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.

Studies the basic concepts and problems of philosophy and their connections.

This course offers an introductory treatment of economic theory with some discussion of policy applications and economic institutions. Most of the course can be divided into two broad segments: microeconomics and macroeconomics.

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To create awareness among students about "career"; to help students to make a personal career planning by gaining awareness of their interests, personal characteristics and values and by getting to know different sectors.

The aim of this course is to introduce basic psychological concepts and theories. Main concepts of psychology such as memory, learning, emotions, perception, behaviour, physiology and motivation will be examined.

The aim of this course is to introduce the basic psychological concepts and theories. Main issues that will be examined are personality, abnormal behaviour, cognitive abilities and testing, stress and health.

In the scope of this course the basic concepts and the research in social psychology will be examined. The students will acquire knowledge of the research methods in social psychology and learn how to interpret the findings. The projects of the students will be evaluated and both the reporting and the presentation of the projects will be encouraged.

The birth of sociological thought. Definitions of first sociologists, first sociology theories, main concepts that constitute the foundation of sociological knowledge, institutes and structures.

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 an introduction to some of the central conceptual and methodological issues in sociology. The purpose of the course is to offer an understanding of what a sociological perspective on the world is, and how it would aid us in understanding the world we live in. The course will focus on several major themes in sociology such as class, race and ethnicity, social exclusion, religion, gender, economy, migration and globalization.

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 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 processes of the formation of institutions, the positions of individuals in these processes and the roles of they play in these positions are analysed together with general features under the umbrella concept of fundamental social institutions.

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 analyze the main concepts and theories of Sociology of Health, and reinforce them with the current discussions of the field.

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.

The main purpose of this course is to provide students with the ability of sociological thinking and imagination. The content of this introductory course focuses on concepts and themes that can guide students to comprehend society from a sociological perspective. It is aimed that students will be able to understand modern society analytically with its historical, intellectual and social aspects and to be able to discuss different approaches and to associate all these with daily life.

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.

The course examines analyses on the social structure of Turkey.

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.

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.

In this course the learners will examine and practice ways to combine sociological concepts and theories with visual means of photography to understand the social world.

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.

The aim of this course is to discuss the basic concepts and theories of intercultural and cross cultural communication; to show the learners how our cultural values play important roles in our relations with others from various cultures; to increase their awareness levels about themselves thereby to enable them to improve communication skills with the people from various cultures in their everyday life and professional environment. The topics such as culture, acculturation, and culture as a context for communication, cultural differences and patterns that influence communication are being discussed in this course with examples from various cultures.

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Nation-state is analysed both as a triangulation station between local and global spaces and a new space caused by changing social, economic, cultural and political dynamics. Moreover, the individuals whose citizenship is defined by objective criteria in a nation-state are defined by the similarities and differences between ?I? and ?not I? or ?I? and ?other.? So, the process of the reflection of these modes of expressing oneself in a nation-state in the form of a new concept of identity is analysed in the course.

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

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.

In this course, the social construction of knowledge will be reconsidered both in historical and conceptual levels. Social knowledge processes will be discussed in terms of the social elements of knowledge, the social codes and social sphere of actions and global dynamics of the era.

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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.