by the virtue of systems thinking, systems modeling approaches and methods, and system dynamic analyzes, the projection of the long-term effects of the decisions that are made will be covered, and by means of systematic trials of various strategies how the complex behavior patterns of the system can be determined will be discussed.
Term Project	DT 592	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	All graduate students pursuing a non-thesis MSc. Program are required to complete a project. The project topic and contents are based on the interest and background of the student and are approved by the faculty member serving as the Project Supervisor. At the completion of the project, the student is required to submit a final report and present the project. The final report is to be approved by the Project Supervisor.
Microeconomics I	ECON 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Consumer and demand theory, production and theory of the firm; competitive markets, partial and general equilibrium theory.
Microeconomics II	ECON 502	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Choice under uncertainty; basic game theory; imperfect competition, strategic interaction, entry; adverse selection, signalling, screening, moral hazard; mechanism mechanism design; general equilibrium under uncertainty; axiomatic and coalitional bargaining, cooperative models.
Macroeconomics I	ECON 503	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Traditional and endogenous growth theories real business cycles, overlapping generation models.
Macroeconomics II	ECON 504	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Real and monetary issues in the open economy, unemployment, models of consumption, investment, money, monetary and fiscal policy.
Quantitative Methods	ECON 505	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course introduces students to research methods, analysis and design and aims to expose them to ethical considerations in research and publishing. Topics included are linear algebra; probability theory, random variables distributions, hypothesis testing, asymptotic distribution theory, estimation.
Econometrics	ECON 506	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Classical linear regression model, generalized least squares generalized method of moments, qualitative dependent variable models, time series analysis.
Public Economics	ECON 520	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Fundamental theorems of welfare economics; theories of government; public goods; externalities; public choice; income redistribution; taxation, income distribution and efficiency; public production, incentives and the bureaucracy; privatization.
Education Economics and Policy	ECON 521	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The role and value of education in the economy; human capital accumulation and economic growth; private and public financing of education; private and social returns to education; schooling quality and educational production; access to education; signaling; non-pecuniary benefits of education; income distribution, equality and social cohesion; performance management and indicators in the education sector, public intervention tools (vouchers, conditional cash transfers, loans).
Health Economics and Policy	ECON 522	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Introduction to the efficiency and ethical issues involved in distribution of health care. Cost-benefit and cost effectiveness analyses to evaluate public and private sector health policies. Exploring the link between health and nutrition. Health insurance policies, quality assurance and the role of the government and professional organizations in provision of health services.
Economics of the Welfare State	ECON 523	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Theories of social justice; origins and evolution of the welfare state; insurance theory and social insurance; cash benefits (unemployment insurance, health insurance, disability insurance, poverty relief, pensions); non-cash benefits (education and health services); targeting and conditionality; financing the welfare state; current controversies; welfare policies in Turkey.
Political Economy of Turkey	ECON 526	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will examine the main economic policy regimes and the underlying social, political and institutional dynamics in recent Turkish history in the context of a political-economic theoretical framework. The topics covered will include: positive political theory; political groups, interest groups and political influence; the political economy of elections; populism and redistributive politics; the statist era; the import substitution era; Turkey during globalization; structural reforms and political, social and institutional constraints.
Essentials of Project and Infrastructure Finance	ECON 547	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course equips students with skills and methodologies to analyze large-scale investment projects, decide on the feasibility of a project, calculate economic cost and benefits of the project and understand various ways of financing large-scale investments. It addresses topics such as the funding sources, business strategy, debt capacity, the problems of partners, hedging political risk, conceptual foundations of cost-benefit analysis and its alternatives, dealing with uncertainty and the social discount rate. Topics include discussions of case studies and lessons from experiences in Public -Private Partnerships.
Mathematics for Economists	ECON 571	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will introduce students to real analysis, linear algebra and convex optimization. Students will be expected to explore and learn the core concepts associated with set theory, the real number system, metric spaces, continuous functions, differentiation, Riemann integration, interchange of limit operations, systems of linear equations, manipulation of matrices, linear transformations, orthogonality, eigenvalues/eigenvectors, convex sets, convex functions, (un)constrained optimization, and duality
Seminar I	ECON 591	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Seminar complementing first year graduate courses.
Seminar II	ECON 592	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Seminar complementing first year graduate courses.
Advanced Microeconomics	ECON 601	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Selected topics in decision and social choice theory cooperative microeconomics; mechanism design, auction theory; contract theory; general equilibrium and incomplete markets.
International Economics	ECON 602	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Classical and strategic trade theory; intertemporal trade and the current account; money and exchange rates; financial markets and foreign investment.
Advanced Macroeconomics	ECON 603	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Selected topics in open economy macroeconomics labor and unemployment, search models, matching models.
Applied Econometrics	ECON 604	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The purpose of this course is to provide students with state of the art econometric methods for empirical analysis of micro data (individuals, households, firms etc.). Issues related to specification, estimation and identification of different models with cross-section and panel data will be studied. The course has an emphasis both on the econometric techniques and their applications to different topics. Students are expected to read assigned papers and undertake numerous practical assignments using a modern econometric software package. It also aims to expose students to research methods and ethical consideration in research and publishing.
Industrial Organization	ECON 605	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Monopoly, product selection and quality, price discrimination, vertical control, theories of oligopoly, tacit collusion, entry, limit pricing and predation.
Corporate Finance Theory	ECON 606	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Capital structure decisions, dividend policy, security design and voting rights, corporate governance and the market for corporate control, optimal financial contracting, internal organization of the firm, and managerial reputation.
Game Theory	ECON 607	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Topics in cooperative and non-cooperative game theory as a continuation of topics in game theory covered in ECON 502
Seminar in Mechanism and Market Design	ECON 608	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Theory and applications: auctions, double auctions matching mechanisms, price formation procedures.
Financial Economics	ECON 609	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Choice under uncertainty, stochastic dominance, Arrow-Debreu model of complete markets, portfolio choice, mutual fund separation theorems Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT).
Competition and Regulation	ECON 610	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Competition law and policy in Turkey and the European Union; agreements and concerted practices; vertical restraints; abuse of dominant position; competition and regulation in the telecommunications and energy industries: privatization and liberalization; universal services; models and contracts that encourage public-private partnerships in investments
Advanced Emerging Markets Macroeconomics	ECON 611	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Topics in open monetary macroeconomics, including IS-LM-BP, inflation tax and seignorage, exchange rate based stabilzation programs, and balance of payments crises.
International Trade and Industry Dynamics	ECON 612	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course develops the core models that underlie modern trade theory and examines their empirical relevance. It then focuses on productivity measurement, entry-exit of firms and industry dynamics, followed by the effect of international trade on firm dynamics.
Welfare Economics	ECON 624	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Competitive price mechanism and its welfare properties. Economic justice; public goods; social welfare functions; Arrow's impossibility theorem; Sen's liberal paradox; voting and aggregation rules. Applications and discussion topics include privatization and allocation of resources for national defense.
Advanced Labor Economics	ECON 630	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course covers economic theory and econometric analysis of labor market outcomes. The topics in the course include labor demand, labor supply, labor market equilibrium, human capital, screening and signaling investments, migration, and intergenerational mobility. Through these topics the course aims to introduce students to several of the most important theoretical and empirical methods in the field.
Matchings and Markets	ECON 688	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Game theoretic analysis of the matching of individuals with other individuals or items, typically across two sides, as in marriage, university placement, employment, housing. Competitive cooperative solutions: existence, optimality order structures, constructive procedures; strategic properties; auctions, mechanisms; institution and market design.
Seminar III	ECON 691	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Seminars, paper presentations and guided study to develop a thesis or project .
Seminar IV	ECON 692	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students present their work on Master thesis or project and participate to economics seminars by invited scholars.
Term Project	ECON 697	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students taking this course are expected to write a research paper on a topic agreed upon by a Faculty member.
Master Thesis	ECON 699	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty member from the relevant field over the second year of their course-work.
PhD Pro-Seminar	ECON 700	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Initiates the student to PhD dissertation work, master research methods and develop research skills under the guidance of thesis advisor. Production of an original research paper and its presentation in a program seminar.
Mathematical Economics	ECON 701	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Mathematical foundations of advanced economic theory, topology, linear and concave programming and applications, fixed point theorems and applications. Equilibrium analysis, existence, uniqueness and stability. Dynamic analysis and the theory of optimal control.
Matching and Markets	ECON 703	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Analysis of two-sided and many-sided matching problems, stability and other properties of matching. Matching-based market formation models, design of economic exchange systems and applications.
Theory of Incentives and its Applications	ECON 704	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Analysis of principal-agent models, control mechanisms in hierarchies, collusion and its prevention. Game-theoretic approaches to incentive problems with applications to industrial organization and regulation.
Research in Game Theory-I	ECON 705	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Advanced topics in noncooperative game theory, repeated games, asymptotic games, atomic games. Analysis and application of equilibrium concepts for noncooperative games. Evolutionary game theory. Analysis of latest developments in the field.
Research in Game Theory-II	ECON 706	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Topics in cooperative game theory. Solution concepts, their properties and applications. Analysis of latest developments in the field
Dynamic Macroeconomic Modeling and its Applications	ECON 711	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Dynamic sectoral equilibrium models, dynamic labor market search and matching models, heterogeneous agents models of financial markets, political equilibria and voting models.
Theory of Economic Growth and Development	ECON 712	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Endogenous growth models, innovation and imitation models, impact of labor and financial markets on economic growth, open-economy growth models and the impacts of international trade and finance on economic growth.
Advanced Econometrics	ECON 731	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Latest developments and approaches in econometric theory and its applications.
Advanced Law and Economics	ECON 756	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Extensions of economic theory to study criminal, tort, family, property and contract laws. Economic analysis and modeling of various legal issues with applications.
PhD Dissertation	ECON 799	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Process of research and writing of the PhD dissertation under the guidance of the thesis advisor and dissertation committee members.
Mechanical Vibrations	EE 516	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Formulation of problems in structural dynamics and vibration, free vibration, problems with initial conditions, forced vibration, discrete Systems, SDOF systems, MDOF systems, modal analysis, time and frequency domain analysis, continuous systems, wave propagation, nonlinear vibrations, experimental methods, FEM implications for vibration problems, applications including vibration isolation and dynamic absorbers, engines and rotating machinery.
Multidisiplinary Design Optimization	EE 518	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course addresses the design of complex multidisciplinary systems using optimization. This is not a traditional optimization course. Rather, focus is on how optimization can be used in the design of multidisciplinary systems. Each of the three concepts will be emphasized: multidisciplinary systems, design and optimization.
Advanced Robotics	EE 520	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction, spatial descriptions and transformations forward and inverse kinematics, mechanics of robot motion, static force and compliance, robot dynamics redundancy, trajectory planning, robot control, robot sensing.
Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines	EE 521	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to mechanisms, kinematics of mechanisms, displacement analysis, kinematics velocity analysis, acceleration analysis, forces in mechanisms, work, energy and power, momentum and impact, geometry of mechanisms, synthesis of mechanisms, transmission mechanisms, vibration, multi-body dynamics.
Mechatronics System Design	EE 522	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Because of the emphasis upon integration, this course will center around laboratory projects in which small teams of students will configure, design, and implement a succession of mechatronic subsystems, leading to system integration in a final project. Lectures will complement the laboratory experience with comparative surveys, operational principles, and integrated design issues associated with the spectrum of mechanism, electronics, and control components. Class lectures will cover topics intended to complement the laboratory assignments and final project.
Power Electronics & Electrical Drives	EE 523	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is intended to introduce students with different backgrounds (ME,EE,CS) to power electronics and electrical drives. The course will discuss fundamental properties of switching power converters: semiconductor switches and their realizations, the topologies of switching matrix and its operation, dynamics and control of switching converters. In the electrical drives the operation of electrical machines and their control will be discussed in details. The DC and AC machines will be discussed. The fundamentals of motion control like robustness, disturbance rejection, compensation of nonidealities will be introduced. The laboratory assignment will enable students to design and build full system.
Digital Control Systems	EE 524	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Mathematical background, discrete equivalents to continuous transfer function, direct digital control and supervisory control, control strategies process modelling and identification quantization effect, implementation issue in digital control
Real-Time Systems Design	EE 525	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to real-time systems, real-time software design , concurrent programming and process interactions, real-time operating system, processing scheduling Case study: high performance real-time application process communication, deadlock management distributed real-time systems.
Industrial Automation	EE 526	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Centralized and distributed control systems, control system architectures, open standards for control system hardware and software, control and communication control networks, sequential systems using programmable controllers, supervisory control and data acquisition for industrial automation, automated guided vehicle, automatic storage and retrieval system shop-floor monitoring and control system.
Mechatronics Systems	EE 527	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is intended to introduce students with different background .(ME,EE,CS) to mechatronics system approach. It will cover all fundamental elements of mechatronics systems as well as the role of mechanics-electronics- software in the mechatronics system design. The subject that will be discussed include: integration of mechanics- software into mechatronics systems, modeling and identification, measurement and sensors in mechatronics, power conversion and actuation principles in mechatronics systems, control and its role in mechatronics. The case studies will be presented and students will be asked to design and build a mechatronics product.
Nonlinear Control Systems	EE 528	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Selected topics in linear control systems, typical nonlinear problems and phenomena, stability, Lyapunov theory, robustness, performance analysis, nonlinear control design.
Vision Based Control	EE 529	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is about the application or processing of visual information in a way that entails the design and analysis of algorithms incorporating concepts studied in the field of control, namely feedback, estimation, and dynamics. It covers Image Formation Basics, Image Features and Correspondence, Recursive Estimation from Image Sequences, Image-Based and Position-Based Visual Servoing, Extending Visual Servoing Techniques to Nonholonomic Mobile Robots, Vision-Based System Identification and State Estimation.
Quantum Mechanics	EE 530	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Postulates of quantum mechanics; Schrodinger equation; harmonic oscillator; angular momentum and spin; hydrogen atom, perturbation theory systems of identical particles; quantization of the radiation field; Dirac equation.
Solid-State Physics	EE 531	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Band-theory of solids; free-electron model; lattice and electron dynamics; elementary excitations and collective phenomena; magnetism and superconductivity.
Advanced Theory of Semiconductor Devices	EE 532	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Selected advanced topics of current interest in the area area of semiconductors and solid state devices; detailed numerical simulation techniques with emphasis on drift-diffusion, hydrodynamic and Monte Carlo models. Operation of state-of-the-art bipolar, heterojunction, and field-effect devices. Deep submicron MOSFET technologies, device modeling approaches.
Semiconductor Process Technology	EE 533	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Theoretical analysis of the chemistry and physics of process technologies used in micro-electronics fabrication. Topics include semiconductor growth, material characterization, lithography tools, photo-resist models, thin film deposition, chemical etching, plasma etching, electrical contact formation, microstructure processing and process modeling.
Integrated Sensors	EE 534	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Fundamental principles and design of integrated solid-state sensors and sensing systems. Micromachining and wafer bonding. Microstructures for the measurement of visible and infrared radiation, pressure, acceleration, temperature, gas purity, an ion concentrations. Merged process technologies for sensors and circuits. Data acquisition circuits, micro-actuators and integrated microsystems.
Computational Techniques for Circuit Analysis and Design	EE 535	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Formulation of circuit equations; sparse matrix algorithms for the solution of large systems, AC, DC, and transient analysis of electrical circuits; numerical integration; linear multistep methods; stability; accuracy, step control, companion models; sensitivity analysis; decomposition methods.
Computer-Aided Design of VLSI Systems	EE 536	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Theory and implementation of circuit partitioning, and placement algorithms. Routing algorithms, parallel design automation on shared memory and distributed memory multi-processors, simulated annealing and other optimization techniques and their applications in CAD, layout transformation and compaction, fault-repair algorithms for RAMs and PLAs hardware synthesis from behavioral modeling, artificial intelligence-based CAD.
Advanced Topics in VLSI Design	EE 537	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Advanced very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit design. Design methodologies (architectural simulation, hardware description language design entry, silicon compilation, and verification), microarchitectures, interconnect, packaging, noise sources, circuit techniques, design for testability, design rules, VLSI technologies (silicon and GaAs), and yield. Projects in chip design.
Reliability Engineering for Integrated Circuits	EE 539	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Description of the algorithms and procedures required to study the reliability of integrated circuit products. Reliability modeling, physical causes of semiconductor device failure, reliability model development and calibration, model-based reliability prediction, product testing and measurement, and failure diagnosis. Coverage of the course material will emphasize applications to integrated circuit technology.
Mixed-Signal Integrated Systems and Applications	EE 540	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course starts with the building blocks of mixed-signal integrated circuits, mostly data converters and frequency synthesizers: comparators, sampling circuits, amplifiers, controlled oscillators, charge pumps, phase- frequency detectors, etc. Then, it continues with an overview of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and phase-locked loops (PLLs). Students will learn about several ADC and PLL topologies, the use of mixed-signal integrated circuits in different applications. Students will also design an ADC or PLL as a course project.
Theory of Acoustic Devices	EE 541	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	One dimensional theory of sound waves, piezoelectric materials; piezoelectric transducers, electrical equivalent circuits and impedance matching. Basic theory for waves in isotropic medium, acoustic waveguides, delay lines, interdigital transducers. Theory and applications of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers.
Digital Systems Verification and Testing	EE 542	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course introduces the problems of design verification and testing. It then covers the design verification process, various design errors, simulation- based verification, emulation-based verification, formal verification, timing verification. After that, the course covers the digital systems testing process, various fault models, automatic test pattern generation (ATPG), fault simulation, memory test, design for testability, built-in self-test, SoC test structures. Finally, it covers ATPG- based verification techniques.
Optics	EE 544	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to 2-D linear system theory and 2-D Fourier transforms; fundamentals of physical optics and diffraction theory, Fourier optics, imaging properties of optical systems; introduction to optical signal processing; optical interferometer methods and optical sensing devices and technology including fiber optic interferometric sensors and optical gyroscopes including signal processing methods both in hardware and software; digital imaging methods, including 3D image formation and holography; 3D display technologies.
Random Processes	EE 550	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Random processes and sequences, stationarity and ergodicity properties of auto- and cross-correlation functions, white noise, power spectral density and spectral estimation simulation of random processes, whitening, linear and non-linear estimation, and Wiener filtering.
Graduate Seminar I	EE 551	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar II	EE 552	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Communication Systems Laboratory	EE 553	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Hands-on study of the performance of analog and digital telecommunications systems and components including analog modulation and demodulation concepts and systems base-band and band-pass digital telecommunications and coding.
Networking - Theory and Fundamentals	EE 554	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course introduces analytical models and methodologies for modern networking, with focus on congestion control and routing. Topics from queueing theory, optimization, graph theory, distributed and asynchronous algorithms and their application to networking will be studied.
Wireless and Mobile Networks	EE 555	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Principles of air interface design, characteristics of the wireless medium, wireless medium access alternatives, wireless network planning and cellular design, mobility management, and applications in wireless wide area networks, including first and second- generation mobile systems and associated networks (GSM, IS-54,IS-95), third generation wireless network (W-CDMA), wireless local area networks (IEEE 802.11 HIPERLAN),wireless ad hoc networks.
Antennas and Propagation	EE 556	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Radiation from a moving point charge. Radiation from Thin-Wire Antennas with examples on pulse excitation and time-harmonic excitation, arrays of linear antennas, aperture antennas, microstrip antennas and applications to emerging telecommunication systems.
Advanced Digital Communication Systems	EE 557	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Advanced modulation techniques, intersymbol interference, maximum-likelihood sequence detection including Viterbi algorithm with applications to symbol-by-symbol equalization, finite-tap equalizers, and adaptive equalizers Advanced equalization techniques, carrier and timing recovery.
Advanced Digital Signal Processing	EE 560	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Time-frequency representations, filterbanks/wavelets, multirate and polyphase filters, linear prediction, inverse problems including least squares, LMS, SVD and reconstruction from projections, adaptive filtering, non-recursive and iterative search techniques with examples on optimal quantization, Lloyd-Max quantizers and vector quantization, multi-dimensional signal processing.
DSP Systems Design and Implementation	EE 561	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	A study of theory and practice in the design and implementation of DSP algorithms on programmable processors, multiprocessors, and ASICs. Specification, evaluation, and implementation of real-time DSP software applications on embedded DSP-based environments.
Digital Speech Processing	EE 562	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Segmental descriptions of speech, the vocal mechanism, digital models for speech production, digital waveform coding, time-domain analysis methods, differential, predictive, and adaptive quantization, short-time spectrum analysis, linear prediction analysis (LPC) methods, pitch detection and vocoders, analysis-by-synthesis systems modern coding techniques and standards. Fundamentals vocoders, analysis-by-synthesis systems, modern coding techniques and standards. Fundamentals of speech recognition, dynamic time warping, and Hidden Markov Models (HMM).
Digital Image Processing	EE 563	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Digital Image Processing Imaging modalities and application areas, the electromagnetic spectrum. Two-dimensional sampling, aliasing, and quantization. Image representation, unitary transforms. Image enhancement, point operations, histogram processing, filtering. Image restoration and reconstruction, image deblurring, inverse problems, computed tomography. Image segmentation, pixel-based, edge-based, and region-based techniques, active contours. Image compression. Pattern recognation and scene interpretation.
Digital Multimedia Compression and Standards	EE 565	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Compression is a key enabling technology for the apparent convergence of digital data and media (speech, audio, image and video) communications over a single network (Internet) as well as digital storage of data and media (CD and DVD).This course covers the fundamentals of lossless data and lossy media compression technologies. It also presents overviews of the state-of-the-art digital data, speech, wideband audio, image, and video compression algorithms including JPEG, JPEG2000, MPEG and H.26x standards.
Pattern Recognition	EE 566	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Statistical Pattern Recognition: Parameter Estimation and Supervised Learning, Bayesian Decision Theory, nonparametric approaches (Parzen windows, Nearest Neighbor), Linear Discriminant Functions, Feature extraction/selection; Pattern Recognition via Neural Networks; Syntactic Pattern Recognition; Nonmetric Methods, Unsupervised Learning and Clustering, Hidden Markov Models, Classifier Combination
Nano-Optics	EE 567	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will cover nano-optical devices and transducers and their applications for manipulating light on the nanoscale. Interaction of light with nano-structures, thin-films, metallic nano-antennas has many potential applications. This course is intended to teach students the principals of nano-optics encountered in different applications. Therefore, this course can be of interest for students in many departments. In addition to homework and exams, individual projects will be assigned to students to apply their new knowledge of nano-optical systems in different applications.
Detection and Estimation Theory	EE 568	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Principle of estimation, detection and time series analysis. Estimation: Linear and nonlinear minimum mean squared error ,estimation and other strategies. Detection: simple, composite, binary and multiple hypotheses, Neyman-Pearson and Bayesian approaches. Time series analysis: Wiener, Kalman filtering , prediction and modal Analysis.
3D Vision	EE 569	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course deals with a central problem in vision -how to recover 3-D structure and motion from a collection of 2-D images-using techniques mainly from linear algebra and matrix theory. Topics included are: geometric image formation, camera models, image feature extraction and tracking, camera calibration, stereo, epipolar geometry, eight-point algorithm, 3D reconstruction from two or more images, motion estimation etc. The aim is to provide graduate students in EE, CS and ME with a solid theoretical and algorithmic background for research.
Linear Systems	EE 571	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Gives the fundamental theory of linear dynamical systems in both continuous and discrete time. The course covers state- space representations, vector spaces, linear operators, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, functions of vectors and matrices, solutions to state equations, stability, controllability, observability, realization theory, feedback and observers.
Simulation and Animation of Motion	EE 572	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is about simulation and animation of the 3D motion of rigid and deformable objects. The course aims to introduce graduate and advanced undergraduate students to efficient numerical methods for simulating and visualizing motion and deformation. Contents of the course is the following: Numerical integration, equations of rigid body motion and deformation, constrained dynamics and collisions, contact, elasticity fundamentals, 3D deformable objects, cloth (2D) and hair (1D) modeling, fracture mechanics, acoustic modeling, fluids and smoke simulations, numerical linear algebra issues, interfacing animations with real- time control, man-machine interfaces, and multi- disciplinary interactions, rendering and computer graphics, data-driven approaches, and nondynamical applications.
Biomedical Instrumentation	EE 573	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Principles of biomedical transducers; amplifiers and signal processing; the origin, sensing and amplification of biopotentials; blood flow and pressure measurement; medical imaging, medical ultrasound and array signal processing; patient safety in medical instrumentation.
Medical Imaging and Image Analysis	EE 575	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The aim of the course is to show how to extract, model, and analyze information from medical data, show applications to help diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of diseases through computer science, and teach the image formation fundamentals for main medical imaging modalities. The course includes topics in medical imaging such as introduction to medical imaging, X-ray, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance imaging, Ultrasound, PET imaging, and core medical image analysis topics such as image segmentation, registration, statistical modeling, applications of computational tools for medicine and computer aided diagnosis, and course projects. The course will provide the participants with an up to date background in current research and methods in medical image analysis and imaging.
Special Topics in Microelectronics I	EE 580	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in EE: System-on-Chip Design and Test	EE 58000	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	VLSI system computer aided design (CAD) tools; laboratory experience in custom VLSI system chip design on workstations using concepts of cell hierarchy; design of large adder arrays and multipliers; VLSI architecture design; pipelining; low-power design strategies; final proje involving specification, design and evaluation of a VLSI chip or VLSI CAD program; written report and oral presentation on the final project.
Special Topics in EE: Advanced Nanoscale Integrated Circuit Design	EE 58001	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course describes high performance and low power integrated circuit (IC) design issues for advanced nanoscale technologies. After a brief review of VLSI design methodologies and current IC trends, fundamental challenges related to the conventional CMOS technologies are described. The shift from logic-centric to interconnect-centric design is emphasized. Primary aspects of an interconnect-centric design flow are described in four phases: (1) general characteristics of on- chip interconnects, (2) on-chip interconnects for data signals, (3) on-chip power generation and distribution, and (4) on-chip clock generation and distribution. Existing design challenges faced by IC industry are investigated for each phase. Tradeoffs among various design criteria such as speed-power-noise-area are highlighted. In the last phase of the course, several post- CMOS devices, emerging circuit styles, and architectures are briefly discussed. At the end of the course, the students will have a thorough understanding of the primary circuit and physical level design challenges with application to industrial IC design. )
Special Topics in EE: Sensor Networks	EE 58002	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Sensors, getting smaller down to nano-scales, serve grandiose objectives such as Artificial Intelligence aiding and supporting humanity in the current facilitating background of Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things. This course will focus on the communication of sensors of differing scales; from nano sensors to smart dust to seismic sensors, in different media such as underground, under water, and air. Rather than device level electronics and physical layer communications, we will study networking algorithms and efficiency. This course is project-based.
Special Topics in EE: VLSI Systems Design I	EE 58003	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology and limitations; CMOS circuit and logic design; layout rules and techniques; circuit characterization and performance estimation; CMOS subsystem design, basic building blocks; structured design principles; Very-Large-Scale Integrated (VLSI) system design methods; DRC, logic and circuit simulation.
Special Topics in EE: Power systems analysis	EE 58004	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to power systems. Typical structures, generation sources, renewables, transmission and distribution. Simulation software. Matrix representation of grids. Nodal analysis, modified nodal analysis, state equations and hybrid analysis. Steady-state. Modeling of lines, transformers, loads and generators. Short circuit studies with sequence networks. Load flow. Multiphase load flow. Voltage stability. Introduction to electromechanical transients. Introduction to electromagnetic transients.
Special Topics in ME: Compliant Motion Systems	EE 58005	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course focuses on modeling and control of compliant motion systems, such as manipulators with flexible links, compliant (soft) actuators, or systems with compliant transmission mechanisms. We will begin with fundamental nonlinear system analysis tools and non- collocated actuator/sensor pairs, and then cover the most prominent control methodologies for such systems.
Special Topics in EE: FPGA in Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits	EE 58006	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course covers fundamentals of digital hardware design using FPGA with a focus on its utilization on quantum experiments as a control, signal acquisition and signal processing device. No prior knowledge in quantum physics or FPGA is required.
Special Topics in EE: Heterogeneous Computing and System-on-Chip Design	EE 58008	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	1. Introduction - System-on-Chip (SoC), System-on-System (SoS) 2. Processor Design Approach 3. Processor Performance Modeling 4. Pipelining 5. Shared Memory Systems and Coherency 6. HW/SW Co-Design 7. Accelerator-based System Design 8. Basics of Chips and Hardware Accelerators 9. Hardware Accelerators and Co-Processors 10. Parallel SoC Systems and Programming 11. On-Chip Interconnection 12. SoC Communication Architectures 13. Network on Chip (NoC) and NoC-based Interconnection 14. SoC Application Case Studies
Special Topics in EE:Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz CMOS	EE 5807	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course is simply composed of four main parts. In the first part, fundamentals of wireless communications along with the link budget calculations are covered. In the second one, mm- Wave and THz CMOS transceivers are introduced for ultra-high data-rate wireless systems, phased arrays, and THz radiators (THz Transmitters). Following to this part, active and passive devices on CMOS for millimeter-wave and THz circuits are introduced. In this part, characterization of these devices and modeling are covered as well as calibration and de-embedding methods for device measurements. In the final part, design of some millimeter-wave and THz circuits are explained.
Special Topics in Microelectronics II	EE 581	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in Mechatronics I	EE 582	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in Mechatronics II	EE 583	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in Telecommunications I	EE 584	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in Telecommunications II	EE 585	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Master Thesis	EE 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Project	EE 592	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	All graduate students pursuing a non-thesis M.Sc. Program are required to complete a project. The project topic and contents are based on the interest and background of the student and are approved by the faculty member servingas the project supervisor. At the completion of the project, the student is required to submit a final report. The final report is to be approved by the project supervisor
Advanced Computer Vision	EE 606	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The aim of the course is to study computer vision, which tries to "make computers see and interpret" using the observations in the form of multiple 2D images or 3D images. Sophisticated computational techniques are developed with the goal of estimating and making inferences about the geometric and dynamic properties of the 3D world around us. A tentative list of topics for the course includes: review of camera models/calibration, review of projective geometry, introductory differantial geometry, 3D object reconstruction from two (multiple) views, volumetric 3D reconstruction, 2D and 3D motion estimation, image stitching/panorama, fetaure extraction and matching (sift,...), image inpainting , image blending/compositing, and other state-of-the-art 3D vision topics. The course will provide the participants with an up to date back ground in 3Dimensional computer vision.
CAD and Computer Prototyping	EE 620	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Advanced techniques of computer graphics and geometric modeling from the point of view of mechanical engineering applications. Provides study of CAD/CAM applications, especially in the areas of prototyping technology. Topics include parametric modeling, solid modeling,computer-aided machining, data communication and networking, and computer-aided rapid prototyping.
Sliding Mode Control	EE 621	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will discuss sliding mode control systems and their applications in motion control systems. The following topics will be discussed: mathematical methods in systems with discontinuous control, design concepts in sliding mode control, sliding mode observers, sliding modes in discrete- time systems, application in motion control: robot control, mobile robot control, application to automotive systems (ABS, engine control etc.).
Control in Microrobotics	EE 622	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is intended to discuss advanced topics in motion control systems with emphasis on micromanipulation. The subject that will be discussed include: generalization of the motion control tasks - tracking-force-impedance and design of controller suitable for application in micro systems, handling nonlinearities in micro-motion control, control of micromanipulation, bilateral control, mechatronics interfaces in micromanipulation, high precision motion measurement and control. As examples, systems with flexibility will be discussed.
Design for Manufacturing	EE 623	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Objectives of the course aim at providing the students with a basic understanding of the material, techniques and application of the most commonly used manufacturing processes. A design project will be undertaken by each student that will include a detailed analysis of the manufacturing process for an individual product selected, followed by a written report and a brief presentation to the class. Graduate students will be expected to complete an additional process design project on the same lines.
Mechatronics and Smart Machine Design	EE 624	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Applications are in the design of 'smart' products or system that are intelligent, adaptive and with some decision-making capability. They make use of microprocessor/microcomputer and sensor technologies to gather information about the environment where they are employed, for example, temperature, visual information, force, pressure etc. and perform their functions (precise control of the mechanical systems, actuating control devices, etc.) based on the built-in intelligence and the gathered data.
Advanced Analysis of Microsystems	EE 625	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course aims to teach students advanced modeling and analysis of mechanical, electrostatic, magnetostatic, fluidic, thermal, and optical properties and performance of micro and nano devices. Topics include: mechanical behavior, static deformation, resonance characteristics, and elastic properties of microsystems and devices; micro flows, flow in micro scales, lubrication in micromechanical structures, viscous damping, continuum hypothesis, and molecular flows; dissipation and heat transfer in microsystems; electrostatic, piezoelectric, magneto restrictive, magnetic, thermo mechanical, hydro pneumatic, and electro rheological actuators and energy conversion.
Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)	EE 626	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course includes a summary of integrated circuit fabrication technologies leading into an overview of the technologies available to shape electromechanical elements on a submillimeter scale. Physics of MEMS devices will be covered at a level necessary to design and analyze new devices and systems. Electronic interfacing, mechanical and electrical noise, fundamental limits of CAD tools, layout, process simulation.
Advanced Motion Control	EE 627	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is intended to discuss advanced topics in motion control systems. The subject that will be discussed include: generalization of the motion control tasks - tracking-force- impedance, bilateral control and control of haptic devices, handling nonlinearities in motion control, intelligent motion control systems, observers applications in motion control, unified approach to control of electro-mechanical converters, high precision motion measurement and control. As example systems with flexibility will be discussed.
Force Control and Bilateral Teleoperation	EE 628	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is designed to equip students with fundamental theories and computational methodologies that are used in (computer aided) analysis and synthesis of force controlled and bilaterally teleoperated systems. By the end of the course a solid understanding of the principles of force/bilateral control in the context of modern classical control and hands on experience with implementation of force/bilateral controllers on force feedback devices are aimed. Covered topics include fundamental limitations of feedback control, explicit force control, implicit force control, impedance control, admittance control, reaction force observers, scaled teleoperation architectures, trade-off between robust stability and transperancy, physics based simulation of virtual environments, haptics rendering, passivity of the human-in-the-loop sampled data system, destabilizing effects of communication/computation delays and approaches to compensate for these time delays, namely, time domain passivity and wave variable approaches. The course is appropriate for students in any engineering discipline with interests in robotics, nonlinear controls, and haptics.
Geometric Modelling	EE 629	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Aim of the course is to geometrically synthesize complex models that can be used in computer aided geometric design (CAGD), graphics and robotics. It covers parametric and implicit forms of curves and surfaces, Hermite, Bezier and spline curves and surfaces, triangulation, solids and geometric synthesis.
Quantum Electronics	EE 630	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Stimulated absorption and emission of radiation. Laser oscillators. Nonlinear optics. Quantum theory of light.
Integrated Optics and Optoelectronics	EE 631	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Electric/optical waveguides and the effective index method, symmetric and asymmetric slab guides, ray optics approach, losses and gains in waveguide; optical input and output couplers; coupling of modes, directional couplers distributed feedback structures and coupled semiconductor laser arrays, near and far field patterns; electroabsorption and gain, interband and intersubband transitions, quantum-well semiconductor lasers.
Mixed-Signal VLSI Systems Design	EE 632	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Integrated-circuit fabrication; circuit modeling and simulation; basic and advanced operational amplifiers and comparators; switched-capacitor and continuous-time filters; data converters; mixed-signal IC layout techniques.
Microwave Devices and Circuits	EE 633	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Very-high frequency behavior of electronic devices. Avalanche, transferred electron, and acoustoelectric oscillators and amplifiers; parametric interactions. General properties and design of nonlinear solid-state microwave networks, including: negative resistance oscillators and amplifiers, frequency convertors and resistive mixers, transistor amplifiers, power combiners, and harmonic generators.
VLSI Array Processors for Signal Processing	EE 634	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Signal processing algorithms; applications of special purpose VLSI processing architecture, systolic/wavefront arrays, VLSI DSP chips and array processors to digital signal processing and scientific computation.
Microelectronic Realization of Neural and Fuzzy Systems	EE 635	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Neural networks and fuzzy systems, including: neuron structure and dynamics, unsupervised and supervised learning, network models and architectures, concepts of network stability and learning convergence. Architectures and data flow for microelectronic neural processors and systems digital-analog VLSI sensing and microrobotic control; system applications.
Formal Specification and Verification of Digital Systems	EE 636	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course covers major formal specification and verification approaches used in the automation of digital design. Topics include the use of logic-based formalisms, formal verification of combinatorial circuit designs, symbolic model checking, specification and verification of synchronous and asynchronous sequential circuits, compositional verification, verification of complex hardware systems.
High-Performance Computer Architectures	EE 637	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Design of high performance computer systems; instruction level concurrency; memory system implementation; pipelining, superscalar, and vector processing; compiler back-end code optimization; profile assisted code transformations; code generation and machine dependent code optimization; cache memory design for multiprocessors; synchronization implementation in multiprocessors; compatibility issues; technology factors; state-of-the-art commercial systems.
Quantum Information	EE 638	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Generalized quantum measurements; quantum entanglement and its applications; quantum circuits and logic gates; quantum algorithms; error correction and fault-tolerance; quantum information theory and quantum cryptography.
Advanced RF and Microwave Circuit Design	EE 639	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course covers the design and implementation of radio frequency (RF) and Microwave Circuit design for wireless communications applications. Limitations and advantages of monolithic components to the RF circuit designers are described through a series of case studies using typical RF IC transceiver circuits. Topics include: RF and Microwave semiconductor technologies (silicon, SiGe, etc.) and devices (CMOS, HBT, HEMT, BiCMOS, etc.), monolithic amplifiers (broadband and low-noise), translinear circuits (up and downconversion mixers, frequency multipliers/ dividers, etc.), phase-locked synthesizers, output stages, active / passive frequency selective circuits/filters and their components, including MicroElectroMechanical passives for filters. Transmitter, receiver, and power amplifier architectures are described with a focus on the monolithic context.
Spread Spectrum Systems	EE 651	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Overview of spread spectrum techniques as applied to modern cellular communication applications. RAKE receiver; principle, diversity and implementation, tracking of PN-sequences; power control; near/far effect and optimum performance. Capacity analysis; multi-user detection; a priori signal reception.
Fiber-Optic Communications and Networks	EE 652	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Optical fiber attenuation and dispersion, light-emitting, laser, and PIN diodes, avalanche photodiodes. Receiver designs, optical power budgets and rise-time budgets, applications in analog and digital communication systems. Optical network model, enabling technologies, physical layer issues,point-to-point transmission, single hop and multihop networks, time-division multiplexed networks, packet-switched optical networks, and application.
Microwave Communications	EE 653	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Communication Engineering Transmission Systems--Design of transmission systems for television, telephone, and data-using satellites, microwave repeaters, mobile radio, and broadcast transmitters. Performance of FM, AM, SSB common digital schemes and spread-spectrum modulation, time, frequency, and code multiplexing. Emphasis on link performance, capacity, total system design, and cost optimization. Current industry design problems and research results.
Information Theory	EE 654	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Entropy and mutual information concepts, Markov chains and entropy rate. Shannon�s lossless source coding, channel capacity, white and colored Gaussian channels, rate distortion theory with applications to scalar and vector quantizer design. Multi-user information theory and applications.
Signal Processing for Sonar, Radar, and Telemetry	EE 661	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Array processing in sonar, radar, and seismic applications. Arrays, beamformers and frequency-wave number filters, space-time process characterization, bearing estimation for single and multiple sources, directional and frequency wavenumber spectra estimation, adaptive arrays, matched field processing, multichannel deconvolution, Velocity spectra estimation, common depth point stacking, migration.
Advanced Speech Recognition	EE 662	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Feature extraction from speech, Hidden Markov Models, Three problems of estimation for Hidden Markov Models, Connected word models, decoding and search, implementation issues, acoustic modeling problems such as speaker and environment normalization and discriminative training, statistical language modeling, lattice rescoring.
Advanced Multimedia Systems and Networks	EE 665	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Multimedia system requirements, lossy and lossless media compression methods. Storage systems and multimedia requirements, networking requirements and networks as multimedia carriers. Multimedia system design with examples on transport and network protocols, scheduling, congestion control traffic shaping, buffer management. Wireless access protocols (WAP) and media compression for wireless systems. Current and emerging techniques on network security.
System Identification	EE 672	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Aims to provide the fundamental theory of identification of dynamical systems, i.e. how to use measured input-output data to build mathematical models, typically in terms of differential or difference equations. It covers: The mathematical foundations of System Identification, Non-parametric techniques, Parametrizations and model structures, Parameter estimation, Asymptotic statistical theory, User choices, Experimental design, Choice of model structure.
Selected Topics in Microelectronics I	EE 680	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in EE: Advances in Radar Imaging	EE 68000	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Selected Topics in Microelectronics II	EE 681	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Selected Topics in Mechatronics I	EE 682	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Selected Topics in Mechatronics II	EE 683	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Selected Topics in Telecommunications I	EE 684	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Selected Topics in Telecommunications II	EE 685	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Ph.D.Dissertation	EE 790	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Master Thesis	EECS 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Project Course	EECS 592	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	All graduate students pursuing a non-thesis M.Sc. Program are required to complete a project. The project topic and contents are based on the interest and background of the student and are approved by the faculty member servingas the project supervisor. At the completion of the project, the student is required to submit a final report. The final report is to be approved by the project supervisor
Ph.D. Dissertation	EECS 790	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Executive/Professional English	ENG 502	School of Languages
Energy Systems Optimization	ENRG 520	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The energy system optimization problems are broadly categorized as operation and planning problems. The operation problems are usually related to how to exploit the existing devices/power plants. The planning problems usually refer to those problems which investigate whether to invest or not in some assets. The course Energy Systems Optimization introduces undergraduate and graduate students to applied optimization with a focus on energy systems. It includes the problem statement and mathematical formulation of a series of problems related to energy systems as well as their solution and results interpretation in commercial software packages. In particular, the subjects covered are:  Introduction to optimization in energy systems,  Basic optimization problems for gaining experience with the software package,  Economic dispatch problem, including thermal power units and renewable energy sources (static and dynamic formulation),  Long-term generation expansion planning of power systems,  Energy Storage,  Power flow analysis  Generation investment planning, and  Integrated Energy Systems.
Hydrogen Energy System	ENRG 521	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to hydrogen energy system; Carbon dioxide sequestration technologies; Hydrogen production methods: steam reforming, thermochemical, electrochemical and photoelectrochemical methods, solar hydrogen, biological hydrogen production; Hydrogen storage: compression and liquefaction of hydrogen, adsorption on porous materials, hydrogen-metal systems, mass storage of hydrogen; Utilization of hydrogen: fuel cells, fuel cell vehicle, hydrogen fuelled transportation (buses, ships and airplanes); Transmission to hydrogen energy system.
Battery Science and Engineering	ENRG 522	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of battery science and engineering, specifically focusing on applications for renewable and sustainable energy systems. The course will emphasize topics such as materials, components, systems, electronics, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, kinetics, mass transfer, heat transfer, and engineering-related issues. Additionally, the course will include a detailed examination of both traditional and future battery technologies. Among traditional battery technologies are commonly used systems like lead-acid batteries, nickel-metal hydride batteries, and lithium-ion batteries. The focus will be on understanding the advantages and disadvantages of these technologies, their energy storage capacities, charge/discharge processes, and environmental impacts. Future battery technologies will encompass metal-air batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, solid-state batteries, and innovative solutions integrated with renewable energy sources. Understanding aspects such as energy storage efficiency, sustainability, cost-effectiveness, and industrial applicability of these technologies is a key objective of the course. Overall, the course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to comprehend the fundamental principles of battery technologies. It seeks to enable students to develop solutions that align with both current and future energy storage needs.
Electric Power Systems: Operation, Technology and Economics	ENRG 523	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course aims to establish a novel, comprehensive framework for studying electrical energy systems and then use that framework to deconstruct and reassemble the power system while providing analytical tools to support further study. In particular, the subjects covered are: * Why Does Energy Matter, How Much Energy Is Needed, Key Questions to Examine in the Energy System, Constraints of the Energy System * Physics of Energy, Energy vs. Power, How Energy Is Transformed, Laws of Thermodynamics, Energy System Map, Market Design and Function * Power generation characteristics * Electric power industry as a business * Electricity and Grid Operation * Grid Economics ? Electricity Generation Technologies & Renewable Electricity * Transmission System * Consumption and Electricity Demand Management * Electric Storage ? Distributed Generation
Product and Process Design	ENS 502	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to product and process design and managerial and economic aspects; basic characteristics of engineering products; methodologies employed in product design process; product and process integration; prototyping; quality issues and process control; overview of computer tools for product and process design; term project with interdisciplinary teams on a product and/or process design.
Methods of Statistical Inference	ENS 505	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The main objective of this course is to review the basic concepts of the theory of statistics and further develop an understanding of some fundamental applied statistical methods. The emphasis is on applications of the theory in the development of statistical procedures. Some examples of applying statistics to engineering problems are also given. Theory- and computation-based assignments help students digest the concepts and apply them in practice. Covered topics: Fundamental concepts of statistics and related distributions; design of experiments and analysis of variance; multiple hypotheses testing; regression and correlation analysis; Bayesian statistics; computer-aided analysis of data.
Technology and Innovation Management in Energy	ENS 507	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Technology and innovation management; general framework and 3 dimensional approach. Basic concepts about technology and innovation management. Definition and types of innovation. Phases of innovation process. Strategic management approach. Macro environment analysis. Sectoral analysis. Firm capabilities analysis. Competition strategies and innovation. Technology and innovation strategy and its harmony with firm strategy. Vision, strategy and action plan. Assessment and selection of R&D projects. Development and planning the R&D portfolio and management of R&D processes. Technology forecasting; tools and methods. System approach in innovation management; Innovation culture and organizational transformation. Success and failure factors for innovation. Intellectual property right; patent, utility model, their types and application processes. Collaborations in innovation; pre-competition collaborartion, university-industry collaborations. Finance of innovation. Diffusion and commercialization processes of R&D results.
Numerical Methods	ENS 509	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course cover techniques in numerical analysis such as numerical solution of linear systems, sparse matrix techniques, linear least squares, singular value decomposition, numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors, optimization techniques, interpolation and approximation of functions, solving systems of nonlinear equations, numerical handling of ordinary and partial differential equations.
Engineering Optimization	ENS 511	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will cover optimization methods for solving engineering problems. The methods will include linear and nonlinear programming, integer programming, dynamic programming, network models and an introduction to metaheuristic algorithms. Special emphasis will be given to practical aspects.
Introduction to the Finite Element Method	ENS 512	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course emphasizes the fundamental concepts in finite element analysis, and practical implementation of a working program. The course is divided into two halves. The first half is concentrated on the basic theoretical of the finite element method. The second half will be focused on issues concerning the implementation. Advanced topics will be discussed if time permits. The methods studied in this course are practical procedures that are employed extensively in the mechanical, civil, ocean, aeronautical and electrical industries. Increasingly, the methods are used in computer-aided design.
Experimental Methods in Nanoscience I	ENS 513	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The objective of the course is to introduce basic experimental methods in nanoscience. Theoretical lectures are followed by experiments performed in the laboratory for each subject. Labview programming, vacuum techniques, deposition methods, surface science techniques, scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic force microscopy, nanomagnetism.
Experimental Methods in Nanoscience II	ENS 514	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The objective of the course is to introduce basic experimental methods in nanoscience. Theoretical lectures are followed by experiments performed in the laboratory for each subject. Growth and bottom up fabrication of nanostructures, fabrication of nanostructures and nanodevices, electron beam lithography and related techniques, cryogenic techniques, electrical characterization of nanodevices, quantum transport and magneto transport measurements.
Introduction to Scanning Probe Microscopy	ENS 516	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The objective of the course is to introduce Scanning Probe Microscopy methods to the students. Staring with Scanning Tunnelling Microscope we will elaborate most of the common SPM methods. However, we shall spend most of the time on Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). Half of the course will involve hands-on practical work at the AFM Lab at SUNUM. Students will finish the course with detailed analysis of their own specimen using AFM.
Hydrogen Energy System	ENS 521	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to hydrogen energy system; Carbon dioxide sequestration technologies; Hydrogen production methods: steam reforming, thermochemical, electrochemical and photoelectrochemical methods, solar hydrogen, biological hydrogen production; Hydrogen storage: compression and liquefaction of hydrogen, adsorption on porous materials, hydrogen-metal systems, mass storage of hydrogen; Utilization of hydrogen: fuel cells, fuel cell vehicle, hydrogen fuelled transportation (buses, ships and airplanes); Transmission to hydrogen energy system.
Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers I	ENS 525	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Analytic functions of a complex variable: Cauchy-Riemann equations, conformal mappings, integration, Cauchy theorem, Taylor and Laurent series, residues, contour evaluation of definite integrals. Linear vector spaces: Inner products, linear operators, eigenvalue problems, functions of operators and matrices, Fourier transforms, Hilbert spaces, Sturm-Liouville theory, classical orthogonal polynomials, Fourier series, Bessel functions.
Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers II	ENS 526	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	First and second order ODE's, series solutions, second-order self-adjoint operators. Second order PDE's, multidimensional Fourier transformations, Green's functions and their eigenfunction expansions, curl, divergence and the Laplacian in curvilinear coordinates, separation of variables, spherical Bessel functions and spherical harmonics, solution of boundary value problems. <>Calculus of variations and variational methods. Integral equations and their kernels, Schmidt-Hilbert theory.
Scientific and Technical Communication	ENS 555	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course’s aims to enhance the communication of graduate student research with the long term goal of facilitating research output. To this aim, the rhetorical genres characteristic of scientific/technical writing and presentation will be discussed: review of literature, poster, thesis, article for publication, conference abstract, and review paper. A final output of the course is the presentation of an exploratory research paper/poster within the student’s program field. Course materials and assignments are tied into ongoing projects in content course programs.
Special Topics in Engineering and Natural Sciences I	ENS 580	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in FENS: Nanobiotechnology	ENS 5803	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The aim of this course is to introduce general concepts of biotechnology, nanotechnology, nanomaterials (carbon-based, fluorescence-based and plasmon-based nanomaterials), surface bio-modification techniques and characterization of bio-modified nanomaterials.
Special Topics in Engineering and Natural Sciences II	ENS 581	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Industrial Research	ENS 596	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	A project is carried out in conjunction with an industrial company leading to distinct deliverables such as a working paper or conference paper as specified by the instructor at the beginning of the course.
Pro-Thesis Seminar	ES 500	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Pro-Thesis Seminar provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty member from the relevant field.
The European Union as a New Legal Order	ES 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course looks at the EU system as an additional constitutional system, which has been added to existing national systems. Some of the debate will focus on whether this new system will replace national systems or somehow be adduced. The course will dwell upon the legal basis of progress from economic to political union and trace the continuously evolving relationship between the citizen, the EU and the national legal systems. Towards this end, select Treaties, cases from the European Court of Justice will be analysed for a clearer perception of the new legal structure and processes.
Turkey-European Union Relations	ES 502	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course analyses Turkey's relations with the EU from political, economical, cultural and social dimensions. It provides the historical background of these relations dating it back to the post World War II order. The course covers the Ankara treaty, Association Agreement, Customs Union and the phases of Turkey's association with the EU. Turkey's position in the EU's enlargement process, and Turkish candidacy are also elaborated in detail
Energy Politics	ES 504	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Energy affects all aspects of individual and collective life. Economic growth requires increasing supplies of energy, making security of supply important for both developing and mature markets. On the other hand, energy producing countries are more concerned about the security of future demand for their exports. After beginning with an introduction to the geopolitics of energy, the course focuses on political, economic, strategic implications of current trends in energy markets. It will also take into account the relationship between energy and environment and alternative sources of energy in the context of the EU energy policy and the Turkish market.
European Foreign Policy	ES 505	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designed to familiarize the students with the basic concepts of the European Union's foreign policy. It provides a theoretical and analytical basis for students to asses the EU's performance as an international actor. The course addreses the main European Foreign Policy actors, tools, institutions, objectives and issues. Topics to be discussed include the EU's response to contemporary challenges in world politics.
Policy Making in the EU	ES 506	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course aims to create a basic understanding of the institutions, actors, levels, factors and constraints that impact upon EU policy-making process. This process is complicated by the levels involved; the supranational, national, regional and local; as well as the multiplicity of actors, both institutional and individual. There will be discussion on how the new constitution to be soon promulgated will influence the process.
The Political Economy of European Integration	ES 507	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims at providing the students with a basic understanding of the interaction between politics and the economy in the integration of European. The course will first underline the historical and socio-economic context of European integration in the aftermath of World War II. Second, the course will focus on the dynamics of markets and government policies as they shape one another in the newly emerging institutional framework of EC and EU. Third, the course will analyse the challenges for the European economies and polities in present day global economy and increasingly volatile international relations with their newly developing alliances and institutions.
European Administrative Law and Eurocracy	ES 508	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The Union, in one sense, is a huge accumulation of laws, legal documents and directives, which determine how the system is meant to function. The course, will selectively, take up components of the evolving Acquis Communataire and link them to jurisdiction and enforcement. The specific type of bureaucrat, probably not born but bred in the administrative environment of the EU, the eurocrat, will be focused upon, with a view to determine the type of administrative culture evolving and its impact upon the EU.
Multi-level Governance in the EU	ES 510	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Various institutions of the Union at local, regional, national and supranational levels, with ever increasing frequency and emphasis, have devised policies and initiated mechanisms, which are best, represented by the concept of governance. The Union, while formulating common policy in limited areas, has accepted the principle of subsidiarity in many others, encouraging collaborative schemes and approaches among various actors at different sub-national levels. Major instruments for implementation like the Social fund and Regional and Cohesion Fund envisage and encourage a new societal division of labour, new types of collaboration among a multiplicity of stakeholders and new forms of participation and accountability, true to the spirit of governance.All these developments and trends justify a course in which this concept and its various applications within the European Union are taken up systematically, to facilitate a clearer understanding of how the Union functions.
European Economy	ES 512	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course focuses on contemporary economic development, problems and policy issues in Europe. Part One provides a broad understanding of post-war economic development in Western Europe and in the former Soviet Union. Part Two ensures detailed knowledge of four economies: Britain, Germany, France and Eastern Europe. Part Three develop analytical and evaluative skills for examining economic institutions and developments in historical and comparative contexts. The range of contemporary economic problems and policy issues includes the following: (i) uneven development in Europe: success stories and failures and lessons which can be learned from the past. (ii) Globalisation: trade, industrial and capital import strategies in the context of increasing global economic integration. Part Four of the course focuses upon the development, economic policies and institutional framework of European Union
Economic Policies in the EU	ES 514	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The basic approach is to provide detailed knowledge of European Economic integration after the Second World War. Starting from Treaty of Rome in 1957 until today. Specific topics covered include theories and practice of European economic Integration: Customs Union, Single European Market, European Monetary Union, EU institutions (European Investment Bank, European Central Bank) and economic policy-making processes, CAP, social and regional policies and so on. The EU as international actor; the EU's difficult economic relationship with the USA and the rest of the world; the impact of the EU on UK's, Germany's national macroeconomic policies.
International Economic Institutions	ES 516	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course focuses on international economic institutions: the role of the IMF and the World Bank in the world economy; do we need them? challenges and opportunities of the OECD in the beginning of the new century; The World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a new economic actor in the international arena; decision-making process in the international organisations.
European Business	ES 518	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course focuses on identification, analysis and resolution of managerial issues within the context of business firms operating in the EU. Two central themes underpin this section of the course: first, a comparative analysis of British, German and French firms; second, the Multinationals (MNCs), Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) and transfer of technology from the EU to other countries or visa versa. The role of the EU firms in the globalisation process; intellectual property rights and FDI; causes and consequences of merger waves; has globalisation changed the rule of the game?
Public Opinion and EU Enlargement Process	ES 519	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Although EU is largely seen as an elite project, the process of enlargement has given mass preferences an increasingly determining institutional role in EU politics. This course aims to provide the students first of all a conceptual framework to analyze the interactions between mass public opinions and international relations. The conceptual framework of two-level games will then be used to analyze the dynamics of public opinions in the enlargement process and the resulting referendums. Basic public opinion analysis techniques will be conveyed to the students and the methodology and main characteristics of the Eurobarometer surveys in member and enlargement countries will be discussed. The interaction between public opinion support for EU membership and Turkish domestic politics will be analyzed in depth with eye towards diagnosing temporal as well lasting impacts of EU membership process on Turkish domestic politics.
From Plan to Market: Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe	ES 522	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Analysis of the events that took place after the fall of the Wall in 1989 in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. At this point in time, these countries set forth on a dramatic transformation of their economies, from a centrally-planned with a huge hierarchy directing most economic activity, into market economies. Sweeping reforms are carried out, including privatization of large numbers of state-owned companies, development of new legal systems and creation of new financial institutions. The course studies the very challenging undertaking task of creating new market economies from scratch, a process which is still not complete fifteen years later.
Major Issues in the Euro-Mediterranean Area	ES 523	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the major issues in the Euro-Mediterrranean Area. It will investigate the main political, economic and social dynamics in the region. Given the importance of this region for the European integration and European security, the topics covered will enable the students to grasp the many complexities in the Euro-Mediterranean.
Major issues in the EU	ES 524	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The aim of this course is to provide awareness of the political, social, economic and institutional processes in the EU and an opportunity to examine in detail the current major issues in the EU. Papers will be addressed by guest speakers from different EU member and candidate countries. This course consists of two sections: First section focuses on the European Union. Topics covered in the lectures include issues related with the history and theories of European integration, EU institutions, enlargement, European Monetary Union, foreign and defence policy, justice and home affairs, the policy process and output of the EU, and the future of the Union. The second section focuses on the impact of European integration on domestic policies of member and candidate countries and the resulting "Europeanisation" therein.
Migration and Integration	ES 554	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Global migration has vastly increased, become more diverse and challenging the territorial, cultural and conceptual boundaries. This course explores the changing face, dilemmas and opportunities of migration in both receiving and sending states, emphasizing the political aspects of migration. The geographical and temporal focus may vary according to the instructor. The course examines why people move, the politics and policies of border control in the developed receiving states (e.g., USA, Canada, Western Europe) and how domestic and/or interstate developments such as European integration have changed the nature of migration policymaking. It addresses questions of immigrant integration and diversity and studies the benefits and challenges to receiving states. Special topics include emigration and development, remittances, brain drain, the role of sending state policies on state and identity formation and an analysis of the Turkish case as an example of a state facing the challenges of both emigration and immigration.
Seminar on the Turkish Economy	ES 592	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Different development strategies such as import substitution and import promotion; current economic issues in Turkey(from 1923 until present)
Term Project	ES 597	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students taking this courses are expected to write a research paper on a topic agreed upon by a faculty member.
Master Thesis	ES 599	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty member from the relevant field over the second year of their course-work.
Fundamentals of Energy Resources	ETM 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Demand, global supply, advantages, disadvantages, related costs and environmental impact of fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal), renewable resources (wind, solar, hydro, biomass and geothermal) and nuclear energy. Current status, as well as historical use and projections of each resource. Fundamentals of electricity and hydrogen supply chains.
Environment, Climate Change and Social Cost	ETM 502	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	What is anthropocene and how do the human impact on the planet and ecosystems evolve? Science and policy aspects of environmental problems and climate change; post-normal science; ways of consensus in the scientific community; climate change denial campaigns. Basics of climate science and impacts of climate change. Climate policies, mitigation, risk reduction and adaptation. Carbon budget, low-carbon energy transition and decarbonization of the energy systems. International climate politics. Energy efficiency, renewables and transformation of the energy policies in the wake of global climate change. Air pollution, water scarcity and sustainability of the energy systems.
Energy Systems and Technologies I	ETM 503	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	First of the two semester introduction course aiming to provide rigorous foundation to the technologies employed in the energy production, conversion and distribution systems. Course is given via formal lectures and discussion essions with the invited industrial experts. Energy basics, forms of energy and interconversion. Global energy consumption, and its environmental impact. Fossil fuel use and depletion. Nuclear energy systems, safety and waste disposal. Thermal power plants; electric power sector.
Energy Markets	ETM 504	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Energy market relations and models. Power markets: participants, operation, load management. Bilateral contracts, day-ahead market, balancing market, ancillary services market. Regional markets, export and import. Financial markets and products. Natural gas market operations, supply markets. Introduction to price forecasting models.
Energy Systems and Technologies II	ETM 505	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Second of the two semester introduction course aiming to provide rigorous foundation to the technologies employed in the energy production, conversion and distribution systems. Course is given via formal lectures and discussion sessions with the invited industrial experts. Renewable energy systems including biomass, geothermal, solar, wind, hydroelectric. Energy storage; batteries and fuel hydroelectric. Energy storage; batteries and fuel
Energy Regulations and Laws	ETM 506	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	General structure of energy markets, market actors, physical and trade relations. Power market activities, boundaries and obligations. Pre-license and license processes, unlicensed production. Legal framework and investment models for power production. Legal framework and characteristics of transmission and other activities. Legal framework for the power grid and the right to connect. Regulations about renewable power resources. Security of supply and capacity mechanisms. Government subsidies, incentives and their effects on power markets. Privatization: legal framework, regulation and models. International agreements (e.g., TANAP) and regulation. Project financing and regulation. Auditing: Legal framework for sanctions and legal mechanisms. Discussions on current issues case studies and contract analyses.
Technology and Innovation Management in Energy Industry	ETM 507	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Basic concepts about technology and innovation management. Definition and types of innovation. Phases of innovation process. New social and technological trends about innovation. Methods for innovation management. System approach in innovation management. National innovation systems; actors, policies, institutions, interactions. Sectoral innovation systems and energy sector. Corporate innovation systems; innovation strategy, project portfolio, innovation processes, corporate culture. Success and failure factors for innovation. Collaborations in innovation processes; pre-competition collaboration, university-industry collaborations. Diffusion and commercialization processes of innovation.
Finance of Energy Projects	ETM 508	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Energy Financing methodologies centered around corporate finance and project finance is the focal point of the course. Up-to-date and international practices of energy financing, based on energy sources, type of projects, energy market structures and financing structures are explained. Risk management, financial structuring, financial product selection and pricing specialized for energy project and market needs are shared. Energy financing cases for both energy production & distribution in conventional & renewable energy from Turkey and abroad are studied, finance models, project risk matrices and project mapping are prepared in case studies. The course provides both profound theoretical knowledge and experience sharing uplifted with case studies and energy finance professionals as guest speakers.
Project Management in Energy Industry	ETM 509	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Project life cycle and processes, project selection, project financing, project definition. Project planning and scheduling, project execution and control, risk and resource planning. Managing change through projects, managing Research and Development (R&D) projects, managing new product development (NPD) projects. Commercialization of R&D and NPD projects. Leadership and organization for project management.
Special Topics in Energy Studies I	ETM 510	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course introduces a number of emerging or important energy-related topics that are not covered in other Energy Technologies and Management (ETM) courses.
Energy Systems and Technologies	ETM 511	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Energy basics, forms of energy and interconversion. Global energy consumption, and its environmental impact. Fossil fuel use and depletion. Nuclear energy systems, safety and waste disposal. Thermal power plants; electric power sector. Renewable energy systems including biomass, geothermal, solar, wind, hydroelectric. Energy storage; batteries and fuel cells. Energy in transportation.
International Business Development	ETM 512	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Understanding the dynamics and characteristics of major international markets in energy sector; Middle East, Middle Asia, Africa, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Scandinavian countries, US and Canada. The phases of business development in international energy markets.
Fundamental Skills in Energy Studies	ETM 513	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Key technical terms and concepts in energy. Research and reporting methods; research design. Defining research objective and research questions. Qualitative and quantitative research methods. Analysis of data. Giving references and preventing plagiarism. Learning and experiencing methods for knowledge sharing, collaboration and teamwork. Written and oral presentation of research.
Entrepreneurship and International Business Development in Energy	ETM 514	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This module has two sections; (1) Entrepreneurship and (2) International Business Development in Energy. Both sections are planned as 21 lecture hours. Entrepreneurship section covers the concepts of entreperenurship, intrapreneurship, SMEs, creative thinking skills and idea generation, types and methods for feasibility analysis, business model generation, business plan writing, team building, creating an entrepreneurial culture in the organizations. International Business Development in Energy section covers, understanding the dynamics and characteristics of major international markets in energy sector; Middle East, Middle Asia, Africa, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Scandinavian countries, US and Canada. The phases of business development in international energy markets.
Fossil Fuel Technologies	ETM 515	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Oil and gas exploration (conventional and unconventional), seismic imaging, drilling operations, oil characteristics. Oil transportation, refining and oil products. Natural gas chemistry, production and transportation. Unconventional gas resources: Shale gas, tight gas, new drilling and hydro-fracturing techniques. Global oil and gas markets, oil price, crude oil benchmarks. Coal formation, reserves, mining and classification. Coalbed methane (CBM) extraction. Geothermal exploration. Fossil fuels in Turkey: Turkish petroleum and coal industry. Pipelines. Geothermal, shale gas and CBM potential in Turkey. Turkish petroleum/mining and geothermal laws summaries.
