Courses

Introducing curriculum, functioning, units, regulations, systems and facilities within the scope of Orientation Program for new students enrolled to our university.

The social order, principals of law, hierarchy of law, branches of the judicial system, legal relationships and rights, law for financial tools, commercial Law, individual rights, private contracts (leasing, franchising, factoring, forfaiting).

The course covers written, verbal and non-verbal modes of communication pertaining to communication among individuals, groups and within organizations.

Sets and operations on sets, sets of numbers, algebraic operations, exponents and radicals, basic identities, linear equations, inequalities and systems of linear equations, matrices and operations on matrices, determinants and inverse matrices, solutions of systems of linear equations by matrices and cramer's rule, ıntroduction to linear programming, basic counting rules, permutations and combinations, discrete probability, functions, linear and quadratic functions and their graphs, concept of limits and derivative, applications of rate of change, exponential and logarithmic functions, ındefinite ıntegrals, computation by substitution, definite integral and its applications.

Defining social science and scientific method, early societies, culture, social stratification, the brief history and theoretical concepts of Anthropology, the self and socialization, explaining the modern industrial society through Marx, Weber and Durkheim, definition and forms of the government, defining economy and its main concepts.

In this course one of the two objectives is to raise individuals who are free in their thinking and have aquired the skills of scientific thinking and possess an open minded view of the world. The course emphasizes the enrichment of our national culture through the study of how the languages were created, the analysis of the world languages from the origin and structural points of view and the status of the Turkish Language amongst the world languages. This course also aims at examining the historical development of the Turkish Language, Turkish Language structure, separating its words into their origins and suffixes, creation of words, examining problems associated with the expressions, writing petitions, preparing curriculum vita etc. In order to support the objectives of the course various novels, poems and essay books are read and investigated.

One of the core courses of the program, it introduces students to the concepts, ideas, and language of International Relations. It examines different theoretical perspectives and major paradigms in understanding the nature of IR, and concepts such as security, nationalism, sovereignty, power and conflict.

Essentials of microeconomics and macroeconomics: the economic problem, demand, supply, and price determination, theory of consumer behavior, theory of the firm, market structures, national income and its determination, problems of economic growth, unemployment and inflation, macroeconomic policy tools.

Defining social psychology, prejudices, obedience to authority and conformity, social perception, social cognition, attitudes, cognitive dissonance, the self, research methods, pro-social behavior.

This course teaches students to identify the core issues and debates at the heart of political discourse.

After a brief beginning on the early modern developments and ideas, the course covers the era from the 18th century to the present, studying major cornerstones such as the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the world wars as well as the major cultural, economic and political themes and events of the 19th and 20th centuries.

To express the historical meaning and importance of Turkish Revolution. To analytically perceive: the changes that occurred in the Ottoman Empire since the 19th century and the reasons for the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and attempts to prevent its collapse. To evaluate the preparation and war phases of the War of Independence after which Turkish nation gained its independence and maintained its existence, all in relation to the phases of the establishment of a new and modern state based on national sovereignty. To show the efforts made by the Republic of Turkey during the Atatürk period in creation of domestic and foreign policy and the efforts made and achievements gained in order to reach economic prosperity. To introduce students about the process and the steps made in the area of the creation of Turkish nation as contemporary civilization, which was reached through the revolutions in the social and cultural field. To explain Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's profile as a soldier, political leader, and reformist. Moreover, to introduce his theoretical ideologies and emphasize his position in the international community. Finally, to also understand his personal characteristics. To comprehend the Atatürk Revolutions in the direction of rational, scientific and national principles, and to raise awareness and develop students’ comprehension abilities of the current developments made within the Turkish Republic.

The course will examine major developments in the world within the context of globalization. Special emphasis will be placed upon the relationships between globalization and politics, globalization and economy, globalization and poverty, globalization and culture, people’s flows of migration, as well as the role play by technology in the development of globalization. This course will also look at the impact of globalization on the environmental issues.

Inside the System Unit, input/output and storage, System Software, Application Software, the Internet and the WWW, computer networks, wired and wireless communication, privacy, crime and security.

Rights and duties of individual and state under Turkish constitutional law.

Descriptive statistics, fundamental concepts of probability, random variables, probability distributions (binomial, geometrical, hyper-geometrical, Poisson, normal and Student's distributions), sampling theory, point estimation and interval estimation.

Defining modernity and post-modernity, main theoretical approaches to modernity, industrial revolution and its outcomes, Fordism and Taylorism, the sovereign consumer, consumer culture and globalization, post-modern city, over consumption, waste and the environment.

The course develops the concept/theory of IR to the next level, and expounds older theories like Realism through the ages (Thucydides via Machiavelli to Hobbes) as well as the more recent trends in conceptual and theoretical thinking about IR.

