UNDERGRADUATE COURSE CATALOG - İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi

UNDERGRADUATE 

COURSE CATALOG 

2010-2011 

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LEGEND OF TERMINOLOGY USED 

Prerequisite: A student can register for the 

course if he/she has received a passing grade for 

the prerequisite(s) listed. 

Special Condition: A student can register for the 

course if he/she has previously registered for the 

course(s) indicated as special condition. 

Restriction: The student can not register for the 

course if he/she has received a passing grade 

for the course(s) indicated as restriction or if 

the restriction is a core course in their program. 

Furthermore, the student can not register for the 

course and the one listed as a restriction at the 

same time. 

ECTS credit: European Credit Transfer and 

Accumulation System credit equivalents to 

BİLGİ credits to be used by Erasmus and other 

exchange students. 

Recommended for international students: 

Courses indicated as “recommended for 

international students” are offered entirely or in 

large part in English. 

International Students please note! If you do 

not know Turkish, it is recommended that you 

only register for such recommended courses. 

Restrictions, special conditions, or prerequisites 

for courses do not apply to international students. 

Such students must instead obtain the approval 

of their departmental Exchange Coordinator 

prior to course registration. 

Please consult the online Course Catalog 

for updates at www.bilgi.edu.tr 

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ADV 179 - FOUNDATIONS OF 

ADVERTISING I 

The aim of this course is to enable students to develop 

critical and analytical skills. Students will develop their 

skills through reading and discussing various topics. More 

succinctly, this course aims to lead students to question 

and consolidate what they have learned in earlier years 

and to further develop their intellectual reserves. 

Credit(s): 4 ECTS Credit(s): 8 Term(s): Fall only 

This course is given in Turkish. 

REKLAMCILIĞIN TEMELLERİ I 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilerin eleştirel ve analitik 

yeteneklerini geliştirmektir. Öğrencilerin bu yeteneklerini, 

verilen değişik konu başlıklarını tartışarak, eleştirerek ve 

analiz ederek geliştirmeleri amaçlanmaktadır. 

ADV 180 - FOUNDATIONS OF 

ADVERTISING II 

The aim of this course is to enable students to develop 

critical and analytical skills. Students will develop their 

skills discussing various topics and challenges. More 

succinctly, this course aims to lead students to question 

and consolidate what they have learned in earlier years 

and to further develop their intellectual reserves. 

Credit(s): 4 ECTS Credit(s): 8 Term(s): Spring only 


REKLAMCILIĞIN TEMELLERİ II 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilerin eleştirel ve analitik 

yeteneklerini geliştirmektir. Öğrencilerin bu yeteneklerini, 

verilen değişik konu başlıklarını tartışarak, eleştirerek ve 

analiz ederek geliştirmeleri amaçlanmaktadır. 

ADV 201 - INTRODUCTION TO 

ADVERTISING 

The aim of the course is to develop a knowledge and 

understanding of the advertising process and at the 

same time to improve students’ skills in evaluating and 

developing advertising and marketing communication 

campaigns and solving related problems. The course is 

designed for people who do not have experience in the 

field and who in the future will benefit from it, no matter 

from which end of the process they work, whether it 

be an advertising agency or an advertiser. Topics such 

as understanding how advertising works, advertising 

objectives and developing advertising plans and 

strategies, creativity and branding will be covered during 

the semester. 


Restriction(s): VOC 261 

Recommended for international students. 

ADV 202 - COMMUNICATION DESIGN 

In this course, changes in the marketing field and 

subjects such as strategy, technology and creativity will 

be discussed in the context of new media. Students will 

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acquire information about digital and social media, and the 

aim and importance of their usage in the communication 

process in accordance with the contemporary concept of 

communication. 


Special Condition(s): ADV 201 

Restriction(s): BUS 421 or VOC 262 


ADV 204 - VISUAL CULTURE 

This course concentrates on the changing ways 

of seeing, reading and understanding image, how 

meaning is constructed through images, particularly in 

advertising in relation to other forms of visual culture. 

The analyses are based on painting, photography and 

images in advertisements that have to do with various 

issues such as gender, sexuality, beauty, identity and 

status. 


Restriction(s): TVJ 201 

ADV 208 - HISTORY OF ADVERTISING 

This course aims to introduce second year students to a 

visual history of Turkish and international advertising 

since the beginning of the industry up until modern times. 

It will be conducted mainly by screenings of print and TV 

advertising products focused on the significant moments 

in advertising history and aims to build a foundation on 

which the students can later base their theoretical learning. 


Restriction(s): ADV 102 

This course is given partially in Turkish and in English. 

REKLAM TARİHİ 

Dersin amacı, birinci sınıf öğrencilerine günümüze kadar 

olan ulusal ve uluslararası reklamcılığın görsel tarihini 

aktarabilmektir. Ders kapsamında, özellikle reklamcılık 

tarihinde önemli olan anlara damgasını vuran basın ve TV 

reklamları üzerinde durulmaktadır. Bu ders, daha sonra 

öğrencilerin üzerine teorik bilgi inşa edebilecekleri temel 

bir zemin sağlamaktadır. 

ADV 209 - INTRODUCTION TO 

MARKETING 

The aim of the course is to underline the importance 

of marketing in contemporary business and nonbusiness 

environments. Students are provided the 

key marketing concepts that enable them to develop 

the knowledge and skills required to analyze the 

marketing environment, customers and competitors. 

The course covers a variety of topics including market 

environment, consumer behavior, marketing research, 

segmentation and positioning. 


Restriction(s): ADV 103 or ADV 104 or BUS 311 or PUB 211 

or PUB 212 

Recommended for international students.

ADV 210 - THROUGH THE LENS 

This course is designed to introduce the students to the 

fundamentals of visual storytelling, concept development 

and execution. Through studying the theoretical material 

provided in the class and exercising this knowledge out in 

the field, students will gain a vision that will enable them 

to develop abstract concepts and then materialize these 

concepts in the form of photography. The course puts 

great emphasis on hands-on experience in order to enable 

students to discover their own personal ‘voice’ to express 

their thoughts in an impactful way. 


Requires consent of instructor for non-departmental students. 


OBJEKTİFTEN GÖRMEK 

Bu ders, öğrenciyi görsel öyküleme, konsept yaratma 

ve uygulama konularıyla tanıştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. 

Öğrenciler, derste verilen teorik bilginin saha 

uygulamasını yaparak yeni bir bakış açısı kazanacak ve 

ürettikleri soyut fikirleri etkili biçimde görselleştirmenin 

yollarını keşfedeceklerdir. Uygulama ağırlıklı olan 

ders, her öğrencinin kendi özgün yaratıcı sesini 

ortaya çıkarabilmesini ve düşüncelerini etki odaklı 

aktarabilmesini hedeflemektedir. 

ADV 231 - CONSUMER BEHAVIOR 

The course is designed to increase students’ 

understanding of the theory and practice of consumer 

behavior and apply this information to marketing 

communication strategies. Students learn the 

consumers’ routine and complex decisions about 

purchasing behavior and the implications of consumer 

behavior for marketing communications strategy. 

Specifically, perception, learning, motivation, 

personality and attitudes are the topics to be covered as 

internal factors: groups, family, social class and culture 

are the topics to be covered as external factors. 


Restriction(s): BUS 471 


ADV 301 - COPYWRITING 

The aim of this course is to present the basic principles 

and techniques of advertising copywriting and to allow 

the students to practice them in a working atmosphere 

resembling the real world agency milieu. Students will be 

able to recognize and experience virtually all the functions 

of the copywriter in the advertising industry and will 

have an understanding of the creative problem-solving 

process in marketing communication situations. They 

will also develop a theoretical and practical professional 

insight aiming to produce and recognize good advertising 

copywriting. 




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METİN YAZARLIĞI 

Dersin amacı, reklam metin yazarlığının temel teknik ve 

prensiplerini öğrencilere gerçek reklam ajansı ortamında 

pratik yaptırarak sunmaktır. Ders kapsamında, öğrenciler 

reklamcılık endüstrisinde metin yazarlarının bütün 

işlevlerini tanıma ve görsel açıdan deneyim edinme ve 

ayrıca pazarlama iletişimi durumlarında yaratıcı problem 

çözme sürecini anlama şansına sahip olacaklardır. Ders 

sürecinde, öğrenciler ayrıca reklam metin yazarlığını 

tanımak ve üretmek için gerekli teorik ve pratik görüş 

açısını kazanacaklardır. 

ADV 302 - MEDIA PLANNING 

In this course, students will learn how to capture the 

target audience, emphasizing the selection and usage of 

media alternatives to achieve marketing and media goals. 

Students will learn the essential concepts to evaluate a 

pre/post-advertising campaign through case-studies. 


Requires consent of instructor for non-faculty students. 

ADV 312 - ADVERTISING FILM: 

TECHNIQUES AND PRODUCTION 

This course aims to introduce the basic principles of TV 

Commercial Productions. The students will be familiar 

with the basic concepts and terminology of the business 

and will have the opportunity to observe and learn all 

aspects of film production. Additionally, filming and 

editing techniques and budgeting will be given as they are 

the major components of filming. 




REKLAM FİLMİ YAPIMI VE TEKNİKLERİ 

Bu ders, reklam filmi yaratıcı süreci, üretimi ve uygulama 

süreci üzerine kurulmuştur. Ders süresince, öğrenciler 

terminolojiyi ve temel kavramları görecekler ve film 

prodüksüyonunun tüm aşamalarıyla ilgili çalışmalarda 

bulunacaklardır. Ayrıca film çekimi, montaj ve bütçeleme 

konuları ele alınacaktır. 

ADV 321 - ADVERTISING LAYOUT AND 

PRODUCTION 

This course is designed to help students develop an overall 

perspective of the creative art of layout of advertisements 

for print and out-of-home media. The learning goal is to 

assist students in acquiring a fundamental understanding 

of graphic design, advertising concept development, 

layout and production methods. 




REKLAM GRAFİĞİ 

Bu ders, reklamın görsel uygulamasının tasarım, başlık, 

baskı gibi temel unsurlarını öğretmeyi amaçlamaktadır.

Derste, ağırlıklı olarak basılı reklamlarda fikir geliştirme 

ve problem-çözme teknikleri ele alınacaktır. 

ADV 323 - CREATIVE THINKING 

This course intends to awaken students’ creative capacity 

and demonstrate how such creativity is applied to the 

business decision-making process. Methods that combine 

strategy and creativity based on creative innovation will 

be introduced. 


ADV 324 - CREATIVITY IN 

COMMUNICATION DESIGN 

This course aims to enable students to understand 

and use creativity in finding solutions to marketing 

communication problems. 


ADV 341 - CASES IN ADVERTISING 

The aim of this course is to analyze real life cases in both 

national and international advertising. The courses will 

be interactive to enable students to use their theoretical 

background in advertising to understand and analyze what 

really happens in the market. By showing stories of both 

success and failure in the advertising market this course 

will provide students with a means of evaluation. There 

will also be guest lecturers from the advertising field to 

relate real life cases. 





REKLAM UYGULAMALARI 

Bu dersin amacı, yerel ve uluslararası gerçek reklam 

mesajlarını analiz etmektir. Ders öğrencilerle karşılıklı 

iletişim kurarak, onların teoride öğrendikleri konuların 

gerçek pazar ortamında nasıl gerçekleştiğini öğretmek 

esasına dayanmaktadır. Başarılı ve başarısız gerçek olayları 

göstererek onlara bu olayları değerlendirme yeteneği 

kazandırmak dersin diğer amacıdır. Derste, sektörden 

konuklar gerçek pazar ortamında reklam mesajlarının 

nasıl yaratıldığını ve işlediğini tartışacaklardır. 

ADV 342 - ADVANCED COPYWRITING 

The student will have the chance to further his/her experience 

and understanding of the ‘art’ of copywriting with emphasis 

on the coordination of ideas and creative solutions towards 

the utilization of a campaign concept. Techniques for 

solving crisis-oriented special marketing communication 

problems, tackling controversial issues on advertising copy 

writing, comparison of the international and local levels of 

the practice of copy writing and matters of ethics, social 

responsibilities and ‘poetic license’ will be discussed. 


Prerequisite(s): ADV 301 



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İLERİ METİN YAZARLIĞI 

Bu derste, öğrenciler metin yazarlığı sanatını, kampanya 

sürecinde kullanılan fikir ve yaratıcı çözümler ile birlikte 

anlama ve bu konuda deneyimlerini artırma şansına 

sahip olacaklardır. Kriz merkezli pazarlama iletişim 

problemlerini çözmek için gerekli teknikler, metin 

yazarlığındaki ileri düzey konular ile başedebilme, 

uluslararası ve yerel düzeyde metin yazarlığı pratiklerini 

karşılaştırma, sosyal sorumluluk ve şiirsel lisans konuları 

ders kapsamında detaylıca incelenmektedir. 

ADV 351 - BRAND MANAGEMENT 

This course aims to analyze brand management from the 

agency perspective. Students are introduced to agency 

management and creative development processes in order 

to obtain an insight into brand communication development 

and evaluation. The brand analysis process is reviewed 

as practiced in the agency work process. The second 

part of the course is dedicated to learning more soft skills 

that are essential in the everyday life of a communication 

professional. Disciplines like account planning, briefing, 

giving feedback for creative evaluation and working in 

teams with creative staff are among the subjects covered. 

Students are expected to exercise basic presentation skills 

on the above subjects, which are videotaped for individual 

feedback by the instructor as well as their classmates. 






ADV 362 - RESEARCH METHODS 

The aim of this course is to provide insights into 

research concepts and procedures in the social sciences 

with an emphasis on marketing communications. Both 

quantitative and non-quantitative methods are examined. 

The course introduces and familiarizes students with 

the main techniques for specification, evaluation 

and application of research and supports them in the 

development of communication skills through research 

teams to be designed for assigned projects. 


Restriction(s): BUS 391 or BUS 392 or CAM 324 or IR 342 or 

MED 206 or MED 428 or PSY 301 or SOC 211 

ADV 371 - ACCOUNT PLANNING 

The course aims to give students a vision, a perspective 

and a framework for strategic brand planning and creative 

communications planning. It covers a wide range of 

different thinking models and examples and it aims to 

improve their skills in using these models. 


Special Condition(s): ADV 201 and ADV 202 

ADV 372 - APPLIED ADVERTISING LAYOUT 

This course aims to introduce the students to application 

techniques of advertising layout in digital environments.

The students will acquire the necessary skills to serve 

current usage in the field. 




ADV 373 - NEW MEDIA 

This is a course about both the theory and the practice of 

communication in new media. Throughout the course, the 

concept of “new media” and its impact on the universe of 

marketing will be explored. In particular, the evolution of 

mobile technologies and social media and their reflections 

in market dynamics and consumer behavior will be 

covered. This course aims to familiarize students with 

the basics and best-practices of marketing in new media, 

and provide insights into the unique opportunities and 

challenges presented by the evolution of communication 

technologies. 


ADV 381 - ADVERTISING FILM 

WORKSHOP I 

This two-semester course aims to equip students with 

theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience on 

advertising film design. Throughout the year, students 

will be familiarized with the basics of film design and 

will experience the fundamental processes including 

script writing and storyboard design skills on selected 

advertisements. 


ADV 382 - ADVERTISING FILM 

WORKSHOP II 

This two-semester course aims to equip students with 

theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience in 

advertising film design. Throughout the year, students 

will be familiarized with the basics of film design and 

will experience the fundamental processes including 

script writing and storyboard design skills on selected 

advertisements. 


ADV 401 - SENIOR PROJECT I 

The objective of this two-semester course is to give 

students the opportunity to develop key skills through 

collecting, analyzing, synthesizing and interpreting data 

about a topic related to the student’s area of specialization. 

Credit(s): 6 ECTS Credit(s): 12 Term(s): Fall and Spring 

ADV 402 - SENIOR PROJECT II 

The objective of this two-semester course is to give 

students the opportunity to develop key skills through 

collecting, analyzing, synthesizing and interpreting data 

about a topic related to the student’s area of specialization. 



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ADV 407 - MARCOM PRACTICES I 

This course is designed to prepare students for the 

competitive world of advertising. Students will be 

asked to work in teams and teams will be expected to 

work as advertising agencies. Teams will be working on 

one national advertising competition and a real client’s 

pitch. The winning campaign of the client pitch will be 

published in various media. 




PAZARLAMA İLETİŞİMİ 

PRATİKLERİ I 

Bu ders, öğrencileri reklam dünyasının rekabetçi 

ortamına gerçek yarışma ve konkurlarla hazırlamayı 

amaçlamaktadır. 

ADV 408 - MARCOM PRACTICES II 


competitive world of advertising. Students will be 

asked to work in teams and teams will be expected to 

work as advertising agencies. Teams will be working on 

one national advertising competition and a real client’s 

pitch. The winning campaign of the client pitch will be 

published in various media. 





PAZARLAMA İLETİŞİMİ 

PRATİKLERİ II 

Bu ders, öğrencileri reklam dünyasının rekabetçi 

ortamına gerçek yarışma ve konkurlarla hazırlamayı 


ADV 410 - DIRECTED READINGS 

This course aims to expand students’ existing knowledge 

in the field of marketing. The course will expose students 

to the works of the prominent scholars in the marketing 

academia. By studying through selected readings from 

the literature, students will be encouraged to generate 

ideas and to engage in discussions related to the readings. 

The course draws upon different topics from various 

literatures ranging from marketing management to 

consumer behavior. 


Prerequisite(s): ADV 209 or BUS 311 



YÖNLENDİRİLMİŞ OKUMALAR 

Bu ders, öğrencinin mevcut pazarlama bilgisini daha 

ileri bir seviyeye taşımayı amaçlamaktadır. Dönem 

boyunca öğrenciler pazarlama biliminin ileri gelen 

teorisyenlerini tanıyacak ve literatürün gelişmesinde 

mihenk taşı vazifesi görmüş çalışmaları inceleyeceklerdir.

Öğrenciler yönlendirilmiş okumalar ışığında dönem 

boyunca tartışacak ve yeni fikirler üretme konusunda 

cesaretlendirilecektir. Ders, pazarlama yönetiminden 

tüketici davranışlarına uzanan geniş bir literatürü 

kapsamaktadır. 

ADV 426 - CONSUMER AND THE BRAIN 

The course will elaborate on the thinking process of 

consumers and new findings in neuro-scientific research, 

and equip students with theoretical and practical 

knowledge in this field. 


ADV 430 - ADVERTISING LAB 

This course gives the students the opportunity to apply 

advertising knowledge to real-life projects. 


ADV 432 - DESIGN CULTURE 

This course surveys the cultural context of design from 

the nineteenth century to the present by delving into the 

issues of representation and interpretation within the 

(post)modern world. By providing an index to the cultural 

and historical agents, it aims to establish a framework 

for the understanding and appreciation of design objects. 

The students then, will be expected to acquire a ground 

on which they can explore the relationships between 

their own field and that of design. As inhabitants of the 

twenty-first century, endorsed as the design century, 

this grounding will also endow them with a better 

understanding and interpretation of the ”world” they see, 

imagine and experience. 



ADV 441 - MARKETING 

COMMUNICATION ON CYBER MEDIA 

This course will introduce students to the broad crosssection 

of marketer and advertiser experiences and 

expectations about interactive technology, how the 

interactive revolution is quickly changing and how 

marketers and advertisers are reinventing the exchange 

of goods, services and promotion tactics and techniques 

regarding a whole new range of possibilities for 

communication with both actual and potential customers. 



ADV 461 - STRATEGIC MARKETING 

MANAGEMENT 

The aim of the course is to provide an understanding of how 

marketing and branding strategies can be used effectively. 

This course is designed to present real-life case studies of 

success and failure of global, local and international brands 

and the companies behind them. The class will be run on an 

interactive basis with lectures and guest speakers from the 

marketing profession in various industries. 

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ADV 471 - QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 

TECHNIQUES 

The aim of this course is to improve the vision of students 

with regard to consumers and to provide them with 

adequate, practical and applicable tools in marketing 

information. It will focus on understanding the role of 

qualitative research, observation methods, focus group 

discussions and in-depth interviews and finally on 

analyzing and reporting the findings. 



ADV/E 179 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 

English for Academic Purposes is a course designed to 

develop the academic language skills needed by students 

in order to be successful in their academic departments. 

The course focuses on academic language skills required 

by all university students as well as specific academic 

language skills of primary importance for students’ 

specific fields of choice. Students will be guided through 

the various stages of essay writing, including planning, 

researching, collecting and organizing information. 

Students will be working with semi-authentic to authentic 

academic texts. The course aims to introduce efficient 

reading strategies to cope with such texts as well as to 

increase students’ confidence and comprehensibility when 

delivering presentations. Academic writing, listening, 

speaking and reading skills development will be equally 

emphasized in the course. Additionally, students’ skills 

in paraphrasing, summarizing and note-taking will be 

developed. 


ADV/E 180 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 


develop the academic language skills needed by students in 

order to be successful in their academic departments. The 

course focuses on academic language skills required by all 

university students as well as specific academic language 

skills of primary importance for students’ specific fields of 

choice. Students will be guided through the various stages 

of essay writing, including planning, researching, collecting 

and organizing information. Students will be working with 

semi-authentic to authentic academic texts. The course 

aims to introduce efficient reading strategies to cope with 

such texts as well as to increase students’ confidence and 

comprehensibility when delivering presentations. Academic 

writing, listening, speaking and reading skills development 

will be equally emphasized in the course. Additionally, 

students’ skills in paraphrasing, summarizing and notetaking 

will be developed. 

Credit(s): 4 ECTS Credit(s): 8 Term(s): Spring only

ARCH 111 - BASIC DESIGN I 

This course aims to help students understand the world 

through abstraction and conceptualization of their 

surroundings: shapes, forms, figures, colors, textures, 

materials, scales, space(s) and the like, and use this 

understanding to produce organizations: designs as 

compilations, compositions, arrangements and rearrangements. 

The series of assignments is intended to 

develop the skills of students in simultaneous efforts of 

analysis (reading/decoding) and development (writing/ 

encoding) of relationships. While requirements and 

restrictions help them concentrate on specific aspects of 

design thinking, hands- and minds-on experimentation 

within the 2-D or 3-D design space expand the 

possibilities. The product and the process are equally 

valued in the design studio. The process is a semiindividual 

one which is supported via critical discussions 

during the studio sessions. The students develop skills in 

communication and evaluation design ideas while taking 

the first steps in critical design thinking. The process and 

the product are achieved via logging, sketching, taking 

notes and photographing. 


ARCH 112 - BASIC DESIGN II 

Basic Design II is the second-semester design studio 

during which students advance the concepts they became 

familiar with in Basic Design I. The discoveries related 

to compositions, compilations, arrangements and rearrangements 

from the first-semester studio are explored 

with higher concentration on the two basic components 

of the design process: human and spatial. Weekly and 

monthly assignments motivate students to explore 

space(s) as analytically organized sequences, hubs, 

clusters and containers, while the human component is 

examined as the perceiver, the contained, the acquiescent 

and/or the objector to that very space. Students investigate 

the concepts of form, light and material as space-makers. 

Three-dimensional physical model making helps students 

understand the role of surfaces, solids and voids in creating 

spaces. The material properties of the medium used in 

model making expand the ideas related to connections and 

detailing in construction. The computational technologies 

become an inherent part of the studio, supporting, if not 

driving the studies. 


ARCH 113 - ARCHITECTURAL 

GEOMETRY 

Geometry deals with size, shape and the relative 

position of figures in space and helps us understand the 

world as we experience it. It is an indisputable part of 

architectural design, as it plays a key role from the initial 

steps of the design process to the actual construction. 

A solid background in geometry is necessary not only 

for form-finding studies in architecture but also for 

accurate communication of design ideas. Architectural 

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Geometry is an undergraduate course offered to firstyear 

students. As fluency in geometry enhances the 

cultivation and communication of design ideas, this 

course aims to help understand the fundamentals of 3D 

space and the geometric definition of objects. Further 

goals include familiarization with concepts of geometry 

and techniques in representation: descriptive geometry. 

An advanced version of the course concentrates on the 

use of contemporary computing techniques of geometry 

in architecture. 


ARCH 114 - DESIGN COMPUTING 

Design Computing encourages analytical design 

thinking. Computational methodologies as well as 

computational technologies and tools lie at the core 

of the subject. The goal is to help students understand 

and work on design problems (or solutions) with the 

computational mind: to analyze the problem, discover 

and define the discrete sub-problematic(s), propose a 

solution system to generate organizations (designs), and 

evaluate the products. But not in a conventional linear 

way, all of the above are to be applied to the final product, 

too. Design computing builds skills on top of the ones 

learned in Architectural Geometry I, but moves on to a 

further step by placing computing (via the computer) as 

the driver of the studies. While geometric knowledge 

helps students build precisely-controlled geometrical 

compositions, algorithms become the exploratory tools 

to investigate emergent forms of design. The two-way 

reflection of ideas with the design studio, Basic Design 

II, from and to Design Computing helps students harness 

design ideas, concepts of computation and geometry 

simultaneously. 


ARCH 169 - INTRODUCTION TO 

ARCHITECTURE I 

This course intends to expose first-year students to the 

canonical works, actors and ideas that have shaped the 

culture and history of world architecture over time, 

while installing a strong awareness of the historical/ 

social contexts within which these emerge. As a way of 

introducing the basicl vocabulary of the architectural 

profession, we will look at settlement forms, building 

types/components and construction techniques over 

different historical periods and across different cultures. 

The first half of the course will cover the period from prehistoric 

human settlements, through Egyptian, Greek/ 

Hellenistic and Roman periods, to the long Middle 

Ages in the Mediterranean, Asia and the Americas. 

Lectures will be complemented by selected readings 

of architectural and literary texts and sometimes films: 

there will be discussion and writing requirements in 

addition to exams. 

Credit(s): 7 ECTS Credit(s): 14 Term(s): Fall only

ARCH 170 - INTRODUCTION TO 

ARCHITECTURE II 

Following chronologically from ARCH 169, this 

course will continue to introduce the canonical works, 

actors and ideas that have shaped architectural culture 

across the globe, presenting them as part of the larger 

social, political, cultural and urban contexts within 

which they emerge. Beginning with the Renaissance 

and Enlightenment in Europe, it will cover the modern 

world from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective. 

We will look at buildings, cities and landscapes as both 

the agents and physical manifestations of the social, 

political and cultural transformations wrought by the 

industrial revolution, colonialism, nationalism, two world 

wars, modernization and more recently, globalization. 

Lectures will be complemented by selected readings of 

architectural and literary texts and sometimes films: there 

will be discussion and writing requirements in addition 

to exams. 



DESIGN I 

The aim of this course is to teach the student by means of 

a project of his/her own design that will be produced in 

the class, the skills to evaluate concepts of space, to think 

systematically, to express his/her ideas and to evaluate 

problems from different points of view. 



DESIGN II 

The aim of the course is to prepare the student to produce 

an architectural project by assisting him/her to understand 

the basic criteria of “user, environment, program, function 

and structural design” that are the principles of advanced 

design. Computational design will play an important role 

in this studio course, and students will be expected to 

develop the design parameters that guide their projects. 


ARCH 211 - BUILDING MATERIALS AND 

TECHNOLOGIES I 

The aim of the course is to acquaint the student of 

architecture with the general characteristics of traditional 

building materials such as natural stone, soil and wood 

that have been used in the past and are still in use, and to 

then discuss their definitions, specific characteristics and 

uses in construction. 


ARCH 212 - BUILDING MATERIALS AND 

TECHNOLOGIES II 

In Building Materials and Technolgies II, the goal is to 

provide the student with a knowledge of the contemporary 

definitions, characteristics and uses in construction of 

materials such as metal, glass, plastic and paint, which fall 

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outside the traditional and composite group of building 

materials. 