International Political Economy of Energy Security	ETM 516	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Energy has long been a major factor in the formulation of countries foreign policies and in shaping international politics and security. From International Political Economy (IPE) perspective, this course focuses on the intersection between national and international security, foreign policy and energy security ; exploring not only how countries shape their grand strategies to meet their energy needs, but also how such actions have implications for other countries and the international system as a whole. It also takes into account new technologies (such as those making the extraction of shale gas and tight oil economical) and the structural changes (such as the climate change) and how they -and will continue to- cause a “paradigm shift”.
Renewable Energy Systems	ETM 517	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Technical details about renewable energy (wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, biomass/ bioenergy, storage). Basic renewable energy equations and calculations based on different energy sources. Fundamentals leading to technical comprehension of how these sources are being used. Details about different renewable energy technology equipment.
Energy and Mobility	ETM 518	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Fundamentals of the transportation technology. Low-carbon and sustainable transport. Energy and mobility interaction. Environmental effects of transportation. Smart and integrated mobility solutions and their prospective effects in energy use and security. Current and future transportation policies, their economic, societal and environmental interactions.
Energy System Transition	ETM 519	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Seventh Sustainable Development Goal on energy. Energy sector decarbonisation and energy transition Energy efficiency, renewable energy, modern energy access, low-carbon technologies, system integration. Costs and benefits of energy transition pathways, investment needs and stranded assets. Power sector and end-use sectors. Role of innovation and R&D. Renewable energy and energy efficiency policies.
Inv.&StrategyinEnergyIndustry	ETM 520	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The energy ecosystem. International energy investments, investing firms, current situation and trends. Investment strategies and criteria of firms. Turkey’s strategy for attracting investments and its global competitiveness. Government incentives and support mechanisms.
Power System Essentials: Historical, Engineering and Emerging Aspects	ETM 521	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	In this course, the basic power system concepts are introduced with historical, engineering and technological perspectives and events that shaped them. From AC-DC wars to first transmission lines and early metering systems, the power system we use today has been deeply molded by the historical developments and technological “path dependence”. More complicated engineering concepts for power system operation will be discussed with case studies based on US and European blackouts. The technologies and their capabilities are the enablers and bottlenecks for the power system operation we have today. The course will be based on case studies to smoothen the understanding of the engineering concepts.
Energy Systems Modeling and Analysis	ETM 523	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Integrated modeling of energy supply, demand, technology and policıes, based on the TIMES Energy System Model of Turkey. Decision analysis in energy industry: Decision trees ,sensitivity analysis, risk modeling, simulation models. Multicriteria decision analysis. Forecasting models from energy and power industries.
Fundamentals of Energy Science	ETM 524	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	In this course, the fundamental concepts related to energy; such as different types of energy (such as mechanical, chemical, light, heat, electrical), power, conversion efficiency and thermodynamics will be introduced. Uses of energy in everyday life such as heating, lighting, transportation and appliances will be given in physical concepts from the very basic concepts of Science. The working mechanisms of fossil fuel and renewable energy technologies, as well as of energy storage will be processed taking into account their physical theories. Basic physical connections that put limits on technology will be discussed and new developments that will overcome these limits will be explained. Physics, chemistry of main energy technologies and their relation with engineering design will be given at the most basic level. In addition, advanced topics ranging from nano-technological developments, solid state materials, fuel cells, wind, solar, photovoltaics, batteries, supercapacitors as well as the principles of manufacturing quantum computers will be discussed.
Energy Geopolitics	ETM 525	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Global impact of policies adopted by leading resource producing and consuming countries. Energy security and geopolitics. Case studies on the geopolitical and economic impacts of current political and technological developments.
Corporate Climate Change Management	ETM 526	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Managing GHG emissions: Scope 1-2-3 basics. Indirect GHG accounting and supply chain management: Scope 3 overview. Carbon management standards, certificates and verification (ISO, YEK-G, I-REC etc.). Global climate reporting trends: key insights and business case. Corporate climate reporting: How to disclose climate-related data? Climate leadership initiatives: Science-based targets & Net-zero standard. Emission trading, carbon tax and Green Deal (Carbon border adjustment). Future of carbon markets and reaching Net-zero targets.
Data Analytics in Energy Industry	ETM 527	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to Data Analytics in the Energy Industry: Role of data analytics in the energy industry, data types, data pre- processing and cleaning. Electricity Demand, Generation and Price Forecasting: Forecast methods for demand, generation (for different types of sources) and price. Machine Learning Applications for the Energy Industry: Case studies. Data Analytics in Energy Trading Operations: Grid management and intraday trading
Energy Storage Technologies	ETM 528	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	General review on energy and energy storage requirements. Basicconcepts in energy storage, situation in the world, market and energystorage methods. Electrical energy storage and techniques. Electrical energy storage applications. Batteries (redox, Pb-acid, NiMH, Li-io LiS NaS, Na-ion, solid state batteries etc.), from cell to battery grid scale energy storage. Business models of grid scale energy storage Energy storage legislation and its implementation. Thermal energy storage and applications.
Graduate Seminar I	ETM 551	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in Energy Technology and Management I	ETM 580	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Master Thesis	ETM 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Project Course	ETM 592	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Students are expected to apply the knowledge and skills they gained in the ETM program courses in a project. The project topic is determined by the student, based on his or her professional and personal interests. The project is conducted under the guidance of a supervisor with expertise on the chosen topic domain, and is expected to be completed by the end of the summer semester.
Individual Study	ETM 599	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Each student taking this course is required to conduct an individual research study under the supervision of an ETM instructor.
Individual Study - II	ETM 600	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Each student taking this course is required to conduct an individual research study under the supervision of an ETM instructor.
Individual Study - III	ETM 601	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Each student taking this course is required to conduct an individual research study under the supervision of an ETM instructor.
	ETMT 551	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
	ETMT 580	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Master Thesis	ETMT 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Anthropology and Film	FILM 524	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	How are cultural, political, and historical realities represented in ethnographic, documentary, and fiction films? This course will explore the critical relationship between our knowledge of the world and visual representation through films and theoretical, ethnographic and historical readings.
Documentary: Context and Practice I	FILM 535	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Since the mid-1800s, people have used still images (photography) and since 1890s, moving images and later sound (film) to represent reality as they perceive it and/or as they choose to represent it. The history of non-fiction film or documentary cinema, is a series of experimentations in the representation of reality. Since the beginning, with these experimentations, debates about ethical, aesthetic, political issues in representation have been unfolding. This course will offer a critical look at the historical development of non-fiction film forms and modes. We will cover documentary theories and criticism, and related issues including ethics and problematics of representation. Students will work on a series of short video exercises and write a series of short responses to the films and the readings. At the end of the semester, students are expected to submit a term paper and a proposal for a project to be implemented next semester.
Documentary:Context&Practice II	FILM 536	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is a continuation of FILM 535, where we have looked at the historical development of non-fiction film forms and modes, major theories, and related issues including ethics and problematics of representation. This semester our focus will again be two-fold. Through recent documentaries, we will be looking at the current issues and debates in the world of non-fiction filmmaking, as well as practical challenges faced by filmmakers. Throughout the semester, various filmmakers will be invited to present and discuss their work. On the practice side, each student will have an opportunity to experiment with representation of reality by making a short non-fiction film and presenting it at various stages in a workshop format.
Principles Of Finance	FIN 502	Sabancı Business School	This course develops an understanding of the theoretical and practical issues relating to financial management. Fundamental financial concepts from the perspective of financial managers/entrepreneurs are examined and practical applications within local and global contexts are discussed. Topics include use of accounting information for decision making/performance evaluation, financial statement & ratio analyses, financial planning, time value of money, capital budgeting, risk-return relationship, capital structure, valuation of financial securities & firms, risk management, and derivatives.
Derivatives	FIN 523	Sabancı Business School	This course serves as a comprehensive introduction to derivative securities. Naturally, forward contracts, futures, options, and swaps are the focal point of the course. While the main emphasis is on the use of derivatives as risk-transferring/minimizing devices, valuations of such contracts are also included. In addition to hedging strategies to be created by any of the derivative securities, various other trading strategies involving options (spreads and combinations) are presented. A solid coverage of no arbitrage based pricing is provided as the common underlying premise to valuing derivative securities. Therewith, cost-of-carry valuation of forwards and futures, binomial pricing of options, dynamic delta-hedging, the Black-Scholes option pricing formula, and swap pricing are introduced.
Private Equity	FIN 524	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of this course is to familiarize the students with private equity firms, and valuation of private equity investment. In an imperfect market, Private Equity firms provide an important financial intermediation service by facilitating start-ups' and small firms' access to equity funds. Therefore, it is important to understand how Private Equity firms operate, and what is needed to attract them to a market. Furthermore, valuation of private equity investments poses a problem as standard DCF methods are not applicable, and real options method is required. This course starts with an introduction to valuation of derivative securities as background for real options, and proceeds to discussion of private equity.
Portfolio Management	FIN 525	Sabancı Business School	This course is designed to study the theoretical and practical aspects of modern portfolio theory. The course is intended for those students who are interested in working in the investments area as well as those who want to as those who want to become informed individual investors. Based on the interest of the class and the emphasis of the instructor, a selection of the following topics will be covered: overview of the investment environment and how securities are traded; valuation of major investment instruments such as stocks, bonds, options and other derivatives; risk aversion and the risk-return trade-off; asset allociation; portfolio optimization; modern portfolio theories including the Capital Asset Pricing Model, Arbitrage Pricing Theory, and multifactor models; market efficiency and behavioral finance; pricing and managing fixed income portfolios; security analysis and equity valuation; the theory and practice of portfolio management and portfolio performance evaluation.
Financial Modeling	FIN 527	Sabancı Business School	Financial modeling is the quantitative representation of the relationship among the variables of financial problems. A well-designed financial model captures the interdependencies among the variables at hand and makes it easy to answer "what-if" questions. This course tackles common financial problems -ranging from the simple NPV analysis to the relatively more complex VaR(value at risk) analysis, option valuation, portfolio optimization, and term-structure modeling- and help the students gain the necessary competencies in building appropriate financial models for each case. The aim is to get the students to the skill level where they can model and solve most financial problems they will face in the business world. Excel and VBA will be used throughout the course.
Investments and Equity Markets I	FIN 528	Sabancı Business School	This investments course will equip students with techniques on the valuation of basic financial instruments, on fundamental and technical analysis, on portfolio management, performance measurement, and with information about efficient markets, microstructure of financial markets, microstucture of financial markets, risk and return, and risk management.
Investment Management	FIN 529	Sabancı Business School	The main objective of this course is to provide you a useful toolset of theoretical and practical aspects of investment management. In the first part of the course; the main theoretical structure of Modern Portfolio Theory will be introduced by covering Markowitz mean-variance optimization and risk-return trade-off, basic financial market organization and functioning, equilibrium models and by giving some background information about traditional asset classes; namely fixed income secrities and equities. After this theoretical introduction; practical investment management concepts; such as Portfolio Management Process and Investment Policy Statement, formation of capital market expectations, strategic/tactical asset allocation will be summarized in the second part of the course. By the end of the course, students will have built an investment management notion and are expected to follow and think about financial markets in a more structured way.
Financial Management	FIN 552	Sabancı Business School	This course develops an understanding of the theoretical and practical issues relating to financial management. Topics include financial statement and ratio analyses, financial planning, time value of money, capital budgeting decisions, risk-return relationship, capital structure, and valuation of securities, assets, and firms.
Financial Markets and Instruments	FIN 556	Sabancı Business School	This course will cover special topics in financial markets and instruments.Course objective is to provide students with a working knowledge of the theory and skills to apply the techniques developed in Fixed Income markets. It also aims to introduce students to more quantitative aspects of capital markets.
Special Topics in Finance 1	FIN 591	Sabancı Business School	These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Special Topics in Finance 2	FIN 592	Sabancı Business School	These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Special Topics in Finance 3	FIN 593	Sabancı Business School	These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Special Topics in Finance 4	FIN 594	Sabancı Business School	These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Wealth Management	FIN 599	Sabancı Business School	The course offers a hands-on experience about the practical aspects of financial portfolio management. Along with the concepts covered in the class, students are expected to build a portfolio management notion by thinking on real world problems. The main themes are investment decision making process and investment policy statement, management of individual and institutional portfolios, integrating capital market expectations and asset allocation, technical and practical aspects of portfolio management in traditional asset classes and alternative investments.
Financial Economics	FIN 601	Sabancı Business School	Choice under uncertainty, stochastic dominance, Arrow-Debreu model of complete markets, portfolio choice, mutual fund separation theorems Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT).
Advanced Asset Pricing Theory	FIN 602	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on particular topics and / or perspectives within asset pricing theory. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature on the topic. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Research Methods in Finance	FIN 610	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces doctoral students to different research areas in finance and provides an overview of the contemporary topics in financial economics. Subfields covered in the course include portfolio theory, derivative markets, asset and risk management, capital structure decisions, mergers and acquisitions, credit rankings, market microstructure, financial intermediaries and international finance among others. Topics to be covered include common threats to validity in research design, decisions regarding the choice of samples and settings, measurement issues such as reliability and validity, estimation methods, data collection tools, and ethics in planning, conduct, and publication of research.
Corporate Finance Theory	FIN 611	Sabancı Business School	This seminar deals with contemporary issues in corporate financial theory and some related empirics. It focuses on selected classic and current theoretical research in corporate finance. The main objective is to provide an advanced and rigorous background in the mainstream issues of modern corporate finance. Journal articles constitute the primary material for the seminar.
Empirical Finance	FIN 612	Sabancı Business School	This course presents available empirical methods that are used to test the theoretical models covered in FIN 601 and/or FIN 602. The aim is to provide an in-depth review of the empirical finance research. Students are expected to understand and apply these methods on selected topics including asset pricing models, portfolio valuation, time-varying volatility, capital structure, payout and corporate takeover theories.
Asset Pricing Theory	FIN 618	Sabancı Business School	Expected utility and risk aversion, choice under uncertainty, consumption-based asset pricing, contingent claims markets, mean-variance frontier and beta, factor pricing models, continuous time, investment-based asset pricing
Empirical Corporate Finance	FIN 619	Sabancı Business School	This course presents available empirical methods that are used to test the theoretical models covered in FIN611. The aim is to provide an in-depth review of the empirical finance research. Students are expected to understand and apply these methods on selected topics including capital structure, payout and corporate takeover theories.
Empirical Asset Pricing	FIN 620	Sabancı Business School	This course presents available empirical methods that are used to test the theoretical models covered in FIN618. The aim is to provide an in-depth review of the empirical finance research. Students are expected to understand and apply these methods on selected topics including asset pricing models, portfolio valuation, and time-varying volatility.
Special Topics in Finance I	FIN 621	Sabancı Business School	In this course, doctoral students are expected to write a research proposal, conduct literature review, or replicate in part an existing research paper in the field. The course guides her/him through the various stages involved in formulating a research question, investigating existing literature on the topic, and executing preliminary scientific analysis. The course is aimed to be a first step in writing a dissertation proposal.
Special Topics in Finance II	FIN 622	Sabancı Business School	In this course, each doctoral student will be required to write an original research paper. The course guides her/him through the various stages involved in creating scientific work. The students are required to present their work in front of faculty and defend their thesis. Upon receiving feedback, the student completes the paper and submits it for final evaluation. The course is aimed to be a first step in guiding the doctoral student towards writing a dissertation.
Principles Of Finance	FIN 802	Sabancı Business School	This course develops an understanding of the theoretical and practical issues relating to financial management. Fundamental financial concepts from the perspective of financial managers/entrepreneurs are examined and practical applications within local and global contexts are discussed. Topics include use of accounting information for decision making/performance evaluation, financial statement & ratio analyses, financial planning, time value of money, capital budgeting, risk-return relationship, capital structure, valuation of financial securities & firms, risk management, and derivatives.
Behavioral Finance	FIN 806	Sabancı Business School	Behavioral finance is a relatively new but quickly expanding field that seeks to provide explanations for people’s financial decisions by combining behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance. Neoclassical economists assume that; i) all individuals act rationally to maximize their utility for both monetary and non-monetary gains, and ii) markets are fully efficient and prices reflect all available, relevant information. However, in reality these assumptions often do not hold. Behavioral finance helps explain why and how markets might be inefficient, why people are imperfect processors of information and why they are often subject to biases, errors and perceptual illusions. CFA exam curriculum devotes more and more weight to behavioural finance every year. Portfolio managers, investment advisors, consultants, CFOs and individual investors must have an in-depth understanding of different behavioral biases and their impacts on financial decision making. This course aims to be a guide to understanding the fundamentals of behavioral finance and reasons and impacts of irrational investor behaviour. Throughout the course, we will cover psychological biases that effect the financial decision-making process and examine their impacts on financial markets and on people’s lives. The course will be supported by real-life case studies, analyses of investor behaviour, cases of behavioral interventions to modify investor behaviour and interviews / Q&A sessions with investment practitioners.
Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring	FIN 824	Sabancı Business School	Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring Valuation, deal structuring, leveraged buyouts and corporate structurings will be the outline of the course.
Investment Management	FIN 829	Sabancı Business School	Investment Management The main objective of this course is to provide you a useful tool set of theoretical and practical aspects of investment management. In the first part of the course; the main theoretical structure of Modern Portfolio Theory will be introduced by covering Markowitz mean- variance optimization and risk-return trade-off, basic financial market organization and functioning, equilibrium models and by giving some background information about traditional asset classes; namely fixed income secrities and equities. After this theoretical introduction; practical investment management concepts; such as Portfolio Management Process and Investment Policy Statement, formation of capital market expectations, strategic/tactical asset allocation will be summarized in the second part of the course. By the end of the course, students will have built an investment management notion and are expected to follow and think about financial markets in a more structured way.
Wealth Management	FIN 899	Sabancı Business School	The course offers a hands-on experience about the practical aspects of financial portfolio management. Along with the concepts covered in the class, students are expected to build a portfolio management notion by thinking on real world problems. The main themes are investment decision making process and investment policy statement, management of individual and institutional portfolios, integrating capital market expectations and asset allocation, technical and practical aspects of portfolio management in traditional asset classes and alternative investments.
Introduction to Finance	FIN 901	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces basic financial concepts and tools with an emphasis on cash, risk/return, and value as they form the basis for a sound financial way of thinking. Topics are intended to serve as a foundation for more advanced subjects covered in Managerial Finance class and include the following: financial statement & ratio analyses, financial planning, time value of money, financial markets and securities, bond and stock valuation, and an overview of corporate finance.
Managerial Finance	FIN 902	Sabancı Business School	Fundamental financial concepts from the perspective of financial managers/entrepreneurs are examined and practical applications within local and global contexts are discussed. Topics include accounting information for decision making/performance evaluation, financial statement & ratio analyses, financial planning, time value of money, capital budgeting, risk-return relationship, capital structure, valuation of financial securities & firms, risk management, and derivatives.
Behavioral Finance	FIN 906	Sabancı Business School	Behavioral finance is a relatively new but quickly expanding field that seeks to provide explanations for people’s financial decisions by combining behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance. Neoclassical economists assume that; i) all individuals act rationally to maximize their utility for both monetary and non-monetary gains, and ii) markets are fully efficient and prices reflect all available, relevant information. However, in reality these assumptions often do not hold. Behavioral finance helps explain why and how markets might be inefficient, why people are imperfect processors of information and why they are often subject to biases, errors and perceptual illusions. CFA exam curriculum devotes more and more weight to behavioural finance every year. Portfolio managers, investment advisors, consultants, CFOs and individual investors must have an in-depth understanding of different behavioral biases and their impacts on financial decision making. This course aims to be a guide to understanding the fundamentals of behavioral finance and reasons and impacts of irrational investor behaviour. Throughout the course, we will cover psychological biases that effect the financial decision-making process and examine their impacts on financial markets and on people’s lives. The course will be supported by real-life case studies, analyses of investor behaviour, cases of behavioral interventions to modify investor behaviour and interviews / Q&A sessions with investment practitioners.
Financial Statement Analysis	FIN 910	Sabancı Business School	The course focuses on how finance professionals use and interpreting financial tables. Creation and use of financial ratios are discussed. Assessment of the financial strength of companies is examined.
Money & Banking	FIN 913	Sabancı Business School	The course will provide an introduction to macroeconomics. Characteristics of financial institutions will also be examined in detail.
Investment Management	FIN 929	Sabancı Business School	The main objective of this course is to provide you a useful tool set of theoretical and practical aspects of investment management. In the first part of the course; the main theoretical structure of Modern Portfolio Theory will be introduced by covering Markowitz mean- variance optimization and risk- return trade-off, basic financial market organization and functioning, equilibrium models and by giving some background information about traditional asset classes; namely fixed income secrities and equities. After this theoretical introduction; practical investment management concepts; such as Portfolio Management Process and Investment Policy Statement, formation of capital market expectations, strategic/tactical asset allocation will be summarized in the second part of the course. By the end of the course, students will have built an investment management notion and are expected to follow and think about financial markets in a more structured way.
Investments&Portfolio Management	FIN 951	Sabancı Business School	The primary objectives of this course is to introduce the students to the concepts and analytical tools of modern finance. The course together with the teaching methods will provide the students with a broad overview of concepts and principles of financial decision making, with particular emphasis on time value of money, equity and bond valuation, risk and return, capital allocation line, asset pricing models (capital asset pricing model and arbitrage pricing theory), security market analysis, alpha, mispricing (money making opportunities!), option strategies and the relevant corporate decisions in maximizing the firm value. The course will emphasize intuition and insight, as well as rigorous analysis in order to foster students? interest and skills in applying financial theory to practical applications.
International Finance	FIN 953	Sabancı Business School	Determination of exchange rates; foreign exchange markets, country risk, international banking, international capital markets and stock exchanges, globalization of financial markets, global cash management, special topics pertaining to the financial management of multinational corporations.
MNCs & Global Trade	FIN 954	Sabancı Business School	This course is about global trade and its main actors , namely, MNCs (Multinational Corporations), with specific emphasis on Turkey.
Applied Corporate Finance	FIN 955	Sabancı Business School	This course intends to provide a rigorous treatment of financial concepts and theories introduced in Managerial Finance class. The topics develop on issues/discussions related to corporations in real & hypothetical settings and include the followings: long term financing, cost of capital, corporate valuation, acquisitions and takeovers, economic value added, short term financial management, derivatives, and currency risk management.
Financial Markets and Instruments	FIN 956	Sabancı Business School	This course will cover special topics in financial markets and instruments.Course objective is to provide students with a working knowledge of the theory and skills to apply the techniques developed in Fixed Income markets. It also aims to introduce students to more quantitative aspects of capital markets.
Bank Management	FIN 957	Sabancı Business School	Basic financial concepts, techniques, and strategies used in banking, management of commercial banks assets and liabilities, and how it differs from that of non-bank firms, study of theories justifying existence of banks based on their role in mitigating problems of asymmetric information through loan screening and monitoring, measurement, and management of bank risks.
Global Financial Markets	FIN 958	Sabancı Business School	This course is an introduction to the global financial markets that are used by banks, multinational corporations, and government agencies, in the conduct of their business and implementation of economic policy. The global financial markets include the market for foreign exchange, the Eurocurrency and related money markets, the international capital markets, the commodity markets and the markets for forward contracts, options, swaps and other derivatives. The course seeks to explain how these markets work both in the context of basic principles of economics and finance and by means of examples and applications using several case studies. It will also look at a very important risk namely the exchange rate risk for multinational corporations, banks and other entities (hedge funds, shadow banks, etc.) and discuss how to manage and hedge these risks using various financial instruments. Finally the course will provide theoretical and empirical analysis on the prediction, prevention and management of various financial crisis, such as banking, currency, debt and balance of payments crises.
Merger and Acquisitions	FIN 959	Sabancı Business School	This course examines (1) issues related to structuring an M&A deal and forming an opinion about a proposed transactions, such as value creation in mergers, choice of payment method, valuation, deal protection, and investment bank due diligence process; and (2) financial reporting issues that accompany M&A, including accounting for acquisitions and the related goodwill and in-process R&D, and accounting for foreign transactions and operations. The class will combine readings, discussion of relevant news, short cases, and quantitative and qualitative analyses (hands -on experience). Most assignments will be done in teams.
Wealth Management	FIN 999	Sabancı Business School	The course offers a hands-on experience about the practical aspects of financial portfolio management. Along with the concepts covered in the class, students are expected to build a portfolio management notion by thinking on real world problems. The main themes are investment decision making process and investment policy statement, management of individual and institutional portfolios, integrating capital market expectations and asset allocation, technical and practical aspects of portfolio management in traditional asset classes and alternative investments.
Gender in the Middle East	GEN 541	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces the key issues and debates in the study of gender in the Middle East. It aims to provide a gendered analysis of the prevailing discourses, ideologies and social movements in the region and to equip students with skills and methodologies to analyse the shaping of the gender identities in relation to social, political and cultural processes from the late 19th century to the present. The course also aims to link the historical questions and issues regarding gender to contemporary discussions and discourses on femininities and masculinities in the Middle East. Core topics include the interconnections between feminism and nationalism, the veiling debate, women’s agency, Islamic feminism, masculinities, and politics of sexuality during and after the Arab Spring.
Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence	GEN 542	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	20th century has been ''a century of wars, global and local, hot and cold'' (Catherine Lutz). The course explores the different ways in which war and political violence are remembered through a gender lens. Central questions include: what are the gendered effects of war, political violence, and militarization? How have wars, genocide and other forms of political violence been narrated and represented? How do women remember and narrate gendered violence in war? How are post-conflict processes and transitional justice gendered? What is the relationship between testimony, storytelling, and healing? How is the relationship between the ''personal'' and the ''public/national'' reconstructed in popular culture, film, literature, and (auto)biographical texts dealing with war, genocide, and other forms of political violence? How are wars memorialized and gendered through monuments, museums, and other memory sites? Besides others, case studies on Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Rwanda, former Yugoslavia, and Argentina will be used to elaborate the key concepts and debates in the emerging literature on gender, memory, and war.
Gender and Sexuality in Turkey	GEN 544	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will explore a wide variety of texts ranging from academic, literary and political writings to films and documentaries on gender and sexuality in Turkey. Topics include the evolution of the feminist movement from the late nineteenth century till today, the experiences and narratives of masculinity, violence against women, virginity debates, the interconnections between gender and nationalism, religious and state discourses on the body, the politics of secularism and Islam the writings and experiences of minorities, politics of sexuality and queer politics.
Migrations and the Family	GEN 585	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course addresses how human mobility across borders and state policies of immigration control, shape, and change intimate relations and family formations. In other words, it asks how states make and unmake families through their migration policies. It accordingly focuses on the institution of marriage and processes of reproduction (including having and caring for children), and questions who 'deserves' to have a ‘right to family’ by examining different country-specific cases of family reunification and family separation. Issues to be discussed include: governance of migrant reproduction, dynamics of mixed- immigration-status families, challenges faced by transnational families and their shifting care regimes, the place of different kinds of children (left-behind, unaccompanied and adoptee) in migration policy-making. In tackling all these issues, the course aims to provide an understanding of how migration and related state responses disrupt, reinforce or rearrange gendered norms of family-making.
Gender: Fundamental Concepts and Approaches	GEN 600	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Philosophical, historical, psychological and scientific perspectives on the definition and meaning of gender: history of the emergence and development of the concept; Drawing out the connections between gender and different regimes of power; discussion of subjectivity, sexuality, cultural and artistic practices, and violence in light of feminist and queer theory.
Methodology for Gender Studies	GEN 601	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Supplementing basic qualitative research strategies with perspectives from women’s studies, and feminist and queer theory; Discussing how fundamental topics in gender studies can be studied and discussing their political significance; critically examining existing methods; thinking about the factors that determine a feminist or queer research question and method.
Theories of Gender and Sexuality	GEN 605	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Social and cultural perspectives on the reception, uses, and contestations of the body, gender and sexualities; Development of theory, social movements, and activism aspects; Discussions on men and masculinities, sexual minorities, undoing gender, and ethnographic comparisons on gender and sexual cultures.
Gender and Politics	GEN 610	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course explores the relationship between gender, culture and politics. It offers a theoretical survey of the role of gender in shaping definitions of the political and practices of citizenship and participation. Through the discussion of concrete examples representing a diversity of cultural, social and political contexts, the course opens up to discussion gendered social and political mobilizations, identity politics, the interaction between the personal and the political, and different forms and spheres of doing politics ranging from the everyday to transnational, face- to-face to digital encounters. The course also critically assesses the sociopolitical ramifications of institutional and national gender policies and cultural political perspectives regarding changing gender relations.
Gender and Knowledge	GEN 620	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course examines the relationship between gender and knowledge in social, cultural, economic and scientific contexts (from a philosophical perspective). Topics to be covered include how gender relations influence the production and content of knowledge, the biases and injustices they give rise to, and the question of objectivity of knowledge.
Men and Masculinities	GEN 680	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces students to the study of men as gendered social beings and masculinities as learnt, reproduced, or challenged performances. Topics include an interdisciplinary examination of social and personal meanings of masculinity; variety of male experience by social class, race, sexuality, and age; emerging masculinities of the future; males' diverse experiences as boys/men; and public discourses and representations about changing masculinities.
Gender and Migration	GEN 683	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces students to global migration processes through a gendered lens by looking at how roles and identities linked to one’s sex, gender and sexuality shape, and are shaped by, migration causes, conditions and experiences. Topics to be covered include feminization of global migration; care migration, masculinities and migration; sexual and gender based violence, trafficking and asylum; sex and marriage migration and shifting intimacies
PhD Pro-thesis Seminar	GEN 690	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is mainly an exercise in listening, reading and writing on a regular basis. The students will not only be exposed to various research areas in the field toward which they may direct their future thesis work, but will also get in the habit of writing short concise essays.
PhD Thesis	GEN 699	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of PhD students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty advisor plus other thesis committee members following the completion of their course-work.
Readings and Research on Gender	GEN 700	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A course for advanced graduate students to focus on specific topics in gender and women's studies.
Modern Greek Basic I	GREK 510	School of Languages
Project Management	GSM 5001	Sabancı Business School	The scope of the project management course will cover areas of concepts of project management, project life cycle/life cycle planning, work break down structure, organization break down structure, cost break down structure, graphical presentations and precedence diagramming, network analysis and scheduling techniques: Critical Path Method (CPM), CPM.COST and Programme Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), concepts of system life cycle costing, and cost estimation methods and trade-off analysis.
Practice Sharing I	GSM 5003	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of the practice sharing track that runs through the entire 2nd year is to articulate, to share and to learn from project management practice and to reflect on this experience utilising the relevant knowledge content of the just-in-time seminars and the Sabancı MBA knowledge wheel.
Practice Sharing II	GSM 5004	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of the practice sharing track that runs through the entire 2nd year is to articulate, to share and to learn from project management practice and to reflect on this experience utilising the relevant knowledge content of the just-in-time seminars and the Sabancı MBA knowledge wheel.
Globalisation in Practice	GSM 501	Sabancı Business School	This subject addresses the phenomenon of globalization in in connection with a variety of issues that have direct and/ or indirect relevance for business and managerial practices. Topics to be covered include: The globalization debate in terms of conceptualization, causal dynamics, socio-economic consequences,and implications for macroeconomic stability, state power and governance. Within this context, particular attention will be to paid to the following: Transnational Corporations and their integrated world strategies on a global scale in the areas of production and investment; the issue of globalization versus localization in the context of emerging consumption patterns across the world; information technologies, global financial deepening and the emerging money and capital markets; political and economic consequences of globalization for growth and development in the less developed regions; political and economic accords such as European Union, GATT, and NAFTA.
Project Development	GSM 5013	Sabancı Business School	This activity starts with the "project idea" created during Practice Development 2 (GSM 512) and terminates with a detailed "project proposal". Project proposal includes: the objective and scope of the project; methodology to be employed, delivarables and their time table, data collection and analysis, contributions expected (both to the company for and with which the project is being done and to the teams members in terms of learning and experience). This activity requires a close interaction between project team members, company representatives, and faculty project advisors.
Product Management	GSM 502	Sabancı Business School	Product management refers to the conceptualisation, design, improvement, development,introduction and management of products and services,physically and virtually over their life cycles, by taking into account the culture, consumption patterns, preferences, buying power, and habits of potential customers in light of company objective and strategies. It involves a process that integrates the innovative and productive capabilities of the firm into its products and services (bundles of value embedded into its brands, quality, delivery of customer services, etc.) that are desired in its markets of interest to create and sustain a competitive advantage by adapting to evolving market trends and challenges, such as technological advancements, one-to-one and on-line marketing, and global marketing.
