Graduate Course Catalog

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Course	Code	Faculty	Detail
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, Türkiye, 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 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 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.
Ethnography: Fieldwork and Writing in Anthropology	ANTH 568	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Ethnography refers both to the main qualitative research methods and the written product of anthropological research. This course aims to familiarize students with the tools of conducting ethnographic research, while also giving them an opportunity to put these tools into practice. Throughout the course, various aspects of and approaches to doing and writing ethnography will be critically examined.
Anthropology 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Türkiye. It includes a unit in which students undertake a research project of their own on youth culture and/or generational identity in Istanbul.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Advanced Industrial Organization	ECON 605	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course explores modern approaches to Industrial Organization, with a focus on how firms operate within networks, industries, and geographic spaces. Students will be introduced to computational tools, structural models, and input-output analysis to study interconnected production systems. The course content reflects the evolving nature of the field and features a selection from a variety of subjects ranging from network-based methods to game-theoretic or spatial approaches while maintaining a core concern with firm behavior and market dynamics.
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
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 Türkiye 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
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.
Discrete Choice Methods	ECON 635	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Discrete choice modeling is a framework for understanding how individuals (consumers, travelers, voters, etc.) make selections from a finite set of alternatives. Grounded in utility theory, these models help quantify and predict which option a decision-maker is most likely to choose based on attributes of both the alternatives and the decision-maker. By capturing the trade-offs individuals make—such as cost versus quality or convenience versus time—discrete choice models become foundational tools for analyzing and forecasting human behavior within contexts of competing options. This is a hands-on course designed to provide students with practical experience in discrete choice modeling. Students will gain familiarity with foundational tools for discrete choice analysis and learn to estimate discrete choice models using real data. The course emphasizes active learning through guided practice and real-world examples.
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.
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 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.
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.
Türkiye-European Union Relations	ES 502	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course analyses Türkiye'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 Türkiye's association with the EU. Türkiye'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.
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.
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 Türkiye(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.
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, Türkiye, 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 Türkiye	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 Türkiye. 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.
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.
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.
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 Türkiye	HART 513	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	"Visual Art in Türkiye" 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 Türkiye.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Türkiye	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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
The Ottoman Mediterranean (1453-1900)	HIST 573	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The Mediterranean played a central role in the political, military, and political life of the Ottoman Empire. It was a context for intensive military and political confrontation with European powers, a space of trade, scientific, and cultural exchanges across political and religious boundaries, and a natural environment constraining imperial policies and economic development. This graduate class analyzes the long-lasting and multifaceted engagement of the Ottoman Empire with the Mediterranean Sea between the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the onset of World War 1. It deals with wars and piracy, diplomacy, long-distance trade, the environment, slavery, religion, and interreligious cultural and scientific exchanges.
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.
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 Türkiye 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 Türkiye.
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.
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 Türkiye, 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.
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 Türkiye 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Türkiye represented on the literary plane? This course will explore modern Türkiye 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 Türkiye (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 Türkiye. Seminar materials combine such literary works with theoretical and historical writings on Türkiye, 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.
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.
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.
Environmental Ethics and Sustainability	PHIL 560	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course serves as an introduction to the goal of sustainability and the ethical issues regarding our environment, i.e. the natural world and the non-human entities in it. We will begin by analyzing the justifications for sustainable policies and lifestyles. Then we will focus on issues raised by the various ways sustainability might be achieved: increasing the efficiency of our resource use, slowing or reversing population growth, and slowing or reversing economic growth. Questions asked and discussed will include, but are not limited to: What role does the environment play in human well-being? How should we go about making environmental policy decisions? How should animal suffering affect the way we treat non-human animals? What obligations, if any, do we have toward non-human animals, plants and/or eco-systems? Students are expected to have a comprehensive ethical understanding of environmental issues through these questions.
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence	PHIL 570	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is an introduction to philosophy of current and possible future artificial intelligence technologies. Some topics that we will cover include the existential threat that AI is thought to pose on humanity, intelligence explosion and the singularity, autonomy of AI systems, algorithmic bias, autonomous weapons, self-driving cars, robot rights, and moral agency of AI systems.
Political Theory	POLS 502	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces graduate students to major debates in political theory within the analytic tradition. It examines key questions about political values and concepts such as justice, equality, freedom, democracy, power, and authority. Emphasis is placed on critical engagement with theoretical texts and the development of conceptual and analytical skills for understanding and evaluating political institutions and practices.
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.
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.
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 Türkiye 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 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
Modernity: Concept, Perspectives, and Issues	POLS 523	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	What do we mean by "modernity?" How do we distinguish "modernity" in terms of how human beings relate to their natural, physical, and social environment; how they adopt new socio-cultural norms; and how, as a result, they develop new perspectives on political economy and the means for government. The course will explore the relationship between "modernity" and the comprehensive paradigm change driven by the scientific discoveries that initiated the modern era; the shift from universal claims to national interests as well as the accompanying changes in class structures and the distribution of resources within sovereign states; and increasing demands for representation and legitimacy. It will also focus on major issues such as modernity vs. tradition; empiricism, reason, and belief; moderate and radical enlightenment; multilateralism vs. great power rivalry; the rise of evolutionary movements and the concomitant hero-worship of the romantic period; and twentieth-century as well as contemporary critiques of "modernity".
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 Türkiye'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.
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.
Türkiye and the Middle East	POLS 539	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will explore the story of Türkiye'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, Türkiye's interests and capacities in the region, the linkage between regional policies and Türkiye's relations with the superpowers, and the role of economic factors. Subsequent sessions will deal with Türkiye's policies towards the main regional states, closing with Türkiye'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.
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 Türkiye, 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 Türkiye's foreign policy towards Europe, Türkiye's policy towards the NATO-EU relations, the Middle East, Arab-Israeli conflict, and Transcaucasia. In addition, Türkiye's positon in the Gulf crisis of 1990-1991 and the Cyprus problem are investigated through the theoretical lenses provided in the course.