Study of the development of political theory. Analyzes the contributions of the classical political thinkers of ancient Greece, Rome, medieval Europe and modern Europe. Topics include natural law, civic virtue, the Church and the State, and political order.

Theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of "culture"

This course involves various applications such as debates, interactive learning activities, essay writing, listening and exercises through massive use of technology as well as vocabulary study in order to improve students academic skills and encourage critical thinking and research.

Gaining skills regarding the development of hypotheses, the collection of data with the use of the most appropriate research design, the analysis of data and the reporting of findings for the solution of research problems.

Study of international relations from World War II to the present. Examines the origins and development of the Cold War, bi-polar relations, détente, the collapse of communism, and the post-Cold War world.

Students will learn about how and why international law is created and how it is enforced, both states and international organizations.

The course will set out to give the students a discursive overview of political ideas and contemporary political ideologies and examine the key concepts of politics- for instance, equality, justice, freedom, democracy, and social democracy.

Analyzing the socio-political data within the theoretical knowledge and evaluate its reflections in practice.

Study and analysis of Western political systems within a comparative framework. Emphasis on the major democracies of Western Europe and North America. Examines the historical factors and contemporary issues and trends affecting these states.

The course will try to discuss the political, diplomatic, socio-economic, and international developments and their impacts on Turkish foreign policy. This course will set out to provide the students Turkey’s relations with neighboring states in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Russia. Furthermore, it examines Turkey’s policies toward the United States and Western Europe.

The aim of this course is to analyze competing theories of foreign policy, understand principal differences between foreign policy and international politics, comprehend the conduct of foreign policy through different levels of analysis.

The course deals with issues of human rights, its origins, development and application, as well as issues of human security such as threats to human security from climate change, food scarcity, migration, and most seriously by armed conflict.

This course provides an overview of the politics and economics of the developing world.

The course includes material on what a conflict is, what conflict resolution is, its techniques and several examples to conflict resolution.

This course compares and contrasts political and economic development across different regions of the world through comparative political methodology.

This course analyses IO's establishment, internal dynamics, and their complicated relationship with nation-states in various issues.

Managing the Global Economy, Theoretical Perspective of International Political Economy, International Monetary Relations, Foreign Debt and Financial Crisis, Global Trade Relations, Regionalism and the Global Trade Regime, International Development of International Political Economy.

The first part of the lectures examines definitions, distinctions, and conceptual approaches to NGOs. The second part of the course analyzes the role of NGOs in transnational interventions such as humanitarian aid, human rights, and global aid.

Business law, labor contract, unionization, social security concept.

This course aims to provide an understanding of issues which characterize the world we live. Some of these issues are: globalization which takes a number of different forms, environmental issues and nuclear proliferation which pose dangers of global catastrophe, nationalism which raise questions about fragmentation and unification.

The course examines the key concepts of democracy from the ancient Greeks to the present.

This course aims to develop critical thinking on major theories and concepts of political science and international politics, and apply them to the analysis of American foreign policies and grasp the role of various key institutions (the President, Senate, Defense and State Departments) and the network of inter-connections among them.

The course includes discussion topics from international politics such as globalization, failed states, clash of civilizations, leadership, realism, liberalism and international organization.

This course deals with the formulating hypothesis and research questions. Among the themes examined in the course is paraphrasing and academic honesty, reference systems, and citations and quotations.

This course includes the following topics: the concept of entrepreneurship, evaluation of the properties of entrepreneurship, creativity and business idea development and creativity exercises, the kinds of small enterprises, the management in small and medium sized enterprises (SME), human resources management in SMEs, the public relations in SMEs, marketing in SME, searching for markets, production management in SMEs, research and development (R&D) in SMEs, financing in SMEs, accounting in SMEs, the concept of business plan, management plan, evaluation including financial plans.

Definition of project/project management, components of project management, project organization, project scheduling, resource management, technology management, budgeting, tracking the project.

The role of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles 1919 in drawing the map of the Middle East is a turning point in the Middle East. The Iran-Iraq War (1980-88 ), Gulf-War I (1990-91) and Gulf-War II (2003- ) is as the second turning point. Russia’s involvement in the region under Putin’s rule after the Soviet Union’s collapse and the role played by the US in the aftermath of 9/11 paved the way to current situation in the Middle East. This course also aims to build the bridge between past and present in the Middle East through these turning points.

History of international security studies, international security problems such as wars, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, organized crime and ways to solve these problems.

The course contains information about ecologism as a political ideology, problems such as global warming, ozone layer, water and energy resources, as well as sustainability and consumerism as factors that have an impact on environmental problems.

Students are required to write and present a research project in order to qualify for graduation. The project will be written under the supervision of an advisor, and has to be defended orally in front of a jury. Students are expected to prove that they can utilize the knowledge and skills they have acquired during their studies. The experience will furnish them with the opportunity to apply scientific methods, improve their written and oral skills.