Competition	GSM 503	Sabancı Business School	A sound understanding of competition is essential, especially in the context of globalisation, for strategy formulation at the company level and policy design at the national level. The objective of this subject is to offer a framework for understanding the competitive environment of organisations as well as to provide a means of undertaking competitiveness analysis for strategic decision making purposes at organisational level. Topics include local, national, and regional competitive environments; factors shaping the nature of competitive environment; sources of competition at organisational level; competition; competitors and complementors; customers, suppliers, and competitors; and Internet and competition.
Financial Resources Management	GSM 504	Sabancı Business School	The aim of this course is to provide students with financial perspective on managerial issues. Fundamental financial concepts and tools are introduced and practical applications are discussed. Topics include time value of money,capital budgeting techniques, risk-return relationship capital structure, asset and firm valuation, derivative securities, and international finance.
Business Network and Networking	GSM 505	Sabancı Business School	This subject deals with inter-organisational networks as a distinct and increasingly widespread form of organising. Within this broad area of focus, it addresses, first, the issue of conceptualizing networks and classifying different kinds of network arrangements that can be empirically identified. Secondly, by drawing upon a variety of theoretical streams, it explores the conditions and processes that motivate and facilitate the formation of different kinds of networks. Thirdly, it focuses on the development dynamics and the management of network relationships with suppliers, customers, competitors, dealers and intermediary organisations. Finally, it discusses the benefits and costs associated with networks with a view to exploring ways of gaining competitive advantage through network forms of organising.
Value Creation Management	GSM 506	Sabancı Business School	Resources are used to produce products and services that in turn create value, measured not only in financial terms but also with respect to company image and market position. Adding value to the activities of an organisation is the most important contributing factor to its sustainable long-term success. Topics to be covered in addressing this subject include concept of value added; organisational value chain; system value chain; product-technology chain; product-market chain; identification of core competence; organising production for value creation; how core competence can be used to maximise added value; internalisation and externalisation of company activities; strategies for increasing added value; principles of sharing added value with partners; and modelling the value chain.
Concepts of Inquiry	GSM 507	Sabancı Business School	Concepts of inquiry are extremely important as well as essential in any managerial context, for they shape the perceptions of decision-makers and other stakeholders. This subject is developed in three phases. The first phase involves a critical examination of how we know what we know and the nature of reality. In this phase, basic concepts in epistemology and methodology are introduced. In the second phase of the subject various qualitative and quantitative data and information-gathering strategies are discussed. Finally, issues regarding how to be a good consumer of research are emphasised. This includes both reading and analysing published research reports and choosing and evaluating research products for organisational use.
Methods of Inquiry	GSM 508	Sabancı Business School	This subject builds and concentrates on the approaches to methods of business inquiry that are essential in understanding and evaluating the position or situation of an organisation in its context in connection with decision problems regarding product management, resource management, and value creation management. It covers quantitative methods of data collection and analysis for sense making, insight creation, understanding, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of managerial situations, issues, and problems. Statistical methods include hypothesis testing, multiple regression and correlation analysis, analysis of variance, forecasting and using commercial software such as Excel, SPSS.
Meaning Management	GSM 509	Sabancı Business School	The main objective is to elaborate on the underlying types of managerial meaning construction which inform and direct organisational decision making and action (product, resource and value creation management) under conditions of contextual ambiguity (globalisation, competition, networking). These embody processes of interpreting and diagnosing the issues that arise from the dynamics of organisational context. Emphasis is on the enactment of the organisational environment by managers who, as part of their organisational role, are expected to make choices when they confront uncertainty. In addition to appreciating the existence of different stakeholders with competing values and interests as well as differential power sources within organisations, the subject also considers managers as negotiators in the bargaining between those groups. In this sense, managers occupy a central role in the construction of meaning through which organisational action is made possible. Other topics include the role of communication as mechanisms of securing and retaining control over the environment,and organisational culture and learning
Organisations and Human Resource Systems	GSM 510	Sabancı Business School	The main objective of this subject is to introduce the basic concepts, theoretical perspectives, and techniques that are useful for understanding and designing organizations and human resources systems. Specific topics to be addressed within the framework of organization design are the situational nature of structural arrangements design parameters and their configurations; and new structural forms. Human resources issues to be covered include staffing, training and development, performance appraisal and reward systems. Specific emphasis is given to an understanding of the relationship between human resources systems and organizational effectiveness.
Organisation Change in Family Firms	GSM 5101	Sabancı Business School	This module incorporates topics such as comprehending organisational change: evolution, transition and transformation in organisations, explorations in (big) family business (in Turkey): identifying variations and key properties, exploring the meaning(s) of "institutionalization" in Turkey and exploring possibilities of managerial intervention.
Human Resource Development	GSM 5102	Sabancı Business School	Different methodologies, systems and tools will be introduced. Assessment centers, 360 degrees feedback, multi-skilling, rotation and career planning are some of the topics that will be covered.
Methodologies of Organisational Change	GSM 5103	Sabancı Business School	This module will introduce the methodologies and techniques of development, change and continuity such as total quality management, business process re-engineering, family councils etc.
Operational Systems Design, MIS, and Reporting	GSM 5104	Sabancı Business School	This is a module that will focus on the operational design issues as required by the project such as distribution and logistics. The module will also cover MIS (Management Information System) design issues and the necessary reports that are necessary for management to see and to follow performance of the company at every level.
Organizational Restructuring	GSM 5106	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of this module is to examine the drivers and processes of structural change within organizations. To this end the module has a dual focus. The first part reviews perspectives that assign primacy to strategic change or reorientation as a main impetus for alterations in structural arrangements. This is complemented by considering adjustments or alterations in specific design elements. The module then turns to an examination of the processes of and the issues involved in structural change.
Organizational Design	GSM 5108	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on organizations from a macro viewpoint and aim to inform participants about facilitating constructive change within organizations. Emphasis is given to the relationships of peope with corporate structure, culture, strategy, and technology in a competitive environment. Organizational life is critacally examined as well. The following is a list of the main questions that the course will address: what importance does the mission statement have for the organizational performance, what "core work processes" do the organization perform to fulfill the mission, what additional structure would be needed to manage the work, what are the basic structural characteristics of the work processes, what are the basic internal control, coordination, and communication processes(control processes) needed to enable efficient execution and integration of the work.
Practice Development I	GSM 511	Sabancı Business School	Practice development is the capstone subject of the MBA program and continues for the entire first year and evolves into actual project work in the second year. The primary objective is to enable participants to develop the capability to function practically in real-life organisational settings through practice-driven foundations of management. Practice Development I lays the foundations of practice with a future management perspective that focuses on the emerging management paradigm as opposed to the prevailing conventional approach. The reflective action research paradigm will serve as the underpinning of the emerging paradigm. The course also assumes that in order to develop practice the manager has to be a reflective practitioner. Throughout the semester managers-in-practice are invited to engage in a dialogue to investigate the nature of their practice. Most typically, a chief executive officer, a general manager a project manager and a board member are invited to share their experience. Based on such interactions, the building blocks of Practice Development I manager-in-practice, practicing manager's job, managerial functions, competencies, and profile are constructed.
Management in Turkey	GSM 5110	Sabancı Business School	Institutional and cultural influences on organizations and management. National business systems and dominant forms of economic organization; state-dependent systems; business groups; the Turkish holding company. Business and managerial elites in Turkey; management education and careers. Societal culture and managerial practices; managerial behaviour in Turkey.
Corporate Governance	GSM 5112	Sabancı Business School	The course will provide a comparative insight into corporate governance systems around the world with a focus on how these systems influence individual firm performance and the allocation of capital within a country as well as in global markets. Students will explore both structural (external) corporate governance determinants such as capital market institutions, legal and regulatory systems, enforcement mechanisms, market for corporate control as well as firm-specific choices, including capital structure, internal controls, board structures, executive compensation and disclosure practices. Turkey will be put under spotlight with its' "developing country"-specific issues of insider trading, tunneling, asset transfer, lack of institutional investors and shareholdre activism, concentrated family ownership, weak enforcement of law and regulations and shallow capital markets.
Organizational Behavior I	GSM 5113	Sabancı Business School	Organizational behavior is the study of people in organizations-how and why they think, feel and act the way they do. Topics covered include motivation, decision-making, leadership, organizational culture, communication, organizational conflict, power and negotiation, team processes, organization change, structure and change. The course combines traditional lectures with the use of cases, group projects and experiential exercises.
Organizational Behavior II	GSM 5114	Sabancı Business School	Organizational behavior is the study of people in organizations-how and why they think, feel and act the way they do. Topics covered include motivation, decision-making, leadership, organizational culture, communication, organizational conflict, power and negotiation, team processes, organization change, structure and change. The course combines traditional lectures with the use of cases, group projects and experiential exercises.
Practice Development II	GSM 512	Sabancı Business School	The objective of Practice Development II is to have participants develop the necessary frame for formulating, designing and negotiating project proposals with companies and organisations. It also aims at having the participants develop the necessary skills for effective project management.How to manage and how to fulfil the responsibilities both towards the client organisation and the MBA program are demonstrated through previously conducted actual real-life projects. Participants are required to develop their own project ideas working together with organisations and transform them into sponsored real-life project proposals. Therefore projects become the core discussion element in the second semester, for they are instrumental in developing the reflective component of action research and how one learns from practice. As such, the participants actively learn to construct their own personal experience through dialogue and as a part of their team within a real interaction. There will be an active matching process between the available projects, the desires of the participants to focus on certain projects and new projects to be offered by different companies. Finally, the practice development activity ends with a selection of projects for the second year that is consistent with the participants' future Executive goals.
Organization Theory	GSM 513	Sabancı Business School	Historical review of organizational forms and perspectives on management and organizing; organizational goals and effectiveness; the environment of organizations; core features of organizations: strategy, technology, structure, and culture; key organizational processes: decision-making, conflict, power, and control; emerging organizational forms and new perspectives on organizing.
Principles and Techniques of Project Management	GSM 514	Sabancı Business School	A systems approach based knowledge of project management planning, scheduling and controlling are vital to organizations.The managers and system developers need to be equipped with the knowledge of principles and techniques of project management in order to be able to effectively effectively manage their projects.The systems approach to project management is pursued with the concepts of project life cycle, life cycle planning, and systems breakdown structures of work, organization and cost. Various approaches to requirements analysis in the context of project initiation, evaluation and selection are considered. Network analysis and scheduling techniques include that of Critical Path Method (CPM), CPM/COST, and Programme Review and Control Technique (PERT). A computerized project management tool will be introduced. Concepts of system life cycle costing, cost estimation methods, concepts of cost estimation relationships and software cost estimation models are reviewed. Trade-off analysis of time-cost and performance including the impact of systems characteristics are analyzed.
E-Economy and E-Business	GSM 5201	Sabancı Business School	Discusses the new creative economy which is based on ideas more than anything else and mostly takes place in virtual environment. The connection with this creative economy and e-business models is to be elaborated.
Organisational Aspects of E-Business	GSM 5202	Sabancı Business School	E-Business Model and Company Business Model need to be in harmony in terms of organisational structure, decision making systems, communication channels, et. Moreover, functional E-Business structure necessitates network organisation of different sorts and forms. This module examines the organisational structuring needs imposed by e-Business activities.
Functional E-Business	GSM 5203	Sabancı Business School	Discusses how business models are retooled into e-business models in certain functional areas such as "supply chain management", "customer relations management", and "enterprise resource management".
Technological, Legal, and Security Aspects of E-Business	GSM 5204	Sabancı Business School	E-business cannot flourish without network technologies, especially without the communication technology using network of computers. Legal security aspects of E-business in such an electronic environment became rather crucial for smooth business and financial transactions. The topics to be covered in this module are: hardware and software e-business technology, security systems, electronic contract and signature, legal and regularity requirements, international aspect of e-business.
Technology Forecasting	GSM 5205	Sabancı Business School	Managers make many decisions each day and the great majority of them refer to future events. This is particularly important for high technology companies that are living under constant change and radical innovations. Thus, knowing what is certain or likely to happen in the future can help management avoid wrong decisions, efficient allocation of limited resources and improve its chance of success. This module will introduce various forecasting methods that will be helpful to make future-oriented decisions in business organizations. Its objective is to equip participants with a better understanding of and a realistic approach to the forces that influence the future, and to acquaint them with the types of thinking and actions required to face it as effectively as possible.
Business Process Analysis and Design	GSM 5207	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of this module is to provide the concepts and tools required for analyzing and designing business processes. It begins by discussing a process view of organizations and how processes are managed. Various analysis tools are introduced and demonstrated through real-world examples. Importance of measurement and types of process performance measures are discussed. The module also focuses on process redesign and the associated organizational implications.
Logistics	GSM 5209	Sabancı Business School	This JIT module includes an integral, modern conception of company logistics that transcends the traditional perspective of goods flow in storing and transport. The focus is on the analysis, design, and management of whole logistics chains from research and design, production and procurement logistics, to sales and distribution logistics. Also to be discussed is TPL (third party logistics) which is function being widely employed or outsourced by many companies.
Computorial Methods of Managerial Modelling	GSM 521	Sabancı Business School	Future managers need to be more than just computer literate. They must possess a certain level of proficiency in using computers and thus be productive and effective in conducting and preparing their projects, reports, and presentations. This course is designed to enable the participants to carry out professional work in the sense that the conceptual and theoretical methods of inquiry or decision making can be made an operational reality through designing and building a user-friendly computerised environment. This subject covers not only the use of some selected commercial software, but also designing computer environments where such commercial software are integrated into a whole or a system from the view point of the managerial situation that is under investigation. Participants will be made familiar with Delphi object- oriented language to design their own computer applications. Commercial software (analysis enablers as well as solvers) will be introduced through a series of projects in different areas of decision making.
Simulation	GSM 5211	Sabancı Business School	This is a continuation of Logistics module in the sense that whatever covered in the former is simulated in the latter. The concepts and methods of logistics are either illustrated through simulations or explained by real-life applications. For this purpose, some logistics experts in the sector will be invited to convey their experience and approaches to logistics issues.
Technology Management	GSM 5212	Sabancı Business School	The focus of the course is on the key concepts, models, and methods that enable manager to effectively manage the development and utilization of technologies. The goal is to develop an awareness of the range, scope, and complexity of the phenomena, issues, and problems related to economics and management of technology and technological innovations. In that respect, tools for technology creation, search, assessment, selection, implementation, utilization, and divestment will be analyzed. Technology planning and strategy making will be other topics to be covered. By doing so, the course will enable the integration of technology, operations and business strategy. In short, the participants will develop a better understanding of the complex issues surrounding the managerial tasks with respect to technology.
Information Systems	GSM 5213	Sabancı Business School	Information is a significant organisational resource. It is the role of managers and other organisational professionals to care for and to make wise use of information. In this course topics such as basics of information technology, the concept of information itself within the context of organisational decision making, information system design and implementation, gains from information systems for both competition and cooperation, e-business and information-decision systems will be covered. Participants will have the opportunity to enhance their managerial effectiveness by learning to recognise information as a commodity to which value can be added and from which value can be extracted.
Service Operations Management	GSM 5215	Sabancı Business School	Services have been having a larger share in the economies of the developed world, such as Europe, where the share of services in GDP has reached about 70%. Some examples of service businesses are accounting and consulting services, financial services, merchandising and hospitality industries (hotel and fast food). Due to the increased weight of services in the national economies, it is of utmost importance that service operations are designed and managed for high productivity and quality. This course will discuss characteristics of service delivery processes, designing service delivery systems and measuring the performance of service operations. Lectures and case studies will be the main tools used for learning.
E-business and CRM	GSM 5216	Sabancı Business School	Objective of the course is to have participants got basic concepts of e-Business transformation from different perspectives such as project methodology, change management, technology selection criteria, security, cost control and decision support processes. The course aims to introduce practical knowledge as well as concepts and theory In order to get the participants visualize the practice and gain familiarity with real business environment, the course is composed of short seminars that will be held by outstanding executives from IT industry and/or other businesses. There are 14 nominated guest speakers&finalized speaker list and the seminar agenda will be announced later. Basic e-Business topics will be covered in the first 3 weeks in order to get participants become familiar with the core concept. Following weeks, each topic will be supported by business cases and ad-hoc seminars given by outstanding executives. Videos and other online / audio-visual materials will be utilized as needed.
Supply Chain Management	GSM 523	Sabancı Business School
Information Systems	GSM 525	Sabancı Business School	Informational roles of manager include receiving processing, and transmitting information for the purpose of organisational decision making. In this sense, every manager is also an information manager. This course covers topics such as basics of information technology, the concept of information itself withing the context of organisational decision making, information system design and implementation, managerial implications of information system for both competition and cooperation, e-business and information-decision systems. The aim of this course therefore is to enhance the managerial effectiveness of participants.
Operations Management	GSM 527	Sabancı Business School	Spectrum of operations management activities and the related decision problems are introduced. These include design, planning, and control problems addressed at both operational and strategic levels. Tools and techniques used in generating solutions to such decision problems and their implementational aspects are discussed. Operating systems from different areas such as manufacturing, service, transportation are exemplified to expose students to the similarities and differences in their characteristics. Students are also exposed to recent developments in the global competitive environment and the impacts of such developments on traditional operations problems. Topics include supply chain management, global operations and logistics, process improvement, new product development, vendor selection, third party logistics extended enterprise and e-business operations.
Technology Management	GSM 528	Sabancı Business School	The focus of the course is on the key concepts, models, and methods that enable manager to effectively manage the development and utilization of technologies. The goal is to develop an awareness of the range, scope, and complexity of the phenomena, issues, and problems related to economics and management of technology and technological innovations. In that respect, tools for technology creation, search, assessment, selection, implementation, utilization, and divestment will be analysed. Technology planning and strategy making will be other topics to be covered. Besides these micro issues, the course will extend the discussion to cover macro issues of technology management by studying how industries and firms are transformed by new technologies, how new industries are formed, and what factors affect the innovation performance. In other words, a systems perspective will be used to develop insights into the conditions under which particular structural arrangements and systems are likely to facilitate technological development. By doing so, the course will enable the integration of technology, operations and business strategy. In short, the participants will develop a better understanding of the complex issues surrounding the managerial tasks with respect to technology.
Manufacturing Strategy	GSM 529	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces the basic concepts of manufacturing strategy in the context of globalisation and emerging alternative manufacturing technologies including the impact of computers. It is based upon an integrated approach to the formulation, analysis and implementation of corporate level strategies in the spectrum ranging from creating core competence, design and process quality, process re-engineering, transformation and overall renewal. Alternative approaches to manufacturing systems such as flexible, just-in-time and cellular manufacturing, and CAD/CAM will be analysed.
Becoming A Manager	GSM 530	Sabancı Business School	This experiential subject is designed to develop managerial skills, cognitive as well as affective ones. It covers some basic functions of management; including communicating with others in local and global contexts. It addresses itself to issues and topics such as: understanding and appreciating other cultures, nations and their management styles; business practices in other countries; doing business with foreign companies; communicating with managers of other cultures and nations; business rhetoric; effective team work; and managing personal stress. Participants are expected to be active by involving in the development and implementation of this subject in their very immediate environment. Although a non-credit subject, it includes a set of issues most essential to the managers of the future.
New Product Development Process	GSM 5301	Sabancı Business School	Discusses new product development process giving special attention to the integration of marketing issues. Knowledge acquisition, concept investigation and formation, product range and portfolio options and up to the basic design and prototyping phase will be included.
Communication, Promotion, Advertising	GSM 5302	Sabancı Business School	A strategic communications approach has to be adopted from the beginning of a new product development process. This module is designed to show based on examples within the Turkish environment how this can be done.
Forecasting and Scenario Planning	GSM 5303	Sabancı Business School	Different forecasting and scenario prediction methods. Judgemental forecasting tools. Combining forecasting methods.
Product Costing and Pricing	GSM 5304	Sabancı Business School	Feasibility and cost evaluation is essential for determining how the product range is formed. This module not only addresses the cost side but also different approaches to determining the price of the new product introduction.
Customer Relationship Management	GSM 5305	Sabancı Business School	This module is designed to develop an understanding of the emerging importance of customers in today's business environment and the constituents of the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. To this end, the module begins by discussing the forces that paved the way to customer-centric business strategies. Elemental characteristics of a customer-centric business are introduced and associated business processes are identified. The module then concentrates on these pillars of CRM and the central issues in the design of a successful CRM implementation.
Marketing Strategy	GSM 5307	Sabancı Business School	This module focuses on the fundamentals of effective marketing strategy design and execution. It develops the skills and experience in market analysis, objective setting, marketing strategy formulation and implementation in a set of realistic marketing situations provided by a computer simulation game-MARKSTRAT-performed by teams of 3-4 students.
Market Research	GSM 5309	Sabancı Business School	This JIT module is to discuss the process of marketing research. The topics include: defining the marketing problem and research objectives, developing research methodology and plan, collecting and processing information, and presenting findings. These topics are discussed from the perspective of designing and conducting marketing research projects to predict demand potential in local and interenational markets.
International Marketing Strategy	GSM 531	Sabancı Business School	This course aims to familiarize graduate students with the principles and complexities of developing and executing marketing strategies in the global business environment. It is a problem-solving-oriented course designed for Executive MBA students who expect to undertake challenging marketing assignments. In a nutshell, the objective of the course is to present a systematic application of strategic marketing in the global environment. The focus of the course is on the of comprehensive marketing strategies. While the course focuses on North American, Japanese and European multinationals competing in global industries, it also pays special attention to globalizing emerging economy firms. The course is designed for students to develop a critical appreciation of the forces, both external and internal, that are increasingly shaping the marketing function in the global economy in order to recognize, analyze, and evaluate marketing problems encountered in global business operations.
Sales Management and Personal Selling	GSM 5311	Sabancı Business School	This module explores sales management by searching the questions, such as how to analyze sales objectives and strategy, how to determine the size and organisation of the salesforce, and how to recruit, motivate and evaluate the performance. This module also includes the principles of relationship management, how to develop and nurture relationships with deciders and influencers, and how to design promotion activities in different stages of products. Cases and examples from the pharmaceutical industry are the part of it.
International Marketing	GSM 5313	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on the internal and external forces that are rapidly shaping the marketing function in the global economy, and on the principles of developing and executing effective marketing strategy in this environment. Specifically, students will learn about how international markets function and evolve and how the functional dimensions of marketing might really be shaped and converged in this century.
Strategic Brand Management	GSM 5315	Sabancı Business School	Branding has become a very critical tool for achieving and maintaining success in marketing. This course is designed to focus on the strategic brand management process and will cover concepts/issues/approaches in building, measuring and managing brand equity. Hence, the objective will be to get an in-depth understanding of branding and strategic brand management and their applications in practice. The format of the course will be a combination of lectures, in-class case discussions and assignments.
Consumer Behavior	GSM 5316	Sabancı Business School	Consumer behavior (CB) is the study of consumers' responses to products and services and the way products and services are marketed. Managers who really understand their consumers can develop effective and efficient marketing strategies and programs that foster sustainable competitive advantages for their firm. This course is designed to focus on how consumers acquire, remember and use information about products and services, their decision making process and how these and other CB concepts can be used by managers to develop effective strategies and implementations. The format of the course will be a combination of lectures, in-class case discussions and assignments
Marketing Management	GSM 532	Sabancı Business School	Marketing management involves an insightful process of creative thinking and strategic decision making in developing, managing and effectively delivering to the firm's target customers its products and services, physically and virtually, based on market dynamics in connection with company objectives and organisational capabilities. It explores the challenges and strategies employed in creating and sustaining competitive advantages in light of the confluence of evolving environmental trends in customer expectations and satisfaction, technological advancements, direct and on-line marketing, and global marketing. Drawing from knowledge bases in psychology, sociology, and economics, it explores the shaping and execution of strategies to effectively build and nurture long-term customer relationships.
New Strat. Direct.in Marketing	GSM 533	Sabancı Business School
Innovation Systems, R&D, Venture	GSM 5401	Sabancı Business School
Financial Tools for Venture Capitalist	GSM 5402	Sabancı Business School	This module is designed from the perspective of the venture capitalists, the donors of capital to the entrepreneurs. A variety of assesment and evaluation tools and methodologies will be covered both utilizing international and local practices and theory.
Entrepreneurship and Business Plan	GSM 5403	Sabancı Business School	Creative economy necessitates new ideas Entrepreneurship is the initiator of new ideas. This module discusses the components of entrepreneurship and how a business is developed.
Governance, Ownership, and IPO	GSM 5404	Sabancı Business School	Module integrates seemingly different and even conflicting nature of two types of stakeholders: innovators versus return sensitive investors. Also to be discussed is the timing and the terms of initial public offering (IPO).
Financial Reporting	GSM 5405	Sabancı Business School	The course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of financial accounting and reporting. The emphasis is on how accounting information generated by companies is used in resource allocation decisions by users external to the firm. It helps the student master the generally accepted accounting concepts, principles and methods underlying the preparation and use of the main financial accounting reports (the balance-sheet, income statement, and cash-flow statement). The topics covered include analysis of transactions and their effect on the financial reports financial assets, inventories, plant-property-equipment and depreciation, debt and equity financing.
Financial Risk Management	GSM 5406	Sabancı Business School	This course provides basic tools for corporate risk management. The emphasis is on the currency risk management. A sound currency risk management strategy requires a good understanding of the interactions between interest rates, exchange rates, and inflation rates. Interest rate parity and purchasing power parity approaches to spot and forward exchange rate determinations and the use of derivatives to manage currency risk are discussed extensively. Related concepts such as interest rate risk and maturity mismatch within the context of currency risk management are also covered. Finally, Value at Risk (VAR) a popular risk management tool of the last few years is introduced.
Derivatives	GSM 5407	Sabancı Business School	This course serves as a comprehensive introduction to derivative securities. Naturally, forward contracts, futures options, and swaps are the focal point of the course. While the main emphasis is on the use of derivatives as risk-transferring/minimizing devices, valuations of such contracts are also included. In addition to hedging strategies to be created by any of the derivative securities, various other trading strategies involving options are presented. A solid coverage of no arbitrage based pricing is provided as the common underlying premise to valuing derivative securities. Therewith, cost-of-carry valuation of forwards and futures, binomial pricing of options, dynamic delta-hedging, the Black-Scholes option pricing formula, and swap pricing are introduced.
Corporate Finance Applications	GSM 5409	Sabancı Business School	This course intends to provide a rigorous treatment of basic financial concepts and theories introduced in Financial Management class. The topics develop on issues/discussions related to corporations in real & hypothetical settings and include the followings: short term financial management, long term financing, cost of capital, corporate valuation, acquisitions & takeovers, economic value added, derivatives, and currency risk management.
Financial Management	GSM 541	Sabancı Business School	This course develops an understanding of the theoretical and practical issues relating to financial management. Topics include financial statement and ratio analyses, financial planning, time value of money, capital budgeting decisions, risk-return relationship, capital structure, and and valuation of securities, assets, and firms
Investments	GSM 5411	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces the structure of financial markets and the valuation of financial assets including stocks, bonds, and futures, forwards, options and swaps. Among the topıcs to be covered are, yield -to-maturity, duration, yield curves, portfolio construction and performance analysis, the use of derivatives in risk-management and option pricing.
Corporate Finance	GSM 543	Sabancı Business School
Financial and Managerial Accounting	GSM 545	Sabancı Business School	The course provides a comprehensive introduction to financial accounting and reporting with an emphasis on decision making. It will help the student master the generally accepted accounting concepts and principles underlying the preparation and use of financial statements. At the conclusion of the course, the students should be able to understand and apply these principles,see their limitations and the effect of different accounting alternatives on the financial position and profitability of a company. The course will also teach the students basic business terminology that students will encounter in future courses and in the business world.
Financial Accounting and Reporting	GSM 547	Sabancı Business School	The course provides a comprehensive introduction to financial accounting and reporting with an emphasis on how financial information can be used in resource allocation decisions by users internal and external to the firm. It will help the student master the basic concepts,perspectives and methods underlying the preparation and use of the main financial statements (the balance-sheet, income statement, and cash-flow statement). ). The course will also teach the students basic business terminology that students will encounter in future management courses and in the business world. Specific topics to be covered include the generally accepted concepts, assumptions, principles, techniques used in the preparation of financial statements; the recording cycle involved in recording, storing business transactions and communicating the information to external users; accounting for financial assets, inventories, plant-property equipment, intangible assets, liabilities, owners' equity; basic ratio analysis of financial statements.
Financial Reporting	GSM 549	Sabancı Business School	The course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of financial accounting and reporting. The emphasis is on how accounting information generated by companies is used in resource allocation decisions by users external to the firm. It helps the student master the generally accepted accounting concepts, principles and methods underlying the preparation and use of the main financial accounting reports (the balance-sheet, income statement, and cash-flow statement). The topics covered include analysis of transactions and their effect on the financial reports, financial assets, inventories, plant- property-equipment and depreciation, debt and equity financing.
Systems Thinking	GSM 5501	Sabancı Business School	This module is concerned with concepts of systems thinking, its approach and with the tools that are available for systems analysis, modifications and or synthesis. Specifically, it defines the terminology and presents the various verbal, graphic, and algebraic methods for describing systems-their structures, functions, flows, interactions, decision rules, alternative solution options and behaviour. It discusses methods for acquisition of both 'hard' and 'soft' data, the various formal aids to creative thinking, the art of systems analysis, and the strategies for implementing system studies. The emphasis throughout this JIT module will be on finding, defining, and structuring the real managerial problems within the organization for a creative and implementable solution. It is intended for line management and for staff analysts concerned with designing, planning, operating and or managing of business and service organizations.
Strategy Process	GSM 5502	Sabancı Business School	This module is aimed at discovering how strategies are formed in organizations. Understanding the mechanisms of shortening the distance between strategy formulation and actual implementation of the strategies. Four perspectives of strategy making will be covered to comprehend the world of strategic decision making; strategy as position, strategy as plan, strategy as pattern and strategy as perspective. Special attention will be given to strategy as pattern and strategy as perspective in order to delineate the role of implementation in the strategy formation process.
Strategic Analysis	GSM 5503	Sabancı Business School	The module is designed to develop necessary analytical skill to analyse and synthesise a business situation in terms of all factors influencing business performance internally and externally. Internal factors include business objectives and strategies; capabilities (strategic, organisational, functional); resources; processes; and performance (financial, market, operational) while external factors include environmental analysis, industry analysis, competitive position analysis and customer behaviour analysis.
Global Business Strategy	GSM 5504	Sabancı Business School	This module will focus on the fundamentals of effective marketing strategy design and execution. Upon completion students will have developed a learned appreciation of (a) the interdisciplinary nature of marketing strategy practice and marketing thought; (b) the contextual character of strategic marketing decisions; (c) the impact of effective marketing strategy on firm and organizational performance; and (d) marketing's contribution to societal welfare. The module will direct special attention to (a) how markets function and evolve; (b) how customers and consumers really behave; (c) how firms relate to their markets; (e) how marketing contributes to organizational performance; and (e) how the functional dimensions of marketing strategy such as product, pricing, distribution, and promotion might be shaped in the globalizing, converging and connected knowledge economy of this century.
Business Planning	GSM 5505	Sabancı Business School	The course addresses the management challenges associated with starting and successfully running a new venture. The focus will be on the planning activities needed in the establishment process of a new business, particularly the preparation of business plans. The objectives of the course include: developing a business opportunity; discussing the primary tasks and decisions that are required to turn an idea into a sound business opportunity; creating business plans; increasing awareness about the problems faced in implementing a plan for a new business opportunity either in a new firm or in an existing firm. This subject will provide a comprehensive and cross- disciplinary perspective on the main problems, perspectives, and practical opportunities associated with innovation, entrepreneurs and business planning.
Macroeconomics	GSM 5506	Sabancı Business School	This course has two major objectives. The first objective is to provide students with a sound basis of macroeconomic analysis and thinking. To this end, the course deals with the determination of national income, fundamental macroeconomic equilibria, growth and distribution in a small open economy. The second and more important objective is to assess the macroeconomic trends and transformations in the Turkish Economy in the post-1980 period. The course has also a particular focus on the recent financial crises and the Structural Adjustment Programs designed to provide macroeconomic stability.
Business Simulation	GSM 5508	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this 21-hour intensive activity, which will take place during a week only, is to provide an opportunity for the participants to integrate their knowledge and experience through a computer-based simulation environment created. The computer based- simulation will be instrumental for managing a company and its basic functions (production, marketing, financing) in a market of several competitors. The participants, as teams of four to five, will make sequential decisions at the beginning of each period over a certain time horizon and will report, at the end each period, how their decisions affected the performance (measured in terms of market share, profitability and some important finacial ratios) of their company.
