General concepts about the course, collapse of the Ottoman Empire, leading to National Struggle, congresses, Sevres Treaty, wars, opening of Turkish Great National Assembly, Mudanya Armistice, Lausanne Treaty discussions.

Abolishment of sultanate and declaration of Republic, strategy and importance of Turkish Revolution, financial, social, legal, educational and cultural renovation, experiments for multi- party system, Turkish foreign policy during Atatürk?s term, basic principles of Atatürkism.

The main purpose of this course to create awareness among students about "career"; It helps students to make a career planning
compatible with their future goals by making them aware of their interests, individual skills and values.
In addition, another purpose of the course is to help students discover what they can do during their education in order to identify areas
where they will be productive and happy after graduation. To help them gain knowledge about different sectors in which they can work
after graduation, and to gain awareness of the need to develop their knowledge and skills during their studentship in a way that is
compatible with the requirements of the relevant sectors.

This course is designated to investigate the basic concepts and problems of Economics as science.

This course aims at improving students' language level and their level in different skills, especially in reading and speaking as well as enabling them to write essays and listen and understand lectures on academic level. Content based course materials are chosen. This application also aims at contributing to learners? comprehension skills and critical thinking capacity about current trends and events, cultures and international events.

This course aims to improve students' expository reading and writing skills. Structural elements of a text, collocations, connectors, sentence heads and phrases for more effective expression are among the subjects to be studied. Texts that are related to the field are selected to be used as course material to motivate and involve students. This course also introduces students with basic terminology in their fields.

This course aims to improve students? analytical reading and writing skills. Texts that are related to the field of computer engineering and software engineering are selected to be used as course material to motivate and involve students. Students read and analyze texts and produce their own texts that involve their responses to the input they receive. This course also introduces students with basic terminology in their fields.

In this course, the basic disciplines of philosophy are introduced such as ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of education. The problems and discussions especially in the field of philosophy of education are analyzed through current examples.

The aim of the course is to teach basic psychological concepts, introducing subfields and fundamental theories of psychology, explaining research methods of these subfields and theories.

The aim of this course is to teach basic psychological concepts, introducing subfields and fundamental theories of psychology, explaining research methods of these subfields and theories.

The birth of sociological thought, introduction to first sociologists, first sociology theories, main concepts that constitute the foundation of sociological knowledge, institutions and structures are the basic subjects of this course.

In this course, the main concepts relating to institutions such as family, gender, education, religion, law, economy, politics are studied and the changes and transformations in the structures of these institutions are discussed.

This course aims to provide the students with a general perspective regarding the basic theories and main discussions within the discipline of cultural/social anthropology. Throughout the course, main questions of anthropology, its subdisciplines and method; the evolution of cultural anthropology; culture and cultural variation; kinship and family; identities and inequalities; cultural and economic context; politics and political organization; the sacred, belief and rituals, globalization; medical anthropology will be discussed. At the end of the semester, participants are expected to critically evaluate social life, comprehend and analyze the reasons of cultural differences, and evaluate a case in its context.

This course introduces the principles and practices of social 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.

The students who have met the concepts of research and research techniques in ?Research Methodology in Sociology I? will learn how to seek scientific answers to questions about the social world through social research in the field. They will learn research design, conducting research, data collection and evaluation; and interpretation. Quantitative research will take place but it will be more focused on qualitative research.

Introduction of the social and scientific foundations which prepared the birth of the sociology discipline; beginning of the field; historical, social events and thoughts that actualized the process of being accepted as a science. The sociological theories of Comte, Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Simmel are being studied in this course.

This is the second semester of a History of Sociology course. In this course, students will be encouraged to focus on mid 20th century and second half of the 20th century theorists. In the first half of the course, the main focus will be structural functionalist school and alternatives and challenges that emerged against the dominant paradigm. The focus in the second half of the course will be on Foucault and post-modern challenge together with the alternatives that emerged against postmodern challenge such as sociological theories of Elias, Giddens and Habermas.

This course aims to review the sociological theories on gender and family. Various theoretical perspectives about gender and family will be examined and discussed through readings and examples from everyday life. The social factors shaping families and gender relations will be studied. Changes in family and gender roles will be analysed in a historical and cultural view.

In this course, the students will analyze the processes of social change and globalization in both Turkey and the world in a historical perspective and focus on these issues: Agricultural, industrial and informational technologies revolution, necessary concepts for the analysis of production, power and experiences of network society, urbanization, emerging processes of global cities and mega cities, city as a process, transition from virtual reality to real virtuality and the analysis of hyper text, transition from place to space, concepts of traditional time, clock time and timeless time, sovereignty in global capitalist system, transition from the sovereignty of nation-states to the sovereignty of global empire.

Economy, both as a social institution and a sub-discipline of social sciences is studied in this course. Relations and organization of production, consumption patterns, division of labour at micro and macro levels will be examined on a historical basis in this course.

The traditional village community structure, the transition from traditional society to modern society, the entrance of the production for market and modern technology to the village, the typology of village transformations, the historical and comparative handling of the village transformations, the role of state policies in social changes in the village, the village communities in the world economy etc. constitute the topics of this course.

The basic subjects of the course are the following: Perspectives towards detection and solutions of social problems. Modernization and urbanization in Turkey and consequent social problems. Social problems at micro and macro levels. Problems that emerge in regard to individuals, family, social stratum, social class, ethnic groups. Alternation of social problems according to time and place. Local social problems.

