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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 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.
Etnography: Fieldwork and Writing in Anthropology	ANTH 568	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Ethnography has been the main method of research and writing in anthropology. This course provides an in-depth reading of classical and contemporary ethnographies addressing a wide range of theoretical and political questions regarding the ethnographic experience and text.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 approach that is used will be a part of the course. 4)A short essay will be written covering the etiology, diagnostics and ongoing or possible therapeutic approaches 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.
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: 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: 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.
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.
Master Thesis	BIO 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
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.
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 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.
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.
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: • Globalization and its impact on marketing in the new world economy • Building global market participation and localizing marketing activities effectively • Designing a global marketing strategy and executing it effectively • Conducting cross - national consumer behaviour analysis based on market research
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.).
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).
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.
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).
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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: 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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	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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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: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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Special Topics in EE: Advances in Radar Imaging	EE 68000	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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Graduate Seminar I	ETM 551	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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Software Testing	IT 538	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Briefly, software testing is a process of executing a program with the goal of finding errors. Through testing, one inspects behavior of a program on a finite set of test cases (a set of inputs, execution preconditions, and expected outcomes developed for a particular objective). To assure the quality of the project, testing must be considered and executed on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle. This is a critical task for all parties involved in the software project team including analysts, developers and testers. In this course, we will introduce all types of tests in different phases of SDLC such as, unit testing, functional and integrational testing, performance tests, user acceptance tests and adhoc testing. We will examine white box and black box testing formats along with test management formats and reporting. Automation tests and conditions will also be examined within the scope if this course. All lectures will be supported with practical examples and workshops.
Secure Software Coding	IT 539	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The goal of this course is to provide developers with the principles and best practices for writing secure code and stopping malicious hackers in their tracks. The contents of the course reveal proven principles, strategies, and coding techniques. Numerous examples will be given to the students used in an effort to find solution to the industry's toughest security problems by providing sample code in several languages. This course will also cover information about threat modeling, designing a security process, international issues, file-system issues, adding privacy to applications, and performing security code reviews. It also includes enhanced coverage of buffer overruns, Microsoft .NET security and Microsoft ActiveX development, plus practical checklist for developers, testers, and program managers. Course includes: The Need for Secure Systems; The Proactive Security Development Process: Security Principles to Live By; Threat Modeling; The Buffer Overrun: Determining Appropriate Access Control; Running with Least Privilege; Cryptographic Foibles; Protecting Secret Data; Database Input Issues; Web-Specific Input Issues; Internationalization Issues; Protecting Against Denial of Service Attacks; Writing Secure .NET Code; Performing a Security Code Review; General Good Practices.
Social Network Analysis	IT 540	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 the 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
Introduction to Machine Learning	IT 541	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Data Science is the study of extracting information from data. Addressing the needs of the industry requires skills in data processing and data analytics spanning a wide area of subjects ranging from Statistics to Machine Learning. This course will introduce some of the basic concepts, techniques and tools that are required to solve problems widely seen in data analytics. The course wil start with a short review on inferencial Statistics and exploratory data analysis. The focus in the study of these subjects will be breadth, rather than depth, and practical examples will be used in applications of classification and clustering techniques to a wide variety of problems in predictive data analytics.
Big Data Processing using Hadoop	IT 542	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 Apache Spark framework and run these programs on a Hadoop Cluster.
Applied Programming in Python	IT 543	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This is an introductory hands-on course on Python programming language. We’ll cover the basic building blocks of the language including variables, data structures, loops, conditional structures, functions, and file manipulation. This course is designed to provide you with the ability to work with the data in a variety of tasks ranging from data pre-processing to data visualization and statistical data analysis by employing powerful libraries of Python such as Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and Seaborn. The exercises chosen to teach the concepts throughout the course are expected to provide a reference for an introduction to Data Science.
Database Design, Management and Administration	IT 553	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	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. Topics include Introduction to RDMS; Database Creation and Modification; SQL; Event Programming; Multiple Module Applications; Database Architecture; Hardware Configuration and Consideration; Database Layouts; Database Management; Managing Rollback Segments; Database Tuning; Database Security and Auditing; Backup and Recovery Procedures.
Software Engineering	IT 560	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course introduces the participants to IT Project Management and Software Quality Assurance concepts. IT 560 begins with an overview of Project Lifecyles and Phasing in IT Project Management. Project Initiation, Estimation, Software Metrics and Quality Review issues are examined and highlighted with the help of examples. Software tools are used to enforce the concepts using a realistic IT Project as a case study. Software metrics and testing techniques are further emphasized to provide the necessary background to ensure software quality during the development and delivery phases of a software project. Topics include: Project Lifecycles And Phasing; Project Viability; Waterfall Approach; Project Initiation; Estimating and Metrics; Project Management Tools; Software Quality; Quality Assurance Plan; Software Quality Factors; Program Complexity Metrics and Testing Practices.
Capability and Maturity Model for Software Development Framework	IT 561	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course provides an opportunity to learn issues involved in Software Development Life Cycles and Software Process Improvement and give the participants an overview of both concepts. The course will begin with the fundamentals of Software Development Life Cycles and basic concepts associated with Software Development. Both traditional and agile development techniques will be presented to introduce the participants to professional software development. In the second part of the course, we'll introduce the concept of Software Process Improvement and work on the fundamentals of the CMMI and XP (eXtreme Programming) practices.
An Introduction to SOA Concepts and Development	IT 562	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is an advanced analysis and design course that covers traditional OO approach and the modern SOA based software development. Students will be able to get a grasp of fundamental issues and be able to compare and contrast the approaches. The first part of the course covers Object-Oriented Concepts, Analysis and Design. Part two covers SOA concepts and the part three introduces programming SOA applications with examples. Part I : Object-oriented Analysis and Design using UML The objective of this part is to provide the basics of object-oriented software engineering including object-oriented analysis and design using UML. Topics covered: Fundamental concepts of software design & UML (Unified Modeling Language), Requirement analysis, UML notations, Use case diagrams, Class diagrams and Case studies. Part II : SOA Principles This part is an introduction to key concepts and issues associated with SOA and provides an overview of SOA based software lifecycle, development and technologies. Students will be introduced to the fundamental elements of SOA Concepts, Analysis and Design along with a brief overview of Web services, Services and Component Development, Business Process Management, Enterprise Services Bus technologies. SOA Concepts, Analysis and Design Key issues involving services and service infrastructure for SOA SOA-compatible software development process SOA governance and software development Impact of SOA in each phase of the software development process Part III : Developing Java-based SOA Applications This part will help students understand and use software development technologies for SOA based applications including: Understanding the role of Web services and Web service usage JEE Components EJB3 / JAX-WS Business Process Management (BPM) Enterprice Service Bus
Agile Project Management Methodology	IT 563	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Agile project management is as radically different from traditional project management as agile processes are different from traditional methodologies. Rather than plan, instruct and direct, the agile project manager facilitates, coaches and serves. In the Scrum Agile practice this person is called a ScrumMaster- Agile project manager. In this course participants learn what an agile software project is, how to manage project risks and issues, and how to guide the development team and an organization into Agile practice by fostering the adoption of new attitudes, collaborative processes and working to remove institutional barriers. Exercises, case studies, and examples are used to assist participants to develop the knowledge, skills, capabilities.
Iterative Software Development for Project Managers	IT 564	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course aims to develop the project/product and change management skills of the students following the approaches suggested by the iterative and agile software development processes. The methods detailed in Unified Process, Scrum, CMMI, Goal Directed Process and Toyota Production System will be used in the lectures. After finishing the course, the students will have a general understanding of software quality, project/product management requirements and they will able to perform the most important aspects of iterative project management. Additionally, the instructor will share his real world experiences, alternative information technology department organization structures, techniques regarding the office politics and relevant human resources approaches.
IT Governance	IT 566	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is designed to give students a broad Managerial Perspective; a CIO's or IT Manager's approach to an IT Organization. With a Quality based approach to an IT Organization first; then its resources, its processes and all the requirements expected from such an organization afterwards; the students will learn how to look at the IT Organization as a whole and how to place any IT Process to fit into the Organizational Structure. This will give the expertise and diagnosis of how and where each process takes place within the organization. The course also aims at equipping the student with Global Best Practices, IT Governance, Control and Security Standards, various methodologies and professional real-life know-how and experience. Another dimension of this course is to ensure that technical people are well equipped with social & managerial skills, which will add them value in understanding the world of business. Students will learn how Business-IT Alignment is to be achieved, how technical people should deal with business issues & how IT investments in an organization need to be controlled. At the completion of the course; the students are expected to have a unique understanding of control oriented business & technology partnership.
ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and IT Management	IT 567	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is the most widely adopted approach for IT Service Management and has been used as a de facto standard by the IT industry since 1980 for IT Management, IT Service Management and IT Infrastructure management. ITIL advocates that IT services must be aligned to the needs of the business and underpin the core business processes. It provides guidance to organizations on how to use IT as a tool to facilitate business change, transformation and growth. The ITIL best practices are currently detailed within 5 core publications which map the entire ITIL Service Lifecycle. These publications are Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation and Continual Service Improvement. Lectures will cover practical applications, case studies, software and real market projects that depend on theoretical IT management processes. Every week there will be a presentation session for real-life cases and industrial/enterprise software applications. Students will have the opportunity to thoroughly learn the 26 processes of ITIL listed in the core publications. There will be presentations for each session based on the product family of BMC and Manage Engine software. Course will be aligned with the accredited syllabus and concepts of ITIL. Core publications will be summarized and mapped onto the leraning objectives of the international ITIL certificate. By the end of this class, students will be ready to take the exam to be ITIL Foundation certified if they desire to do so.
Linux System Administration	IT 571	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course provides the students with an understanding of how to install various Linux operating systems and undertake periodic and day-to-day system administration tasks. Topics covered include the system installation, how to boot up and shut down the system, maintaining disks, file system maintenance, reconfiguring the system kernel, application/system file installation and updates, adding hardware to the Linux System, debugging Linux, creating and managing user accounts; creating and managing directory Shares with NFS and Samba servives; FTP and HTTP service configuration. Also Performance and security issues covered with SeLinux implementations take part in the course content
Special Topics in Information Technologies I	IT 580	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Project Course	IT 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.
Advanced Japanese I	JAP 550	School of Languages
Basic Kurdish I	KUR 510	School of Languages	This course focuses on helping students develop the language and skills required for effective communication at the Basic level. The instructional approach is directed towards the development of everyday communication. Students also develop basic knowledge in grammar, lexis, and phonology. By the end of this level, students will be able to talk about their preferences, daily routines and schedules, work life, spare time activities, sports, shopping, social activities, celebrations and personal relationships, using the grammar rules and vocabulary they have learned. They will also be able to make comparisons, describe their moods, and express feelings and opinions as well as their experiences and future plans, using simple syntactic structures.
Basic Kurdish II	KUR 520	School of Languages	This course aims to focus on four skills, namely speaking, reading, writing and listening. For this, students are encouraged to prepare a book project on a topic of interest to them. Additionally, learning of new vocabulary is emphasized further throughout the term.
Intermediate Kurdish I	KUR 530	School of Languages	This course is a continuation of KUR 520 and continues to focus on four skills in the Kurdish language. At this level, students learn to use more complex structures to describe daily events and express their opinions.
Intermediate Kurdish II	KUR 540	School of Languages	This course is designed for the students who have a solid foundation in both conversational and written Kurdish. This class focuses on the development of accurate and extended discourse as well as on the expansion of several varieties of Kurdish language through reading, audio or audiovisual authentic materials.
Basic Latin I	LAT 510	School of Languages	This course is designed as an introduction to the Latin language. It aims to help students develop the language and skills required for effective communication at the Basic level and raise their awareness of processes involved in learning to communicate.
Basic Latin II	LAT 520	School of Languages	The course aims to help students further develop their linguistic, lexical and syntactic knowledge as well as their knowledge of the language and everyday communication skills. This is done using texts from the works of Julius Caesar and Cornelius Nepos.
Intermediate Latin I	LAT 530	School of Languages	This course is a continuation of the LAT 520 course. The course aims to help students further develop their linguistic, lexical and syntactic knowledge as well as their knowledge of the language and everyday communication skills. This is done using texts from the works of Julius Caesar and Cornelius Nepos.
Intermediate Latin II	LAT 540	School of Languages	In LAT 540 students strengthen their understanding of Latin grammar and syntax and their translation and composition abilities while reading a selection of major authors of prose and poetry.
Advanced Latin I	LAT 550	School of Languages
Law, Business and Society	LAW 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course focuses on the complex interactions between legal, social, and business forces. Multi-national corporations influence governments; the environment is exploited and protected; people emigrate and demand more of their employers; governments try to balance business revenue and social justice. Can we say that a law ''caused'' an effect in society, or a business event ''caused'' a new law to be made? Does an effect sometimes become a cause in its own right, reinforcing an original effect? Sometimes the unintended effects of a business, legal, or social development are more important than the intended effects. We'll discuss topics including the development of the modern banking system, very large companies, how businesses relate to each other and society, how government seeks to protect people from business practices, and issues of environmental protection, free use of information (or not), and globalization.
Human Rights in the EU	LAW 504	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course focuses on the EU's influence on human rights within member and candidate countries, as well as countries with which EU has set up external relations.It deals with the human rights policy and human rights acquis of the EU and studies human rights jurisdiction of the relevant monitoring bodies. Secondly, the course illuminates selective human rights problems that have been the subject of daily discussions all over Europe. Lastly, the course focuses on the human rights clauses placed in the external agreements of the EU, human rights conditionality in relation to full membership, and the role of the EU in promoting and protecting human rights in developing countries.
International Law	LAW 511	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to provide a concise account of the basic concepts of international law. After focusing on the debate on the nature of international law and its political and historical underpinnings, it will explore the sources of international law and the relations between international and municipal law. States and governments, international organisations, companies and individuals will be examined as subjects of international law. More specific issues, such as treatment of aliens, jurisdiction, treaties, state succession, the law of the Sea, air and outer space and will examine human rights, peaceful settlement of interstate disputes, and the law of war will complete the agenda of this course.
Comparative Constitutional Law	LAW 512	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course explores the similarities and differences between written constitutions than stem from diverse legal and cultural backgrounds. While the chosen constitutions may differ according to the instructor, the emphasis is on making critical comparisons between the different constitutional systems, including substantive areas such as: Judicial Review; Individual Freedoms; Separation of Powers; Centralization of Decision Making; Pluralism; and Protection of Democratic Principles.
Postcolonial Theory and Literatures	LIT 524	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	the other course readings. This course may be taken What happens whwn anthropolologists 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 ).
Auto/biography	LIT 530	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will be an introduction to different types of self-narrative, ranging from autobiographies, biographies, auto-ethnographies, self-documentaries to autofiction. The course will emphasize the study of narrative structures in autobiography. Different autobiographical texts will be studied in their historical, social and political contexts, while we explore the impact such works have had on literary and intellectual history. In the contextof autobiographical writing, in the tensile relationship between self and society, we will analyze issues related to gender, sexuality, race, class, and religion. Possible readings include St. Augustine's Confessions, J. J. Rousseau's Confessions, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Halide Edib Adıvar's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal, RolandBarthes's Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes, Brenda Maddox's Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce (Or: Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom), Latife Tekin's Gece Dersleri, and Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir
Literary Theory	LIT 534	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designed as a critical survey of modern literary theory from the middle of the twentieth century to today. It includes both primary and secondary readings on New Criticism, Structuralism and Semiotics, Post-Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Marxist and Cultural Criticism, Feminism, and Post-Colonialism. Discussion will include applications of these approaches to literary texts as well as the evaluation of their methodological assumptions, consistency, and fruitfulness. The aim of this course is not only to enhance the students' ability to read critically and to think theoretically, but also to provide an understanding of the importance of contemporary literary theory for the analysis of culture in general and the influence of literary theories on fields such as anthropology, cultural studies, history, psychology, and even law.
Literature and Psychoanalysis	LIT 540	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course focuses on the critical evaluation of of the impact of psychoanalytic discourses on literature and literary studies and vice versa. Basic concepts of psychoanalytic theory and criticism will be covered with reference to the writings of Freud and Lacan, as well as to the later interventions by such theorists as Derrida, Zizek, Deleuze and Guattari. Students will be encouraged to develop their skills in the textual analysis of a range of literary and psychoanalytic works, considering them as distinct ways of talking about desire, fantasy, memory, madness, and the unconscious.
Gender and Sexuality in Literature	LIT 545	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course explores the ways in which literature reflects, influences, creates, and reveals cultural beliefs about gender roles, identities, and sexuality by analyzing short stories, novels, poems, and plays from a diversity of eras and national traditions. Literary texts are studied in the light of major works of feminist and queer literary theories and histories of sexuality. The ways in which gender intersects with other cultural issues such as race, nationhood, globalization, and class is also addressed in the context of specific literary texts.
Seminar in World Literature	LIT 552	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	In-depth readings of selected texts, representative of various periods and genres (ranging from ancient Greek epic and drama through early modern, modern and contemporary texts), combining close textual analysis of a set of original works with the study of multiple layers of interpretation as attempted by the existing secondary literature
Literature and Immigration	LIT 554	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Immigration has received much attention in the last century, usually as a "problem" or a "question" for the host country. The general term immigration is often used to talk about political exiles, economic refugees and internal migrants, as well as those who fit the classic picture of an individual or family moving permanently to a new home country. This course will look at literary works by writers who have been classified as "immigrants" to the country from which they write. While the course will take into account the linguistic, political and cultural issues these authors consider, it will also consider how the writers themselves have embraced or rejected the designation of "immigrant" and what is at stake in such a decision.
Literature, Ideology, Resistance	LIT 559	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course focuses on some of the major literary figures responsible for innovating literature's political role in society and redefining the responsibility of artists and critics in the twentieth century. The euphoria created by the struggles against colonization and racial and class oppression in various parts of the world led artists to reevaluate the political possibilities of literature. The study of a group of writers at the nexus of these struggles incorporates a critical dialogue on cultural studies. Accordingly, the course puts the emphasis on the theoretical debates on how culture, ideology, 'race', ethnicity and class have been defined and/or represented. An important learning outcome is to equip the student with the conceptual tools to analyze a variety of literary texts with respect to politics, ideology and resistance.
Imagining the City	LIT 570	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course explores the city as a theme in such literary genres as the novel, drama, autobiography, and poetry, as well as film. From the ancient polis as a political unit to the twenty-first century metropolis, the city has emerged in literature as the antithesis to state of nature, the birthplace of modernity, the stage for social change and conflict, the locus of transition from empire to nation-state, and the meeting point of "the East" and "the West." With its inclusions, exclusions, periphery, subcultures, underground, public and private spheres, and fragmentations, the city is a symbolic system exploited widely in literature. The course may include such literary representations of the city as Balzac or Baudelaire's Paris, Joyce's Dublin, and Mahfouz's Cairo, as well as contemporary, utopian or dystopian works in world literature.
Modern Turkish Literature	LIT 594	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	What are the repercussions of social and political movements in Turkish literature? How is the cultural dynamism of Turkey represented on the literary plane? This course will explore modern Turkey and its literature through the works of writers such as Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Oğuz Atay, Adalet Ağaoğlu and Orhan Pamuk. The course will attempt to define what we mean by "Turkish national literature" by analyzing representations of gender, religion, cultural and national identity not only in works written in Turkish but also those written in a language other than Turkish (predominantly English) and published outside the borders of Turkey (Selma Ekrem, Halide Edib.)
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature	LIT 692	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This seminar introduces students to major works of literature that have influenced Turkish history and culture and continue to have an impact on our understanding of contemporary Turkey. Seminar materials combine such literary works with theoretical and historical writings on Turkey, focusing on topics such as nationalism, gender, theories of third world narratives and aesthetics in a non-western context, canon-formation and the construction of a national canon, minority literatures, and prison literature. Compared to a introductory survey course on Turkish Literature (such as LIT 394), LIT 692 encourages in- depth analyses of fewer literary works. The authors to be covered include (but are not limited to) Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Oğuz Atay, Orhan Pamuk, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Latife Tekin, Elif Şafak, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Mehmet Uzun, and Mıgırdıç Margosyan The language of instruction is Turkish. Subject to the completion of a long (approx. 30 pages) research paper largely based on primary sources, this seminar counts towards the fulfillment of the research seminar requirements for the MA and PhD degrees in History.
Transformation Practices and Action Research	MART 801	Sabancı Business School	Comprehensive action research methods can be used to diagnose organizational problems to test hypotheses or to evaluate organizational interventions. This course aims to enable students to become critical knowledge generators with the abilities to carry out action research projects in their organizations.
Decision Making Practice	MART 802	Sabancı Business School	In this course, we will use the latest games, experiments, simulations and case studies to examine and improve our decision making. You will learn how to improve the quality of your decisions and improve your ability to predict and influence behavior of others. Managers, consumers, investors and negotiators make predictable mistakes. Therefore, understand the psychology of decision making can give you a unique advantage in any business setting, even in your personal life.
Introduction to Action Research and Transformation	MART 803	Sabancı Business School	The course examines an introduction to the theory and practice of action research and the application of the action research paradigm in transformation management .
Agile Transformation	MART 804	Sabancı Business School	The aim of the course is to provide managers, project managers agile practitioners and other leaders with a broad understanding of popular agile methods, the relationship of agile approach to culture, how to succeed organizational change and how to support an organization that is transforming from traditional development.
Foundations of Action Research in the Organizational Context	MART 805	Sabancı Business School	The course will cover the history of action research (AR) and different AR approaches. There is an international AR community with a tradition of dialogue and discussion. This course will cover the theoretical contributions of leading AR researchers to the literature Participating AR; Socio-Technical System Thinking; Scandinavian (Dialogical) AR; Southern (Liberating) AR; Collaborative Inquiry; Appreciative Inquiry; Cases and key literature on different AR approaches, such as educational AR, will be covered.
Workforce Organization and Transformation	MART 806	Sabancı Business School	This course offers an alternative perspective on activities related to managing the workforce. Assuming students have a basic understanding of human resource management techniques, it attempts to tackle the puzzle posed by the contemporary workplace. The course mainly focuses on activities related to managing the people who do the work of organizations. Workforce organization and transformation in the workplace helps grapple with today's complexities by adopting a framework that captures the interrelationships between influencing national and international (macro) factors, organizational (meso) factors, and individual and team dynamics (micro). These techniques include learning, talent management, unlimited workforce, integrating workplace dynamics, artificial intelligence and the future, virtual workforce, reflections and future directions. These transformations can be better understood with an action research orientation.
Organizational Transformation and Strategy	MART 807	Sabancı Business School	This course will equip students with knowledge of strategy and business model and how they can be changed and innovated. The course explores how strategy and business model can be transformed. After the transformation process, the system will also look at how it can be classified and measured.
Supply Chain Transformation: Cooperation and Complexity	MART 808	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on how organizations can successfully manage the transformation of traditionally cost-driven supply chains into value-generating supply chains. Key themes include aligning the supply chain with business objectives, supply chain risk and resilience management, complexity management, developing strategic partnerships and collaborations, open innovation, sustainable supply chain management and supply chain digitalization. These supply chain transformations are considered prototypical examples of how relevant action research is.
Transformational Leadership	MART 809	Sabancı Business School	The course will support participants' understanding of leading and participating in organizational transformation and help them apply it well. He will tell them what to do and what not to do, when and in what order. The course will specifically focus on: Defining Transformation; status and process, Organizing and aligning key components, infrastructure and resources for transformation, leading and managing stakeholders, a methodology for delegates to assess the current state of their businesses and plan for transformation, common mistakes and case studies.
Organizational Development and Transformation	MART 810	Sabancı Business School	The course focuses on organizational development and transformation issues and provides participants with management competency on these issues.
Stakeholder & Internal Communication: Reputation Management	MART 811	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on providing students with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively manage an organization's reputation in times of change. Topics covered include understanding reputation dynamics, strategic communication planning, crisis communication, internal communication strategies, measurement and evaluation, and analysis of real -world reputation management case studies. Students will explore how to navigate the complexities of managing reputation through strategic communications, enabling them t lead organizations through periods of change.
Negotiation and Dispute Management	MART 812	Sabancı Business School	Conflicts arise as a result of the conflict of interests, needs, norms and values and are an inevitable part of our lives. Approaching conflict in avoidance or through violent means can be costly and have serious impacts on our lives. Therefore, it is extremely important to resolve conflicts using non-violent and constructive methods to achieve sustainable results. This course will examine the basic concepts and practices of alternative forms of conflict resolution such as negotiation, mediation and facilitation. It will focus on conflict resolution practices at various levels, including interpersonal, intergroup and international.
Digital Transformation and Innovation	MART 818	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.
Design Thinking and Story Telling	MART 819	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 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; students are required to craft an effective story for the innovation/solution that they develop for the first project. They are also requested to deconstruct and analyze the stories told by classmates
Graduation Project	MART 820	Sabancı Business School	Students will create and conduct an action research project on organizational development/transformation in their own company or another company and write an article about the project. The project will be carried out in an integrated manner with all courses.
