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

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.

This courses traces the historical development of the media studies and paradigms. With a specific attention to critical and cultural studies approach, the course discusses various theoretical approaches to the relationship between media, society and culture.

This course deals with the technical and content features of the television medium, different expression methods depending on program types, the transformation of program design with changing target audience characteristics, and the impact of new media television broadcasting on program content.

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.

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

?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 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.

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.