In this course, historical backgrounds of contemporary events and the problems they create will be considered with supporting studies of philosophical views which have formed our age. The social changes and developments at the world and our country will

Environmental ethics is a course where the different dimensions of the human nature relation will be discussed. Humans moral responsibilities against todays increasing negative developments in terms of the destruction of environment will be an discussion issue.

In this course, the concept of globalization according to various points of view and criticisms, will be examined. The economical, political, cultural and ideological dimensions of globalization, and the effect of international organizations while forming these dimensions will be discussed. The course aims to teach the culture as a interdisciplinary field and the theories, and to examine cultural transformation Dynamics according to these theories.

Communication History is an interdisciplinary which welcomes contributions adressing Press and society from the fifteenth century to the present . Its perspective is both historical and international,exploring all forms of serial puplications, covering a wide area of Press History during Ottomans and after.

The fundamental role of the European Court of Human Rights and its universal and regional characteristics will be evaluated. The methods of protection and embodiment of the human rights will be examined with a special reference to the relation of this protection with the Turkish Law.

The aim of this course is to evaluate in detail the contemporary conflicts in the international law. In this context, especially the international law problems of Turkey will be examined in the legal framework.

This course aims to examine the powers that affect politics in international and national level. International organizations, economic powers, the roots, functions and features of political parties in different political systems, the determination of interests and interest groups in different political environments, military and strategic entities, the relative effects of political powers on creating a world order and global governance will be examined. The preferences and strategies of Americans and Asians, current international institutional development and demands for regulatory reform will be analyzed.

In this course, concepts, theories and approaches in classical sociology will be covered. The focus will be on the theories produced between sociology's emergence as a scientific field and mid-20th century. The theories that will be studied in detail are the theories of following founding sociologists: Saint Simon, Comte, Spencer, Durkheim, Marx and Weber.

This course is the continuation of Theories of Sociology I, in which concepts, theories and approaches of classical sociology are discussed. In the second semester students will learn Parson's Structural- Functionalist theory which has dominated the second half of the 20th century and alternatives to this theory, such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenological sociology, ethnomethodology, construction of social reality, etc. In the second part of the course, as a post-modern challenge Foucault's theory will be covered and alternative theories to post-modernism, such as theories of Giddens, Habermas, Bourdieu, Archer, Collins, etc. will be offered.

In the beginning of the course the aim, logic and ethical problems of social sciences and research will be discussed in general; besides, qualitative and quantitative approaches will be compared in detail. After that, the course will be devoted only to qualitative researches. First of all, each method of qualitative research will be taught to the students, and then they will be asked to carry out a qualitative research. The selection of the research topic, design of the research, selection of the method(s), the collection of qualitative data, writing of the field notes, the interviews, conversion of the interview notes into data, data analysis and interpretation and report writing will be discussed and students will be asked to perform all these stages. Main aim of this course is to ensure that students will be able to carry out proper qualitative research and evaluate studies as a competent qualitative researcher.

Social and cultural dimensions of the relationship between informational service sector and industrial sector, transition from Taylorism-Fordism to flexible production and social-cultural dimensions of this transition, local, national and global industry, newly industrializing countries and ?Anatolian tigers? are among the topics of the course.

Students will be informed about the relationship between history and sociology, macro sociology, nation and nation-state formations, law-market-politics, bourgeois revolutions, socialist revolutions, independence wars and they will be encouraged to discuss these topics.

In this course, students will be informed about birth, death and migration tendencies, demographic analysis methods, demography studies, theories and problems. Social, cultural, economic and political aspects of demographic movements/trends will be examined.

Science, technology and techno-science will be examined in historical, social and cultural contexts. The relationship between sociology of knowledge and science-technology-sociology relation, information society and techno-science topics will be covered.

Sociology of art which is a subfield of sociology, scrutinizes the social world of art and aesthetics. In this class, art and aesthetics, knowledge, culture and science will be associated; their interaction with each other and the conditions of art and design's prominence in the global world will be discussed

In this class, the factors that cause migration, social consequences of internal migration and emigration, migrants' connection with space, the role of different cities in the construction of migrant identity and the transformation of cultural identities as a result of migration will be studied.