Thermodynamics	MAT 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The nature of thermodynamics and the basis of thermostatistics. Postulates of thermodynamics. Conditions of equilibrium. The Euler equation and Gibbs-Duhem relation. Reversible processes and the maximum work theorem. Legendre transformations. The extremum principles for the thermodynamic potentials. Maxwell relations. Stability of thermodynamic systems. First order phase transitions. Critical phenomena. The Nernst postulate. Irreversible thermodynamics postulate. Irreversible thermodynamics.
Statistical Mechanics	MAT 502	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Statistical ensembles. Statistical explanation of the principles of thermodynamics. Fluctuations. Applications to the ideal gas, monatomic crystals, ideal gas mixtures. The statistics of the polymer chain. Theory of solutions. Polymer solutions. Binding and aggregation with applications to problems in biotechnology. Introduction to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
Computer Modeling in Materials Science	MAT 504	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Model systems and interaction potentials. Short review of statistical mechanics. Monte Carlo methods, molecular and stochastic dynamics, quantum simulations. Advanced simulation techniques; e.g. free energy estimation, non-equilibrium molecular dynamics. Applications to polymers, surfaces, gels, biomolecules.
Mechanical Behavior of Materials	MAT 505	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Study of the deformation of solids under stress; emphasizing the role of imperfections, state of stress, temperature and strain rate. Stress, strain, and the basic concepts of deformation and fracture for metals, polymers, and ceramics; analysis of important mechanical properties such as plastic flow, creep, fatigue, fracture toughness, and rupture. Application of these principles to the design of improved materials and engineering structures. Emphasizes the relationships between microscopic mechanisms and macroscopic behavior of materials.
Viscoelasticity	MAT 507	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Viscoelastic behavior of solids and liquids. Simple models of viscoelasticity. Experimental observation of the viscoelastic behavior. Nonlinear viscoelasticity. Formulation of the initial-boundary problems of viscoelasticity. Applications to engineering polymers.
Structure and Properties of Materials	MAT 509	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course is designed to help the graduate students that come from different background to develop a common base to build on. It will introduce different kind of materials briefly, and then focus on the properties of different materials. Throughout the course the main emphasis will be on covering optical, mechanical, electrical, magnetic and thermal properties of different materials' classes.Introductory materials science and engineering education or introductory solid state physics course are pre-requisite.
Spectroscopic, Diffraction and Scattering Techniques	MAT 510	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to spectroscopy (IR, Raman, NMR, epr, UV, visible, DSC, Mossbauer, mechanical and dielectric), diffraction methods (X-ray, neutron and electron) and scattering techniques (X-ray, neutron and visible light); selected applications.
Polymer Chemistry and Physics	MAT 511	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Fundamental principles of polymer chemistry and physics will be offered. In polymer chemistry polymerization reactions, kinetics and thermodynamics will be studied. Utilization of kinetic and thermodynamic parameters for the synthesis of different types of polymer structures, and the process conditions will be evaluated. A basic understanding of the reaction parameters for controlling polymerization rates, molecular weights, structural features and mechanical properties will be given. In polymer physics, the molecular structures of the single chain, of polymers in dilute solution and in the bulk state will be investigated. Physical properties of polymer mixtures, blends and gels will be investigated. Glass transition and crytallization in polymers and their effects on physical properties will be studied. A working knowledge of polymer chemistry and physics will be provided by laboratory and computer experiments.
Principles and Applications of Polymer Physics	MAT 514	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Statistical mechanics of chain molecules. The Rotational Isomeric State formalism for calculating chain dimensions and related quantities by the use of matrix multiplication methods. Molecular theory of rubber elasticity. Statistical thermodynamics of polymer solutions. Phase equilibria in polymer systems, swelling of gels. Dynamics mechanisms in polymers in solution and in bulk.
Biomaterials Science and Biocompatibility	MAT 516	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to biomaterials science and biocompatibility. Structure and properties of tissues and cells. Surface properties of materials and characterization of biomaterials surfaces. Classes of materials used in medicine: Metals, polymers, hydrogels, bioresorbable materials, ceramics, glasses, composites, thin films, fabrics and biologically functional materials. Microscopic and macroscopic structure of tissue. Mechanical properties of tissue. Pathobiological responses to implants. Medical implant design and function. Application of materials in medicine and dentistry. Cardiovascular applications. Dental implants. Orthopaedic applications. Ophthalmologic applications. Sutures. Adhesives and sealants. Tissue engineering.
Experiment-based Optimization in Materials Engineering	MAT 518	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Mechanics of composite materials, formulation of design problem as mathematical optimization - design variables, objective functions and constraints. Survey of optimization algorithms, design of experiments: Selecting points for experiments in boxlike and irregular domains. Surrogate based optimization: How to combine surrogates and optimization.
Surface Science: Chemistry and Physics	MAT 520	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Surfaces, the structure of surfaces, thermodynamics of surfaces, dynamics at surfaces, electrical properties of surfaces, the surface chemical bond, mechanical properties of surfaces, catalysis by surfaces and surface modifications in plastics, composites and ceramics.
Tribology	MAT 521	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The shape and properties of surface. Friction. Boundary lubrication. Hydrodynamic lubrication. Elastohydrodynamic lubrication. Corrosion chemistry and protections.
Glass Science and Engineering	MAT 522	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Structure of glass is introduced where the concepts of short range and long range order will be defined. Systems that form glasses are investigated, and their phase equilibria will be studied. Phase seperation and spinodal decomposition in different systems can lead to innovative processing techniques for high temperature materials. Thus a solid knowledge of glass formation is essential for materials engineer and will be made available in this course. Atomic mobility and deformation in glasses will be treated in ceramics to gain insight into their mechanical, chemical and electrical properties. The course will also focus on optical properties of various glasses.
Cement Chemistry and Technology	MAT 523	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Raw materials for cement manufacturing, mining and raw material handling, kiln feed preparations, kiln reactions, and problems with kiln operations, clinker phases and their properties, conversion of clinker to cement powder, cement hydration reactions, hydrated microstructure, cement paste behavior, rheology and strength development, concrete and concrete ingredients, properties of aggregates, concrete durability and issues with durability, speciality cements and speciality concrete, new applications with concrete
Advanced Materials Characterization	MAT 525	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This combined class and laboratory course complements Materials Characterization in the sense of continuing along the central theme in greater detail. Topics include: a basic overview and general aspects dynamic light scattering; atomic force microscopy; electron spin resonance spectroscopy, solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Mössbauer spectroscopy, dielectric spectroscopy and impedance spectroscopy. Computational techniques will be given in lab section to show how to simulate spectra by considering the energy functions
Two-dimensional Materials and Applications	MAT 526	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	In this course, students will learn the remarkable phenomena occurring at lower dimensions which are universally applicable to a wide range of two- dimensional materials and their heterostructures. The course will provide the fundamental physics&chemistry knowledge required to understand the macroscopic behaviors two- dimensional materials starting from graphene and spanning a wide range of spectrum including graphyne, boron nitride, transition metal dichalcogenides, silicene, germanene, phosphorene, antimonene, nitrogene, metal hydroxides and polymers in two-dimensional networks. This course will also present important applications of two-dimensional materials in energy storage/harvesting, carbon capture and water filtering devices as well as discussing the quantum effects such as superconductivity, superlubricity and nano-capacitance that can be observed in low-dimensional materials. The course is research oriented and successful students will be able to contribute to research papers at the end of the course.
Graduate Seminar I	MAT 551	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar II	MAT 552	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Introduction to Electron Microscopy	MAT 571	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course will treat electron optics and diffraction physic as a basis for the advanced course. It will go into the construction and functions of different types of electron microscopes and detectors. The largest portion of the course is devoted to analyzing materials and their defects with the help of electron optics and diffraction physics. A short but essential introduction to analytical electron microscopy and spectroscopic techniques will be given. The course will have 3-4 laboratory exercises to introduce practical issues with the electron microscopy.
Special Topics in MAT: Adhesion Science and Engineering	MAT 58000	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course covers theories of adhesion, chemical and physical concepts of adhesives, principles of surface chemistry in adhesion science, and characterization of adhesively bonded assemblies. The analysis and modification of surfaces to be bonded are critical first steps for the design and selection of proper adhesives in light of theories of adhesion. Chemical and physical concepts in adhesives play an important role in understanding their melt and solid state transitions, thermal and mechanical properties, and crystallization, viscoelastic, rheological or physical aging behaviors. Characterization methods for thermal and physical testing of adhesives and adhesively bonded assemblies are necessary for a thorough understanding of the application performance of various adhesives. Throughout this course, students will gain strong knowledge on (i) the understanding of the adhesion phenomena and the design adhesives for various substrates; (ii) thermal and mechanical characterization of adhesives and adhesively bonded assemblies to establish structure-property relationships for various applications .
Special Topics in MAT: Nanoengineering in Agriculture and Food Science	MAT 58001	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The aim of this course is to describe the state of technology in researches on nanomaterials for modern agriculture and food packaging applications for a sustainable future. This course provides cutting- edge knowledge on both theoretical and applied aspects of nanomaterial design, formulation, application, and management on sustainable agriculture and food supply. The course will focuses on nanomaterials and nanotechnological developments on physical or chemical soil enhancements, controlled delivery and release of fertilizer, sustained release plant protection agents to combat pests (herbicides, insecticides and fungicides) which directly affect the wellbeing of agricultural crops. Moreover, the effect of nanotechnology on post-harvest protection and packaging applications for sustainable agriculture and food supply chain will be covered.
Special Topics in MAT: Polymer Engineering / Processing Fundamentals	MAT 58005	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The Polymer Processes/Engineering Fundamentals course will to provide undergraduate and graduate students in materials and manufacturing engineering programs to learn about the structure-property relationships of thermoplastic polymers as well as process methods. Within the scope of the course, basic information about polymer morphology and rheology will be given and by using this information, they will learn about the basics of melt mixture preparation, extrusion, and molding techniques such as injection, thermoforming, rotational molding, pressure molding and calendering processes. Rubber materials and processes will also be explained within the scope of the course.
Master Thesis	MAT 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Project Course	MAT 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 studentis required to submit a final report. The final report is to be approved by the project supervisor.
Nanotechnology	MAT 630	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Synthesis, processing and characterization of nanomaterials. Sol-gel processing. Properties of nanomaterials. Biological nanomaterials. Technological impact.
Advanced Electron Microscopy: Analytical Electron Microscopy	MAT 671	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Qualitative and quantitative Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy technique as well as qualitative and quantitative Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy technique will be treated as tools of analytical transmission electron microscopy.
Advanced Electron Microscopy : Imaging	MAT 672	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course details diffraction physics and electron optics that were introduced in the preceding course in electron microscopy. Special emphasis will be given to defect analysis in conventional transmission electron microscopy and high resolution electron microscopy. The second portion of the course is devoted to analytical electron microscopy using x-ray and electron energy loss spectroscopies.
Special Topics in MAT: Introduction to Ceramics	MAT 68000	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in MAT: Failure Analysis	MAT 68003	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course introduces the fundamental concepts of the failure analysis methods and tools of engineering components. Topics include analysis of broken components by macroscopic and microscopic observation, review of common experimental methods used in failure analysis, specific description of failure mechanisms of composite, metallic, ceramics, and polymeric materials. Throughout the classes, students are expected to gain an understanding of these subjects, and how they are applied in industrial applications
Special Topics in MAT: Polymer Matrix Composites	MAT 68004	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Polymer Matrix Composites course aims to inform undergraduate and graduate students in materials and manufacturing engineering programs about polymer matrix composites. In order to better understand the structure-property-application relationship in polymer matrix composites, which is the most common type of composite, the polymer matrix and fibers that make up polymer matrix composites, the polymer matrix-fiber interface and the distribution of fibers in the matrix will be examined within the scope of the course The preparation, processing and characterization (spectroscopic, rheological, thermal and mechanical) methods of different types of polymers that make up the polymer matrix will be explained in detail. Various processing and forming methods used in the preparation of polymer matrix composites will be explained by considering different types of polymer matrices. Information will be given about the thermal and mechanical characterization methods used for the polymer matrix composites. Finally, various application areas of polymer matrix composites and the materials selection criteria will be discussed.
Special Topics in MAT: Advanced Electrochemistry	MAT 68005	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course provides the knowledge required to understand electrode and interface processes in electrochemical systems. It covers the fundamental concepts of the thermodynamics and kinetics of electrochemical systems. It delivers the required knowledge to conduct electrochemical techniques involving step, sweep and impedance. It discusses the working principles of electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems such as, batteries, supercapacitors, and fuel cells. It also covers the application of the characterization techniques to electrochemical systems.
Ph.D. Dissertation	MAT 790	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Analysis I	MATH 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Lebesgue measure and integration on the line. Convergence theorems. General measure and integration. Lp spaces. Decomposition of measures. Radon Nikodym theorem. Product measures and Fubini's theorem.
Analysis II	MATH 502	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Metric spaces and general topological spaces. Connectedness, compactness, completeness and consequences. Baire category theorem. Linear topological spaces. Open mapping, closed graph theorems. Hahn Banach theorem. Hilbert and Banach spaces.
Functional Analysis and Applications	MATH 503	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Examples of Hilbert and Banach spaces, geometry of the Banach space. Linear functionals. Hahn Banach theorem, its versions and applications. Convexity, Krein Milman theorem. Applications of uniform boundedness principle, closed graph and open mapping theorems. Fixed point theorems (Banach, Brouwer, Schauder) and applications.
Banach Algebras and Spectral Theory	MATH 504	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Basic Banach algebra theory. Commutative Banach algebras. Commutative C* algebras and Gelfand representation theorem. Spectral mapping theorem. Linear operators on a Banach space. Compact operators. Spectral theory for compact and normal operators. Fredholm theory.
Complex Analysis	MATH 505	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Analytic functions, Cauchy Riemann equations, conformal mappings. Cauchy integral formula. Power series and Laurent expansion. Residue theorem and its applications. Infinite products and Weierstarss theorem. Global properties of analytic functions, analytic continuation.
Introduction to Fréchet Spaces	MATH 506	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Locally convex topological spaces, duality theory, inductive and projective limits of normed spaces, Fréchet spaces and their duals, epimorphism theorem, generalized Mittag-Leffler procedure.
Topology	MATH 507	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Fundamental concepts, subbasis, neighborhoods, continuous functions, subspaces, product spaces and quotient spaces, weak topologies and embedding theorem, convergence by nets and filters, separation and countability, compactness, local compactness and compactifications, paracompactness, metrization, complete metric spaces and Baire category theorem, connectedness
Introduction to Complex Dynamics	MATH 508	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to Riemann surfaces. Universal coverings and Poincare metrics. Normal families. Iterated holomorphic mappings. Fatou and Julia sets. Dynamics on Riemann surfaces, hyperbolic and Euclidean surfaces. Local fixed point theory. Periodic points. Attracting and repelling cycles. Polynomial dynamics. Mandelbrot sets and fractals.
Hardy Spaces and Operator Theory	MATH 509	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Hardy Spaces, Hp Spaces, factorization of Hp functions, Banach spaces, the Müntz-Szasz theorem, singular inner functions, outer functions, composition operators and their spectra, Toeplitz operators and their spectra.
Fréchet Spaces	MATH 510	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Epimorphism theorem, examples and applications, generalized Mittag-Leffler procedure, the functor proj, the functor ext and applications to the structure theory of Fréchet Spaces
Algebra I	MATH 511	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to group theory. Isomorphism theorems. Permutation groups and Cayley's theorem. Conjugacy classes. Lagrange's theorem and the Sylow theorems. principle ideal domains. Polynomial ring.
Algebra II	MATH 512	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Modules. Fields, extension fields, Galois theory. Categories and functors.
Group Theory	MATH 513	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Basic constructions with groups: direct, semidirect products, projective limits; finitely generated abelian groups, free groups, solvable and nilpotent groups, divisible groups, permutation groups, linear groups, group representations.
Finite Fields and Applications I	MATH 514	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Characterization of finite fields, roots of irreducible polynomials, traces, norms, and bases, representation of elements of finite fields. Order of polynomials, irreducible polynomials and their construction. Factorization of polynomials. Linear recurring sequences. Introduction to applications of finite fields; algebraic coding theory and cryptology.
Finite Fields and Applications II	MATH 515	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Normal bases, arithmetic in normal bases representation, the complexity of normal basis. Dual bases, self-dual bases, existence of self-dual normal bases, Characters and Gaussian sums, primitive elements with prescribed trace. The discrete logarithm problem. Elliptic curves over finite fields.
Algebraic Number Theory	MATH 519	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Contents: The aim of the course is to give an introduction to the basic concepts of algebraic number theory. Following topics will be covered: algebraic number fields, rings of integers in number fields, integral bases, discriminants, unique factorization of ideals and Dedekind domains, ideal class group and class number, structure of the group of units (Dirichlet´s theorem), ramification of prime ideals in extensions of number fields.
Partial Differential Equations	MATH 522	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Linear and quasilinear first order equations, main concepts. The Cauchy Kowalevski theorem. Classification. Initial and/or boundary value problems. The concept of a well posed problem. Basic techniques and existence-uniqueness theorems for hyperbolic, elliptic and parabolic equations.
Riemann Surfaces	MATH 523	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Riemann surfaces. Coverings, Homotopy, Fundamental group. Universal coverings. Sheaves. Algebraic functions. Differantial forms. Cohomogies. Theorems of Dolbeault and de Rham. Riemann-Roch theorem.
Probability Theory	MATH 524	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Semi-algebras and sigma-algebras of events, Kolmogorov?s axioms of probability, consequences thereof, probability spaces, measurability, random variables as measurable mappings, random vectors, probability measures induced on Borel sigma-algebras by random vectors, distributions and distribution functions, extension of probability measure starting by semi-algebras, mathematical expectation, expected values of non-negative simple, non-negative and general random variables, properties, conditional distributions and independence, Borel-Cantelli lemma, conditional expectation given a sub sigma-algebra, Radon-Nikodym theorem, different modes of convergence, almost sure convergence, convergence in probability, convergence in L^p, convergence in distribution, different implications between them, characteristic functions, inversion formulas, relation to convergence concepts, the weak and the strong law of large numbers, central limit theorem.
Compact Riemann Surfaces	MATH 525	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The following topics will be covered: introductory notions, cohomology groups, Dolbeault’s Lemma, Finiteness Theorem, exact cohomology sequences, Riemann-Roch Theorem, Serre Duality Theorem, functions and forms with prescribed principal parts, Abel’s Theorem, Jacobi’s Inversion Problem.
Projective Geometry	MATH 526	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Homogeneous coordinates, projective spaces, the principle of duality, projective planes and the configurations of Desargues and Pappus, collineations and correlations, perspectivities, the projective groups, polarities, algebraic varieties, classical polar spaces, Plücker coordinates, the Klein quadric, Segre varieties, Veronese varieties.
Finite Geometry	MATH 527	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Ovals and Ovoids, Arcs and Caps, Blocking sets, Linear Sets, Translation Planes, Semifields, Generalized Polygons. Applications in coding theory and cryptography.
Introduction to Cryptography	MATH 531	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Complexity of calculations. Public key cryptography, RSA, discrete logarithm, Diffie-Hellman problem, stream ciphers, knapsack. Primality and factoring. Elliptic curve cryptosystems.
Introduction to Coding Theory	MATH 532	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Linear codes, some good codes, bounds on codes, cyclic codes, Goppa codes, algebraic geometry codes.
Introduction to Algebraic Geometry	MATH 541	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Algebraic varieties, affine and projective varieties, dimensions of varieties, singular points, divisors, differentials, intersections. Schemes, cohomology, curves and surfaces, varieties over the complex numbers.
Algebraic Curves	MATH 542	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Plane curves, affine and projective varieties, intersection of curves, Bezout's theorem, analysis of singularities, Riemann Roch theorem.
Elliptic Curves	MATH 543	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Weierstrass equations, group law, isogenies, Tate module, Weil pairing, endomorphism ring. Zeta function of an elliptic curve, Weil conjectures. Uniformization theorem. Elliptic curves over local fields. Mordell-Weil theorem. Siegel's theorem. Modular curves and L-series.
Class Field Theory	MATH 544	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	General class field theory, local class field theory,Hilbert symbols, Kummer extensions, class field axiom, global class fields, zeta functions and L-series.
Representation Theory	MATH 545	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Basic notions on representation theory. Language of abelian categories: Grothendieck groups, projective modules. Theory of blocks. Lifting of characteristic p representations to characteristic 0 virtual representations. Fong-Swan Theorem. Applications to the Artin representations
Commutative Algebra -1	MATH 546	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	It is an introductory course on commutative algebra, based on the book of M. F. Atiyah and I. G. Macdonald, titled “Introduction to commutative algebra”. This course aims to cover the following topics. 1. Rings and ideals 2. Rings and Modules of fractions 3. Primary decomposition 4. Integral Dependence and valuations 5. Noether Normalization 6. Chain conditions 7. Noetherian and Artinian rings 8. The Nullstellensatz and Spec of a ring 9. Zariski topology on Spec of a ring 10. Graded rings and modules 11. Dimension theory
Commutative Algebra 2	MATH 547	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course explores homological theory of commutative rings and aims to cover the following topics: 1. Commutative rings and modules 2. Localization and Spec of a ring 3. Completions and Artin Rees Lemma 4. Graded rings, Hilbert function and the Samuel function 5. System of parameters and multiplicity 6. Regular sequences and depth 7. Koszul Complexes 8. Cohen-Macaulay rings and modules 9. Gorenstien rings 10. Regular rings
Graduate Seminar 1	MATH 551	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar II	MATH 552	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Proofs from the Notebook	MATH 555	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The aim of this course is to introduce a selection of proofs of some important theorems. These proofs require moderate background but high ingenuity. Among the topics are: Division algorithm, prime factorization theorem, some primitive results on the distribution of primes. Greatest common divisor. Euler's totient function. Phytagorean triples. A short survey of metric spaces; continuity, compactness, connectedness. Stone- Weierstrass approximation theorem. Geometry of the sphere. Brouwer fixed point theorem. Borsuk's antipodal mapping theorem.
Algebraic Combinatorics	MATH 561	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Group representations, representations of the symmetric group, combinatorial algorithms, symmetric functions, ordinary partitions, Young tableaux, plane partitions and applications in other enumerative problems.
Introduction to Mathematical Analysis	MATH 571	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The least upper bound property in R, equivalents and consequences. Metric spaces. Completeness, compactness, connectedness. Functions,continuity. Sequences and series of functions. Contraction mapping theorem and applications to calculus: Inverse and implicit function theorems.
Introduction to Algebra	MATH 572	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Basic theory of groups, rings and fields is covered. Fundamental concepts of Galois Theory are also given.
Complex Calculus	MATH 573	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Analytic functions, Cauchy's theorem and the Cauchy integral formula. Taylor series. Singularities of analytic functions, Laurent series and the calculus of residues. Infinite products. Conformal mappings.
Partial Differential Equations	MATH 574	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Classification, the concept of a well-posed problem. Initial and boundary value problems. Fourier series. The heat equation, the wave equation and the Laplace equation.
Introduction to Functional Analysis	MATH 575	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Uniform convergence. Stone Weierstrass approximation theorem. Arzela -Ascoli theorem. Baire's theorem. Vector spaces and linear operators. Normed spaces . Completion .Duality and Hahn-Banach extension theorem. Bounded linear operators. Banach-Steinhaus theorem. Open mapping and closed graph theorems.Hilbert spaces. Introduction to Banach algebras.
Integration	MATH 576	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The Riemann integral. The Riemann-Stieltjes integral, functions of bounded variation. Lebesgue integral and convergence theorems.
Introduction to Stochastic Calculus	MATH 577	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Basic concepts of stochastic processes, Brownian motion, Gaussian white noise. Conditional expectations and their properties, martingale processes. Stochastic integrals, motivations for the Ito stochastic integral. Ito stochastic integral for simple processes and the general case. Ito Lemma and its different versions. Introduction to stochastic differential equations (s.d.e.) . Solving the Ito s.d.e. by the Ito Lemma and the Stratonovich integration. Homogeneous equations with multiplicative noise. The general s.d.e. with additive noise. A short excursion into finance. Option pricing problem, the Black and Scholes formula.
Dynamical Systems	MATH 578	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Existence and uniqueness, geometrical representation of ODEs. Construction of phase portraits. Nonlinear systems, local and global behavior, the linearization theorem. Periodic orbits and limit sets, Poincare-Bendixson theory. The stable manifold theorem, homoclinic and heteroclinic points. Bifurcation diagrams. State reconstruction from data, embedding.
Special Topics in MATH: Commutative Algebra	MATH 58000	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in MATH: Partial Differential Equations	MATH 58001	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in MATH: An Introduction to Homological Algebra	MATH 58002	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	1) Categories and functors 2) Modules 3) Tensor products of modules 4) Projective, Injective, Flat modules 5) Localization 6) Homology 7) Tor and Ext 8) Homology and rings
Special Topics in MATH: Integer partitions and q-series.	MATH 58003	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Integer partitions; q-series, elementary identities (q-binomial theorem, Heine's transformation, Jacobi's triple product identity, Ramanujan's 1-psi-1 transformation) and corollaries; q-series as partition generating functions; Ramanujan's congruences for the partition function, Rogers- Ramanujan generalizations.