ARCH 231 - STATICS OF MATERIALS I 

The aim of this course is to study the methods of analyzing 

load-bearing systems. 


ARCH 232 - STRENGTH OF 

MATERIALS 

During this course, exercises related to the introduction 

of the forces that are created on load bearing elements 

and the dimensioning of these elements are done with the 

aim of designing and dimensioning structural systems. 

While basic concepts about strength are dealt with 

during the course, different types of structural forces, 

buckling, shearing, moment of inertia, bending etc. are all 

investigated under separate titles. 


ARCH 241 - HISTORY OF 


This course will provide students with an outline of the great 

developments in architectural history, with examples from 

the earliest settlements through the Gothic era. It includes 

examples of development and important monuments from 

the prehistoric (Anatolia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Minoa and 

Mycean), Classic (Greek and Roman), Early Christian, 

Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic eras. 


ARCH 242 - HISTORY OF 


In this course the development of architecture up until the 

nineteenth century will be scrutinized, and architectural 

developments and important structures will be studied in 

chronological sequence. 


ART 202 - ART SINCE 1960 

This course is a survey of contemporary art from the 

end of Modernism through Postmodernism, with an 

emphasis on the art of recent years. It includes painting, 

sculpture, architecture and photography as well as recent 

developments in the idea of medium, such as conceptual 

art. The course highlights the array of artworks created 

during this period and introduces the writings of the 

period. It covers works, movements and artists from 

Turkey and throughout the world. 




ART 203 - SOCIOLOGY OF ART 

The course examines some of the most central debates of 

social theorists and art critics about the place of the arts

in society and the sociological significance of aesthetics. 




SANAT SOSYOLOJİSİ 

Bu ders sosyal teorisyenlerin ve sanat eleştirmenlerinin 

ana tartışma konuları olan toplumda sanatın yerini ve 

estetiğin sosyolojik anlamını inceliyor. 

ART 205 - ART HISTORY I 

The course will consist of a visual and historical survey 

of Western art from prehistoric to Renaissance times. The 

techniques, forms and expressive content of painting, 

sculpture and architecture will be studied within the 

context of the cultural environment in which they were 

produced and in comparison with Anatolian civilizations. 


Restriction(s): ART 101 



SANAT TARİHİ I 

Bu ders, Batı sanatının Prehistorya’dan Rönesans’a kadar 

görsel ve tarihsel bir çalışmasını yapacaktır. Resimlerin, 

heykellerin ve mimarinin teknik, biçimsel içerikleri ve 

ifadeleri, üretildikleri ortamın kültürel çevresi bağlamında 

araştırılırken, Anadolu medeniyetleri ile karşılaştırmalı 

olarak ele alınacaktır. 

ART 206 - ART HISTORY II 

The course will make a visual and historical survey of 

Western Art from the Renaissance through modern times. 

Painting, sculpture and architecture will be analyzed in 

terms of technique, form and expressive content, as well 

as studied within the context of the historical environment 

in which they were produced. 


Restriction(s): ART 102 



SANAT TARİHİ II 

Bu derste, Batı sanatının Rönesans’tan modern zamanlara 

kadar görsel ve tarihsel bir çalışması yapılacaktır. 

Resimlerin, heykellerin ve mimarinin teknik, biçimsel 

içerikleri ve ifadeleri, üretildikleri ortamın kültürel 

çevresi bağlamında araştırılacaktır. 

ART 207 - READING PICTURES 

From prehistoric-age wall paintings up to present-day 

virtual 3-D imagery, a vagabondage through the history of 

iconography. Glimpses of reliefs, frescoes, mosaics, icons, 

oriental miniatures, Asian engravings, western paintings, 

still photography, caricature sketches, comic strips, motion 

picture (film and video, factual and fictional), cartoons and 

computer graphics. Case studies to explore further into each 

genre through significant individual samples. 

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Requires consent of instructor. 


RESİMLERİ OKUMAK 

İlk çağlardaki duvar resimlerinden günümüzün 3 boyutlu 

sanal resmine, ikonografi tarihinde bir gezinti. Rölyeflere, 

fresklere, mozaiklere, ikonalara, Doğu minyatürlerine, 

Asya oyma baskılarına, Batı resimlerine, fotoğraflara, 

karikatürlere, skeçlere, çizgi romanlara, hareketli 

görüntülere (film, video, vb.), çizgi filmlere, bilgisayar 

grafiklerine bir bakış. Her örneğe daha derinlemesine 

bakabilmek için vaka analizleri. 

ART 209 - ART IN THE MODERN AGE 

The art movements, terminology and practices that have 

developed since the 19th century in the west construct 

the language with which we understand and analyze 

the art environment today. This course will examine the 

development of art theories and practices from a historical 

point of view, while the major developments in the last 

century of the Ottoman Empire and early years of the 

Republic of Turkey will be highlighted. 




MODERN ÇAĞDA SANAT 

Batı’da 19. yy’dan itibaren görsel sanatlar alanında 

gelişen akımlar, kavramlar ve pratikler günümüz sanat 

ortamını anlamamız ve yorumlamamız için gerekli olan 

dilin altyapısını oluşturmuştur. Bu ders, tarihsel süreç 

içerisinde Batı’da gelişen sanat teorisi ve pratiklerini 

incelerken Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun son yüzyılı ve 

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin ilk yıllarında sanatta görülen 

gelişmeler üzerinde durulacaktır. 

ART 211 - ART TECHNIQUES AND 

AESTHETICS I 

Students in Art Management will benefit from this course 

by expanding their knowledge of art production. Teaching 

methodologies highlight problem solving and experimental 

production. The course combines field trips, discussions and 

discipline-specific projects whereby methods and techniques 

in art making are examined. Students explore basic 

materials, techniques and processes of art production, learn 

how artists make strategies for meaningful art making, how 

art institutions’ market and budget influence their choices, 

how they utilize cultural knowledge and visual repertoires 

in the process. Students meet local and international artists, 

visit artists’ workshops, art education institutions, listen 

to curators, art managers, organizers and galleries on art 

production techniques and processes. Students also attend a 

12-hour Photoshop workshop in November. 




This course is given partially in Turkish and in English.

SANATTA TEKNİK VE ESTETİK I 

Bu ders, öğrencilerin sanatın üretimi üzerine kapsamlı 

bilgi sahibi olmasını hedefler. Ders, saha gezileri ve 

tartışmalarla sanat üretiminin yöntem ve tekniklerini 

içeren alana dair proje çalışmalarını inceler. Öğrenciler 

temel malzemeyi, teknikleri, sanat üretim süreçlerini 

ve sanatçıların çalışma yöntemlerini, bütçelerini nasıl 

yaptıklarını, kültürel bilgiyi ve görsel repertuvarlarını 

nasıl işlerine entegre ettiklerini öğrenirler. Ders boyunca, 

yerel ve uluslararası sanatçılarla tanışır, stüdyolarını 

ziyaret eder, sanat eğitim kurumları, küratörler, sanat 

yöneticileri, galerilerle sanat ürününün üretim teknikleri 

ve süreçleri üzerine konuşurlar. Ders kapsamında, Kasım 

ayında ders saatleri dışında planlanacak 12 saatlik bir 

photoshop atölyesi de yer alır. 

ART 212 - ART TECHNIQUES AND 

AESTHETICS II 

This course focuses on practical implementation in art 

production techniques and processes. Students evaluate 

spatial relationships, design principles and color theory 

as related to gallery displays. They evaluate graphic, 

spatial and visual communication design. Students learn 

to organize, develop and interpret the relation between 

objects and space, objects and other objects, objects and 

the public. Students prepare publicity related to gallery 

practice that includes press releases and gallery invitations 

and realize the visual and spatial design of exhibitions. 

Upon completion of this course, students will be equipped 

to collaborate toward the realization and presentation of a 

wide spectrum of art. 





SANATTA TEKNİK VE ESTETİK II 

Bu ders, sanat üretim tekniklerinin uygulama süreçlerini 

kapsar. Öğrenciler mekân ilişkileri, tasarım ilkeleri, renk teorisi 

gibi sergilemeye yönelik temel bilgileri alırlar. Grafik, mekân 

ve görsel iletişimin değerlendirmesini yaparlar. Nesnelerin, 

nesnelerle, mekânla ve ziyaretçiyle ilişkisini kurarlar. Vaka 

çalışmaları yaparak, temel estetik ve tasarım bilgisini bir sergi 

alanında veya sanat ürününün yaygınlaştırılması sürecinde 

uygulamaya koyarlar. Bu ders, sergi üretim ve yönetim 

teknikleri dersi için bir altyapı oluşturur. 

ART 301 - MUSEUMS, FAIRS AND 

COLLECTIONS 

This course discusses the history of the museum in its 

sociocultural context. It looks at collecting during the 

Renaissance, royal cabinets and galleries as well as the 

19th-century universal exhibitions and the first public 

art museums. By studying examples from Turkey and 

the West, the course further investigates the role of the 

museum in 20th-century society. 



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ART 302 - ART, HERITAGE AND 

MANAGEMENT 

This course is about the basic operations of a museum. 

The students will learn the administrative structure and 

management of a museum (e.g. the managerial and artistic 

staff), program coordination, activity management, the 

law on artistic products and cultural heritage in Turkey as 

well as international institutions and regulations. 



ART 305 - COMMUNICATING THE 

MUSEUM 

After a brief introduction to the role of public relations this 

course centers on communication strategies for museums 

and cultural heritage institutions. Based on examples 

from the sector, the course aims at familiarising the 

students with an innovative approach to communications 

for museums such as branding, advertising, new media 

and audience development. 



MÜZE VE İLETİŞİM 

Halkla ilişkiler alanına temel bir girişten sonra bu ders, 

müze ve kültür mirası kurumlarının iletişim stratejilerine 

yenilikçi bir bakış açısı kazandırmayı hedeflemektedir. 

Sektörden örneklere de yer verilecek derste öğrenciler 

marka, reklam, yeni medya ve seyirci geliştirme 

alanlarında tartışacaklardır. 

ART 312 - EXHIBITION PRODUCTION AND 

MANAGEMENT 

The students will work theoretically on the preparation 

of an exhibition. We will look at how exhibitions differ 

depending on the medium and the environment where 

they take place, how to create a cohesive meaning in 

an exhibition, the physical and technical requirements 

of an exhibition and what to expect from the audience. 

The students will analyze the exhibitions taking place 

in Santral İstanbul and criticize the content with the 

theoretical background provided in this course. 




SERGİ ÜRETİMİ VE YÖNETİMİ 

Bu derste, öğrenciler sanatın sergilenmesi üzerine teorik 

çalışma ve pratik uygulama yaparlar. Sanatın farklı 

ortamlarda farklı iletişim araçlarından yararlanılarak 

sergilenmesi, anlam yaratma, fiziksel koşullar, seyirci ile 

iletişim konuları ele alınır. Öğrenciler santralistanbul’da 

yer alan sergileri inceler, teorik altyapı çerçevesinde 

içeriğe ve tekniğe yönelik öneriler geliştirirler. 

ART 401 - SENIOR THESIS I 

The dissertation is an academic endeavor, an extensive

individual study, and is based on the student’s own 

work, learning, research and original thought. The aim 

of the dissertation is to foster students’ own capacities 

in the practice and/or theoretical evaluation of cultural 

management on a particular topic of their own choice with 

the guidance and consent of their dissertation adviser. The 

course offers students the opportunity for independent 

field study and/or bibliographical independent study 

enhancing their analytical and critical ability to design 

their own particular research topic, thereby deepening 

their knowledge of their subject. 




BİTİRME TEZİ I 

Tez, akademik bir başarı, detaylı bir kişisel çalışma 

olarak öğrencinin kendi çalışması, öğrenimi, araştırması 

ve özgün düşüncesi üzerine dayanır. Tez çalışmasının 

amacı, öğrencinin, tez danışmanının gözetimi ve onayı 

altında, kültür yönetiminin kendi seçmiş olduğu belirli 

bir alanında, pratik ve/veya teorik değerlendirmesinde 

kapasitesini artırmaktır. Ders, öğrenciye kendi 

araştırma konusunu tasarlayarak, konuyla ilgili bilgisini 

artırabileceği analitik ve eleştirel bağımsız bir alan 

çalışması ve/veya bibliyografya bazlı bir çalışma yapma 

imkânı sağlar. 

ART 402 - SENIOR THESIS II 

The dissertation is an academic study, an extensive 





management on a particular topic of their own choice, with 










BİTİRME TEZİ II 





altında, kültürel yönetiminin kendi seçmiş olduğu belirli 







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ART 403 - MANAGING ART BIENNIALS 

AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS 

In this course, the students will explore the politics and 

economics of the numerous art biennales and art fairs 

taking place in different cities in the world and the 

importance of them within the local and international art 

industry. The students are expected to make comparative 

analysis of different art biennales and fairs in Turkey and 

in the world. 




ART 407 - ARTS AND CULTURE 

PRACTICUM I 

The course aims to give students the possibility to put 

their theoretical knowledge into practice. They work in 

groups on a common project. Regular meetings are held 

with the staff and, when necessary, with professionals 

from the sector. 



SANAT VE KÜLTÜR PRATİĞİ I 

Bu ders, öğrencilerin teorik bilgilerini pratiğe 

dönüştürmelerini sağlamaktadır. Öğrenciler, gruplara 

ayrılarak ortak bir proje üzerinde çalışırlar, öğretim 

elemanları ve gerektiğinde sektörden profesyonellerle 

görüşerek projeyi hayata geçirirler. 

ART 408 - ARTS AND CULTURE 

PRACTICUM II 







Prerequisite(s): ART 407 or CAM 407 or MAP 407 


SANAT VE KÜLTÜR PRATİĞİ II 


dönüştürmelerini sağlamaktadır. Öğrenciler, gruplara 

ayrılarak ortak bir proje üzerinde çalışırlar, öğretim 

elemanları ve gerektiğinde sektörden profesyonellerle 

görüşerek projeyi hayata geçirirler. 

ART 411 - MUSEUM LEARNING 

This course approaches ”education” as one of the main 

functions of museums and focuses on developing and 

applying educational programs in museums by dealing 

with concepts such as politics, planning, participants, 

application methods, evaluation, marketing, examples 

and applications. 



This course is given in Turkish.

MÜZE VE ÖĞRENME 

Bu ders, müzelerin temel fonksiyonlarından biri 

olan “eğitim” konusunda aşağıdaki başlıklar ele 

alınarak müzelerde eğitim programlarının her yönüyle 

geliştirilmesi ve uygulanmasına odaklanmaktadır: 

politikalar, planlama, katılımcıları, uygulama şekilleri, 

değerlendirilmesi, pazarlaması, örneklemeler ve 

uygulamalar. 

BUS 169 - EXPERIENCING BUSINESS IN 

SOCIETY I 

This course aims to integrate experiential learning 

practices with issues of business and society with the 

expectation that such techniques can create a positive 

experience enhancing learning potential. Topics covered 

during the lectures will be drawn from a pool of issues 

faced by firms and their managers in their daily practices. 

In this vein, the course will cover the following topics: 

social entrepreneurship, gender, competition, social 

responsibility, ethics, environment, leadership, justice, 

employee rights and responsibilities and globalization. 

Credit(s): 8 ECTS Credit(s):16 Term(s): Fall only 

BUS 170 - EXPERIENCING BUSINESS IN 

SOCIETY II 

This course aims to integrate experiential learning 

practices with issues of business and society with the 

expectation to create a positive, eager classroom climate 

that links individual and group insights to theoretical 

issues studied. This course will focus more on an indepth 

analysis of business and management issues that 

incorporate managerial decision-making in finance, 

marketing and strategy. During this integrative course 

students will have a chance to work in teams and 

practice the real world of business and management. The 

student will have a chance to think and act as managers 

positioned at various levels of management hierarchy, 

thus having a real-life experience of being the manager 

of a company. 

Credit(s): 8 ECTS Credit(s):16 Term(s): Spring only 

BUS 202 - BUSINESS INFORMATION 

SYSTEMS 

The aim of this course is to provide students with 

knowledge of the structure of business information 

systems and how they are designed to support 

management decision-making. Students completing 

this course will be able to identify the various methods 

of processing data and their business applications, 

construct a database and use it to perform basic 

queries, understand the approaches to the design 

and development of business information systems, 

appreciate the legal, ethical and organizational issues 

relating to the security and control of business data, and 

finally, select a system for a given business need. 



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BUS 211 - INTRODUCTION TO 

ACCOUNTING 

The aim of the course is to enable students to appreciate 

the role of accounting in the business environment, to 

develop the skills required to record business transactions 

and to apply accounting concepts in the preparation 

of financial statements. Upon successful completion 

of this course, students should be able to demonstrate 

an understanding of the purpose of accounting, the 

application of concepts and conventions, mastery of the 

procedures for recording business events and compiling a 

financial database and preparation of financial statements 

for managerial decisions. 




BUS 212 - FINANCIAL REPORTING AND 

COST ANALYSIS 

The aim of the course is to enable students to distinguish 

the different forms of business ownership, to appreciate the 

impact of different forms of business ownership on financial 

reporting and the resulting capital structure and to understand 

the impact of statutory regulations and the accounting 

profession’s requirements on the format and presentation 

of company accounts. On completion of this course, 

students should be able to prepare financial statements for 

partnerships and companies, make adjustments required for 

the application of different accounting concepts, assess the 

financial wealth of a business from a set of annual reports 

and identify underlying causes for changes in performance, 

adjust for businesses adopting different accounting policies 

and identify how products are to be costed/priced and how 

financial information is used to aid short-term decisionmaking. 


Special Condition(s): BUS 211 



BUS 213 - PRINCIPLES OF FINANCIAL 

ACCOUNTING 

The objective of the course is to acquire basic terminology, 

concepts and techniques on the basis of generally accepted 

accounting principles and enable the students with skills in 

financial statements preparation, interpretation and analysis, 

including the balance sheet, income statement, cash flow 

statement and the statement of stockholders equity. 


Restriction(s): BUS 211 or BUS 212 


BUS 221 - CURRENT ISSUES IN 

MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS 

This course aims to give students a comprehensive 

perspective on challenges faced by contemporary 

managers. The primary focus will be on new practices 

and issues that have had an impact on the understanding

and nature of the management field. Some of the 

topics that will be covered during the course are: core 

competence, knowledge management, entrepreneurship 

and creativity, innovation, mass customization, 

reengineering, benchmarking, learning organizations, 

virtual organization, strategic alliances and networks. 


Restriction(s): PUB 262 


BUS 231 - PERSPECTIVES ON 

MANAGEMENT 

The aim of the course is to encourage students to 

examine critically management theories and practices 

in contemporary societies. More specifically, it has 

a number of objectives, which are, to understand the 

change in management thought and its relationship to 

changing circumstances of capitalist development, to 

explore different aspects of work organization in different 

societal contexts, to investigate how structure, culture, 

power and politics define organization (and how strategy 

and strategic action affects all these fields), to gain an 

appreciation of critical reasoning in this field, and to 

develop skills in critical reading and writing. 





ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 

This course aims to provide an understanding of different 

perspectives and methods in the behavioral sciences and 

to examine the factors influencing individual behavior 

at work. Upon successful completion of the course, the 

student should be able to understand and appreciate the 

different and competing approaches in behavioral science, 

critically evaluate the theoretical approaches related to 

individual behavior, develop an understanding of factors 

affecting individual behavior at work, apply concepts and 

principles to the world of business and develop personal 

competence relevant to the future career. 




BUS 273 - STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 

FOR BUSINESS 

The aim of this course is to provide an understanding 

of statistical tools that can be useful in a business 

environment. The main focus of the course is to provide 

an understanding of the statistical concepts that provide 

the basis of further statistical analysis. The course covers 

the following topics: descriptive statistics, data analysis 

(graphical descriptions of data, numerical descriptive 

measures), probability, random variables (discrete random 

variables and continuous random variables), probability 

distribution, sampling distribution, point estimation and 

interval estimation. Students will also learn to prepare and 

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analyze data using appropriate software at computer labs 

during class hours. 


Special Condition(s): MATH 106 or MATH 108 or MATH 110 or 

MATH 150 or MATH 156 or MATH 176 

Restriction(s): EC 271 or MATH 303 or PSY 213 or SOC 213 


BUS 274 - FURTHER STATISTICS 

FOR BUSINESS 


statistical tools that can be utilized for handling business 

problems. Elaborating on the statistical concepts and 

methods studied in BUS 273, the course focuses on 

hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, least squares, 

simple regression and correlation tests for goodness of fit. 

Students will also learn to prepare and analyze data using 

appropriate software during class hours at computer labs. 


Prerequisite(s): BUS 273 

Restriction(s): EC 272 or FM 212 or FM 301 or MATH 301 or 

PSY 214 or SOC 214 


BUS 301 - HUMAN RESOURCES 

MANAGEMENT 

The aim of this unit is to examine the main functions of 

HRM from an international and comparative perspective. 

The underlying theme of the course is the need for the 

effective management of people within the working 

environment. Students are expected to identify the key 

areas of HRM, the problems faced by HRM managers, 

the functions of HRM departments and the strategic 

role of HRM within the organization. The course will 

focus on increasing awareness about the conflicting and 

controversial approaches that affect current practices. 




BUS 302 - EMPLOYEE RELATIONS AND 

EMPLOYMENT LAW 

This course aims to provide a basic knowledge of the 

principles of employment law, to examine the different 

approaches to the nature of individual and collective 

employee relations, and to provide a basic understanding 

of the key parties (employees, employers and government) 

and processes of Turkish employee relations (with some 

reference to the relevant dimensions of British employee 

relations). Students are expected to understand the sources 

of employment law, the conclusion, terms and termination 

of the employment contract, to understand the employee’s 

and employer’s statutory rights and obligations, and 

to appreciate the respective objectives of the parties 

involved in employee relations and the institutions and 

processes available to resolve differences. 


BUS 304 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT 

This course addresses the fundamental principles of 

project management, and tools and techniques. These 

principles are being successfully applied to projects of 

all sizes and types within the business world. After the 

review of state-of-the-art issues, students learn techniques 

that can reinforce project planning and controlling skills, 

and enrich leadership skills. The phases of the projects 

as initiation, planning, execution, control and closure 

are analyzed in systems approach in this course. Topics 

to cover also include project management as a career, 

skills and knowledge required by professionals, including 

decision making and resource allocation appropriate to 

project phases and integration with other disciplines. 




MARKETING 

The aim of this course is to examine the role and potential 

contribution of marketing activities within organizations, 

to introduce major methodologies in marketing research 

and to introduce key elements in the study of buyer 

behavior. On completion of this course, students will 

be able to identify and analyze key problems and the 

main decision areas dealt with by marketing managers, 

to understand the potential contribution of marketing 

research in decision-making and appreciate the main 

methodologies and to be familiar with elements of the 

analysis of buyer behavior and market segmentation. 


Restriction(s): ADV 209 or PUB 211 or PUB 212 


BUS 312 - MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS 

The aim of this course is to teach students how to use 

economic and quantitative methods in the managerial 

decision-making process. At the end of this course, 

students will be able to utilize optimization methods and 

statistical tools in analyzing the firm’s production and 

pricing decisions. Students will also learn how to use 

the properties of perfect and imperfect competition in 

interpreting business decisions under different kinds of 

market structures. 


Special Condition(s): MATH 106 or MATH 107 or MATH 110 

or MATH 155 

Prerequisite(s): EC 202 

Restriction(s): EC 216 or EC 381 


BUS 314 - MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 

The aim of this course is to improve the knowledge and 

computer application skills of students in order to develop 

more complex ideas for management decision making. 

The emphasis will be on management science tools such 

as linear programming, integer programming and network 

flows. At the end of the course, the students should be 

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able to identify business problems that could be modeled, 

build mathematical models for these problems using a 

variety of sophisticated modeling techniques, identify the 

uses and limitations of the various techniques currently 

available and use appropriate software as a modeling tool. 

The course covers the formulation of actual problems as 

linear programming models, graphical solution and simplex 

method for solving linear programming problems, sensitivity 

analysis, computer solution, assignment and transportation 

problems, integer and mixed-integer programming problems 

and network problems. 


Special Condition(s): MATH 105 or MATH 107 or MATH 109 

or MATH 154 or MATH 155 or MATH 161 or MATH 175 or 

MATH 217 

Restriction(s): FM 232 


BUS 321 - PRODUCTION AND 

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 

This course aims to introduce and develop the main 

principles of production and operations management. 

The course investigates the key elements in managing 

the resources required to produce goods and services, 

and how these elements constitute an essential part of the 

strategic management decisions within organizations. 

The students will gain practical experience in 

formulating basic models of operations management 

problems. A portion of these problems will be solved 

using available software packages, whereas others will 

be solved manually using appropriate techniques. The 

use of decision support tools will enable students to 

apply the basic principles of operations management 

to actual problems in the business environment. In 

addition, the course equips students with the basic 

knowledge and skills necessary to grasp more advanced 

models to be covered in future courses. Topics include 

inventory management, project management, shortterm 

scheduling, linear programming, transportation 

problems and aggregate planning, as well as a brief 

introduction to MRP, MRPII, and ERP. 


Prerequisite(s): BUS 273 or EC 271 or MATH 301 or PSY 213 

or SOC 213 


BUS 322 - SOCIOLOGY OF WORK 

This course aims to provide an understanding of the 

social processes which underlie contemporary society 

and work organizations and to examine the context 

and nature of organizational processes. Students are 

expected to identify issues common to organizations 

and demonstrate analytical skills in comparing and 

contrasting the differences, analyze the impact of social 

influences on work behavior, evaluate the dynamic nature 

of organizational processes which affect individual and 

group performances and demonstrate further progress in 

personal competence.




BUS 331 - BUSINESS FINANCE 

This course examines financial matters within the firm and 

the financial environment in which the firm exists. The 

course demonstrates how the modern theory of finance 

provides a framework for practical and skilful financial 

management of a firm. Upon the successful completion 

of this course, students will have an understanding of 

the financial environment and financial markets and 

instruments in order to determine how, where and when 

to raise financial capital to fuel economic projects. They 

will be able to develop systematic, analytical decisionmaking 

skills to choose among alternative projects and 

investments and be able to interpret and utilize the firm’s 

financial statements to monitor, measure and enhance the 

firm’s performance. 


Special Condition(s): BUS 211 or BUS 213 

Restriction(s): EC 371 or EC 415 or INF 301 or INF 302 


BUS 332 - ORGANIZATION AND 

ORGANIZING 

The aim of the course is to explore some of the key issues 

in the analysis of organizations. Upon the successful 

completion of the course, students will have a critical 

appreciation of issues related to structure and processes 

in organizations. Some of the main topics to be covered 

are the origins of organizations, technology, social 

structure, culture, power, politics, conflict, ideology, 

control, governance and organizational learning. All these 

topics will be explored with reference to modernist and 

postmodernist perspectives with a critical and reflexive 

focus. 




BUS 336 - ORGANIZATION DESIGN 

The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with 

fundamental knowledge they will need for understanding 

organizations so that they will have a practical learning 

experience in the functioning of modern organizations. 

Lectures will cover various components of organizations 

- actors, processes, structure, technology, power, culture, 

politics, etc.- in order to understand contemporary 

challenges arising from changes in both the formal and 

informal structure of an organization and its environment. 

The course intends to explore interactions triggered by 

complex social and economic processes that constrain 

the conscious decisions of managers in the construction 

of particular organizational form(s). The course addresses 

new trends and approaches to organizations, and 

particularly encourages students to engage in dialogue 

with critical approaches. The course therefore explores 

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the following headings: technology and structure, 

environment and uncertainty, power and control, culture 

and identity. The course is primarily designed as an 

introductory course for undergraduate students from 

disciplines other than business administration who are 

interested in the study of organizations. 