Strategy and Meaning Management	GSM 551	Sabancı Business School	Strategy process is to help a company respond effectively to the challenges offered by its competitive environment This process calls for a company to study its external and internal environments to to identify its marketplace opportunities and threats and determine how to use its core competencies in the pursuit of desired strategic outcomes. In such a strategic process managers employ the three functions of Meaning Management; namely, cognitive function, creative function, and participative function. The cognitive function is to gain a perception of the competitve environment in terms of threats and opportunities; the creative function is to use the core competencies and resources in a most innovative way to avoid threats and capitalise on opportunities; and the participative function is to manage the interaction with the competitive environment in order to pursuit desired strategic outcomes. This course will discuss the basics of strageic process and its linkage with the functions of Meaning Management.
Strategic Thinking and Action	GSM 553	Sabancı Business School	This subject aims to introduce a plurality of perspectives in strategic thinking and action. Strategy as plan, position , perspective and pattern capture the diversity of perspectives that are essential to grasp in managerial practice. The contact and the process pertaining to these perspectives will be covered and the experience of the participants will be integrated into the conceptual frameworks. The four perspectives are developed by delineating the relationship of strategy formulation, to strategy implementation and such a better understanding between thinking and action will be achieved in the perspectives. Examples of all types of strategies in corporate, business, competitive and functional levels are used, but special attention will be given to new business development.
Turkish Economy: Structural Observations, Macroeconomic Assessments	GSM 580	Sabancı Business School	This course has two major objectives. The first objective is to provide students with a sound basis of macroeconomic analysis and thinking. To this end, the course deals with the determination of national income, fundamental macroeconomic equilibria, growth and distribution in a small open economy. The second and more important objective is to assess the macroeconomic trends and transformations in the Turkish Economy in the post-1980 period. The course has also a particular focus on the recent financial crises and the Structural Adjustment Programs designed to prodive macroeconomic stability.
Managerial Economics	GSM 581	Sabancı Business School	Managerial economics is to be delivered through a practioner orientation. Each fundamental topic of classical microeconomics will be covered with a real life case from a company.A managerial approach to demand, supply, competition cost, efficiency, markets, risk, information and investment will therefore be undertaken in contrast to a pure theoretical approach.
Competitive Strategy	GSM 582	Sabancı Business School	The industrial competitiveness of the firms will be formulated using a model-based approach for the purpose of competitive advantage. The first part of the course deals with the competitive environment of industrial firms and its impact on firm competitive performance. The second part, on the other hand, concentrates on firm specific factors that determine the competitive advantage of industrial companies. Concepts such as cost superiority, strategic proficiency, marketing effectiveness, actual and potential competitiveness will be developed and their applications in mature industries will be discussed in detail. Also to be discussed are other approaches to competitive strategy.
Competitive Environment	GSM 583	Sabancı Business School	This subject aims to introduce a plurality of perspectives in strategic thinking and action. Strategy as plan, position, perspective and pattern capture the diversity of perspectives that are essential to grasp in managerial practice. The contact and the process pertaining to these perspectives will be covered and the experience of the participants will be integrated into the conceptual frameworks. The four perspectives are developed by delineating the relationship of strategy formulation, to strategy implementation and such a better understanding between thinking and action will be achieved in the perspectives. Examples of all types of strategies in corporate, business, competitive and functional levels are used, but special attention will be given to new business development.
Networking	GSM 585	Sabancı Business School	This subject deals with inter-organisational networks as a distinct and increasingly widespread form of organising. Within this broad area of focus, it addresses the issue of conceptualising networks and classifying different kinds of network arrangements; the development dynamics of networks; the management of network relationships; and the benefits and costs associated with networks. The aim is to discuss how to explore ways of gaining competitive advantage through network forms of organising.
Economics of Strategy	GSM 587	Sabancı Business School	This subject introduces students to basic concepts of microeconomic theory. Topics covered include: Demand, costs and theory of firm behavior; market structure and performance; behavior under risk; introduction to game theory; pricing and marketing strategies; strategic behavior commitment, dynamic pricing, entry and exit; introduction to competition policy and regulation.
Corporate Governance	GSM 589	Sabancı Business School	The course will provide a comparative insight into corporate governance systems around the world with a focus on how these systems influence individual firm performance and the allocation of capital within a country as well as in global markets. Students will explore both structural (external) corporate governance determinants such as capital market institutions, legal and regulatory systems, enforcement mechanisms, market for corporate control as well as firm-specific choices, including capital structure, internal controls, board structures, executive compensation and disclosure practices. Turkey will put under spotlight with its "developing country" -specific issues of insider trading, tunneling, asset transfer, lack of institutional investors and shareholder activism, concentrated family ownership, weak enforcement of law and regulations and shallow capital markets.
Business Research	GSM 590	Sabancı Business School	Being informed consumers of business research is an essential skill in any managerial context. The purpose of this subject is to equip the participants with an understanding of basic concepts in methodology, various data collection strategies and interpretation of data. Special emphasis is given to discuss how study design is linked to the ability to draw sound conclusions from empirical findings and use of statistical methods for understanding, diagnosis and treatment of managerial issues and problems.
Project I	GSM 591	Sabancı Business School	This is the most important team activity of the MBA Programs project,which is to be conceptualised and formulated through Practice Development I and Practice Development II activities during the first year of the MBA Program. The second major part is an assembly of "just-in-time" subjects that are necessitated by the project itself in order to conduct and conclude the project effectively and efficiently to the satisfaction of both the client organisation and the MBA Program.The "just-in-time" subjects are organised in "modular" forms. Teamwork and active learning are required, expected, and strongly encouraged during this phase of the MBA Program. Project I is concurrently done with "Practice Sharing" to provide a platform of discussion and participation among different project teams.
Project II	GSM 592	Sabancı Business School	This has the same approach as that of Project I. However, covered in Project I, or a completely new project. In the latter case, members of the project team could also be different. Again, teamwork and active learning are emphasised. The set of "just-in-time" subjects is to be formulated and its logistics is to be planned, as before, by the project team, in accordance with the guidelines of the MBA Program. As in the case of Project I, Project II is again concurrently done with "Practice Sharing".
Managerial Skills	GSM 593	Sabancı Business School	This experiential course is designed to help participants to further develop their managerial skills. It covers issues and topics such as understanding and appreciating other cultures, nations and their management styles; business practices in other countries; effective team work; and managing personal stress.
Special Topics in Management	GSM 594	Sabancı Business School	This course will be based on the analysis of contemporary issues, problems and changing paradigms in management. It will focus on the selected topics in the process and transformation of management knowledge in the dynamic business environment. Some examples to selected topics are information technology, creativity, research and technology, globalization, and sustainability.
Business Simulation	GSM 595	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this 30-hour intensive activity, which will take place during a week only, is to provide an opportunity for the participants to integrate their knowledge and experience through a computer-based simulation environment created. The computer based- simulation will be instrumental for managing a company and its basic functions (production, marketing, financing) in a market of several competitors. The participants, as teams of four to five, will make sequential decisions at the beginning of each period over a certain time horizon and will report, at the end each period, how their decisions affected the performance (measured in terms of market share, profitability and some important finacial ratios) of their company.
Industrial Research	GSM 596	Sabancı Business School	A project is carried out in conjuction with an industrial company leading to distinct deliverables such as a working paper or conference paper as specified by the instructor at the beginning of the course.
Term Project	GSM 598	Sabancı Business School	The program requires the conduct and completion of a project. The project topic and content is based on the interest and background of the student. It is to be approved by the faculty member serving as the project supervisor. At the completion of the project, the student is required to submit a final report. The report is to be approved by the project supervisor.
Project Course	GSM 599	Sabancı Business School	The program requires the conduct and completion of a project. the project topic and content is based on the i interest and background of the student. It is to be approved by the faculty member serving as the project supervisor. At the completion of the project, the student is required to submit a final report. The report is to be approved by the project supervisor.
Research Methods	GSM 601	Sabancı Business School	As an introduction to research in social sciences, this course is based on the scientific method of inquiry and provides a critical appraisal of the various research methods available to social scientists following the natural science paradigm. It aims to familiarize students with the procss of identifying a research question, formulation of hypotheses or predictions about the question, designing a study to test the hypotheses, observing or measuring variables, examining the relationships between variables observed, and drawing conclusions about the research question based on observed relationships. Topics to be covered include a discussion of measurement issues such as reliability and validity, common threats to validity in research desgn, decisions regarding the choice of samples and settings, and the relative advantages and disadvantages of various emprical research strategies.
Qualitative Research Methods	GSM 602	Sabancı Business School	This course focusses on the qualitative tradition in social science and organizational research. The former part of the course reviews the intellectual roots of and the current frameworks informing qualitative inquiry as well as the debates surrounding quantitative and qualitative traditions. Central characteristics of qualitative work and its relation ship to theory generation and testing are then discussed. This is followed by reviewing the major forms of qualitative research like ethnography,case studies,and ethnomethodology. The latter part of the course moes towards a coverage of issues of design and analysis in qualitative research. Specific topics to be covered are data collection techniques (like interviewing, participant observation, focus groups, document analysis) and methods for the analysis of qualitative data, including use of software packages. The course concludes by exploring the possibilities of combining quantitative and qualitative research.
Multivariate Statistics	GSM 604	Sabancı Business School	This course covers the basic multivariate techniques that are currently used in various areas of social sciences. The learning goal for students is to have a conceptual understanding of each statistical technique, be able to apply the correct technique to any given set of data, properly interpret the output of statistical computer packages, and understand and critique scientific papers that use these techniques. The course begins with an introductory session on matrix algebra, sample geometry and random sampling. Next, the properties of the multivariate normal distribution are examined with an emphasis on how to make inferences about multivariate means and to compare several multivariate means (MANOVA). Other topics that are covered include analysis of covariance structures including principal components, factor analysis and canonical correlation analysis as well as classification and grouping techniques such as discriminant analysis, clustering and multidimensional scaling.
Operations Modelling	GSM 605	Sabancı Business School	This purpose of this course is to present a survey of formal models for manufacturing and service operations both at design and planning / control levels. Design level includes decisions that pertain to capacity, location, facilities, work and work structures while planning level decisions covers such areas as production and inventory management, work force scheduling, purchasing, distribution, and logistics. Besides such traditional areas of operations models of global supply chain systems, global logistics, e-business models, extended operations models (eg. vendor managed inventories) are discussed along with underlying technological developments. The interdependencies between the traditional and new modes of operations are emphasized due to its importance in developing a solid understanding of current developments.
Mathematical Programming	GSM 606	Sabancı Business School	This course exposes students to the theory and techniques of deterministic mathematical programming. Linear programming and its extensions, integer programming and network flows are the main areas of focus.The purpose is to provide a strong theoretical basis required for creating mathematical models of real world problems of interest and also developing effective methodologies for their solution and implementation. To this end, the course also reviews computational complexity issues and discusses techniques for building efficient computational methods in combinatorial optimization along with associated theory such as duality, relaxation, decomposition and column generation.
Special Topics in Quantitative Methods	GSM 608	Sabancı Business School	These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Professional Development Seminar	GSM 609	Sabancı Business School	This is a weekly seminar (coordinated by a faculty member or a faculty team) that all doctoral students are expected to a attend and actively participate.The objectives are to orient the student to research traditions in sub-fields of management studies and to the professional life of an academic. With regard to the first objective students are exposed to current scholarly research through presentations by faculty members and invited speakers as well as the work and experiences of their doctoral colleagues. There are also sessions that specifically explore the current state of research in Turkey in particular areas of management studies . With regard to the academic profession there are opportunities to adress issues related to developing publishable work, the review process, and refereeing as well as getting prepared for teaching responsibilities.
Professional Development Seminar II	GSM 610	Sabancı Business School	This is a weekly seminar (coordinated by a faculty member or or a faculty team) that all doctoral students are expected to attend and actively participate. The objectives are to orient the student to research traditions in sub-fields of management studies and to the professional life of an academic. With regard to the first objective students are are exposed to current scholarly research through presentations by faculty members and invited speakers as well as the work and experiences of their doctoral colleagues. There are also sessions that specifically explore the current state of research in Turkey in in particular areas of management studies. With regard to the academic profession there are opportunities to address issues related to developing publishable work, the review process, and refereeing as well as getting prepared for teaching responsibilities.
Strategy	GSM 611	Sabancı Business School
Organizational Behaviour and HR Management	GSM 612	Sabancı Business School	This seminar is designed to provide students with a broad overview of the major topics in the fields of organizational behavior (OB) and human resources management (HRM). The course starts off with a critical introduction to the field of OB, followed by an orientation to research on foundations of individual behavior and group processes. The course then proceeds to cover other OB topics like intergroup relations, leadership, and organizational culture The second half of the seminar is a touring of the major areas of human resources management namely staffing, socialization, training, performance appraisal and compensation including a discussion on employee withdrawal behaviors such as absenteeism and turnover. Finally, the important issue of HRM and organizational effectiveness and future directions of both fields are covered.
Organization Theory	GSM 613	Sabancı Business School	The central objective of this course is to introduce students to perspectives on studying management and organisational phenomena. It aims to develop a critical appreciation of the historical evolution and the current state of management and organisation studies. The former part of the course is devoted to charting the domain and concerns of organisational analysis and deals with issues like organisations and their environments, goals and effectiveness, power and control, their and work, and forms and structuring of organisations. The course then proceeds to a review and discussion of major perspectives and research programmes in organisational analysis. The student is thus given an opportunity to develop an understanding of the central features of different perspectives as well as appreciating the nature of ongoing controversy and debate among competing viewpoints. The review of earlier traditions like scientific management, human relations and contingency theory are followed by critical perspectives of the time, namely Marxist and action frames of reference. More recent research traditions to be reviewed include resource dependence, institutionalist, and ecological perspectives as well as those that stem from neo-isntitutionalist economics and economic sociology. The course finally considers more recent alternative traditions like interpretive, critical realist, and postmodern approaches.
Special Topics In Organizational Analysis	GSM 617	Sabancı Business School	These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Selected Topics in Organizational Behavior	GSM 618	Sabancı Business School	These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Special Topics in HR Management	GSM 619	Sabancı Business School	These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Operations and Decision Systems	GSM 621	Sabancı Business School	This is the first course in a series of two on operations management focusing on decision problems of developing, producing, and delivering goods. The purpose is to provide students an exposure to the spectrum of operations management activities and the nature of the related decision problems. The areas of interest include process and product design, location and capacity planning, quality management and control, production/inventory management, materials management and purchasing, distribution planning, and project management. Tools and techniques used in generating solutions to problems that arise in these and other similar areas are introduced. Operating systems from different sectors such as manufacturing, service, transportation are used as examples to expose students to the similarities and differences in their characteristics. The fundamental principals of several managerial practices such as just-in-time, total quality management, time based competition, business process re-engineering are explored so that students can critically evaluate these and other operational improvement programs.
Operations and Technology	GSM 622	Sabancı Business School	This is the second course in a series of two on operations management focusing on advanced topics in supply chain design and management, global operations and logistics, extended enterprise, and electronic business. Students are exposed to recent developments in the global competitive environment and the impacts of such developments on traditional operations problems. This course also focuses on the technological advances that underlie the recent developments in the area. Advanced manufacturing technologies and the impact of information technology on operations management are of particular interest. In this respect, the diverse decision issues in technology management are raised and tools for technology search, selection, implementation, utilization, and divestment are analysed. Technology planning and research in development activities are among other topics to be covered. Overall, the integration of technology, operations and business strategy is emphasized.
Special Topics in Operations Management	GSM 629	Sabancı Business School	These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Management of Technological Innovation	GSM 655	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on the economics and management of technological innovation by examining how industries and firms are transformed by new technologies, how new industries are formed, and what factors affect innovation performance at the firm level. The aim is to develop an awareness of the range, scope, and complexity of the issues and problems related to the management of technological innovations. The course takes a systems perspective to develop insights into the conditions under which particular structural arrangements and systems are likely to facilitate technological innovation. The analysis includes a wide variety of factors associated with successful strategic innovation such as institutions, business and technology strategy, and industrial and organisational structures. The topics include a typology typology of innovations, patterns of product and process change, innovation and industry evolution, the capability to innovate, patterns of innovation, technology strategy, creating knowledge, learning and dynamic capability, and determinants of technical change.
Operations Strategy	GSM 656	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of this course is to demonstrate the importance of operations strategy as a major influence on the competitiveness of an organization. The focus is on how organizations can develop an effective operations strategy to compete in global markets. Components of operations strategy, links between operations and corporate strategies, trade-offs to be considered in developing effective operations strategies are among the main topics to be covered. Tools and concepts of analyzing the distinctive competencies of the organization and the dynamic of the associated value chain are also discussed. Students are expected to develop an understanding of the significance of designing and implementing effective operations strategies over time and the importance of integrating operations strategy with overall business strategy and other functional strategies.
Social Theory	GSM 671	Sabancı Business School	Social theory involves a proliferation of theoretical orientations and issues that renders a comprehensive presentation almost impossible. This course aims to introduce major paradigms of theory building around a thematic focus on the agency/structure problematic, an approach which effectively encompasses a fairly broad range of contemporary issues and developments. The first part of the course is devoted to the foundations of the philosophy of social science, a necessary background for grasping and analyzing the issues in contemporary debates. The second part is built upon the microsociological foundations of macrosociological theory in order to highlight different ways of incorporating agency and subjectivity into social theory. The third part is designed to address the objective (structural) dimension of social reality under the rubric of the concept of structuralism. The final part of the course is a survey of the three major contemporary theoretical programs which have contributed to the reconciliation of agency and structure: critical theory, neo-Marxism and action theories (neo-functionalism and neo-Weberian theory)
Economics of Organization	GSM 681	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces the economic perspective to organisations. The course starts with a review of micro-economics and game theory, providing the basic tools for economic analysis. Following this introduction, the course focuses on transaction cost theory and the agency theory of the firm. While the emphasis will be on these two research streams, the two other main streams, strategy- conduct-performance paradigm and resource-based view of organisations will also be covered.
Economic Perspectives	GSM 682	Sabancı Business School
Turkish Managerial Context	GSM 691	Sabancı Business School	This course draws upon different theoretical and disciplinary perspectives to examine the historical development and changing nature of business/management structures and practices in the context of Turkish society Attention is focused on the experiences of business/management relations among different social classes and groups with particular emphasis on the role of the state in the formation of economic and social policies. Related to this is the discussion on the collective responses by the entrepreneurial class through business associations, workers through unions and skilled employees through professional organisations.The course Context concludes by exploring implications for the management profession in Turkey.
Directed Readings and Research	GSM 699	Sabancı Business School	This course comprises supervised reading and research that students undertake with their prospective dissertation advisor. The work to be carried out is expected contribute to the students' preparation for the qualifying examination and the development of her/his dissertation proposal.
Ph.D. Dissertation	GSM 700	Sabancı Business School	This class comprises of research activities towards the Ph.D. Thesis that the student is going to propose and defend
Renaissance Art	HART 511	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to enable an understanding of the modes of visuality of Renaissance art through analyses of the works of prominent artists of the period, such as Giotto, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian and Tintoretto. The art of the Renaissance will be considered in relation to Renaissance culture at large, social and political. The significance of Renaissance modes of visuality since Renaissance culture will also be assessed. For the possibility of being taken as an undergraduate course, subject to adjusted work requirements, see HART 311
Visual Arts in Turkey	HART 513	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	"Visual Art in Turkey" is an overall historical survey on Turkish visual arts from the late 19th century to the present. Framing issues of tradition, modernity, postmodernity, contemporaneity within a chronological trajectory, the course aims to introduce students to the changes in artistic production in relation to cultural changes in Turkish society in the 20th century. Historical and cultural shifts relating to artistic identity, artistic trends, and artworks are taken into focus to reflect the transformation of the artistic sphere and visual culture in modern Turkey.
Post 60 Turkish Art	HART 514	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The post-60 period in Turkey is open to an immense transformation at the levels of the social, cultural and the political. The period witnesses the birth of the popular culture and the emergence of the civil society as a relatively autonomous body. The art produced in this period is prolific and varies in style. The course will discuss the 1960-2000 period in Turkey with particular emphasis on the determining social and cultural changes.
Women Artists	HART 520	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is an introduction to works by women artists that practice(d) in the field of visual arts, in the 19th and 20th centuries. It covers art historical areas from Realism, Symbolism, Impressionism to Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art & Feminist Art of the 1960's onwards. It focuses on women artists whose fame had/has already been established during their own life times. This course aims to provide students with an understanding of visual and cultural aspects of modern and postmodern art approached through the study of women's works. It also gives them an insight into the conditions of art practice for women before and at the start of the feminist art movement.
Art in the age of Revolt: Early Modernity	HART 521	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to consider what has counted as modern in art since --and before-- the advent of the avant-garde in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. The changing relations between notions of modernity and the aims of artists and their works is reviewed. The significance of movements in art, such as romanticism, realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism, towards the development of `modern art' is assessed. Students may expect to consider works by key artists such as Delacroix, Ingres, Turner, Constable, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh. Notions of modernity and modernism in art will be examined as part of a consideration of the aims of modern art, social, political or otherwise.
Power and Architecture	HART 523	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	An introduction and overview on architecture as a manifestation of political power. Rome's great fora and imperial heritage; the triumphal arch and the apotheosis of the emperor; the Colosseum and public displays of munificence. From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance : the great cathedrals and then the palaces; the power of God and the power of man; the Renaissance city; imperial legacy : the Topkapı Palace and the imperial mosques of İstanbul. Absolutism and revolution : Louis XIV and Versailles; new ideals and new virtues; public monuments. The Modern era : urban development; the city as a reflection of absolute order; colonialism and assertions of power; international corporate architecture and visions of the future.
Art Histories	HART 524	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will offer the opportunity to pursue the study of different histories of art as implied by different practices and theories of art. It will review the relations between evaluation and description of artistic phenomena and the understanding of history, with a view to generating both critical accounts of art history and new accounts of history and of art. Materials will be selected as relevant to these ends.
Art & History at the Museum	HART 525	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The aim of this course is above all to seize the opportunity of an important museum exhibition held in Istanbul (at SSM or elsewhere) by using its educational potential: The course will not only be based on "although not limited to" the exhibition material, it will also be taught at the museum. This course aims to provide students with knowledge on a given art history/ history topic based on a closer study of "the real works" displayed at the exhibition but also based on the design and implementation of museum practice-oriented projects that will be integrated in the museum educational activities. The topic of this course will change each time it is offered since it depends on the opportunities provided by ongoing exhibitions in İstanbul
The Dome of Gold : The Art of the Byzantine Empire	HART 531	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course examines the art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire from its beginnings in the sixth century until its end in 1453. The story of Byzantium begins with emperor Justinian's attempt to revive the glory of ancient Rome in Constantinople. This was short-lived, as ethnic and political upheavals in the following centuries set the eastern empire on a path of decline into the status of a medieval principality. Austere saints in dim candlelit interiors replaced the festive images of salvation that had adorned the walls of Justinian's dazzling bright churches. Despite this inclination toward mysticism, links with Antiquity were not severed, and a profoundly classical humanism came to permeate even the strictest and most transcendental of Byzantine mosaics, ivory plaques, illuminated manuscripts, or icons. It is no accident, therefore, that even under the Paleologue dynasty, there should have been a true classical revival which anticipated the Italian Renaissance.
Post-1945 American Art	HART 532	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Most of the modern issues under discussion and the cult of modernist, experimental art are an outcome of the American art produced in the post-1960 period. Initially, the course will introduce an overview of the New York School Painting, Minimalism and Pop Art at large. Subsequently, the post-1960 art movements such as Body Art, Performance Art, Electronic Art, Feminist Art, New Expressionism and Appropriation Art will be discussed with respect to the social and political background of the period.
Heavenly Spires: Introduction to Medieval European Art and Architecture	HART 533	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The art and architecture of the Middle Ages in Western Europe from the time of Charlemagne until the Late Gothic era. The spread of indigenous Germanic traditions, and the eventual demise of Roman culture. Charlemagne's renovatio as the threshold of both an ordered society and a new age of faith. Churches and monasteries proliferating in Carolingian and Romanesque Europe as new centers of learning and art. The subsequent shift of the economy from the countryside to the growing cities, leading to a new cultural milieu displaying unprecedented responsiveness to the material world. The contrasts between the realism of Gothic imagery and the highly stylized, almost abstract forms of the Romanesque; between the bright interiors of the new soaring cathedrals that rose over the skylines of medieval cities, and the dark, massive structures of the preceding era. Gothic cathedrals as the most impressive symbols of this High Medieval moment. For the possibility of being taken as an undergraduate course, see HART 433.
Caravaggio	HART 550	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Caravaggio was one of the greatest artists of all time. He was also one of the most controversial. Nicolas Poussin once said of Caravaggio that he came into the world to destroy the art of painting. Artist, convicted murderer, and adventurer, Caravaggio was offensive and provocative in art as in life. His drunks and thugs impersonating saints set in Rome’s filthy alleys and seedy taverns shook the art world to the core. Caravaggio sneered at classicism and the canons held sacred since the Renaissance and chose to rely on natural observation instead. This course focuses on issues of style, content, and patronage to understand Caravaggio’s art and its deeper implications. Was his rejection of refinement a criticism of the excesses of the church? Was it an appeal by the embattled Roman church to the poor and underprivileged? Or was it simply a radical avant-garde statement for its own sake?
Bauhaus	HART 580	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	For one extraordinary moment between the two world wars creativity was set free from social bonds and bold experimentation in the arts echoed revolutionary changes in technology and society. At the vanguard was Bauhaus, the school and movement that merged art, architecture, and design into a style free from the bonds of history and national boundaries. Bauhaus was truly an international art for a new age. This course looks at the key moments in the history of Bauhaus against the cultural and intellectual backdrop of interwar Europe and treats them within the wider context of modernism. It covers a variety of related art, architecture and design movements starting briefly with an overview of the origins of modernism in the work of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement and Art Nouveau and concluding with important movements such as Constructivism, Cubism, De Stijl, New Objectivity, Suprematism and Futurism.
Art and Power	HART 623	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course examines the role of the visual arts and architecture in the representation of political power and ideology. Images can bear very potent meanings. These meanings are sometimes buried in complex symbolism and conveyed through attributes and emblems, while seemingly insignificant gestures, postures, and motifs can denote sophisticated state, dynastic, and ideological associations. Apart from addressing a variety of themes pertaining to legitimacy of rulership, notions of sacred kingship, and references to mythical archetypes that shaped the image of the ruler over centuries, imagery was used also to convey and promote fundamental values of the prevailing ideology, the social order, and the myths that shaped the cultural outlook of an age. Thus 18th century ideals of progress, industrialization, and democracy were accompanied by admiration of the classical world, and a desire to achieve those moral values that were believed to have existed in Antiquity. Consequently, ornate Baroque façades gave way to Greco-Roman temple fronts while grand history themes replaced fanciful Baroque allegories. After the Napoleonic wars the search for identity shifted to national history and the glorification of the Middle Ages, initiating a surge of Gothic-style buildings while images of the knights replaced the heroic nudes of the Classicist revival. This romantic medievalism was followed by yet another myth. Rekindling the age-old quest for Paradise, early 20th century political ideology competed with religion in promising a society that would offer prosperity and social justice, generating images of a utopian classless society of contended workers and peasants. As much as imagery can reflect the cultural outlook of an age and reveal its significant postulates, architecture remains the most explicit manifestation of political power. Through symbolic language, direct or indirect associations, and references to celebrated buildings of the past or to sacred or highly revered sites, architecture is imbued with complex meanings that convey messages of continuity, power, and sanctity, or commemorate deceased rulers and ensure legitimacy to their successors. Guiding students into in-depth studies of these and related themes, HART 623 counts towards the fulfilment of the graduate seminar requirement in History subject to the completion of a major research paper (of around 30 pages) making significant use of primary resource materials. Also see HART 323 for the possibility of being taken simultaneously as an undergraduate course without the special seminar requirements.
Ideology and Architecture	HART 624	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A research seminar starting with an introduction and overview : architecture and political ideology, a survey from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The rise of the national idea : historicism and revivalism; revival and survival; Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and the underlying ideologies. The meaning of styles : the academies; the rundbogen and the spitzbogen; French Classicism and ideas of the republic; antiquity and the United States of America; the English and German neo- gothic and the revival of the national past; the neo- byzantine style and the quest for national identity in southeastern Europe. Nationalism and architecture. Architecture and continuity : concepts of ethnicity and nationhood in Russia, the Balkans, and Turkey; architecture and modernity : the parliament, the theater and the museum as embodiments of statehood; visions of paradise : national socialism and Soviet socialism. Requirements : a major research paper of around 30 pages. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History.
Ottoman Architectural Practices	HART 626	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A research seminar built around four main, interrelated axes of inquiry : (a) Compiling all relevant information about Ottoman architects of, first, the 14th-17th centuries, and then the 18th-19th centuries (including their origins, training and education, biographies and works) in order to advance towards a comprehensive prosopography of the subject both before and after the breakup of the Lodge of Royal Architects; (b) probing relations or networks of patronage (including commissions from the royal house, the sub-royal elite of the ümera and ulema, and commercial-professional strata), as well as the influence exercised by all such patrons on design and execution; (c) reviewing various technical aspects including materials and building site organisation; and (d) exploring the connections between technical data or constraints and symbolic elements in monumental religious architecture in particular. Counts towards the fulfillment of the research seminar requirement in History.
Images Translated from Narrative to Visual in Ottoman and Safavid Miniature Painting	HART 633	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is an introduction to Ottoman and Safavid miniature painting. It aims to investigate the artist who translated the historical and literary narrative sources into manuscript illustrations; to study their modes of rendering; and to develop an understanding towards the interpretation of themes and subjects by building a familiarity with the examples of book painting and a close reading of the existing scholarly literature. It introduces some princely manuscripts produced at the Ottoman painting workshops by Ottoman painters depicting subject matter drawn from Islamic-Persian literature.
Ottoman and Safavid Art History	HART 635	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is an introduction to the art and architecture of the Ottoman Empire and its neighbor and rival to the east, Safavid Iran, during the 16th?17th century heyday of both. We will consider how each empire used artistic means ? architecture, painting, decoration, and other arts ? to put its own distinctive perceptual stamp on the world within its reach. To this end, it considers a number of major works (as well as some minor ones) of each dynasty in a constellation of contexts: political, cultural, stylistic. A running theme will be the notion that art serves ''power'' and how this paradigm has affected the study of Ottoman and Safavid art history.
Designing the Nation. Art and Nationalism	HART 644	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course examines the role of the visual arts and architecture in nationalist ideologies. The first part of the course is an introduction into visual representation, style, iconography, and symbolism. Examples used include a comparative study of public and imperial imagery of ancient Rome, Napoleonic Europe, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The main part of the course focuses on subject matter, idioms and aesthetics systems in official architecture, public monuments and the fine and decorative arts perceived as representative of a nation's origins or cultural affiliation: from revivalist idioms (Gothic to Renaissance and Byzantine to Ottoman) to themes and idioms drawing from history, myth and folklore. The lectures will concentrate on case studies from Central Europe and the Balkans, but will include an overview of developments in the visual arts and architecture of England, Germany, France, Russia, and Turkey.
M.A. Pro-Seminar	HIST 500	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A multi-purpose course that can be used flexibly for a better preparation in research methods and analysis including deepening mastery of the relevant research languages through special readings, whenever necessary. The course also aims to expose students to ethical standarts and rules in research and publishing.
Explorations in World History I	HIST 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is the first of a sequence of two term-courses that are required of all MA students in History. It is a general survey course that explores specific themes and periods from the first human communities to c. 1500, and problematizes them in comparative, theory-intensive ways. It runs parallel to the SPS 101 (Humanity and Society I) freshman course, which serves as the teaching practicum of HIST 501 for SU graduate students in History who also serve as SPS 101 section instructors. Both SPS 101 and HIST 501 embody a discrete, step-function view of historical development, examining sets of institutional-cultural "solutions" situated along each major material-technical threshold, without however proceeding in a continuous narrative from one such locus to another. Topics dealt with in the first semester include : Modernity's subsumptions and transformations of pre-modernities; comparing contemporary with prehistoric hunters and gatherers; nomadic pastoralism, mounted archers, steppe empires; the economics of peasant production; the role of movement and conquest in history; "dark ages" and state formation; precocious maritime civilizations in Antiquity; tributary states and societies; the function and varieties of fief distribution; types of urban space and culture; the world on the eve of the "European miracle"; the Italian Renaissance as the dawn of early modernity.