Special Topics in MATH: Wave Theory	MATH 58005	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Wave phenomena; governing equations for wave models; classifications of the problems, linear and nonlinear problems; ; hyperbolic waves and qualitative properties; dispersive waves and qualitative properties; water waves, linear and nonlinear theory.
Special Topics in MATH: Introduction to Diophantine equations and function fields	MATH 58006	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The aim of this course is to provide an introduction into several topics in Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory, and to point out how they are related to each other. This should enable students to choose the direction of their future studies and/or to see their own research in a wider context. We will not give full proofs of all results but rather aim to clarify their relevance.
Master Thesis	MATH 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Selected Topics in Operator Theory	MATH 603	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Banach algebras and spectral theory; operators on Hilbert spaces; the Hardy-Hilbert space; Toeplitz and composition operators
Unbounded Operators in Hilbert Spaces	MATH 604	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course is an introduction to the theory of unbounded operators in Hilbert spaces and consists of two parts: Part 1 develops the general theory of unbounded operators. The main topics here are domains, graphs, adjoint operators, spectrum, resolvent, symmetric operators and quadratic forms, symmetric extensions, deficiency indices, self-adjoint operators, Cayley transform, Spectral theorem, Stone theorem. Part 2 is an introduction to the spectral theory of differential operators (Sturm-Liouville operators and Hill-Schrödinger operators). The main topics include domains, spectra localization, asymptotics of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, bases of root functions, convergence of spectral decompositions.
Fourier Analysis	MATH 610	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course is an introduction to the Fourier Analysis for graduate students in Mathematics. The syllabus includes Fourier series (point wise and uniform convergence, Riemann localization Principle, norm convergence, summability, examples of divergent Fourier series); Fourier Transform (basic properties, Riemann -Lebesgue lemma, inversion, L2-theory in Rn); Fourier Analysis in Lp-spaces (Riesz-Thorin interpolation theorem, Hilbert transform).
Algebraic Function Fields	MATH 636	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Places,valuation rings and discrete valuations of a function field; the rational function field; divisors, Weil different adeles, genus; Riemann-Roch Theorem and its consequences; extensions of function fields, ramification, Hurwitz genus formula; constant field extensions, Galois extensions, Kummer and Artin-Schreier extensions.
Algebraic Function Fields II	MATH 639	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Ramification theory for function field extensions, function fields over finite fields, rational places, Hasse-Weil theorem (Riemann hypothesis), towers of function fields, introduction to Algebraic Geometry codes.
Spectral Theory of one-dimensional periodic Schrödinger and Dirac operators	MATH 664	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course is an introduction to Spectral Theory of Differential Operators. The syllabus includes: boundary value problems, Floquet theory, structure of the spectra, spectra localization, asymptotic estimates for the resolvent, asymptotic formulas for the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, relations between the spectral gaps decay and the potential smoothness, existence of Riesz bases consisting of root functions.
Special Topics in MATH: Differentaial Equations I	MATH 68001	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in MATH: Complex Analysis	MATH 68002	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in MATH Several Complex Variables	MATH 68003	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Complex diferentiation, subharmonic and pluri-subharmonik (psh) functions, singularities of psh functions, maximal psh functions, positive closed currents, complex Monge -Ampere measure. Applications.
Special Topics in MATH: Special Topic in Algebra: Graded Syzygies	MATH 68004	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Graded rings and modules Graded Free Resolutions. How to compute Syzygy modules Numerical data arising from graded resolutions Betti numbers and Hilbert function Monomial resolutions Resolutions of monomial ideals and Eliahou- Kavaire formula Shifting theory
Special Topics in MATH: Analytic Number Theory	MATH 68005	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	1 - Ability to utilize the properties of arithmetic functions, compute their average orders. 2 - Ability to apply elementary theorems on distribution of primes, knowledge of the prime number theorem. 3 - Thorough understanding of Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions. 4 - Basic ability to manipulate Dirichlet series, Euler products, zeta-and L-functions. 5 - Basic understanding of the components of the proof of the prime number theorem. * Arithmetic functions. * Big-oh notation and average orders of arithmetic functions. * Elementary theorems on the distribution of prime numbers, introduction to the prime number theorem. * Characters of finite abelian groups. * Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions. * Dirichlet series and Euler products. * Zeta- and L-functions. * Analytic proof of the prime number theorem.
Special Topics in MATH: Pluripotential Theory	MATH 68006	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The aim of this Special Topics course is to introduce the students the pluripotential theory. This is a special branch of several complex variables and hence, it has many applications to the theory of holomorphic functions. The students acquire the language and knowledge of this theory and make connections of this theory with related fields such as complex analysis, operator theory and complex geometry.
Special Topics in MATH: Mathematical Techniques in Cryptography	MATH 68007	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Perfect nonlinear functions, association schemes, strongly regular graphs, spreads, difference sets, APN functions, related mathematical structures
Special Topics in MATH: Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory	MATH 68008	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Quantum error correcting codes, covering radius of codes, decoding algorithms of codes, codes and designs, locally recoverable codes
Ph.D. Dissertation	MATH 790	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Plasmonics	ME 502	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will cover the fundamentals of plasmonics and surface plasmons. This class will provide the basic knowledge for understanding and manipulating surface plasmons and localized plasmons. In addition, emerging applications involving various plasmonics systems will be discussed. Surface plasmons on a single interface, thin film plasmons, localized plasmons on nanoparticles, and plasmonic nano-antennas will be discussed. This course is intended to teach students the principals of plasmonics encountered in different applications. Therefore, this course can be of interest for students in many departments. In addition to homework and exams, an individual project will be assigned to students to apply their new knowledge of plasmonic systems.
Introduction to Robotics	ME 503	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course is intended to present fundamentals of robotic systems. Specific subjects include: position and orientation in 3D space; manipulator forward and inverse kinematics; velocities and forces - Jacobian's relations; manipulator dynamics; stiffness and compliance control; trajectory control; mobile robots - selected topics.
Mechanical Vibrations	ME 505	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	•Basic concepts of vibrations •Analysis of single degree of freedom (SDOF) systems by using complex vector representation •Coulomb and structural damping •Frequency Response Functions (FRF) and system identification •Response of SDOF to periodic excitation •Response of SDOF to non-periodic excitation •Free vibration of multi degree of freedom (MDOF) systems •Harmonic response of multi degree of freedom (MDOF) systems
Compliant Motion Systems	ME 507	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course focuses on modeling and control of motion systems with mechanical flexibility, e.g. manipulators with flexible joints/links, compliant (soft) actuators, or systems with compliant transmission mechanisms. It covers dynamics of mechanical compliance, prominent control methodologies for compliant motion systems, and cases in which mechanical compliance is utilized for efficiency, safety, and robustness. A mathematical foundation on nonlinear system analysis and Lyapunov Theory is included.
Topology Optimization Based Design	ME 508	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of numerical methods utilized in the solution of structural optimization with emphasis on topology optimization problems. This course presents fundamental aspects of finite element analysis and mathematical programming methods with applications on discrete and continuum topology optimization problems. Applications include designing lightweight structures, compliant mechanisms, heat transfer, and energy harvesting systems. The course content will be applicable to design of a broad range of engineering systems as well as material design.
Introduction to the Finite Element Method	ME 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.
Computational Analysis and Simulation	ME 515	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Focus of the course is on the state-of-the-art computational modeling techniques used in disciplines such as structural mechanics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer and electromagnetics. Emphasis is on the numerical solution methods of partial differential equations and their use in computational analysis and simulations for engineering design. There will be a number of case studies and examples to enhance the lectures with examples. Topics covered are: basic numerical methods for root-finding, solution of linear system of equations and ordinary-differential equations, finite-difference solution of parabolic, elliptic and hyperbolic partial-differential equations and finite-element solution of elliptic PDEs such as Poisson equation in 1D.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems	ME 520	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Topics covered are fundamentals of the renewable and sustainable energy systems technology, thermo-economic analysis and the current research trends in improving the energy production from terrestrial water and air flows, solar irradiation, nuclear fission and controlled plasma for fusion, energy conversion alternatives such as hydrogen fuel cells, small and large scale energy storage such as electric batteries, thermal and compressed-gas, and the current research on the electric transmission grids and an introductory economic analysis of the domestic electric use in the future.
Autonomous Mobile Robotics	ME 525	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course covers fundamental problems of autonomous mobile robotics including locomotion, reception, localization, planning and navigation. In the context of locomotion, legged, wheeled, flying and swimming mobile robots will be discussed. In the reception part, various sensors that are used on mobile robots will be introduced and several sensor fusion algorithms will be presented. Localization problems will be tackled in a probabilistic framework using Markov and Kalman Filtering techniques. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem and its variations will also be introduced and discussed. Finally planning and navigation strategies will be covered.
Microfluidics and Nanofluidics	ME 530	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Overview on microfluidics/nanofluidics, Basic Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Analysis and modeling of microfluidic and nanofluidic systems with slip flows, Phase change phenomena in microdomains and applications, Nanofluids and applications, Electrokinetic flows and applications, Acoustofluidics and Optofluidics with applications.
Scaling in Engineering Systems	ME 535	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The course introduces the scaling laws for engineering systems including multi-scale systems and consists of different scales (nano-, micro-, or macro-scales). When system modeling, design and fabrication processes are being performed, scaling and interaction of different scales become prominent. This course covers the fundamental properties of scales, design theories, modeling methods and manufacturing issues with different applications. Examples of engineering systems include micro -/macro-robotics, micro-/macro-actuators, MEMS, microfluidics, micromanipulators (AFM, microinjection technologies), robotic surgery (da Vinci robots), biosensors, MRI machines, and solar energy panels. Students will master the materials through problem sets, scientific discussions with experts from industry or medicine, and will improve their project presentation skills.
Biomechatronics	ME 537	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	•Introduction to biomechatronics (Motivation and highlights of biomechatronic technologies), •Human as a physiological system, •Biological actuators, •Biological sensors, •Biological feedback mechanisms, •Brain and brain machine interfaces, •Active and passive prosthetic limbs, •Orthotics, Exoskeletons, Exomusculatures, •Biocompatibility and biocompatible materials in biomechatronics, •Implants, •Medical robotics, •Diagnostic devices.
Advanced Vehicle Systems	ME 541	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	1. Introduction a. History b. Introduction to different systems c. Comparison to conventional vehicles, advantages d. Current situation (technology, market, emission benefits) 2. Vehicle Dynamics and Performance Fundamentals, Modelling a. Longitudinal Dynamics b. Propulsion and Breaking c. Handling d. Ride Comfort 3. Powertrains a. Components b. Configurations i. Electric Vehicle ii. Hybrid Electric Vehicles (series, parallel, split configurations) c. Regenerative Braking 4. Batteries a. Basics/Fundamentals b. Types, differences, advantages/disadvantages c. Battery modeling d. Battery Management Systems 5. Internal Combustion Engines a. ICE fundamentals b. Types c. Fuel Economy d. Emission control 6. Alternative Energy Sources a. Fuel Cells i. Fundamentals ii. Types iii. Hydrogen Storage b. Supercapacitors and Ultracapacitors 7. Electric Motor a. DC Motors b. Induction Motors c. Switch Reluctance Motors d. Control Basics
Graduate Seminar I	ME 551	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar II	ME 552	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Advanced Fluid Mechanics	ME 561	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course covers essential advanced topics in fluid mechanics as an introductory graduate level course surveying fundamental concepts, and methods used in fluid mechanics. Emphasis will be on patterns of incompressible viscous flows, potential flow, boundary layers, and some solutions of the NS equation. The course will conclude with introduction to hydrodynamic stability, transitory flows and turbulence.
Fundamentals of Transport Processes	ME 562	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course aims to develop a detailed understanding of the mass and energy transport phenomena in chemical, biological and engineering processes at at introductory graduate level. Emphasis will be on energy and mass transport in solids and flows, multicomponent transport, the Maxwell-Stefan equations, state-of-the art advanced computational methods and tools used in the analysis of the transport processes.
Special Topics in ME: Vibration of Continuous Systems	ME 58002	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Special Topics in ME: Bilateral Teleoperation	ME 58004	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 bilaterally teleoperated systems. By the end of the course a solid understanding of the principles of bilateral control in the context of modern classical control and hands-on experience with implementation of bilateral controllers on force-feedback devices are aimed. Covered topics include haptic rendering of virtual environments, passivity of the human- in-the-loop systems, transparency and coupled stability scaled teleoperation architectures, trade-off between robust stability and transparency, 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
Master Thesis	ME 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Project	ME 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
Optimal Control	ME 601	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	After a short review of static optimization and numerical methods to address static optimization problems, students will be introduced to the principle of optimality and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in the context of dynamic programming. Calculus of variations will be studied in detail, emphasizing necessary and sufficient conditions for an extrema. Constrained problems, Pontryagin's maximum principle will be discussed; formulation of optimal control problems and performance measures will be covered. Special attention will be paid to linear quadratic regulator/tracking, minimum-time, and minimum control-effort problems. Finally, optimal controllers will be synthesized using direct and indirect numerical techniques.
Ph.D.Dissertation	ME 790	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar I	MFE 551	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar I	MFE 552	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Master Thesis	MFE 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar I	MFE 751	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar II	MFE 752	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
PHD Dissertation	MFE 790	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Manufacturing Metrology	MFG 511	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course first provides introduction to key concepts of metrology (science of measurement) such as traceability, uncertainty, accuracy, calibration, world metrology systems and accreditation. Then the focus is production- related metrology mainly based on dimensional measurement applications such as displacement, flatness and gauge block interferometric-mechanical measurements, diameter, form and surface texture standards measurements, scale and displacement sensor calibrations, coordinate metrology (CMMs), in-process measurements, optical tooling, nanometrology (atomic scale measurements), machine tool metrology, angle metrology and uncertainty calculations. Principles for precision engineering applications will also be covered including preliminary errors in dimensional metrology and motion mechanism , Abbe principle and applications conforming this principle and self- elimination/separation of errors, metrology loop , influence of temperature, force and vibration in dimensional measurements and precautions for precision engineering to lower the uncertainty of measurements. Laboratory exercises will be carried out with selected examples such as calibration of CNC machine tools using laser interferometers, effective use of reference standards for manufacturing and angular axis calibration of rotary tables using optical components and non-contact measurement equipment.
Mechanics of Solids	MFG 512	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Fundamentals of solid mechanics will be explained throughout this course. At the first stage, vector & tensor properties and rules would be shown in order to establish a background for the students to earn advanced level mechanics problem solution capabilities. Later on large deformation theory in its general form will be explained and necessary equations for solid mechanics modeling like; conservation of energy, conservation of momentum will be discussed in detail. Elastic material models and relations for different Isotropic and Orthotropic materials will be explained within the course. Introductory level plasticity which covers the basic relationships for a plastically deforming solid will be provided within the course. Solution of continuum problems with finite element methods will be illustrated and example 1D finite element problem solution methodology will be shown in detail.
Advanced Topics in Finite Element Analysis	MFG 513	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Advanced Finite Element Analysis aims at teaching advanced level finite element concepts in a mechanics perspective to graduate level students. The course starts with a complete review of fundamental finite element concepts like discretization of equilibrium equation, interpolation functions, line-surface-volume integrals, Gauss-Quadrature, isoparametric elements, application of essential and natural boundary conditions. Later, finite element elastic analysis concepts and principals for plate & shell elements would be introduced. In the course modeling of the orthotropic (anisotropic) elastic behavior of composites and how to incorporate this material behavior to the finite element models will be shown with worked examples. Next topic is the material and geometric non- linearities and the numerical solution methods of non-linear finite element analysis will be studied. Finally, meshless interpolation concepts such as moving least squares and element free Galerkin methods will be introduced. Matlab will be used as the coding environment during the course. Students will be asked to implement finite element codes in order to get a better understanding of finite element working principles of a commercial finite element software. In the course project, the students would prepare their own finite element analysis code for a given plate\shell type element type in MATLAB environment. In addition working principals and development of user-defined subroutines will be illustrated using “UMAT” of ABAQUS as a commercial finite element software.
Additive Manufacturing	MFG 516	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will introduce advanced design and fabrication methodologies in Additive Manufacturing. The Additive Manufacturing is defined as the process of adding materials layer-by-layer to manufacture parts from three-dimensional (3D) computer models. Additive Manufacturing also called Layered Manufacturing, 3D Printing or Solid Freeform Fabrication is considered one of the next-manufacturing revolution. The topics covered include various additive manufacturing processes and their process principles, the materials used, computer- aided design and path planning for additive manufacturing processes, process-related limitations and constraints and applications of Additive Manufacturing. The course also includes several related hands-on projects.
Metal Cutting Mechanics and Dynamics	MFG 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.
Machine Tool Engineering	MFG 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	MFG 566	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will introduce advanced design and fabrication methodologies in development of customized medical devices and tools, implants, and engineered tissues, organs and biological systems. The topics covered include computer- aided design and representation of biological objects, computational geometry for medical imaging and processing, reverse engineering, computer-aided analysis and engineering, biomaterials, tissue engineering, additive manufacturing for biomedical engineering applications, bio- manufacturing and manufacturing processes for medical devices/tools. The course also includes several related hands-on laboratory projects.
Multi-axis Machining	MFG 568	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Advanced CAD/CAM applications, which are used in metal cutting industry, will be covered with the theoretical and practical aspects. The topics covered during the lectures will be applied through homeworks and a course project. Techniques for analytical surfaces representation and modeling, surface creation techniques in CAD environment, theoretical aspects of toolpath computation for 3 and 5 axis milling, 3 and 5 axis milling toolpath computation operations offered by commercial CAM packages, theoretical and practical aspects of post processing issues for 3 and 5 axis milling will be covered. Process modeling for simulation and verification of 3 and 5 axis milling processes will be covered. Project groups will select sample geometries requiring 3 and 5 axis milling. Then, they will prepare operations for machining of these sample parts using commercially available Siemens NX and CATIA packages to manufacture the selected parts on the 5-axis machine tool available in Manufacturing Research Laboratory or on the 6- axis machining robots available at SU-IMC.
Special Topics in MFE: Manufacturing Processes for Composite Materials	MFG 58000	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will cover manufacturing processes and modeling for fiber reinforced polymer matrix composite materials. In order to optimize material formation and avoid process induced defects, process engineers need a thorough understanding of the coupling between material transformations, thermo-mechanical response, heat transfer, and viscous fluid flow. Students will be given an overview of applications of composite materials, forming processes, and types of process induced defects which may occur. Constituent materials will be discussed (thermosets, thermoplastics, advanced fibers), along with thermo-mechanical characterization methods and material models. The equations of transport, constitutive laws, and dimensionless analysis will be reviewed and given context in process modeling. Models for short fiber suspensions in injection molding, compression molding, and extrusion will be introduced. Process modeling for continuous fiber reinforcement will include Pultrusion, Sheet Forming, Autoclave processing, Out-of-Autoclave processing, Filament Winding, Automated Fiber Placement, and Liquid Composite Molding.
Special Topics in MFG:Advanced Mechanics of Composite Structures	MFG 58002	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course will cover advanced mechanics of composite structures through macroscale modelling of composite materials using high-order laminate theories, and through experimental characterization, and data acquisition and analysis. In order to carry out conceptual design, initial sizing and preliminary modelling of composite structural components, design engineers need a thorough understanding of the experimental mechanics as well as strength, stability, and dynamic mechanical response of thin and thick plates/shells made of composite materials. In this context, students will be given an overview of standards and tests methods for experimental identification of material properties of laminates and sandwich structures. In addition, the constitutive equations and strain-stress transformation equations will be reviewed in the context of modelling composite structures. Beam, plate, and shell kinematics will be introduced based on different lamination theories including layer-wise, zigzag, high-order shear deformation theories. Principles of virtual work and minimum potential energy will be presented for bending, buckling, vibration problems of plate and shell structures. Analytical/numerical solutions of these problems will be included. Computational modelling will include post- processing methods to obtain accurate interlaminar and transverse-shear stresses and quantify damage mechanisms such as delamination, impact, and fracture resistance of composite materials.
Financial Accounting and Reporting	MFIN 500	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, liquid assets, inventories and cost of the goods sold, plant assets and intangibles, liabilities and owner's equity, and ratio analysis.
Principles of Finance	MFIN 501	Sabancı Business School	Fundamental issues of finance are taught in this course. The course starts with financial statements analysis, introducing students with balance sheets and income statements of corporations. Time value of money, Net Present Value (NPV) and Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis follows. Using these techniques, we go onto valuation of stocks and bonds. Capital investment decisions are examined as well. Course ends with an introduction to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), which is a neat depiction of the relation between risk and return.
Corporate Finance	MFIN 502	Sabancı Business School	This course is a continuation of MFIN 501 and resumes where MFIN 501 leaves. The course starts with the analysis of capital structure of firms, which involves comparing the cost of debt and equity financing. Other topics include payout policy, options and futures, risk management, mergers and acquisitions and financial distress.
Statistics	MFIN 504	Sabancı Business School	In this introductory statistics course, topics include probability theory, distributions, sampling, hypothesis testing, and regression methodologies.
Modeling in Excel	MFIN 506	Sabancı Business School	Modeling with Excel tables, graphical visualization Modeling with Excel tables, graphical visualization Excel, and programming with VBA macros are the topics covered in the course.
Financial Statement Analysis	MFIN 510	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.
Portfolio Theory	MFIN 511	Sabancı Business School	The Portfolio Theory course builds from financial markets and securities trading and develops modern portfolio theory as a characterization of rational investor behavior by means of diversification. The course includes a rigorous discussion of the theory of the risk-return trade-off, market efficiency, portfolio management practices, portfolio performance evaluation, and concludes with behavioral finance.
Fixed-Income Analytics	MFIN 512	Sabancı Business School	Fixed-Income Analytics deals with the valuation and management of fixed-income portfolios. The course starts with the modern interpretation of the term-structure of interest rates. Building from the basic notion of time-value of money, the course introduces duration and convexity with an emphasis on their implications for portfolio management. The course includes the derivation of an arbitrage-free interest rate model to help price options embedded in interest-rate dependent securities as wells as a discussion of interest-rate swaps and various trading strategies.
Money & Banking 1	MFIN 513	Sabancı Business School	The course will provide an introduction to macroeconomics. Characteristics of financial institutions will also be examined in detail.
Financial Econometrics	MFIN 514	Sabancı Business School	This is a two semester course and aims to overview the essential econometric techniques used in applied financial analysis. Case studies from the academic finance literature are employed to demonstrate potential uses of each approach. The first course introduces basic classical linear regression model, panel data methods and qualitative dependent variables.
Financial Econometrics 2	MFIN 515	Sabancı Business School	The second course in financial econometrics focuses on modelling and forecasting financial time series. The aim is to teach how to evaluate basic models and principles in the analysis of the financial time series, to interpret the existing empirical literature and execute new empirical studies in the areas of asset pricing, market microstructure and the general modelling of financial time series. The course covers univariate and multivariate stationary and non-stationary time series models as well as models of volatility.
Financial Modeling -1	MFIN 516	Sabancı Business School	This course will provide an introduction to financial modeling. Developing good financial models requires combining knowledge of finance and modeling skills. Students will be assumed to have a good working knowledge of the topics covered in the introductory finance course and a good comfort level in using Excel. Financial and statistical functions and more complex Excel and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) operations such as generating random numbers, using data tables, and working with matrices, loops and arrays will be introduced as necessary. No prior VBA knowledge will be assumed. Project analysis, cost of capital, financial statement modeling, valuation, and leasing will be among the topics covered.
Money & Banking 2	MFIN 517	Sabancı Business School	The course will provide an introduction to macroeconomics. Characteristics of financial institutions will also be examined in detail.
Valuation	MFIN 520	Sabancı Business School	The principal objective of this course is to provide you with the conceptual basis, intuitive reasoning, and analytical framework for making sound valuation decisions.
Advanced Corporate Finance 1	MFIN 521	Sabancı Business School	Case studies in corporate finance focusing on financial planning, firm valuation, mergers and acquisitions, long-term financing, and risk management will be the outline of the course.
Derivative Securities	MFIN 522	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. 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, the Black-Scholes option pricing formula, and swap pricing are introduced.
Financial Risk Management	MFIN 523	Sabancı Business School	This course serves as a follow-up for the course titled Derivative Securities. The main emphasis is on how derivative securities are used against common risk factors such as interest rates, exchange rates and credit risk. 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. Topics such as delta-hedging and portfolio insurance are also covered.
Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring	MFIN 524	Sabancı Business School	Valuation, deal structuring, leveraged buyouts and corporate structurings will be the outline of the course.
Programming in VBA for Excel	MFIN 525	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this course is to provide the fundamentals necessary to develop VBA programs in Excel, so that interested students can later take the follow-up course OPIM 531 to learn developing decision support tools in Excel. The course assumes no prior programming experience and emphasizes the importance of following a professional style in writing code. Working with ranges, and other Excel objects, developing user forms, error handlings are covered in addition to basic building blocks of VBA programming.
Financial Modeling - 2	MFIN 526	Sabancı Business School	Financial modeling is the quantitative representation of the relationships 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 will build on Financial Modeling I and tackle more advanced topics such as portfolio models, event studies, VaR (value at risk) analysis, option pricing, portfolio insurance, real options valuation, immunization strategies, 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.