Restriction(s): BUS 231 or BUS 332 


BUS 341 - MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING 

The aim of this course is to develop further understanding 

of the context, concepts and techniques of accounting 

in its role of providing management information for 

various planning, control and decision-making purposes. 

Students are expected to develop an awareness of 

the interrelationships and implications of behavioral 

economic and quantitative aspects and other influences 

upon managerial accounting activity and build up 

important techniques in cost and managerial accounting. 

The course covers specific problems of costing systems 

and use of accounting information for short-run and longrun 

managerial decisions. The subjects include standard 

costing systems and variance analysis, performance 

evaluation, short-run decisions and capital expenditure 

decisions. 




BUS 352 - FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, 

MARKETS AND INSTRUMENTS 

The aim of this course is to explore and understand the 

nature of financial markets, instruments and institutions 

and to evaluate the operations of financial institutions, 

mechanisms of financial markets and the nature of 

various financial instruments. On successful completion 

of the course, the student should be able to appreciate the 

major operations of financial markets, appreciate the role 

of financial institutions and to explore and understand 

various financial institutions. 


Special Condition(s): BUS 331 or FM 301 or INF 301 


BUS 361 - COMMUNICATION AND 

INFORMATION 

The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of 

the fundamentals of interpersonal communication and 

the essential knowledge and skills for its application 

in business organizations. The course will focus on the 

importance of communicative action within organizations 

and the need for managers to understand its applications 

as well as the character of information and how it is 

analyzed. Some of the topics that will be covered are 

semiotics, a conceptual breakdown of the levels of 

information systems, the informal nature of human 

interaction and problems of meaning in philosophy and

linguistics with special concern about how information 

takes on meaning. 



BUS 362 - MARKETING RESEARCH 

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the design 

and implementation of market research by helping them 

to become competent in data collection, questionnaire 

design and data analysis and report writing. Also to be 

emphasized is the practical/applied nature of marketing 

research as it relates to marketing strategies. On the 

successful completion of this course, students will be able 

to understand the nature of marketing research, choose 

and apply a sampling method for different problems, 

devise an appropriate experiment, determine appropriate 

data collection methods, effectively deal with problems 

arising in the process of conducting marketing research 

and understand and discuss implications of research. 



BUS 391 - BUSINESS RESEARCH 

METHODS I 

This introductory-level course on research methods aims 

to help students develop basic research skills so that they 

can carry out undergraduate research projects on their 

own and can, later on, fully participate in, or be informed 

customers of, large-scale business research. The course is 

built on comprehensive statistics knowledge and aims to 

develop competency in non-parametric statistics. Topics 

covered during the course include multiple regression 

analysis, correlation analysis and ANOVA. Students will 

also learn to prepare and analyze data using SPSS. 


Restriction(s): ADV 362 or IR 342 or MED 206 or PSY 301 or 



BUS 392 - BUSINESS RESEARCH 

METHODS II 

The aim of this course is to help students develop the 

skills needed to understand and carry out research based 

on qualitative methods. On successful completion of this 

course, students will be able to use data collection and 

analysis techniques such as perceptual mapping, action 

research, ethnography, content analysis and discourse 

analysis for textual and visual mediums. 


Restriction(s): ADV 362 or IR 342 or MED 206 or PSY 301 or 



BUS 401 - STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 

The aim of this course is to explore the main issues 

that influence the strategic decision-making process by 

managers in organizations, to identify the needs of the main 

stakeholders in organizations and to reconcile these with 

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environmental constraints, to evaluate alternative strategy 

choices and ensure that appropriate cultural developments 

and other organizational changes are implemented, and 

to provide a holistic overview of strategic management 

in organizations. During the course, games and case 

discussions will be used to provide the students with the 

necessary skills to anticipate major issues of strategic 

management in organizations. 


Special Condition(s): BUS 311 or BUS 331 or INF 301 


BUS 402 - POLITICAL ECONOMY OF 

TURKEY 

The aim of this course is to introduce the characteristics 

of the Turkish business environment, economic variables, 

political mechanisms, cultural settings, sociological 

dimensions, to explore historically state and business 

relations in Turkey, to contrast the Turkish business 

environment with the European, Far Eastern and US 

environments, and to focus on the role of managers and 

their relations with different stakeholders (government, 

consumers, media, etc.) in the Turkish business 

environment. On successful completion of the course, 

the student should be able to understand the interactions 

between different environmental variables and their 

influence on the work situation and to compare and 

contrast the Turkish and the other business environments. 



BUS 403 - MARKETS, HIERARCHIES AND 

NETWORKS 

The aim of the course is to examine different models 

of social, economic and political coordination markets, 

hierarchies and networks. During this cross-disciplinary 

course, students will develop awareness about the 

strengths and limitations of these models and the 

mechanisms underlying their major characteristics. The 

course will utilize Turkish examples to allow the student to 

compare and contrast features of this context with various 

others. At the end of the course, students will develop 

an insight into the following topics: governance, interorganizational 

networks, strategic alliances, industrial 

districts, trust, cooperation, F-connections and how they 

control organizations. 



BUS 413 - AUDITING 

The aim of the course is to prepare students to become 

professional auditors and acquaint them with auditing 

concepts, procedures and developments so that they 

can develop methods of audit to judge outcomes and 

processes. The course covers topics like the auditing 

profession, audit reports, audit responsibilities, audit 

evidence, audit planning and documentation, internal 

controls and assessment of control risk and audit

programs. During the course, lectures will cover the 

theory of auditing and classes will apply the theory to 

practice. Both lectures and classes will be participative 

and thus students will be expected to have read relevant 

material beforehand. Assignments will take the form of 

small group presentations and will be assessed by the 

group and peers of the class. 


Prerequisite(s): BUS 212 or BUS 213 


BUS 417 - SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 

In today’s world, the movement of materials from the 

point of origin to the end customer has become a complex 

process and the resulting supply chain is a complex 

network. In this course, we discuss key issues in supply 

chain management, concepts, strategies and, models. The 

emphasis is on the quantitative techniques leading to 

successful supply chain management, such as forecasting 

and inventory control. Upon completion, the students 

should be able to relate theory to practice, apply their 

knowledge of operations in practical business settings and 

grasp the interdependencies of operations decisions and 

other business functions. 


Special Condition(s): BUS 274 or EC 272 or MATH 301 



BUS 421 - MARKETING COMMUNICATION 

The aim of this course is to develop an understanding 

of the role and characteristics of the elements of the 

marketing communications mix and to provide a basic 

understanding of communications theory. At the end 

of this course, the student should be able to understand 

the relationship between marketing plans and marketing 

communications plans, determine and evaluate the 

strengths and weaknesses of each element in the mix, 

understand the relationship between the elements of 

the marketing communications mix, and describe and 

evaluate communications theory. 


Prerequisite(s): ADV 209 or BUS 311 or PUB 211 or PUB 212 



BUS 422 - INTERNATIONAL 

MARKETING STRATEGY 

The aim of this course is to familiarize the student with the 

international marketing environment and the marketing 

applications and strategies relevant to international 

markets. Upon completion of the course, the student will 

be able to understand the economic, cultural and political/ 

legal constraints in the international environment, plan 

marketing mix strategies for a company operating in 

international markets and implement a system to monitor 

and control marketing activities abroad. 


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BUS 431 - FINANCIAL RISK 

MANAGEMENT 

The aim of this course is to introduce the economic theory 

of inter-temporal choice and use such theory to analyze 

personal investment decisions. It is intended to review the 

economic theory of choice under risk and analyze individual 

insurance decisions. The functioning of stock markets 

using the Capital Asset Pricing Model is emphasized. On 

successful completion of the course, the student should 

be able to solve analytical questions concerning personal 

investment and insurance decisions, discuss the economic 

theory behind CAPM, and resolve analytical questions 

concerning the functioning of stock markets. 


Prerequisite(s): BUS 331 or BUS 352 or EC 304 or INF 301 or 

INF 302 



BUS 433 - ORGANIZATIONAL 

CULTURE AND IDENTITY 

The course is designed to provide a strong foundation 

for critical thinking in the area of organizational 

behavior. The primary focus of the course is the 

process of identity construction/deconstruction 

through various culture management programes. The 

course is structured around two levels of analysis. 

At the first level, the influence of national cultures 

on organizational cultures will be studied from a 

comparative perspective. At the second level, the main 

focus will be on how organizational culture is managed 

to create collective identities. Since the goal of this 

course is not only to impart knowledge about a body of 

research but also to help the students to develop their 

own ideas on issues related to organizational culture 

and identity construction, student evaluation will be 

based on exams and a joint research project. 



BUS 434 - CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 

A decade ago, the term corporate governance was 

largely academic jargon. Today, due to high profile 

corporate collapses such as Enron and WorldCom, 

the media regularly discusses corporate governance. 

The Turkish business community and policy makers 

have also started to question the current corporate 

governance practice in Turkey. The course aims to 

build on a sound theoretical base and encompasses the 

latest developments in this field. This course will help 

students understand the context in which corporate 

governance develops by highlighting the legal structure 

and capital market characteristics. 



BUS 441 - APPLICATIONS IN 

FINANCIAL MODELING 

The aim of this course is to explore and understand 

financial modeling, forecasting techniques and 

spreadsheet applications and to evaluate sensitivity and 

optimization. On successful completion of the course, the 

student should be able to appreciate the major principles 

underpinning financial modeling, to appreciate the 

importance of the decision-making process in finance 

and to apply the principles of financial modeling to actual 

problems in business. 


Special Condition(s): EC 361 

Prerequisite(s): BUS 331 or BUS 352 or INF 301 or INF 302 



BUS 442 - BANKING AND FINANCIAL 

STRUCTURE 

The course discusses the role of financial markets and 

financial institutions in increasing national economic 

efficiency and social welfare. The necessary conditions for 

a stable financial environment and the political, legal and 

economic structure of financial institutions are analyzed. 

In particular, the role and importance of an independent 

central banking system and a well-functioning commercial 

banking system are highlighted. The differences between 

and similarities of well-developed financial markets 

and those in developing nations are discussed. Recent 

developments in the globalization of financial markets 

and their impact on local economies are also emphasized. 


Special Condition(s): BUS 331 or INF 302 

Restriction(s): EC 419 


BUS 461 - MANAGEMENT OF 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 

This course emphasizes advances in information 

technology so as to initiate and manage the development 

of effective information systems that can enhance 

business operations, support managerial decision-making 

and create strategic advantage. The course does have, 

however, a substantial technological component, which 

examines, from a managerial point of view, recent trends 

in hardware, software and communication technologies 

and their implications for businesses in general and for 

Turkish firms in particular. 


Restriction(s): COMP 481 


BUS 462 - E-COMMERCE 

This course builds upon the understanding and 

knowledge accumulated in BUS 461, examining them in 

greater depth. The aim is to provide an understanding of 

issues involving the Internet and electronic commerce, 

such as technological directions, the nature of Internet 

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marketing and the strategies, structures and processes 

used in this new business environment. The emergence 

of the digital economy will be examined and the 

economic and social impacts of electronic commerce 

will be explored. 



BUS 471 - CONSUMER BEHAVIOR 

This course aims to inform the students why there 

is a need to study consumer behavior as a separate 

marketing discipline as well as providing them with 

a conceptual framework that will both enhance their 

understanding of consumer behavior principles and 

permit practical application of these principles to real 

life situations. Upon completion of this course, students 

will know about the different internal and external 

factors that affect individuals with regard to their 

consumption processes. More specifically, perception, 

learning, motivation, personality and attitudes are the 

topics to be covered in the case of the internal factors: 

groups, family, social class and culture are the topics to 

be covered in respect to external factors. Additionally, 

by the end of the course, students will have a grasp 

of the various steps in the consumer’s decision-making 

process. 



Restriction(s): ADV 231 or INT 429 


BUS 472 - RETAIL MANAGEMENT 

The aim of this course is to introduce the students to the 

world of retailing and to develop in them the ability to 

apply marketing and management concepts to retailing. 

On successful completion of this course, students will 

be able to identify and analyze the main principles and 

methods of marketing management as applied to retailing. 

Students will also understand the retail environment 

and will devise merchandising, pricing and promotion 

strategies for retail companies. 




BUS 481 - BUSINESS ETHICS 

The course aims to provide an understanding of ethical 

issues in the contemporary business world. Within this 

framework, concepts of ethics, values, morality and 

the development of these concepts through history 

in different contexts will be studied. At the end of this 

course, students will develop a critical approach toward 

evaluating ethical behavior of organizations in relation 

to topics like consumerism, environmental responsibility 

and work ethics. 


Restriction(s): MED 422 


BUS 482 - MANAGING 

KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE FIRMS 

The course aims to develop an understanding of how 

knowledge is produced, transferred and shared in 

organizations, cooperative strategies and how knowledge 

can be utilized as a competitive resource. Basically the 

course addresses the emerging world of knowledge 

workers and knowledge-based companies. The students 

will learn about the concepts and role of knowledge 

management in organizations. They will also identify 

knowledge management in specific environments, i.e. in 

profession-dominated fields. Both lectures and classes 

will take place in a participative context in which students 

are expected to prepare beforehand by reading and 

analyzing the pre-assigned reading material. During the 

course, case discussions and sessions with guest speakers 

from professional service firms will help the students to 

develop skills necessary to anticipate the nature of the 

emerging world of knowledge-based companies. 



BUS 491 - INNOVATION 

The aim of this course is to explore the concept of 

innovation management and investigate how it relates to 

overall organization and business strategy. The course will 

teach students the process of developing new products 

and examining the new product management issues faced 

by companies. At the end of this course, students will 

also be familiar with technology management and how 

companies manage research and development. 



BUS 492 - STRATEGY SIMULATION 

The aims of the course are to provide students with the 

opportunity to tackle complex business situations in an 

interactive fashion and to enable the transfer of theoretical 

knowledge gathered throughout their university 

education into a business simulation case, so that they 

can experience the interactive characteristics of business 

decisions. During the course students will learn to support 

the learning process with simulation and audio-visual 

teaching material, to initiate and develop skills of team 

working, to use strategic management tools in simulated 

environments and to develop presentation skills. Besides 

lectures and discussion sessions, a business simulation 

game will be used in which students will work in teams. 




BUS 493 - TURKISH TAXATION 

SYSTEM 

The course is designed to acquaint the students with 

taxation concepts, procedures and developments and 

to help the students understand the basic principles 

of tax laws and their applications under Turkish and 

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international taxation. At the completion of this course, 

students should be able to describe and critically appraise 

the basic principles of tax law and the history of tax 

law, understand and explain the Turkish taxation system 

and apply basic international taxation procedures and 

techniques to practical situations. 



BUS 494 - SERVICES MARKETING 

The primary aim of this course is to explain to the students 

that service organizations (e.g. banks, educational 

institutions, hospitals, hotels, professional services, 

insurance companies, transportation companies) require 

a distinctive approach to marketing strategy - both in its 

development and in its execution. The second aim of the 

course is to focus on the role of service in manufacturing 

businesses in an attempt to reveal that the manufactured 

goods sector should also use ”service” as a primary source 

of competitive advantage. 


Prerequisite(s): BUS 311 or PUB 211 or PUB 212 



BUS 495 - LIVE PROJECTS IN 

MANAGEMENT 

Interested students working with faculty members in this 

course will be able to work in groups on a real-life issue 

that addresses a societal need. The live projects will help 

students as a group to get involved with the problems of 

their immediate community or other organizations. The 

projects have to be ‘live’ (a real problem) and are to be 

completed in real time, with a clearly defined end result. 

In this course real and theoretical, practice and education 

are not separated and students have to find creative 

solutions to the issue tackled. During this course, besides 

completing a real project that fulfills a societal need, 

students will be able to experience team work, group 

processes, project management and project delivery. 




CAM 100 - CRITICAL AND CREATIVE 

THINKING IN THE 20th CENTURY ARTS 

SCENE I 

This course aims at familiarizing students with the 

nature and methods of critical and creative thinking. 

Students explore multiple perspectives, placing 

established facts, theories and practices in tension with 

alternatives to establish a reliable basis for their claims, 

beliefs and attitudes about the 20th century world, its 

art and culture. The course focuses on the process 

of critical thinking and creativity in the cultural and 

artistic environment. To this end, institutions and art 

spaces are visited and workshops organized to sustain 

a more applied understanding of the production,

presentation and transformation of art. Discussions 

with artists, scientists and others particularly involved 

in the creative process focus on their techniques, and 

on ways in which creativity can be nurtured. 


Restriction(s): CMN 147 or CMN 148 


YİRMİNCİ YÜZYIL SANAT 

ORTAMINDA ELEŞTİREL VE 

YARATICI DÜŞÜNCE I 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilerin eleştirel ve yaratıcı düşünce 

geliştirme yöntemleriyle tanışmalarını sağlamaktır. 

Öğrenciler 20. yüzyılın sanat ve kültür dünyası üzerine 

farklı bakış açılarından verileri, teorileri ve pratikleri 

inceleyerek kendi fikirlerini güvenilir bir temele 

oturtmayı öğrenirler. Sanat ve kültür kurumlarına 

geziler, küçük atölyeler, sunumlar aracılığıyla öğrenciler 

sanatın ve kültürün üretimi, sunumu, dağıtılması ve 

dönüşümü üzerine yoğunlaşır, sanatçılar, kültür insanları, 

akademisyenler ve yaratıcı süreçlere müdahil olanlarla 

görüşerek alanın işleyişi hakkında bilgi ve fikir sahibi 

olurlar. 

CAM 107 - CRITICAL AND CREATIVE 

THINKING IN THE 20th CENTURY ARTS 

SCENE II 

This course aims at familiarizing students with the 

nature and methods of critical and creative thinking. 

Students explore multiple perspectives, placing 

established facts, theories and practices in tension with 

alternatives to establish a reliable basis for their claims, 

beliefs and attitudes about the 20th century world, its 

art and culture. The course focuses on the process 

of critical thinking and creativity in the cultural and 

artistic environment. To this end, institutions and art 

spaces are visited and workshops organized to sustain 

a more applied understanding of the production, 

presentation and transformation of art. Discussions 

with artists, scientists and others particularly involved 

in the creative process focus on their techniques, and 

on ways in which creativity can be nurtured. 


Restriction(s): CMAN 147 or CMN 149 


YİRMİNCİ YÜZYIL SANAT ORTAMINDA 

ELEŞTİREL VE YARATICI DÜŞÜNCE II 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilerin eleştirel ve yaratıcı düşünce 

geliştirme yöntemleriyle tanışmalarını sağlamaktır. 

Öğrenciler 20. yüzyılın sanat ve kültür dünyası üzerine 

farklı bakış açılarından verileri, teorileri ve pratikleri 

inceleyerek kendi fikirlerini güvenilir bir temele oturtmayı 

öğrenirler. Sanat ve kültür kurumlarına geziler, küçük 

atölyeler, sunumlar aracılığıyla öğrenciler sanatın ve kültürün 

üretimi, sunumu, dağıtılması ve dönüşümü üzerine 

yoğunlaşır, sanatçılar, kültür insanları, akademisyenler 

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ve yaratıcı süreçlere müdahil olanlarla görüşerek alanın 

işleyişi hakkında bilgi ve fikir sahibi olurlar. 

CAM 169 - HISTORY OF CULTURAL 

INSTITUTIONS I 

This course offers the students a broad perspective on 

cultural and artistic life with examples from past and 

present. Students develop reading, writing, discussion, 

research, observation, critical thinking and presentation 

skills while they are introduced to the terminology, 

institutions, actors and processes in the artistic and 

cultural environment. 



KÜLTÜR KURUMLARI TARİHİ I 

Bu ders, öğrencilere kültür ve sanat hayatına geçmiş 

ve günümüzden örneklerle genel bir bakış açısı 

verirken, okuma, yazma, tartışma, araştırma, gözlem 

yapma, eleştirel düşünme ve sunum yapma becerileri 

kazandırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Öğrenciler sanat ve 

kültür ortamının terimleri, kurumları, işleyişi ve aktörleri 

hakkında genel bir fikir edinir, üst sınıflarda derinlemesine 

inceleyecekleri konu ve kavramları tanırlar. 

CAM 170 - HISTORY OF CULTURAL 

INSTITUTIONS II 

This course offers the students a broad perspective on 

cultural and artistic life with examples from past and 

present. Students develop reading, writing, discussion, 

research, observation, critical thinking and presentation 

skills while they are introduced to the terminology, 

institutions, actors and processes in the artistic and 

cultural environment. 



KÜLTÜR KURUMLARI TARİHİ II 

Bu ders, öğrencilere kültür ve sanat hayatına geçmiş 

ve günümüzden örneklerle genel bir bakış açısı 

verirken, okuma, yazma, tartışma, araştırma, gözlem 

yapma, eleştirel düşünme ve sunum yapma becerileri 

kazandırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Öğrenciler sanat ve 

kültür ortamının terimleri, kurumları, işleyişi ve aktörleri 

hakkında genel bir fikir edinir, üst sınıflarda derinlemesine 

inceleyecekleri konu ve kavramları tanırlar. 

CAM 201 - ART SCENE AND CULTURAL 

ANALYSIS I 

This course is designed to motivate students to become 

involved in the arts, performing arts, cinema, music 

and cultural activities. It aims to equip students with 

the skills to interpret the products of the cultural scene 

through critical and analytical studies. Conducted with 

an intensive participatory approach, it emphasizes 

the unity of theory and practice in the ‘aesthetics of 

everyday life’.


Restriction(s): MAP 221 



SANAT ORTAMI VE KÜLTÜREL ANALİZ I 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencileri gösteri sanatları, sinema, 

müzik ve diğer kültürel aktiviteleri seyretmeleri için teşvik 

etmek ve öğrencilerin bu prodüksiyonları analiz edecek 

eleştirel bir bakış açısını kazanmalarını sağlamaktır. 

Katılımcı bir işleyiş yapısına sahip olan bu ders, günlük 

hayatın estetiğini değerlendirirken hem teorik hem de 

pratik bir yaklaşımı da cesaretlendirmektedir. 

CAM 202 - ART SCENE AND CULTURAL 

ANALYSIS II 

This course will be a continuation of CAM 201. Having 

been introduced to the basic skills and interpretations of 

the ‘live’ products of the cultural scene, students will be 

strongly encouraged to produce critical, analytical and 

practical works and projects in regard to the managerial 

and organizational aspects of art and culture that cover 

the conceptualization, production and realization steps of 

current festivals, plays, concerts, exhibitions, films, etc., 

as concrete cases. 





SANAT ORTAMI VE KÜLTÜREL ANALİZ II 

Bu ders, CAM 201 dersinin devamı niteliğindedir ve 

kültürel ortamın ürünlerinin eleştirisini ve yorumunu 

yapmayı geliştirmektedir. Öğrencilere bazı örnekler 

verilmekte, bu örnekler üzerinden yönetim, prodüksiyon 

ve organizasyon açısından bir değerlendirme yapmaları 

beklenmektedir. Bu örnekler güncel festivaller, oyunlar, 

konserler, sergiler ve filmler arasından bir şeçkidir. 

CAM 204 - ARTS, CULTURE AND 

COMMUNITY 

This course will examine the role of social responsibility 

of cultural institutions and initiatives. Arts and cultural 

activities either directly or indirectly contribute to 

social justice, development and democracy. Throughout 

the course the students will look at case studies while 

developing their own projects in this field. 




SANAT, KÜLTÜR VE TOPLUM 

Bu ders kültür kurumlarının ve girişimlerinin kültür 

aracılığıyla yakın ve uzak çevreye ulaşma, bu yolla 

toplumsal fayda sağlama sorumluluğunu inceler. Kültür ve 

sanat etkinliklerinin bir aracı olarak dolaylı veya doğrudan 

toplumsal adalet ve kalkınma yolunda bir sosyal proje olma 

durumunu tartışır. Öğrenciler bu konuda proje geliştirirler. 

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CAM 206 - CREATIVE INDUSTRIES 

”Creative industries” is a relatively new term that includes 

broadcast media (film, TV and radio), performance arts, 

design, graphics, digital arts, new media and the visual 

arts. The course will try to build a bridge between these 

industries and commerce while emphasizing the vital 

importance of creative industries to economic and social 

regeneration. 


Restriction(s): CAM 103 


YARATICI ENDÜSTRİLER 

Yaratıcı Endüstriler, medya-sinemayı, televizyonu, 

radyoyu, performans sanatlarını, tasarımı, grafiği, dijital 

sanatları, yeni medyaları ve görsel sanatları içeren oldukça 

yeni bir kavramdır. Ders, bu endüstriler arasında bir köprü 

oluşturmaya ve yaratıcı endüstrilerin ekonomik ve sosyal 

yenilenmedeki hayati rollerini vurgulamaya çalışacaktır. 

CAM 208 - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 

FOR ARTS AND CULTURE 

With a focus on different institutions (for-profit and notfor-profit) 

in the arts and cultural sector, this course aims 

at covering basic concepts and applications in financial 

accounting such as budgeting, tax and related laws. The 

course is based on examples from different institutions 

and activities in the cultural sector. 



KÜLTÜR VE SANATIN FİNANSAL 

YÖNETİMİ 

Kültür ve sanat alanında aktif farklı yapıdaki (kâr amacı 

güden veya gütmeyen) kurumlara eğilerek, bütçeleme, 

bütçe takibi, vergi ve ilgili mevzuatın tartışıldığı bu ders, 

öğrencilere temel bir muhasebe nosyonu kazandırmayı 


CAM 211 - MARKETING OF CULTURE 

This course aims at presenting the structural and behavioral 

characteristics of the cultural market and contemporary 

strategies used in promoting, selling and communicating 

music and movies as a culture within the ever-growing 

international culture market. The course focuses on both 

Turkish and international music and movie markets and 

strategies, encouraging students to learn to ask the right 

questions rather than providing answers. 





KÜLTÜRÜN PAZARLANMASI 

Bu ders, kültür piyasasının yapısını ve davranış biçimini 

sunar. Ayrıca sanat ve kültürün, durmadan büyümekte 

olan uluslararası kültür piyasasında nasıl duyurulduğunu 

ve satıldığını analiz etmekle beraber, hem Türk hem de

uluslararası pazarlama stratejilerine değinerek öğrencileri 

cevap yaratmaktansa doğru soruları sormaya teşvik 

etmektedir. 

CAM 301 - FUNDRAISING AND 

SPONSORSHIP 

The arts and culture as business are doomed to search 

for financial support in the forms of fundraising and/or 

sponsorship, since the cost always exceeds the profit. 

In this course, two systems will be discussed: that of 

Europe, where governments fund the arts as much 

as 30 percent, and that of the United States, where the 

roots of fundraising lie in philanthropy fostered through 

individual, family and corporate giving. We will look at 

Turkey as the case of a developing country, where private 

arts institutions are flourishing with the developing 

support of national/multinational corporations at a time of 

diminishing government support, and the new law about 

tax reductions in return for contributions to the arts. The 

students will analyze case studies of arts institutions in 

Turkey and abroad. 




KAYNAK GELİŞTİRME VE 

SPONSORLUK 

Maliyetin kârı her zaman için aştığı sanat ve kültür, 

bir işletme olarak, kaynak bulma ve sponsorluk 

formlarında, finansal destek almakla yükümlüdür. 

Bu derste, iki farklı sistem incelenecektir: Sanatı 

%30’a varan bir oranda destekleyen Avrupa ve 

kökleri filantropiye dayanan kaynak bulmanın kişisel, 

aile ve kurumsal bağışlarla şekillendiği Amerika. 