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.
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.
Energy Politics	POLS 564	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Energy affects all aspects of individual and collective life. Economic growth requires increasing supplies of energy, making security of supply important for both developing and mature markets. On the other hand, energy producing countries are more concerned about the security of future demand for their exports. After beginning with an introduction to the geopolitics of energy, the course focuses on political, economic, strategic implications of current trends in energy markets. It will also take into account the relationship between energy and environment and alternative sources of energy in the context of the EU energy policy and the Turkish market.
Rise and Fall of Democracy	POLS 565	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designed to give the student an understanding of the democratic regime as well as the way in which it has come under attack in the contemporary period. It offers an introduction to the conflicting definitions of the term and addresses such issues as democracy as government and representation. The course reviews the phenomenal rise of electoral democracies after the Third Wave and the proliferation of 'democracy with adjectives' in the global south. Particular emphasis is be placed on those factors and mechanisms that have eroded democratic institutions and facilitated democratic backsliding and breakdown in different parts of the globe.
Special Topics in Political Science and International Relations	POLS 566	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The specific focus of the course will be announced each semester that it is offered. Special topics may vary but will draw from the fields of political science and international relations. Students are expected to study the relevant literature and acquire knowledge in the relevant field.
Political Economy	POLS 580	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designed to equip the student with basic concepts and tools necessary to understand the literature and to conduct research in this field. The substantive question is why governments do what they do and with what consequences. Discussions focus on the recent contributions to the political economy of development; principal characteristics of the contemporary world economy, especially patterns of inequality and the varying explanations for their emergence.
European Politics	POLS 581	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to introduce the politics of the new Europe in the aftermath of the collapse of the communist bloc. Europe, a continent historically torn by divison and conflic now encompasses 38 nations that are almost all democratic in reality or aspiration and oriented towards market, rather than command economies. Given its historical and cultural commonalities, Europe is a natural unit for an area studies approach to political science. The course covers the politics of the established democracies and also concentrates on democratic transitions on the continent. Although in a limited extend, it also reflects on the politics in the European Union (Also see POLS 491)
Political Economy of Türkiye	POLS 582	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; Türkiye during globalization; structural reforms and political, social and institutional constraints.
Ethnicity and Nationalism	POLS 583	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to explore relations (or the absence of relations) between nationalism and ethnicity in different socio-political contexts. This course is designed not only for developing a comparative theoretical approach to nationalism and ethnicity, but also for attempting to make a collective enquiry into the emergence and transformation of the concept of nation, nationalism, patriotism and ethnicity through time. While surveying the classical and current theories of nationalism and ethnicity, this course also aims to address the concepts of migration, diaspora, collective memory and reconciliation as relevant concepts of social sciences.
Theorizing Nationalism and Civil Society	POLS 584	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Comparative study of the Turkish single-party period and political system using first-hand original sources and within their historical and political contexts. Starting with the political situation and separations involved within the period of the War Independence, that period's impact on the period prior to the building of the Republic, until the end of the early Republican period, will be studied. This will include a comprehensive view of that whole period's political, cultural, economical, foreign policy-related situation, in particular focusing on political organizations. Cross-listed as HIST 591
Human Rights in World Affairs	POLS 589	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces students to the foundations of human rights theory and practice. The course analyzes what constitutes as human rights (political, economic, social, and cultural rights) and examines contemporary issues around the globe. The course will also offer a critical analysis of international human rights norms and its enforcement by focusing on major international institutions and the documents that govern the human rights regime as well as the role of states, individuals, NGOs and the media.
European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance	POLS 592	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to provide the students with a basic understanding of the European Union. The course will give an evolution of the idea of European unity through a neo-functionalist framework. The main focus of the course is on the emergence of the European Union and its institutions in a historical framework. The ultimate objective is to furnish students with the comprehension that the state is going through a major transformation in Europe due to the process of European integration.
Turkish Political Thought	POLS 594	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A study of the foundations of political thought in the Ottoman empire and modern Türkiye. The first part of the course focuses both on continuities with the earlier "Islamicate" discourse, and on the crucial break with tradition initiated during the Tanzimat. Over the second part of the course, some key representatives of post- 1908 currents of thought such as liberalism, nationalism or feminism will also be investigated.
Reform and the History of Ideas in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century	POLS 595	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The existing literature about reform in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century concentrates primarily on the institutional components of reform. A great deal of research on the intellectual and knowledge component of reform had appeared ever since the 1860s. The time has now come to review this literature and bring it into a course constructed for that purpose.
European Security	POLS 596	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides an in depth analysis of the European security order from 1914 onwards. It covers basic theories of security and proceeds onto an investigation of World Wars and their impact on European security, as well as the institutional attempts of building a European security system. Particular emphasis will be on the institutional restructuring in the Cold War era and the transformation of the Cold war European security arrangements since 1989. The European security institutions, their evolution process and the European security architecture will be thoroughly analysed.
Dynamics of Governance in the European Union	POLS 597	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Various institutions of the Union, with ever increasing frequency and emphasis, have devised policies and initiated mechanisms which are best represented by the concept of governance. The Union, while formulatinf common policy in limited areas, has accepted the principle of subsidiaity in many others, encouraging collaborative schemes and approaches among various actors, at the lowest possible administrative level. 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 sprit 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, with a view to derive policies for candidate countries during their process of harmonization.