Microeconomics	MFIN 527	Sabancı Business School	This is the first part of a two-course module in economics. The purpose of the module is to familiarize students with the main economic concepts and the economic reasoning of an economist. In this part, the focus is on the market economy and on the decision making problem of the individual units, notably firms.
Macroeconomics	MFIN 528	Sabancı Business School	This is the second part of a two-course module in economics. In this part, the idea is to enable the student to use information concerning the surrounding (macro and global) economic environment in her (his) economic decisions. Together with the first course that focuses on microeconomics, the module familiarizes students with the main economic concepts and the economic reasoning of an economist..
Economics for Financial Managers	MFIN 530	Sabancı Business School	This course covers economic principles and their implications in competitive environments. The course is taught in two parts, allocated to macro- and microeconomics. The objective of the course is to familiarize the students with the economic environment and develop an understanding of economic reasoning.
Special Topics: Strategic Financial Management	MFIN 531	Sabancı Business School	Some of the topics that are intended to be the focus of study in this course are strategic approach to financial management, compensation, reward systems, corporate risk management, corporate governance, principal-agent theories, , joint ventures and alliances, venture capital and private equity.
Special Topics in Finance 2	MFIN 533	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.
International Finance	MFIN 535	Sabancı Business School	The international finance course will enrich student knowledge on the exchange rate dynamics, international trade and development, and emerging markets. Furthermore, corporate finance issues with a global perspective will be covered. More specifically, accounting for international transactions, valuation of international investments, and financial management of multinationals will be investigated. On the international investments side, global portfolio management, risk management, country and sector risks, international interest rates, term structures, and global markets will be examined.
Special Topics in Finance 3	MFIN 541	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	MFIN 542	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.
Accounting & Financial Statement Analysis	MFIN 550	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, liquid assets, inventories and cost of the goods sold, plant assets and intangibles, liabilities and owner's equity, and ratio analysis. Also 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.
Economics for Managers	MFIN 559	Sabancı Business School	This course covers economic principles and their implications in competitive environments. The course is taught in two parts, allocated to macro- and microeconomics. The objective of the course is to familiarize the students with the economic environment and develop an understanding of economic reasoning.
Project / Internship	MFIN 590	Sabancı Business School	There will be an internship/project component of the program as well.
Finance Practicum 1	MFIN 591	Sabancı Business School	The course will be based on seminars given by outside speakers. The topics will be related to the practical issues related to Turkish financial markets, such as the Turkish tax system, capital market laws and regulations, public offerings, venture capital and entrepreneurial laws, Turkish financial markets and European Union.
Finance Practicum 2	MFIN 592	Sabancı Business School	The course will be based on seminars given by outside speakers. The topics will be related to the practical issues related to Turkish financial markets, such as the Turkish tax system, capital market laws and regulations, public offerings, venture capital and entrepreneurial laws, Turkish financial markets and the European Union.
Finance Practicum 3	MFIN 593	Sabancı Business School	The course will be based on seminars given by outside speakers. The topics will be related to the practical issues related to Turkish financial markets, such as the Turkish tax system, capital market laws and regulations, public offerings, venture capital and entrepreneurial laws, Turkish financial markets and the European Union.
Managerial Skills Development	MFIN 596	Sabancı Business School	Managerial Skills workshop is a series of seminars and hands-on activities designed to develop various team and professional skills of MiF students to support them as they embark on their careers.
Managerial Skills Workshop 2	MFIN 598	Sabancı Business School	Managerial Skills workshop is a series of seminars and hands-on activities designed to develop various team and professional skills of MiF students to support them as they embark on their careers.
Project	MFIN 800	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.
Behavioral Finance	MFIN 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.
Venture Capital and Private Equity	MFIN 807	Sabancı Business School	Private equity (PE) refers to investment funds organized as limited partnerships that invest in public and private firms using various strategies such as leveraged buyout, growth capital, mezzanine capital, venture capital etc Typical investors in PE are large institutional investors and wealthy individuals. Venture capital (VC) is a subcategory of PE concentrating on investments made in less mature, early stage companies. The PE market has grown significantly since 1980s and has become one of the most important financial markets globally. This course will introduce the methodologies used in PE finance and employ the case method to study PE deals. PE is a great lab to study important topics in finance such as capital structure, corporate governance, valuation, asset allocation, organizational restructuring. Throughout the course, PE market is going to be discussed from the perspective of different agents including entrepreneurs, PE fund managers, and the investors in PE funds. The course is going to start with early stage investments in VC market. The objective in this section is to analyze a VC opportunity from a qualitative and quantitative perspective. Later, we will discuss private equity and leveraged buyout investments in large companies. In the last part of the course, we will study investments in PE funds and issues related to structuring PE funds.
Money & Banking	MFIN 813	Sabancı Business School	The course will provide an introduction to macroeconomics. Characteristics of financial institutions will also be examined in detail.
Machine Learning Applications in Finance	MFIN 817	Sabancı Business School	The goal of this course is to develop skills in handling financial data, modeling, prediction and forecasting utilizing machine learning algorithms. The first part of the course introduces python programming fundamentals and develop skills to process, handle and visualize financial data. In the second part of the course, machine learning algorithms such as logistic regression, artificial neural networks and decision trees are discussed with applications in financial markets. Hands on training is provided in financial problems such as portfolio optimization, trading algorithms, forecasting asset prices and macroeconomic variables. Fundamental machine learning algorithms from the classification, regression and reinforcement learning domains are introduced throughout the course providing the fundamental knowledge for investment professionals to implement these techniques successfully in different areas of finance and economics.
Special Topics in Finance 1	MFIN 832	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.
Accounting & Financial Statement Analysis	MFIN 850	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, liquid assets, inventories and cost of the goods sold, plant assets and intangibles, liabilities and owner's equity, and ratio analysis. Also 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.
Corporate Finance	MFIN 851	Sabancı Business School	Fundamental issues of finance are taught in this course. The course starts with financial statements analysis, introducing students with balance sheets and income statements of corporations. Time value of money, Net Present Value (NPV) and Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis follows. Using these techniques, we go onto valuation of stocks and bonds. Capital investment decisions are examined as well. Course ends with an introduction to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), which is a neat depiction of the relation between risk and return. Also the course examines the analysis of capital structure of firms, which involves comparing the cost of debt and equity financing. Other topics include payout policy, options and futures, risk management, mergers and acquisitions and financial distress.
Valuation, Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring	MFIN 852	Sabancı Business School	The principal objectives of this course are to provide students with the conceptual basis, intuitive reasoning, and analytical framework for making sound valuation decisions. Also the course deals structuring, leveraged buyouts and corporate structuring.
Global Financial Markets	MFIN 858	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.
Economics for Managers	MFIN 859	Sabancı Business School	This course covers economic principles and their implications in competitive environments. The course is taught in two parts, allocated to macro- and microeconomics. The objective of the course is to familiarize the students with the economic environment and develop an understanding of economic reasoning.
Quantitative Methods	MFIN 860	Sabancı Business School	This course includes the topics of probability theory, distributions, sampling, hypothesis testing, and regression methodologies. Also it aims to overview the essential econometric techniques used in applied financial analysis. Case studies from the academic finance literature are employed to demonstrate potential uses of each approach. The first course introduces basic classical linear regression model, panel data methods and qualitative dependent variables.
Investments	MFIN 861	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces the structure of financial markets and the valuation of financial assets including stocks, bonds, forwards, futures, options and swaps. Among the topics to be covered are: fixed-income investments, yield-to-maturity, duration, yield curves, forward rates, mean-variance framework, portfolio construction and performance analysis, mutual funds and other investment companies, asset pricing models, equity valuation, fundamental and technical analyses, the use of derivatives in risk-management and their pricing
Derivatives & Risk Management	MFIN 862	Sabancı Business School	This course serves as a comprehensive introduction to derivative securities and financial risk management. 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. 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, the Black- Scholes option pricing formula, and swap pricing are introduced. Also, the emphasis is on how derivative securities are used against common risk factors such as interest rates, exchange rates and credit risk. 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. Topics such as delta- hedging and portfolio insurance are also covered.
Financial Technologies	MFIN 877	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on the technological advancements, innovative trends and startups that are shaping the Financial Services Industry. The course introduces both the technologies and the firms (both startups and big corporations) that are using these technologies for innovative solutions. The following topics are covered in the course: • The Transformation of Financial Services and the Future of Financial Industry • The Effects of Technology and Innovation on Financial Industry • FinTech Ecosystem • Technological Trends and Use Cases • Blockchain Technologies • Open Banking and API Economy • Digital Banking, Banking as a Service (BaaS) and Banking as a Platform (BaaP) • FinTech Regulations • FinTech Startups and New Business Models • The Strategic Partnership Models Between Corporations and Startups • Case Studies from Different Industries
Wealth Management	MFIN 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.
Business Statistics	MGMT 500	Sabancı Business School	This course provides a detailed introduction to probability and statistics and their applications in business. The emphasis is on both conceptual understanding of the material and doing hands on statistical analysis. The successful student will finish this course with an ability to effectively evaluate and act upon statistical reports and data relating to applications in business.
Global Business Context	MGMT 501	Sabancı Business School	This subject addresses the phenomenon of globalization 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. Transnational corporations, globalization versus localization of emerging consumption patterns, information technologies, global financial markets, political and economic consequences of globalization, and accords such as European Union, GATT, and NAFTA will be discussed.
Turkish Business Context	MGMT 502	Sabancı Business School	Using institutional and cultural perspectives, this course helps students to develop a better understanding of the Turkish business environment. Topics include forms of business organization in Turkey, managerial behaviors and practices, and management education and managerial careers. Coverage of these topics is located within the context of the Turkish industrialization process.
Economics for Managers	MGMT 503	Sabancı Business School	This course covers economic principles and their implications in competitive environments. The course is taught in two parts, allocated to macro- and microeconomics. The objective of the course is to familiarize the students with the economic environment and develop an understanding of economic reasoning.
Fundamentals of Data Driven Business Decisions	MGMT 504	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.
Data Analysis Using Excel	MGMT 505	Sabancı Business School	This course is the second of a two-course module in quantitative analysis. The first course is MGMT 504 Decisions and Uncertainty. This course provides a detailed introduction to inferential statistics (confidence intervals and hypothesis testing), analysis of variance and linear regression modeling. Applications are chosen from functional areas of management to lay the foundation for more detailed study in others courses of the curriculum. The emphasis is both on conceptual understanding of the material and doing hands on statistical analysis. Microsoft Excel and associated add-ins are used for the purpose of analysis.
Practice Development and Practicing Management	MGMT 506	Sabancı Business School	This is a course that aims to develop a practitioner's perspective to management. It is an approach that focuses on the challenges and realities experienced by managers in the process of managing. The students will try to uncover the taken for granted assumptions, the implicit values, and the difference between espoused theories and theories in practice, potential conflicts and surprises in order to identify the determinants of practice of the managers in a specific organization. By being embedded in a specific organization throughout the semester, students will both individually and collectively experience a 'live case'. The course will expose the students to all the benefits of a case study approach yet in a real time and in an interactive manner. The background analysis that will be done before the orientation visit, the team inquiry of a specific business function, the critical examination of all the relevant functional managers practice with the whole class and observing a typical day of the chosen manager, in the same specific organization will enable the students to be part of the organization in a very meaningful and animated manner. These experiences will be discussed during class meetings and the students will be coached into being a 'reflective practitioner' through these discussions. A series of reflection papers to be written individually and within a team, will enable them to understand the broader as well as unique characteristics of practicing management in the context of the chosen company. The technique they will learn as they write the reflection papers and the comprehensive analysis of the 'live case' will help them in managing their projects in the second year of the MBA program. The students will hence learn the process of creating action knowledge by studying and sharing other manager's practice
Business Law	MGMT 507	Sabancı Business School	This course provides an understanding of the Turkish legal system with emphasis on corporate and contract laws as they shape the context in which business transactions are conducted.
Ethics in Business	MGMT 508	Sabancı Business School	This course examines ideas and perspectives on ethical issues in contemporary business with the objective to expand our capacity for moral inquiry and increase our alertness about consequences of misconduct. We will examine various ethical and moral dilemmas in business decision-making encountering the philosophical issues at the foundation of economic theory and management science. The course will also review recent debacles at corporate world focusing on practical issues such as social responsibility, ethical investments, corporate governance, professional codes of ethics, and morality and future of market-driven societies.
Strategic Management	MGMT 510	Sabancı Business School	This course 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.
Business Simulation	MGMT 511	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this 30-hour, one-week, intensive activity is to provide an opportunity for the participants to integrate their knowledge of the various management functions through a computer-based simulation environment. The participants, in teams of four to five, make sequential decisions at the beginning of each period over a certain time horizon and report, at the end each period, how their decisions affect the performance of their respective companies. (Measured in terms of market share, profitability and key financial ratios).
International Business	MGMT 513	Sabancı Business School	International business is one of the most exciting and challenging phenomena in the world today. The field of international business encompasses culture, politics, economics, finance, technology, in fact all activities that influence transactions between firms of different countries. These factors are also increasingly affecting the affairs of domestic business. This class aims to provide an integrative overview of the vast area of international business. The global environment will be examined first, before considering how these factors interact with managers, small and large businesses, and the consumer. The focus of this class is international; however many of the topics are directly relevant to domestic firms as well.
Economics for Managers	MGMT 514	Sabancı Business School	This is the first part of a two-course module in economics. The purpose of the module is to familiarize students with the main economic concepts and the economic reasoning of an economist. In this part, the focus is on the market economy and on the decision making problem of the individual units, notably firms.
Macroeconomics For Managers	MGMT 515	Sabancı Business School	This is the second part of a two-course module in economics. In this part, the idea is to enable the student to use information concerning the surrounding (macro and global) economic environment in her (his) economic decisions. Together with the first course that focuses on microeconomics, the module familiarizes students with the main economic concepts and the economic reasoning of an economist.
Strategy Execution	MGMT 517	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on the execution of strategy in organizations and introduces strategic processes that are effective for creating sustainable competitive advantage. The subjects covered are: formulating strategy under uncertainty, scenario planning for strategic action, strategic decision-making, organizational design, role of networks in strategy, managing strategic change, strategy execution in emerging markets. The main learning method in the course will be case studies supported by simulations, exercises, projects and lectures.
Negotiation Skills	MGMT 521	Sabancı Business School	Negotiation skills are something that no executive's toolbox is complete without. This course is a skill-building experience in negotiation. While exploring the major role that negotiation dynamics play in their personal and professional lives, participants will improve their own negotiation skills, allowing them to act consciously and skillfully in tough situations. Participants will also learn to recognize negotiation situations in everyday life and to use them as training-grounds to continue to improve their skills. The learning format includes interactive lectures and role-playing exercises, both in class and online, in which participants will experience negotiations - not as onlookers, but as active parties.
Strategic Innovation	MGMT 522	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of this course is to help students develop an understanding of the dynamics of innovation, and to focus on succesful strategies to manage the challenges posed by these dynamics. We will review the unique characteristics of industries characterized by frequent innovation, and explore how strategies in these industries are (or are not) different from other contexts. We will also focus on the process of managing innovation, both internally and externally. This course is suited for students aspiring to become entrepreneurs, general managers or consultants to general manager who are faced with situations in which innovation in new products, services and technologies is important, or those who would like to build basic backround on the topic of strategy and innovation.
Negotiation Skills	MGMT 524	Sabancı Business School	Negotiation skills are something that no executive's toolbox is complete without. This course is a skill- building experience in negotiation. While exploring the major role that negotiation dynamics play in their personal and professional lives, participants will improve their own negotiation skills, allowing them to act consciously and skillfully in tough situations. Participants will also learn to recognize negotiation situations in everyday life and to use them as training- grounds to continue to improve their skills. The learning format includes interactive lectures and role-playing exercises, both in class and online, in which participants will experience negotiations - not as onlookers, but as active parties.
Leadership	MGMT 525	Sabancı Business School	This course provides an overview of historical and cutting-edge research on leadership as well as organizational best practices on developing leadership. The course objectives are to increase students' self-awareness with regard to their own leadership qualities, understand and apply leadership theories, assess and analyze leadership behaviors in others and oneself, recognize and practice effective leadership behaviors.
Topics in Business and Society	MGMT 526	Sabancı Business School	Business in various different forms and orientations keeps burgeoning across the world. The course will explore how business relates to us as modern individuals belonging to different communities and as allegedly rational market agents. More specially, the course will dwell on how business affects everyday life, personal identity, social and political interactions, cultural attitudes, ideologies and more broadly our horizons. In this sense, the focus of the course will be placed on understanding the beginnings of modern business as a social institution in its many manifestations in Western Europe and North America and its evolutionary development throughout the twentieth century.
Independent Study	MGMT 528	Sabancı Business School	This course allows students to explore an area of academic interest not currrently covered in regular course offerings. Although all steps of the couse must approved by the supervising faculty member, students are nonetheless expected to take primary responsibility for their own learning, including developing a reading list and forms of evaluation. 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.
Technology Awareness and Implications of Technology Trends to Business Life and Processes	MGMT 535	Sabancı Business School	Technology Awareness and Implications of Technology Trends to Business Life and Processes: We are in the middle of a major technology revolution. Everything we do is surrounded by new technologies, refining the way we live and work. Nonetheless, there is a greater transformation at play as technology has shifted beyond digital and is established in every single interaction of our lives. As we see a significant new shift, technology revolution starts to put people first. High performers will achieve more with technology by continuously familiarizing with and learning, generating new solutions, driving change and disrupting the status quo. In this context, the aim of the course is to facilitate students learn how to effectively and efficiently evaluate trends and emerging technologies in business life and management and integrate them to work processes and organization through using the right methods.
Entrepreneurship	MGMT 541	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.
New Venture Creation	MGMT 545	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on the early stage of creating a new venture. At this early stage of entrepreneurial process two issues are crucial: (i) identification and refinement of entrepreneurial opportunities and (ii) business design and leveraging necessary resources to successfully launching the business. This course focuses on these two issues and aims to provide students with knowledge and skills on • Introduction to entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial mindset and intentions • Creativity and finding a business idea • From business idea to opportunity: identifying and refining entrepreneurial opportunities • Business design and model • Entrepreneurial teamsl • Writing a business plan • Funding the new venture and resource leveraging
Technology Management	MGMT 551	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.
Business Management in Action	MGMT 560	Sabancı Business School	During this course, business management approach of a C-Level executive will be discussed. Finance, Marketing, Strategy, Organizational Behavior and Operations Management and their synergy in between will be discussed with applications. Business Model concept will be discussed. Students will make self arranged interviews with management people.
Special Topics in Management I	MGMT 580	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.
Special Topics in Management II	MGMT 581	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.
Practicing Management Seminars I	MGMT 585	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this seminar series is to provide the students information on the practice of management, covering topics that would be benefical to the students during their Company Action Projects process. There will be a total of five seminars during the second year of the MBA program, covering the following topics: Project Management, Group Decision Making, Corporate Culture - Power and Influence, Innovation, Change Management.
Practicing Management Seminars II	MGMT 586	Sabancı Business School	This is the second part of a two-part seminar series. The objective of this seminar series is to provide the students information on the practice of management, focusing on topics that would be beneficial for the students during their CAP process. In this part of the seminar series, the emphasis will be on topics related to innovation, change management and group decision making (methods, decision biases, etc.)
Company Action Project	MGMT 592	Sabancı Business School	MBA students undertaking the "Company Action Project" will register for this course in the second semester. The grade will be based on the completed project.
Practice Sharing	MGMT 593	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of the practice-sharing track that runs through the 2nd year is to articulate, to share and to learn from project management practice and to reflect on this experience utilizing the relevant knowledge content of the just-in-time seminars and the Sabancı MBA knowledge wheel.
Practice Sharing II	MGMT 594	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of the practice-sharing track that runs through the 2nd year is to articulate, to share and to learn from project management practice and to reflect on this experience utilizing the relevant knowledge content of the just-in-time seminars and the Sabancı MBA knowledge wheel.
Independent Study	MGMT 595	Sabancı Business School	This course allows students to explore an area of academic interest not currently covered in regular course offerings. Although all steps of the course must be approved by the supervising faculty member, students are nonetheless expected to take primary responsibility for their own learning, including developing a reading list and forms of evaluation. 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.
Managerial Skills Development	MGMT 596	Sabancı Business School	Managerial Skills Workshop is a series of seminars and hands-on activities designed to develop various team and professional skills of the MBA students to support them as they embark on their careers.
Industrial Research	MGMT 597	Sabancı Business School	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.
Managerial Skills Workshop II	MGMT 598	Sabancı Business School	Managerial Skills Workshop is a series of seminars and hands-on activities designed to develop various team and professional skills of the MBA students to support them as they embark on their careers.
Graduation Project	MGMT 599	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.
Turkish Managerial Context	MGMT 601	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.
Strategic Management	MGMT 602	Sabancı Business School	This course involves a critical review of theory and research in the field of strategic management. The scope of the course is comprehensive, encompassing the following domains: strategic content, strategic processes, top executives, and corporate governance. Particular emphasis is placed on empirical study of strategic issues. The course is intended for doctoral students who expect to conduct research in strategic management or related areas (e.g., organizational theory, organizational behavior, marketing strategy, corporate finance, industrial organization, sociology of organizations, operational strategy). Each session we will examine a sub-field of strategic management. The topics include origins of the field of strategic management, conceptualizing and operationalizing strategy, industrial and organizational economics view of strategy, resource-based view of the strategy, learning and knowledge-based view of strategy, corporate level strategy (diversification and M&A/divestitures), international strategy and strategy in emerging markets, top executives and the upper-echelons perspective, governance and agency theory, strategic decision making, and strategy and organizational design. Our approach will typically involve reading the seminal works, synthesizing the theories/perspectives on the topic and examining in depth several empirical works.
Global Business Context	MGMT 801	Sabancı Business School	This subject addresses the phenomenon of globalization 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. Transnational corporations, globalization versus localization of emerging consumption patterns, information technologies, global financial markets, political and economic consequences of globalization, and accords such as European Union, GATT, and NAFTA will be discussed.
Data-Driven Decision Making	MGMT 804	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.
Ethics in Business	MGMT 808	Sabancı Business School	This course examines ideas and perspectives on ethical issues in contemporary business with the objective to expand our capacity for moral inquiry and increase our alertness about consequences of misconduct. We will examine various ethical and moral dilemmas in business decision-making encountering the philosophical issues at the foundation of economic theory and management science. The course will also review recent debacles at corporate world focusing on practical issues such as social responsibility, ethical investments, corporate governance, professional codes of ethics, and morality and future of market-driven societies.
Strategic Management	MGMT 810	Sabancı Business School	This course 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.
Business Simulation	MGMT 811	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this 30-hour, one-week, intensive activity is to provide an opportunity for the participants to integrate their knowledge of the various management functions through a computer-based simulation environment. The participants, in teams of four to five, make sequential decisions at the beginning of each period over a certain time horizon and report, at the end each period, how their decisions affect the performance of their respective companies. (Measured in terms of market share, profitability and key financial ratios).
Economics for Managers	MGMT 814	Sabancı Business School	This is the first part of a two-course module in economics. The purpose of the module is to familiarize students with the main economic concepts and the economic reasoning of an economist. In this part, the focus is on the market economy and on the decision making problem of the individual units, notably firms.
Strategy Execution	MGMT 817	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on the execution of strategy in organizations and introduces strategic processes that are effective for creating sustainable competitive advantage The subjects covered are: formulating strategy under uncertainty, scenario planning for strategic action, strategic decision-making, organizational design, role of networks in strategy, managing strategic change, strategy execution in emerging markets. The main learning method in the course will be case studies supported by simulations, exercises, projects and lectures
New Venture Creation	MGMT 835	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on the early stage of creating a new venture. At this early stage of entrepreneurial process two issues are crucial: (i) identification and refinement of entrepreneurial opportunities and (ii) business design and leveraging necessary resources to successfully launching the business. This course focuses on these two issues and aims to provide students with knowledge and skills on • Introduction to entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial mindset and intentions • Creativity and finding a business idea • From business idea to opportunity: identifying and refining entrepreneurial opportunities • Business design and model • Entrepreneurial teams • Writing a business plan • Funding the new venture and resource leveraging
Digital Transformation and Innovation	MGMT 840	Sabancı Business School	Digital Transformation and Innovation 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 and Innovation	MGMT 841	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.
Technology Awareness and Implications of Technology Trends to Business Life and Processes	MGMT 845	Sabancı Business School	We are in the middle of a major technology revolution. Everything we do is surrounded by new technologies, refining the way we live and work. Nonetheless, there is a greater transformation at play as technology has shifted beyond digital and is established in every single interaction of our lives. As we see a significant new shift, technology revolution starts to put people first. High performers will achieve more with technology by continuously familiarizing with and learning, generating new solutions, driving change and disrupting the status quo. In this context, the aim of the course is to facilitate students learn how to effectively and efficiently evaluate trends and emerging technologies in business life and management and integrate them to work processes and organization through using the right methods.