Türkiye, kültürel etkinliklere verilen devlet desteğinin 

azaldığı ve sanata yapılan katkılara vergi indirimi 

uygulamasının başlayacağı bir dönemde, ulusal ve 

çokuluslu şirketlerin sanat ve kültüre artan desteğiyle 

zenginleşmeye başlayan özel sanat kuruluşlarının var 

olduğu bir ülke örneği olarak incelenecektir. Öğrenciler 

bu derste, Türkiye’ nin yanı sıra yurtdışındaki sanat ve 

kültür kurumlarından oluşan örnekleri de inceleme 

olanağı bulabileceklerdir. 

CAM 302 - AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT 

This course will focus on the goals, functions and means 

of audience development. The course will teach the use 

of quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques to 

determine bases for creating programs to reach targeted 

and potential audiences, as well as the techniques (special 

events, etc.) with which to attract the audience. 



SEYİRCİ GELİŞTİRME 

Bu ders, seyirci geliştirmeye yarayan araçlara ve 

yöntemlere odaklanmaktadır. Ders, hedef ve potansiyel 

kitleleri geliştirmeyi, nicel ve nitel seyirci ölçümleme 

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teknikleri kullanmayı öğretirken, bir yandan da seyirci 

sayısını artıran yöntemleri (özel etkinlik, vb.) öğretecektir. 

CAM 312 - CULTURAL MANAGEMENT 

This course examines the peculiar characteristics of 

production management, aiming at explaining the 

functions, duties, and perspectives of the production 

manager in both private and in public institutions 

on the basis of the analysis of concrete professional 

experiences. 




KÜLTÜR YÖNETİMİ 

Prodüksiyonun farklı karakterlerini inceleyen ders, özel 

kurum ve kamu kuruluşlarında görev yapan prodüksiyon 

sorumlularının fonksiyon, sorumluluk ve bakış açılarını, 

profesyonel deneyimlerin analizleriyle irdelemektedir. 

CAM 321 - MUSIC INDUSTRY AND 

MANAGEMENT 

An appraisal of the international and Turkish music 

markets. The analysis of an international network 

of music markets through the interaction of both 

international and independent labels, along with the 

critical short history of the Turkish music market: its 

actors, dynamics and problems: the understanding of a 

market through the analysis of people and issues based 

on case studies in contemporary and future mechanisms 

and perspectives. 





MÜZİK ENDÜSTRİSİ VE YÖNETİMİ 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilerin başta canlı icra edilen 

müzik olmak üzere, uluslararası müzik pazarı 

hakkında bilgi sahibi olmalarını sağlamaktır. Ders, 

Türk ve uluslararası müzik pazarı içerisindeki ağ 

yapının nasıl işlediğini ”major” ve ”bağımsız” plak 

şirketlerini inceleyerek, sanatçı menajerleri, “booking 

agents”, “promoters”, prodüktörler, yayımcılar 

gibi sektörün ana aktörlerinin görevlerini tanıtarak 

göstermeyi planlar. Turneler, anlaşmalar, temsilli 

haklar, müziğin pazarlanması, kayıt stüdyolarının 

yapısı ve teknolojinin müzik pazarına etkisi derste 

işlenecek diğer konulardır. 

CAM 322 - MANAGEMENT IN 

FILM INDUSTRY 

The tools and methods used in the successful marketing 

of the finished (end) product in the film industry. The 

complex and rapidly changing interaction between the 

instruments of marketing and the institutions of the film 

industry. An overview of the international film industry 

through its distribution channels and its funding sources.





FİLM ENDÜSTRİSİNDE YÖNETİM 

Ders, bitmiş film ürününün satışında kullanılan yöntem ve 

araçları, pazarlama ve film sektörleri arasındaki kompleks 

ve hızla değişen bağları ele almakla beraber, uluslararası 

film piyasasının kaynak bulma ve dağıtım kanallarının 

analizini yapmaktadır. 

CAM 324 - RESEARCH IN CULTURAL 

SECTOR 

The aim of the course is to provide insights into research 

concepts and procedures in the cultural sector. Both 



the main techniques for specification, application and 

evaluation of research. Students are assigned projects to 

measure cultural consumption patterns and behavior. 


Restriction(s): ADV 362 or MED 206 


KÜLTÜR SEKTÖRÜNDE ARAŞTIRMA 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencileri kültür sektöründeki kalitatif 

ve kalitatif olmayan araştırma kavram, yöntem ve süreçleri 

ile tanıştırmaktır. Ders öğrencilere örneklem oluşturma, 

uygulama ve değerlendime tekniklerini kullanma becerisi 

verir. Öğrencilere kültür tüketimi konusunda araştırma 

ödevleri verilecektir. 

CAM 332 - NETWORK CULTURE, 

ECONOMY AND INFORMATION 

DESIGN 

The course offers the theoretical perspectives, structural 

analysis and practical examples of current trends in 

electronic media management needed by the new 

economy, which has emerged as a result of a qualitative 

transformation experienced due to the new dynamics of 

the global network economy and the rapid development 

of information and communication technologies. It 

introduces the main aspects of the new economy at 

a macro level and analyzes global market dynamics 

and content, and commerce development concerning 

electronic media management. The second level of the 

course treats multiple processes of electronic media 

management via the main contexts of these processes, 

such as information architecture and mapping, content 

development and management, interactivity and usability 

design, multimedia use, virtual reality, hypermediacy 

and remediation, digital art, network culture, integrated 

marketing communications, brand and image 

management, etc. 




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NETWORK KÜLTÜRÜ, EKONOMİSİ 

VE BİLGİ 

Ders, teorik bakış açıları, yapısal analiz ve global 

network ekonomisinin yeni dinamikleri ile bilgi ve 

iletişim teknolojilerindeki hızlı değişimle oluşan kalitatif 

değişimin sonucunda ortaya çıkan yeni ekonominin 

ihtiyacı olan elektronik medya yönetimindeki güncel 

örnekleri sunmaktadır. Yeni ekonominin temel yönlerini 

makro düzeyde tanıtarak, global piyasa dinamiklerini 

ve elektronik medya yönetimiyle ilgili içerik ticaretini 

analiz etmektedir. Dersin ikinci bölümü, elektronik 

medya yönetiminin çeşitli oluşumlarını, bilgi mimarisi 

ve haritalandırma, içerik gelişimi ve yönetimi, etkileşim, 

kullanılabilirlik tasarımı, multimedya kullanımı, sanal 

gerçeklik, hiper-medya ve uygulanışı, dijital sanat, 

network kültürü, pazarlama stratejileri, marka ve imaj 

yönetimi gibi oluşumların temel içeriklerine göre 

bakmaktadır. 

CAM 401 - SENIOR THESIS I 

The dissertation is an academic endeavor, an extensive 





management on a particular topic of their own choice with 















altında, kültürel yönetimin kendi seçmiş olduğu belirli 







CAM 402 - SENIOR THESIS II 






management on a particular topic of their own choice 

with the guidance and consent of their dissertation

adviser. The course offers students the opportunity 

for independent field study and/or bibliographical 

independent study enhancing their analytical and 

critical ability to design their own particular research 

topic, thereby deepening their knowledge of their 

subject. 
















CAM 407 - ARTS AND CULTURE 

PRACTICUM I 

The aim of the course is to give students the opportunity to 

put their theoretical knowledge into practice. They work 

in groups on a common project. Regular meetings are held 







dönüştürmelerini sağlamaktadır. Gruplara ayrılarak 

ortak bir proje üzerinde çalışırlar. Öğretim elemanları ve 

gerektiğinde sektörden profesyonellerle görüşerek projeyi 

hayata geçirirler. 

CAM 408 - ARTS AND CULTURE 

PRACTICUM II 

The aim of the course is to give students the opportunity to 

put their theoretical knowledge into practice. They work 

in groups on a common project. Regular meetings are held 












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CAM 411 - CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ON 

CULTURAL POLICIES 

The course will examine the shifts in cultural policies in 

terms of broader social, economic and political contexts 

that have evolved in Western countries over the last three 

or four decades. There will be detailed debates on the 

effects of public subsidies for the arts and culture, the 

need for continuing regulation of the media and cultural 

industries, and the need for protectionist measures against 

commercially successful and internationally powerful 

cultural commodities. 




KÜTÜR POLİTİKALARI ÜZERİNE GÜNCEL 

TARTIŞMALAR 

Bu ders, son 40 yılda batı ülkelerinde meydana gelen 

kültür politikalarındaki değişimleri toplumsal, ekonomik 

ve politik çerçeve içinde ele almaktadır. Ders, aynı 

zamanda sanat ve kültüre devlet yardımı, medya ve kültür 

kurumlarının devamlı denetim gereksinimi ve ticari 

olarak başarılı uluslararası güçlere karşı alınan koruyucu 

önlemlerin gerekliliğini incelemektedir. 

CAM 412 - NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 

AND CULTURE 

Non-profit organizations and non-governmental 

organizations from a managerial standpoint. The 

organizational and administrative skills needed for their 

success with the support of international examples in both 

the social arena and in civil society. 





SİVİL TOPLUM KURULUŞLARI VE 

KÜLTÜR 

Bu dersin konusu, Sivil Toplum Kuruluşları (STK)’nın 

yapılarının tanıtılması, Türkiye’deki STK’ların dünü, 

bugünü ve yarını üzerine genel bir bakış ve Proje 

Döngü Yönetimi (PDY) tanıtımıdır. Dersin ikinci kısmı, 

Savunuculuk ve Politikaları Etkileme alanındadır ve son 

bölümü, Avrupa Bütünleşmesi ve STK’ları işlemektedir. 

CAM 422 - CITY AND URBAN CULTURE 

This course aims at generating an understanding of the city 

and urbanity and examining the articulation, production 

and reproduction of culture and arts in the urban space. 

It strives for the development of understanding and 

reading the city, focusing on conceptual discussions and 

theoretical approaches on urban policy and tools, such as 

public art, urban cultural politics, etc. 





KENT VE KENT KÜLTÜRÜ 

Bu ders, kent ve kentleşmeye dair kavramları 

ve yaklaşımları inceleyerek, kültür ve sanatın 

kente eklemlenmesi, üretimi ve yeniden üretimini 

irdelemektedir. Kamusal sanat, kentsel kültür 

politikaları gibi kente dair politika ve araçlar, kavramsal 

tartışmalar ve kuramsal yaklaşımlarla incelenerek kültür 

ve sanat odaklı kenti anlama ve okuma geliştirilmesi 

amaçlanmaktadır. 

CMN 167 - COMPUTATIONAL AND 

MATHEMATICAL NUMERACY FOR 

SOCIAL SCIENTISTS I 

The course aims to re-motivate an interest in abstract 

numerical thinking, contribute to the development of 

critical thinking skills and provide basic computer metaskills, 

particularly meta-skills related to critical thinking. 



CMN 168 - COMPUTATIONAL AND 

MATHEMATICAL NUMERACY FOR 

SOCIAL SCIENTISTS II 

Propositional logic. Mathematical induction. Equivalent 

propositions. The concept of theorems and proofs. Basic 

set theory. Functions. Probability and game theory. 



CMPE 169 - ALGORITHMS AND 

PROGRAMMING I 

The aim of this course is to equip students with the basic 

practical and theoretical skills they will need to write 

effective computer programs. The course covers basic 

programming concepts, techniques, documentation, and 

standards. The course includes a substantial practical 

element, and the lessons learned should enable students to 

program effectively in any language they may encounter. 

On completion of the course, students should be able to 

write programs that can manipulate data structures as 

complicated as lists, and have a firm grasp of the value of 

abstraction in program design. 


CMPE 170 - ALGORITHMS AND 

PROGRAMMING II 

This course builds on the foundation laid in ”CMPE 

169 Algorithms and Programming I”. CMPE 170 will 

introduce students to further programming concepts 

important for key engineering areas. This course 

will also incorporate a substantial practical training 

focused on specific engineering programs. Lessons 

learned should enable students to devise algorithms 

and programs required to help resolve important 

engineering problems they will face in their future 

careers. 


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CMPE 250 - 3-D COMPUTER GRAPHICS 

The course is designed to teach the students applied 

aspects of computer graphics. Students successfully 

completing this course will be able to learn and apply 

essential 3-dimensional computer graphics techniques 

using 3ds Max, implement 3D transformation on 2D 

objects, understand 3D objects modeling techniques 

and implement using polygons, curves and subdivision 

surfaces, learn to create different 3D models such 

as architectural buildings, cars and human beings, 

understand the principles of lighting and implement 

spot and omni lights for obtaining the desired ambiance, 

implement textures, colors other visual effects to the 

surfaces of 3D objects, animate objects with key frames, 

master rendering to achieve photorealistic outputs. 



COMP 111 - INTRODUCTION TO 

PROGRAMMING I 

The aim of this course is to equip students with the basic 

practical and theoretical skills they will need to write 

effective computer programs. The course covers basic 

programming concepts, techniques, documentation and 

standards. The course includes a substantial practical 

element and the lessons learned should enable students to 

program effectively in any language they may encounter. 

On completion of the course, students should be able to 

write programs that can manipulate data structures as 

complicated as lists and have a firm grasp of the value of 

abstraction in program design. 




COMP 112 - INTRODUCTION TO 


COMP 112 builds on the foundation laid in COMP 111. 

The course will introduce students to further abstractions 

such as accumulation and the use of mutable structures. 

The course includes a substantial practical element and 

the lessons learned should enable students to program 

effectively in any language they may encounter. 


Prerequisite(s): COMP 111 or COMP 149 

Restriction(s): COMP 150 or FM 150 


COMP 149 - HOW TO SOLVE IT?-THE 

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER 

SCIENCE I 

The course aims to develop skills in reading, understanding 

and writing a document critically, gaining the power of 

using functional English and the ability of discussing 

rationally. The objective of the course is to introduce the 

design of programs, understanding man pages, debugging 

programs, interpreting specifications, writing contentstructured 

documents and how to ask smart questions.



COMP 150 - HOW TO SOLVE IT?-THE 


SCIENCE II 


and writing a document critically, gaining the power 

of using functional English and the ability of rational 

discussion. The objective of the course is to introduce the 



documents and how to ask smart questions. 



COMP 151 - USING COMPUTERS 

PRODUCTIVELY 

Effective and productive use of computers involves more 

than just programming. Many tasks can be accomplished 

using existing tools or techniques that involve only limited 

programming. This course focuses on the effective use of 

these tools. Students will learn to use a variety of tools 

to perform data manipulation tasks, to create, share and 

maintain documents of acceptable professional quality, 

to create prototype data processing applications, to set up 

web sites and perform other online and offline computing 

tasks. The course includes a substantial practical element. 



COMP 152 - PRACTICAL 

PROGRAMMING 

This course provides an introduction to programming 

using a commercially popular programming language, 

writing the programs in imperative style. At the 

conclusion of the course, a student should be able to write 

simple programs in both iterative and recursive style that 

can accept input and produce output and manipulate basic 

data structures such as strings and arrays. 



COMP 197 - SEMINAR I 

This course involves weekly scheduled talks given by 

invited speakers who will present seminars in various 

fields of theoretical and practical aspects of computer 

science. Students should attend these seminars. They will 

be evaluated in accordance with their attendance on the 

basis of a Pass or Fail grade. 



COMP 198 - SEMINAR II 





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COMP 211 - DIGITAL SYSTEMS 

The electronic computer is a device that has evolved 

entirely within living memory. This course aims to 

introduce the history and evolution of the computer and 

show how the shape of the computers we use today is 

a product of that evolution. Students will learn enough 

about Boolean logic and logical circuits to understand in 

principle how the processor of a modern computer works 

and be able to sketch the design of a simple computer. 



COMP 222 - COMPUTER 

ORGANIZATION 

This course extends the knowledge gained in COMP 

211 to cover the additions to the basic computer design 

that make today’s computers powerful real-time tools. 

Among the subjects covered are interrupts, processor 

states, memory mapping and caching, virtual memory 

and how computers are designed to provide support for 

sophisticated operating systems. The practical element 

of the course includes some machine level (assembly) 

programming. Students should complete the course 

with the ability to undertake small-scale machine level 

programming tasks involving manipulation of the 

computer processor features covered in the course and 

the necessary theoretical understanding of the support 

provided by computer hardware for modern operating 

systems. 


Prerequisite(s): COMP 211 


COMP 231 - DATA STRUCTURES AND 

ALGORITHMS I 

This course covers the basic science behind the use of 

computers to provide effective and efficient methods for 

carrying out tasks. Tasks examined include data storage 

and retrieval, sorting and searching, semi-numerical tasks 

such as encryption, planning and optimization tasks, 

problems, space searches and games playing. To carry out 

these tasks, both algorithms and structures for the storage 

of data need to be specified. Mathematical tools have to 

be developed that enable us to measure the fundamental 

effectiveness of algorithms and in particular the way these 

algorithms scale as the size of the task being performed 

increases. This course introduces the basic sorting and 

searching methods and dynamic data structures such as 

linked lists and trees. 


Prerequisite(s): COMP 112 or COMP 150 or FM 150 


COMP 232 - DATA STRUCTURES AND 

ALGORITHMS II 

This course builds on COMP 231 to apply similar 

techniques to analyze more sophisticated algorithms 

and data structures. Topics covered include various tree 

types, graphs, storage structures and algorithms suitable 

for storage and retrieval of data to and from secondary 

storage, greedy algorithms, graph search and traversal and 

random algorithms. 




COMP 241 - THEORETICAL SKILLS IN 

COMPUTER SCIENCE 

Matrices and determinants. Systems of linear equations. 

Cramer’s rule. Complex numbers. Operations and 

properties. Euler’s and Moivre’s formulas. Geometric 

interpretation and applications. Linear space, linear 

independence, rank of matrix, linear transformation, 

solution of linear systems. 



COMP 242 - SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS 

The course aims to teach the basic concepts of discrete 

signals and systems. These concepts include, discretetime 

signals, sampling theorem, causality, stability, time 

invariance and linearity, design of linear time-invariant 

discrete systems, impulse response, design of finiteimpulse 

response and infinite-impulse response systems, 

discrete-time Fourier transform (DFT), DFT algorithms, 

the z-transform and the region of convergence, 

stabilization of unstable systems and implementation of 

discrete algorithms by using the Math Lab. 


Prerequisite(s): COMP 241 or MATH 158 


COMP 249 - COMPUTATIONAL 

THEORY, CIRCUITS AND 

PROGRAMMING I 

This course aims to provide computer science students 

with the grounding in mathematical logic necessary to 

grasp some of the major theorems with implications in 

computer science. Propositional logic. First-order logic, 

theory and model. Quantification theory. Truth. Theorems 

and proofs. Arithmetic. Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. 

Moreover, students will learn enough about Boolean 

logic and logical circuits to understand in principle how 

the processor of a modern computer works and be able 

to sketch the design of a simple computer. Finally, this 

course builds on teaching students to write programs 

in object-oriented style using a commercially popular 

programming language. At the completion of the course, 

students should be able to produce complete programs 

in object-oriented style, making appropriate use of 

techniques such as polymorphism and inheritance. 

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COMP 250 - COMPUTATIONAL 

THEORY, CIRCUITS AND 


Automata and languages. Regular languages. FSA, 

Nondeterminism, regular expressions, Nonregular 

languages. Context-free languages. Pushdown aoutomata. 

Non-context-free languages. This course also covers the 

basic computer design that makes today’s computers 

powerful real-time tools. Among the subjects covered 

are interrupts, processor states, memory mapping 

and caching, virtual memory and how computers are 

designed to provide support for sophisticated operating 

systems. The practical element of the course includes 

some machine level (assembly) programming. Students 

should complete the course with the ability to undertake 

small-scale machine level programming tasks involving 

manipulation of the computer processor, features covered 

in the course and the necessary theoretical understanding 

of the support provided by computer hardware for modern 

operating systems. Moreover, this course moves on to 

the techniques involved in producing larger computer 

systems in an object-oriented programming environment. 

Subjects covered will include various types of layered 

and modularized implementation, code reusability and 

implementations involving more than one execution 

environment. 




COMP 261 - OBJECT ORIENTED 

PROGRAMMING 

This course builds on 152, teaching students to write 

programs in object-oriented style using a commercially 

popular programming language. At the completion of 

the course, students should be able to produce complete 

programs in object oriented style, making appropriate use 

of techniques such as polymorphism and inheritance. 




COMP 262 - LARGE SCALE 

PROGRAMMING 

This course builds on COMP 261 to move on to the 

techniques involved in producing larger computer 

systems in an object-oriented programming environment. 

Subjects covered will include various types of layered 

and modularized implementation, code reusability and 

implementations involving more than one execution 

environment. 




COMP 291 - SELECTED TOPICS IN 

COMPUTER SCIENCE I 

The course has been introduced to study various topics in 

Computer Science. 



COMP 292 - SELECTED TOPICS IN 

COMPUTER SCIENCE II 

The course has been introduced to study various topics in 






















COMP 304 - COMPUTER GRAPHICS 

This course aims to introduce students to modern 

techniques for the production of 3-D and animated 

graphics. Topics covered include hidden line removal, 

shading and texturing and ray tracing techniques. In 

the practical section of the course, students will gain 

familiarity with standard tools such as the OpenGL 

interface and other graphic production tools. 



COMP 305 - HUMAN-COMPUTER 

INTERACTION 

This course deals with the interaction between human 

users and the computer. It covers the design of dialogues 

for interactive systems, psychological, physiological, 

linguistic and perceptual factors, advantages and 

disadvantages of various interaction techniques, 

command language syntaxes and data presentations. The 

course concludes with a look at design methodology and 

guidelines. 



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COMP 306 - OPERATING SYSTEMS 

Operating systems play a fundamental role in the use of 

computers and are of enormous commercial importance. 

This course looks at how they work. Contents include, 

classification and structure of operating systems, storage 

media, memory management and dynamic storage 

strategies, scheduling algorithms, I/O and interrupt 

structures, protection and security, queuing and network 

control models, systems software, linkers, loaders, 

assemblers, translators and programming environments, 

case studies of existing operating systems and 

implementation of operating system modules. 




COMP 313 - STRUCTURE AND 

INTERPRETATION OF COMPUTER 

PROGRAMS 

This course examines from first principles the nature of 

computer programs. Starting from the lambda calculus, 

students will investigate different paradigms for the 

construction and evaluation of computer programs. 




COMP 314 - PRINCIPLES OF 

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES 

The aim of this course is to provide an analytic study of 

programming languages. The course develops this study 

by looking primarily at interpreters of programming 

languages. This course examines the fundamental 

differences between different programming paradigms, 

through a study of how to build interpreters for the 

different models. On completion of the course, the 

student should have gained an understanding of the role 

of interpreters in defining the syntax and semantics of 

various programming paradigms. 



COMP 322 - COMPUTER NETWORKS AND 

NETWORK PROGRAMMING 

This course looks at programming for network based 

systems. Subjects covered include network protocols, 

network traffic and security, distributed programming 

and emerging network technologies. The course includes 

practical network programming. 




COMP 332 - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 

There is a crisis in the development of computer systems. 

In particular, the development of large computer systems 

often takes far more time and money than planned and 

sometimes major projects fail completely and have to be

abandoned. This course looks at the battery of techniques 

used to try and avoid these problems and bring a scientific 

approach to the management of software development. 




COMP 381 - DATABASE SYSTEMS I 

Almost all large data processing systems rely on a 

generalized database to store and retrieve data. This course 

looks at the theoretical and technical issues involved in 

the implementation of such generalized databases. Course 

contents include introduction to databases, entity relationship 

model, physical database design and access strategies, 

relational data model, SQL data manipulation language, 

theoretical data manipulation language, normal forms and 

logical database design, query processing, concurrency 

control and recovery in databases, implementation of a 

simple storage manager and design of a relational database. 




COMP 382 - DATABASE SYSTEMS II 

This course builds on and develops the content of COMP 

381. Course contents include basic structures of database 

models, logic for knowledge bases, resolution refutation, 

deduction, deductive databases, recursive and nonrecursive 

query processing and object-oriented databases. 




COMP 392 - AUTOMATIC CONTROL 

The course aims to cover a brief history of automatic 

control, classification of control systems, principles of 

open-loop and closed-loop control systems, the Laplace 

transform method and its properties, transfer functions, 

block diagrams, signal-flow graph models, analysis 

methods of control systems in the time domain, firstorder 

systems, second-order systems, time responses of 

the systems, steady-state error of systems, sensitivity 

of control systems to parameter variations, stability 

analysis of linear feedback control systems, the concept 

of stability, the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion and the 

root-locus concept and method, an example of control 

system analysis using the root-locus method. 












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COMP 403 - SELECTED ADVANCED TOPICS 

IN COMPUTER SCIENCE I 

This course provides a study of advanced special topics in 





COMP 404 - SELECTED ADVANCED TOPICS 

IN COMPUTER SCIENCE II 

This course provides a study of advanced special topics in 





COMP 412 - PARSING, COMPILING AND 

INTERPRETING 

The implementation of compilers has enabled the 

production of increasingly large computer systems. 

Compilers and assemblers play a crucial role and at 

the same time are good examples of large and complex 

programs that have at least in part a sound mathematical 

basis for the way they work. This course studies the 

different ways in which compilers and assemblers can 

be constructed and the different language models that are 

used. 




COMP 421 - COMPUTER AIDED 

DESIGN OF CONTROL SYSTEMS I 

This course aims to introduce control systems and their 

applications, open-loop and closed-loop systems, transient 

and steady-state responses of control systems, stability 

issues, basic control actions, PI, PD, PID controllers, 

Routh’s stability criteria, static position, velocity and 

acceleration constants. 



COMP 422 - COMPUTER AIDED 

DESIGN OF CONTROL SYSTEMS II 

This course provides a basic understanding of 

fundamentals of Root-Locus analysis, control system 

design by the Root-Locus method, compensation 

systems, lead, lag, lag-lead compensation, analysis of

control systems in state-space, solution of LTI systems, 

controlability, observability, design of control systems in 

state-space, pole-placement technique and state observers. 



COMP 431 - ARTIFICIAL 

INTELLIGENCE AND SYMBOLIC 

PROGRAMMING 

This course aims to study the basic concepts of artificial 

intelligence. Topics covered include representation of 

knowledge, search and heuristic programming, logic 

and logic programming, application areas of artificial 

intelligence: problem-solving, game and puzzles, expert 

systems, planning, natural language understanding and 

learning. 



COMP 451 - DISSERTATION I 

Students will carry out a project to investigate an advanced 

topic under the supervision of an advisor. They will be 

required to make regular written and verbal presentations 

on their progress. 


COMP 452 - DISSERTATION II 

Students will continue their project to investigate an 

advanced topic under the supervision of an advisor. 

They will be required to make regular written and verbal 

presentations on their progress. At the end of the term, the 

student will deliver a written dissertation on the project 

and make a verbal presentation to a jury who will assess 

the dissertation. 



COMP 461 - WEB SERVICES AND 

SYSTEMS 

Programs running on one computer to provide services to 

users or computers elsewhere are becoming increasingly 

important. A number of programming languages and 

programming environments have evolved specifically to 

address this need. This course looks at the issues involved 

in writing service-providing programs, using the latest 

programming languages and technology. 




COMP 471 - DIGITAL CONTROL 

This course aims to cover the analysis of discretetime 

systems, the z-transform and its properties, the 

inverse z-transform, solving difference equations by 

the z-transform, pulse transfer function, TF of openloop 

and closed-loop discrete time systems, response of 

closed-loop systems, steady-state errors, stability analysis 

in the z-plane, mapping from s-plane into z-plane, 

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bilinear transformations, the Routh-Hurwitz criterion, 

the root-locus of digital control systems, discretisation 

procedures, numerical approximations, Euler’s, Tustin’s 

and matched pole-zero methods, digital PID controllers 

and implementation of PID controllers. 