Explorations in World History II	HIST 502	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A general survey course exploring specific themes and periods from c. 1500 to the present, and problematizing them in comparative, theory-intensive ways. Runs parallel to the SPS 102 (Humanity and Society II) freshman course, which serves as the teaching practicum of HIST 502 for SU graduate students in History who also serve as SPS 102 section instructors. Topics dealt with over the second semester include : the Protestant Reformation and the subsequent relativization of religion; the European Reconnaissance and the birth of the modern world-system; the rise and political economy of the merchant empires; the "military revolution" and the genesis of the modern state; science, scientism, and the Enlightenment; modes of sovereignty and legitimacy : the birth of modern politics and political science; proto- industrialisation; the wealth of nations; revolutions and modernity; the French Revolution and its legacy of "revolutionism"; the Industrial Revolution and its legacy of the "social question" in the 19th century; varieties of nationalism : European; east-southeast European, extra-European; debating the new imperialism, 1875-1914; imperialism, war, and revolution; the new toughness of mind : socialism and communism; the new toughness of mind : fascism and national socialism; the post-1945 world order; the collapse of communism, and problems of post- communism; new issues and conflicts of capitalist modernity at the end of the 20th century.
The Formations and Constructions of Europe	HIST 503	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A double exploration of Europe's both "real" and "ideal" emergence. An introductory section to be devoted to (a) the physical shaping of a continent, (b) its stages of human settlement, from prehistoric times through the Germanic and Slavic migrations down to modern and recent patterns of movement, (c) the basic language groups created on this basis, and (d) Europe's religions in flux across space and time. Through these and related dimensions, simultaneously, the three main thresholds of "European history" as such : the Dark Ages, the birth of Early Modernity, and the Age of Revolution. The parallel development of the notion of Europe in political and social thought, together with its various theoretical ramifications or extensions (such as "the West", "the historical nations", "bourgeois civil society", "civilisation" or "capitalism"), juxtaposed to its non-European others or counterparts, in the course of the creation of a Eurocentric symbolic geography by the 19th and 20th century social sciences. Selective studies of specific aspects of European history (such as cities, wars, or revolutions), as well as of how all this has impacted on modern European politics and culture.
The Twentieth Century Through Art and Literature	HIST 506	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course seeks not to familiarize students with a basic factography of the 20th century, but to guide them into explorations of the infinite variety of its human conditions -- perceived through great art, literature and films pertaining to its great tragedies, bunched for example around the horror of trench warfare; the promise and failure of revolutions; Fascism, Nazism and Stalinism; totalitarianisms and their camp systems; occupations and resistance movements; atrocities and genocides; life in the shadow of nuclear weapons; readings and meanings of the collapse of Communism; the rise, degeneration and fall of the Third World.
Trends, Debates, Historians I	HIST 511	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The Historiography sequence of HIST 511-512 is required of all PhD students in History, and while it may also be taken by MA students, in all cases it should be taken after HIST 501-502 or some other, comparable survey of world or at least European history. This is necessary because ''Trends, Debates, Historians'' adopts an approach to the study of Historiography that is historical in more than one sense. It proposes to study methodology not in the abstract but in the concrete, as embodied in the output of a number of great historians living and working in the 20th century; naturally it strives to relate each such historian to his/her context and preferred paradigm; but it also situates each such contribution within the framework of the period problematic and literature to which it pertains. This means that works studied are taken up in the chronological order of their subject matter, i.e. of the historical period to which they refer (rather than by reference to their authors in chronological sequence). Furthermore, as a side objective of the course is to study problems of overall organization and sustained consistency in writing synthetic books (as opposed to research articles), in both semesters the emphasis is on reading complete books by leading- edge historians. Thus after opening with a few introductory texts of a general nature plus an initial set of readings on historians' own views of their profession, HIST 511 quickly moves into sampling works by historians of Antiquity, followed by close readings of some leading Medievalists. These and others are also scrutinized for the methodological insights they might shed into Ottoman historical studies. Controversies among Turkish as well as European scholars on the nature of serfdom, feudalism, or the feudal mode of production, as well as the more recent ''feudal revolution'' debate, are treated through special files interpolated where necessary. Throughout, two basic questions are repeatedly posed : From Herodotos and Thucydides, through the 19th century, down to the present, what has changed and what has not changed in the practice of historians ?
Trends, Debates, Historians II	HIST 512	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The second semester of the required HIST 511-512 sequence in Historiography pursues the same "complete readings" approach into major works concentrating on first the Early Modern and then the Modern era. Once more, historians are studied individually, and trends or schools are for the most part introduced through the historians that embody their distinctive approaches. Authors dealt with over the second semester may be as diverse as Febvre, Braudel, Le Roy Ladurie, Christopher Hill, Keith Thomas, E. P. Thompson, Charles Tilly, Simon Schama and Carlo Ginzburg, as well as Hobsbawm, Blackbourn, Landes, Eugen Weber, Peter Gay or François Furet. Crucial debates, for example on "the transition from feudalism to capitalism" and its Brenner follow-up, or on "the military revolution and the genesis of the modern state", are introduced as separate files or appendices. The last quarter of the course is devoted to a closing survey of the current proliferation of outlooks and approaches, including discussions of microhistory, cultural history, history of mentalities, the return of the narrative, the return of the state, as well as modernist vs post-modernist positions on the question of "historical truth", "myth-making", or the relationship between literature and history.
Readings in Historical Thought	HIST 513	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	More concentrated, in-depth readings in periods or fields that are not comprehensively covered in HIST 511-512, such as (a) the ancient (Greek and Roman) historians; (b) Medieval European and Ottoman chroniclers and historians; (c) Renaissance and Enlightenment historians; (d) the 18th-19th century development from antiquarianism through linguistics into history proper; (e) the systematization of the new "scientific history" early in the 19th century; and (f) a more detailed examination of the development of history throughout the rest of the 19th century. Recommended particularly for History students intending to concentrate on Historiography, as well as for Social Sciences students interested in the history of political ideas or intellectual history.
Readings in the Philosophy of History	HIST 514	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	An initial examination of the separations between History, Philosophy, and the Philosophy of History that occurred in the 19th century, followed by more concentrated, in-depth readings in the major philosophers and philosophies of history, including Vico, Herder, Hegel, Marx, with particular attention to the subsequent proliferations and derivatives of Marxist history. Also covers late 20th century developments and controversies, including Fukuyama, Huntington or the Paul Kennedy type of future-oriented macro-history as well as further attention to modernist vs post-modernist epistemologies. Recommended particularly for History students intending to concentrate on Historiography, as well as for Social Sciences students interested in the history of political ideas or intellectual history.
Episodes in the History of Science I	HIST 515	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course will begin with a quick survey of history of science from Antiquity to the present. It will then concentrate on the main aim, which is to try to have a better understanding of the emergence of the new science in central and western Europe following the Renaissance era. What are the cultural and social factors which helped this breakthrough, how did the results affect people's lifestyles and political views, and why did it take so many centuries for the scientific method to penetrate the Ottoman realm? These and other subjects will be discussed in a collective manner, many items will be assigned to students for deeper study, and new findings will bring important contributions to our understanding.
Historical Marxism II : Communism and Post-Communism	HIST 516	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Coming out of the Bolshevik Revolutionin Russia, and then expanding to both Eastern Europe and China after World War II, Communism came to exert such a pervasive influence on the 20th century that up to the early 1980s, there was no aspect of politics, international relations, social life, art or culture that was not permeated by it. And yet, barely two decades after its fall, the set of theories and practices that was once regarded as " the future of humanity" lies almost forgotten. HIST 516 is an attempt to think back from the early 21st century to the concrete visage and historical legacy of Marxism in power, exploring especially the party that was its chief instrument, the theories through which it eternalized its dictatorship, fostered a permanent culture of "the enemy" and legitimized its purges, as well as the daily structures of living perpetually in an atmosphere of abnormal politics, with a new social contract of basic services but without any fundamental, constitutionally guaranteed rights and political empowerment.
Introduction to Orientalism and Oriental Studies	HIST 517	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The ascendancy and self-globalization of the West went hand in hand with its exploration of “the Rest” not only in geographical, political and military terms but also in the form of opening up a new Oriental Studies world of knowledge. Over centuries, European scholars proceeded to penetrate non-European societies and cultures from languages, literature and belief systems to history proper. They produced a wealth of publications, including major dictionaries, encyclopedias, translations, anthologies and commentaries, that are to this day the indispensable reference materials and tools of trade of all scholars of the Middle East, of Islam, or of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time they constructed a vision, a gaze, an ideology of Eurocentrism and Orientalism. The object of this course is to introduce historians in the making to both aspects in their interconnected development, and especially to familiarize them with an immensely rich background of learning that will stay with them through their entire careers.
Political and Social Thought in France in the 19th and 20th centuries	HIST 519	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The aim of this course is to introduce students to the political and social movements originating in France in the 19th and 20th centuries about which they should become knowledgeable in order to understand why Turkish modernization, whether in the 19th or the 20th century, has been primarily affected by currents of thought originating in France.
Rites of Power	HIST 521	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will examine the relations between a ruler and his/her subjects as expressions of what we broadly term "culture". Through ceremonies, rituals and festivities, a leitmotif of political power relations is investigated. Moving from the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Era to Modern Times, discussion focuses on (1) courtly ceremonies such as coronations, royal marriages and births, each accompanied by stately banquets; (2) the pageantry of politics and the politics of pageantry in the making of the architecture of cities such as London, Paris, Venice, Prague or Moscow; (3) the rites of rulership and personality cults in the Hannoverian monarchy, the French revolution, British India from the time of the Great Mutiny onward, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union; and lastly (4) civic spectacles and popular culture. In each section a special effort will be made to bring in comparative examples from the realm of Ottoman studies.
Women in Pre-Modern Societies	HIST 522	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey	HIST 524	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is a graduate-level survey course on various aspects of the history of women in Ottoman and Republican Turkish society. It aims to provide an introduction to the following historical "moments" and issues : the status of women according to Islamic law; women in rural society; provincial urban society and women; women of the royal household and court from the 14th to the 18th centuries; women in 19th century Ottoman modernization and related gender issues; the beginnings of active state involvement in maternity and abortion; the development of female education; the emergence of women into public life; marriage, family life, and divorce during the Ottoman reform period; New Ottoman and Young Turk views on the emancipation of women; male and female sexuality in Ottoman Turkish literature; stages in the development, subsumption, and revitalization of women's and feminist movements; gender issues in the Republican era.
Law, State and Property in the 19th Century	HIST 525	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course studies the transformation in the understandings of state power, of property and of law, and the historical background to these changes that can be traced back to the formation of centralized monarchies and the commercial expansion of the 16th century. While this early history formed the background of the histories of modernity, the rupture in terms of the ways individual societies were governed, economic activity was organised, and property rights or resource allocation was affected, actually took place only in the 18th and the 19th centuries. These forms have subsequently been associated with the process of modernity, and were universalized given thecontext of competition, imperial penetration, and international economic expansion. The course will focus on the debates of 18th and 19th century political economists and political theorists including the Physiocrats, Montesqieu, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Jeremy Bentham and Alexis de Tocquevılle. It will then address the historical context these conceptualizations grew out of and responded to.
Globalization and Law	HIST 526	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
History of Citizenship in Europe	HIST 527	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Citizenship is a powerful technology of inclusion and exclusion and of identity-building in modernity. History is one important perspective from which to understandind its functioning. The purpose of this course is to provide resources for a critical analysis of the philosophical, institutional and sociological foundations of citizenship and its changes over time, from their intellectual reformulation in the Italian Early Renaissance onwards. Another aim of the course is to provide a perspective on European history through the subject matter of citizenship building. Choosing citizenship as a vantage point challenges conventional interpretations, particularly of social movements from liberalism to the rise and transformation of the welfare state. The course combines readings from relevant figures of the so-called Republican tradition, as well as analyses of processes of citizen incorporation and definition of rights in different European countries from the 19th century to the present.
Early Islamic History: A Survey	HIST 531	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course covers the period from the emergence of Islam to the end of Abbasid rule in Baghdad, and focuses on the central lands of Islam. After a chronological review of the political processes of expansion, state-formation, and decentralization, various aspects of social and intellectual life are examined. Topics to be covered include : the question of unity and diversity in Islamic history; the development of the religious sciences, law, political thought and philosophy; social hierarchies in theory and practice; and economic life and thought. For the possibility of being taken as an undergraduate course, subject to adjusted work requirements, see HIST 331.
Islamic History: the Middle Period (c.945 - 1500)	HIST 532	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A continuing survey of Islamic history from around the middle of the 10th century, comprising: the deepening crisis of the Abbasid caliphate; mass conversions to Islam among non-Arab peoples (including the Karakhanids as well as the Volga Bulgars); the triumph of the Seljukid war-leadership over the Ghaznavids, and from 980 the overrunning of East Iran, then Mesopotamia, and eventually Asia Minor by this new Turkish warrior nobility. A first external shock in the form of the Crusades. With the breakup of the Greater Seljukids, the emergence of a series of independent Seljukid successor sultanates in Anatolia, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Kirman and Iran; the triple division of the caliphate itself (between the Abbasids in Baghdad, the Fatimids in Egypt, and the Umayyads in Spain). A second external shock of the Mongol conquest. Finally, the rise of the Mamluks in Egypt, the Ottomans in northwest Anatolia and Rumelia, and the Safavids in Iranian space.
Economic History	HIST 533	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	History of economic change and institutions from the Medieval Era onwards: key transformations that led to the industrial revolution; the impact of these transformations on economic, social and political life and global hierarchies.
Russian History I : Tsarist Russia (from the 17th Century to 1917)	HIST 534	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is a survey course on the general history of Russia from its early beginnings with the Muscovite state until World War I. It will begin with a general discussion on the geographical characteristics of Russia and the cultural peculiarities of the Russian population. Here the emphasis will be on the Eurasian dimension or character of the Russian lands. Strictly historical lectures will begin with Muscovy over 1450-1598, and will continue into the ''Time of Troubles,'' leading to the rise of the Romanov dynasty.The next issue will be the modernizing efforts of Peter the Great, and the political and social effects of these Petrine reforms (1682-1740). In the course of reviewing the policies of ''enlightened reform'' pursued by Catherine the Great (1762-1796), Russian expansionism against Poland and the Ottoman empire, as well as popular reactions such as the Pugachev Rebellion (1773-1775) will also be taken into account. Over the period between 1801-1855, the Napoleonic wars (1805-1815) and their impact, autocratic conservatism, and the Crimean War (1853-1856) will be highlighted. For the second half of the 19th century, attention fill focus on the emancipation of the serfs (1860), other administrative reforms and economic development accompanying expansion in Central Asia and Far East, and the emergence of a revolutionary opposition. The turbulent period of 1890-1914 will be discussed in terms of rapid industrialization, general poverty and popular unrest, defeat in the Russo-Japanese war and the subsequent 1905 revolution. The last weeks of the course will be devoted to World War I and the coming of the 1917 February and October revolutions.
The Gunpowder Empires of the Islamic World, ca. 1450-1800	HIST 535	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course focuses on the so-called gunpowder empires of the Islamic world of the early modern era, i.e. the Ottoman Empire, Mughal India and Safavid Iran. As part of a universal trend, it was this age when much of the current territorial, confessional, political, social and cultural boundaries dividing the Islamic world were set up. The course consists of three units. After an introduction, first it focuses on the political history of these polities, compares them with each other from various aspects, including religion, administration, the military, economy, trade, the role of and attitude to minorities, as well as various facets of culture. Lastly it revisits these issues by way of a critique of decline narratives related to the Islamic World. It discusses Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal history not only as comparative but also as connected phenomena.
History of Central and Inner Asia	HIST 536	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course surveys the history of Central and Inner Asia (the territory of the former Soviet Central Asian republics, Kirgizstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as Mongolia and Northwest China) from the beginnings to the present, also including in the discussion the East European steppe region when appropriate. While it looks at at this vast geographical space as part of various imperial configurations (the Hun, Türk, Kazar, Mongol, Timurid, and Russian Empires, as well as the Muslim Caliphate and the Soviet Union), it discusses local historical processes and dynamics, addressing the question of in what sense the region can be considered a separate historical-geographical entity.
The Economic History of the Middle East Since World War II	HIST 538	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A critical overview of the processes of economic growth and transformation in the Middle East from World War II to the present. Countries to be studied include Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, the Arab states of the Arabian Peninsula, Iran and Turkey.
Christians In The Ottoman Empire	HIST 539	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course offers to examine the history and condition of Christians -- a majority of whom were the Greek Orthodox people (Rum) -- in Anatolia and the Balkans under the Ottoman Empire. From some basic concepts of non-Muslim historiography (such as zımmi or millet), the course will move to the various ways in which historians have interpreted the Christian presence under Ottoman rule. Byzantium as a state was very closely associated with Orthodox Christianity and the Greek language. What did its demise mean for Orthodox Christians and their institutions ? How did Ottoman social, economic and administrative structures absorb and influence Christians; in turn, how did they participate in producing and re-producing the imperial framework ? Special attention will be paid to : communal life and institutions, the place of Christians in Ottoman administration and imperial networks, the Phanariots, the rise of the Greek bourgeoisie, the emergence of the Greek nation-state, Greek education, and the contribution of Christians to Ottoman urban space and architecture.
The Enlightenment World	HIST 541	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is an upper-level seminar course dealing with the intellectual history of the 18th century, covering aspects of the Enlightenment, as well as its wider reception, in France, Germany, Italy, and the British Isles. It examines the development of ideas on philosophy, religion, ethics, law, the economy, politics, and society, which had an impact on the historical arena at this time. It is intended to enable students to acquire a sound knowledge of the key figures of the European Enlightenment movement; to develop an overall grasp of the contribution of the European Enlightenment to the fields of literature, science, philosophy, and political and ethical theory; and to acquire an up-to-date understanding of modern critical historiography on the Enlightenment.
History of Political Ideas in the Balkans in the Modern Era (19th and 20th Centuries)	HIST 547	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Capable of being taken both as a companion to HIST 549 and also on its own, HIST 547 represents a departure in some measure from that of a classical ''history of ideas'' course. It is concentrated less on the study of political ideas as theoretical/intellectual constructions per se, than on their contextualization, therefore on the explanation of their specific local articulations and varying social weight. This shift in focus follows from two general contextual premises : (a) The disproportionate significance of the political in the changing Balkan societies in the modern era; and (b) the ideological systems within and by way of which local national elites have pursued their developmental policies. Hence a primary concern will be not to gauge how faithfully a certain ''Balkan'' political development has corresponded to its ''European'' prototype, but rather to see what functions and hopes were pinned on it; how efficient it was in terms of imposing (new) norms of political action and of social and economic relations; and finally, what the sources of intra-Balkan diversity have been in all these regards. All major politico-ideological (self-) definitions of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as their mutual relations/influences, will be considered. The implicit objective will be to shed light on the historically crystallized semantics of the modern political vocabulary in the Balkans -- of terms like ''tradition'', ''modernity'', ''freedom'', ''the people'', ''democracy'', ''nation'', ''parliamentarianism'', and ''political participation''. Requirements : short presentations and papers, plus one or two written exams. For the possibility of being taken not as a taught course but as a seminar, subject to the approval of the instructor and the fulfillment of the research paper requirements for a seminar in History, see under HIST 647.
Sources and Methods for 19th and 20th Century Balkan History	HIST 549	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is one of a series of term-courses reviewing sources relevant for the study of Balkan and Ottoman/Turkish history in different periods, as well as methods that have been developed and employed by historians on the basis of different types of sources. Specifically for Southeast Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, HIST 549 addresses the major issue of politics and underdevelopment, i.e. the nature, operation and functions (particularly those related to social and economic transformations) of the political sphere in "late-developing" societies. It aims to demonstrate the correlations between the processes of modernization, state-building, and nation- building in the Balkans through integrating (instead of contraposing) social and economic with political history. Balkan modernization will be posited within a broader European context and comparison, thus challenging two widely shared and interlocking concepts/frameworks of interpretation for the Balkans : (a) the East/West dichotomy in patterns of social and political development, and (b) the negative perspective on the operation of Balkan politics in general and on Balkan nationalism in particular. The course is structured around four major fields of historical research and interpretation: (1) Economic and social transformations of Balkan societies in the modern period; (2) the social backgrounds, legitimization, and developmental projects of the Balkan political elites; (3) long-term effects of parliamentary institutions in the late-industrializing Balkan societies; and (4) state- building and nation-building experiences in the Balkans as compared to those in other, contemporary European peripheries as well as Western Europe. The unity of these study fields is to be sought in the framework of the historically evolved relationships between social structures, elites, and (modes of) modernization. Chronologically, the course will be divided into two parts : the formative phase of the Balkan national states before World War I; and the inter-war period.
History of Ottoman Institutions	HIST 550	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Close studies of Ottoman social and political institutions (including, for example, the dynasty and modes of succession, the palace and court society, religion and related ideological structures, law and the judiciary, land tenure and revenue-collection/sharing arrangements, pious foundations, the royal guards army and other components of the military establishment) through archival documents and narrative sources.
Aspects of Ottoman Rule in the Bulgarian Lands in the Pre-Tanzimat Period	HIST 553	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Focuses on selected issues and specific features of Ottoman rule in the Bulgarian lands, and therefore requires some previous, preliminary knowledge of Ottoman history and documentation. The main themes addressed will include : early Ottoman administration (from the 15th to the early 16th centuries); the Ottoman judicial system and the functioning of the kadı court; agrarian relations : timars, vakıfs, çiftliks; monuments of Ottoman culture; towns and urban society; Osman Pazvandoğlu of Vidin against the backdrop of Kırcalı/dağlı unrest; the National Awakenings of the Balkan peoples; the international situation at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. At the same time, the core of the course will revolve around the official status and the real situation of various ethno-religious groups (such as the Orthodox Christians and the Jews) : their institutions; their attitudes vis-à-vis the Ottoman authorities; questions of Islamisation, and of neo-martyrs; church building and restoration; other and related problems. Assessment will be based on participation throughout the course, including short presentations, as well as a final paper based on either the relevant secondary literature, or an appropriate amount of work on the primary sources over and above the secondary literature, in which case it may count as a research seminar (also see HIST 653).
Frontier Societies and the Early Ottoman Community	HIST 555	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The principal aim of the course is to study the emergence of the Ottoman polity and society in the context of frontiers as a universal phenomenon. After examining the frontier as an historical concept, the course considers specific frontier situations of particular relevance to Turkish and Islamic history, such as Inner Asia and China, Eurasia and Byzantium, Iran and Turan, the Arab lands and Byzantium, Andalusia and Christian Spain. The specific context of West Anatolia and the Balkans in the 14th century is then studied in terms of topics inherent in the study of frontiers, such as trade and warfare across the frontier, relations between central political authority and frontier lords, and cross-frontier political accomodation.
The Ottoman Empire and the Balkans	HIST 556	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A general introduction on: the early Ottoman emirate; methods of conquest and patterns of expansion in the Balkans rival claims to war-leadership; competition, cooperation, absorption; the rewriting of history by subsequent Ottoman chroniclers. To be followed by increasing concentration on : political, social, cultural interactions; decapitations and amalgamations in town and country; the emergence and growth of the "Ottoman system" as a series of successive incorporations of the pre-Ottoman or non-Ottoman social formations and systems of land tenure; giving and receiving; what is "Ottoman", what is "Balkan"; problems of talking about : the Ottoman empire in Balkan space, the Balkans under Ottoman rule, the Balkan lands in Ottoman times.
Sources and Methods for Ottoman History, 1450-1600	HIST 561	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is one of a series of term-courses reviewing sources relevant for the study of Ottoman and Turkish history in different periods, as well as methods that have been developed and employed by historians on the basis of different types of sources. Specifically for the 15th and 16th centuries, HIST 561 is arranged topically to review the political organization of a dynastic state, the social structures of townsmen, peasants and nomads, as well as the relationships between political authority and various social groups. The wider context of Ottoman lands in Europe and in West Asia is then considered in relation to ideology and political thought. Each topic is studied in terms of how it is being treated in current historical scholarship, emphasizing the interplay between sources and methods appropriate for analytical or narrative history.
Ottoman Reform Movements II: Political and Social (1839-1918)	HIST 562	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Intellectual and social issues prevalent in present- day Turkey have their antecedents in 19th century Ottoman Empire. Ottoman 19th century was a period where old and new, reform and reaction met each other. In fact, this was an era where the empire was shaken by series of wars and crisis of disintegration. Reformist bureaucrats applied policies to forestall this process, while the intelligentsia vehemently opposed authoritarian reforms. Discussions on the future of the empire became most fruitful during the first four years of the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1912) when people enjoyed some degree of liberal freedom. Public discussions came to an abrupt end when the Committee of Union and Progress established military dictatorship (1913-1918). As a whole, this "long nineteenth century" was an era where institutional foundations of Turkish modernization were laid down. This course aims to introduce, discuss, and understand Ottoman reform movements and thoughts of the last hundred year of Ottoman existence, based on the evaluation of reformist statesmen of the Tanzimat-period, oppositional intellectuals of the 1860s and 1870s, conservative attitude of Hamidian absolutism (1878-1908), and Young Turk reformist ideas of the last decades of Ottoman existence (1889-1918)
Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire	HIST 563	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Over the last few decades, methodological insightsof of a comparative and inter-disciplinary nature have triggered major challenges to the textbook notion of a glorious Ottoman ''classical age'' followed by perpetual ''decline'' until the onset of Westernizing reforms in the 19th century. To be counterposed to the static nature of this traditional paradigm is a dynamic, historical treatment of socio-economic transformations and continuities over 1300-1800. Issues to be covered include : land tenure; the organization of urban production, trade, and credit relations; the challenge posed by the rise of the modern world system; family and gender relations; ethnic and religious diversity; intellectual life; popular culture and forms of plebeian protest; the mechanisms of social and political control; and relations between state and society.
Rebellion and Dissent in the Ottoman Empire	HIST 564	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course examines selected episodes of rebellion, social unrest and dissent. Major the oretical debates regarding early modern revolts in Eurasia are introduced and their relevance for the Ottoman Empire are explored. Themes to be covered include dynamics of state-making and socio-economic change, language of dissent, and questions of organization, agenda and agency in rural and urban revolts
Love, Entertainment and Daily Culture in Ottoman Poetry, 1400-1800	HIST 565	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to explore selected topics in Ottoman poetry such as love, daily life and social gatherings, entertainment, imagined feasts. Together with themes characteristic to Divan Poetry such as understanding of love in Islamic societies, lovers and beloveds, sophism and mystical love, sexuality and worldly interactions; daily pleasures including uses of coffee, wine, opium; social functions and technical aspects of Ottoman poetry (aruz, poetic syntax, narrative styles, vocabulary) will be studied. This course introduces a variety of Ottoman poetic genres such as masnavis, ghazals, kasidas, mersiyes. At the end of the semester, students are expected to learn how to read and analyze samples of verses by major Ottoman poets written between 1400-1800.
History of a City I : From Byzantion to Constantinople	HIST 570	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	''A city capable of absorbing everything,'' is how the famous French historian Maurice Aymard described Constantinople / Istanbul in the 1970s. HIST 570 is designed to take students through the first two thousand years of this many-layered history, starting with a modest colony established by the Greek polis of Megara, growing through a crucial choice made by Constantine early in the AD 4th century into ''New Rome'', then rising and ultimately falling, in 1453, with the fortunes of the Byzantine empire. A historical introduction on these and other key phases will be followed by in-depth lectures many of which will be delivered on site in the course of study trips to leading Byzantine locations and monuments. A minimum of two lecture hours per week will be complemented by additional seminar hours focusing on the primary sources available in translation, as well as comprehensive readings in the available secondary literature. For the possibility of taking ''History of a City I'' as an undergraduate course, subject to appropriately adjusted requirements, see HIST 370.
History of a City II : Ottoman Istanbul, 1450-1900	HIST 571	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Beginning with a baseline survey of conditions prevailing shortly before the siege and eventual capture of Constantinople by Mehmed II in 1453, HIST 571, whether taken independently or as a sequel to HIST 570, is designed to take students from Ottoman Istanbul's initial re-building and repopulation, through its 16th century efflorescence as the capital of a new and resurgent empire, as well as through the manifold transformations of the 17th and 18th centuries, into the Tanzimat onset of modernity. Historical backgrounding lectures on these and other key phases or developments will be complemented with other, on site lectures in the course of study trips to leading Ottoman locations and monuments....
Sources and Methods for 17th and 18th century Ottoman History	HIST 572	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is one of a series of term-courses reviewing sources relevant for the study of Ottoman and Turkish history in different periods, as well as methods that have been developed and employed by historians on the basis of different types of sources. Specifically for the 17th and 18th centuries, HIST 572 starts out with a review of the decline paradigm, which among other things portrays the Ottoman Empire as a stagnant, peripheral and passive spectator in Early Modernity, and which has been persuasively challenged since the 1970s. Building upon research based on the central Ottoman archives over the last three decades, and using the state as the key unit of analysis, the first part of this course takes an in-depth look at people and ideas in the Ottoman territories over 1600-1800, via (1) the changing political economy, (2) the transformation of agrarian relations, (3) the problems of provisioning Istanbul, (4) struggles between the reforming and conservative wings of the ruling elite, and (5) the "women's sultanate", so-called, and the changing legitimation patterns of the House of Osman. A second part deals with (6) economic, social and cultural life in the provinces, and (7) the growth of international trading cities such as Thessaloniki, Izmir or Aleppo. In concluding, historiographical attention is devoted to the clichés or tropes of (8) the "Tulip Age", (9) "Oriental despotism", and (10) "incorporation into the world- system".
Postorientalism and Postcolonialism	HIST 575	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The term “Postcolonialism” characterizes a loosely defined field of interdisciplinary perspectives, theories and methods that deal with dimensions of colonial rule in the past and its effects into the immediate present. Venturing to deconstruct colonial discourses and representations, Postcolonial Studies has had a deep imprint on humanities and social sciences in the last decades, and familiarity with it has become crucial to handling research literature on the Middle East. Given academic developments over the last forty years, of equal importance to scholars in this field is a viable Postorientalist approach. Along with Edward Said’s path-breaking work, students will also gain insight into other dimensions of postcolonial literature, such as Subaltern Studies originating in the attempt of South Asian scholars to come to terms with the legacy of British rule. The last third of the term will focus on applying all such theoretical insights to Middle Eastern, Ottoman and Turkey studies.
Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Politics and Literature	HIST 576	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course concentrates on the interaction between late Ottoman and Republican Turkish politics and literature. By analyzing literary texts that suggest particular political positions, it discusses the influence of political movements on literature and how in turn literature contributes to these movements. The course equips students with a holistic approach towards literature, politics and history as well as with a conception of the ideal political and social orders that are suggested in these works.
Sources and Methods for 19th Century Ottoman History	HIST 581	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is one of a series of term-courses reviewing sources relevant for the study of Ottoman and Turkish history in different periods, as well as methods that have been developed and employed by historians on the basis of different types of sources. Specifically for the ''long'' 19th century, HIST 581 is designed to familiarize the student with the basic chronology, themes, problematics and source materials of Late Ottoman history; namely the period starting from the reforms of Selim III and the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt to the beginning of the Second Constitutional Period and the establishment of the Young Turk regime. The course aims to situate the myriad transformations in Late Ottoman social, political and cultural life not only within their European and Balkan context, but also in relation to the modernizing agendas of the non-western/colonial world. Thus, the Ottoman efforts to salvage the state and to redefine an exclusive imperial identity will be discussed through comparative perspectives and methodological insights provided by current studies on 19th century Austria-Hungary, Russia and Iran, as well as colonial North Africa and India.
Ethnicity and Nationalism	HIST 583	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to explore relations (or the absence of relations) between nationalism and ethnicity in different contexts such as the Ottoman empire, Germany and the Russian empire. The course is designed not only for developing a comparative and context-sensitive approach to nationalism and ethnicity, but also for attempting a collective enquiry into the emergence and transformation of the concepts of "nation", "nationalism", "patriotism" and "ethnicity" through time. While surveying the classical and current theories of nationalism and ethnicity, the course also aims to address the concept of social organization, the symbolic universe and collective memory as relevant concepts of the social sciences.
Minority Questions in Contemporary Turkey	HIST 585	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	First decolonization and then the end of the Cold War have led to new waves of transnational movement. Mass immigration and floods of refugees have given rise to economic, social and cultural clashes, feeding into fresh problems of ethno-religious otherization that have come to haunt even the normally most stable and tolerant democracies of Europe. Simultaneously, Turkey's EU process is bringing into question a number of minority issues that are the legacy of the transition from the multi-ethnic Ottoman empire into Balkan, Caucasian and Middle Eastern nation-states. What are these questions ? Which groups are involved ? How can cultural, linguistic and religious rights be applied to the relationship between majority and minority groups at the national and international levels ? How can consciousness of ethnic, religious or cultural diversity be fostered and promoted as a common value ? It is to such historical and contemporary problems that HIST 585 is addressed. For the possibility of taking this course at an undergraduate level, subject to appropriate adjustments, see SPS 485.