International Business Strategy Immersion	MGMT 851	Sabancı Business School	International business is one of the most exciting and challenging phenomena in the world today. The field of international business encompasses culture, politics, economics, finance, technology, in fact all activities that influence transactions between firms of different countries. These factors are also increasingly affecting the affairs of domestic business. This class aims to provide an integrative overview of the vast area of international business. The global environment will be examined first, before considering how these factors interact with managers, small and large businesses, and the consumer. The focus of this class is international; however many of the topics are directly relevant to domestic firms as well. This course offers an opportunity for the students to explore the ınternational business strategy development in the context of a spesific country. The course consists of three stages: (1) campus-based learning; (2) immersion trips, providing direct engagement with business leaders and academics to gather information; and (3) analysis and synthesis of findings in the form of group assignments.
Design Thinking and the Power of Storytelling in Business	MGMT 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 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; students are required to craft an effective story for the innovation/solution that they develop for the first project. They are also requested to deconstruct and analyze the stories told by classmates.
Cybersecurity for Executives	MGMT 872	Sabancı Business School	The methods and tactics used by the advanced persistent threat attackers are explained at a non-technical level to enable the business executives to understand the enemy and evaluate their organization's posture against it. While stay a non-technical level demonstrations are provided to have a better grasp on the attacker methods and tools. Managing cybersecurity risks requires a good understanding of governance, regulatory requirements and relevant best practices. Thus, a cybersecurity governance primer is also provided to the participants.
Global Governance and Türkiye	MGMT 873	Sabancı Business School	In recent years, there is unprecedent increase in global risks with a sharp upward turn in global uncertainty. The transformation in global power balances, new risks and threats together with a depletion of resources bring forth new challenges at the global and regional levels. Turkey sits at the center of this transformation. This course aims investigate global governance, its challenges together with a transformation over time in all of these aspects. Accordingly, the course aims to furnish students with new tools and instruments to understand global uncertainty and formulate a deeper understanding of future dynamics, in particular from a global business perspective.
Project II	MGMT 892	Sabancı Business School	Project II MBA students undertaking the "Company Action Project" will register for this course in the second semester. The grade will be based on the completed project.
Managerial Skills Development	MGMT 896	Sabancı Business School	Managerial Skills Workshop is a series of seminars and hands-on activities designed to develop various team and professional skills of the MBA students to support them as they embark on their careers.
Graduation Project	MGMT 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	MGMT 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.
Doing Business Glocally: Global trends/local conditions	MGMT 901	Sabancı Business School	The phenomenon of globalization is discussed in connection with a variety of issues directly and/or indirectly relevant for business and managerial practices. Topics include the globalization debate in terms of conceptualization, causal dynamics, socio-economic consequences, and implications for macroeconomic stability, state power, and governance.
Turkish Business Context	MGMT 902	Sabancı Business School	Using institutional and cultural perspectives, this course helps students to develop a better understanding of the Turkish business environment. Topics include forms of business organization in Turkey, managerial behaviors and practices, and management education and managerial careers. Coverage of these topics is located within the context of the Turkish industrialization process.
Microeconomics	MGMT 903	Sabancı Business School	This is the first part of a two-course module in economics. The purpose of the module is to familiarize students with the main economic concepts and the economic reasoning of an economist. In this part, the focus is on the market economy and on the decision making problem of the individual units, notably firms.
Macroeconomics	MGMT 904	Sabancı Business School	This is the second part of a two-course module in economics. In this part, the idea is to enable the student to use information concerning the surrounding (macro and global) economic environment in her (his) economic decisions.Together with the first course that focuses on microeconomics, the module familiarizes students with the main economic concepts and the economic reasoning of an economist.
Ethics in Business	MGMT 905	Sabancı Business School	Ideas and perspectives on ethical issues in contemporary business are discussed with the objective to expand participants' capacity for moral inquiry and increase their alertness about the impact of business on society. Various ethical and moral dilemmas in business decision making are examined encountering the philosophical issues at the foundation of economic theory and management science. Review of recent debacles at corporate world focusing on practical issues such as social responsibility, ethical investments, sustainability, corporate governance, corporate citizenship, codes of ethics as well as on more conceptual inquiries on morality and future of market-driven societies.
Strategic Management	MGMT 910	Sabancı Business School	Introduces a plurality of perspectives in strategic thinking and action. Strategy as plan, position, perspective and pattern capture the diversity of perspectives essential to grasp in managerial practice. The contact and the process pertaining to these perspectives will be covered, and the experience of the participants integrated into the conceptual frameworks.
Business Simulation	MGMT 911	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.
Managerial Economics	MGMT 914	Sabancı Business School	Because we interact, cooperate, and compete with each other in the economy, economics is a social subject. Everyone experiences the economy. Everyone contributes to it, one way or another. Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions. This course aims to motivate students to learn economics by asking questions about how the contemporary economy functions as an overall system. The course focuses on competition between firms; the determination of overall investment, consumption and employment; and the relationship between the economy and the natural environment.
International Business	MGMT 915	Sabancı Business School	International business is one of the most exciting and challenging phenomena in the world today. The field of international business encompasses culture, politics, economics, finance, technology, in fact all activities that influence transactions between firms of different countries. These factors are also increasingly affecting the affairs of domestic business. This class aims to provide an integrative overview of the vast area of international business. The global environment will be examined first, before considering how these factors interact with managers, small and large businesses, and the consumer. The focus of this class is international; however many of the topics are directly relevant to domestic firms as well.
Business Analytics for Managers	MGMT 918	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on the use of analytics and structured approaches to improve decision making process in the business landscape. The course cindustries are evaluating alternative tools and techniques. The course also includes history of business analytics, preliminary analysis and understanding of data, predictive modeling and forecasting, and future trends in business analytics.
Managerial Decision Modeling	MGMT 919	Sabancı Business School	This course aims to introduce optimization, simulation and decision trees as tools for supporting and improving decision-making. The main objective is to improve skills on structuring managerial decision models to complex business problems. All modeling and analysis is done using the MS Excel commands, tools and add-ins. A variety of business applications in operations, finance and marketing are considered as illustrative examples. In addition, we will analyze and solve these problems, and study their economic interpretation.
Risk Analysis and Simulation	MGMT 920	Sabancı Business School	This is a course on applied Monte Carlo simulation that aims to introduce simulation as a tool for supporting and improving decision-making. The aim is to familiarize the students with the various practical uses of simulation, emphasizing modeling aspects but also covering some statistical issues that are of value to practitioners. All modeling and analysis is done using the MS Excel simulation add-in @RISK (part of Palisade Decision Tools). A balanced set of problems/models from finance, marketing and operations (such as financial risk modeling, market share modeling and capacity planning) are addressed.
Business and Society	MGMT 921	Sabancı Business School	This course aims to strengthen your understanding of business and its representations in recent sociological theories. More specifically, t will introduce the students to the interaction between business and social change and transformation in connection with the shifts in modernity.
Corporate Strategy	MGMT 930	Sabancı Business School	Business policy is the study of the functions and responsibilities of senior management, the crucial problem that affect success in the total enterprise, and the decisions that determine the direction of the organisation and shape its future. The problem of policy in business, like those of policy in public affairs, have to do with the choice of purpose, the definition and recognition of organisational identity and character, the continuous definition of what needs to be done, and the mobilisation of resources for the attainment of goals in the face of competition or adverse circumstance, and the definition of standards for the enforcement of responsible and ethical behaviour. The central theme of business policy is the strategy of the enterprise. Strategy is the determination of long term goals and objectives of an enterprise, and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resources necessary for carrying out these goals. Managing the policy or strategy of an enterprise is normally referred to as strategic management. Strategy is concerned with tow central questions: “What business should we be in?” and “ How should we compete?”. Because competition from rival firms is the dominant feature of the business environment of most enterprises, we will be particularly concerned with the latter question. A major part of the course will explore how a firm can establish a sustainable advantage within its chosen area of business. Our perspective is that of the general manager. The general manager may be a corporate president, a divisional chief executive, the head of an operating unit, or an owner-proprietor. However, this course is not only relevant to future general managers. An appreciation of the organisation’s overall strategy is essential for functional specialists if they are successfully to co-ordinate their activities with the overall needs of the business. The approach of the course is practical and problem -oriented. The major part of the course will involve applying concepts, analytic frameworks, and intuition to the strategic issues which real-world companies face. Most of the theory and concepts uses will be drawn from other disciplines, especially economics, finance, accounting, marketing and organisation theory.
New Venture Creation	MGMT 935	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on the early stage of creating a new venture. At this early stage of entrepreneurial process two issues are crucial: (i) identification and refinement of entrepreneurial opportunities and (ii) business design and leveraging necessary resources to successfully launching the business. This course focuses on these two issues and aims to provide students with knowledge and skills on • Introduction to entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial mindset and intentions • Creativity and finding a business idea • From business idea to opportunity: identifying and refining entrepreneurial opportunities • Business design and model • Entrepreneurial teams • Writing a business plan • Funding the new venture and resource leveraging
Digital Transformation and Innovation	MGMT 940	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.
Technology Awareness and Implications of Technology Trends to Business Life and Processes	MGMT 945	Sabancı Business School	Technology Awareness and Implications of Technology Trends to Business Life and Processes: We are in the middle of a major technology revolution. Everything we do is surrounded by new technologies, refining the way we live and work. Nonetheless, there is a greater transformation at play as technology has shifted beyond digital and is established in every single interaction of our lives. As we see a significant new shift, technology revolution starts to put people first. High performers will achieve more with technology by continuously familiarizing with and learning, generating new solutions, driving change and disrupting the status quo. In this context, the aim of the course is to facilitate students learn how to effectively and efficiently evaluate trends and emerging technologies in business life and management and integrate them to work processes and organization through using the right methods.
Entrepreneurship	MGMT 951	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.
Negotiation Skills for Executives	MGMT 953	Sabancı Business School	Negotiation skills are something that no executive's toolbox is complete without. This course is a skill-building experience in negotiation. While exploring the major role role that negotiation dynamics play in their personal and professional lives, participants will improve their own negotiation skills, allowing them to act consciously and skillfully in tough situations. Participants will also learn to recognize negotiation situations in everyday life and to use them as training-grounds to continue to improve their skills. The learning format includes interactive lectures and role-playing exercises, both in class and online, in which participants will experience negotiations - not as onlookers, but as active parties.
Leadership and Meaning Management	MGMT 955	Sabancı Business School	This course provides an overview of historical and cutting-edge research on leadership as well as organizational best practices on developing leadership. The course objectives are to increase students' self-awareness with regard to their own leadership qualities, understand and apply leadership theories, assess and analyze leadership behaviors in others and oneself, recognize and practice effective leadership behaviors. The primary teaching methodology will be experiential learning.
Leadership & Meaning Management	MGMT 957	Sabancı Business School	Leadership requires sense-making and sense-giving in an organizations. This implies that managers must have strong conceptualization skills to lead their organizations in their business context effectively and efficiently. In this course, managerial conceptualization of an organization within its business context will be based on the three functions of "meaning management." Through the cognitive function, first function of 'meaning management', a perception of business context will be formed in connection with company characteristics. The second function, creative function, will be the base of organizational knowledge creation for designing, developing, and managing products and processes. The third function, participative function, will deal with communicating the offerings of the company in its business context. To fulfill all these three functions managers need to possess different kinds of leadership style; ranging from visionary to coaching, pace-setting to participative, and commanding to affiliative. Therefore, leadership styles will be discussed within the context of meaning management for managerial and organizational conceptualization.
Cross Cultural Management	MGMT 959	Sabancı Business School	This course aims to provide students with an understanding of cross-cultural management and the challenges that they face while working in multicultural environments. Through experiential learning, case analyses, and individual and group projects, the students develop an understanding of what culture is (and what it is not), and how it shapes human cognition, emotion and motivation in ways that influence cross-cultural communication, particularly with respect to leadership, teamwork, and conflict management. Consequently, the students are expected to better understand their own assumptions as well as recognize and predict others' cultural mindsets. The course also covers human resource management in global firms, with a particular focus on international career development.
Venture Capital	MGMT 961	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces the students to the rich yet mysterious world of venture capital. It seeks to understand such important questions as; Why do venture capital firms (VC) exist? Where do they come from? How do they work? How are they organized? How do they make money? Where do they raise their funds?
Creating and Managing an Innovation Ecosystem	MGMT 963	Sabancı Business School	In this course, we will examine how a company can develop and implement an open innovation strategy. We will analyze such critical questions as which practices and processes that mangers need to put in place to enable organizations to execute on an open innovation strategy? What should an organization be aware of if they decide to pursue it? What skills should managers need to acquire to succeed in an innovation eco-system? How to generate successful (corporate) start-ups in an open innovation setting?
Great People Decisions	MGMT 964	Sabancı Business School	This course will introduce students how to make more effective people decisions. The aim of the course will be to make key appointments easier through good people decisions. In a comprehensive and practical way, the course will use and provide simple methodology to provide what one needs to know about hiring, evaluating and promoting (senior) talent, including such topics as: • The Success Formula in People Decisions • Why Great People Decisions Are So Hard • What to Look For • Where to Look • How to Appraise People • How To Attract and Motivate the Best People • Knowing When a Change Is Needed
Design Thinking and the Power of Storytelling in Business	MGMT 971	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 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; students are required to craft an effective story for the innovation/solution that they develop for the first project. They are also requested to deconstruct and analyze the stories told by classmates.
Cybersecurity for Executives	MGMT 972	Sabancı Business School	The methods and tactics used by the advanced persistent threat attackers are explained at a non-technical level to enable the business executives to understand the enemy and evaluate their organization's posture against it. While stay a non-technical level demonstrations are provided to have a better grasp on the attacker methods and tools. Managing cybersecurity risks requires a good understanding of governance, regulatory requirements and relevant best practices. Thus, a cybersecurity governance primer is also provided to the participants.
Global Governance and Türkiye	MGMT 973	Sabancı Business School	In recent years, there is unprecedent increase in global risks with a sharp upward turn in global uncertainty. The transformation in global power balances, new risks and threats together with a depletion of resources bring forth new challenges at the global and regional levels. Turkey sits at the center of this transformation. This course aims investigate global governance, its challenges together with a transformation over time in all of these aspects. Accordingly, the course aims to furnish students with new tools and instruments to understand global uncertainty and formulate a deeper understanding of future dynamics, in particular from a global business perspective.
Special Topics in Management I	MGMT 980	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, leadership, creativity, innovation, research and technology, globalization, and sustainability.
Managerial Skills Development	MGMT 996	Sabancı Business School	Managerial Skills Workshop is a series of seminars and hands-on activities designed to develop various team and professional skills of the MBA students to support them as they embark on their careers.
Graduation Project	MGMT 999	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.
Marketing Management	MIM 801	Sabancı Business School	Marketing Management Course objectives are 1 ) Familiarizing participants with marketing concepts and methods used in processes that integrate innovative and productive capabilities of a firm into its products and services in light of its customers' needs, market challenges and company objectives; 2) Developing skills to apply these concepts and methods in market analysis, marketing strategy development and implementation design through developing a complete marketing plan in a real market environment.
Digital Marketing Strategy	MIM 804	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on how brands can reach consumer networks, build strong customer relationships and influence the digital pathway to purchase. Applying a digital marketing strategy in five steps, the course aims to provide practical examples on how products, ideas and behaviors spread and become popular. Digital advertising mix channels will be introduced and its principles will be covered. Finally, measurement and monitoring of digital marketing activities and agile marketing elements and their effects will be discussed.
Retail Management	MIM 805	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this course is to introduce the broad spectrum of retailing and examine key strategic issues of retailing. Within this scope, critical critical success factors in retailing will be discussed with a strategic perspective along with financial considerations and store management issues. Main topics to be covered will be retailing strategy, merchandise management and store management.
Omni-channel Management	MIM 806	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on the design and management of marketing channels through which products and services are moved from their point of origin to their point of consumption. It also provides an in-depth look at today's increasingly complex channel management systems, where digital and traditional channels are integrated to offer a seamless experience for the consumer. In addition, the competition and cooperation dynamics between manufacturers, retailers, and other intermediaries are discussed.
Sales Management	MIM 807	Sabancı Business School	Sales Management The goal of the Sales Management course is to examine the elements of an effective sales force as a key component of the organization's total marketing effort. The course will extend student’s understanding of marketing's reach and potential impact in achieving its overarching goals. Course objectives include understanding the sales process, the relationship between sales and marketing, sales force structure, customer relationship management (CRM), use of technology to improve sales force effectiveness, and issues in recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, compensating and retaining sales people.
Advertising and Promotion	MIM 808	Sabancı Business School	This course aims to give a perspective about the fundamental aspects of integrated marketing communications management. Topics include offline and digital advertising, sales promotion techniques, public relations, point-of-purchase communication, interactive marketing and personal marketing. How the synergy between offline and digital communication channels should be handled in the marketing ecosystem will be discussed through cases.
Branding and Agile Product Development	MIM 809	Sabancı Business School	As a result of Globalization, supply is higher than demand in most of the sectors. It is easier to sell your products all over the world with the support of developments in digitalization. Disruptive innovations & these factors that intensifies competition many folds will shorten life cycles of products. In order to overcome these challenges, product development should be much more customer oriented, should forecast tomorrow's demand early and be fast. In this course we will discuss about, understanding customer needs and pain points, customer - product development close coordination, positioning products by keeping in mind customer’s functional, social & emotional needs and improving brand value by using all these factors.
Data Insights for Marketing	MIM 810	Sabancı Business School	This course examines data collection, data processing, and data analysis techniques to reach the accurate marketing insights. The course aims to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to determine market research questions and to choose appropriate research techniques for these questions. In addition, how to reach the right insight by using analytical methods will be discussed, different analytical methods will be exemplified and practiced.
Marketing Analytics	MIM 811	Sabancı Business School	This course is designed to provide students with applied knowledge on the use of analytical tools and methodologies for marketing decision-making. The course also aims to improve analytical skills and knowledge of the students. Finally, the course will discuss how to integrate big data processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and algorithms into marketing processes.
Trade & B2B Marketing	MIM 819	Sabancı Business School	Although the majority of the market is B2B marketing discipline is basically interested in B2C. B2B marketing focuses on fewer customers, sells with bigger lots & has a longer sales cycle. We will focus on characteristics & methods of B2B marketing. Working with sectors & verticals, adopting a UBP approach rather than a USP approach, relationship marketing are basic differences that will be discussed. Since auctions are won or lost at auction requirements preparation stage, a longer view will be explained for the marketing process. We will discuss Trade marketing which will mainly focus on selling to Retailer channels.
International Marketing	MIM 823	Sabancı Business School	International Marketing 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 Master in Marketing 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 formulation 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.
Consumer Behavior	MIM 825	Sabancı Business School	In this course, the fundamentals of consumer behavior, which are decisive in the marketing and sales of consumer products and services, will be explained with theoretical models and practical examples. Focusing on the answers to the questions of who, what, when, how, where and why behind the consumers' product and service evaluation, selection, purchase and use decisions, the behavior patterns and reasons of the target audiences of the brands will be covered with examples. In this course, the effects of digital platforms and social networks, which are increasingly used by brands and consumers, on consumer behavior will be discussed.
Pricing and Revenue Management	MIM 857	Sabancı Business School	Pricing is one of the most powerful levers a company can use to affect revenues and profits. It is also the least understood. Revenue management (RM) is the art and science of price-driven profit optimization. The objectives of this course are to teach how to identify opportunities for dynamic pricing and revenue management, and diagnose profitable applicability for a specific business or industry; tactical tools and frameworks for implementing RM principles; providing decision support in various industries; and examples of current RM practices in various industries.
Applications in Digital Marketing	MIM 860	Sabancı Business School	Within the scope of this course; Management of digital marketing channels (purchasing and implementation), measurement of effectiveness and reporting will be discussed in practice. Paid media purchasing and optimization will be explained over environments such as search engines, digital advertising channels (programmatic) and social media networks. In addition, effective techniques on design thinking processes and user experience design will be discussed. The content will be covered with cases and applications.
Mobile Marketing and Mobile Applications	MIM 861	Sabancı Business School	Growing smartphone penetration combined with advances in wireless technology has created a new channel with unique features for marketers. These features include accessibility at any place, any time, customization to a granular level, location and time sensitivity and availability of the back-response option with the ability to generate high response rates. In addition, the limited screen size of mobile phones and the short attention span of mobile consumers have prompted companies to shift their business strategy from 'desktop first' to 'mobile first'. This course discusses this new channel and its unique features along with the changing business strategies and consumer behavior due to this channel.
Marketing in Entertainment, Fashion, and Art	MIM 862	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on marketing decisions in the entertainment, fashion, sports and arts industries. By means of in-depth case studies, it addresses a variety of marketing topics including sponsorships, offering digital content to consumers, creating branded content, and marketing of fashion, artistic, and creative products. In addition it discusses the effects of technology and digitalization in these industries.
Corporate Social Responsibility	MIM 863	Sabancı Business School	This course aims to provide students about the evolution of the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR), the international diversity in the philosophy of CSR, current marketing approaches about the impact and possible future aspects of CSR. It analyzes the motivations and effectiveness of CSR in the field of marketing and reviews perspectives on the relationship of CSR with the current social and economic issues. In this course, sustainable practices of CSR principles are discussed through cases.
Graduation Project	MIM 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.
Marketing Management	MKTG 501	Sabancı Business School	Course objectives are 1) Familiarizing participants with marketing concepts and methods used in processes that integrate innovative and productive capabilities of a firm into its products and services in light of its customers' needs, market challenges, and company objectives; 2) Developing skills to apply these concepts and methods in market analysis, marketing strategy development and implementation design through developing a complete marketing plan in a real market environment.
Sales Management	MKTG 507	Sabancı Business School	The goal of the Sales Management course is to examine the elements of an effective sales force as a key component of the organization's total marketing effort. The course will extend student’s understanding of marketing's reach and potential impact in achieving its overarching goals. Course objectives include understanding the sales process, the relationship between sales and marketing, sales force structure, customer relationship management (CRM), use of technology to improve sales force effectiveness, and issues in recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, compensating and retaining sales people.
Advertising and Promotion	MKTG 511	Sabancı Business School	This course provides the student with a basic understanding of the major aspects of integrated marketing communications and promotion management. Topics covered include advertising, sales promotion, public relations, point-of-purchase communications, interactive marketing, and personal selling.
Marketing Channel Management and Retailing	MKTG 512	Sabancı Business School	The subject of this course is the design and management of marketing channels through which products and services are moved from their point of origin to their point of consumption. The course addresses how manufacturers and channel members (e.g., wholesalers, distributors, retailers) interact, cooperate, and compete as the distribution environment becomes ever more complex.
Marketing Analytics	MKTG 514	Sabancı Business School	Marketing analytics is a set of tools (conceptual models, statistical techniques, and optimization software) designed to translate data into actionable marketing strategies. This course prepares students to kick start their career in a marketing analytics position within a big or small corporation, a marketing research company, or a consulting firm. To do so, in this course, students get hands-on experience with real-world data and be equipped with marketing analytics tools ready for their current or future jobs.
Marketing Research Methods	MKTG 521	Sabancı Business School	This course provides a research perspective on advanced marketing research methods and analytical techniques. Topics include problem formulation; research design, data collection and analysis, managerial report writing. Students will acquire experience by developing and executing their own marketing research project using computerized analytical techniques.
Brand Management	MKTG 522	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.
International Marketing	MKTG 523	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 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 formulation 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.
Marketing Strategy	MKTG 524	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 provided by a computer simulation game-MARKSTRAT-performed by teams of 3-4 students.
Consumer Behavior	MKTG 525	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.
Customer Relations Management	MKTG 526	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.
Pricing in Marketing	MKTG 527	Sabancı Business School	Pricing decision is one of the most important marketing decisions. Factors related to both the supply side (e.g., cost structure) and the consumer side (e.g., perceived value, willingness to pay) should be considered in setting prices. The first part of the course provides an overview of how both types of factors effect pricing decisions. Unlike economic and financial approaches to pricing, a greater emphasis is given to behavioral drivers and understanding the demand side. The course coverage includes value pricing, price customization, price bundling, price presentation strategies, and sales promotions. Course evaluation includes participation in class discussions, project presentation, and written exam.
Online Communication and Social Media	MKTG 528	Sabancı Business School	This course will combine the theories and practies of online communication and experiential foundations for making efficient decisions and judgements. This class requires the active participations of stıdents and a willingness to focus on social media and understand its landscape. Individuals will develop personal skills on leading digital communities. Participants will learn how to organize, implement and execute a persuasive social media or digital PR campaign. This course will enable diligent students to understand the internet and social media monitoring systems and analyze the results. This class delves into systematic studies of digital PR and online reputation management methods. As a result, those who complete this course will know how to use channels of social media and online communication opportunities productively and organize groups to accomplish desired goals.
Digital Marketing	MKTG 529	Sabancı Business School	This course examines the emergence of the new digital markets as well as how traditional markets are affected by the widespread use of information communication technology by consumers and businesses. Internet business models, trends, strategies, and technologies are covered.