COMP 472 - PARALLEL AND 

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS 

Combining many processors to perform a single task 

has provided a very cheap and effective way of building 

very powerful computers for a certain set of suitable 

tasks. This course studies the technical and theoretical 

issues involved. Course contents include the following: 

overview of distributed systems, basic architectural 

models, network transparent message passing and remote 

procedural call, distributed file and directory systems, 

client server model, distributed operating systems, 

distributed deadlock detection, multi-site concurrency 

control, replication and error recovery. 




COMP 474 - PARALLEL 

PROGRAMMING 

This course covers parallel programming models, 

languages and environments and will include 

programming languages and runtime systems, data 

parallel languages, message passing libraries and 

language constructs, data-driven object-based languages, 

shared memory programming, multithreading. Parallel 

methods for computations in the areas of bio-informatics, 

quantum computing computational physics (e.g., many 

body problems), other disciplines (e.g., graph drawing, 

genetic algorithms, simulated annealing). 



















basis of a Pass or Fail grade.



EC 179 - SOCIAL ISSUES AND 

CRITICAL THINKING I 

This course explores the process of thinking critically and 

guides students in thinking more clearly, insightfully and 

effectively. Concrete examples from students’ experience 

and contemporary social issues help students develop 

the abilities to solve problems, analyze issues and make 

informed decisions in their academic, career and personal 

lives. Substantive readings, structured writing assignments 

and ongoing discussions help students develop language 

skills while fostering sophisticated thinking abilities. 


EC 180 - SOCIAL ISSUES AND 

CRITICAL THINKING II 

This course explores the process of thinking critically and 

guides students in thinking more clearly, insightfully and 

effectively. Concrete examples from students’ experience 

and contemporary social issues help students develop 

the abilities to solve problems, analyze issues and make 

informed decisions in their academic, career and personal 

lives. Substantive readings, structured writing assignments 

and ongoing discussions help students develop language 

skills while fostering sophisticated thinking abilities. 


EC 201 - MACROECONOMIC THEORY 

The aim of this course is to introduce the basic concepts of 

macroeconomic analysis. The course presents the theory 

of short-run economic fluctuations which provides the 

basis for understanding most discussions of monetary and 

fiscal policy. Also the course gives ample attention to longterm 

topics including economic growth, the natural rate of 

unemployment, persistent inflation and government debt. 

Topics include money supply and money demand, the open 

economy, the theory of economic fluctuations and debates 

over various macroeconomic issues. Macroeconomics is 

a theoretical as well as an empirical discipline, motivated 

and guided by a wide array of experience. In line with 

this approach, the course is conducted on the basis of 

examples related to current issues in Turkey. 


Restriction(s): EC 203 or EC 204 or EC 213 or EC 214 or EC 

303 or EC 392 


EC 202 - MICROECONOMIC THEORY 

The aim of this course is to examine the analytical 

framework used in microeconomics. New concepts are 

illustrated with entertaining and informative examples, 

both verbal and numerical. In addition, several purely 

‘micro’ topics are illustrated with ‘macro’ applications. 

On the successful completion of this unit, students should 

have a clear understanding of the basic principles of 

microeconomics and with the aid of simple mathematical 

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tools, be able to solve specific problems and answer 

questions appropriate to this level. Topics include supply, 

demand and equilibrium, the behavior of consumers, 

the behavior of firms, production and costs, competition 

welfare economics, knowledge information, monopoly, 

market power, collusion and oligopoly, the theory of 

games, external costs and benefits, common property and 

public goods, the demands for factors of production, the 

market for labor, risk and uncertainty. 


Restriction(s): EC 205 or EC 206 or EC 215 or EC 216 or EC 

304 or EC 391 


EC 211 - TURKEY’S ECONOMIC AND 

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 1923-2000 

The aim of this course is to introduce the student to the 

major quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the 

Turkish economy and to accustom the student to finding, 

handling and presenting statistical data. 


EC 212 - CURRENT ECONOMIC 

ISSUES: TURKEY AND THE WORLD 

The aim of this course is to introduce the student to the 

current economic issues of Turkey. On the completion 

of this course, students should be able to assemble and 

interpret appropriate statistical evidence related to these 

issues and understand the application of economic 

principles to the problems with which the Turkish 

economy is faced. 


EC 213 - MACROECONOMICS I 

The aim of the course is to develop an understanding of 

elementary macroeconomic analysis and its applications. 

By the end of the term, the student should have acquired 

a basic understanding of the main macroeconomic topics, 

including national income, aggregate demand and supply, 

an introduction to the real economy and money and prices 

in the long run, and some basic concepts about inflation 

and unemployment trade-off. The material covered in 

this course will help the student to organize his/her ideas 

about economics. 


Restriction(s): EC 102 or EC 152 or EC 201 

EC 214 - MACROECONOMICS II 

The course presents the theory of short-run economic 

fluctuations, which provides the basis for understanding 

most discussions of monetary and fiscal policy. The course 

also gives ample attention to long-term topics including 

economic growth, the natural rate of unemployment, 

persistent inflation and government debt. Topics include 

money supply and money demand, the open economy, the 

theory of economic fluctuations and debates over various 

macroeconomic issues. Macroeconomics is a theoretical 

as well as an empirical discipline, motivated and guided 

by a wide array of experience. In line with this approach,

the course is conducted on the basis of examples related 

to current issues in Turkey. 



EC 215 - MICROECONOMICS I 

The aim of the course is to develop an understanding of 

elementary microeconomic analysis and its applications. 

By the end of the term, the student will have acquired a 

basic understanding of the main microeconomic topics, 

including analysis of the consumer, the firm and the 

economics of public sector and product markets. The 

material covered as part of this course will help students 

to organize their ideas about economics. 


Restriction(s): EC 101 or EC 151 or EC 202 

EC 216 - MICROECONOMICS II 


framework used in microeconomics. New concepts are 

illustrated with entertaining and informative examples, 

both verbal and numerical. In addition, several purely 

‘micro’ topics are illustrated with ‘macro’ applications. 

On the successful completion of this unit, students 

should have a clear understanding of the basic 

principles of microeconomics and with the aid of simple 

mathematical tools, be able to solve specific problems 

and answer questions appropriate to this level. Topics 

include supply, demand and equilibrium, the behavior 

of consumers, the behavior of firms, production and 

costs, competition welfare economics, knowledge 

information, monopoly, market power, collusion and 

oligopoly, the theory of games, external costs and 

benefits, common property and public goods, the 

demands for factors of production, the market for labor, 

risk and uncertainty. 



EC 232 - ECONOMICS WORKSHOP I 

The aim is to demonstrate how computer spreadsheet 

packages can be used as tools in economics for data 

analysis, problem-solving and simple modeling. 

The course consolidates and extends students wordprocessing 

skills for essay and report writing. On the 

successful completion of this unit, students should be 

able to recognize the potential of the spreadsheet as a tool 

for the economist in a range of data analysis, problemsolving 

and simple modeling applications, to demonstrate 

an effective use of spreadsheets in dealing with the 

problems relevant to the economist, to use effectively 

the equation editor and graphics facilities within Excel, 

Quattro Pro, Econometric Views, Word and PowerPoint 

when communicating economic ideas, models and results 

within an essay or a report. 



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EC 251 - MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS FOR 

ECONOMISTS I 

The aim of the course is to give students the basic 

mathematical equipment needed in economic analysis. 

Emphasis will be put on mathematical reasoning as well 

as tools. At the end of the course, students will be familiar 

with matrix algebra, comparative-static analysis and 

optimization problems with one choice variable. 



EC 252 - MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS FOR 

ECONOMISTS II 

The aim of the course is to give students further 

mathematical equipment needed in dynamic economic 

analysis. The new tools such as integrals, optimization with 

more than one choice variable, constrained optimization, 

differential equations and difference equations will be 

introduced. 





EC 271 - STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR 

ECONOMISTS I 

This is the first part of a basic statistics course for 

economics majors. The course is application oriented 

and introduces the fundamentals of statistics needed 

in the second part. Some major topics are descriptive 

statistics, graphical description of data, grouped 

and ungrouped data, measures of central tendency, 

dispersion and shape, probability, discrete and 

continuous random variables, discrete and continuous 

distributions, sampling distribution and point and 

interval estimation. 


Restriction(s): BUS 273 or MATH 303 or SOC 213 


EC 272 - STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR 

ECONOMISTS II 

The second part of the basic statistics course. Building 

on the fundamentals reviewed in the previous part, this 

course introduces statistical tools aiming to demonstrate 

their use in practical applications. Some major topics 

are hypothesis testing, regression analysis, correlation 

analysis, non-parametric tests, chi-square tests and 

analysis of variance. On the successful completion of 

this course, students should have the ability to suggest 

appropriate tools to analyze observed data and be able to 

interpret the computer output. 


Special Condition(s): EC 271 or MATH 271 

Restriction(s): BUS 274 or FM 212 or FM 301 or MATH 301 

or SOC 214 


EC 316 - ENVIRONMENTAL 

ECONOMICS 

Increasing environmental problems raise concerns from 

various bodies. International organizations are trying to 

draw attention to the importance of urgent solutions to 

environmental problems. Some of the topics to be covered 

in this course include: economy and the environment, 

sustainable economy, optimal pollution, taxation, 

environmental standards, measuring environmental 

damage, global pollution problems, ethics and future 

generations, environmental policies, green tax reforms 

and the use of environmental taxes. 



EC 324 - THE ECONOMICS OF SPORTS 

The economics of sports is an intermediate-level 

economics course which provides a framework for 

discussing standard economics topics such as profit and 

utility maximization in examining the club’s strategies 

and capital asset pricing as applied to the selling prices of 

sports franchises. The objective of the course is to examine 

the rapid transformation of professional sports towards 

globalization and to propose a comparative approach 

to new developments in financing and management of 

sports clubs with special focus on international as well as 

national case studies. 


EC 331 - ECONOMICS WORKSHOP II 

The aim of the course is to extend students’ ability to use 

the spreadsheet package as a tool for problem-solving 

and model analysis in economics and to introduce 

them to modeling and simulation in economics using 

more advanced software packages. On the successful 

completion of this unit, students should be able to carry 

out statistical data applications and regression analysis, to 

set up problem-solving and decision-support applications 

and manipulate linear economic models in matrix 

form using a spreadsheet, to build model analysis and 

simulation applications and use Internet facilities and 

economic resources on the World Wide Web. 



EC 332 - ECONOMICS WORKSHOP III 

The aim is to extend students’ ability to use computer 

software as a tool for problem-solving and model analysis 

in economics and to introduce them to some of the 

electronic databases available for use by economists. On 

the successful completion of this unit, students should be 

able to use current statistics and econometric software to 

run multiple regressions, to perform diagnostic tests such 

as normality, serial correlation, white heteroskedasticity 

and Ramsey RESET tests, to interpret the basic regression 

output, to use other important PC and mainframe software 

tools which have been identified in the course and to use 

electronic databases to obtain relevant economic data. 

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EC 342 - PUBLIC FINANCE 

The main aim of this course is to explore public revenue. 

The main concentration will be on taxes and debt and 

their effect on the economy. The course will introduce 

the basics of tax on personal income, corporate income 

and goods and services. Students are expected to learn the 

Turkish taxation system and to understand public debt and 

international fiscal issues. 



EC 351 - PUBLIC ECONOMICS 

The main aim of this course is to explore cases where the 

market economy is no longer able to achieve efficiency 

and government intervention is considered inevitable. 

Students are expected to discuss the role of government 

in the economy at the end of the course. 


Special Condition(s): EC 202 or EC 205 or EC 216 


EC 361 - INTRODUCTION TO 

ECONOMETRICS 

This course aims to introduce students to the definition, 

scope and methodology of econometrics. The main 

purpose is to acquaint students with LS and ML estimators, 

properties of estimators, tests of significance and tests 

of restrictions, econometric problems, multicolinearity, 

auto-correlation, heteroskedasticity and bias, extensions 

to the basic model, non-linear models, dummy variables, 

structural change, dynamic models, distributed lag, 

polynomial lags and Almon lags, ARIMA and AD models, 

unit roots,co-integration and ECM models, simultaneous 

models, the identification and consistent estimation of 

simultaneous models, 2SLS, IV and other estimators, 

Granger causality and exogeneity. 


Special Condition(s): (BUS 273 or EC 271 or MATH 303) and 

(BUS 274 or EC 272 or FM 212) 



EC 362 - ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS 

The aim of this course is to provide a solid grounding 

in the concepts and methods of econometrics. On the 

successful completion of this unit, students should be 

able to appreciate issues that arise in the formulation, 

validation and use of econometric models: to suitably 

estimate models using the available computer software: 

to interpret regression results and apply relevant tests of 

specification and mis-specification. 





EC 381 - MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS I 

This course focuses on the problem of business decisions, 

making extensive use of cases. Topics include basic 

supply-demand theory and marginal analysis, the 

structure of decision problems, the impact of the market 

setting (i.e., competitive, oligopolistic or monopolistic 

structures) and strategic interactions among firms using 

game theory. The emphasis throughout is on the use of 

economic reasoning to solve actual business decision 

problems. 




EC 382 - MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS II 

Application of economic principles to managerial 

decision making. Topics may include demand, costs and 

market structure and their relation to pricing, product 

choice and resource allocation, industrial organization, 

agency theory and personnel economics. 


Special Condition(s): EC 205 or EC 381 


EC 391 - INTERMEDIATE 

MICROECONOMICS 

On the successful completion of this course, students will 

have a clear understanding of the analytical framework 

used in firm theory. They will be able to define concepts 

such as production, costs, competition, monopoly, market 

power, collusion and oligopoly, the theory of games, the 

demands for factors of production, the market for labor. 

Students will be able to use basic mathematical tools to 

solve related microeconomics problems. 




EC 392 - INTERMEDIATE 

MACROECONOMICS 

The aim of this course is to investigate selected 

international and financial aspects of macroeconomics. On 

the successful completion of the unit, students should be 

able to understand macroeconomic analysis in the context 

of the open economy, understand the macroeconomic 

analysis of institutional changes which affect the conduct 

of monetary policy and develop appropriate policy 

implications. 




EC 401 - INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 

This course aims to cover the theoretical basis of 

international trade and capital flows. This is to enable 

the student to get a grasp of the rising importance of 

international economics as globalization invokes an 

international dimension in economic phenomena, as well 

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as the decision-making process by firms, governments and 

consumers. The principal aim of the course is to provide 

students with the analytical tools required for appraising 

the significance of international trade and of economic 

policies designed to cope with related issues. The coverage 

of the course goes beyond trade to financial markets, so as 

to provide the theoretical underpinnings of the course on 

financial market analysis, offered in the second semester of 

year IV. On the successful completion of this unit, students 

should be able to understand the basic principles guiding 

international commodity and finance flows, appreciate the 

roles of relevant international institutions and critically 

assess policies implemented to improve the economy’s 

performance in the international arena. 



EC 402 - HISTORY OF ECONOMIC 

THOUGHT 

This course aims to broaden the student’s horizon of 

economic thinking beyond textbooks and to acquaint 

them with the rich theoretical material available 

in the history of economic thought. Starting with 

methodology in economics, it tries to link theories 

with the socio-political environment and the beliefs 

of the economists formulating the theories, to show 

how theories evolve over time in a dialectical way and 

how some may lose their validity when they can no 

longer serve to explain and predict economic facts. The 

purpose of this course is basically to enable students 

to mobilize their knowledge of economics so as to 

explain, analyze and predict possible outcomes of the 

present or past facts in society. On the completion 

of the course, students should be able to distinguish 

between the political/ideological and analytical 

aspects of economic theory: to learn the approach that 

each school of thought incorporates with respect to 

economic issues and policies and to make better use of 

analytical tools embodied in theories. 



EC 403 - APPLIED ECONOMETRICS 

The purpose of this course is to give students a chance 

to study some special topics that are not covered in the 

two semesters of Econometrics (EC 361 and EC 362). 

Specifically, this course is mainly an introduction to microeconometrics, 

which involvesthe estimation of economic 

models using micro data (e.g. data on individuals, 

households, or firms). Following a brief introduction to 

the method of maximum likelihood, standard models and 

procedures will be presented. Emphasis will be placed 

on applied work rather than theoretical details that the 

students may find more challenging. Weekly lectures will 

be held in the computer lab, and the students will spend 

the last hour of the lecture carrying out empirical analyses 

using sample data sets. 




EC 404 - ENERGY ECONOMICS 

The importance of energy in economic development 

is indisputable. Globalization and the trend towards 

liberalization, deregulation and privatization has also made 

energy markets centers of interest. Energy economics 

studies energy resources and energy commodities and 

includes the forces motivating firms and consumers to 

supply, convert, transport, use energy resources and to 

dispose of residuals. It also covers market structures and 

regulatory structures, distribution and environmental 

consequences and economically efficient use. The course 

on energy economics will also cover energy market models 

around the globe. Electricity markets will be analyzed 

in depth. The main emphasis will be on the differing 

experiences in electricity markets of countries and districts. 



EC 413 - INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS 


framework used in industrial economics and to evaluate 

the associated empirical evidence. On the successful 

completion of this unit, students are expected to be able 

to understand the extent to which market structures can 

affect market conduct and performance and understand 

the rationale of industry policy. Some of the topics 

covered include, market structure, measurement and 

determinants, oligopoly price theory, entry conditions, 

mergers, advertising, technical progress, integration and 

diversification and industrial policy. 




EC 417 - MICROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF 

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION 

The objective of the course is to present the micro aspects 

of the European Union, welfare effects of the trade 

union and the customs union, redistribution policies in 

the EU, competition policy and the EU’s international 

competitiveness. 



EC 419 - BANKING AND FINANCIAL 

SYSTEM IN TURKEY 

This course aims at giving students a complete overview 

of the financial system in Turkey, with a more thorough 

examination of the banking sector. Topics include: 

overview of banking theory, developments in the financial 

system in the post-1980 liberalization period and the 

recent developments in the financial system. 



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EC 421 - DISSERTATION I 

The aim of the course is to enable students to conduct 

research, drawing on what they have learned prior to 

their fourth year. Students will prepare their dissertations 

according to the guidelines of the department. 



EC 422 - DISSERTATION II 

The aim of the course is to enable students to conduct 

research, drawing on what they have learned prior to 

their fourth year. Students will prepare their dissertations 

according to the guidelines of the department. 




EC 423 - LABOR ECONOMICS 

The aim of this course is to provide students with an 

understanding of how labor markets work. The labor 

market is a special kind of market in which workers, 

whom we are used to seeing as the consumers in the 

goods market, are on the supply side, and firms, which 

we are used to seeing as the producers, make up the 

demand side. The interaction of labor supply and 

demand determines how many people are employed and 

how much they get paid for their time. Among the main 

issues of interest to be examined in Labor Economics 

are the ‘labor force participation’ and ‘hours of work’ 

decisions of individuals. While relevant concepts such 

as human capital, labour mobility and unemployment 

will also be covered, special attention will be paid to 

the development and the present structure of the Turkish 

labor market. 





EC 425 - MONEY AND BANKING 

This course is designed to introduce the theory and 

practice of money and banking in developing countries. 

In the first part of the course, we will emphasize the 

money demand and money supply processes. In the 

second part, the macroeconomics framework will 

be developed. In the third part, we will focus on the 

models of bank behavior and management. In addition, 

we will discuss a wide range of topics from financial 

institutions to government intervention in financial 

markets. 



EC 426 - ECONOMICS OF ANTITRUST 

The purpose of the course is to analyze contemporary 

issues in antitrust. We will use theoretical models and tools 

from industrial organization to assess the relationships 

between market structure, economic efficiency and social

welfare. In particular, we will evaluate the efficiency gains 

and losses associated with specific business practices 

including price discrimination, predation, cartelization, 

horizontal merger, vertical integration and resale price 

maintenance. By taking into account some judicial 

opinions and economic case studies (not only in Western 

countries but also in Turkey) that analyze these opinions, 

we will look at how antitrust law has evolved over time 

and consider its effectiveness. 


EC 441 - MONETARY ECONOMICS 

This course aims to introduce both introductory monetary 

theory and contemporary thinking about banking and 

other financial institutions. The course covers an analysis 

of monetary theory in the domestic and global context. 

It provides new insights into the monetary policy 

formulation process, the supervision of the financial 

system and the internationalization of financial markets. 

Topics include the financial system, money supply 

analysis, tools of monetary policy, the demand for money, 

the Keynesian framework and the ISLM model, monetary 

and fiscal policy in the ISLM model, aggregate demand 

and supply analysis, money and inflation, the theory 

of rational expectations and efficient capital markets, 

rational expectations and critical issues in monetary 

economics pertaining to the Turkish economy. On the 

successful completion of this unit, students are expected 

to understand how the economy works on a monetary 

basis. 


Prerequisite(s): EC 201 or EC 203 or EC 214 


EC 443 - POLITICAL ECONOMY 

The purpose of this course is to present an alternative 

approach to the accumulated wisdom of mainstream 

economic theory via the reading of Karl Marx’s 

”Capital”. The course itself is a systematic exposition 

of the Marxian political economy with some attention to 

modern commentaries regarding its theoretical strength 

and relevance for our modern capitalist system. 


EC 451 - ECONOMIC GROWTH 

This is a course on economic growth. The formal aim of 

the course is to examine the determinants of long-term 

growth. The material covered as part of this course will 

help students to examine their ideas about economic 

growth and to conduct empirical investigations into the 

determinants of growth. It includes coverage of currentlyon-offer 

theories of growth. It will look at the stylized 

facts of growth, growth accounting and convergence. 

Initially, the Solow model, with and without exogenous 

technical change, will be discussed. Then the course will 

look at empirical studies and make links from these to 

basic ideas of endogenous growth. It will also link these 

with the issue of development economics. 

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EC 454 - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 

This course is the second part of the economic growth 

course taught in the first term. The formal aim of the 

course is to enhance the modern theories of endogenous 

growth and development, growth externalities, degree 

of openness and trade policy reform and stabilization. 

Alternative theories of growth and development: neo- 

Keynesian growth and structuralist macroeconomics. 

Modern theories of the business cycle literature. 



EC 471 - WORLD ECONOMY 

The aim of this course is to provide a basic introduction to 

the principal areas of international trade and institutions. 

The course is designed to attract a range of students 

who are concerned about the international economic 

environment for business, the application of economic 

analysis to the functioning of the international economy, or 

the designation of policy prescriptions to meet current and 

future challenges in the world economy. Topics include 

the international monetary system, trade theories, critical 

issues related with economic development, international 

trade institutions, trade policy debate, foreign direct 

investments, third world debt and macroeconomic 

stabilization controversy. 



EC 472 - ECONOMIC POLICY 

This course is a review and analysis of current 

macroeconomic problems and policy issues facing 

the Turkish economy. The main topics include global 

financial architecture, fixed and floating exchange rates, 

international financial institutions and Turkey, the currency 

crisis, high inflation and polarization, stabilization and 

disinflation packages, the recent performance of the 

Turkish economy and policy issues for the future, etc. 



EC/E 179 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 











academic texts. The course aims to introduce efficient

eading strategies to cope with such texts as well as to 






developed. 


EC/E 180 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 


















developed. 


EHTR 101 - HISTORY OF TURKISH 

REVOLUTION I 

The aim of this course is to teach students the meaning and 

significance of the Turkish Revolution. The main subject 

of the course is the War of Independence. The roots of the 

Turkish Republic (i.e., the social and economic structure 

of the Ottoman Empire) as well as fundamental concepts 

relevant to the subject (such as republic and freedom) are 

also covered during the course. 


Restriction(s): HTR 101 


TÜRK DEVRİM TARİHİ I 

Bu dersin amacı, Türk Devrimi’nin anlamını ve 

önemini öğrencilere öğretebilmektir. Dersin ana konusu, 

Kurtuluş Savaşı’dır. Ders, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin 

kökleri (Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun sosyal ve kültürel 

yapısı), cumhuriyet, bağımsızlık gibi temalar etrafında 

yürütülecektir. 

EHTR 102 - HISTORY OF TURKISH 

REVOLUTION II 

The aim of this course is to teach students the meaning 

and significance of the Turkish Revolution. The main 

subject of the course is the building of the modern Turkish 

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Republic and Kemalist principles. 


Restriction(s): HTR 102 


TÜRK DEVRİM TARİHİ II 


önemini öğrencilere öğretebilmektir. Modern Türkiye 

Cumhuriyeti’nin kuruluşu ve Kemalist ilkeler dersin 

temel konularını oluşturur. 

ELAN 107 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 

This course is an English structure and vocabulary course, 

mainly for students who completed the preparatory year 

English program without doing the pre-faculty course and 

for students who need to further improve their academic 

language skills in order to successfully participate in their 

core courses. This course focuses on the application and 

correct use of language structures and vocabulary. Upon 

completion of the course, the students are expected to 

have a sufficient range of academic vocabulary and the 

use of different sentence and question forms to be able 

to express viewpoints and make inquisitions in their 

academic studies. 


Restriction(s): LAN 107 

ELAN 108 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 

This course is an advanced English structure and 

vocabulary course mainly for students who successfully 

completed the ELAN 107 course and need further support 

in academic language skills to be able to cope with the 

requirements of their core courses. The course aims to help 

students improve the level of their language proficiency 

with special emphasis on the English language structures 

widely used in academic discourse. This will be achieved 

through text analysis and tasks that require accurate and 

communicative language production in the written mode. 

Upon completion of the course, the students are expected 

to have become more confident and competent in using 

the English language in their academic studies and to 

express themselves with acceptable accuracy and without 

having to restrict what they want to say. 



ELS 111 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS 

DEVELOPMENT 

This course is designed for students who have finished 

the English Preparatory Program with a borderline grade 

and it aims to help these students to further develop their 

English language skills to better function in an English 

medium university. This course aims to effectively and 

efficiently raise students’ standard of English from a 

threshold level to one that allows students to fully function 

in an academic environment.



ELS 311 - LEGAL ENGLISH 

This course has been designed to improve the language 

skills of participants who will need to operate in English 

in an international legal environment. The course content 

consists of realistic texts, tasks and topics similar to those 

practitioners would expect to encounter in their daily 

working lives. The context of the course materials is based 

on international law and covers such areas as contracts, 

corporate and real property as well as other relevant 

aspects of legal practice. The language proficiency of the 

participants in this course is expected to be at least at an 

upper-intermediate (B2 level of CEFR) level. The course 

participants will also be prepared for a Cambridge ESOL 

exam specifically designed for law students or practicing 

lawyers called ILEC (International Legal English 

Certificate), which awards a certificate internationally 

recognized by leading associations. 



ELS 312 - ENGLISH FOR PSYCHOLOGY 

English for Psychology is a skills-based course designed 

for students of psychology. It provides graded practice 

and progressions in the key academic skills that all 

students need, such as listening to lectures and speaking 

in seminars. It also equips students with the specialized 

language they need to participate successfully within a 

psychology department. Extensive listening exercises 

come from psychology lectures, and all reading texts 

are taken from the same field of study. There is also a 

focus throughout on the key psychology vocabulary that 

students will need. 