In this course, popular culture and its social effects will be scrutinized. Using popular culture's different distributors such as cinema, television, music, fashion, books, magazines and internet, how popular culture is produced, how it is shared with others and how it is consumed will be discussed with examples from different countries.

?Environmental sociology? is the field of sociology that deals with the relationships between the environment and society. This field deals with the environment in the context of sustainability, which is one of the most important discussions of social sciences today, as well as the conditions (ecology) and environmental problems experienced. The "Advanced Debates in Environmental Sociology" course inculudes themes like "environmental pollution", "environmental health", "sustainability", "water management", "market relations with the environment", "social movements", "renewable energies", which are among the most important discussions of today's societies. ?social and cultural consequences of garbage?, ?human-animal relations?, ?air and soil pollution?, ?environmental risks?, ?social and cultural consequences of climate change?, ?climate migration and refugee?, ?role of science and technology in environmentally-sustainable innovation? ?sustainable energies and products? and ?natural and technological disasters?, aiming to hold a graduate-level discussion on the environment.

This course aims to discuss from a sociological perspective significant transformation lived in the world and Turkey in agriculture, food production, consumption, and distribution, along with the social and economic problems these transformations bring. It investigates the changes in the food regimes and agricultural structures, and it addresses critically how the repercussions of the current corporate food regime are being experienced in the world. Focusing on the impacts of neoliberal policies on agri-food relations and in the rural spaces in Turkey, it examines the problems these policies create for farmers, consumers, and ecology.

This course introduces the principles and practices of sociological research. It examines the: logic and practice of research design, the relationship between theory and research, several forms of data collection, analysis of data, and the presentation of findings. It has several goals: to enable students to become better consumers of other?s research and to gain access to more research findings; to give students an understanding of the type of the thinking involved in research; to teach them the concepts and the terminology researchers use; to provide them with a foundation for further study and work as professional researchers.

In this course, the aim is to review and strengthen the sociological theories learned during undergraduate and master's programme years and to open the floor for new sociological theories, approaches and research papers.

Qualitative and quantitative research methods will be taught to the students for enabling them to understand the society in a realistic way and to reveal the problems and to produce solutions. They will be provided with the information of all stages from the planning of the research to the writing of it. Main aim of this course is to constitute a sound base for the dissertation research of the doctoral students.

In this course, the relationship among the social structures, mind, knowledge production and ideologies will be studied. In addition to classical theories and approaches in sociology of knowledge, the recent and contemporary perspectives will also be discussed.

Various studies from Turkey and around the world on the recent theoretical approaches in gender, the construction and change of the identities of woman and man will be examined.

This course will examine cultural studies approach as it emerged in Britain and spread to other countries. Students will be exposed to the interdisciplinary nature of cultural studies, and its openness to global as well as local contributions.

In this course, topics such as urban communities and institutions, the evolution of cities in Europe and Asia, feudal-traditional, early modern, industrial and global cities, urbanization and the theories of urban growth, satellite urbanization, urban transformation, security, gated urban communities will be examined in a historical and comparative way.

In this course, the ways religions are perceived and identified within the social reality, individual and collective meaning attribution and application processes will be studied in terms of the relationship between society and religion.

In this course, the basic concepts and theories of Sociology of Migration, mass migration in the context of internal migration, external migration and global migration in Turkey and in the world, areas of harmony and conflict regarding migration will be analyzed and meta-analyses on diaspora processes, the organization of migrants and the NGOs they have established, and migration research. analysis and data from current migration studies are evaluated and interpreted.

In this course, the students will learn how to review literature on a topic, develop a conceptual framework and write a paper. This course will help students in writing papers for other courses and also in preparation of a dissertation proposal.

The qualifying exam consists of two steps, written and oral. In order to continue the program, students must successfully pass on both stages.

Students who are that are succesful at the qualifying exam, propose their thesis that are suitable to scientific and ethical.

After they complete their courses and pass the qualifying examination, doctoral students present their dissertation proposals to thesis monitoring committee. The research carried out by the student in the following terms with the supervision of dissertation advisor will be presented to thesis monitoring committee and the feedback will be given.