“Big Picture” Marketing Strategy	MKTG 530	Sabancı Business School	Big Picture integrated framework and simulated cases are employed in bridging the gap between marketing strategy concepts and competitive strategy design. The Big Picture integrates strategy development and execution in order to maximize the efficiency of marketing investments. The framework seeks to identify the fundamental relationships linking the target customer, the benefits that customer seeks, the behavioral change resulting from a change in beliefs, and the financial impact of specific behavioral changes.
Special Topics in Marketing 1	MKTG 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 Marketing 2	MKTG 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 Marketing 3	MKTG 595	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 Marketing 4	MKTG 596	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.
Marketing Management	MKTG 801	Sabancı Business School	Course objectives are 1) Familiarizing participants with marketing concepts and methods used in processes that integrate innovative and productive capabilities of a firm into its products and services in light of its customers' needs, market challenges, and company objectives; 2) Developing skills to apply these concepts and methods in market analysis, marketing strategy development and implementation design through developing a complete marketing plan in a real market environment.
Digital Marketing Strategy	MKTG 804	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on how brands can reach consumer networks, build strong customer relationships and influence the digital pathway to purchase. Applying a digital marketing strategy in five steps, the course aims to provide practical examples on how products, ideas and behaviors spread and become popular. Digital advertising mix channels will be introduced and its principles will be covered. Finally, measurement and monitoring of digital marketing activities and agile marketing elements and their effects will be discussed.
Retail Management	MKTG 805	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this course is to introduce the broad spectrum of retailing and examine key strategic issues of retailing. Within this scope, critical critical success factors in retailing will be discussed with a strategic perspective along with financial considerations and store management issues. Main topics to be covered will be retailing strategy, merchandise management and store management.
Sales Management	MKTG 807	Sabancı Business School	Sales Management The goal of the Sales Management course is to examine the elements of an effective sales force as a key component of the organization's total marketing effort. The course will extend student’s understanding of marketing's reach and potential impact in achieving its overarching goals. Course objectives include understanding the sales process, the relationship between sales and marketing, sales force structure, customer relationship management (CRM), use of technology to improve sales force effectiveness, and issues in recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, compensating and retaining sales people.
Advertising and Promotion	MKTG 808	Sabancı Business School	This course provides the student with a basic understanding of the major aspects of integrated marketing communications and promotion management. Topics covered include a advertising, sales promotion, public relations, point-of- purchase communications, interactive marketing, and personal selling.
Branding and Agile Product Development	MKTG 809	Sabancı Business School	As a result of Globalization, supply is higher than demand in most of the sectors. It is easier to sell your products all over the world with the support of developments in digitalization. Disruptive innovations & these factors that intensifies competition many folds will shorten life cycles of products. In order to overcome these challenges, product development should be much more customer oriented, should forecast tomorrow's demand early and be fast. In this course we will discuss about, understanding customer needs and pain points, customer - product development close coordination, positioning products by keeping in mind customer’s functional, social & emotional needs and improving brand value by using all these factors.
Marketing Analytics	MKTG 811	Sabancı Business School	This course is designed to provide students with applied knowledge on the use of analytical tools and methodologies for marketing decision-making. The course also aims to improve analytical skills and knowledge of the students. Finally, the course will discuss how to integrate big data processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and algorithms into marketing processes.
Trade & B2B Marketing	MKTG 819	Sabancı Business School	Although the majority of the market is B2B, marketing discipline is basically interested in B2C. B2B marketing focuses on fewer customers, sells with bigger lots & has a longer sales cycle. We will focus on characteristics & methods of B2B marketing. Working with sectors & verticals, adopting a UBP approach rather than a USP approach, relationship marketing are basic differences that will be discussed. Since auctions are won or lost at auction requirements preparation stage, a longer view will be explained for the marketing process. We will discuss Trade marketing which will mainly focus on selling to Retailer channels.
International Marketing	MKTG 823	Sabancı Business School	International Marketing 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 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 formulation 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.
Marketing Strategy	MKTG 824	Sabancı Business School	Marketing Strategy 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 provided by a computer simulation game-MARKSTRAT-performed by teams of 3-4 students.
Consumer Behavior	MKTG 825	Sabancı Business School	Consumer Behavior 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.
Consumption in the Digital Age	MKTG 826	Sabancı Business School	Consumer behavior (CB) is the study of consumers' responses to products and services and the way products and services are marketed. The use of mobile devices by consumers and the accompanying response by retailers is altering the retail environment. 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 offline and online decision making processes 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
Consumer Behavior	MKTG 853	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.
Applications in Digital Marketing	MKTG 860	Sabancı Business School	Within the scope of this course; Management of digital marketing channels (purchasing and implementation), measurement of effectiveness and reporting will be discussed in practice. Paid media purchasing and optimization will be explained over environments such as search engines, digital advertising channels (programmatic) and social media networks. In addition, effective techniques on design thinking processes and user experience design will be discussed. The content will be covered with cases and applications.
Mobile Marketing and Mobile Applications	MKTG 861	Sabancı Business School	Growing smartphone penetration combined with advances in wireless technology has created a new channel with unique features for marketers. These features include accessibility at any place, any time, customization to a granular level, location and time sensitivity and availability of the back-response option with the ability to generate high response rates. In addition, the limited screen size of mobile phones and the short attention span of mobile consumers have prompted companies to shift their business strategy from 'desktop first' to 'mobile first'. This course discusses this new channel and its unique features along with the changing business strategies and consumer behavior due to this channel.
Marketing in Entertainment, Fashion, and Art	MKTG 862	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on marketing decisions in the entertainment, fashion, sports and arts industries. By means of in-depth case studies, it addresses a variety of marketing topics including sponsorships, offering digital content to consumers, creating branded content, and marketing of fashion, artistic, and creative products. In addition it discusses the effects of technology and digitalization in these industries.
Marketing Management	MKTG 901	Sabancı Business School	Marketing concepts and methods used in processes that integrate innovative and productive capabilities of a firm into its products and services in light of its customers' needs, market challenges, and company objectives; the application of these concepts and methods in market analysis, marketing strategy development, and implementation design through the development of a complete marketing plan in a real market environment.
Marketing Strategy	MKTG 902	Sabancı Business School	Marketing strategy course is on the fundamentals of effective marketing strategy design and execution considering the interdisciplinary nature and the contextual character of strategic marketing decisions. This course directs special attention to (a) how markets function and evolve; (b) how customers really behave; (c) how firms relate to their markets; (d) how the effective marketing strategy impact on organizational performance and societal welfare, and (e) how the functional dimensions of marketing strategy might be shaped in the globalizing, converging and connected knowledge economy.
Digital Marketing Strategy	MKTG 904	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on how brands can reach consumer networks, build strong customer relationships and influence the digital pathway to purchase. Applying a digital marketing strategy in five steps, the course aims to provide practical examples on how products, ideas and behaviors spread and become popular. Digital advertising mix channels will be introduced and its principles will be covered. Finally, measurement and monitoring of digital marketing activities and agile marketing elements and their effects will be discussed.
Retail Management	MKTG 905	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this course is to introduce the broad spectrum of retailing and examine key strategic issues of retailing. Within this scope, critical critical success factors in retailing will be discussed with a strategic perspective along with financial considerations and store management issues. Main topics to be covered will be retailing strategy, merchandise management and store management.
Omni-channel Management	MKTG 906	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on the design and management of marketing channels through which products and services are moved from their point of origin to their point of consumption. It also provides an in-depth look at today's increasingly complex channel management systems, where digital and traditional channels are integrated to offer a seamless experience for the consumer. In addition, the competition and cooperation dynamics between manufacturers, retailers, and other intermediaries are discussed.
Sales Managementt	MKTG 907	Sabancı Business School	The goal of the Sales Management course is to examine the elements of an effective sales force as a key component of the organization's total marketing effort. The course will extend student’s understanding of marketing's reach and potential impact in achieving its overarching goals. Course objectives include understanding the sales process, the relationship between sales and marketing, sales force structure, customer relationship management (CRM), use of technology to improve sales force effectiveness, and issues in recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, compensating and retaining sales people.
Advertising and Promotion	MKTG 908	Sabancı Business School	This course provides the student with a basic understanding of the major aspects of integrated marketing communications and promotion management. Topics covered include a advertising, sales promotion, public relations, point-of- purchase communications, interactive marketing, and personal selling.
Big Picture Strategic Marketing	MKTG 909	Sabancı Business School	The Big Picture is designed to integrate strategy development and tactical execution to maximize the efficiency of marketing investments by forcing a focus on intervening marketing metrics. The framework seeks to identify the fundamental relationships linking the target customer, the benefits that customer seeks, the behavioral change resulting from a change in beliefs, and the financial impact of specific behavioral changes. The course objective is to provide a structured approach to strategic marketing problems via a rigorous analytical integrated framework. Participants implement the framework in different market settings using simulation and live case analysis.Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to: -Assess the competitiveness of brands and the strategic gaps
Data Insights for Marketing	MKTG 910	Sabancı Business School	This course is designed to provide students with applied knowledge on the use of analytical tools and methodologies for marketing decision-making. The course also aims to improve analytical skills and knowledge of the students. Finally, the course will discuss how to integrate big data processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and algorithms into marketing processes.
Marketing Analytics	MKTG 911	Sabancı Business School	This course is designed to provide students with applied knowledge on the use of analytical tools and methodologies for marketing decision-making. The course also aims to improve analytical skills and knowledge of the students. Finally, the course will discuss how to integrate big data processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and algorithms into marketing processes.
Trade & B2B Marketing	MKTG 919	Sabancı Business School	Although the majority of the market is B2B, marketing discipline is basically interested in B2C. B2B marketing focuses on fewer customers, sells with bigger lots & has a longer sales cycle. We will focus on characteristics & methods of B2B marketing. Working with sectors & verticals, adopting a UBP approach rather than a USP approach, relationship marketing are basic differences that will be discussed. Since auctions are won or lost at auction requirements preparation stage, a longer view will be explained for the marketing process. We will discuss Trade marketing which will mainly focus on selling to Retailer channels.
International Marketing Strategy	MKTG 951	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 formulation 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.
Consumer Behavior	MKTG 953	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.
Managing Marketing Performance	MKTG 955	Sabancı Business School	The course presents an integrative examination of industrial marketing. It reviews the environment of industrial marketing and examines each of the major types of industrial customers. Evaluating the organizational buying process, assessing marketing opportunities, analyzing marketing interface with manufacturing research and development and reviewing the marketing mix are part of the course discussion. Through case analysis, the students examine techniques for evaluating industrial marketing strategy and performance by utilizing marketing control systems and marketing profitability analysis.
Pricing and Revenue Management	MKTG 957	Sabancı Business School	Pricing is one of the most powerful levers a company can use to affect revenues and profits. It is also the least understood. Revenue management (RM) is the art and science of price-driven profit optimization. The objectives of this course are to teach how to identify opportunities for dynamic pricing and revenue management, and diagnose profitable applicability for a specific business or industry; tactical tools and frameworks for implementing RM principles; providing decision support in various industries; and examples of current RM practices in various industries.
Research Methods	MRES 500	Sabancı Business School	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.
Multivariate Statistics	MRES 502	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.
Research Methods in Management and Organization Studies	MRES 503	Sabancı Business School	Research Methods in Management and Organization Studies As an introduction to research in management and As an introduction to research in management and the scientific method of inquiry and provides a critical appraisal of the various research methods available to organizational scholars following the natural science paradigm. It aims to familiarize students with the process 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 design, decisions regarding the choice of samples and settings, and the relative advantages and disadvantages of various empirical research strategies. To support the course content, examples of management and organization research are critically analyzed and students are expected to develop their own research proposal by the end of the semester.
Qualitative Research Methods	MRES 505	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.
Independent Research Study	MRES 590	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.
Project	MRES 599	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.
Research Methods	MRES 600	Sabancı Business School	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.
Research Methods in Management and Organization Studies	MRES 601	Sabancı Business School	This PhD seminar provides a foundation for theory building and empirical analysis in the study of organizations. Rather than focus on particular statistical or analytical methods, the goal is to provide participants with a rigorous grounding in the scientific approach to constructing theoretical arguments and designing appropriate empirical tests. The course is organized around the question of how to do good research. 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. The seminar thus serves as a complement to other basic and advanced research method courses, and will develop skills needed to: 1. build and analyze theoretical arguments 2. design effective tests of theory 3. understand the interplay between theory building and theory testing Students will get some experience critiquing the methodology used in published studies and hopefully develop some idea about how to start conducting their own dissertation research.
Multivariate Statistics	MRES 602	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.
Probability and Statistics	MRES 603	Sabancı Business School	This course covers the fundamental concepts for probability and statistics. In the first part of the course, the focus is on concepts including random variables, probability distributions, specific discrete and continuous distributions and their applications, expected values and conditional probability. This is followed by a review of the central limit theorem and the law of large numbers. After these fundamental topics are covered, the focus shifts to statistics and the use of statistics principles in different contexts. Topics such as sampling distributions, point and interval estimates, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, parametric and non-parametric tests, analysis of variance and linear regression are presented. (Knowledge of Calculus is recommended)
Applied Econometrics	MRES 604	Sabancı Business School	Applied Econometrics 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.
Professional Development Seminar I	MRES 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	MRES 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.
Qualitative Research Methods	MRES 611	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.
Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Preparation	MRES 699	Sabancı Business School	This course is a multi-purpose and non-credit course that can be used in a flexible manner to enable the Ph.D. students to prepare for their Ph.D. qualifying exam in their respective fields of doctoral study.
Ph.D. Dissertation	MRES 700	Sabancı Business School	This class comprises of research activities towards the Ph.D. Thesis that the student is going to propose and defend
Basic Concepts and Teaching of Science	NS 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Basic ideas of classical physics: motion, stability and linear systems-oscillations, gravitation, electromagnetism, thermodynamics. Basic quantum concepts: Bohr model of the hydrogen atom, uncertainty principle and its consequences for the structure of matter and applications in technology, Pauli principle and atomic structure. Mathematical level of NS 101: elementary calculus differentiation and integration, the exponential and trigonometric functions, through examples in science.
Basic Concepts and Teaching of Science II	NS 502	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Biophysics: Molecules and Systems	NS 566	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Cells and organisms can be thought as self-replicating, -organizing and -regulating complex systems. The proper functioning these systems is dependent on networks of reactions involving macromolecules. This course focuses on physical principles governing behavior of biological macromolecules and their interactions, and investigates how concepts developed at macromolecular level can be applied to studies at systems level. Topics can be grouped under two main headings; introduction to molecular biophysics and understanding specific process of living systems through application of molecular biophysics principles. Topics of the introduction are molecular forces involved in the formation and interactions of acromolecules, reaction kinetics, molecular transport processes and energy generation and maintenance. Principles developed at molecular level will be used to analyze mechanisms two specific processes: movement and vision.
Fundamentals of Nanoscience	NT 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Scaling laws at the nanoscale, atomic structure, zero-, one-, two dimensional materials and bandgaps. Nanothermodynamics, small system thermodynamics - Hill Theory, fluctuations, brownian motion and diffusion equation. Bonding at the nanoscale, electrostatic forces, Interparticle forces – colloids, hydrogen bonding, Van der Waals interactions and the hydrophobic effect. Nanoelectronics, electrons in nanostructures and quantum effects, molecular electronics. Nano-optics, interactions of light with matter and quantum dots. Nanomagnetism and characteristics of nanomagnetic systems. Mechanics at nanoscale, stress fields, and surface energy, the liquid state and capillarity. Surfaces and interface effects, wetting on textured surfaces, adhesion and friction, VdW Forces. Driving forces for self assembly; micelle properties and introduction to supramolecular design.
Micro/ Nanofabrication	NT 502	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This module covers i) the fundamentals of shaping materials at micro and nanoscale (e.g, diffusion, etching, and oxidation), ii) lithography, material deposition, pattern transfer, and metrology, iii) charged particles lithography (e.g., e-beam and focused ion beam lithography), iv) scanning probe microscopy-based fabrication techniques (e.g., dip-pen nanolithography and nanografting), v) nanoimprint lithography and step-and-flash lithography, vi) unconventional fabrication techniques (e.g., nanoskiving and nanosphere lithography), vii) self-assembly, templated/directed self-assembly and soft-lithography, viii) bulk and surface micromachining, and ix) 3D printing. The module will also pay specific attention to the applications of micro/nanofabricated devices.
Industrial Applications of Nanotechnology	NT 503	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Nanotechnology is affecting every aspect of our lives. In this module, we will explore the applications of nanotechnologies in various industrial sectors, merging the needs for innovation at each sector and the enabling aspect of nanotechnologies afforded by the control and measurement afforded at atomic levels. The sectors to be reviewed are: health and biomedical science, energy, environment and water, electronic, aerospace, defense, automotive, food and beverages including agriculture, construction and structural materials, cosmetics, and textiles and sports. We will use examples of successful and unsuccessful products and the transition from research and development to commercialization. We will also explore the impact of nanotechnologies on the consumer and the society.
Economics, Politics and Ethics of Nanotechnology	NT 504	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Nanotechnology is not only a technical issue, but there are also economic, political and ethical dimensions of it. This module aims to provide a multi-dimensional perspective on nanotechnology. The module is designed in 3 parts; (1) commercialization of nanotechnology in the user markets, (2) health, safety and environmental (HSE) impacts of nanotechnology, and (3) national policies towards nanotechnology. National nanotechnology policies of particular developed (US, UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea etc.) and developing countries (China, India, Israel, Iran etc.) will be discussed in various dimensions such as the entire system and its actors, strategic focus areas, governance mechanisms, intermediary agencies, R&D support policies, budget allocation, commercialization strategies and HSE policies.
Characterization of Nanomaterials	NT 505	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The students will learn the fundamentals of nanomaterials characterization and data interpretation by hands-on experiments and lectures. Some of the methods to be covered are x-ray spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy; there will also be sections on device characterization and hybrid materials. The students who would like to further develop their characterization knowledge are advised to take the continuation modules on materials characterization such as electron microscopy and thermal characterization.
Advanced Characterization in Nanotechnology	NT 506	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This module covers theoretical basics of commonly used advanced materials characterization techniques and case studies of their applications. For each technique a demo session will be given where the working principles of the equipment will be demonstrated, structural and functional materials will be characterized. Focused ion beam imaging, nuclear magnetic resonance and micro-computed tomography are among the techniques that will be covered.
Coating and Synthesis in Nanotechnology	NT 508	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course covers chemical processes for the synthesis of various nanomaterials and fabrication of nanostructured or nano-scale coatings. Different chemical processes for the synthesis of various nanomaterials including inorganic nanoparticles, metal-oxide nanoparticles, carbon nanomaterials, nano-porous materials, bio-inspired nanomaterials, polymeric nanomaterials and quantum dots will be covered in detail. In addition, various chemical and fabrication methods to obtain nanostructured or nano-scale coatings such as layer-by-layer, Langmuir–Blodgett and various deposition techniques such as chemical vapor, physical vapor and atomic layer deposition will be covered. Finally, students will gain hands-on-experience on the synthesis and characterization of selected nanoparticles in the laboratory.
Applications of Nanomaterials in Energy	NT 512	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This course provides details of a variety of nanomaterials used for energy production, storage and conversion. This course will emphasize the relationship between fundamental materials properties, electrochemistry and different energy systems as well. This course will focus on both fundamental principles of electrochemistry, batteries, capacitors, energy storage and transduction via nanosystems, fuel cells, microfluidics, artifical muscles and applications of nanomaterials in these energy systems.
Advanced Materials Characterization	NT 546	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	This elective course is designed to introduce the students to advanced characterization techniques; the theory behind the operating principle, the instrumentation and the application areas, given as case studies. The techniques to be covered will include focused ion beam, nuclear magnetic resonance and raman spectroscopy.
Project Course	NT 592	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The students are expected to apply the knowledge that they gained during the master program education and after completing 10 modules, in a project designed with scientific approach, and under the supervision of a project advisor assigned for their project.
Operations and Supply Chain Management	OPIM 501	Sabancı Business School	This course deals with the design, production and distribution of goods and services. Managerial issues and decision problems include the design, planning, and control of processes at strategic and operational levels. Concepts and tools used in generating solutions to problems and their implementation aspects are discussed. Operating systems from different areas such as manufacturing, service, and transportation are exemplified to expose students to the similarities and differences in their characteristics. Topic include operations strategy, process design and improvement, quality management, capacity and supply chain management.
Information Systems	OPIM 502	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.
CRM using Location Intelligence	OPIM 506	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.
Simulation-Based Analytics	OPIM 508	Sabancı Business School	This is a course on applied Monte Carlo simulation that aims to introduce simulation as a tool for supporting and improving decision-making. The aim is to familiarize the students with the various practical uses of simulation, emphasizing modeling aspects but also covering some statistical issues that are of value to practitioners. All modeling and analysis is done using the MS Excel simulation add-in @RISK (part of Palisade Decision Tools). A balanced set of problems/models from finance, marketing and operations (such as financial risk modeling, market share modeling and capacity planning) are addressed.
Revenue Management	OPIM 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.
Decision Models	OPIM 523	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 and Monte Carlo simulation. The focus will be on model formulation and interpretation of results, not on mathematical theory. This course is designed for Sabancı MBA 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.
Business Process Analysis and Design	OPIM 524	Sabancı Business School	This course builds upon the concepts and tools required for modeling business processes and introduced in OPIM 501. After a review of these concepts and tools, students get to use computer-based tools to design, re-design and edit business process models. The course also covers event-based simulation concepts and tools for analyzing real world like business processes. This includes building simulation models and statistical input and output data analysis that requires good knowledge of statistical concepts.
Business Intelligence and Decision Support Systems	OPIM 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.
Project Management	OPIM 527	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.
Modeling for Strategic Insights	OPIM 528	Sabancı Business School	This course presents the fundamentals of decision modelling to generate strategic insights. In a world where ambiguity is increasing, strategic insight is critical for managers to take decisions more effectively. To that end, modeling ideas will be discussed via real life case examples. Students will develop themselves while working on a diverse set of optimization and Monte Carlo simulation models.
Advanced Excel for Managers	OPIM 529	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this course is to provide the skills necessary to efficiently develop analytical spreadsheets in MS Excel that meet professional standards. Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to develop Excel spreadsheets that meet critical elements of style so that the worksheet is readable, change-tolerant and correct; create charts that are appropriate for the purpose and meet generally accepted quality standards; perform data analysis to explain, summarize and interpret data; audit a spreadsheet that may have been developed by someone else.
Programming in VBA for Excel	OPIM 530	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this course is to provide the fundamentals necessary to develop VBA programs in EXcel and to teach how to develop decision support tools in Excel that use management science and statistical models for a wide variety of business problems, mostly from operations management and finance. The course assumes no prior programming experience and emphasizes the importance of following a professional style in writing code. Working with ranges, and other Excel objects, developing user forms, error handlings are covered in addition to basic building blocks of VBA programming. To support model development, importing data from databases, working with pivot tables, and automating Solver are also covered in the course. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to develop modest but useful applications of their own.
Supply Chain Management	OPIM 532	Sabancı Business School	Supply chain includes all the parties involved in the production of goods and/or services including suppliers, distributors, and customers. Supply chain management emphasizes the importance of coordination between these different partners in a supply chain. This course introduces the concepts and methods for successful supply chain management. Activies such as demand forecasting, production and inventory planning; purchasing and distribution planning are covered. The importance of coordination is demonstrated through case studies and simulations.
Strategic Marketing Intelligence	OPIM 533	Sabancı Business School	Marketing Intelligence (MI) can be defined as the practice of gathering, and making sense of the gathered data by analyzing them to accurate decision making in determining relevant market opportunities relevant to a company. This course focuses on how to analyze marketing data to help make decisions about various marketing intelligence problems following a problem oriented approach. The course will start by covering a variety of marketing intelligence performance metrics. Then will look into a variety of marketing intelligence projects such as Conjoint Analysis, Customer Segmentation and Targeting, Customer Lifetime Value Models, Product Diffusion Models from a case based point of view. This course also aims at improving students? analytical skills as well as building their proficiency with spreadsheet software.
Managing ERP Systems	OPIM 534	Sabancı Business School	This course will cover basic concepts of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems from a managerial point of view. The objectives of this course are to emphasize value of ERP systems and issues associated with selecting and implementing ERP systems. Other topics covered include evolution of ERP systems, their planning, design and implementation; and the relationships of ERP with supply chain, production, sales, marketing, accounting, finance and human resources. The course also includes exposure to commercially available ERP softwares.
Fashion Industry Operations and Pricing	OPIM 535	Sabancı Business School	In the recent years, the fashion industry has been the pioneer in adopting very advanced operations management and pricing methods. This course aims to provide an overview of the fashion retail industry, and serve as an introduction to these applications. The topics covered include innovation and new product development in fashion, supply chain management applications in fashion retail, consumer segmentation and pricing, logistics in fashion retail and distribution strategies, brand positioning, extension and growth, and customer relationship management.
Mathematical Programming	OPIM 552	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.
Stochastic Processes	OPIM 555	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of this course is to expose students to principles and applications of Stochastic Processes, by building upon the concepts introduced in a previously-taken basic probability course. In the first half of this course, topics including Bernoulli and Poisson processes, discrete and continuous-time Markov chains, renewal process and their applications are covered. This is followed by other topics such as queuing theory and its applications, stochastic dynamic programming and random walks. Upon completion of this course, the students have an appreciation of analytical models as well as applications of Stochastic Processes. (Knowledge of Calculus, Basic Probability and Statistics is recommended)
Data Structures and Algorithms	OPIM 556	Sabancı Business School	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.