ELS 313 - BUSINESS ENGLISH I 

This course has been designed to improve the basic 

language skills of participants who will need to operate 

in English in an international business environment. The 

course content consists of simple realistic texts, tasks and 

topics similar to those business professionals would expect 

to encounter in their daily working lives. The context of 

the course materials is based on international business 

topics such as corporate culture, requirement, sales and 

marketing as well as other relevant aspects of business and 

commerce. The language proficiency of the participants 

in this course is expected to be at an intermediate (B1 

level of CEFR) level. The course participants will also 

be prepared for a Cambridge ESOL exam specifically 

designed for business students or practicing business 

professionals called BEC- Preliminary (Business English 





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ELS 314 - BUSINESS ENGLISH II 


skills of participants who will need to operate in English 

in an international business environment. The course 

content consists of realistic texts, tasks and topics 

similar to those business professionals would expect to 

encounter in their daily working lives. The context of 

the course materials are based on international business 

topics such as customer relations, product development 

and branding, as well as other relevant aspects of 

business. The language proficiency of the participants 

in this course is expected to be at an intermediate (B1 

level of CEFR) level. The course participants will also 

be prepared for a Cambridge ESOL exam specifically 

designed for business students or practicing business 

professionals called BEC- Preliminary (Business English 





ELS 315 - FINANCIAL ENGLISH 


skills of participants who will need to operate in English in 

an international finance and accounting environment. The 

course content consists of realistic texts, tasks and topics 

that finance and accounting professionals would expect to 

encounter in their daily working lives. The context of the 

course materials are based on such topic areas as financial 

reporting, company financial strategy, investment 

banking and insurance as well as other relevant contexts 

of finance and accountancy. The language proficiency of 

the participants in this course is expected to be at least 

at an upper-intermediate (B2 level of CEFR) level. The 

course participants will also be prepared for a Cambridge 

ESOL exam, specifically designed (in collaboration with 

ACCA- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) 

for financial and accounting students or practicing 

accountants and finance professionals, called ICFE 

(International Certificate in Financial English), which 

awards a certificate internationally recognized by leading 

associations. 



ELT 100 - COMPUTER SKILLS FOR 

TEACHERS 

This course introduces students to computer use in 

language teaching and material development. 


ELT 145 - ADVANCED COMMUNICATIVE 

COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH I 

This course concentrates on students’ oral communication 

skills. Informal verbal interaction as well as speaking in 

formal settings and public speaking skills are practiced. 


ELT 146 - ADVANCED 

COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN 

ENGLISH II 

This course concentrates on students’ oral communication 

skills. Informal verbal interaction as well as speaking in 

formal settings and public speaking skills are practiced. 


ELT 179 - CRITICAL THINKING AND 

HUMANITIES I 

This course is a critical survey of basic texts in the 

humanities with a particular emphasis on texts related to 

language, human development, and education. The course 

is supported with visual and audio material. 


ELT 180 - CRITICAL THINKING AND 

HUMANITIES II 

This course is a critical survey of basic texts in the 

humanities with a particular emphasis on texts related to 

language, human development and education. The course 

is supported with visual and audio material. 


ELT 201 - SURVEY OF ENGLISH 

LITERATURE I 

This course traces the history of English literature from 

Chaucer to Milton, highlighting major movements and 

works of authors of this period. 



ELT 202 - SURVEY OF ENGLISH 

LITERATURE II 

This course traces the history of English literature up to 

the twentieth century, highlighting major movements and 

works of authors of this period. 



ELT 205 - INTRODUCTION TO 

LINGUISTICS I 

This course introduces students to basic linguistics terms 

and concepts underlying them. Basic components of 

grammar, morphology, syntax, phonology, semantics and 

pragmatics are studied with discussions of examples from 

English and other languages. 




ELT 206 - INTRODUCTION TO 

LINGUISTICS II 

This is a continuation of Introduction to Linguistics I. 

It focuses on topics such as first and second language 

acquisition, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and 

bilingualism. 

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Prerequisite(s): ELT 205 


ELT/E 179 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 









researching, collecting, and organizing information. 









developed. 


ELT/E 180 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 












reading strategies to cope with such texts, as well as to 






developed. 


EMATH 103 - INTRODUCTION TO 

QUANTITATIVE METHODS 

In this course, collecting data, using diagrams to present 

data and using numbers to describe data are studied. 

Moreover, uncertainty and probabilities, decision trees, 

probability distributions and sampling testing are some of 

the other important course subjects. 


Restriction(s): MATH 103

ENG 179 - ENGINEERING IN SOCIETY 

The practice of engineering is embedded within a 

certain social context. Social institutions, norms, and 

values influence the engineer’s work. On the one hand, 

engineering knowledge is socially constructed, and often 

collectively practiced. On the other, engineering artifacts 

interact with cultural and moral context in a multitude 

of ways. This course introduces a systematic coverage 

of the elements of social context, and promotes student 

skills in creative and critical thinking in assessment of 

the interaction between engineering practice and social 

context it is embedded within. In addition to exploration 

of critical readings on the topic, this course draws on 

the study of contemporary cases of public debate on 

engineering applications. 


ENG 180 - ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES 

This course provides students with an understanding of 

the interrelation of science, technology, the environment 

and biology in an engineering context. It allows students 

to explore different disciplines in the field of engineering. 

The course consists of overture lectures conducted by the 

Faculty’s academic staff, scientists and engineers. 


ENG/E 179 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 


















developed. 


ENG/E 180 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 








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developed. 


ESE 250 - SUSTAINABILITY AND ITS 

IMPACT ON DECISION MAKING 

In recent years sustainability has been emphasized as one 

of the key factors in personal and business decisions. We 

impact the sustainability of Earth, as we know it, through 

choices we make both as individuals and as businesses. 

This course is designed to provide an overall understanding 

of the “sustainability” concept, its importance and threats 

to a sustainable future, introduction to decision tools 

that address sustainability issues, and potential business 

opportunities sustainability concern can create. This 

course integrates theoretical knowledge with individual or 

group studies to create an interactive and lively classroom 

atmosphere. Students will be encouraged to think 

strategically and act responsibly and entrepreneurially. 

Due to the broad range of sustainability topics covered, 

from social problems to financial and technical issues, 

such as renewable energy, recycling waste, water, climate 

change, responsible finance, etc., students will have the 

opportunity to choose a topic closely aligned with their 

personal interests. All individual and group studies will be 

shared with the rest of the class, enhancing the practical 

reach of the course. During the semester guest lecturers 

from different organizations will be invited to bring their 

perspectives to the topic. 



ETK 169 - TURKISH I 

This two-semester course is designed to enhance the 

students’ understanding and appreciation of the intricacies 

of contemporary Turkish in written form. The emphasis 

is on research, critical thinking, argument development 

and effective writing. Various genres of expression are 

examined. Assignments include a number of short essays 

and reading reports. 


Restriction(s): TK 121 


TÜRKÇE I 

Dersin amacı, Türkçe’nin dil ve anlatım zenginliğini, 

yazım kurallarını ve dilbilgisi özelliklerini göstermektir. 

Özellikle yazılı anlatımda genel olarak karşılaşılan 

yanlışlar üzerinde durulur. Türkçe’nin sözvarlığı,

sözdizimi, yazım ve ses bilgisi için alıştırmalı çalışmalar 

yapılır. Ders konuları arasında, dünya dilleri ve Türk 

dilleri, Türkçe bilinci, kültür-dil ilişkisi, Türk dergi 

yayıncılığı yer alır. Ödevler, kültür-sanat ve edebiyat 

dergilerini okuma ve tanıtma, İstanbul’u bilerek 

yaşamak üzerine okumaya dayalı gezi-gözlem yazısı gibi 

konulardan oluşur. 

ETK 170 - TURKISH II 



of contemporary Turkish in written form. The emphasis 

is on research, critical thinking, argument development 

and effective writing. Various genres of expression are 

examined. Assignments include a number of short essays 

and reading reports. 


Restriction(s): TK 122 


TÜRKÇE II 

Dersin amacı, öğrencilerin okuma ve araştırma 

isteklerini desteklemek, ilgi alanlarını genişletmek, 

yazılı anlatım yönünden alıştırmalarla özgüvenlerini 

sağlamaktır. Edebi Türkçe için edebi anlatım türleri, 

özellikle roman üzerinde durulur. Akademik Türkçe 

için öğretici yazı türleri, özellikle makale üzerinde 

çalışılır. Programda metin incelemesi bağlamında 

kaynak gösterme, alıntı yapma, dipnot koyma, sayfa 

ve ödev dosyası düzenleme vardır. Ayrıca, dilin işlevli 

kullanılması kapsamında iş mektubu, rapor, özgeçmiş, 

dilekçe yazıları bulunur. 

EU 101 - INTRODUCTION TO THE 

EUROPEAN UNION 

The course aims to introduce students to the European 

Union, its structures, main actors and processes. Starting 

with the historical background, it will explore the 

development of the European treaties and the role of the 

main institutions and bodies, especially the European 

Parliament, the Council and the Commission. It will 

analyze selected policy areas as well as the conditions and 

dynamics of the enlargement process. 



EU 117 - GERMAN I 

This course gives the student the opportunity to study a 

second foreign language which is an important language 

of the European Union area. 


Restriction(s): EU 119 or EU 217 or EU 219 or EU 229 or EU 

317 

EU 119 - FRENCH I 




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319 

EU 127 - GERMAN II 





Restriction(s): EU 129 or EU 227 or EU 229 or EU 327 

or EU 329 

EU 129 - FRENCH II 






329 

EU 212 - HISTORY AND POLITICS OF 

EUROPEAN INTEGRATION 

This course provides an overview of the history, the 

evolving treaty framework, the polical institutions, 

the decision-making processes and key policies of the 

European Union. The course will address the questions 

related to particular choices of institutional design, 

policies and enlargement of the European Union in line 

with preferences and priorities of individual member 

states and the EU institutions as well as the changing 

international context. 


Restriction(s): IR 492 and IR 431 


EU 217 - GERMAN III 





Prerequisite(s): EU 117 and EU 127 


EU 219 - FRENCH III 







EU 222 - INTRODUCTION TO 

EUROPEAN CULTURE 

This course gives a broad outline of the basic structures 

and topics of European culture. It is an introduction to 

European cultural history from the early Middle Ages to 

our times. 



EU 223 - QUANTITATIVE AND 

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS 

Topics to be covered include the nature of social research 

and philosophies of social research: methodological 

questions, qualitative-quantitative and comparative 

analyses, identifying a research topic, review of the 

literature, analysis of documents, interviews, content 

analysis, and writing up and preparing a research 

proposal. 


Restriction(s): IR 342 or PSY 301 or SOC 211 



EU 227 - GERMAN IV 





Prerequisite(s): EU 117 and EU 127 and EU 217 

Restriction(s): EU 129 or EU 229 or EU 329 

EU 229 - FRENCH IV 






Restriction(s): EU 127 or EU 227 or EU 327 

EU 311 - CONCEPTUALIZING THE EU: 

INSTITUTIONS, POLICIES AND 

POLITICAL DEBATES 

The course is designed to provide an understanding of 

the political institutions and political processes of the 

member countries of the European Union and of how 

the accession process has transformed the governmental 

institutions, central-local relations, political parties, 

NGOs and political life in these countries. 


Restriction(s): IR 431 or IR 492 


EU 312 - LAW OF THE INTERNAL 

MARKET 

The aim of this course is to give a comprehensive 

introduction to the law governing the European Union 

including both the constitutional order of the Union (ie, 

institutions, divisions of competence, legislation, etc), 

as well as the substantive law of the Common European 

Market. The substantive law of the European Union will 

be the major focus of the course and cover issues such as 

the four market freedoms of the European Community, 

EC Competition Law and the regulations governing the 

European Monetary Union and the European Central 

Bank. 



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EU 315 - YOUTH AND EUROPE 

The course will investigate the concept of youth, looking 

at a number of different historical and contemporary 

concepts of youth at the European level. It will be an 

introduction to the concept of “youth” from a European 

perspective in the form of policy, opportunities and 

programs funded by both the EU and Council of Europe 

institutions. The course is meant to provide a discussion 

opportunity about the social, economic and cultural aspects 

of “being young” with respect to recent developments in 

youth legislation and research with a critical perspective, 

thus providing insight into possible trends regarding the 

relationship between young people and Europe on both 

national and international levels. 



EU 317 - GERMAN V 







319 

EU 319 - FRENCH V 







317 

EU 321 - EU-TURKISH RELATIONS 

This course provides an overview of EU-Turkey relations 

since the early days of the integration. It will explore 

the impact of international context and of domestic 

considerations on the depth and pace of Turkey’s 

alignment with the EU. Special emphasis will be placed 

on Turkey’s recent attempts at political and economic 

transformation in pursuit of EU membership. The course 

structure is designed to reflect both the legal framework 

and the changing political dynamics of this uneasy 

relationship. 




EU 323 - MANAGERIAL CULTURES 

ACROSS EUROPE 

The aim of the course is to enable students to conceptualize 

and differentiate the different forms of capitalism that 

developed in Europe over the centuries with an emphasis 

on institutions, political regimes and states, corporate 

heritage and values. Understanding the competitiveness 

of today’s European Union will be accomplished through

a brief historical analysis of capitalist development 

in Europe, charting competitive and uncompetitive 

industries. The course will also explore different 

managerial cultures, such as the Scandinavian, Rhenan, 

Latin genres of management that emerged in Europe 

through the interaction of various factors that emerged 

historically and are being reshaped in the present. The 

role of the state, mass education, regional and local 

institutions, religion and culture, corporate actors and 

other international players will be singled out in exploring 

European management trends. Convergence within 

Europe and the hegemonic attempts (of the American 

management models) will also be discussed. 




EU 325 - CERTIFICATE PROGRAM ON THE 

EUROPEAN UNION 

This course aims to provide students with fundamental 

and practical knowledge about various areas of 

specialization in the European Union. The course consists 

of 20 three-hour modules, each module presented by an 

expert on the issue under consideration. The medium of 

instruction for this course is Turkish. Students who want 

to add this course to their programs must register in the 

European Union Certificate Program, administered by 

the European Institute at İstanbul Bilgi University. The 

European Union Certificate Program is opened twice 

a year, around November and March each year. The 

program, which lasts 12 weeks, is taught on Saturdays 

and the student’s performance is assessed based on a 

term paper and a final exam, the latter being given at the 

end of the program. 




AVRUPA BİRLİĞİ SERTİFİKA 

PROGRAMI 

Avrupa Birliği Sertifika Dersi, öğrencilere Avrupa 

Birliği alanında uzmanlık gerektiren konularda temel 

ve pratik bilgi donanımı kazandırmayı amaçlamaktadır. 

20 uzman konuşmacının farklı konulardaki üçer saatlik 

sunumlarından oluşan dersin öğrenim dili Türkçe’dir. 

Dersi programlarına eklemek isteyen öğrencilerin, 

İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Avrupa Birliği Enstitüsü 

tarafından yılda iki kez düzenlenen Avrupa Birliği 

Sertifika Programı’na kaydolmaları gerekmektedir. 

Öğrenciler, Cumartesi günleri gerçekleşecek 12 haftalık 

programın bitimini takiben yapılacak bir yazılı sınava 

ek olarak, dönem içinde hazırlayacakları bir ödev ile 

değerlendirileceklerdir. 

EU 327 - GERMAN VI 




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329 

EU 329 - FRENCH VI 







327 

EU 411 - EU EXTERNAL POLICY AND 

ENLARGEMENT 

This course focuses on EU enlargement and the EU’s 

relations with third countries from political, economic 

and social perspectives. Discussions around the future 

of Europe and a global role for Europe will be given 

particular attention. 




EU 413 - JUDICIAL REMEDIES IN THE 

EUROPEAN LAW 

Direct Actions against Member States: Judicial Review 

of Community Acts. Actions for Annulment/Failure to 

Act. Indirect Challenge. Damages against Community 

Institutions. 



EU 414 - THEORIES OF INTEGRATION 

This course looks in depth at the theories of European 

integration ranging from conventional approaches such as 

realism, liberalism and neofunctionalism to more critical 

ones including constructivism and post-structuralism. 

Theoretical insight derived primarily from the field 

of international relations will be utilized to interpret 

contemporary issues in European integration. 




EU 416 - EUROPEAN POLITICAL 

ECONOMY 

This is the core course of the fourth year BA in European 

Studies. It attempts to convey how the relationship 

between state and economy in Western, Central, Eastern 

and Southeast Europe has evolved over the postwar 

period. The course aims to provide students with 

both a deep analytical understanding and a systematic 

treatment of empirical issues related to the evolution of 

the European political economy. Topics include: the state 

and economy in Europe, economic theory and policy in 

Europe, the political economy of European integration, 

the political economy of EU enlargement, monetary

union, the creation of a single market, the Lisbon process 

and the democratic paradoxes of the EU. 



EU 421 - EUROPEAN SECURITY 

This course explores the EU’s attempts to develop a 

common foreign and security policy to enhance its voice 

in world affairs. This policy has remained one of the most 

contentious issues of the European integration. The course 

will cover the entire history of attempts and initiatives 

for political cooperation since the 1960s. The emphasis 

will be on the specifics of institutions and processes of 

foreign and security policy cooperation and on the EU’s 

performance so far. This specific policy will be examined 

within the contexts of both European and international 

security, dealing also with EU-NATO relations and the 

emerging European Security and Defense Policy. 




EU 426 - EU FUNDS AND PROJECTS 

This course builds on BUS 304 Project Management. It 

is aimed at familiarizing students with EU funds that are 

available for financing projects. The course will begin with 

an overview of EU funds. Since the course is primarily 

geared towards accumulating practical skills, students should 

expect to enhance their awareness and understanding of the 

EU funding environment, learn and apply the procedures for 

application, appreciate the specific preparations needs for 

applications, and finally, develop and implement bid-writing 

and submitting procedures. 





EVBA 101 - INTRODUCTION TO 

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 


understanding of the business environment and basics of 

business life. At the completion of the course, students 

should have a knowledge of the nature of organizations 

as systems, understand the environment within which 

business undertakings take place, gain an understanding 

of different business functions and the principles and 

methods which govern business decisions and their 

solutions and be able to critically analyze and evaluate 

business-related problems within and outside the 

organization. 


Restriction(s): PUB 205 or VOC 101 

EVBA 105 - BUSINESS COMMUNICATION 

This course aims to deal with methods and applications 

for communicating ideas clearly and effectively in a 

variety of business situations. The ability to reach others 

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will be developed and strengthened through this course. 

Students will practice writing reports and business letters 

for common and specific business applications. 



EVBA 106 - PERSPECTIVES ON 

MANAGEMENT 

The aim of the course is to give a basic understanding 

of management theories and practices. The course 

covers principles of managerial practices: planning, 

organizing, directing and controlling, decision-making, 

leading social responsibility and ethics, proper methods, 

strategy implementation and techniques for motivation, 

performance and satisfaction. 



EVBA 107 - INTRODUCTION TO 

MARKETING 

This course is designed to underline the importance of 

marketing in contemporary business environments and 

to introduce the basic concepts and tools of marketing. 

This course is a beginning course in marketing that 

stresses the marketing function’s contribution to any 

organization. 



EVBA 116 - SALES MANAGEMENT 

The goal of this course is the planning and 

implementation of personal selling activities, in 

addition to examining the elements of an effective 

sales force as a key component of an organization’s 

total marketing effort. Among the course objectives 

is understanding the management of the sales force: 

objectives, recruiting, selection, training, motivation, 

compensation, evaluation and control. 



EVBA 119 - GLOBALIZATION AND 

CHANGE MANAGEMENT 

This course will discuss the economic and financial 

foundations of global competition. It will analyze the 

mechanisms that transfer change from one country to 

another in a globalizing world. It will also provide a 

framework for the development of competitive advantage 

by international firms through controlling economic 

and operational exposure and managing change in an 

integrated global economy. 



EVBA 172 - UNDERSTANDING MEDIA IN 

TURKEY 

Why is rating so important for any TV channel? How 

can you affect the reporter with your company’s press

ulletin? How is it possible to tell the story in 30 seconds 

within commercials? Although the questions are different, 

the reference for the answers is clear: Media. In this 

course, we will address these questions and more by 

analyzing the media in Turkey that has become a sector 

with its ”producers” and ”consumers”. 



FM 149 - PROGRAMMING FOR 

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS I 

The course aims to develop skills in reading, 

understanding and writing a document critically, gaining 

the power of using functional English and the ability of 

discussing rationally. The objective of the course is to 

introduce designing of programs, understanding man 

pages, debugging programs, interpreting specifications, 

writing content-structured documents and how to ask 

smart questions. 


FM 150 - PROGRAMMING FOR 

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS II 

The course aims to develop skills in reading, 

understanding and writing a document critically, gaining 

the power of using functional English, the ability of 

discussing rationally. The objective of the course is to 

introduce the designing of programs, understanding man 

pages, debugging programs, interpreting specifications, 

writing content-structured documents and how to ask 

smart questions. 


FM 201 - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT I 

This course focuses on the foundations of financial 

management in corporations. The fundamental concepts 

of finance are the present value and the opportunity 

cost of capital. The valuation of common stocks and 

capital budgeting problems are investigated. Later, 

the risk-return relationship is introduced within the 

frameworks of portfolio theory and asset pricing, and 

capital budgeting and risk relationship is also discussed. 

Practical problems in capital budgeting is the last topic 

of this course. 


Restriction(s): BUS 331 or INF 301 or INF 302 



FM 202 - STOCHASTIC PROCESS 

This course continues to explore the fundamental 

concepts in financial management. In this course, we aim 

to respond to the following questions: What is an efficient 

market and its implications? What is the content of the 

capital structure of the firms? How do corporations issue 

securities? What is the dividend policy and dividend 

controversy? Does debt policy matter? How much should 

a firm borrow? What is the relationship between financing 

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and valuation? What are options and what determines the 

value of the options? How does the value of follow-on 

investment opportunities (real options) affect capital 

budgeting decisions? 


Prerequisite(s): MATH 303 

Restriction(s): MATH 103 



FM 222 - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT II 

This course continues to explore the fundamental 

concepts in financial management. In this course, we aim 

to respond to the following questions: What is an efficient 

market and its implications? What is the content of the 

capital structure of firms? How do corporations issue 

securities? What is the dividend policy and dividend 

controversy? Does debt policy matter? How much should 

a firm borrow? What is the relationship between financing 

and valuation? What are options and what determines the 

value of the options? How does the value of follow-on 

investment opportunities (real options) affect capital 

budgeting decisions? 


Restriction(s): BUS 331 or INF 301 or INF 302 


FM 232 - OPERATIONS RESEARCH- 

DETERMINISTIC MODELING 

This course will examine problems solvable by the 

methods of linear programming methodology, some basics 

of combinatorial geometry, graphical methods, simplex 

method, duality, post-optimality analysis, transportation, 

assignment problems and applications of linear 

programming to problems that arise in manufacturing, in 

the study of service systems, portfolio optimization and in 

finance in general. 


Special Condition(s): MATH 217 



FM 301 - DISCRETE TIME FINANCE 

Topics covered will include: an introduction to financial 

instruments and markets, fixed-income securities and 

rates of return, utility functions and optimal investment, 

simple models of random variation in prices, the 

fundamental concepts of arbitrage, replication, and 

completeness, and the use of arbitrage-free models for 

the valuation of securities and for the management of 

risk. This course introduces the concepts of arbitrage 

and risk-neutral pricing within the context of multiperiod 

financial models. Key elements of stochastic 

calculus such as Markov processes, martingales, 

filtration and stopping times will be developed within 

this context. 



Requires consent of instructor for non-departmental students.

FM 302 - STOCHASTIC CALCULUS 

This course introduces martingales, Brownian motion, 

Ito integrals and Ito’s formula, in both the uni-variate 

and multi-variate case. This is done within the context 

of the Black-Scholes option pricing model and includes 

a detailed examination of this model. This course also 

treats the theory and implementation of interest-rate 

term structure models. The underlying methodology 

is change of measure. Both risk-neutral and forward 

measures are used. Models covered include Hull-White, 

Cox-Ingersoll-Ross, Heath-Jarrow-Morton, and Brace- 

Gatarek-Musiela. 


Prerequisite(s): FM 301 



FM 311 - ACTUARIAL MATHEMATICS 

This course will cover the mathematics of insurance 

and both life and non-life models will be discussed. It 

will include the study of life tables and the definition 

of the main life table (commutative) functions, future 

lifetime as a random variable, distributions density 

functions, moments, uniform distribution of death and 

constant force of mortality. Gompertz and Makeham 

laws of mortality, other life table functions, contrast 

between deterministic and statistical (stochastic) 

approaches, the life table as a population model and 

stationary populations, the main types of insurance 

contract and standard actuarial symbols, expected 

values of payments under different insurance contracts, 

numerical evaluation including life table functions, 

equations of value, net premium, main types of non-life 

policies, premiums and reserves, managing a portfolio 

of non-life policies. 


Special Condition(s): (FM 102 or FM 202) and MATH 303 



FM 322 - RISK THEORY 

Review of conditional expectation and moment, cumulant 

and probability generating functions (moments, cumulants, 

skewness and kurtosis). Loss Distributions (Exponential, 

gamma, Pareto,Weibull, Lognormal...). Utility Theory and 

insurance (Jensen’s Inequality, risk aversion coefficient, 

optimality of stop and loss reinsurance). Individual risk 

model (mixed distributions and risks, convolutions, 

optimal reinsurance). Collective Risk Model (panjer’s 

recursion). Ruin Theory (basic definitions, the adjustment 

coefficient and Lundberg’s inequality, probability of ruin 

in finite time). Premium calculations (definitions of some 

premium calculation principles: expected value, standard 

deviation, variance, zero utility and exponential premium 

and properties of these premiums). Bonus Malus Systems. 

Credibility theory. 




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FM 331 - COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN 

FINANCE 

This course covers topics in the computational methods 

in applied mathematics and finance. The topics include 

introduction to the programming environment in Matlab, 

solving linear systems, zeros and root-finding methods, 

interpolation methods, least squares models and curve 

fitting, differential equations, ODE solvers, eigenvalue 

and singular value decomposition, polynomials, splines, 

and probability distributions. 




FM 332 - FINANCIAL MODELING 

This course provides some important financial models 

and shows how they can be solved numerically and/ 

or simulated using programming environment such as 

Matlab. This course covers standard financial models 

in the areas of corporate finance, portfolio problems, 

options, risk management and interest rate theory. It will 

provide tools for understanding the computational details 

in finance, and attempt to fill the gap between theory and 

practice. 


Special Condition(s): FM 331 


FM 341 - ECONOMETRICS I 

The aim of this course is to learn the statistical properties 

of financial time series and to model the return of the 

financial assets using time series models. The topics to 

be covered include least squares and maximum likelihood 

estimators, correlation and auto-correlation function 

and linear and non-linear models. The second aim is to 

provide an introduction to continuous-time models and 

their applications in finance. 






FM 411 - DERIVATIVES AND RISK 

This course aims to cover valuation models for contingent 

claims and mechanics of derivatives markets. It is an 

advanced course which requires a basic understanding of 

stochastic calculus and discrete valuation models. On the 

successful completion of this course, the students will be 

able to apply various numerical methods for valuation of 

different contingent claims including different types of 

options, swaps, forward agreements and future contracts 

written on various underlying assets. In addition, the 

course will summarize trade practice, the specifications of 

standardized contracts, etc. 




FM 412 - NUMERICAL METHODS IN 

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE 

The aim of this course is to explain, in detail, how 

to efficiently implement a wide range of models and 

methods for pricing and hedging derivative securities. 

The class is divided into two parts. In the first part, 

the class will focus on models and methods which are 

generally applied in FX, equity and commodity markets 

or markets other than fixed income. In the second 

part, the focus will be on methods for implementing 

models constructed specifically for pricing interest rate 

derivatives. 




FM 431 - THE ECONOMETRICS OF 

FINANCIAL MARKETS 

This course covers empirical research techniques and 

methodologies used in the predictability of stock returns, 

market microstructure models, short- and long-run event 

study analysis, trading strategies, ARCH /GARCH family 

of models, term structure models, nonlinear models, datamining 

models, financial risk measurement models. 