Topics in Armenian History and Literature	HIST 586	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course offers an opportunity for an initial encounter with Armenian history, culture and literature. Its specific focus may change from one term to the next, depending on the visiting instructor as well as on student interest. Thus it may entail an overall survey as well as much more in-depth penetration of special issues or problems. Both the themes and approaches involved may be interdisciplinary in nature, drawing upon anthropology, sociology or visual studies, too, along with history and literature.
Proto-Fascism in Europe and the Ottoman Empire	HIST 587	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Situated at the junction of nationalism studies with the history of Fascism and Nazism, this course proposes to explore the formation of proto-fascism (including its various dimensions of racism, anti-semitism, Social Darwinism, radical modernism, authoritarian state-fetishism, nihilism, mysticism, the death urge and the Führer principle) in the late 19th and early 20th century -- first in its original European and then its Late Ottoman context, where it acquired its Turkist and Unionist extensions. Course materials will comprise not only the usual secondary literature but also a number of primary sources (such as the key periodicals of the Second Constitutional period).
Nationalist Projects in Southeast European History	HIST 588	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The protracted decline and breakup of the Ottoman empire went hand in hand with the rise of a number of mutually antagonistic nationalisms which kept competing not only against the Porte but also against one another for political, ideological, and economic space. After initial, embryonic nation-statehood, such competition acquired irredentistic extensions. HIST 588 proposes to look at various such projects that culminated in great human tragedies in the early 20th century, the legacy of which endures to this day. Thus a brief introduction on theories of nation and nationalism will be followed by close examinations of : (1) the idea of a ''Greater Serbia''; (2) the ''Illyrianism'' (or Illyrismus) concept and the related notion of ''Yugoslavia'' in Croatia; (3) the role of state policy in the Greek megali idea; (4) Ottomanism (Osmanlılık) : an initial reaction against other nationalist movements; (5) religion, ethnos, and nation in Bulgaria; (6) how ''constructed'' was the Macedonian nation; (7) the development of Albanian ''nationhood'' and the idea of a ''greater Albania''; (8) the rise and outlines of Turkish nationalism. The course will conclude with a review of nationalism and ''minorities'' questions today. For the possibility of taking this course at an undergraduate level, subject to appropriate adjustments, see HIST 488.
From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State	HIST 589	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A dense survey course on the making of Modern Turkey with a special focus on the ideological dimension of nation-building. Moves from multiple backgrounds (in : the broad outlines of Ottoman history; the ?long? 19th century; the New Imperialism; Eurocentrism and Orientalism; racism and Social Darwinism), through Ottoman-Turkish elites? evolving love-and-hate relationship with the West, to the fashioning and grounding of a specifically Turkish (as against an Ottoman or a Muslim) identity in the throes of the protracted crisis of 1908-22. Makes considerable use of literature, too, to explore the myths of originism and authocthonism, as well as the ''golden age'' narratives, connected with both early and Kemalist varieties of Turkish nationalism. Also see HIST 489 for the possibility of being taken at the undergraduate level.
Sources and Methods for Early Republican History, 1920-1938	HIST 591	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is one of a series of term-courses reviewing sources relevant for the study of Ottoman and Turkish history in different periods, as well as methods that have been developed and employed by historians on the basis of different types of sources. Specifically for the first two or three decades of the Turkish Republic, HIST 591 comprises a comparative study of the ''one party'' period and political system using primary sources and relating them to their specific historical and political contexts. Starting with the political situation emerging out of World War I, as well as the various alignments and polarizations evolving during the years of the War of Independence, the impact of this crucial, traumatic, formative ''moment'' will be pursued from the founding of the Republic to the end of the early Republican era. Included will be a comprehensive review of all political, cultural, economic and foreign policy developments and orientations, with specific focus on the political organizations of the period.
Sources and Methods for Late Republican History, 1938-1950	HIST 592	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is one of a series of term-courses reviewing sources relevant for the study of Ottoman and Turkish history in different periods, as well as methods that have been developed and employed by historians on the basis of different types of sources. Specifically for the mid-20th century, HIST 592 offers a close scrutiny of the İnönü years -- comprising the tail end of the one-party period, and opening up to the transformation of the political régime in the post-war era -- that simultaneously introduces the student to the ample primary sources of this crucial but often neglected era. Themes to be covered include : special focus on the Republican People's Party as a political organisation, and on the changing features of the one-party system, together with explorations of political, economic and cultural life. Aspects of Turkish foreign policy under İnönü. Frameworks of synchronic comparison with other one-party régimes, as well as of diachronic comparisons between the early and late phases of one-party rule in Turkey.
Caucasus and its Hinterland: Clans, Ethnicities and Nations in Imperial Borderlands	HIST 593	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The Caucasus and its hinterland, which separate as well as connect the Pontic, the Caspian, and the Persian Gulf basins, have been a strategically important and therefore contested space since antiquity. In modern times, the region was at first fought over by the rival Muslim empires of the Ottomans and the Safavids. The entry of imperial Russia into the arena in the last decades of the eighteenth century ushered in the era of Christian predominance. The next century saw the penetration of the whole Muslim Middle East by western economic interests, accompanied by new conflicts and alignments both on intraregional and international levels. Whereas the evolution of the so-called Eastern Question that implied the settlement of the Ottoman succession parallel to Russian expansion into Transcaucasia encouraged the Christian populations of the region (the Georgians, the Armenians) to aspire to self-rule and even independence, the Muslims felt humiliated and feared a degradation of their traditional ways of life. Their reaction, beginning with the mountaineers' resistance to Russian colonization of the north Caucasus in the last decades of the eighteenth century and reaching its apex under the leadership of Imam Shamil (1834-1859), exacerbated by forced migrations of the Circassians and other Caucasian groups into Anatolia, entailed in the long run ethnic and religious violence in various forms, directed against both the neighbouring groups and the imperial centres. This development culminated in mass deportations and genocidal events during the two world wars of the twentieth century, ethnic conflict, nationalist secessionism and imperialist rivalries breaking out with new vigour in the post-Soviet era. The course will approach this complex history from the vantage point of the concept of "zones of violence", studying and discussing thereby the catastrophic experiences of the period within a multicausal framework
Turkish Social and Political Thought, 1839-1914	HIST 594	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A study of the foundations of political thought in the Ottoman empire and modern Turkey. The first part of the course focuses both on continuities with the earlier "Islamicate" discourse, and on the crucial break with tradition initiated during the Tanzimat. Over the second part of the course, some key representatives of post- 1908 currents of thought such as liberalism, nationalism or feminism will also be investigated.
MA Term Project	HIST 595	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	For students in the "MA by Examination" program, the institutional framework for guided research under the supervision of a Faculty member towards the completion of their required research project, on a topic to be submitted to and approved by the History Program Committee.
The Tanzimat Process as a Transfer of Knowledge	HIST 596	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A survey of reform movements in the Ottoman Empire especially through the prism of their contacts with West European scientific speculations in the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as through their sequel in the form of Tanzimat reforms up to 1850. An attempt will be made to cover the history of institutional developments parallel to the history of ideas. May be taken both as a taught course and as a seminar, subject to the approval of the instructor and the fulfillment of the research paper requirements for a seminar in History. See HIST 696.
Nations and Boundaries in the Middle East, the Balkans and the Caucasus	HIST 597	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	For advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students, a case-study based survey of the tortuous emergence of modern nations and nation-states, as well as of more "delayed" and "unfulfilled", therefore frustrated nationalisms, out of a matrix of ethno-confessional diversity, in the context of a decaying and disintegrating empire. The Great Powers, the new nationalisms, and the Porte. Modernization and nation-building. Converting millets into nations. Ambitions and their limits. Rival irredentisms Claims of language, of history, of symbolic geography. Predictable tragedies : war and revolution; atrocities; forced migrations. The state experience and the human experience. The struggle for sanity and stability in contested space. Constructions of national memory and of forgetfulness. For the possibility of being taken as an undergraduate course, subject to adjusted work requirements, see HIST 497.
A History of the Cyprus Conflict	HIST 598	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course aims to provide students with a historical overview of the Cyprus question (which entered the UN's agenda as a main issue for the first time in 1954) and various twists and turns it took since the beginning of the ethnic conflict in the island through the prolonged diplomatic processes it entailed till today.
Master's Thesis	HIST 599	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty member from the relevant field over the second year of their course-work.
PhD Pro-Seminar	HIST 600	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A multi-purpose course that can be used flexibly for a better preparation in research methods and analysis including deepening mastery of the relevant research languages through special readings, whenever necessary. The course also aims to expose students to ethical standards and rules in research and publishing.
Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts	HIST 601	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Readings in various types and styles of Ottoman handwritten sources from different periods. The purpose is to study a wide range of bureaucratic and intellectual texts, noting their historical contexts as well as stylistic and linguistic features. Provides extra training in intermediate-to-advanced Ottoman paleography, as well as enhanced source knowledge. Does not count as a 600-coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular Sabancı University degree programs. Prerequisite : TLL 501-502 or the equivalent.
Advanced Readings in Research Languages	HIST 602	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Readings in various types and styles of historical sources in languages of the Ottoman lands other than Ottoman Turkish (such as Arabic and Persian, as well as Greek, Bulgarian or Serbo-Croatian). Provides extra language training as well as enhanced source knowledge. Does not count as a 600-coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular Sabancı University degree programs.
Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers	HIST 609	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Review of the development of history writing in Ottoman society; the scope, meaning and uses of history; official and non-official şehnames, chronicles, histories. Uses of Ottoman historical writing for modern scholarship. Readings in major historians of the 16th and 17th centuries (Kemal Paşazade, Celalzade, Mustafa Ali, Naima) in printed and manuscript texts. Requirements : a major research paper of around 30 pages. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History while also serving as a course in advanced paleography. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.
Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers, 17th-18th Centuri	HIST 610	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Review of the development of history writing in Ottoman society; the scope, meaning and uses of history; official and non-official histories and chronicles. Readings in major historians of the 17th and 18th centuries (Evliya Çelebi, Silahdar, Naima, Raşid, İzzi, Şemdanizade and likes) in printed and manuscript texts.
Readings in Ottoman Material Culture	HIST 611	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The aim of this course is twofold. The first is to study the history of material culture in the Ottoman realm as a kind of alternative perspective in social history. To some extent, such perspectives are linked to the ongoing anthropologization of history. Second, since individuals (men and women, young and old, rich and poor) as well as the material world that surrounded them, have been largely neglected in Ottoman historical studies and this seems to be related to the fact that the primary sources that researchers have most readily made use of have been mainly official papers of the state, HIST 611 will deliberately be exploring and studying other types of documents and evidence that may shed light on this neglected domain. The idea here is to develop a more qualitative understanding of elite or ordinary life, both by investigating the material circumstances of daily existence, and by entering the inner world of the family and household, the work-place, the neighbourhood -- contexts normally assigned to the domain of culture. Also included, ideally, will be housing and homelessness, clothing and nakedness, eating and hunger. A special effort will be made to establish links with equally recent developments in (1) the history of everyday life; (2) family history and the history of kinship; (3) gender history; (4) standards of living; and (5) consumption studies. Requirements : a major research paper of around 30 pages based on primary source materials. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History while also serving as a course in advanced paleography. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.
Readings in Ottoman Legal Culture	HIST 613	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Combines introductory instruction in Ottoman law and legal practice with advanced paleographical training. Different aspects of law, such as court practice, legal interpretation, and royal legislation, are examined, and the relevant primary sources introduced, in alternating years. (Thus if the theme for a particular semester has been the practice of ifta, after an introduction to relevant debates in the field of Islamic and Ottoman law, the class embarks on a collective historical survey of selected themes as they appear in fetva collections of the 16th to the 18th centuries. A comparable approach will be adopted for other themes to be offered in rotation over the years.) Requirements : a major research paper of around 30 pages based on primary source materials. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.
Royal Courts and Households	HIST 621	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A comparative approach to the place of royal households in various polities, especially in relation to the development of other political institutions and to international relations. With contributions from international experts, the Ottoman royal household will be studied in the context of its predecessors and neighbours, such as the Carolingian empire, Byzantium, Seljukid sultans, the Inner Asian royal organization, and Romanov Russia. Requirements : short papers for every comparative, non-Ottoman module, plus a major research paper of around 20-30 pages based on Ottoman materials. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History while also serving as a course in advanced paleography. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.
Ceremonies in Courts and Capital Cities	HIST 622	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A survey of the cultural politics and political culture of a number of great courts selected from different periods and geographies, ranging from Renaissance Italy through France under absolutism to Mughal India. Questions to be addressed by a distinguished group of international scholars will include : the role of pomp and circumstance in building authority and legitimacy; the composite nature of early modern polities; the role played by courts in shaping rulers' relations with the wider community of the realm; the imprint of ceremonies and ceremonial organization on urban space - framing a closer look at the impact of the Ottoman court on the texture and topography of Istanbul. Requirements : short papers for every comparative, non-Ottoman module, plus a major research paper of around 20-30 pages based on Ottoman materials. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History while also serving as a course in advanced paleography. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.
Revolutions in History	HIST 623	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	What is a revolution ? Are revolutions necessary and inevitable, hence universal ? Is their balance sheet all positive or negative ? Why, after an enduring revolutionist legacy, are revolutions being so strictly questioned today ? Does "the end of history" mean "the end of revolutions" ? HIST 623 proposes to tackle these and other questions from a standpoint situated outside both the revolutionary and the anti-revolutionary discourses that have long dominated the intellectual scene. Attempting to construct a new, critical historiography of the subject, it draws on the evidence provided by a number of case studies on the English, the French, the Russian, the Kemalist and the Chinese revolutions, and works its way through a number of thinkers ranging from Burke and Tocqueville through Marx to Brinton, Skocpol, Furet or Hobsbawm, in order to problematize themes like the link between revolutions and modernity, the time-space distribution of revolutions, "normal" and "abnormal" politics, crises of legitimacy, the dialectics of leadership and mass support, stages of revolutionary action, violence and demonstrations of punishment, the radicalization and militarization of revolutions, European and non- European revolutions, and the alignments and legacies of revolutions. May be taken by undergraduates as a taught course (= HIST 323), and simultaneously by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page research paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.
Topics in Ottoman Cultural History	HIST 625	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Topics in Ottoman Cultural History been treated mostly in terms of segmented and isolated fields, giving rise to separate "histories" of architecture, miniature painting, the other decorative arts, music and literature. Furthermore, its relationship with the Imperial court has been narrowly and superficially conceived, so that it has frequently been reduced to a mere "reflection" of the political and military fortunes of the state or the ruling house, and simultaneously divorced from the material and cultural conditions of production, the entire habitus, of a court society. Against this historiographical background, and through an ongoing critique of the prevailing modes of interpretation (including documentary, formalist retrospective-ideological, or connoisseurial approaches, as well as more up-to-date methodologies focusing on reception theory, the social foundations of art, or identity issues within art), HIST 625 will be exploring the possible avenues of "total history" in this regard, seeking to address questions of "Ottomanization", "social, political and cultural fluidity", "legitimate change", "barriers between various classes of official Ottoman society", "erosion of corporate distinction", or "cultural experimentations", and encouraging students to investigate the ways in which configurations of power and legitimation (in all their change and continuity) were both expressed by and constructed through artand culture at various times. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History subject to the completion of a major research paper (of around 30 pages) largely based on primary source materials. For the possibility of being taken as an upper undergraduate lecture course, with adjusted readings and requirements, see HIST 425. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.
Research in Popular and Applied History I :	HIST 631	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research in Popular and Applied History II : Topics in the History of Medieval Europe and Anatolia	HIST 632	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The second of a series of comparative and applied workshops in the analysis of elements of popular historical consciousness, including fiction, popular journal and comic strips as well as history education materials. Focuses not only on Turkey but Southeast Europe as a whole, and creates space for exploring the possibilities of defining and producing alternative educational materials, including textbooks and/or theme kits for teacher and students. More specifically, and as the continuation of HIST 631 over the second semester, HIST 632 is devoted to critical investigations of existing accounts of Medieval Europe and Anatolia in history education, as well as the possibilities of improving on such treatments. Does not count as a 600 -coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular Sabancı University degree programs.
Research in Popular and Applied History III :	HIST 633	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research in Popular and Applied History IV: Topics in Ottoman and Late Ottoman History, 1600-1918	HIST 634	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The fourth of a series of comparative and applied workshops in the analysis of elements of popular historical consciousness, including fiction, popular journals and comic strips as well as history education materials. Focuses not only on Turkey but on Southeast Europe as a whole, and creates space for exploring the possibilities of defining and producing alternative educational materials, including textbooks and/or theme kits for teachers and students. More specifically, HIST 634 is devoted to critical investigations of existing accounts of Ottoman ''decline'', belated modernization and tortuous collapse in history education, as well as the possibilities of improving on such treatments. Does not count as a 600-coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular Sabancı University degree programs.
Research in Popular and Applied History V : Topics in 19th Century World and Ottoman-Turkish History	HIST 635	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The fifth of a series of comparative and applied workshops in the analysis of elements of popular historical consciousness, including fiction, popular journals and comic strips as well as history education materials. Focuses not only on Turkey but on Southeast Europe as a whole, and creates space for exploring the possibilities of defining and producing alternative educational materials, including textbooks and/or theme kits for teachers and students. More specifically, HIST 635 is devoted to critical investigations of existing textbook accounts of the 19th century "reform period" in Late Ottoman history, as well as the possibilities of improving on such treatments. Does not count as a 600 -coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular Sabancı University degree programs.
Research in Popular and Applied History VI : Topics in 20th Century World and Ottoman-Turkish History	HIST 636	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The sixth of a series of comparative and applied workshops in the analysis of elements of popular historical consciousness, including fiction, popular journals and comic strips as well as history education materials. Focuses not only on Turkey but on Southeast Europe as a whole, and creates space for exploring the possibilities of defining and producing alternative educational materials, including textbooks and/or theme kits for teachers and students. More specifically, HIST 636 is devoted to critical investigations of existing textbook accounts of 20th century Late Ottoman and Turkish Republican history, as well as the possibilities of improving on such treatments. Does not count as a 600-coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular Sabancı University degree programs.
Research in Popular and Applied History VII : Topics in Nationalist Conflict and the Breakup of Empire I	HIST 637	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The seventh of a series of comparative and applied workshops in the analysis of elements of popular historical consciousness, including fiction, popular journals and comic strips as well as history education materials. Focuses not only on Turkey but on Southeast Europe as a whole, and creates space for exploring the possibilities of defining and producing alternative educational materials, including textbooks and/or theme kits for teachers and students. More specifically, HIST 637 is devoted to critical investigations of existing as well as earlier textbook accounts of the nationalist conflicts emerging in the context of the protracted death throes of the Ottoman Empire. Unlike the previous courses in this series, HIST 637 (and its HIST 638 sequel) will count as a 600-coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular Sabancı University degree programs.
Research in Popular and Applied History VIII : Topics in Nationalist Conflict and the Breakup of Empire II	HIST 638	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The eighth of a series of comparative and applied workshops in the analysis of elements of popular historical consciousness, including fiction, popular journals and comic strips as well as history education materials. Focuses not only on Turkey but on Southeast Europe as a whole, and creates space for exploring the possibilities of defining and producing alternative educational materials, including textbooks and/or theme kits for teachers and students. More specifically, HIST 638 is devoted to critical investigations of existing as well as earlier textbook accounts of the nationalist conflicts emerging in the context of the protracted death throes of the Ottoman Empire. Unlike the previous courses in this series, HIST 638 (as well as its HIST 637 prerequisite) will count as a 600-coded research seminar for graduate students registered in regular Sabancı University degree programs.
Designing the Nation. Art and Nationalism	HIST 644	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course examines the role of the visual arts and architecture in nationalist ideologies. The first part of the course is an introduction into visual representation, style, iconography, and symbolism. Examples used include a comparative study of public and imperial imagery of ancient Rome, Napoleonic Europe, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The main part of the course focuses on subject matter, idioms and aesthetics systems in official architecture, public monuments and the fine and decorative arts perceived as representative of a nation's origins or cultural affiliation: from revivalist idioms (Gothic to Renaissance and Byzantine to Ottoman) to themes and idioms drawing from history, myth and folklore. The lectures will concentrate on case studies from Central Europe and the Balkans, but will include an overview of developments in the visual arts and architecture of England, Germany, France, Russia, and Turkey.
History of Political Ideas in the Balkans in the Modern Era (19th and 20th Centuries)	HIST 647	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Capable of being taken both as a companion to HIST 549 and also on its own, HIST 547 represents a departure in some measure from that of a classical ''history of ideas'' course. It is concentrated less on the study of political ideas as theoretical/intellectual constructions per se, than on their contextualization, therefore on the explanation of their specific local articulations and varying social weight. This shift in focus follows from two general contextual premises : (a) The disproportionate significance of the political in the changing Balkan societies in the modern era; and (b) the ideological systems within and by way of which local national elites have pursued their developmental policies. Hence a primary concern will be not to gauge how faithfully a certain ''Balkan'' political development has corresponded to its ''European'' prototype, but rather to see what functions and hopes were pinned on it; how efficient it was in terms of imposing (new) norms of political action and of social and economic relations; and finally, what the sources of intra-Balkan diversity have been in all these regards. All major politico-ideological (self-) definitions of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as their mutual relations/influences, will be considered. The implicit objective will be to shed light on the historically crystallized semantics of the modern political vocabulary in the Balkans -- of terms like ''tradition'', ''modernity'', ''freedom'', ''the people'', ''democracy'', ''nation'', ''parliamentarianism'', and ''political participation''. Requirements : a major research paper of around 30 pages. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History. For the possibility of being taken not as a seminar but as a taught course, see HIST 547.
The Eastern Question, 1768-1923	HIST 650	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A survey of the ideological, political and military processes and structurations attending, and developing through, nearly two centuries of attempts by the European Great Powers of the 18th and especially the 19th centuries to partition the Ottoman Empire, eventually designated as the Sick Man of Europe. May be taken by undergraduates as a taught course (= HIST 450), and simultaneously by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.
The Patriarchate and the Monasteries in the Ottoman Empire	HIST 652	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A general introduction on : the making of Western and Eastern Christianity; political ideology and religious life in Byzantium; icons, saints, asceticism and monastic life. To be followed by increasing concentration on : Ottoman religious policy in the Balkans; Mehmed II's policies around and after the conquest of Constantinople; the making of the patriarchate and the millet system; Christians and Jews in Ottoman society; Mount Athos, other monasteries and monastic networks, and their interactions with Istanbul as well as local society in the Balkans. Requirements : a major research paper of around 30 pages. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History.
Aspects of Ottoman Rule in the Bulgarian Lands in the Pre-Tanzimat Period	HIST 653	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Focuses on selected issues and specific features of Ottoman rule in the Bulgarian lands, and therefore requires some previous, preliminary knowledge of Ottoman history and documentation. The main themes addressed will include : early Ottoman administration (from the 15th to the early 16th centuries); the Ottoman judicial system and the functioning of the kadı court; agrarian relations : timars, vakıfs, çiftliks; monuments of Ottoman culture; towns and urban society; Osman Pazvandoğlu of Vidin against the backdrop of Kırcalı/dağlı unrest; the National Awakenings of the Balkan peoples; the international situation at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. At the same time, the core of the course will revolve around the official status and the real situation of various ethno-religious groups (such as the Orthodox Christians and the Jews) : their institutions; their attitudes vis-à-vis the Ottoman authorities; questions of Islamisation, and of neo-martyrs; church building and restoration; other and related problems. Assessment will be based on participation throughout the course, including short presentations, as well as a final paper of around 30 pages based on an appropriate amount of work on the primary sources as well as the secondary literature. Subject to these conditions, counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History while also serving as a course in advanced paleography. Students submitting only a shorter paper based just on the seconary literature (instead of a major research paper as described above) may obtain credit only for a taught course, and not a seminar. (Also see HIST 553.) Prerequisites for HIST 653 : HIST 561 or the equivalent, plus an adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.
Rebellion and Dissent in the Ottoman Empire	HIST 664	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This seminar examines selected episodes of rebellion, social unrest and dissent through selected primary sources and secondary literature. It introduces major theoretical debates regarding early modern revolts in Eurasia and explores their relevance for the Ottoman Empire. Themes to be covered include dynamics of state-making and socio-economic change, ideology and language of dissent, and questions of organization, agenda and agency in rural and urban revolts.
Topics in the History of Ottoman Slavery	HIST 669	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The purpose of this seminar is to explore slavery as an institution in the Ottoman context. Historical "moments" or issues regarding which students will be guided into in-depth research include: Ottoman slavery in the context of broader world perspectives; "open" and "closed" systems of slavery; means of acquiring or recruiting slaves; ethnicity and slavery; changes in the Ottoman demand for slaves; slaves as soldiers and administrators; slaves in agriculture; slaves in manufacturing activities; domestic slavery; popular slave culture in Ottoman society; slavery and its legal framework; the Abolitionist debate in Europe and North America, and its relevance for Ottoman slavery; Western involvement in Ottoman slavery; governmental measures against slavery and the slave trade; the eventual demise of Ottoman slavery in the absence of a legal act of abolition. Requirements : a major research paper of around 30 pages. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.
The Making of Istanbul	HIST 671	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A research seminar combining visual materials with textual sources. Periods and topics dealt with, and which students may choose to concentrate upon, include : (1) The Byzantine past; rituals and monuments in the making of a city. (2) Early Ottoman land tenure in and around Istanbul : tahrirs and Imperial vakıfs, kanun and canon. (3) Istanbul as a distinctive "local culture" within the Ottoman Empire. (4) Istanbul as a locus of social unrest. (5) Late Ottoman Istanbul : its changing topography; its diverging tastes and identities (or : the emergence of sub-localities within a local culture). (6) Republican Istanbul and the end of a city. Requirements : a major research paper combining multiple types of evidence. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.
Seminar for Early Modern Ottoman History	HIST 672	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A key research seminar in Ottoman history designed to introduce graduate students to first-hand familiarity with, and provide them with an initial capacity for working on, a variety of primary period sources, in their original form, revolving around a particular theme relevant to the 17th and 18th centuries. The thematic concentration may be changed by the instructor from year to year. Prerequisite: HIST 572 or the equivalent, plus an adequate Ottoman script reading ability (both to be verified by the History Program). Basic deliverable: a major, 30-page research paper based on primary materials as described above. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the MA or PhD seminar requirements in History.
Seminar for Late Ottoman history	HIST 681	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Politics and Society in Ottoman Cities, 16th -18th centuries	HIST 682	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	An introduction to major research paradigms used in the study of Ottoman towns. Different urban typologies based on geography, culture or material life, and commonly used units of analysis such as community, class or estate, are examined. Themes to be studied include formal and informal politics and aspects of life in public spaces; regulation, conformity and resistance, sociability and ceremony. Requirements : a major research paper of around 30 pages based on primary source materials. Counts towards fulfilling the seminar requirement in History while also providing advanced paleographical training. Prerequisite : An adequate command of Ottoman Turkish, through TLL 501-502 or the equivalent, and subject to the instructor's approval.
Special Readings on National Memory I : Varieties of Early Turkish Nationalism	HIST 689	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The complex transition from 19th century varieties of Ottoman identity or Muslim patriotism to Turkish nationalism in the throes of the protracted crisis of 1908-22. The search for a viable past : contemporary traumas vs mytho-historical ways of compensation. Alternative "golden ages'', projected affinities, and corresponding value systems. Early textbooks; popular history; the invention of Central Asian origins; questions of race; Yusuf Akçura's and Fuat Köprülü's weaving of an evolutionary grand narrative; grafting a national discourse onto an Ottoman-centred imperial discourse; early Kemalism's redefinition of Turkish nationalism; the objectives and constraints of the Turkish Thesis of History. May be taken by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page research paper based on primary materials.
Texts and Constructions of National Memory II : Reading the Republican Historians	HIST 690	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A critical, comparative approach to history-writing in the Republican era. The institutionalization and professionalization of History as an academic discipline. Historical backwardness, catching-up agendas, national developmentalism, and the "Prussian way" in Turkey. Nationalism, historians, and the state. The construction of a national canon from Akçura and Köprülü, through Barkan, to İnalcık. Universalism vs particularism. History from above vs history from below. Odd men out : Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Mustafa Akdağ. Debates over Islamic, Ottoman or Turkish identities/legacies as reflected in Art History. The contrasting worlds of historians and archeologists. The apertura of the 1950s and 60s. The advent of social and economic history. Debates over imperialism, underdevelopment, and pre-capitalist modes of production. The post-60s generation in History and the Social Sciences. May be taken by undergraduates as a taught course (= HIST 490), and simultaneously by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page research paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.
Modern Dictatorships, and the One-Party Period	HIST 692	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course offers an in-depth study of the one-party period and political system in Turkey, placing it in its historical and political context, and introducing primary source materials. Contrasting political alignments had already emerged in the course of the War of Independence; their extensions and ramifications are pursued through the phase immediately preceding the creation of the Republic, down to the end of the Kemalist-dominated early Republican era. The political, cultural, economic and foreign policy dimensions of this entire period are viewed as a whole, though with specific emphasis on its political organizations. The experience of 20th century dictatorships like Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, or Spain under Franco are drawn upon in constructing a broad comparative framework. May be taken by undergraduates as a taught course (= POLS 392), and simultaneously by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page research paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.
Turkish Political Thought	HIST 694	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is a survey of the main currents and their selective representatives in Turkish political thought since 1908 such as liberalism, nationalism, socialism, feminism, and political Islam. May be taken by graduate students as a taught course (POLS 594), or alternatively as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.
Reform and the History of Ideas in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century	HIST 695	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The existing literature about reform in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century concentrates primarily on the institutional components of reform. However, a great deal of research on the intellectual and knowledge components of reform has appeared since the 1960s. The time has now come to review this literature and bring it into a course constructed for that purpose. Graduate students may take this as a research seminar, subject to additional reading and research requirements, including writing a major research paper based on primary materials. Subject to these conditions, satisfies the 600-coded graduate research seminar requirement for History.
The Tanzimat Process as a Transfer of Knowledge	HIST 696	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A survey of reform movements in the Ottoman Empire especially through the prism of their contacts with West European scientific speculations in the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as through their sequel in the form of Tanzimat reforms up to 1850. An attempt will be made to cover the history of institutional developments parallel to the history of ideas. May be taken both as a taught course (= HIST 596) and as a seminar, subject to the approval of the instructor and the fulfillment of the research paper requirements for a 600-coded research seminar in History.
Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Foreign Policy, 1870-1970	HIST 697	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course presents a detailed survey, based on primary source materials, of (a) the foreign policy orientations that the Ottoman state was forced to adopt in the face of developments originating in the realm of the Eurocentric international relations of the last quarter of the 19th century; and (b) the foreign policy course pursued by the modern Turkish republic from the first quarter of the 20th century. Special attention will be devoted to exploring the inner connections between Turkey's foreign policy issues, and international politics in general, as well as the continuities and discontinuities of a critical century in the history of Turkish foreign policy. May be taken by undergraduates as a taught course (= HIST 397), and simultaneously by graduate students as a research seminar subject to the special requirement of producing a major, 30-page research paper based on primary materials. Subject to the fulfillment of these conditions, counts towards completion of the seminar requirement in History.
Master Thesis	HIST 698	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
PhD Thesis	HIST 699	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of PhD students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty advisor plus two other examiners from the relevant field following the completion of their course-work.
Literature Survey: Historiography	HIST 702	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	One of a series of eleven courses comprising advanced surveys of the secondary literature relevant to a particular field or period, and intended to prepare PhD students in particular for their comprehensive examinations in one major and two minor fields. May also be taken by other students as a field-specific directed readings course. Requirements : producing a comprehensive reading list (of what has actually been covered), plus a complete syllabus for a comparable undergraduate course in History.
Literature Survey : the Middle Ages in Europe	HIST 712	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	One of a series of eleven courses comprising advanced surveys of the secondary literature relevant to a particular field or period, and intended to prepare PhD students in particular for their comprehensive examinations in one major and two minor fields. May also be taken by other students as a field-specific directed readings course. Requirements : producing a comprehensive reading list (of what has actually been covered), plus a complete syllabus for a comparable undergraduate course in History.
Literature Survey: The Early Modern Era	HIST 714	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	One of a series of eleven courses comprising advanced surveys of the secondary literature relevant to a particular field or period, and intended to prepare PhD students in particular for their comprehensive examinations in one major and two minor fields. May also be taken by other students as a field-specific directed readings course. Requirements : producing a comprehensive reading list (of what has actually been covered), plus a complete syllabus for a comparable undergraduate course in History.