Practical Business Analytics for Managers	OPIM 557	Sabancı Business School	The main objective of this course is for the students to develop a thorough understanding of the role of computer-based information systems (i.e., business analytics, business intelligence, data science and decision support systems) in direct support of evidence-based managerial decision making.
Special Topics in Operations Management 1	OPIM 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 Operations Management	OPIM 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 Operations Management 3	OPIM 595	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 Operations Management 4	OPIM 596	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.
Modeling in Operations Management	OPIM 611	Sabancı Business School	This course aims to introduce the students to the conceptual frameworks and models of operations management and the techniques to find the best solutions to these models. Upon completion of this course, the students are expected to analyze complex supply chain systems, build mathematical models for these systems, and find the best policies to operate these systems. Several inventory settings and pricing and game-theoretic models will be analyzed in a supply chain setting, and their solution methods will be discussed.
Research Methodology in Operations Management	OPIM 612	Sabancı Business School	The primary objective of this course is to investigate how managerial issues are identified, defined, conceptualized, modeled, and solved in order to make sound decisions that will improve operational efficiency and effectiveness of a firm. The tetrahedron of managerial situation - conceptual model - formal model - decision and its connecting processes conceptualization - modeling - solving - implementation? will be discussed through different examples, including the areas of inventory management, performance management, business networking, strategy formulation, group decision making, consensus formation, and project selection. Also to be discussed are equivalent formulations and modeling for higher computational efficiency in obtaining solutions and better representativeness of managerial situation. While presenting these examples the underlying ontological and epistemological assumptions will also be discussed in terms of their implications for the advancement of knowledge in the area of operations management.
Operations and Decision Analytics	OPIM 613	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on decision problems of developing, producing, and delivering goods and services. The purpose is to provide students an exposure to the spectrum of operations management field, the nature of the related decision problems, and applications of various predictive and prescriptive analytical tools. The topics include, but not limited to, process and product design, logistics and transportation, location analysis, production/inventory management, pricing and revenue management, service operations, sustainability, and behavioral operations.
Supply Chain Planning and Management Models	OPIM 614	Sabancı Business School	This course introduces the concepts and models for effective management of supply chains. Students are challenged to go beyond organizational boundaries and consider interactions between various players over the supply chain towards developing coordinated strategies. Mathematical models/tools/techniques for supply chain management are introduced with emphasis on key tradeoffs and objectives. Topics covered include supply chain dynamics (bullwhip effect), supply chain design (flexibility, postponement), supply chain planning (location and distribution), and supply chain coordination (contracts, information sharing and incentives, demand forecasting).
Stochastic Processes	OPIM 615	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of this course is to expose students to principles and applications of Stochastic Processes, by building upon the concepts introduced in a previously-taken basic probability course. In the first half of this course, topics including Bernoulli and Poisson processes, discrete and continuous-time Markov chains, renewal process and their applications are covered. This is followed by other topics such as queuing theory and its applications, stochastic dynamic programming and random walks. Upon completion of this course, the students have an appreciation of analytical models as well as applications of Stochastic Processes. (Knowledge of Calculus, Basic Probability and Statistics is recommended)
Integer and Combinatorial Optimization	OPIM 616	Sabancı Business School	This course builds on the Mathematical Programming course and contains modeling and solving techniques for complex problems where the decision variables form a discrete set and/or that cannot be solved in polynomial time. Topics include model development, branch and bound methods, cutting plane methods such as Gomory's cutting plane procedure and branch-and-cut, relaxations such as Lagrangian relaxation method, computational complexity and NP-completeness. (Knowledge of Mathematical Programming is recommended)
Discrete Event Simulation	OPIM 617	Sabancı Business School	The purpose of this course is to expose students to principles and applications of discrete event simulation. Concepts of simulation modeling and techniques of building simulation models are introduced followed by organization of simulation languages and modeling with Arena, a comprehensive simulation package with animation capabilities. Statistical aspects including input analysis, random variate generation, output analysis, and variance reduction techniques are the other topics covered. (Knowledge of Probability and Statistics is recommended)
Operations Strategy	OPIM 621	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.
Management of Technological Innovation	OPIM 622	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.
Empirical Methods in Operations Management	OPIM 623	Sabancı Business School	This course covers the basic principles of empirical theory building and theory testing in operations management context. There is an emphasis on the use of theories offered by economics and other management disciplines such as organization studies to describe, explain, and predict operations related activities and outcomes. Empirical research techniques such as case, survey, archival research are discussed based on examples from the literature. (Knowledge of Research Methods, Probability and Statistics is recommended)
Heuristic Optimization	OPIM 624	Sabancı Business School	Heuristic Optimization is a relatively new trend in analyzing and solving difficult integer and combinatorial optimization problems, where optimal solutions are costly or impossible to obtain in reasonable time and therefore near-optimal solutions are usually acceptable. This course starts with introducing the basic heuristic optimization concept and methodology in combinatorial optimization. This is followed by the presentation and discussion of widely-used heuristic optimization algorithms such as as simulated annealing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, tabu search, evolutionary algorithms and ant-colony algorithms. Problem-specific applications of these techniques are also covered. An important part of this course is the implementation of one or more of these algorithms in a programming language of each student's choice. (Knowledge of Basic programming skills in a computer is recommended)
Special Topics in Computational Methods I	OPIM 627	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 Computational Methods II	OPIM 628	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 Quantitative Methods I	OPIM 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.
Special Topics in Quantitative Methods II	OPIM 630	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 Operations Management I	OPIM 631	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 Operations Management II	OPIM 632	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.
Independent Study	OPIM 690	Sabancı Business School	This course is designed for self directed study of a topic not currently covered in regular course offerings or for the formulation of a research problem related to the student's intended area of thesis research.
Operations and Supply Chain Management	OPIM 801	Sabancı Business School	This course deals with the design, production and distribution of goods and services. Managerial issues and decision problems include the design, planning, and control of processes at strategic and operational levels. Concepts and tools used in generating solutions to problems and their implementation aspects are discussed. Operating systems from different areas such as manufacturing, service, and transportation are exemplified to expose students to the similarities and differences in their characteristics. Topics include operations strategy, process design and improvement, quality management, capacity and supply chain management.
Practical Business Analytics for Managers	OPIM 857	Sabancı Business School	Practical Business Analytics for Managers The main objective of this course is for the students to develop a thorough understanding of the role of computer-based information systems (i.e., business analytics, business intelligence, data science and decision support systems) in direct support of evidence-based managerial decision making.
Operations and Supply Chain Management	OPIM 902	Sabancı Business School	This course deals with the design, production and distribution of goods and services. Managerial issues and decision problems include the design, planning, and control of processes at strategic and operational levels. Concepts and tools used in generating solutions to problems and their implementations aspect are discussed. Operating systems from different areas such as manufacturing, service and 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 operations strategy, processdesign and improvement, quality management, capacity, and supply chain management.
Information Systems	OPIM 903	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 both competition and cooperation, e-business and information-decision systems.
Supply Chain Management	OPIM 904	Sabancı Business School	Supply chain includes all the parties involved in the production of goods and/or services including suppliers, distributors, and customers. Supply chain management emphasizes the importance of coordination between these different partners in a supply chain. This course introduces the concepts and methods for successful supply chain management. Activies such as demand forecasting, production and inventory planning; purchasing and distribution planning are covered. The importance of coordination is demonstrated through case studies and simulations.
Business Intelligence for Managers	OPIM 905	Sabancı Business School	Business intelligence (BI) is one of the most popular topics among business leaders. The main goal of BI is to promote accurate and timely decision making by use of data, information and analytics. This course is designed specifically for EMBA students to develop a good understanding/appreciation of computer-based information systems in direct support of managerial decision making, which nowadays commonly referred to as business intelligence. The topics covered in this course include decision support systems, data warehousing, business performance management, and data/text/Web mining. In order to provide a managerial approach to this course, instead of covering algorithmic details, a systematic problem solving approach is followed, where a number of business problems are given to illustrate the efficacy of business intelligence. [Note, the instructor of this course is also a co-author of the recently published business intelligence book titled ?Business Intelligence: A Managerial Approach? (Prentice Hall, ©2011), which will be used as the textbook for this course].
Project Management	OPIM 951	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.
Operations Simulation	OPIM 953	Sabancı Business School	Operations simulation is an extremely valuable tool being used more and more in industry and government to assist in the design, creation, and evaluation of complex systems. This simulation course focuses on effective modeling and analysis of complicated processes through the use of computer simulation techniques. The course emphasizes modeling and covers examples from many potential simulation applications in the real world, including manufacturing systems analysis, service systems analysis (such as hospitals, restaurants), financial analysis, and quality improvement programs.
Practical Business Analytics for Managers	OPIM 957	Sabancı Business School	The main objective of this course is for the students to develop a thorough understanding of the role of computer-based information systems (i.e., business analytics, business intelligence, data science and decision support systems) in direct support of evidence-based managerial decision making.
Organizational Behavior and Leadership	ORG 501	Sabancı Business School	Organizational behavior is the study of people in organizations-how and why they think, feel and act the way they do. The field, which borrows extensively from the social sciences, includes but is not limited to, topics such as motivation, decision making, leadership, organizational culture, communication, organizational conflict, power and negotiation, team processes, organization change, structure and change. This course is based on a belief that social science has much to offer the practicing manager and that becoming an effective manager of others requires increasing our own self-awareness and a portfolio of managerial skills. Thus, the course combines traditional lectures with the use of cases, group projects and experiential exercises.
Strategy Implementation and Organization Design	ORG 521	Sabancı Business School	In this course, students learn about the basic tools of organization design (structure, human resource systems, organizational culture) and how a manager can use them to achieve an organization's srtategic goals. Student teams apply the frameworks taught in class to propose a plan to improve the design of the company/department they work with for their Company Action Projects.
Strategic Human Resources Management (HRM)	ORG 522	Sabancı Business School	The main objective of this course is to introduce the basic concepts, theoretical perspectives, and techniques that are useful for understanding and designing human resources systems. 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 functions and organizational effectiveness. Emergent issues such as downsizing and international human resources management (IHRM) are also discussed.
Organization Theory	ORG 551	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.
Organizational Behavior and Leadership	ORG 552	Sabancı Business School	Organizational behavior is the study of people in organizations-how and why they think, feel and act the way they do. The field, which borrows extensively from the social sciences, includes but is not limited to, topics such as motivation, decision making, leadership, organizational culture, communication, organizational conflict, power and negotiation, team processes, organization change, structure and change. This course is based on a belief that social science has much to offer the practicing manager and that becoming an effective manager of others requires increasing our own self-awareness and a portfolio of managerial skills. Thus, the course combines traditional lectures with the use of cases, group projects and experiential exercises.
Economics of Organization	ORG 601	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.
Organizational Behavior	ORG 612	Sabancı Business School	This seminar is designed to provide students with a broad overview of the major topics in the field of organizational behavior (OB). The course starts off with a critical introduction to the field of OB, followed by an orientation to research on individual differences, job attitudes such as job satisfaction and organizational commitment, motivation theories, psychological contracts and interorganizational trust. The course then proceeds to cover other OB topics like group dynamics, leadership, and organizational culture, and the literature on the relationship between these variables and processes and various job outcomes such as citizenship behaviors, and various job outcomes such as citizenship behaviors,
Organization Theory	ORG 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.
Social Theory	ORG 614	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)
Human Resources Management	ORG 615	Sabancı Business School	The objective of this course is to introduce students to the academic literature in the field of human resource management (HRM). The course covers various topics including the historical development of HRM as a scientific field, job analysis, staffing, performance appraisal, compensation, training and development, employee stress and health, employment and industrial relations. Current issues such as the scientist-practitioner gap, strategic HRM and high commitment workplaces are also discussed. The course is designed as three modules. The first module takes a broad view and examines models and research of HR functions and their relationship with organizational strategy and performance. The second module critically reviews reviews the research on specific HR functions. The third and final module of the course deals with research on employee well-being and industrial relations.
Cross Cultural Organizational Psychology	ORG 625	Sabancı Business School	This course focuses on cross-cultural psychology with an emphasis on behavior in organizations. This class aims to critically examine the cultural assumptions embedded in existing organizational theories, which typically have emerged from the US. Secondly, and in line with the first aim, it tries to sensitize students to the issue of contextual diversity in which organizations and their members operate as well as creating some awareness about perspectives that have something to say about societal variation. To this end, conceptualizations of culture, theoretical perspectives linking culture to behavior, methodological issues in conducting cross-cultural research, as well as the research on cross-cultural differences will be covered. Specific focus will be on understanding how culture affects basic psychological processes, including cognition, emotion, and motivation and their implications in terms of micro organizational studies.
Special Topics In Organizational Analysis I	ORG 627	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 Organizational Analysis II	ORG 628	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 Organizational Behaviour I	ORG 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.
Special Topics in Organizational Behavior II	ORG 630	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 HRM I	ORG 631	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 HRM II	ORG 632	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.
Organizational Behavior and Leadership	ORG 801	Sabancı Business School	Organizational Behavior and Leadership Organizational behavior is the study of people in organizations- how and why they think, feel and act the way they do. The field, which borrows extensively from the social sciences, includes but is not limited to, topics such as motivation, decision making, leadership, organizational culture, communication, organizational conflict, power and negotiation, team processes, organization change, structure and change. This course is based on a belief that social science has much to offer the practicing manager and that becoming an effective manager of others requires increasing our own self-awareness and a portfolio of managerial skills. Thus, the course combines traditional lectures with the use of cases, group projects and experiential exercises.
Strategic Human Resources Management (HRM)	ORG 822	Sabancı Business School	The main objective of this course is to introduce the basic concepts, theoretical perspectives, and techniques that are useful for understanding and designing human resources systems. 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 functions and organizational effectiveness. Emergent issues such as downsizing and international human resources management (IHRM) are also discussed.
Organizational Behaviour and Leadership	ORG 902	Sabancı Business School	Organizational behavior studies people in organizations' how and why they think, feel, and act. Topics include motivation, decision-making, leadership, organizational culture, communication, organizational conflict, power and negotiation, team processes, organization change, structure and change, covered in traditional lectures with the use of cases, group projects and experiential exercises.
Strategic Human Resources Management (HRM)	ORG 922	Sabancı Business School	The main objective of this course is to introduce the basic concepts, theoretical perspectives, and techniques that are useful for understanding and designing human resources systems. 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 functions and organizational effectiveness. Emergent issues such as downsizing and international human resources management (IHRM) are also discussed.
Basic Persian I	PERS 510	School of Languages	he aim of this course is to help students acquire general communicative competence based on comprehension of basic written and spoken texts. The instructional approach is directed towards the development of everyday communication in the Persian language. Students also develop basic knowledge in grammar, lexis, and phonology. At the end of the course, student will have a range of Persian vocabulary as well as understanding the links between Persian Turkish and other Western Languages.
Basic Persian II	PERS 520	School of Languages	This course is a continuation of PERS 110 and the aims is to help students to improve the language and skills required for effective communication at the Basic level. It also aims to raise students’ awareness of the processes involved in learning to communicate. By the end of this level, students will basically be able to talk about their preferences, daily routines and schedules, work life, spare time activities, sports, shopping, social activities, celebrations and personal relationships, using the grammar rules and vocabulary they have learned. They will also be able to make comparisons, describe their moods, and express feelings and opinions as well as their experiences and future plans, using simple syntactic structures. Besides, students will have some ideas on Iranian scholars and the interactions between Persian culture, Turkish and other Western cultures.
Intermediate Persian I	PERS 530	School of Languages	This course is a continuation of the Persian Pre- intermediate I course. The course aims to help students further develop their linguistic, lexical and syntactic knowledge as well as their knowledge of the language and everyday communication skills. At the end of the course, students will have basic information on Persian grammar and daily conversation. They can easily ask and answer simple questions. Besides, students will apperceive the relations between Persian, Turkish and Ottoman.
Intermediate Persian II	PERS 540	School of Languages
Advanced Persian I	PERS 550	School of Languages	At this level, students consolidate their language knowledge and are ready to practice their language skills by using various vocabularies and expressions. Besides being able to read simple story books, They can also enjoy reading simple articles of magazines and newspapers. At this level, students have basic information about Iranian scholars. They can read simple poetry texts, magazines’ articles. Moreover, students are able to starts communication in simple Persian words. They can easily Express their feelings. By listening to a scientific program, they are able to understand the subject of discussions.
Advanced Persian II	PERS 560	School of Languages	At this level, students can easily understand any Persian conversations, as an audience, they can participate in (Persian speaking) conferences, they can take notes in Persian, ask and answer various questions and communicate with native Iranians. Students will be able to use various Persian books in libraries. They will have enough confidence to travel in Iran by using only Persian. At this stage, we will work on selected materials related to Persian history and culture. Students will be able to translate Persian texts in to English or their own language. We will have a free discussion classes and students are able to discuss different matters in Persian. Persian Instructor will just help students while necessary.
Philosophy of Social Sciences	PHIL 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is an introduction to the main issues and approaches in the philosophy of social sciences, with a focus on questions of methodology. These include whether social sciences employ a methodology different from that of the natural sciences; whether explanations in terms of reasons differ in any way from those in terms of causes; the nature of social reality; the relationship between individuals and social structures; the debate between methodological individualism and methodological holism; whether social sciences are value- free or not and the problem of objectivity. General approaches to be discussed are positivism, realism, the hermeneutical-interpretive and critical schools. These approaches and issues will be exemplified in the context of various social scientific disciplines.
Personhood and Personal Identity	PHIL 521	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course pursues a philosophical inquiry into the significance of being a `person? and the conditions of personal identity, through a critical examination of some of the major theories on personal identity and personhood developed so far.
Philosophy of Art	PHIL 522	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to provide both an introduction to philosophies of art and an opportunity to philosophise art, actual and perhaps imaginary: what has counted as art, for someone somewhere, as well as what might count as such. The aims of philosophy will be reviewed - such as truth, value, understanding - in the light of different works of art and different ways of understanding them. The aims, or ends, of art will also therefore be put in question.
European Humanism and After	PHIL 525	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The aim of this course is to offer insight in the humanist tradition in Europe (Vico, 19th century's historicism, 20th century's philology), with a focus on its "reactivation" by Edward Said before and after Orientalism. This will provide the opportunity to give some hints about humanist philosophy in the 20th century as well as anti-humanist thinking (e.g. Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida). The stake is the necessity of producing a general critique of the philological enterprise in the last two centuries.
Science and Society	PHIL 550	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to study the two-way interaction between science and society. It aims to understand how science and science-driven technology change society and in turn how social factors influence them. Topics covered will include: the changing nature of scientific research, the challenges to formulating science policy in democratic societies, the comercialization of scientific research, how scientific controversies on matters of interest to the public are played out, and normative questions that these issues raise.
Classical Mechanics	PHYS 501	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Hamilton's principle, Euler-Lagrange equations, bound states and scatttering in the Kepler problem, rigid body motion, Euler's equations, Special relativity, Hamilton's equations, canonical transformations, Poisson brackets, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, small vibrations and the mechanics of continuous media.
Electromagnetic Theory I	PHYS 511	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Fundamentals of electromagnetism. Elektrostatics. Boundary value problems. Magnetostatics. Time-dependent fields and Maxwell's equations. Propagation of electromagnetic waves. Wave guides and resonant cavities.
Electromagnetic Theory II	PHYS 512	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Radiating systems, scattering and diffraction, special theory of relativity, dynamics of relativistic particles, collitions, Cherenkov radiation, radiation of moving charges, Bremsstrahlung, multipole fields, radiation decay.
Quantum Mechanics I	PHYS 531	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Dirac formulation, operators, measurements and observables, , unitary transformations, Heisenberg ve Schrödinger pictures, Schrödinger's equation, Feynman path integrals, rotations and angular momentum, hydrogen atom, spin, addition of angular momenta.
Quantum Mechanics II	PHYS 532	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Symmetry in quantum mechanics, perturbation theory, identical particles, scattering theory, second quantization.
Atom and Molecular Physics	PHYS 533	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Three-dimensional Schrödinger equation, single-electron atom, spin-orbit coupling, relativistic corrections, fine structure, spectroscopic classification, hyperfine structure, radiative transitions and selection rules, Pauli principle and periodic table, multi-electron atoms, Hartree-Fock field, LS and j-j coupling, Zeeman effect, chemical bonding, energy states of molecules, van der Waals forces, crystals, band structure of solids.
Phase Transitions and Renormalization-Group Theory	PHYS 538	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The students will learn the remarkable phenomena occurring at phase transitions that are universally applicable to a wide range of systems, and simple and physically intuitive theory for deriving these phenomena. The dialog between experiment and theory, as well as the rich confluence of the intuitive, phenomenological, approximate, rigorous, and numerical approaches, will be illustrated: Introduction: phase diagrams, thermodynamic limit, critical phenomena, universality. Classical theories: naive mean-field, constructive mean-field, Landau theories; Ginzburg criterion. Ising models and exact results: one dimension; two dimensions; duality; global phase diagrams. Scaling theory of Kadanoff. Exact renormalization-group treatments in one dimension. Approximate renormalization-group treatments in two dimensions. Thermodynamic functions and first-order phase transitions. Momentum-space renormalization group: Gaussian model, Landau-Wilson model, epsilon-expansion. Variational renormalization group; Migdal-Kadanoff transformations. Hierarchical lattices. Dynamics: stochastic models; detailed balance; dynamic universality classes. Superfluidity. Blume-Emery-Griffiths model. Global multicritical phenomena. Surface systems. q-state Potts and Potts-lattice-gas models. Exact critical and tricritical exponents. Helicity and reentrance. Chaotic renormalization groups and spin-glass order. Order under frozen disorder and frustration. Scale-free and small-world networks. Connection between geometric and thermal properties. Neural networks, simulated annealing, coding-decoding, using phase transition models. Renormalization-group theory of quantum spin and electronic conduction models. High Tc superconductivity. Electron-exchange induced antiferromagnetism. Reverse impurity effects on antiferromagnetism and superconductivity.
Statistical Mechanics I	PHYS 541	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Laws of thermodynamics and its applications. Classical kinetic theory and Boltzmann's equation. Micro-canonical, canonical and macro-canonical distribution functions. Ideal quantum gases. Applications of statistical mechanics in solid state, nuclear physics, and astrophysics.
Statistical Mechanics II	PHYS 542	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Cluster expansion for non-ideal classical and quantum gases, virial coefficients, phase transitions, magnetism, two-dimensional Ising model and introduction to critical phenomena.
Quantum Optics and Electronics I	PHYS 545	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Production, propagation, manipulation and applications of coherent light, elementary processes in lasers and masers, theory of interaction of electromagnetic radiation and resonance atomic transitions, laser fluctuations, Raman effect, non-linear optics, modulation of light.
Quantum Optics and Electronics II	PHYS 546	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Non-linear optics, harmonic generation, stimulated Brillouin and Raman scattering, mode-locking of lasers, quantum theory of lasers, interaction of radiation with atoms and quantum noise.
Optoelectronics and Photonics	PHYS 548	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Optoelectronic materials, optical processes in semiconductors, absorption and emission, transition rate and carrier lifetime, light emitting diodes (LED), lasers, optical sensors, electro-optical modulators and solar cells, optoelectronic integrated circuits, designs, demonstrations and projects related to optoelectronic phenomena.
Mesoscopic Physics	PHYS 550	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Quantum effects in low dimensional systems and nanostructures, pseudo-two dimensional systems and superlattices, quantum wires, quantum dots, quantum transport theory, Kubo equation, localization, universal conductance fluctuations, Aharonov-Bohm effect, single electron phenomena, quantum Hall effects, Kondo effect.
Graduate Seminar I	PHYS 551	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Graduate Seminar II	PHYS 552	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Low Temperature Physics	PHYS 553	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Experimental techniques at temperatures near absolute zero, measurement of physical quantities, thermal, magnetic and electrical transport properties of materials, of He3 and He4, superfluidity and superconductivity.
Condensed Matter Physics I	PHYS 555	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Crystal structures, crystal symmetries and group theory, phonons and thermal properties of crystals, free electron model, electrons in periodic potential, Bloch theorem, insulator, metal, semimetal and semiconductor structures, energy bands, pseudo-potential and tight-binding methods, Fermi surfaces, electrons in magnetic field, deHaas-van Alphen effect, elementary excitations, impurity states.
Condensed Matter PHysics II	PHYS 556	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Electron transport in solids, electron-phonon interactions, electron-electron interactions, optical properties of solids, excitons, Raman effect, magnetic properties of solids, magnetic orderings, superconductivity, experimental observations, BCS theory, Ginzburg-Landu theory.
High Energy Astrophysics I	PHYS 561	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	The interaction of high energy photons with matter: ionization, bremsstrahlung, Compton scattering, electron-positron pair production, Cerenkov radiation; photon spectra resulting from these processes; nuclear interactions, cosmic rays and their interactions in the atmosphere; dynamics and diffusion of charged particles in magnetic fields, synchrotron radiation, magnetic flux pinning, magnetic diffusion; gases and magnetic fields in the nterstellar medium, acceleartion mechanisms for charged particles, the energy spectra of electrons, protons and nuclei in the Galaxy.