Comparative Local Government	POLS 598	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A major structural change has taken place in Turkish society with the urban population surpassing the rural population for the first time in the Ottoman-Turkish continuum. The first rate of urbanization has not resulted in a parallel process of urban integration, creating serious problems in both tangible (infrastructure, housing, services and intangible (identity, participation, civic engagement) aspects of urban space. This dual character of urban settlements in Türkiye has been compounded by a strained relationship between central and local govenment in sharing of competences and resources. The strategic decision of Türkiye to join the European Union (EU); the need to harmonize policies; the prevalent trends and principles in the EU in the field of local govenment have created a new urgency to critically reappraise the administrative system in Türkiye. The general tendency in the EU for decentralization, deconcentration and devolution, true to the spirit of local and regional governance, has necessitated local government reform to top the reform agenda in Türkiye. Within the confines of the Course, a comparative analysis of existing institutions and processes will be taken up, followed by trends and evolving patterns of local governance in both the EU and Türkiye.
Pro-Thesis Seminar	POLS 599	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 over the second year of their course-work.
Seminar in Political Theory	POLS 600	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This seminar is aimed to provide an in-depth discussion and extensive reading and research and research on a selected topic in political theory. Besides guiding lectures on cutting edge topics students are expected to take the initiative and actively contribute to seminar debates as well as writing papers aiming to form a substantial part of their thesis work.
Seminar in Comparative Politics	POLS 601	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This seminar is aimed to provide an in-dept discussionand extensive reading and research on a selected topic in various aspects of nationalism. Besides guiding lectures on cutting edge topics students are expected to take the initiative and actively contribute to seminar debates as well as writing papers aiming to form a substantial part of their thesis work.
Thesis Preparation Seminar	POLS 610	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is mainly an exercise in listening, reading and writing on a regular basis. The lectures that will be offered by faculty members will introduce the students to new venues in Political Science. The students will not only be exposed to various research areas in the field towards which they may direct their future thesis work, but will also get in the habit of writing short concise essays. This course will be offered jointly by the Political Science faculty members in cooperation with Sabanci University's Academic Writing Center.(A required course for Political Science PhD. Students.)
Seminar in Nationalisms	POLS 620	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This seminar is aimed to provide an in-depth discussion and extensive reading and research and research on a selected topic in various aspects of nationalism. Besides guiding lectures on cutting edge topics students are expected to take the initiative and actively contribute to seminar debates as well as writing papers aiming to form a substantial part of their thesis work.
Seminar in Research Methods	POLS 630	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This seminar is aimed to provide an in-depth discussion and extensive reading and research and research on a selected topic in various aspects of quantitative research methodology. Besides guiding lectures on cutting edge topics students are expected to take the initiative and actively contribute to seminar debates as well as writing papers aiming to form a substantial part of their thesis work.
Seminar in International Relations	POLS 640	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This seminar is aimed to provide an in-depth discussion and extensive reading and research and research on a selected topic in international relations.Besides guiding lectures on cutting edge topics students are expected to take the initiative and actively contribute to seminar debates as well as writing papers aiming to form a substantial part of their thesis work.
Seminar in Turkish Politics	POLS 650	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This seminar is aimed to provide an in-depth discussion and extensive reading and research and research on a selected topic in Turkish politics.Besides guiding lectures on cutting edge topics students are expected to take the initiative and actively contribute to seminar debates as well as writing papers aiming to form a substantial part of their thesis work.
Term Project	POLS 697	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	POLS 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 of their course-work.
Guided Study I	POLS 790	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students will be guided through major academics texts in comparative politics, Turkish politics and political theory.
Guided Study II	POLS 791	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students will be guided through major academics texts in comparative politics, Turkish politics and political theory.
Guided Study III	POLS 792	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students will be guided through major academics texts in comparative politics, Turkish politics and political theory.
Ph.D. Thesis	POLS 799	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Ph.D. Thesis 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 over three or four years following the completion of their course-work.
Guided Project	PROJ 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is a non-credit, elective course that aims to provide FASS students in particular (including graduates as well as undergraduates) with an upper- class introduction, under academic guidance, to thematically focused, practice-oriented research and applied experience in areas or problems of work broadly related to the Humanities and Social Sciences (such as : quantitative surveys; curriculum development and course design; teacher training; teaching at the primary and secondary school level; forms of public, community, out-reach or electronic education; cultural legacy management; exhibition design, excavation design or performance design). Such themes or problems will be changing from one semester (or year) to the next, depending on concrete opportunities for students to put their new knowledge and skills to the test in real-world settings. Completion of an initially planned internship work may in some cases be mandatory for fulfilling the course requirements.
Trends in Psychological Science	PSY 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to survey cutting-edge research in psychological sciences. Faculty members take turns in discussing with students research articles in their area of expertise that reflect current trends, novel research directions, and hot debates in psychological sciences —including social,developmental, and cognitive psychology as well as neuroscience
Data Analysis for Psychological Science I	PSY 502	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	In this course, students master the analysis of OLS general and generalised linear models using SPSS. Starting with a comparison of ANOVA and regression approaches, and how their respective SPSS dialogues can be used flexibly to produce similar results. Students are familiarised with analyses of between groups, repeated measures, and mixed datasets; higher-order interactions and moderation; crossing fixed factors with covariates; traditional and bootstrapping approaches to mediation; handling non-normal outcomes; and the basics of Bayesian inference. Along the way, students discuss and consider the details of experimental design, measurement, power,and ethics.
Data Analysis for Psychological Science II	PSY 503	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	In this course, students master multivariate analyses involving latent and random factors. They begin by learning principle components analysis and exploratory factor analysis, before proceeding to study structural equation modelling for both hypothesis testing and confirmatory factor analysis. Finally, they start to use mixed models, and their applications to repeated measures and hierarchical data. Throughout, students focus on acquiring practical skills, by analysing real-world datasets with a variety of software.
EEG Methods and Analyses	PSY 507	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is a project-based course in which the student designs the experiment, collects data and performs EEG analyses. The first part of the course focuses on EEG experimental design and data collection. This section teaches students how to shape the choices EEG researchers make when designing their experiments according to their research questions. The second part focuses on data analysis and interpretation of results. Students learn preprocessing, event-related and steady- state potentials, time-frequency power analyses in both univariate and multivariate domains. They acquire not only theoretical knowledge but also practical skills.
Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology	PSY 511	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	In this seminar course, students read about and discuss topics in the booming fields of affective cognition and experimental psychopathology. Students present and analyse key readings on visual search for threat, attentional and memory narrowing, cognitive biases in anxiety and depression, cognitive bias modification, and cognitive approaches to understanding and remediating PTSD. Students gain confidence in presenting complex work, independently critiquing and debating concepts and evidence.
Visual Cognition	PSY 512	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to survey research and theoretical discussions on Visual Cognition. Vision is central to our daily interactions with the world. It is the most salient sense modality, dominating our perception. Visual thinking plays a crucial role in a number of tasks such as object recognition, reading emotions from facial expressions, spatial orientation and wayfinding, creative problem solving, planning for the future, understanding scientific visualizations or visual art. Topics to be discussed include theoretical research on cognitive and neural processes underlying visual cognition as well as applied research on visual thinking and individual differences in visual processing styles.
Selected Topics in Language and Communication	PSY 514	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course presents specialized topics in research on language and communication. The selected topics will vary from year to year, but topics are drawn from one or more areas of psychology and related fields including cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, neuroscience, psycholinguistics, speech pathology, and education. The main focus of this course is to closely examine recent literature in the field. By the end of the course, students are expected to have developed basic abilities to critically evaluate research articles concerning the psychology of language.
Seminar in Memory and Attention	PSY 515	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course explores the most recent advances in interactions between attention and memory. Topics include the role of memories for guiding attention, and the role of attention for encoding, manipulation, storage, retrieval of memories. The goal of the course is to provide an advanced, state- of-art understanding of the interactions between memory and attention, and to deliver the skills for critically evaluating the relevant research.
Culture and Cognition	PSY 516	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides students interested in cognition with the opportunity to study the social and cultural aspects of thinking. It uses a psychological, and at times cognitive scientific, lens to explore issues such as the relation of language and thought, narrative development, memory (individual and collective), emotion, morality, transmission of knowledge, concepts, implicit cognition. It will survey research and theory within social psychology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and cross-cultural psychology and provide implications from and for philosophy, anthropology, literature, artificial intelligence, and politics. This course is also concerned with methodological and theoretical challenges in the integration of cultural perspectives in psychology
Topics in Episodic Memory and Future Thinking	PSY 518	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This advanced graduate seminar provides a thorough examination of episodic memory and episodic future thinking, encompassing both current research in the field and practical applications. The course integrates theoretical frameworks with empirical evidence, employing a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the complexities of memory and imagination processes. Key focal points include the development of episodic memory, the impact of aging on remembering, memory and imagination in social contexts, the connection between emotion and memory, the accuracy of memory, neurological perspectives on memory, the various functions of memory, and the practical implications derived from memory research.
Cognitive Development	PSY 521	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course explores the cognitive processes that shape human development from infancy through older adulthood. Emphasizing a lifespan perspective, it xamines how cognitive abilities emerge, change, and sometimes decline with age. Topics include foundational theories, research methods, and practical applications of cognitive development principles across the lifespan.
Social Development	PSY 522	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides a broad overview of how children behave in and think about the social world. The topics include: innate and early-emerging social knowledge, moral development, social cognition, theory of mind, aggression, bias, and the influence of peers & parents, and culture on development
Language Development in Infancy and Childhood	PSY 524	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides an overview of language development in infancy and childhood, from birth through the preschool years. We will go over milestones and content of what children acquire including phonological, semantic, and syntactic skills. The main focus will be on typical monolingual development, we will also explore language development in children growing up with bilingual and multilingual backgrounds as well as with speech and other communicative issues. We will cover methodological as well as theoretical issues around language development in early years. The implications of research findings in education will also be discussed.
Personal Relationships	PSY 540	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The purpose of this class is to provide a broad overview of emotional, cognitive and motivational processes in close relationships (simply relationships science) from a social psychological perspective with a specific emphasis on the attachment, interdependence, attributions and evolutionary approaches. From family relations, friendships to romantic relationships, dynamics of diverse relationships are covered. Processes of initiating, maintaining, and terminating relationships are elaborated within the contemporary theoretical framework and empirical findings.
Psychology of the Self	PSY 543	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course aims to provide a detailed review of the recent literature on the self and attachment from the social psychological, personality, and developmental perspectives. With a specific emphasis on the cultural aspects, the issues such as self-knowledge, self-esteem, self-regulation, and formation and development of attachment bonds will extensively be covered.
Intergroup Relationships	PSY 544	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides students with an advanced understanding of intergroup processes and relationships focusing on special topics such as social identities, majority-minority group relationships, prejudice reduction techniques, collective action, and acculturation. Departing from both theoretical and empirical research in social psychology, political psychology, and intergroup processes literatures, the course equips students with extensive knowledge in intergroup relationships and aims to provide students skills and competencies that enable them to critically discuss and generate research ideas in the field of intergroup relationships..
Selected Topics in Social Psychology	PSY 545	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides students interested in social psychology with the opportunity to explore a variety of popular research areas in depth. It will also include discussions about the methodological and technological challenges the field is faced with.
Cognitive Neuroscience	PSY 552	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Cognitive neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience which studies processes of nervous system underpinning cognitive functions (acquisition, storage, transformation and use of knowledge). The course explores the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive processes such as perception, attention, memory, and decision- making. In light of behavioral and neuroimaging research, the course aims to deliver the skills to interpret cognitive neuroscience research and understand human cognition.