The social reasons and consequences of the changes in environment are discussed. The relationship between environment and population, production, consumption, technology are examined.

This course will provide an introduction to pivotal topics of sociology of medicine. The course will focus on the topics including the subjective experiences of health and illness, the social causes and consequences of health and illness and health care, the relationships between society and health. In addition to that in this course the current discussions in the literature of sociology of medicine will be elaborated including the commercialization of the health as a commodity in the market, rise of health consumerism, medicalization, pharmaceutical influx, rise of risk discourses and the ideology of healthism.

The aim of this course is to introduce students the use of statistical tests and methods in researches (basic notions, data collection, central tendency, normal distribution, distribution measures, normal curve, normal distribution curve).

In the scope of this course, basic statistical concepts will be taught. In addition, probability practices in the way of analysis of hypotheses and the statistical findings, the normal distribution curve and its functions, reliability, variability, binomial distribution, statistical tests of significance, Tte testing of hypotheses and t-tests (one way and two ways) will be the main focuses of the course.

In the first term social history of Turkey on the basis of institutions which constitute the social structure in Turkey will be analysed. In doing this, the process of construction that goes from the social interaction to the institutionalization and then from the institutionalization to the structures and systems of society in Turkish history are taken into consideration. The theoretical knowledge and the ways of sociological thinking that are acquired in the first two years of Sociology education will be applied to the analyses of social and cultural realities in Turkey. In the second term, particular institutions and social structures of Turkish society will be studied in detail.

In the second term, particular institutions and social structures of Turkish society will be studied in detail.

In this course students will acquire practical skills in social research using quantitative research methods, although qualitative methods will be also used before questionnaire construction. Throughout the term students will take part on every step of a research from design to presentation of the results.

Historical-social formation of the social dynamics and processes which occur in a specific time and place and the organization types which is caused by social stratification structures and differences that reflect to social status and roles will be analysed.

The structure of the political systems in the world is changing rapidly. The so called crisis of representative democracy is on-going. Understanding sociological dimensions of this transformation is crucial for sociology students as well as the students from other departments. This course will be an introduction to political sociology.

Studying the theoretical perspectives which became prominent in today's sociology and the problematic frames of the main theories as well as approaching and evaluating the modern societal construction processes sociologically.

In this course, the way we see others as a man or as a woman and others see us as a man or as a woman is considered under the concept of ?gender?. The goal of the course is to provide knowledge about the research done in Turkey on various gender issues. The relationship between gender and culture, class, ethnicity, religion, media and sports are explored. How gender is constructed and how those constructions become cultural norms and the consequences of these values are also studied.

In this course, the students are going to learn the prominent historical-theoretical perspectives, examine the problematics' frameworks of the main theories, besides considering and investigating contemporary social structures and processes, in terms of historical sociology.

The notion ?gender? differs from the notion ?sex? by emphasising that this notion is socially and culturally constructed. From the second half of the twentieth century, gender studies emerged as an interdisciplinary field of study in social sciences with the studies from disciplines such as sociology, social and cultural anthropology, psychology, cinema, media and communication studies, law, economics, history and political sciences. Focusing on the debates on women, LGBTQ?s and men, this field critically considers gender identities, gender roles, gender inequalities and representations of gender. In this course, primary theories and approaches in the field of gender studies are going to be discussed by considering the contemporary studies.

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In the scope of this course, post-modern and post-structuralist theories which are ingrained with the critique of positivism will be studied. Bourdieu?s criticism of both structuralist and subjectivist theories will be taken as a starting point other contemporary theories and research will be examined with a specific focus on formulating theoretical and conceptual frameworks for research.

The measurement and evaluation/interpretation of the three basic processes -fertility, mortality and migration- of demography are analysed. The important concepts of demography and the methods required to study population is discussed, and on the basis of the current social phenomena (the elderly population growth, epidemics such as AIDS, the environmental changes, etc.), the following question is tried to be answered: ?What will the changes in population be affected by and what will they affect??

In this course, considering the interests of the students, theoretical texts and research monographs / reports / articles will be read and discussed.

Comparative and historical analysis of urban societies and institutions; evolution of cities in Europe and Asia, feodal-traditional, early modern, industrial and global cities; theories of urbanization and urban growth; and subjects such as emergence of satellite cities, urban transformation and gated communities are examined.

The aim of this course is to make knowledge that learned through undergraduate program permanent in time. Thus, learners will know sociology discipline fields closely and have chance to do their work before graduation.

The change in the actions of individuals in the process of perceiving, understanding and explaining their environment- in the context of the dynamic social processes which both affect and are affected by industrialization, population movements and urbanization. The periodic and spatial differences of internal migration from rural to urban areas or from urban to urban and reasons of these are discussed. Emigration is analysed historically and periodically and also in the context of the level of development of a country. Also, current issues such as migration, diasporas, identity, refugees, illegal migration or forced migration are discussed in a critical manner.

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In this course, the studies will be made about the understanding, explanation, reading and writing, various features of written explanation will be considered and examined with critical viewpoint. The punctuation marks which are the basis of the written explanation and writing rules will be made evident and the correct use of such rules for efficient and sound expression will be elicited.

In this course, the studies will be made about the understanding, explanation, reading and writing, various features of written explanation will be considered and examined with critical viewpoint. The punctuation marks which are the basis of written explanation and writing rules will be made evident and the correct use of such rules for efficient and sound expression will be elicited.