High Energy Astrophysics II	PHYS 562	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	High energy particle detectors; X-ray, gamma ray detectors, cosmic ray, X-ray and gamma ray telescopes; neutrino telescopes; optical, infrared, ultraviolet and radio astronomy detectors and telescopes; spacecrafts; data archives and data analysis
Compact Stars	PHYS 566	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Degenerate matter. Chandrasekhar limit. The formation, structure and cooling of white dwarf stars. Neutron stars: the outer shell, electron gas in a high magnetic field, Relativistic electrons, superfluidity and superconductivity, the equation of state at high densities and the mass-radius relationship; dynamics of neutron stars, glitches and their relaxation, neutron star oscillations; black holes; compact objects in binary star systems, mass accretion disks.
Semiconductor Physics	PHYS 576	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Electronic band structure of solids, impurity states, excess carriers and recombination, energy band diagrams, electron transport, p-n junction, bipolar and field effect transistors, optical properties of semiconductors, quantum wells, superlattices, quantum devices.
Selected Topics in Physics	PHYS 580	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information	PHYS 584	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Introduction to quantum mechanics, quantum information, quantum cryptography, teleportation, quantum computation, quantum algorithms, error and error correction, quantum computers.
Master Thesis	PHYS 590	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Physics Term Project	PHYS 591	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	In this course, student will perform a research task under the guidance of a physics graduate program member and prepare a final report.
Modern Topics in Condensed Matter Physics	PHYS 592	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Nanostructure materials, quasi two dimensional systems and superlattices, quantum wires, quantum dots. Mesoscopic electron systems, coherent quantum transport, localization, universal conductance fluctuations, Bohm-Aharonov Effect. Single electron phenomena. Quantum Hall effects. Magnetism at nanoscale, spin transport Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and related techniques.
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory	PHYS 611	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Symmetries and group theory, Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations, spin-0 and ½ fieds, quantum electrodynamics, Feynman diagrams, S-matrix, renormalization, path integrals, gauge theory, Weinberg-Salam model, quarks and the standard model
Many Body Theory	PHYS 612	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Second quantization, Green's functions exactly solvable models, electron gas, electron-phonon interaction, optical properties of solids, superconductivity, superfluidity
Relativistic Astrophysics	PHYS 613	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Special theory of relativity; General theory of relativity; Metric around compact objects; Relativistic effects near black holes, neutron stars and mass accretion disks, Relativistic flows and jets, Microquasars, Gravitational radiation and relativistic binary systems; Gravitational lensing, Introduction to cosmology
General Theory of Relativity and Cosmology	PHYS 614	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	General theory of relativity; Robertson-Walker spaces; Big bang and astro-particle physics; Nucleosynthesis and cosmic background radiation; Inflation theories; Cosmological constant.
Quantum Field Theory I	PHYS 617	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Quantization of simple harmonic oscillator. Quantization of scalar fields. Quantization of the electron field. Quantization of the light. Bosonization. Interacting fields and Feynman diagrams. Necessity of loops. Regularization of loop integrals. Electron and light self-energies and electron-light vertex at one loop.
Quantum Field Theory II	PHYS 618	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences	Path integral quatization of simple harmonic oscillator. Functional methods in quantum field theory. Effective action. Ultraviolet cutoff. Effective potential in scalar field theory. Spontaneous symmetry breaking. Cooper pairs vs Higgs field: Ultraviolet sensitivity and completion.
Ph.D. Dissertation	PHYS 790	Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Ancient, Medieval and Early Political Theory	POLS 500	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is a chronological survey of the history of ancient Greek, medieval and early modern political thought. It begins with the Greek classiscs and covers the medieval thinkers and ends with Renaissance and the 16th century thinkers. Given more than two millennia between the first and the last, the course aims to place each thinker within the relevant historical context linking each with the past and present day discussions thus preparing the students for a sound evaluation of later stages of political theorizing.
Concepts, Structures and Transformations	POLS 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims at equipping the students with a conceptual framework that will enable them to conduct qualitative studies in the field of Political Science. While the conventional literature on ideology, discourse, Orientalism, liberalism, democracy, and fascism will be covered on the one hand, approaches that go beyond nation-state paradigms in social sciences will be introduced, on the other. The latter will include a survey of the reconceptualization of citizenship as a result of the processes prompted by globalization. The critical issues concerning the dynamics and motor of political change will also be studied. (A required course for Political Science PhD students)
Political Theory	POLS 502	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A survey of the impact of dominant political theories in the 19th and early 20th centuries viewed as thematic constructions that have to be set in their historical context to be fully understood. The course shall focus both on political thought and on the concomitant social/intellectual movements, the latter, in turn breaking new ground for the emergence of new political cultures.
Comparative Method	POLS 503	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Graduate level course to be offered to students who had already been through Comparative Politics instruction. This course focuses on comparison as a method of control, the logic of comparison in most similar and most different systems, case study, area study approaches in comparative politics.
Turkish Social and Political Thought	POLS 504	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is asurvey of the main currents and their selected representatives in Turkish social and political thought since 1908.
Political Tought:Issues,Concepts,Debates	POLS 505	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to introduce political science graduate students to some of the main concepts, theories and debates in political thought. The focus of the course will be to orovide a seminar in which students can wrestle with some of the fundamental questions that political scientists ask themselves. Hence, the course's aims are two-fold: To give the students a chance to familiarize themselves with major theories and debates in political philosophy, and to encourage analytical and critical skills necessary for graduate work.
Political Ideologies	POLS 507	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will review the fundamental contemporary ideoligies such as liberalism, conservatism, facism, and Marxism and recent manifestations of ideoligical politics such as political Islam, new Right politics feminism, and environmentalism.
Revitalization Movements in the Islamic World	POLS 508	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A survey of the organizational and idealional changes that have marked the Islamic world in the last three centuries and that have been characterized as " Neo-sufism " . The course will start with a study of the mujaddidi movement of Ahmad Faruqi Sirhindi (1563 - 1624) and cover developments in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as ramifications of revivalism in Anatolia- Contributions to these movements by leaders such as Ahmad Ibn Idrıs (1760 - 1832),Muhammad Ali as-Sanusi 1787-1859),Shakh Khalid Shahrizuri al Bagdadi (1776 - 1827),Muhammad al Mahdi (1844-1881),and Ziyaeddin Gümüşhanevi (1812-1893) will be highlighted within two main frames:that of Islamic culture and that of recent theoretical contribution to the study of " Fundamentalism ". One aspect of these developments feeds directly into contemporary Turkish Politics through the influence of Mehmed Z. Kotku and N. Erbakan.
Greek-Turkish Relations	POLS 509	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Beginning with the Greek independence in 1830, this course will first trace the development of Greek- Turkish relations in their historical, political, and ideological context and examine, in particular, the influence of nationalism on the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans, the effects of the resulting myths and narratives on nation-building, and the perceptions that define identity politics. Against this background, the course will then focus on the foreign policy of both Greece and Turkey; major bilateral issues between the two countries, the effect of Cyprus and the influence of the European Union on the bilateral relations; the new geopolitical environment of the two countries in which the recent détente took rise; and policy alternatives for the near future.
Comparative Politics	POLS 510	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designed to introduce the graduate students to the comparative study of politics. The objectives of the course are: 1. To enable students to develop skills in analysing political institutions, processes, and structures through comparisons of political systems embedded in different cultural contexts; 3. To introduce the students to the main issues and topics of the field of comparative politics; and 4. To introduce the students to the analysis of how major human concerns with freedom, social justice, equality, democracy etc. take shape and influence the emerge and structure of political institutions, processes, and practices in different polities.
Great Powers and Origins of International Order	POLS 511	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course examines the foreign policies of great powers and their consequences for international order. It analyzes how great powers have used military and diplomatic tools in the international arena and how these tools have affected international rules, institutions, and norms. The course focuses on the strategies of the USA, Britain, and Germany since the 19th century and traces the development of international orders -from the failed attempts of Concert of Europe and the League of Nations to the Cold War order. It considers the foreign policies of current and rising powers, such as the EU, China, and the USA, and if in the post-9/11 era the policies of these states will produce a different order.
Changing Parameters of the New Right	POLS 512	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The primary purpose of this course is to give the student an understanding of the extreme right-wing phenomenon both in theory and practice. In an era in which some of these parties has made a remarkable progress in Turkey and Western Europe (i.e., Jörg Haider's Freedom Party in Austria), the study of right-wing extremism seems to be relevant for all students of political science and related disciplines. A theoretical framework of the extreme right-wing politics is constructed by the study of other ideologies, that has or is supposed to have influenced the phenomenon. These include conservatism, liberalism, fascism and racism.
Comparative Party Systems and Electoral Behaviour	POLS 513	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designed to provide a review of historical and conceptual bases of modern party systems, mass electoral behaviour and election systems. Competing theoretical paradigms that adress the enduring issues in the literature are introduced, application of the basic tools of analysis in the literature are presented and comparable research questions for the Turkish context are discussed.
Politics of Southern Europe	POLS 514	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The European countries that lie at the Southern flanks of the continent share common political, economic, and cultural aspects that set them apart from their Western neighbors. For instance, they consolidated their democracies later and, with the exception of Italy, joined the European Community around thirty years after its creation. This course will study the politics, society, and economy of Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece from a comparative perspective. First, the state structure, party politics, and electoral systems of the Southern European countries will be introduced. Second, the causes, policies, and the collapse of the interwar authoritarian regimes of Salazar, Franco, Mussolini, and Metaxas will be examined. In this context, special emphasis will be given to how democracy consolidated in Southern Europe. Continuing political problems, such as Basque nationalism in Spain, the Sicilian mafia in Italy, and the Muslim minority in Greece will also be discussed. Finally, the course will conclude with the entrance of the Southern European countries to the European Community, their policies and roles within the Union, and the effects of the EU on Southern Europe..
Politics of Representation and Identity	POLS 521	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will explore issues of representation and identity in the context of cultural pratices. It is concerned with clarifying processes of identity formation and transformation, especially as they take place in the political and cultural realms. The notion of 'representation' does not refer to electoral or to institutional representation narrowly understood but aims to capture the cultural and symbolic aspects of representation that have political and institutional repercussions. For these purposes, the course will analyze the myriad relationships among multiple forms of representation and the macro-social processes shaping the contemporary world as well as engaging in the current political debate and polemics that revolve around these ssues. Therefore, issues of multiculturalism, politics of difference and postmodernity will be taken up alongside issues of performativity, feminism, masculinity, surrealism and pornography. Our overriding concern will be to gain self-understanding regarding the identities we assume, reject or negotiate with. In other words, the ultimate speculative thrust of this course is to further our self-reflexivity with respect to our academic practices as well as our personal identities.
Politics and Culture	POLS 522	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is a survey of theories that take “culture” seriously and regard it as a determining factor in the shaping of political phenomena. These are theories that emphasize the relevance of shared beliefs, ideologies, values or behavior patterns for making sense of political processes, events and institutions . The course draws on philosophical as well as empirical literature in this field. Course readings include works by Herder, Marx, Weber, Geertz, Almond, Putnam and Inglehart, among others
Philosophical Approaches to Modernity	POLS 523	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The primary goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the problems posed by the notion of "modernity", and the different approaches that attempt to conceptualize and criticize it. The focus will be on three main philosophical approaches; critical, hermeneutical and genealogical. By relying mainly on primary sources, the course will attempt to thoroughly explore each of these understandings. The focus will be on their respective methodologies as well as on their substantive claims about the modern period. Furthermore, the course will also explore how these three approaches engage and criticize each other.
Civil Society	POLS 525	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course will have a twin foci: On the one hand, we will examine various theoretical formulations of the notion of civil society. We will study writings by classical liberal theorists as well as their critique from Hegelian and Marxist perspectives. On the other hand, we will engage the empirical, comparative analyses of civil society and discuss related issues of democratization, multiculturalism public sphere and identity politics. The experiences of East European and Middle East/North African countries (including Turkey's) will receive special attention. The intention of the course is to bring the theoretical and empirical aspects of the debates on civil society together in an attempt to clarify and critically appropriate this often-used but ill-understood concept.
Continental Political Thought	POLS 526	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is a critical study of some of the key concepts and theories that underlie most of political theorizing in Continental Europe since 19th century. Special emphasis will be placed on German and French traditions. The basic aim of the course is to elucidate the historical linkages and trajectories of different strands of political thought and thus to understand the distinctive features of Continental political theory traditions. Readings include selections from Kant, Hegel, Freud, Heidegger, and Baudrillard.
Methods and Scope of Political Analysis	POLS 529	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides an introduction to philosophy of social sciences, various methodological approaches in political science and research methods and analysis. Components of research design, measurement, validity, data collection strategies and logic of inference are discussed. Various research design examples are provided from the recent political science literature and students are exposed to research process, article evaluation and thesis proposal writing. It also aims to expose students to ethical considerations in research and publishing.
Quantitative Research Methods	POLS 530	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides an introduction to quantitative research methods used in political science. Basic exposure is provided to descriptive tabular analysis and statistics, probability, distribution theory, central limit theorem, hypothesis testing, ordinary least squares and multivariate regression methods. It also aims to expose students to ethical consideration in research and publishing.
Qualitative and Textual Research Methods	POLS 531	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designed to help students develop their research design skills in qualitative methods. The objective is to enable graduate students to create and critique sophisticated qualitative research designs in political science. In order to do so, the seminar explores the techniques, strengths, and limitations of qualitative methods by scrutinizing the logic and application of comparative-historical research, case- study, process-tracing, and textual analysis. The course further takes on epistemological issues in the social sciences such as causality, theory testing, case selection, inference, and the philosophy of social science. Even though qualitative research can stand on its own, this course stresses the advantages of not viewing the qualitative methods in isolation from other methods. Accordingly, the course encourages the use and application of mixed-method research in political science. It also aims to expose students to ethical considerations in research and publishing.
Survey Research Methods	POLS 532	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course builds on "Methods and Scope of Political Analysis" course and provides a working knowledge of the total survey approach, sampling, questionnaire design and collection and analysis of survey data.
Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I	POLS 534	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designed to provide an introduction to deductive theory and formal modelling. Topics covered include elementary decision theory, game theory and theory of social choice, with no mathematical prerequisites assumed expect high school algebra.
Formal Modelling and Political Analysis II	POLS 535	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course builds on POLS 534 and aims to expose the students to recent applications of formal analysis in various fields of political science. Assuming a sound understanding of basic formal tools of analysis examplary articles focusing on selected topics in comparative politics, international relations and social choice are discussed and various extensions are opened for discussion.
Introduction to Computational Social Science	POLS 536	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course interweaves three main themes: (1) Graduate level introduction to computational concepts, principles and modeling approaches in the social sciences, with an emphasis on simulations and elements of cpmlexity theory as these apply to social phenomena. Topics include systems dynamics, cellular automata, and agent-oriented models. (2) Hands-on examination of agent simulations in the social sciences by examining and experimenting with a variety of social simulation projects conducted in Repast Agent Simulation Environment (3) Ability to design experiments and evaluating results for the purpose of testing research hypotheses
Advance Research Methods and Data Analysis in Political Science	POLS 537	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course trains students to use statistical models for forecasting societal, mainly political, outcomes The students learn how to use Machine Learning and Data Mining algorithms to explore topics such as measuring the extent of partisan polarization, predicting electoral outcomes, predicting local violence, analyzing the trend of interstate war, and forecasting civil war. Subjects to be covered include understanding the differences and similarities between Correlation Analysis, Causal Inference, and Forecasting Principles; Naive Bayes; k-Nearest Neighbors (KNN); Regularized Linear Regression (Lasso, Ridge, eNet); forecasting using Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE); Trees methods; Clustering; and Dimension Reduction.
Turkey and the Middle East	POLS 539	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will explore the story of Turkey's relations with the main middle eastern states since the 1920s, within the context of its wider foreign policy concerns. Opening classes will cover the historical background of Turkish policies in the region between 1945 and 1960, Turkey's interests and capacities in the region, the linkage between regional policies and Turkey's relations with the superpowers, and the role of economic factors. Subsequent sessions will deal with Turkey's policies towards the main regional states, closing with Turkey's position in the first and second Gulf wars (1991, 2003) and an overall assessment of the evolution of Turkish policy and interests.
International Relations Theory	POLS 540	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims at providing the political science graduate students with a thorough analysis of international relations theory. The course will do so first, by analyzing the emergence of the modern state system and the evolution of the international relations as a discipline. Second, the course will focus on major approaches and paradigms in international relations theory, namely realism, neorealism,liberalism, neoliberal institutionalism. and contructivisim. By differentiating between rationalist and sociological approaches to international relations, the course will expose the students to the major current debates in IR theory. The course aims to furnish the students with advanced theoretical skills on international relations that would enable them to further their studies on international relations.
International Organizations	POLS 541	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	What role do International Organizations (IOs) play in world politics? Why do states establish supranational and international institutions, and what determines both their design and evolution? How do international and domestic forces impact their effectiveness and function? This course provides an in-depth look at the theory behind and practice of IOs and focuses on both theoretical and methodological issues related to IOs. It looks at the interaction between international law and politics as exemplified by the United Nations, international financial institutions (the IMF and World Bank), selected regional organizations (NATO and EU), and the WTO. Finally, and considers their substantive work in areas such as the promotion of democracy, peace and security, human rights, and sustainable development. Primary goal is to understand the interplay between interests, institutions and information in defining how IOs influence world politics.
NGO Governance	POLS 542	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The world is in the midst of a global 'associational revolution' and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) feature prominently in this process. There are many different types of NGOs, with varying goals and priorities and one major aim of the course is to de-mystify the NGO scene. In order to do this, theoretical framework will be developed at the onset relating NGOs to civil society, globalization, new division of labour in polity and dynamics of governance. NGO role in developmental work, promotion of civil society, service delivery, advocacy work will be discussed as well as challenges facing NGOs in an evolving complex world of organizational/institutional matrixes. The enhanced role for NGOs also obliges them to be responsible, efficient, ethical, transparent, participatory and accountable true to the spirit of good governance. Building NGO capacity on one hand and empowerment by levels of government on the other hand, will be taken up together. The course will be concluded with critical evaluation of select NGO work both from Turkey and elsewhere.
International Negotiation	POLS 543	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	In a chaotic international environment, negotiation is often what all stands between war and peace. In the peace time interactions negotiation is an essential mechanism to achieve constructive solutions, and mutually satisfactory agreements. International actors- states, non governmental actors, firms, and their representatives- often negotiate to settle their differences, to build new systems of interactions, and to renew trust. This course is designed to provide the students with the essentials of the art and science of negotiation. The first part of the course will introduce basic components, concepts and contexts of international negotiation. In this section, the nature of negotiation, prenegotiation, preparing for negotiation, power, strategies, and tactics, gender and the impact of culture, multilateral negotiation will constitute some of the issues to be discussed. Part two is concerned with hands-on negotiation games and simulations. The course will be conducted through lectures, participatory discussions, simulation exercises, and seminars by experienced diplomats
Latin American Politics	POLS 546	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course studies Latin American Politics from theoretical and empirical perspectives. First, it will provide a short introduction to the history of Latin America based on major theoretical perspectives with a particular emphasis on the second half of the twentieth century and current context. Then, it will mainly focus on major political, social and economic institutions in the region, while studying intra-regional variation in this respect as well as the common patterns. It will examine the evolution of democratic regimes, military interventions, transitions and civil society politics from an institutionalist perspective, focusing on the so-called ''third wave'' of democratization processes in the region. The course will finally explore the politics of ongoing processes of regionalization within Latin America and between Latin America and other regions of the world. The politics and ideology behind the ideal of ''Latin American integration'' will be studied in this final section. The mail goal of this course is to expose students to substantive empirical issues and theoretical debates in the contemporary scholarship on Latin American politics.
Conflicts in the Middle East	POLS 548	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Conflicts in the Middle East is an overview of conflicts in the Middle East. In the latter half of the twentieth century, inter-state wars, civil wars, insurgencies and terrorism in this region have increased without a comprehensive resolution of a single conflict. The focus of the course will be an analysis of the roots of these conflicts, such as inter-religious, inter-sectarian, inter-ethnic tensions and the possibilities for their resolution. Special attention will be paid to the Lebanese and Yemeni civil wars and post-World War two inter-state conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli wars, the Iran-Iraq war, and finally the last two Gulf Wars. Student simulations will explore conflict resolution issues and techniques in the Arab-Israeli peace process and post-conflict Iraq.
Middle Eastern Politics and Government	POLS 549	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A course of comparative government and politics of the Middle East. It aims to analyze the emergence of the post World War I state system,major factors influencing political stability and change in the new states of the Middle East, with special reference to the role of religion, and oil.
Turkish Politics	POLS 550	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to provide a systematic historical review of classic and contemporary literature on the Turkish political institutions and processes from the Ottoman period to the present. Special attention will be paid to public policy making processes, forms of political participation, organisation and structure of diffrent levels of government institutions and mass movements.
Current Issues in Turkish Politics	POLS 553	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims at contributing to the ability of students to analyze analytically and critically the diversities and vicissitudes of political institutions, actors, and discourses in Turkey, as well as, 'continuities and changes' in Turkish politics. In doing so, the course begins by discussing the question of how to approach methodologically to Turkish politics, and then proceeds by focusing on crucial problem areas, namely those of institutional problems, societal changes and demands, and identity questions. The course attempts to discuss these issues and problems by locating them at the international/the domestic nexus. To achieve its aim, the course involves lectures, class discussions, and class presentations, and requires both active student participation and reading course material before attending the lectures.
Turkish Electoral Behaviour and Party System Research	POLS 554	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is intended to provide students with a structured opportunity to formulate cutting edge research questions on electoral behaviour and party system research. The primary objective is to guide students in formulating research questions and then actually carrying out the research and contribute to the existing literature.
Turkish Foreign Policy	POLS 555	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to provide students with a ststematic study of Turkish foreign policy. The course will elaborate on the basic principles of Turkish foreign policy making in the 20th century. Major turning points such as the developments in the Post World War II period and Cold War era, as well as the post-Cold War era will be yhoroughly investigated. The course analyzes the basic parameters of Turkish foreign policy during the Cold War era and then proceeds onto an analysis of the changes in these parameters after the end of the Cold War. The course empirically focuses on Turkey's foreign policy towards Europe, Turkey's policy towards the NATO-EU relations, the Middle East, Arab-Israeli conflict, and Transcaucasia. In addition, Turkey's positon in the Gulf crisis of 1990-1991 and the Cyprus problem are investigated through the theoretical lenses provided in the course.
Tanzimat Studies	POLS 556	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is a survey of the main currents and their selected representatives in Turkish social and political thought since the Tanzimat period. This course will attempt to analyze a number of basic documents relevant to the history of Ideas in the period of the Tanzimat. At each stage eminent personalities having contributed to the reform movement will be drawn into the study as a "constellation" of the thinkers of the time.
The Politics of Authoritarian Regimes:	POLS 557	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to provide students with a better understanding of the conceptual and operational differences between authoritarian and democratic regimes. It examines the similarities and differences among varieties of authoritarian regimes, the factors that lead to democratic backsliding and establishment of authoritarian rule, the strategies that authoritarian power-holders use for regime survival, state-society relations under authoritarian rule the paths toward the end of authoritarian regimes and re-democratization.
Modern State in Europe	POLS 560	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims at providing the students with a basic understanding of European politics. The course will do so first, by analyzing the historical background of European politics from the Peace of Westphalia and onwards, with specific emphasis on the state building process in Western Europe.Second the course will focus on the political dynamics in Europe with the aim of isolating commonalities and similar patterns in European politics. Third, the course will analyze the challenges in European politics today, specifically those posed by integrative and fragmentary forces. The course aims to provide a comparative analysis of European politics in a multi-disciplinary manner.
Transition to Democracy in Eastern Europe	POLS 561	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is primarily designed to focus on the Eastern and Central European transformations to democracy. Thus, it aims to equip the students with a broad understanding of both "democratization" as a concept and how it was achieved in the post-communist Europe. Other examples of democratization in the world are also dealt within the course.
Analytical Approaches To The European Union	POLS 562	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designed to introduce the students to rational choice institutionalism as it is applied to European integration studies. Institutional configurations and their impact upon political outcomes within the study of European integration are analyzed with a focus on the analytic character of group choice, voting methods and behavior, cooperation, collective action, public goods, institutional choice and reform. First institutions are discussed as formal, legalistic entities and decision rules imposing restrictions upon utility maximizing self-interested political actors. Second, applications to our understanding of the EU enlargement, ratification and intergovernmental negotiations, European integration and governance are discussed.
Political Violence in the Post-Cold War Era	POLS 563	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is a course on political violence in contemporary era, as such it mainly deals with global issues like terrorism, civil war, ethnic conflict, and weapons of mass destruction. The objective of the course is first to define these problems, then to explore the causes, and the proposed solutions to them. While doing so, the course touches upon concepts like religion, nationalism, and ethnicity, and examines how these concepts can

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