Clinical Insights from Basic Psychological Science	PSY 567	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to teach the topics that require the integration of theories, findings, and methodology in clinical psychology with those in social, developmental, health, personality, and cognitive psychology. Sample topics of the course are short- and long-term effects of traumatic events (e.g., natural disasters, death of loved ones) on psychological well-being, personality, and interpersonal and intergroup relationships, the interdependence between family members' well-being and coping styles during challenging times, the benefits and costs of positive experiences (e.g., positive emotions, positive interpersonal processes, gratitude) during stressful times, the association between traumatic events' centrality and psychological reactions (e.g., depression, post-traumatic growth), grief after non-death losses (e.g., divorce, homesickness), and ecological grief and anxiety due to the climate change.
Foundations of Infant Mental Heath	PSY 569	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course provides an introduction to interdisciplinary research and practice in infant mental health. Its purpose is to promote an understanding about early life stress with implications on biopsychosocial development and discuss approaches for promoting resilience in young children within the context of family, community, and culture. Topics to be covered include adverse childhood experiences, parental mental health, and various prevention as well as intervention programs as applied examples in the field.
Selected Topics in Applied Psychology	PSY 581	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The goal of this course is to present specialized research topics in the broad area of applied psychology. Topics may be drawn from one or more area of psychology and include (but not limited to) applied topics in social psychology (i.e., traffic psychology, road user behavior), health psychology, forensic psychology. The selected topics will vary from year to year and will include examination of recent literature and interpretation of recent trends in the field of applied psychology.
Pro- Thesis Seminar	PSY 590	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Pro-Thesis Seminar is a non-credit course aiming to guide MS students in choosing a research topic towards their thesis, conducting a focused literature review, and presenting their thesis proposal in a collegial discussion under the supervision of a supervisor.
Term Project	PSY 595	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The institutional framework for guided research under the supervision of a faculty member towards the completion of non-thesis program students’ required research projects
Master Thesis	PSY 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.
Directed Research in Psychological Science	PSY 620	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Directed research course aims to provide hands-on empirical research experience to graduate students in psychological sciences. This course involves conducting a research project under the supervision of a faculty member. Students may carry out the research in the course as part of laboratory rotation, a funded research project of a faculty member, an independent research project, a systematic literature review, or other appropriate research activities.
Directed Research in Psychological Science II	PSY 621	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The second course in the Directed Research series. This course aims to provide hands-on empirical research experience to graduate students in psychological sciences. It involves conducting a research project under the supervision of a faculty member. Students may carry out the research in the course as part of laboratory rotation, a funded research project of a faculty member, an independent research project, a systematic literature review, or other appropriate research activities.
Critical Perspectives in Psychological Literature	PSY 680	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Literate review is the fundamental step in academic work and requires a thorough effort from the beginning. Researchers working on a particular topic primarily specialize in the field of literature review. In this course, students will learn to systematically search the literature to better comprehend the area they study and learn how to carry out a project.
Ph.D. Pro-thesis Seminar	PSY 690	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A multi-purpose and non-credit 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.
Ph.D. Thesis	PSY 699	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Ph.D. Thesis 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 thesis advisor plus two other examiners from the relevant field over three or four years following the completion of their course-work.
Ph.D. Thesis	PSY 799	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Ph.D. Thesis 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 thesis advisor plus two other examiners from the relevant field over three or four years following the completion of their course-work.
PhD Qualifying Exam Preparation	QL 700	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is a multi-purpose and non-credit course, that can be used in a flexible manner to enable the PhD students to prepare for their PhD qualifying exam in their respective fields of doctoral study.
Media and Politics	SOC 502	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is a seminar course designed to explore three aspects of media/politics in particular: (1) transnational/ national news agencies and media organizations in the era of digital, cable and satellite communication (2) critical debates on issues such as bias and objectivity in political reporting, tabloid news, political scandal, investigative journalism (3) intersections between media power and national politics, including such themes as 'agenda 'spin control', 'the spiral of silence' or 'political advertising'.
Religion and Politics	SOC 508	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course examines the interaction of religious and political authorities, discourses, and institutions through historical, comparative, and normative perspectives. We will start our discussion with a survey of the role of religion in the formation of modern political institutions and identities, including the modern state, long-distance and national social movements, welfare regimes, and national identities. We will then investigate various aspects of religious politics, focusing in particular on religious movements and violence, the rise and transformation of religious parties, secularism as political ideology and movement and the relationship between religious politics and democracy. The course will conclude with a review of recent debates in political theory on the legitimate place of religion in public life and in the political sphere. In the course of the semester, we will discuss empirical cases drawn from Europe, the U.S., the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
Turkish Social Thought	SOC 513	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The course will deal with the basic social and political ideas developed in the early and late republican period in Türkiye. in the first part a special emphasis will be given to the formation of the social thought via the constitution of the notion of law and society within the framework of the 'essential' conflictual concepts, such as east-west, modernity-conservatism. In the second part basic schools of thought (like blue Anatolia) and the ideas and arguments of the prominent thinkers and intellectuals will be analyzsed. in this regard new understanding of the social and the political will be dissected with special reference to such debates as, modernity, postmodernity, secularism, political Islam, Europe, globalisation. An extensive review of Turkish literature in this context is imperative.
Qualitative Research Methods	SOC 518	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designed towards those who are new to qualitative inquiry. It will provide an overview of the theoretical foundations, primary methods of data collection and analysis. With the required student fieldwork projects, carried out concurrently with classroom lectures and discussions, the class aims to balance information acquisition and application of specific skills needed to conduct quality research.
Infrastructure and Mobilities	SOC 520	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The study of current mobilities of everything (people, ideas, goods, capital, and images), the social, cultural and political aspects of infrastructure and mobilities, the sustainable workings of mobility places and systems, and the historical formation of mobility as an inseparable feature of civilization, modernity, development, and globalization. Topics to be covered include Mobilities Theory; cities as interfaces and infrastructures; inequalities across (im)mobilities; historical development of transportation systems; global structures of mobilities; airports, railways, and container ports; mutual constitution of infrastructure, transportation, and tourism; social, cultural and economic impacts of sustainable transportation systems and hubs over place-making and social relations.