FM 451 - PENSION FUNDS 

Topics that will be covered in this course include: 

world-wide review of pension schemes (state schemes, 

professional schemes, pension schemes in EU countries, 

the USA and in Turkey), life table (commutative) 

functions for calculating benefits, premiums and reserves, 

main principles of a pension scheme management and the 

perspective of the firm managing its pension funds will 

also be discussed. 


Special Condition(s): FM 301 or INF 301 


FM 496 - SENIOR PROJECT 

The students will conduct projects in an advanced topic in 

financial mathematics under the supervision of an advisor 

(teams are possible), document and make at least one oral 

presentation describing the work done. 



FTV 147 - FUNDAMENTALS OF 

DIGITAL MEDIA I 

The aim of the course is to provide the students with 

the essential concepts of the human perceptual process 

as a background for imaging, regardless of the medium 

(including photography, graphic design, interactive 

design, film and animation) used to capture, manipulate, 

reproduce or display visual information. 

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Restriction(s): VCD 143 


SAYISAL ORTAMIN TEMELLERİ I 

Bu dersin amacı, görsel algılamanın temel kavramlarını, 

tasarımcının araçları olarak ele alarak öğrenciye 

tanıtmaktır. Bu kavramlar (sinema, sayısal canlandırma, 

çoklu-ortam gibi) belirli bir ‘tasarım ortamı’nın sınırları 

içerisinde kalmadan, görsel iletişim tasarımının tüm 

alanlarını kapsayan bir bakış açısıyla tartışılacaktır. 

Zakia’nın ‘gözbilimi’ (‘eyehology’) olarak tanımladığı 

psikolojik bir detaylandırmadan ziyade pratik sonuçlar 

üzerine yoğunlaşılacaktır. Anlatılan konuları pratik 

işler ve ödevlerle destekleyen ders, ikinci sınıftaki ‘01’ 

kodlu dersler için bir hazırlık niteliği taşımaktadır. 

Görsel algının temelleri, akademik ilgi alanı olmaktan 

çok tasarımcılar için birer araç olarak kullanılacaktır. 

Bu sayede öğrenciler, tasarımcılık meslekleri süresince 

kullanacakları değerlendirme ve uygulama becerilerini 

geliştirebileceklerdir. 

FTV 148 - FUNDAMENTALS OF 

DIGITAL MEDIA II 

The course aims to teach the fundamentals of the digital 

media that are relevant to the requirements of the FTV 

student. The course will cover the digital in video and 

music-making and distribution through samples. The 

course also aims to teach methods of problem solving 

while working in the digital media environment, and the 

use of industrial resources in this area. 





SAYISAL ORTAMIN TEMELLERİ II 

Bu dersin amacı, görsel algılamanın temel kavramlarını, 

tasarımcının araçları olarak ele alarak öğrenciye 

tanıtmaktır. Bu kavramlar (sinema, sayısal canlandırma, 

çoklu-ortam gibi) belirli bir ‘tasarım ortamı’nın sınırları 

içerisinde kalmadan, görsel iletişim tasarımının tüm 

alanlarını kapsayan bir bakış açısıyla tartışılacaktır. 

Zakia’nın ‘gözbilimi’ (‘eyehology’) olarak tanımladığı 

psikolojik bir detaylandırmadan ziyade pratik sonuçlar 

üzerine yoğunlaşılacaktır. Anlatılan konuları pratik 

işler ve ödevlerle destekleyen ders, ikinci sınıftaki ‘01’ 

kodlu dersler için bir hazırlık niteliği taşımaktadır. 

Görsel algının temelleri, akademik ilgi alanı olmaktan 

çok tasarımcılar için birer araç olarak kullanılacaktır. 

Bu sayede öğrenciler, tasarımcılık meslekleri süresince 

kullanacakları değerlendirme ve uygulama becerilerini 

geliştirebileceklerdir. 

FTV 210 - INTRODUCTION TO ART 

DIRECTION 

This course covers the history, theory and practice of art 

direction and design in cinema which collaboratively

have a primary role in creating the look of the film, for it 

is the art department and the art director who are liable for 

the design and the ambience of the scenes. 



FTV 211 - SCRIPTWRITING I 

This course is designed to teach students scriptwriting 

technique. The aim is not to impose specific recipes on 

them, but to develop their existing abilities. Students will 

learn to discipline their ideas, as they will be assisted 

to develop their ideas from scratch and put them into 

meaningful contexts. Each session will cover a specific 

topic and students will be shown a film related to this 

topic. The objective is to help them get into the habit of 

analyzing films according to dramaturgical rules. The 

sessions will be followed by exercises on the topic. 




SENARYO YAZIMI I 

Senaryo yazımının temel ilkelerini içeren bu 

ders, öğrenciyi yaratıcılığını engelleyen kalıplara 

sıkıştırmaksızın bir film senaryosunda olması gereken 

biçimsel öğelerle tanıştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Dramatik 

yapılar, film öyküsü geliştirme (sinopsis) gibi yaratıcı 

konuları içeren ders kapsamında, öğrenciler her ders ayrı 

bir film izleyerek bahsedilen konuları uygulamalı olarak 

gözlemleme imkânı bulacaklardır. 

FTV 212 - SCRIPTWRITING II 

This course is designed as a continuation of FTV 211. 

The students will learn the principal rules of dramatic 

construction, dramatic elements, preparation and dramatic 

irony. They will be taught, on a one-to-one basis, to explore 

an idea or a problem and carry it to the cinematographic 

level with the help of films and comparative samples. 

Students will be asked to apply screenwriting techniques 

to their own lives or to the stories they choose. 


Prerequisite(s): FTV 211 



SENARYO YAZIMI II 

”Senaryo Yazımına Giriş” dersinin devamı niteliğinde 

olan bu derste, film senaryosunun içerik ve yapısal 

anlamda en önemli elemanları olan çatışma, dramatik 

ironi, metafor, karakter gibi konular örnek senaryo ve 

filmlerle desteklenen bir biçimde işlenecek ve öğrencilerin 

anlatılanlar doğrultusunda özgün senaryolarını yazmaları 

sağlanacaktır. 

FTV 217 - LIGHTING WORKSHOP 

This course provides a study of the aesthetic and technical 

aspects of lighting in film. Students will become familiar 

with various lighting styles and important types of 

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equipment used to implement them, as well as with the 

grip and electrical areas of motion picture production. 





FTV 218 - FILM AND OTHER ARTS II 

This course is designed to explore the relationship of film 

to other arts (and art forms derived from it), stressing the 

importance of influences, collaborations and/or hybrid 

forms. The intention is to see cinema in the context of the 

arts and vice versa. The course will cover the period after 

World War I up until our times. 




SİNEMA VE DİĞER SANATLAR II 

Bu ders, sinemanın diğer sanatlarla ilişkisini, etkilerini, 

birbirleriyle işbirliklerini ve/veya melez formları temel 

alarak incelemek üzere tasarlanmıştır. Dersin amacı, 

sinemayı sanat ve sanatı da sinema bağlamında görmektir. 

“Sinema ve Diğer Sanatlar-II”, 1.Dünya Savaşı’ndan 

sonraki tarihsel dönemi ele alacak ve günümüze kadar 

getirecektir. 

FTV 231 - FILM GRAMMAR I 

This course aims to show how meaning is created within 

cinematic texts by teaching the fundamental rules of the 

language of cinema. Starting with the general aspects 

of film narration, the course will move on to take each 

basic component of cinema and explain how it functions 

within the overall narrative structure. The course will 

focus on sound and mise-en-scène aspects of film. Upon 

the successful completion of the course, the students will 

have obtained the basic tools necessary both for creating 

meaningful films and analyzing the meaning within films. 



FTV 232 - FILM GRAMMAR II 

Students who have completed Film Grammar I will have 

learned how sound and mise-en-scène elements function 

within the overall narration of films. However, they will 

still not have learned how the most important components 

of film language, namely cinematography and editing, are 

used in the creation of meaning. This course will focus on 

these two aspects of cinematic narration. Framing, camera 

movements, shot transitions, ellipsis, flashback and flash 

forward are some of the elements that will be taught in 

their relation to cinematic narration. 




FTV 261 - FILM AND OTHER ARTS I 

This course is designed to explore the relationship of film

to other arts (and art forms derived from it), stressing the 

importance of influences, collaborations and/or hybrid 

forms. The intention is to see cinema in the context of the 

arts and vice versa. The course will cover the period until 

World War I and its aftermath. 




SİNEMA VE DİĞER SANATLAR I 

Bu ders, sinemanın diğer sanatlarla ilişkisini, etkilerini, 

birbirleriyle işbirliklerini ve/veya melez formları temel 

alarak incelemek üzere tasarlanmıştır. Dersin amacı, 

sinemayı sanat ve sanatı da sinema bağlamında görmektir. 

Sinema ve Diğer Sanatlar-I, I. Dünya Savaşı’na kadar ve 

hemen ertesindeki dönemi ele alacaktır. 

FTV 271 - VIDEO PRODUCTION I 

This course is designed to introduce video equipment 

and its use. Camera types, the working principles of 

the camera and TV system, lenses, camera movements, 

camera mounting equipment and a basic knowledge of 

audio equipment will be covered within this course. The 

course aims to introduce the students to contemporary 

video production concepts and equipment along with a 

basic history of technical development in this area. 





VİDEO YAPIMI I 

Bu ders, video ekipmanı ve kullanımını tanıtmak için 

tasarlanmıştır. Dönem süresince, televizyon sisteminin 

ve kameranın çalışma prensipleri, objektifler hakkında 

genel bilgi, kamera hareketleri, kamera taşıma aletleri, 

ses kayıt aletleri hakkında bilgiler işlenecektir. Bu derste, 

öğrencileri güncel video yapımı kavramları ve aletleriyle 

tanıştırmakla beraber bu alandaki teknik gelişmelerin 

temel tarihini vermek amaçlanmaktadır. 

FTV 272 - VIDEO PRODUCTION II 

This course will focus on the multiple-camera studio 

production. The visual content and technical aspects 

of studio production will be extensively covered. 

Each student will be expected to assume the various 

responsibilities associated with studio production 

processes and participate in producing quality studio 

productions. The industry standards in television 

production will be the criteria in evaluating each student’s 

projects. Meticulous planning, professional execution of 

class projects and teamwork are the keys to success in 

this course. 






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VİDEO YAPIMI II 

Çok kameralı ve rejili stüdyo sisteminde yapım 

uygulamalarını kapsayan bu ders içerisinde, stüdyo yapımının 

teknik ve içerik özellikleri yoğun biçimde işlenirken değişik 

formatlarda (yarışma, eğlence, talk-show, sit-com, kurmaca 

film, vb.) yapım tasarımı ve uygulamalarına yönelik 

çalışmalar gerçekleştirilecektir. Televizyon ve sinema 

sektöründeki güncel uygulamaların öğrenci projelerini 

değerlendirmede belirleyici rol oynayacağı ders, öğrencileri 

profesyonel olarak çalışabilmeleri için gereken donanıma 

ulaştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. 

FTV 282 - NON-LINEAR ELECTRONIC 

EDITING 

This course is an advanced study of the various tools 

and techniques used in editing on non-linear electronic 

systems for films. During the course, we will delve into 

the practical and aesthetic construction of motion pictures 

by using non-linear electronic editing systems. 




FTV 306 - POST-PRODUCTION 

Different post-production pathways will be examined 

throughout this course: shooting on film, then finishing on 

film, shooting on film, then mastering on video, shooting 

on video, finishing on video and then transferring to 

film. Students will learn the concepts behind all these 

pathways in detail. Advanced topics such as tape-based 

advanced-time-code editing, advanced non-linear editing, 

EDLs, digital compositing, key code transfers, tele-ciné 

basics and surround sound mixing techniques will also be 

covered. Field trips to several post-production facilities in 

İstanbul will familiarize students with the industry. 


Prerequisite(s): FTV 271 and FTV 282 




POST-PRODÜKSİYON 

Bu derste, farklı post-prodüksiyon çalışma yolları 

incelenecektir: Film çekmek, filme basmak. Film çekmek, 

videoda bitirmek. Film çekmek, video ile tamamlamak ve 

filme geri basmak örneklerinde olduğu gibi. Öğrenciler 

bütün bu çalışma yollarının arkasındaki kavramları 

ayrıntıları ile öğreneceklerdir. Kaset üzerinden gelişmiş 

‘time-code’a dayalı kurgu, ‘non-linear’ kurgu, ‘EDL’, 

dijital efekt, ‘key kod’ aktarımı, ‘tele-cine’ temel bilgileri, 

‘surround ses’ miksajı teknikleri işlenecektir. Öğrencileri 

sektör ile tanıştırmak için İstanbul’daki post-prodüksiyon 

şirketlerine geziler düzenlenecektir. 

FTV 313 - FTV PROJECT 

FTV Project is a course designed to encourage its 

participants to focus and work on cinematographic 

problems and contemporary issues predefined by well

known film directors and academics. These activities 

may include film productions, performances, exhibitions 

and seminars. Research, development, proposal and 

production phases of two or three projects per semester 

will be carried out by course students under the supervision 

of the course director and creative professionals. There 

will be an audition during the registration period for this 

elective course. 




FTV PROJESİ 

Bu ders, öğrencilerin sinemada teknik problemlere ve 

tanınmış yönetmenler ve akademisyenler tarafından 

sunulan güncel olaylara odaklanmalarını sağlar; bunlar 

üstünde çalışmaları için cesaretlendirir. Yaptıkları işler, 

film yapımı, performanslar, sergiler ve seminerler şeklinde 

olabilir. Üretilecek işlerin araştırma, geliştirme, öneri ve 

üretim aşamaları dersi alan öğrenciler tarafından,öğretim 

görevlisinin veya dışarıdan profesyonellerin 

gözetmenliğinde yapılacaktır. Derse öğrenci kaydı 

mülakatla yapılacaktır. 

FTV 314 - WRITING LAB 

This course deals with various techniques and for creative 

writing for moving images. This may well include 

mastering basic techniques such as script doctoring 

for storytelling but also aims at exploring new and 

experimental ways of concept development for various 

media through the writing process. The course will be held 

with the contribution of visiting creative professionals to 

give students the chance to present their work and open 

it to interpretation by people from different backgrounds. 





YAZIM LABORATUVARI 

Bu ders, hareketli görseller için yaratıcı yazım teknikleri 

hakkındadır. Bu en basit senaryo tekniklerinden değişik 

ortamlar için yazı yoluyla üretilecek daha deneysel 

kavramları geliştirmeye kadar uzanan bir yelpazede 

olacaktır. Derse konuk olarak katılacak profesyonel 

yazarların katkısıyla, öğrencilerin değişik görüşler 

karşısında işlerini sunma imkânları olacaktır. 

FTV 319 - ADVANCED EDITING 

WORKSHOP 

This course offers an advanced and extensive workshop 

on film and video editing. Focused especially on tips and 

tricks of the craft which is also the heart of filmic reality, 

the course will help students to develop a sense of pacing, 

timing, rhythm and movement for different genres. It 

will give students a perspective on “editing theory in 

production”. 


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FTV 320 - EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA 

This course treats the experimental cinema as a survey in a 

rough chronological order and explores how experimental 

cinema pushes the boundaries of film language and 

provokes us to see and experience our world in a new way. 




FTV 326 - FOUND FOOTAGE 

This course provokes the students to consider the practice 

of “recycling” images perhaps not intended by the 

original “owner” or “creator”. Students complete several 

short projects involving image and sound, editing, using 

found footage, documentary or other genres and styles. 





FTV 327 - NEW WAYS OF VIDEO 

DOCUMENTARY 

This course explores the contemporary world of 

documentary video production, focusing on the 

relationship between style and subject in research, 

development, production and post production. Taking 

advantage of our privileged location in Turkey’s major 

city, this course will encourage the students to benefit 

from the political, social and cultural resources within 

İstanbul and emphasize the power of documentary. It is 

a follow-up course to Video Production II. Teaching is 

mainly through workshops and tutorials. The workshops 

are structured to correspond to the logic of production. 




FTV 331 - PRODUCTION PLANNING 

This course aims to familiarize students with the process of 

producing a film. Breaking down a script into a production 

schedule and a budget, finance arrangements, advance 

preparations for production, choosing a working group, 

filming schedules, control of the production and postproduction 

process and budget follow-up will be covered. 



FTV 381 - CINEMATOGRAPHY 

This course aims to cover basic elements of 

cinematography with in-class exercises. Students will 

have the chance to shoot on 16 mm film for both group 

and individual projects. They will also be introduced 

to the tele-ciné process while they visit professional 

post-production facilities to transfer their own film to 

videotape. Physics of light, chemistry of film, camera

lenses for film, lighting, aperture and their collective 

relationship will be covered. 





SİNEMADA GÖRÜNTÜ YÖNETMENLİĞİ 

Bu ders, sınıf içi uygulamalarla sinematografinin temel 

öğelerini tanıtmayı amaçlamaktadır. Öğrencilerin 

grup ve kendi projeleri olmak üzere 16mm film ile 

çekim yapma şansları olacaktır. Aynı zamanda, kendi 

filmlerinin sektörde yapılacak telesine süreci içinde 

telesine aşamasını yakından gözlemleme fırsatı 

bulacaklardır. Derste ışık fiziği, filmin kimyası, 

objektif, ışık ve diyafram öğeleri ve de bu öğeler 

arasındaki kolektif ilişki işlenecektir. 

FTV 382 - AUDIO CRAFT 

This course examines the role of the sound in production 

and post-production. The course covers sound theory as 

well as applied practices with location sound recording 

and the process of audio post-production. 




FTV 401 - SENIOR PROJECT I 

This is the first stage of the senior project, where students 

begin to develop their work with their project advisors 

and meet regularly as a group to discuss their progress and 

issues related to their topics. 



SON SINIF PROJESİ I 

Son sınıf proje çalışmasının birinci aşaması olan bu derste, 

öğrenciler proje danışmanlarıyla birlikte projelerini 

geliştirmeye başlarlar. Ayrıca öğrenciler ilerlemelerini 

ve konularıyla ilgili meseleleri tartışmak için belirli 

aralıklarla biraraya gelirler. 

FTV 402 - SENIOR PROJECT II 

This is the second stage of the senior project. Students 

continue to develop their senior project with their projects 

advisors and meet regularly as a group to discuss their 

progress and issues related to their topics. 




SON SINIF PROJESİ II 

Son sınıf projesinin ikinci aşaması olan bu derste, 

öğrenciler proje danışmanlarıyla birlikte projeleri 

üzerinde çalışmaya devam ederler. Ayrıca öğrenciler 

ilerlemelerini ve konularıyla ilgili meseleleri tartışmak 

için belirli aralıklarla bir araya gelirler. 

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FTV 419 - COMPOSITING AND 

DIGITAL EFFECTS 

Students will learn the basics of image manipulation, title 

design, compositing, graphic design and special visual 

effects for digital post-production using various software 

applications. Areas of application like chroma keying, 

CGI integration and multi-layer compositing will be 

probed. 



FTV 423 - ADVANCED STUDIO 

LIGHTING FOR FILM AND 

TELEVISION 

This course aims to familiarize students with professional 

level studio lighting concepts, principles and procedures. 

Each week professional gaffers, electricians, lighting 

directors and cinematographers will be lecturing on 

different topics. The course will be an intensive workshop 

in a real studio environment with professionals from the 

sector, which will give the student a unique opportunity to 

experience working with professionals. 




FTV 425 - DVD DESIGN 

This is a craft production course that explores digital 

options and focuses on DVD authoring. The objective of 

this course is to acquaint the filmmaker with processes 

involved in the creation of an interactive DVD. 




FTV 452 - ADVANCED CAMERA 

TECHNIQUES 

This course presents advanced camera techniques for 

students pursuing a career in the professional film 

craft category of cinematography. Utilizing the digital 

medium, students will master advanced technical and 

creative aspects of electronic imaging. Students will work 

on camera mechanics, fuctionality and limitations of the 

technologies. This course will place a strong emphasis on 

the responsibilites of the first assistant cameraperson and 

camera operator. 




FTV 461 - SOUNDTRACK 

This course focuses on the principles and the stylistic 

aspects of soundtrack. The students are expected to think 

about the audio dimension of filmic representation and they 

are encouraged to do both for theoretical and practical work. 

The students will get a chance to put soundtracks on existing 

film cuts as well as present examples of sound design as a 

stage in the development of their individual projects.


Prerequisite(s): FTV 271 and FTV 382 and (FTV 282 or FTV 

319) 



FTV 472 - SHORT FILM PRODUCTION 

This is a one-semester course in which students will 

develop their own short film projects (including nonfiction 

and experimental works) from concept to 

completion. They will present these projects at various 

stages in class. Concept development, research, script 

preparation, location scouting, storyboarding, casting, 

rehearsing, rewriting dialogues, organizing a crew, script 

breakdown, art direction, working with the director of 

photography, editing, sound mixing and music will be 

covered. Note that the students planning to graduate with 

a film project are required to take this course. 





KISA FİLM YAPIMI 

Kendi kısa filmlerini (belgesel, video ve deneysel filmler 

de dahil olmak üzere) gerçekleştirecekleri bu derste 

öğrenciler, senaryo yazımından, mekan belirlenmesine, 

sahnelerin resimlenmesinden, oyuncu seçimi ve ekip 

oluşturulmasına kadar tüm yapım aşamalarını sınıftaki 

öğrencilerle paylaşıp tartışarak hayata geçireceklerdir. 

Yapım sonrası gerçekleştirilmesi gereken aşamalar (kurgu, 

ses miksajı, müzik, vb.) da bu dersin kapsamındadır. 

Bitirme projesi olarak film çekmeyi düşünen öğrencilerin 

bu dersi almaları zorunludur. 

GE 103 - GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY 

The course aims to provide a learning environment for 

students who would like to know more about civil activism 

outside Turkey and Europe. Examples of civil activism from 

Latin America, Asia and Africa will be analyzed throughout 

the course. Some examples that will be covered in the 

course are Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, MST and BRAC. 

The course will further try to elaborate on the new social 

movements of the 90s through analyzing the connection 

between the local and the international by providing 

references to the alternative globalization movement. 

Comparative analysis of the anti-system movements of the 

60s and 90s will be deliberated by discussing the anti-war 

movements and social forum processes. The connection of 

civil activism in Turkey with the global movement will be 

critically discussed with the involvement of activists from 

Turkey.The course aims to provide a learning environment 

for a critique of global civil movements to the established 

institutions of the new world order, such as the IMF, 

World Bank and the WTO. Key references will be made to 

theoreticians such as Negri, Freire and Klein. 



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KÜRESEL SİVİL TOPLUM 

Bu ders, Türkiye ve Avrupa dışındaki sivil aktivizmi 

öğrenmek isteyen öğrenciler için hazırlanmıştır. Derste 

Latin Amerika, Asya ve Afrika’dan sivil aktivizm 

örnekleri incelenecektir. Bazı örnekler, Plaza de Mayo, 

MST ve BRAC derslerinde incelenecektir. Ders, yerel ve 

uluslararası olan arasındaki ilişkiyi, alternatif küreselleşme 

haraketleri bağlamında 1990’ların yeni sosyal hareketleri 

üzerinden ayrıntılı olarak kapsamayı hedeflemektedir. 

1960’ların ve 1990’ların sistem-karşıtı haraketleri, 

savaş-karşıtı hareketler ve sosyal forum süreçleri ile 

karşılaştırmalı olarak analiz edilecektir. Küresel hareket 

ile Türkiye’deki sivil aktivizmin ilişkisinin, Türkiye’den 

aktivistlerin katılımıyla tartışılması planlanmaktadır. 

Ders, IMF, Dünya Bankası ve DTÖ gibi kurumlara karşı 

küresel sivil hareketlerin eleştirisi için bir öğrenim alanı 

oluşturmayı amaçlamaktadır. Anahtar göndermeler, 

Negri, Freire ve Klein gibi teorisyenler üzerine kurulu 

olacaktır. 

GE 104 - CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN 

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY 

This course aims at developing an understanding of the 

issues concerning the environment and ecology from 

a multidisciplinary perspective, especially focusing on 

problems arising from human intervention and attempted 

solutions thereof, trying to develop a universal approach 

by starting from everyday life and problems in Europe, 

Turkey and Istanbul. 



ÇEVRE VE EKOLOJİDE GÜNCEL 

KONULAR 

Ders, öğrencilerin çevre ve ekoloji ile ilgili konuların 

çok disiplinli ve karmaşık karakteri ve insan müdahalesi 

sonucunda yaşanan sorunlar ile geliştirilen yanıtlar 

hakkında Avrupa, Türkiye ve İstanbul bağlamında 

gündelik yaşamları içinde birebir karşılaştıkları ve/veya 

güncel konulardan yola çıkarak bütüncül bir anlayış 

geliştirilmelerini amaçlamaktadır. Bu çerçeve içinde 

dünya sistemi, ekosistem ve dinamikleri ve bunlara 

insan etkisi, kaynak kullanımı (yenilenebilirlik ve 

yenilenemezlik), endüstriyalizm ve endüstriyel üretim ve 

tüketim pratikleri, küresel ticaret ve tüketim ekonomisi, 

atıklar, enerji üretim ve kullanımı ve kentleşme gibi 

nedenler, biyolojik çeşitlilik ve doğal habitatların kaybı, 

küresel iklim değişimi, kentsel çevrenin bozulması gibi 

sonuçlar ve insan ve doğa sağlığı, insan hakları, kültürel 

haklar, cinsiyet eşitliği, sosyal adalet ve politikaya 

etki ve yansımaları ile birlikte ele alınacaktır. Son 

olarak, bu kapsayıcı soruna getirilen yanıtlar olarak 

teknolojist yaklaşımlar ve sürdürülebilir kalkınma, 

çevre politikaları, ekonomik yanıtlar, AB çerçevesi 

dahil olmak üzere uluslararası ve ulusal çevre hukuku, 

kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk ve bireysel çözümler gibi 

gönüllü girişimler ile çevreci, ekolojist ve yeşil hareket

ve kampanyalar ve çevre STK’ları, ekolojik yurttaşlık, 

radikal demokrasi, yeni sosyal hareketler ve ekolojist 

eleştirellik perspektifinden tartışılacaktır. Ders film ve 

belgesel izleme ve tartışmaları, vakalar, rol oyunu ve 

simülasyonlar, grup çalışmaları, konuk konuşmacılar 

ve saha ziyaretleri yoluyla interaktif bir şekilde 


GE 106 - AUDIO CULTURE 

This course aims to investigate the major discussions, 

theoretical concerns, practices and technological 

innovations that led the way to the emergence of a new 

audio culture in the second half of the twentieth century. 

Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, 

the course will provide knowledge about the shifting 

terrains of music and sound by analyzing artworks 

from various decades and approaches, and question the 

dynamics behind the auditory turn in contemporary art 

and culture. 



SES KÜLTÜRÜ 

Bu derste, 20 yüzyılın ikinci yarısında “işitsel kültür”ün 

ortaya çıkmasına neden olan temel tartışmaların, teorik 

ve pratik yaklaşımların ve teknolojik gelişmelerin 

incelenmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Derste, müzik ve ses 

alanlarında yaşanan değişimler, çeşitli dönemler ve 

yaklaşımlardan seçilen örnekler aracılığıyla analiz 

edilecek, çağdaş müziğin tarihi gelişimden ziyade, çağdaş 

sanat ve kültürün işitsel olana dönüşünün arkasındaki 

dinamikler sorgulanacaktır. 