Literature Survey: From the Age of Revolution	HIST 715	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Literature Survey: Modern Balkan History, 1800 to the Present	HIST 742	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	One of a series of eleven courses comprising advanced surveys of the secondary literature relevant to a particular field or period, and intended to prepare PhD students in particular for their comprehensive examinations in one major and two minor fields. May also be taken by other students as a field-specific directed readings course. Requirements : producing a comprehensive reading list (of what has actually been covered), plus a complete syllabus for a comparable undergraduate course in History.
Literature Survey : Central Asian and Turkic History	HIST 751	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	One of a series of eleven courses comprising advanced surveys of the secondary literature relevant to a particular field or period, and intended to prepare PhD students in particular for their comprehensive examinations in one major and two minor fields. May also be taken by other students as a field-specific directed readings course. Requirements : producing a comprehensive reading list (of what has actually been covered), plus a complete syllabus for a comparable undergraduate course in History.
Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 1300-1600	HIST 762	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	One of a series of eleven courses comprising advanced surveys of the secondary literature relevant to a particular field or period, and intended to prepare PhD students in particular for their comprehensive examinations in one major and two minor fields. May also be taken by other students as a field-specific directed readings course. Requirements : producing a comprehensive reading list (of what has actually been covered), plus a complete syllabus for a comparable undergraduate course in History.
Literature Survey : Ottoman History, 17th and 18th centuries	HIST 771	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	One of a series of eleven courses comprising advanced surveys of the secondary literature relevant to a particular field or period, and intended to prepare PhD students in particular for their comprehensive examinations in one major and two minor fields. May also be taken by other students as a field-specific directed readings course. Requirements : producing a comprehensive reading list (of what has actually been covered), plus a complete syllabus for a comparable undergraduate course in History.
Literature Survey : Ottoman-Turkish History, 1800-1918	HIST 781	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	One of a series of eleven courses comprising advanced surveys of the secondary literature relevant to a particular field or period, and intended to prepare PhD students in particular for their comprehensive examinations in one major and two minor fields. May also be taken by other students as a field-specific directed readings course. Requirements : producing a comprehensive reading list (of what has actually been covered), plus a complete syllabus for a comparable undergraduate course in History.
Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1918 to the Present	HIST 791	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	One of a series of eleven courses comprising advanced surveys of the secondary literature relevant to a particular field or period, and intended to prepare PhD students in particular for their comprehensive examinations in one major and two minor fields. May also be taken by other students as a field-specific directed readings course. Requirements : producing a comprehensive reading list (of what has actually been covered), plus a complete syllabus for a comparable undergraduate course in History.
Literature Survey: Cultural History	HIST 799	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	One of a series of eleven courses comprising advanced surveys of the secondary literature relevant to a particular field or period, and intended to prepare PhD students in particular for their comprehensive examinations in one major and two minor fields. May also be taken by other students as a field-specific directed readings course. Requirements : producing a comprehensive reading list (of what has actually been covered), plus a complete syllabus for a comparable undergraduate course in History.
Linear Programming and Extensions	IE 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Theory of linear programming; convexity; simplex and algorithmic aspects; duality and sensitivity; computational issues; decomposition and column generation; introduction to integer and nonlinear programming.
Stochastic Processes	IE 503	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to probability theory; random variables; conditional probability and conditional expectation; Poisson and renewal processes; discrete and continuous Markov chains; applications in queuing, reliability, inventory, production, and telecommunication problems.
Nonlinear Programming	IE 509	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Review on linear algebra and analysis, convex sets and functions, quadratic programming, descent algorithm, line search, conjugate directions, Newton's method, optimization of nondifferentiable functions, necessary and sufficient conditions for constrained optimization problems, duality theory, penalty and barrier methods, Kuhn-Tucker methods, introduction to semi-infinite and semidefinite optimization, applications.
Graph Theory and Network Flows	IE 512	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Theory and applications of graphs and networks; properties of graphs; Hamiltonian and Eulerian walk problems; Travelling salesman problem and variants; design and analysis of shortest path, maximum flow and minimum cost network flow algorithms; matching and assignment; network simplex algorithm.
Manufacturing Strategies	IE 514	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Manufacturing and digitalization strategies methods and means for the formulation of manufacturing and digitalization strategies for securing long-term competitiveness of the company; the alignment of manufacturing and digitalization strategies with the business and technology strategies of the company; enabling technologies for digitalization; use of balanced scorecard in strategy building; case studies.
Dynamic Programming	IE 515	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Dynamic programming (DP) is a general mathematical technique used for making a sequence of interrelated decisions and may be regarded as an implicit scheme for enumerating the various combinations of decisions in order to identify an optimal policy. It is a widely applied methodology in both deterministic and stochastic optimization. Topics include but may not be limited to the DP modeling and the DP algorithm, deterministic systems and the shortest path problem, problems with perfect state information, problems with imperfect state information, infinite horizon problems, infinite horizon discounted problems, and stochastic shortest path problems.
Additive Manufacturing	IE 516	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	-Various additive manufacturing processes and their principles,<br/> -Computer-aided design and path planning for additive manufacturing processes,<br/> -Materials used in additive manufacturing processes and their properties,<br/> -Determining and optimizing process parameters and conditions,<br/> -Process-related limitations and constraints and applications of Additive Manufacturing,<br/> -Several related hands-on projects related to additive manufacturing.<br/>
Queuing Theory and Applications	IE 518	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Application of the theory of stochastic processes to queuing phenomena; steady-state analysis of birth-death processes; Chapman-Kolmogorov equations; Little's theorem and Markov property; arrival and departure processes; Markovian queues; semi-Markov processes; M/G/1, G/M/m, and G/G/1 queuing systems; literature readings and presentations; Jackson networks; balance equations; and stationary behavior.
Total Quality Management	IE 519	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to the philosophy and concepts of total quality management; implementation of total quality management in relation to change management; managing implementation of total quality management as a project; self-assessment methods; investigation of various quality award schemes; the product development cycle root cause analysis, peer reviews, monitoring and tracking, the review process, establishment of quality assurance entities; introduction to the Capability Maturity Model; case studies.
Decision Analysis	IE 522	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Axiomatic foundations for probability and utility; assessment of subjective and theoretical probability distributions; formulation of decision problems; Bayes Law and Bayesian networks; value of information; utility theory; risk sharing and decisions; case studies.
System Simulation	IE 524	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Modeling and analysis of production and service systems through the use of discrete-event simulation; world views in simulation; input modeling; random number and variate generation; output analysis; verification and validation issues.
Operations Research and Data Mining	IE 525	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course will address unsupervised learning, supervised learning, association rule mining and feature subset selection problems, focus on the optimization formulations of these problems, discuss various techniques proposed as solutions and present their implementation particularly in the context of operations management. Among others, probabilistic and statistical methods, possibilistic methods clustering algorithms, decision trees, metaheuristics (such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, etc.) and mathematical programming will be covered as part of the toolbox that are widely utilized in data mining. As part of the course multi criteria decision making and multi objective optimization, and their usage in data mining will also be covered. The course will include case studies from both manufacturing and service industries.
System Dynamics	IE 527	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Systems thinking and the system dynamics worldview; methods to elicit and map the structure of complex systems and relate those structures to their dynamics; tools for modeling and simulation of complex systems; applications including corporate growth and stagnation, the diffusion of new technologies, business cycles, the use and reliability of forecasts, the design of supply chains, service quality management, project management and product development, the dynamics of infectious diseases.
Logistics and Transportation Systems Planning	IE 530	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course aims at giving the students a solid understanding of mathematical modeling approaches, analytical tools and techniques that are useful in the design and planning of logistics and transportation systems. The topics include logistics network design, facility location and allocation, long- and short-haul transportation, vehicle routing and scheduling problems as well as issues related to sustainable mobility. We will discuss the theory, application methods, and techniques that are needed to successfully model, analyze, and solve these problems. We will develop and employ both exact and approximate methods to solve problems arising in logistics and transportation systems, and implement computerized applications. The course is designed for graduate students who have a solid background in mathematical programming and are proficient in coding.
Stochastic Models in Finance	IE 532	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The objective of the course is to introduce basic stochastic models and techniques used in mathematical finance. The first half of the course is dedicated to discrete-time models, the other half to their continuous-time counterparts. The topics covered include pricing and hedging in binomial models and Black-Scholes models, fundamental theorems of asset pricing, martingales, Brownian motion, stochastic integration, Itô rule. Depending on the progress in class, we also briefly discuss SDE’s as they appear in continuous-time models.
Monte Carlo Methods in Finance	IE 536	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course aims to introduce the Monte Carlo methods and techniques used in mathematical finance. In this field, many problems involve computing expectations. Pricing various derivatives, computing default/ruin probabilities, finding optimal/well-performing portfolios are some well-known examples of such problems. In the course, after discussing the basics of probability and simulation, we learn how Monte Carlo methods apply to these problems.
Production Systems Planning and Design	IE 545	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Study of optimization models for planning and design of production systems. Emphasis is given to models used for decision making at strategic and tactical levels. Topics include forecasting, facility location, capacity planning, production control and inventory planning.
Sequencing and Scheduling	IE 550	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Analysis and solution of sequencing and scheduling problems; complexity theory and computational analysis of sequencing and scheduling algorithms; exact and heuristic solution procedures for single machine problems; scheduling of job shops, flow shops and flexible manufacturing systems; scheduling of parallel processors.
Graduate Seminar I	IE 551	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar II	IE 552	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Facility Design and Analysis	IE 553	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Product/process analysis; technology selection; facility location; production and service facilities layout; material handling systems, storage systems, mathematical programming models and methods for location and layout problems.
Supply Chain Management	IE 554	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Supply chain characterization; replenishment management and supplier relations; aggregate production planning; lot sizing; lead time management; material and capacity requirements planning; master production and operations scheduling; pull production systems; manufacturing inventories; storage management; distribution planning; vehicle routing; demand management; use of ERP software; web based approaches; case studies.
Supply Chain Coordination	IE 555	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is concerned with building and analyzing theoretical models of supply chains. We will analyze the inefficiencies due to decentralized decision-making in a supply chain. We will study how different contract forms can be used to mitigate these inefficiencies by coordinating the actions of chain members. To this end, we will use game-theory and contract-theory frameworks from Economics in addition to inventory theory from Operations Management. We will have lectures as well as discussions on research papers. The course is designed primarily for masters/doctoral students interested in supply chain management research.
Design and Analysis of Warehousing	IE 556	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to mathematical and computational analysis of warehousing systems; Warehouse operations; storage and handling equipment; product profiling; pallet operations; design of fast pick area; item slotting; bucket brigades; cross-docking; order-picking principles.
Metal Cutting Mechanics and Dynamics	IE 563	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Fundamentals of metal cutting mechanics, 2D and 3D cutting models; analysis of chip formation, friction, temperatures, and tool wear; modeling and simulation of cutting forces, surface finish, and dimensional accuracy in machining; review of vibration theory and machine tool vibrations; introduction to modal analysis; chatter vibrations, process damping and cutting stability; chatter suppression techniques. Lab: Cutting force measurement; modal analysis; chatter tests.
Manufacturing Automation	IE 564	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to manufacturing automation and machine tool analysis. Computer Aided Manufacturing; Numerical Control programming and verification; virtual machining; principles of Computer Numerical Control; feed drive servo control and components, interpolation; process monitoring and control, adaptive control; sensors and actuators for manufacturing applications. Lab: NC programming and machining; system identification and controller design.
Machine Tool Engineering	IE 565	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Detailed analysis of machine tool components, configuration and peripherals. Comparative analysis of different drives, spindles, axis configurations and tool holding systems; cutting force, power and productivity analysis; accuracy of machine tools; static and thermal deformations; machine tool selection and testing; dynamic rigidity of machine tools and modal analysis; safety and maintenance.
Computer-Aided Biomodeling and Fabrication	IE 566	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Computer-aided design and bio-modeling; computational geometry for medical imaging and processing; three-dimensional reconstruction; biomimetic design; reverse engineering; computer-aided analysis and engineering; materials in biomedical engineering and their properties; traditional fabrication processes for biomedical engineering; tissue engineering; solid freeform fabrication (rapid manufacturing); rapid tooling
Manufacturing Systems Modelling	IE 567	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Hierarchical design, planning, and control of manufacturing systems; assembly lines; automated transfer lines; cellular manufacturing; flexible manufacturing systems; facility location and layout.
Time Series and Forecasting Models	IE 573	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Time series have various applications in different disciplines, and they form an important class of machine learning models. This course will discuss time series models and their use in forecasting. In the course, various model fitting approaches will be studied, stationary processes will be discussed, and some Bayesian dynamic models will be introduced. Practical examples and implementations will be shown with R.
Special Topics in Industrial Engineering I	IE 580	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in IE: Logistics and Transportation Planning	IE 58000	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in IE: Simulation for Statistical Inference	IE 58001	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in IE: Production Planning	IE 58002	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in IE: Optimization for Big Data	IE 58003	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in IE: Applications of Combinatorial Optimization	IE 58004	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Applications of graph theory, graph coloring, introduction to approximation algorithms, Boolean modeling and optimization, quadratic functions, Horn functions
Special Topics in IE: Advanced statistics with R	IE 58005	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course aims to discuss importance topics in statistics in a mathematically rigorous way. The topics that will be discussed include sampling distributions and asymptotics, point and interval estimations, hypothesis testing, ANOVA and regression analysis. Implementations will be illustrated with R.
Special Topics in Industrial Engineering II	IE 581	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in Industrial Engineering III	IE 582	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Master Thesis	IE 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Project Course	IE 592	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	All graduate students pursuing a non-thesis M.Sc. Program are required to complete a project. The project topic and contents are based on the interest and background of the student and are approved by the faculty member serving as the project supervisor. At the completion of the project, the student is required to submit a final report. The final report is to be approved by the project supervisor.
Optimization Theory	IE 601	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Convex optimization and functional analysis; theory of duality; iterative methods and convergence proofs; interior point methods for linear programming; computational complexity of mathematical programming problems; extensions of linear programming.
Stochastic Programming	IE 602	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Stochastic programming is one of the fundamental approaches that can be used to model decision-making under uncertainty. It is concerned with the mathematical programming problems, where the uncertain problem parameters are represented by random variables, and it extends deterministic optimization by explicitly accounting for the uncertainty already in the modeling age. This course will provide a broad overview of the main themes and methods of the subject. This course covers various optimization models (chance-constrained optimization, two-stage stochastic programming models, optimization with risk measures, etc.), as well as their mathematical programming-based solution methods and applications to practical problems. Since stochastic programs are computationally challenging, there is a particular emphasis in this course on algorithmic tools (especially, on decomposition-based algorithms) for solving large-scale instances.
Integer Programming	IE 604	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	In this course, the students will learn the mathematics of discrete optimization including the representation of problems by mathematical models and the solution of these models. In computational complexity part, the concepts of polynomial computation and NP-completeness will be introduced, and equivalence of separation and optimization will be discussed. Then, basic approaches and algorithms for solving discrete optimization problems will be introduced. The branch-and-bound algorithm, the theory of valid inequalities, and the results known for simplest discrete sets that are necessary to understand the cutting planes generated by today’s commercial solvers will be covered. In polyhedral theory, the concepts of facets of polyhedra and the idea of representing the convex hull of a discrete set of points will be covered. Extended formulations and the reformulations that enable decomposition algorithms will be addressed.
Advanced Topics in Stochastic Processes	IE 605	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Stochastic modelling and optimization; decomposition coordination algorithms for large-scale mathematical programming; and applications in stochastic programming; An advanced discussion of a subject in applied probability with significant interest to engineering, e.g stochastic inventory control and scheduling; performance evaluation in stochastic systems. Individual projects in stochastic modeling.
Large Scale Optimization	IE 606	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Design of efficient algorithms that exploit the structure of large scale optimization problems. Relaxation; decomposition; sparse systems; simplex with bounded variables; cutting plane methods and heuristic algorithms; effective computation techniques for real life applications.
Advanced Queuing Theory	IE 609	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Study of complex queuing models of engineering interest with an emphasis on algorithmic approach. Queuing networks and related literature; approximate methods in queuing models; applications and new research areas in manufacturing systems, simulation, telecommunication networks, internet and web based systems, client-server architectures.
Advanced Manufacturing Systems Modelling	IE 632	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Study of different types of manufacturing systems, theoretical treatment of optimization models and techniques used in the analysis of manufacturing systems design and control. Manufacturing automation and control; advanced warehousing and materials handling; resource allocation and capacity planning; assembly line balancing; flexible manufacturing systems and manufacturing cell design; scheduling and sequencing techniques; stochastic models of manufacturing systems.
Advanced Topics in Supply Chain Management	IE 638	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	In-depth study of the integration and coordination of material, information, and financial flows within a supply chain that spans suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers; logistic restructuring for global supply chain management; distribution network design; replenishment coordination; vendor managed inventory; strategic alliances; performance measurement and incentive issues; postponement of information; centralized vs. decentralized control; value of information, information distortion and the bullwhip effect; coordination difficulties; pitfalls and opportunities in supply chain management.
Behavioral and Experimental Methods in Operations Management	IE 640	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course aims to introduce the use of behavioral and experimental methods that have been increasingly popular in the field of operations management. In particular we use a supply chain scenario to study how human beings make individual and strategic decisions in the face of uncertainty and risk. First, we use the standard newsvendor problem to discuss decisions involving only a single individual. This problem is concerned with the order quantity decision of a retailer that faces probabilistic demand. Then, we consider a simple manufacturer-retailer supply chain where the retailer faces the newsvendor problem, and her problem parameters are determined by the contract that the manufacturer offers. This scenario allows us to study what happens to decisions when two individuals interact strategically with each other . Course discussion is based on results from decision-making experiments with human subjects. In addition to published research papers, we also use data from experiments conducted at Sabanci University.
Selected Topics in Industrial Engineering I	IE 680	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Selected Topics in Industrial Engineering II	IE 681	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in Industrial Engineering III	IE 682	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar I	IE 751	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar II	IE 752	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Ph.D. Dissertation	IE 790	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Gender in Science and Technology	IF 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Why are there relatively few women scientists in some disciplines? Does gender influence the production of scientific knowledge and its content? What kind of an impact did the entering of women into science and engineering have? What is “gendered science”? This course aims to investigate these and related questions. It starts by introducing the concept of gender and how science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and this concept are related to each other in general. It then examines the historical exclusion of women from these fields, their experiences and struggles against it as well as the scientific, technological and socio-economic costs of this exclusion. Finally, it explores the policies and “best practices” that eliminate gender biases in STEM fields, their affects in the further development of STEM fields and the new areas of research that arose as a result of these efforts.
Globalization and International Relations	IR 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course deals with the changing nature of international relations within the context of the process(es) of globalization. It examines a number of topics that have become crucial especially after the end of the Cold War. In doing so, it also aims at advancing our theoretical and empirical understanding of international relations by discussing (a) the economic and political dimensions of globalization, (b) the relationship between global changes and state power, (c) the crucial problems of international relations, such as poverty, security, global governce and terrorism, and also (d) the important case studies such as the American hegemony, European Integration, global economic crisis.
International Security	IR 510	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course surveys traditional and non-traditional understandings of security by exploring a wide range of theoretical perspectives and thematic issues. The fact that international security is generally about the threat and use of force, raises questions such as: What causes war? Do regime types matter for peace? Is nuclear proliferation necessarily a threat to international stability? Would the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Turkey bring more security to itself and the region? What is terrorism and how much of a threat does it constitute for states? Through these questions, this course equips students with multiple approaches along with a historically nuanced understanding of the challenges of our times.
American Politics and Government	IR 530	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces intricacies and the uniqueness of American democracy and its historical development. In addition to the analysis of American political institutions, special emphasis will be given to cultural, historical, social and economic factors that contribute to the uniqueness of the American experiment.
Special Reading on Int.ConfRes	IR 532	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Russian Politics and Foreign Policy	IR 535	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Providing indepth understanding of Russian politics and foreign policy. Understanding the actors, institutions and structure of Russian politics. Discovering the domestic sources of Russian Foreign Policy. Focusing on the priorities, principles and mechanisms of foreign policy. Analyzing Russian politics in regional and international contexts.
Central Asia and Caucasus in International Perspective	IR 537	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Providing indepth understanding of politics in Caucasus /Central Asia. Exploring the issues of international relations, governance, energy, security and conflict resolution in the region. Analyzing the political processes, challenges, achievements specific to the regional countries. Focusing on the sources and dynamics of regional and international interest to the region.
Foreign Policy Analysis	IR 592	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course concentrates on the making and the implementation of foreign policy in theory and practice: foreign and security policy-making; case studies.
Term Project	IR 597	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students taking this course are expected to write a research paper on a topic agreed upon by a faculty member.
Introduction to Computer Programming	IT 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This is the first course in our series of programming courses which aims at introducing the students to fundamentals of computer programming in Java. Students will learn algorithmic thinking along with the basic concepts of coding such as data types, control structures, objects, arrays and functions.
Fundamentals of Data Communications and TCP/IP Networking	IT 511	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The first part of the course gives the students an overview of data communication and networking. Basic concepts associated with data transmission and data communication techniques are presented to introduce students to communication. The second part of IT 511 provides students with an in-depth knowledge of the internal workings of different protocols in the TCP/IP protocol suite and how they are configured in the Linux and Windows NT environment. Topics include Networking Overview; Data Communication Techniques; Switching Concepts; OSI Reference Model and Layers; TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Services; TCP/IP Internetworking; IP Routing; TCP/IP Network Setup and Troubleshooting; Network Applications using SMTP, FTP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP and WINS.
Enterprise System Analysis an Integration	IT 512	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will cover various aspects of network components, network design, capacity planning, network management, system integration, Internet/Extranet/Intranet services, system and network troubleshooting. Topics include Network Topologies and Standards; Transmission Media and Structured Wiring; Network Operating Systems; Network Design and Implementation; Network Management and Troubleshooting; Local Area Networks, Wide Area Networks; WAN Applications and Technologies; WAN Equipment; Hands-on Internet/Intranet Services.
Systems And Network Security	IT 513	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course deals with security issues in a networked environment and the Internet, and with a guide to obtaining freely available security tools and references. It points out the inadequacies of existing products in keeping out intruders, and enables participants to better estimate their own security requirements, risks, and advantages. These include the World Wide Web security, proxy programs, integrity management tools, secure programming, and how to use secure TCP/IP services. It also covers security issues on passwords, filesystem, cryptography, backups, logging, firewalls, virtual private networks, proactive security strategies and policies, physical security and dealing with break-ins.
Designing Network Service Architectures	IT 515	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the integration of voice and data networks with case studies directed towards consolidated networks. The structure, architecture, and design of today's voice and telephony networks are examined. The students will get a solid understanding of the architecture of voice communications and learn how signalling, call quality and PBXs work within data networks. This course also provides real-world options for integrating voice and data communications applications; analyzes cost vs. quality issues and discusses the key standards and technologies that make the voice over data networks a reality. Topics include: Quality of Service (QoS); Access Signaling Types; Voice Packetization and Compression; Real-Time Transport Protocol;Technology Necessary to Make VoIP Successful; H323 and SIP Protocols; Gateway Protocols; Implementing VoIP; Voice over Frame Relay and Voice over ATM; Introcuction to Wireless Concepts and GSM.
Introduction to Programming using C#	IT 519	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The objective of this course is to introduce participants to programming and problem solving with the help of an object-oriented programming language C#, which is the official language of Microsoft® .NET platform. The course will cover many C# features in detail as needed as well as developing an algorithmic way of thinking irrespective of the programming language used. During this course, participants will learn the fundamental skills that are required to design and develop object-oriented applications.
Linux Programming Environment	IT 520	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The first part of this hands-on course introduces the student to everyday use of the Linux operating system. Advanced working knowledge of Linux, writing Bourne Shell scripts to automate programming tasks, and use of the awk filter are also introduced. The second part of IT 520 helps students understand the principles of software engineering and its application in writing modular C programs. Topics include Introduction to Linux Operating System and the Syntax; Linux File System; On-line Help Facility; Text Editing; Linux Network Communication; Graphical Interfaces to Linux; Shell Concept; Bourne Shell Programming; Awk; Introduction to C; Variables and Constants; Structures; Numeric Data Types; Separate Compilation and Linking; Dynamic Memory Allocation; Disc Files and other I/O.
Object-oriented Programming with C++	IT 521	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Starting with a conceptual model of the UML, the course This course provides a tutorial to the core aspects of the language in a format designed to facilitate learning. This course will help students understand the principles of software engineering and its application in writing modular C++ programs for large-scale projects. It teaches students the essential topics of C++ such as encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and overloading, and points out key programming techniques and strategies of converting existing C code to C++. Topics include Object-Oriented Analysis; C++ Classes; Memory Allocation; Overloading; Inheritance; Exception; Manipulators and Templates; Separate Compilation and Linking.
Advanced Programming using Visual C++	IT 522	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course familiarizes students with graphical user interface (GUI) programming in the Windows NT/2000 environment using Visual C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) library. IT 522 equips software developers with the essential knowledge of how to debug and profile Windows programs and covers the latest features of Visual C++ and Windows NT/2000 graphical components, such as tree views and rich edit controls. Topics required to build advanced applications using the latest ActiveX technology, database access using both ODBC and Data Access Objects (DAO) are also covered. Topics include VC++ Development Environment; C++ and Object-Oriented Programming; MFC Programming; Event Handling; Document-view Architecture; Creating Windows Help System; OLE and COM Basics; Creating and Customizing OLE Servers; ActiveX Concepts; ActiveX Template Library; MFC ControlWizard; Database Access.
Developing E-commerce Applications using XML	IT 523	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course aims at defining and understanding the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and designing XML applications. Laboratory sessions include usage of SAX and DOM in dynamic manipulation as well as writing WML (WAP) pages for mobile devices. At the end of IT 523, the students should be able to write XML and understand its implications on e-commerce. Topics include XML Documents; Database Publishing with XML; XML Standards; XML Style Language; Unicode Standard; Document Object Model; Standard Generalized Markup Language; DTD's; Scripting and XML; XML Schemas; SAX2; Styling XML; Interfacing XML with Databases using ASP; E-commerce; WAP and XML.
Programming with Java	IT 524	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This is a hands-on course on the Java programming language using the Java Development Kit (JDK), and the use of Java to reinforce the use of object-oriented approach to solve real problems. A general understanding of object- oriented programming concepts is also presented. IT 524 covers more advanced features of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC), distributed programming using the Remote Method Invocation (RMI), CORBA, and the Java Native Interface (JNI) for interfacing Java programs with applications written using some other language such as C, as well as Java security. Topics include Java and Object- Oriented Programming; Language Basics; Java Classes and Objects; Java Statements; Exceptions; Java Threads; Swing Programming; Java Packages; Java File I/O; Distributed Applications; Persistence and Remote Method Invocation; Database Connectivity (JDBC); Java Native Interface; Java Security Model.
Advanced Java Programming	IT 525	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is designed to teach programmers the advanced aspects of Java programming language and how it is applied to a wide range of applications. The course covers advanced Java Programming topics including streams and file I/O, multithreading, recursion, sorting and searching, network programming and networked applications, socket classes, introduction to RMI (Remote Method Invocation), working with Java databases, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), introduction to JavaBeans, creating JavaBeans and handling events using JavaBeans, Servlets, JSP, Java development practices and Java security.
Enterprise Java Frameworks and Design Patterns	IT 526	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This is a hands-on course which consists of two main parts. In the first part, commonly used enterprise Java frameworks are presented. These frameworks include Java Server Faces (JSF), SpringMVC and Struts as MVC Frameworks; and Java Persistence API and Hibernate as Object Relational Mapping (ORM) Frameworks. In the second part, the software design patterns which will be needed during software design and implementation process are introduced. These design patterns are presented as Creational Patterns, Structural Patterns and Behavioral Patterns.
Enterprise Data and Process Integration Using XML	IT 527	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is about how to design, develop and integrate Web-enabled business-to-business (B2B) applications based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), Java and emerging technologies around XML and Java. This course is intended for experienced, professional software developers who work in corporate enterprise development teams and independent software vendors. Most students will be Java or C# developers familiar with introductory XML concepts. In particular the course focuses on how such applications can send, receive, verify, and manipulate XML documents that are exchanged among companies using new technologies such as Web application server, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web services, and data binding. The benefits and potential pitfalls of these technologies are covered along with aspects such as using any modern object-oriented language.
Developing .NET Applications Using C#	IT 528	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	C# programming language - .NET Framework with object-oriented analysis and design. Developing ASP.NET applications and XML Web Services using C# programming language.
Object-oriented Analysis and Design using UML	IT 529	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This objective of this course is to provide the basics of object-oriented software engineering including object-oriented analysis and design using UML. Course includes: Fundamental concepts of software design & UML (Unified Modeling Language), Requirement analysis, UML notations, Use case diagrams, Class diagrams and Case studies.
Advanced Web Programming	IT 530	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course provides a formal introduction to Web application development and Web-enabled technologies. It also provides a grand tour of the technologies used on the client and server side to support user web interfaces This course, in short, provides the student with the skills needed to build professional web applications with interfaces to different types of databases. Programming, which is needed to interface the web pages with CGI and interface with database through ODBC, is usually done with interpreted languages like Perl, PHP, Python, etc. as compiled languages are already taught in other classes. This course also introduces the students to other methods of interfacing with a database, including Active Server Pages (ASP) and Java Server Pages. It finally summarizes the the competing technologies supporting distributed computing, COM/DCOM from Microsoft and Open Standard CORBA. Comparison between different technologies is essential to choosing the right solution for the business environment that is built.
Building Web Applications Using ASP.NET and AJAX Framework	IT 531	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	In this course, students will learn building web applications using ASP.NET, AJAX library and AJAX control toolkit in the .NET Framework. Students will learn how to apply already known web technologies like JavaScript and CSS to their ASP.NET web applications and how to deploy web applications on the IIS (Internet Information Services) server. Students will also learn about web services in .NET by using C# as the programming language.
Web Technologies for Applicaton Developers	IT 532	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is designed to give students web development experience and teach them current technologies that are used developing web applications. At the completion of the course; the students are expected to have the knowledge of basic web concepts like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and advanced web concepts like XML, XML Processing techniques, XSLT for XML Transformation, DOM (Document Object Model), AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), AJAX Frameworks, Web Services, Web Services protocol, RSS and Mashups as well. The students are also expected to use these technologies while developing web applications.
Web Programming using ASP.NET	IT 533	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The objective of this course is to introduce participants to web programming using the Microsoft® ASP.NET technology. The participants will learn how to build web applications on the Microsoft® .NET platform and will also learn how to deploy these web applications on the Microsoft® IIS (Internet Information Server). The programming language that will be used is C#, hence the participants are expected to have taken the IT519 course.
Real Time Systems	IT 534	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Real Time system development requires special design techniques, language and operating system primitives to deal with the time critical nature of such systems. IT 534 introduces real time design techniques such as MASCOT and Petri-Nets that can deal with multi-tasking, mutual exclusion, task synchronization and scheduling problems. Special language constructs such as exception handling, concurrency, interrupt and device handling and also operating system support for task communication and cooperation are examined with practical examples. Topics include: Introduction to Real Time Systems; Design of Real Time Systems; Development Methodology; Design Analysis; Language and Operating System Support.
Mobile Programming	IT 535	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This introductory course will provide an insight to the leading edge world of applications running on mobile devices via wireless networks. The course will start by giving an overview about the evolution of the wireless technologies along with some of the core concepts employed in mobile communications. Students shall use simulation software to design and debug wireless Web applications developed using WML (Wireless Markup Language), WMLScript, and Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME).
Developing Mobile Applications Using the .NET Framework	IT 536	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The goal of this course is to provide developers with the knowledge and skills to develop mobile enterprise solutions by using the Smart Device Extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET and the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework. This course is intended for experienced, professional software developers who work in corporate enterprise development teams and independent software vendors. Most students will be Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET, Microsoft Visual C#, or Java developers. These developers want to build end-to-end solutions in an enterprise environment that includes mobile devices as part of the environment. Course module include: Introduction to Visual C#; Introduction to Mobile Device Application Development; Working with the User Interface; Working with Local Data; Accessing Remote Data; Synchronizing Data with SQL Server CE; Deploying Mobile Applications.
Front-end Web Development	IT 537	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The aim of the course is giving students the skills and the perspective for coding interactive and responsive user interfaces for web and mobile apps. Students will be learning and exercising the three common coding languages HTML, CSS and Javascript to gain a working knowledge of how web sites and mobile interfaces are developed and optimized best to meet the needs of clients.