Urban Sociology	SOC 521	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Social implications of urban life with respect to such topics as patterns of city growth; urban social organization (family, neighbourhood, community); urban social issues (housing, crime); urban policy and urban planning (sociology of planning, citizen participation)
Power, Economy, and Society	SOC 525	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces students to the study of the meaning, functions, and place of economic activities in society from a comparative perspective. Topics to be covered include globalization, capitalism and neoliberalism; work and labor regimes; governmentality; cultures of consumption; space and value; deindustrialization and class; and cultural economy
Gender and Work	SOC 526	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course examines how the organization and practices of labor, work, and workplace is gendered through a historical and comparative socio-cultural lens. Subjects to be examined include the constitutive relation between gender identity, class position and labor force participation; work and gender dynamics within different sectors in contemporary planetary economy; the state’s involvement with gender, family and work; and women’s and men’s experiences of work hierarchies.
Sexualities, Sociabilities	SOC 532	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Who are we?? Every social group tries to answer this question, albeit with significant variation across cultures and throughout history. All social groups also try to define and enact rules about the sexual activities of their members. Sociological and anthropological literature shows that the ways in which social groups define their rules about sexuality relate to the ways in which they define boundaries and maintain spaces for themselves. In this course we are going to survey existing theoretical discussions and research about this problematic. Specific themes for discussion will vary, but are likely to include such issues as homosexuality, honor crimes and the headscarf
Teaching Colloquium: Humanity and Society	SPS 500	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is a non-credit graduate course designed exclusively for SPS FASS discussion session facilitators in SPS- Humanity and Society courses. The course consists of weekly teaching colloquiums that aim to discuss the course material, logistics, learning strategies and feedback with the SPS FASS facilitators for the improvement of the discussion sessions’ quality in SPS 101 and 102 courses This creates a learning environment for the SPS FASS facilitators that would allow them to practice their learning strategies, get feedback on their classroom performance and improve their knowledge about the course material
Teaching Colloquium: Humanity and Society I	SPS 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is a non-credit graduate course designed exclusively for Teaching Assistants in SPS 101- Humanity and Society I. Through the discussion of the week's lectures and reading materials, graduate students will be offered analytical and practical tools and insights to preapare for the undergraduate discussion sections.
Teaching Colloquium: Humanity & Society II	SPS 502	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This is a non-credit graduate course designed exclusively for Teaching Assistants who teach in SPS 102 - Humanity and Society II. Through the discussion of the week's lectures and reading materials, graduate students will be offered analytical and practical tools and insights to prepare for the undergraduate discussion sections.
MA Pro-seminar	TS 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 standards and rules in research and publishing.
Ottoman Intellectuals in the Long-nineteenth Century	TS 509	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Beginning with the Tanzimat and extending to the Young Turk Revolution, this course enables the students to learn and engage with the fundamental concepts and ideas of Ottoman intellectuals in the long nineteenth century. The transformations in the principle of political legitimacy, the relation between liberty and security, constitutionalism, parliamentarism, positivism, radicalism, conservatism, the concept of modern empire, and the demand for gender and legal equality: all these and more will form the content of this course. By focusing on prominent as well as female and “neglected” voices and primary texts in Ottoman intellectual history, this course aims to democratise and broaden the field of Ottoman political thought in particular and global intellectual history in general.
Ottoman and Turkish Legal History	TS 515	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to introduce the main issues and sources of Ottoman and Turkish legal history from the medieval to the modern period. It starts with a discussion of the nature law and norm making in pre-modern and modern societies and then examines the concepts, sources, and themes of Ottoman and Turkish legal history. The characteristics of distinctive periods will be explored through a review of the secondary literature as well as close readings of primary texts related to the topics at hand.
Digital Humanities	TS 520	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course covers digital humanities with theoretical and practical approaches. It examines the different application areas of digital technologies in the humanities and social sciences. It focuses on current methodological and theoretical discussions on the emerging field of digital humanities. Following the discussion of “data” in social sciences and humanities, the course turns to practices of data management and data cleaning. Of the many methods of digital humanities, four are covered in this course: textual analysis, data visualization, network analysis, mapping. After these methods are introduced, they will be practiced in the classroom with related software.
Economic History of Türkiye	TS 521	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course examines the economic transformations of Türkiye from the early modern Ottoman Empire to the late 20th century. It explores local and global interactions that shaped these changes. The course provides a broad overview of key economic changes and policies over this long period. Topics are divided into three periods. First, the economic transformations of the early modern Ottoman Empire from the late 16th to the 19th century are studied. Second, changes in the economic infrastructure from the early 19th century to the end of World War I are analyzed. Finally the course covers the economic policies of the Modern Türkiye, from the early Republican period to the integration into the global neo-liberal economic order after 1980.
Social Change in Türkiye	TS 550	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces students to the multidisciplinary study of social and cultural change in Türkiye in the post- 1980 period. Topics to be covered include urbanization modernization and post-modernity debates, globalization and neoliberalism, social movements, cultural trends, social class, subjectivity, nationalism, forms of discrimination, gender and sexuality, and everyday life through a prism of change in Türkiye.
Turkish Studies and History: Debates and Topics	TS 551	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course introduces students to the debates and topics of contemporary research on Türkiye and its peoples that employ historical methodology and sources. The course follows a broad chronology from the major events of the late-Ottoman Empire to contemporary issues in the Republic of Türkiye. It introduces major themes such as transition from empire to nation-state, emergence and competition among political networks, history of political movements, migration, environment and economic transformation and how historical methodology and sources are utilized in the study of those themes.
