This course aims to show students the relation between philosophical knowledge and daily life; to help them gain the ability to find solutions concerning the problems which are faced in practice.

This course studies the problems of human sciences from a philosophical perspective, in a theoretical frame. It examines the basic concepts and problems of human sciences and different philosophical solutions brought to these problems.

The aim of this course is to help students to recognize the knowledge that Aristotle has produced, and the concepts he has brought to different fields of philosophy, to draw attention to their importance on philosophical knowledge by reading his texts. Aristotelian ethics will be also specially considered throughout the course.

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 evaluation problem, which is one of the main subject-matters of ethics and philosophy of values, will be examined in detail. Matters such as, what evaluation is, moral dilemmas and decisions, the role of evaluation on decisions, evaluation and values, evaluation types will also be considered at this course.

The aim of this course is to help philosophy teachers to gain the necessary abilities to introduce the courses Thinking education and philosophy successfully and suitably at elemental education level. Platos related dialogues will be read and literary sources suiting the objective (both from child literature and world classics) will be examined in terms of philosophy.

The main objective of this course is to study the background of Kant?s important concepts, while defining the philosophical knowledge he has produced and the concepts he has brought to different fields of philosophy with support from his basic texts. This course will also specially focus on Kant?s primary works on the field of ethics: ?Critique of Practical Reason? and ?Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.?

In the axis of philosophical counseling, Plato is reevaluated and the importance of his texts, especially the ones in the dialogue format, in the context of philosophical counseling is considered.

This course shows students how research is carried out in philosophy. The features of philosophical research, which are different from other research areas, are
underlined. Philosophy, as a research area, is compared with other research areas. It is highlighted that philosophical researches are based on foundation method.

With reference to the most fundamental act of human is sense-making, the problems, concerning interpretation, agreement and disability for agreement, are considered by an analytic method.

With respect to his texts, Schopenhauers views, especially the ones concerning anthropology and ethics, are considered.

This course focuses on the problems that occur while defining and determining a philosophical problem or contemporary philosophical discussions.

This course discusses the concepts of understanding, explaining and interpretation on the basis of the texts of philosophers from the field of hermeneutics; such as Dilthey, Gadamer, Habermas and Ricoeur.

The course will examine the concept and the classifications of human rights, as well as the
conceptual content of selected human rights and freedoms, and will discuss the specificity of
these concepts as criteria for human rights.

The course will inquire into and discuss the problem of application, to particular situations, of
human rights as fundamental principles of establishing social relations and of organizing the
State.

The course will deal with problems of ethics as a field of philosophy and, on the basis of these
problems, will discuss the ethical aspects of human rights.

The course will focus on the question how a teacher, by selecting examples from human
achievements which are the common heritage of humanity, can develop teaching material to
be used for the objective of helping the development in the student of the consciousness of
being a human being.

The course will examine the concepts of citizen and civic rights in their various dimensions
and historical background, and will discuss the specificity of the way of looking at human
affairs, developed by the consciousness of being a citizen and the relationship of this way of looking with the protection of human rights.

The course will discuss theoretical human rights problems, to be selected by the instructor according to the specificity of the group of trainees.

The course will introduce the main instruments and mechanisms for the protection of human
rights developed by various international or regional organizations, and will discuss problems in the implementation of the rights included in these instruments.

The course will discuss problems faced with in the implementation of human rights, to be
selected by the instructor according to the specificity of the group of trainees.

The course will focus on the specificities of interdisciplinary research and discuss, on the ground of examples, the place and contribution of different areas of knowledge in studying contemporary problems.

The course will focus on a problem or on problems that the participants feel the need to deal with for their further development.

In this course the students work with their advisors and prepare their thesis.

The structure, functioning and fundamental roles of the Constitutional Court will be examined while also the types of control that the Court applies will be evaluated.

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 structures of the taxes levied on income, capital and expenses in Turkish Tax System, the subject and tax payer of the taxes such as income tax, corporate tax, real estate tax, value added tax, private consumption tax, custom duty, acts causing taxes, new tendencies about these taxes and implementations in European Union shall be analyzed comparatively

Basic taxation principles, taxation efficiency, reflection, tax burden and effort, taxation of income, capital and consumption, modern tax policies, actual problems of Turkish tax policies, new tendencies at income, corporate and value added taxes shall be analyzed.

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.

The aim of the course is to provide information about international criminal law in theory and practice. To do so, a brief information concerning the theory of international criminal law; individual criminal responsibility as a subject of international law, international criminal judicial institutions such as the ad hoc tribunals (The UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, The UN International Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals) and the International Criminal Court; international crimes (war crimes, the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression); the case law of such institutions will be examined.

The constitution of European Court of Justice, its judicial power and the authority will be examined underlying the scope of law texts that is being used for judgements.

Within the scope of this course, relatively new political thoughts and movements of 1980s will be discussed. Some of these movements, like feminism, environmentalism and anti-globalization movements, are new for the world. Some others like liberalism, conservatism, while depending on 19th century ideologies, have renewed themselves and become influential in current Turkish politics.