The Founding Generations: The Young Turks, The Unionists and The Kemalists	TS 552	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The founding generations of the modern day Republic of Türkiye, who predominantly shaped the national culture, institutions, politics and economy of the republic almost until 1950, grew up in the ‘twilight’ of the Ottoman Empire. Their formative experiences were shaped within the confines of a shrinking empire where rising nationalisms, incorporation into world markets and modern reforms caused ‘everything solid’ to ‘melt into air.’ This course takes the formation of a broadly defined group of intellectuals, the Young Turks, as a starting point and discusses how the ideas and actions of a selected group of influential figures, as ‘Unionists’ and later ‘Kemalistst’ shaped contemporary Türkiye. The course relies heavily on the secondary literature in English and also on primary sources and ego documents about the individuals in question. Major topics in Turkish Studies, such as identity politics, the formation of Turkish nationalism, the new republic’s economic policies and the institutions are traced through the eyes of these individuals and their policies.
Cultural Heritage in Türkiye	TS 555	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Cultural heritage can be defined as the legacy of tangible artifacts or material culture and intangible attributes such as customs, practices, rites or values of a group, society or community inherited from the past, maintained in the present and passed on to future generations. This course investigates the ways how Türkiye, in the past and the present, has defined, transformed, re-contextualized and instrumentalized forms of cultural heritage for its needs and values. In the scope of this course, it is going to be examined how cultural heritage was transformed into national heritage with the rise of (cultural) nationalism. The uses of cultural heritage in contemporary Türkiye is another topic of the course. Other topics that will be discussed in the course include (the creation of) museums, libraries and archives, archaeological practices, the creation and preservation of monuments, national-history writing, the destruction or alteration of forms of cultural heritage, propagandistic interpretation of cultural heritage, and revived or invented traditions.
Internship	TS 590	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students are expected to work as interns or researchers in one of the centers, labs or forums affiliated with Sabancı University.
MA Term Project	TS 595	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	For students in the ''MA Non-thesis''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 Turkish Studies Program Committee.
Master Thesis	TS 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.
Introductory Module	VA 501	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	In this studio the students are expected to explore their individual language in the areas of art and design. Throughout the semester various studio faculty will meet and introduce the student towards his or her specific artistic approach or design understanding . In this semester utilization of diverse methods, materials and techniques by the student is anticipated.
Intermediate Module	VA 502	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students are expected to work on their own body of artistic works. Group and individual studio critiques throughout the semester will guide the student in his or her specific artistic approach. If the student is design oriented, a similar personalised understanding of combining and diversifying design components will be generated in projects focused on web design, digital video or more traditional design areas, such as editorial design.
Advanced Module	VA 503	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is a continuation of graduate studios. Faculty as well as external participants from various disciplines will critique Works in progress. By this stage the student is expected to enhance his/her own vocabulary through forms, images, and words. Issues of professional practice including presentation practice will be covered and participation in exhibitions encouraged.
Graduation Module	VA 504	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	In this semester the student is expected to realize his/her graduate level final exhibition and /or final project. At this time the student will also work on and produce a portfolio at professional level. Personalised critiques by faculty will lead the student to his/her studio degree requirement.
Addressing Studio Creative Practice	VA 505	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to enable artists and designers to theorize and to write effectively on their own creative output and projects, as well as to give them the ability to conduct research, introduce research analysis and design and develop theory in wider related fields such as art theory, art criticism, art education, new media, curatorial studies and the like. Although the methodology of research of the theory of artistic practice can be seen to be a merger of qualitative inquiry, aesthetics and narratology; nevertheless given the oftentimes subjective nature of writing about one’s own projects creative output calls for additional approaches and tools, which also include the ability to put together a solid documentation of personal creative as well as integrating such an output into a documentation both as an academic text and the presentation / summation thereof. The course also aims to expose students to ethical considerations in research and publishing.
Visual Culture	VA 515	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Accounts of the meanings of visual art have been conflicting Different notions have been deployed in order to suggest that visual art produces spatial meanings of its own or that its meanings are comparable to those of other cultural processes and practices. This course will be a review of theorisations of visual meaning and of vision and the ways in which each is used to explain or to comprehend the other. The introduction of other terms of explanation into constructions of vision and the meanings of visual objects will be critically assessed.
History of Digital and Electronic Arts	VA 516	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course will study the fields of digital and electronic arts, their historical development and contemporary theoretical and aesthetic contexts together with their technical and scientific foundations and convergences. Students will gain an understanding of how artists responded to- and participated in- the development of science and technology in the 20th century and how a range of new interdisciplinary approaches emerged that re-shaped art and science interactions and helped re-define scientific and technological thinking in the arts of the 21st century. The course will explore a diverse range of media and include computational and generative art, code art, net-art, interactive art and digital installations and synthetic worlds. It will also show how art and artists have helped contribute to the development of computational theories like cybernetics, artificial intelligence and artificial life.
Concepts & Debates in Contemporary Art	VA 520	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	There is perhaps nothing more characteristic of art thought of as modern than that it has given rise to debates - about its value, meaning, purpose or even existence as art as such. This course will review those debates, and explore the relations between these debates and their consequences, if any, in a changing field of art. It will also review the definitions of the modern and its others implied by these debates.
3D Modelling	VA 529	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The student is introduced to the benefits of learning digital media through studio practices. The main focus is to understand digital modelling tools, ways of modelling, modelling techniques, texture mapping on various modelling geometry and modelling for animations. This is a fundamental course for those who are interested in computer animation and computer graphics in the field of games, movie, multimedia and interactive production. Graduate students can take this course to realize their term and thesis project. project.
Art Analysis : Theory and Criticsm	VA 530	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The aim of the course is to introduce theories of aesthetics from its early formulations to the present day. The students will be informed about post-1945 art theories and critical movements such as structuralism, post- structuralism and feminist art. The connection and interdependency between art and theory in the same period will be discussed. Students will be encouraged to produce written pieces which critically evaluate artworks.
Art, Culture, Technology	VA 533	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The advent of new technologies has sometimes been accompanied by announcements of the end of art. Conversely, it has been argued that technologies have been invented in order to provide a means of apparently satisfying a demand which has been generated by art. This course will review these various conceptualisations of the relations and perhaps non-relations between art and technology. As the goals of art have shifted or redefined, the relations between art and culture have also altered. The course will therefore consider these shifts too in order to arrive at a better understanding of the stakes of the practice and the criticism of art today.
3D Animation	VA 534	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Sequel to 3D Modelling course, student is introduced to the process of animation and multidisciplinary design as a team experience. Students polish their skills and advance their knowledge in digital media production, by assigning and completing targeted task in the area of 3D animation. Graduate students can take this course to specialize themselves in the area of computer graphics and animation.
Experimental Film and Video	VA 537	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	What is experimental film and video? How is it different from mainstream practices and other types of works? What are its close ties to other art practices? This course will be a comprehensive study of experimental film and video through screenings, readings, discussions, and creative practice. It will offer a critical exploration of the history and theory of experimental and avant-garde film and video, including the impact of new technologies and current practices. Students will create a series of short experimental videos to explore new ways to express themselves.
Videography and Narrative Making	VA 538	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students are introduced to the methods of video production and post production. They will learn to write video script, visualizing storyboard, directing, cinematography and editing. They are expected to explore different ways of seeing, framing and composing narrative based upon his or her creative content of narrative making. Graduate students can take this course to create narrative and video based on their term and thesis project.
Envisioning Information	VA 539	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This introductory course aims to help students grasp the unique place of information visualization within the wider spectrum of Visual Communication Design. The course covers some of the basics of data visualization and investigates creative ways of shaping information through the use of design principles. The students work on projects that involve data collection, use of charts and timelines, infographics and wayfinding systems. Topic related examples, research, readings and and viewings are also incorporated into the class material.
Design and History	VA 543	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Crossing the traditional boundaries between Art and Science, as well as borrowing from the vocabularies of other disciplines, the goals of design have shifted between form and function and the integration of technological innovation into the process of creating usable objects.Taking its initial trajectory from the formative discourse evolving around typographically based design traditions this comprehensive review of the history of design will be exploring the manifold possibilities of integrative as well as dispersive design practices.
Interaction Design	VA 545	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course is designed to focus on interaction issues. During the course, students will become familiar with the topic with using various tools and applications that are commonly used in professional interaction design work and they will be introduced to the works of practitioners in the field.
Interactive Sound	VA 546	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course focuses on the use of interactive sound for creative applications. Topics include applied programming for live sound analysis, synthesis and processing and the use of external devices to control live computer-based sound performances.
Photography & Expression	VA 547	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Visual expression is the essence of visual communication / multimedia design these days. And, , photography is the one of the most important components of this interactive design process. In this class, we are going to to discover / experiment ways to express yourself and your design ideas through photography. We will try to create photographs that tell stories or create moods.
Motion Graphics and Art	VA 548	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The student is introduced to the principles and elements of motion design through studio practices. This course emphasizes on the relationship between typography principles and animation fundamentals. Students relate their experimental videos with kinetic typography to synthesize the language of motion between text and image for time-based media. Graduate students can take this course to realize their term and thesis project.
Construction/Deconstruction in 3 Dimensional Space	VA 550	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The aim of this course is to ask questions about inner and surrounding space of a 3 dimensional art work. Ideas on construction and deconstruction of sculptures,installation will be covered by studying cases in the 20th Art History and critics on students practice in various studio techniques.
Design Thinking	VA 553	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Today design lies at the crossroads of culture, technology, society, environment and business. This course aims to look at this unique intersection and the role of the 21st century designer not just as a "creator" but as a thinker, initiator, collaborator, entrepreneur. Design thinking methodologies are employed to generate creative ideation and students are expected to express their views, join discussions and contribute material to further develop their understanding and awareness of the thinking that goes into design.
Advanced Topics in Typography	VA 554	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course builds an advanced understanding of typographic technique through in depth analyses of: forms of letters; text and tonal value; and the elements of typographic style. Students will deal with topics ranging from corporate communications; public information design, literature and storytelling and intellectual meditations
Physical Computing	VA 555	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Students will learn how to communicate through computers by applying various physical perception methods for the purpose of creating interactive art and design projects. The course will also be supplemented with reading and analyzing a series of written theoretical materials about the topic. Basics of building circuits and developing software to communicate with microcontrollers and computers will be introduced
Artificial Intelligence & Creativity	VA 565	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and human creativity, equipping students with the skills to navigate and utilize AI tools for creative tasks. Students will engage in hands-on projects, critically examine the ethical and intellectual property implications of AI, and reflect on speculative futures in creative industries. Tasks will be approached both with and without AI to understand its influence on the creative process.
Professional Practice as a Designer	VA 580	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	This course aims to prepare the students for their careers, by developing the skills and strategies that will enhance competence, self-confidence as well as the requisite adaptability to succeed in the diverse professional environments within which they are expected to operate. The course includes portfolio making and presentation of ideas, projects and concepts as well as enhancing writing skills, which will help the preparation of professional as well as creative briefs, and reports, which are all part of the requirements of large-scale design projects. The approach is practice -based. It sets up a system that encourages students to put into practice various subjects through hands-on assignments. Furthermore guest lecturers and field trips will provide students with the opportunity of learning from advanced professionals in the design fields.
Project / Exhibition / Thesis Preparation Seminar	VA 590	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	A multi-purpose course that can be used flexibly for extra preparation in studio projects/exhibitions.
Term Project	VA 597	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' work under the supervision of a Faculty member for the preparation of an exhibition / design project.
Master Thesis / Studio Project	VA 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 under the supervision of a Faculty member or for the preparation of an exhibition / design project.
Exchange Graduate Project at FASS	XM 595	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Graduate level project course for exchange graduate students

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