GE 200 - SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, CIVIL 

SOCIETY AND İSTANBUL 

This course aspires to contribute to students’ development 

as responsible individuals, sensitive to social and human 

rights issues together with their social environment, and in 

their becoming citizens who are active in the development 

of civil society and participative democracy. The course 

is specially designed for Erasmus and exchange students 

to discuss subjects such as multiculturalism, citizenship, 

discrimination and human rights based on the students’ 

experiences in Istanbul. During the course, students 

will have the opportunity to experience different sights 

of Istanbul, to meet with NGO representatives and to 

discuss the above-mentioned subjects based on their 

own experiences. The content of the course is based 

mainly on participation, group work and reflections on 

the experiences of the students. Experiential learning 

methodology is supported by formal education strategies 

whose aim is to develop the knowledge, skills and attitude 

of the students. 


Restriction(s): BIL 200 



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GE 201 - SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 

PROJECT I 

This new Social Responsibility Project course aspires 

to contribute to students’ development as responsible 

individuals, sensitive to social and human rights issues 

together with their social environment, and in their 

becoming citizens who are active in the development 

of civil society and participative democracy. The 

content, the process and the experiences are intended to 

complement each other in leading students to improve 

and deepen their respect and tolerance for diversity and 

multiculturalism. The content of the course is based 



methodology is supported by formal education strategies. 

The learning strategy is built on four main indicators: 

knowledge, skills, attitudes and values. Within this 

strategy, there are several participatory learning activities: 

workshops and lectures to increase knowledge, group 

work (field work), assignments and oral presentations 

to increase skills, simulations and group discussions for 

attitude development, and seminars to provide a ground 

for value-based in-depth discussions. 




SOSYAL SORUMLULUK PROJESİ I 

Bu ders, öğrencilerin sorumlu bireyler haline gelmelerine, 

sosyal çevrelerine, insan hakları konularına ve toplumsal 

konulara duyarlı olmalarına, sivil toplumun ve katılımcı 

demokrasinin gelişmesi için aktif vatandaşlar haline 

gelmelerine katkıda bulunmayı hedeflemektedir. Proje 

süreci ve yaşadıkları deneyimin, öğrencilerin çeşitliliğe ve 

çokkültürlülüğe hoşgörülerini artırmak ve güçlendirmek 

amacıyla birbirini tamamlaması amaçlanmaktadır. Dersin 

içeriği, büyük ölçüde katılıma, grup çalışmasına ve 

öğrencilerin deneyimleri üzerine yapılacak tartışmalara 

dayanmaktadır. Deneysel öğrenme, formel eğitim 

stratejileri tarafından desteklenmektedir. Öğrenme 

stratejisi dört ana gösterge üzerine kuruludur: Bilgi, 

beceri, davranışlar ve değerler. Bu strateji dahilinde, bir 

dizi katılımcı öğrenme etkinliği bulunmaktadır: Bilgiyi 

artıracak atölyeler ve konferanslar, grup çalışması 

(saha çalışması), beceriyi artıracak ödevler ve sözlü 

sunumlar, davranış gelişimi için simülasyonlar ve grup 

içi tartışmalar, değer bazlı, kapsamlı tartışmalara ortam 

hazırlayacak seminerler. 

GE 202 - SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 

PROJECT II 

This new Social Responsibility Project course aspires 

to contribute to students’ development as responsible 

individuals, sensitive to social and human rights issues 

together with their social environment, and in their 

becoming citizens who are active in the development 

of civil society and participative democracy. The

content, the process and the experiences are intended to 

complement each other in leading students to improve 

and deepen their respect and tolerance for diversity and 

multiculturalism. The content of the course is based 



methodology is supported by formal education strategies. 

The learning strategy is built on four main indicators: 

knowledge, skills, attitudes and values. Within this 

strategy, there are several participatory learning activities: 

workshops and lectures to increase knowledge, group 

work (field work), assignments and oral presentations 

to increase skills, simulations and group discussions for 

attitude development, and seminars to provide a ground 

for value-based in-depth discussions. 


Prerequisite(s): GE 201 




SOSYAL SORUMLULUK PROJESİ II 

Bu ders, öğrencilerin sorumlu bireyler haline gelmelerine, 

sosyal çevrelerine, insan hakları konularına ve toplumsal 

konulara duyarlı olmalarına, sivil toplumun ve katılımcı 

demokrasinin gelişmesi için aktif vatandaşlar haline 

gelmelerine katkıda bulunmayı hedeflemektedir. Proje 

süreci ve yaşadıkları deneyimin, öğrencilerin çeşitliliğe ve 

çokkültürlülüğe hoşgörülerini artırmak ve güçlendirmek 

amacıyla birbirini tamamlaması amaçlanmaktadır. Dersin 

içeriği, büyük ölçüde katılıma, grup çalışmasına ve 

öğrencilerin deneyimleri üzerine yapılacak tartışmalara 

dayanmaktadır. Deneysel öğrenme, formel eğitim 

stratejileri tarafından desteklenmektedir. Öğrenme 

stratejisi dört ana gösterge üzerine kuruludur: Bilgi, 

beceri, davranışlar ve değerler. Bu strateji dahilinde, bir 

dizi katılımcı öğrenme etkinliği bulunmaktadır: Bilgiyi 

artıracak atölyeler ve konferanslar, grup çalışması 

(saha çalışması), beceriyi artıracak ödevler ve sözlü 

sunumlar, davranış gelişimi için simülasyonlar ve grup 

içi tartışmalar, değer bazlı, kapsamlı tartışmalara ortam 

hazırlayacak seminerler. 

GE 203 - CIVIL SOCIETY, NGOS AND 

PARTICIPATION 

This course aims to provide the students with a 

theoretical and historical background on civil society 

and participation in a liberal democratic system in the 

twentieth century. This course will examine civil society 

organizations with theoretical and practical concerns 

for contemporary political theory, social criticism 

and policy-making processes. Civil society and civil 

society organizations will be discussed regarding their 

effect on the social welfare state and democratization 

processes of the countries. The effects of the civil society 

organizations will be evaluated on local, national and 

international levels in the global context. In the last part 

of the course, the effects of the civil society organizations 

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in Turkey will be discussed historically and theoretically. 

In this part, current discussions on service-based and 

rights-based NGOs, the impact of political conjecture on 

the civil society and NGOs, effects of the civil society 

organizations on the condition of the social welfare state 

and democratization process of Turkey will form the main 

subjects of discussion and debate in the course. 



SİVİL TOPLUM, STK’LAR VE KATILIM 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilere 20 yüzyıl liberal-demokratik 

toplumlarında sivil toplum ve katılımın teorik ve tarihsel 

geri planı hakkında bir çerçeve sunmaktır. Derste sivil 

tolum örgütleri, çağdaş politik teori, toplumsal eleştiri 

ve politika üretme süreçleri açısından teorik ve pratik 

bakımdan irdelenecektir. 

GE 211 - INTRODUCTION TO EU GRANT 

SCHEMES AND PROJECT 

PROPOSAL PREPARATION I 

The course is an introduction to the EU funding in the 

form of grants, loans or tenders, general principles of 

grants, tenders and loans including structural funds, 

community programs and pre-accession instruments 

for candidate countries, projects and programs financed 

by the EU, and to Project Cycle Management (PCM), 

which is the standard procedure used to carry out EU 

programs and projects. The course intends to inform 

students about different types of EU funds within their 

economic and political context, their administration and 

auditing, and effects and criticisms of EU funds, as well 

as to explain the PCM approach focusing on theoretical 

and practical analysis of all project phases (programming, 

identification, formulation, implementation, monitoring, 

reporting, evaluation and audit) as laid out in the general 

rules and requirements of EU financing schemes. 


Restriction(s): EU 215 


AB FON ŞEMALARI VE PROJE 

BAŞVURUSU HAZIRLAMAYA GİRİŞ I 

Bu dersin amacı burslar, krediler ve destek fonları 

biçiminde AB’den alınabilecek desteklerin genel 

ilkeleri, aday ülkelerin AB tarfından desteklenen 

proje ve programlarının hazırlanması ve AB proje ve 

programlarının standart prosedürü olan PCM (Project 

Cycle Management-Proje Döngüsü Yünetimi) işleyişi 

hakkında temel bilgiler vermektir. 

GE 271 - CROSSROADS OF CRISIS: 

21st CENTURY I 

The course examines the causes, nature, dynamics and 

possible solutions or outcomes of a set of conflict-latent 

global problems that are likely to become more acute in 

the present century. Issues that will be covered include

global energy and resource sharing, water scarcity and 

poverty. 

Credit(s): 3 ECTS Credit(s): Term(s): Fall only 

Restriction(s): IR 271 


GE 272 - CROSSROADS OF CRISIS: 

21st CENTURY II 

The course examines the causes, nature, dynamics and 

possible solutions or outcomes of a set of conflict-latent 

global problems that are likely to become more acute in 

the present century. Issues that will be covered include 

refugees and immigration, humanitarian intervention in 

crisis, global information order and fair trade. 

Credit(s): 3 ECTS Credit(s): Term(s): Spring only 



GE 311 - THE MIND AND THE BRAIN 

With the development of neurology into what 

contemporary scientists call “neuro-science”, the 

study of the brain and the neural network of the human 

body ceased to be of interest exclusively to medical 

scientists. The impact of this new understanding on the 

behavioral, social and cognitive sciences has proved to 

be remarkable. A basic understanding, therefore, of how 

the brain works is of great importance both to social 

scientists and to people who utilize applied behavioral 

sciences in their work. The first part of the course 

will focus on a general understanding of the paradigm 

and methodology of contemporary neuro-science The 

second part will focus on the interconnections and 

interactions between neuro-science and other social 

and behavioral sciences. 



ZİHİN VE BEYİN 

Beynin ve insan bedeninin sinir ağının araştırılması, son 

yıllarda sadece tıp biliminin ilgi alanı olmaktan çıkmış, 

”Nöro-Bilim” adıyla tüm sosyal bilimler ve insan bilimleri 

disiplinlerinin de alanlarıyla etkileşime girmiştir. Beynin 

nasıl çalıştığının temel bilgisi, artık davranışsal, sosyal 

ve kognitif bilimleri de ilgilendirmekte ve hem sosyal 

bilimciler, hem de çalışmalarında uygulamalı davranış 

bilimlerinden yararlanan araştırmacılar tarafından konu 

edilmektedir. Bu dersin ilk bölümü, çağdaş Nöro-Bilimin 

paradigması ve metodolojisi üzerine yoğunlaşacak, ikinci 

bölümde ise sosyal bilimler ve davranış bilimleri ile 

etkileşimleri üzerinde durulacaktır. 

HEC 201 - INTRODUCTION TO 

ECONOMICS 

This course aims to give the students the basics of micro 

and macroeconomics. Some of the topics covered in 

the first semester are the theory of consumer behavior, 

the theory of the firm, markets and factors market. The 

second part of the course deals with topics in basic 

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macroeconomics which include aggregation, the closed 

economy, the goods market, money and banking, the open 

economy, exchange rate determination and the money 

sector, prices, inflation and unemployment, the Philips 

curve and the theory of inflation. 

Credit(s): 9 ECTS Credit(s): 18 Term(s): Full Year 

HEC 211 - ELEMENTS OF STATISTICS 

The course will give an introduction to statistics to students 

with some competence in mathematics. The topics will 

be descriptive statistics and exploratory data analysis, 

elementary probability and important distributions, 

estimation and hypothesis testing, goodness-of-fit tests, 

correlation, regression and analysis of variance and basic 

survey sampling. 


HEC 221 - MATHEMATICS 

This course will cover elementary functions and graphs, 

solutions of sets of equations, indices and logarithms, 

sequences and series, especially arithmetic and geometric 

progressions, calculus of one variable, elementary 

linear algebra and the application of the above tools 

toeconomics. 



SOCIOLOGY 

Sociological theory and methods will be covered along 

with the major perspectives in sociology, including 

structural-functionalism, Marxism and Weberian and 

other interpretative approaches, social change, inequality, 

power, authority and bureaucracy. 


HEC 301 - MACROECONOMICS 

This course will examine the determination of real 

income, employment and unemployment, price level and 

inflation in an open mixed economy and the conduct of 

macroeconomic policy. 


HEC 321 - ELEMENTS OF 

ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE 

This course covers balance sheets, cash flow statements, 

income accounts and other accounting statements relating 

to past events and planned activities, their construction, 

use and interpretation: accounting conventions: their 

nature, purposes and limitations, introduction to budgetary 

planning and control and long-range planning and capital 

investment appraisal. 


HEC 331 - MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS 

This course aims to introduce students to basic 

microeconomics, consumer theory, perfect competition, 

imperfect competition and the like. Alternative theories

of the firm, market structure, efficiency wages, individual 

decision-making under uncertainty, theory of games with 

applications to oligopoly, collusion, etc., situations of 

moral hazard and adverse selection. 


HEC 341 - ELEMENTS OF 

ECONOMETRICS AND ECONOMIC 

STATISTICS 

This course aims to introduce students to basic 

econometric techniques. It begins with ordinary least 

square (OLS) estimation and proves unbiasedness, 

efficiency and consistency properties of OLS estimation. 

It then considers topics such as auto-correlation, 

heteroscedasticity, stochastic regressors, simultaneous 

equations and non-stationary time series. Finally, the 

course covers instrumental variable and maximum 

likelihood estimation methods as well as binary choice 

and limited dependent models. 


HEC 351 - OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 

Operations management consists of management 

activities related to the efficient utilization of the physical 

resources of a business in order to produce goods and 

services. Operations is one of the three major functions 

of any organization along with finance and marketing: it 

controls the greatest portion of the assets of manufacturing 

companies. This course focuses on the methods and 

tools for analyzing operational problems and making 

long, medium and short-term operational decisions 

about designing, operating and controlling production 

systems. It also discusses the assumptions, advantages 

and limitations of these methods and tools. 



HEC 361 - PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING 

As competition on a global scale increases, companies 

must establish strategic goals backed up by effective 

marketing strategies. The aim of this course is to 

introduce the basic marketing concepts emphasized under 

the title of ”Connecting with the Customer”. The students 

will analyze several examples of how organizations are 

winning customers around the world, some through 

innovative applications of traditional marketing tools, 

some with marketing’s newest technology, internet 

marketing and some througha unique blend of both. The 

application of marketing strategies with an effective mix of 

product, price, distribution and marketing communication 

tactics adapted to the chosen target markets is the basis 

for companies to survive in a continuously changing 

environment. This course will be able to help the students 

solve the mystery behind the success stories and manage 

resources effectively. 



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MANAGEMENT 

Introduction to the major functions in the organization/ 

firm (marketing, human resources management, finance 

and accounting, production and information systems). 

Perspectives of the organization as a whole and the 

groups and individuals within it. This course will cover 

the structure of organizations, distribution of power, 

decision-making, planning, managing groups and teams, 

managing organizational change, government and 

politics, market structures, culture-specific perspectives, 

evolution of management thought and ethics of 

management. 


HEC 401 - MONETARY ECONOMICS 

This course will include the role and definitions of 

money, theories and evidence of the demand for money, 

an overview of the financial system, the principles of 

banking, fundamentals of interest rates, financial structure 

and economic performance, the control of the money 

supply, the neutrality of money, money and inflation, the 

Phillips curve, monetarism, rational expectations and 

policy effectiveness. 


HEC 403 - MATHEMATICAL 

ECONOMICS 

Introduction to linear and nonlinear economic models: 

emphasizes the formulation and interpretation of modern 

economic theory and welfare economics. 


HEC 405 - GAME THEORY 

Teaching the fundamentals of game theory. It will be a 

rigorous introduction that does not shy away from technical 

detail but that emphasizes modeling issues and solution 

concepts. Game theory emerged as a branch of applied 

mathematics and is still quite mathematical. Although 

we shall rarely use more than algebra, the course will be 

analytically demanding. The hard part of game theory is 

not the math but the logic, and mastering this takes time 

and effort. There are no formal prerequisites for this 

course, but mathematical thinking will be indispensable. 


HEC 407 - ADVANCED 

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS 

Axioms of real number system, topology in metric 

spaces, continuity and uniform continuity, absolute and 

conditional convergence, products of series, uniform 

convergence, equicontinuity, theorems of Weierstrass and 

Stone, contractions in complete spaces. 

Credit(s): 5 ECTS Credit(s):10 Term(s): Full Year 

HEC 409 - OPTIMIZATION THEORY 

Focusing on nonlinear optimization and introducing

some recent development in that field. The major topics 

are theory and algorithms for nonlinear programming, 

large scale methods, modern convex optimization and 

stochastic approximation algorithms. 


HEC 413 - MATHEMATICS OF 

FINANCE AND VALUATION 

The course reviews the financial environment and some 

of the financial derivatives traded on the market. It then 

introduces the mathematical tools which enable the 

modelling of the fluctuations in share prices. 


HEC 421 - ORGANIZATION THEORY 

This course aims to cover economic and ecological 

approaches to organisations, population ecology, 

principle agent theory and property rights, transaction cost 

economics, institutionalists’ approaches to organisations, 

neo-institutionalists’ theories, business systems theory. 


HEC 461 - CORPORATE FINANCE 

This course will cover the goals and objectives of firms 

and the traditional approach to investment appraisal, 

accounting returns, payback, time value of money, net 

present value and internal rate of return, accounting for 

tax, inflation and project interactions, Hirschleifer and 

the separation principle, perfect capital markets and 

arbitrage, capital market imperfections and the valuations 

of bonds and stocks, corporate financing decisions 

and efficient capital markets, uncertainty and capital 

budgeting, modeling security valuations, forward and 

futures contracts and option pricing. 


HIST 161 - GLOBAL HISTORY I: 

CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS FROM 

ANTIQUITY TO THE 20th CENTURY 

This course is the first of a two-semester overview 

of global history that examines pivotal encounters, 

exchanges, and conflicts between cultures and 

civilizations that profoundly influenced the course 

of human history. We selectively cover the various 

regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and 

the Americas while looking at major global processes 

such as migration, trade and the spread of religion. 

These global processes are contextualized within 

major historical developments such as the formation 

and dissolution of states and empires. HIST 161 begins 

with ancient trade networks of the Fertile Crescent 

to the spread of monotheism in late antiquity and 

the early Middle Ages, through Columbus’ arrival in 

the Americas in 1492. HIST 162 continues from the 

16th century until the Second World War, covering 

major developments including the rise of the Atlantic 

trade system, industrialization, modernization, the 

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emergence of the nation-states, colonialism, the 

Russian revolution and the rise of fascism. 



HIST 162 - GLOBAL HISTORY II: 

CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS FROM 

ANTIQUITY TO THE 20th CENTURY 

This course is the second of a two-semester overview 

of global history that examines pivotal encounters, 

exchanges and conflicts between cultures and civilizations 

that profoundly influenced the course of human history. 

We selectively cover the various regions of Asia, Africa, 

Europe, the Middle East and the Americas while looking 

at major global processes such as migration, trade 

and the spread of religion. These global processes are 

contextualized within major historical developments such 

as the formation and dissolution of states and empires. 

HIST 161 begins with ancient trade networks of the Fertile 

Crescent to the spread of monotheism in late antiquity 

and the early Middle Ages, through Columbus’ arrival 

in the Americas in 1492. HIST 162 continues from the 

16th century until the Second World War, covering major 

developments including the rise of the Atlantic trade 

system, industrialization, modernization, the emergence 

of the nation-states, colonialism, the Russian revolution 

and the rise of fascism. 


HIST 169 - HISTORY AND 

HISTORIOGRAPHY I 

History and Historiography I is the first part of a 

year-long lecture/seminar course which consists of 

the reading of seminal texts in English translation, 

both primary sources as well as classic texts in 

the secondary literature. Focusing on the fields of 

European and Islamic history, this year-long course 

proceeds chronologically from classical antiquity to 

the mid-fifteenth century. In addition to providing a 

basic historical framework, this course will consider 

methodological issues, such as types and uses of 

sources, and philosophical issues, including the nature 

and scope of historical explanation and its variations 

through time, space and cultural context. 



HIST 170 - HISTORY AND 

HISTORIOGRAPHY II 

History and Historiography II is the second part of a yearlong 

lecture/seminar course which consists of the reading 

of seminal texts in English translation, both primary 

sources as well as classic texts in the secondary literature. 

Focusing on the fields of European and Islamic history, 

this year-long course proceeds chronologically from 

classical antiquity to the mid-fifteenth century. In addition 

to providing a basic historical framework, this course will

consider methodological issues, such as types and uses 

of sources, and philosophical issues, including the nature 

and scope of historical explanation and its variations 

through time, space and cultural context. 



HIST 201 - EARLY OTTOMAN HISTORY 

This course will trace the historical evolution of the 

Ottoman Empire from 1300 to 1700. It will proceed 

chronologically. Focusing on the political and ideological 

history of the Ottoman Empire, it will raise issues related 

to the emergence of the Ottomans, the rise of the Sultanic 

household and state-building in the early modern era. 




HIST 202 - LATE OTTOMAN HISTORY 

This course will trace the history of the Ottoman Empire 

from 1700 to 1922. It will proceed chronologically. 

Focusing on the political and ideological history of 

the Ottoman Empire, it will raise issues related to the 

decline paradigm, centralization and decentralization, 

modernization and national movements. 




HIST 211 - EUROPEAN ECONOMIC 

HISTORY 

The aim of this course is to teach students the history of 

the development of capitalism in the Western world and 

of the expansion of commodity production to the other 

regions of the world, beginning with the Renaissance. 

Topics that will be covered are exploration, discovery 

and conquest, mercantilism, colonial empires, the rise 

of classical liberal economy after the Napoleonic Wars, 

protectionism, socialist economic policies and central 

planning, decolonialization, the collapse of the Soviet 

model and the predominance of the New Right. 




HIST 212 - OTTOMAN ECONOMIC 

HISTORY 

This course will cover Ottoman economic history in the 

classical period up to the end of the 19th century. The aim 

is to introduce students of social sciences (history as well 

as economics, political science and sociology) to basic 

categories of the Ottoman economic system and the role 

of the Ottoman state within the economy. The peculiarities 

of the Ottoman economic mind prevalent roughly from 

the Classical Age (16th century) up to the end of the 18th 

century and its differences from the Western European 

mercantilist model will be the main foci of the course. The 

backbones of the Ottoman economic organization, such 

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as ‘iltizam’, ‘malikane’, ‘esham’, ‘esnaf’, ‘lonca’, etc., 

will be also touched upon. The course will conclude with 

the radical changes that the Ottoman economic mind went 

through in the ‘long 19th century’ including the changes 

in the manufacturing sector. 




OSMANLI EKONOMİ TARİHİ 

Bu ders, klasik dönemden 19. yüzyılın sonlarına kadar 

Osmanlı İktisat Tarihini kapsamaktadır. Bu ders ile tarih, 

iktisat, siyaset bilimi ve sosyoloji gibi sosyal bilimleri 

okuyan öğrenciler için Osmanlı iktisadi yapısının temel 

kavramlarına ve Osmanlı Devleti’nin iktisadi rolüne bir 

giriş amaçlanmaktadır. Klasik dönemden (16. yy’dan) 18. 

yy. sonlarına kadar Osmanlı iktisadi zihniyetinin temel 

ilkeleri ve bunların Batı Avrupa merkantilist zihniyetten 

farkları işlenecektir. İktisadi organizasyonun iltizam, 

malikane, esham, esnaf, lonca gibi ana kurumları ve bu 

kurumların ‘uzun 19. yy.’ süresince (ve bu arada imalat 

seköründeki) geçirdikleri köklü değişiklikler analiz 

edilecektir. 

HIST 221 - INTRODUCTION TO 

OTTOMAN TURKISH I 

This course aims to provide students with knowledge of 

Arabic script in order to read Ottoman Turkish, as well 

as with basic Arabic-Persian grammar. Another aim is to 

develop students’ Ottoman Turkish vocabulary. 




OSMANLICA’YA GİRİŞ I 

Bu ders, öğrencilerin Osmanlıca okuyabilmeleri için 

gerekli Arapça yazı ve Arapça-Farsça temel dilbilgisi 

ihtiyacını karşılar. Ayrıca, öğrencilerin Osmanlıca kelime 

bilgilerini geliştirmeleri de amaçlanır. 

HIST 222 - INTRODUCTION TO 

OTTOMAN TURKISH II 

The aim of this course is to further develop students’ 

reading skills and their mastery of vocabulary. Those 

students who may wish to enroll in this course without 

having taken HIST 221 must possess basic knowledge at 

that level. 


Restriction(s): HIST 381 or HIST 382 



OSMANLICA’YA GİRİŞ II 

Bu dersin amacı, Osmanlıca’ya aşina öğrencilerin okuma 

becerilerini ve kelime bilgilerini geliştirmektir. HIST 

221 dersini almadan, bu derse kayıt yaptırmak isteyen 

öğrencilerden temel Osmanlıca bilgisine sahip olmaları 

beklenir.

HIST 231 - HISTORY OF İSTANBUL I 

This course covers topics in the urban history of 

İstanbul. It is comprised of subjects from different 

disciplines related to the history of the city, such 

as material culture, history of the arts, social 

history, administrative structure, economic history, 

architecture, demography, etc. The temporal scope 

reaches from the Byzantine to the Ottoman sixteenth 

century and consequently considers the city in the 

context of its role as an imperial center. 



HIST 232 - HISTORY OF İSTANBUL II 

This course covers the history of Ottoman Istanbul from 

the 16th to the 19th centuries. The relationship between 

monumental architecture and urban space with sociopolitical 

and economic developments will be explored 

throughout this course. 



HIST 271 - THE MAKING OF THE 

MODERN WORLD I: A GLOBAL 

NARRATIVE, 16TH-20th CENTURIES 

This course is the first of a two-semester overview of the 

past 550 years of world history, the period encapsulating 

the ‘modern’ period, examining new global patterns 

of interaction between states and societies and 

exploring the commercial, industrial and technological 

revolutions. By problematicizing the concept of the 

‘rise of the West,’ this course compares developments 

in China, India, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and 

the Americas, stressing interrelationships between or 

across cultural areas. Themes include the conquest of 

the new world and its consequences: industrialization, 

revolutions, nationalisms, colonization and the rise of 

global capitalism. 


HIST 272 - THE MAKING OF THE 

MODERN WORLD II: A GLOBAL 

NARRATIVE, 16TH-20th CENTURIES 

This course is the second of a two-semester overview 

of the past 550 years of world history, the period 

encapsulating the ‘modern’ period, examining new 

global patterns of interaction between states and 

societies and exploring the commercial, industrial 

and technological revolutions. By problematicizing 

the concept of the ‘rise of the West,’ this course 

compares developments in China, India, Africa, the 

Middle East, Europe and the Americas, stressing 

interrelationships between or across cultural areas. 

Themes include the conquest of the new world and 

its consequences: industrialization, revolutions, 

nationalisms, colonization and the rise of global 

capitalism. 


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HIST 281 - BASICS OF POLITICAL 

ECONOMY 

The aim of this course is to introduce students of history 

and social sciences in general into the basics of economy 

as a sub-discipline of social sciences. This course is a 

practical and methodological initiation into the basic 

notions of political economy to understand the economic 

dynamics of capitalist societies in history and today. 

Economic notions like money, inflation, income, wages, 

labor, forms of capital, accumulation, regulation, interest 

rates, national income accounts, trade balance and current 

account will be explained with the help of material from 

economic history and economic journalism. 




HIST 292 - HISTORY OF POLITICAL 

THOUGHT 

The aim of this course is to evaluate the works of selected 

political philosophers from Homer to thinkers of the 

20th century and examine the historical development of 

the science of political thought. Special attention will 

be paid to the social and economic context in which 

these ideas evolved. 




HIST 297 - ENGLISH FOR HISTORIANS I 

These core courses (I to VI) which comprise three 

levels spread over six semesters, are obligatory for all 

history students and will be conducted by the staff of the 

History Department with a view to enabling students in 

the reading and comprehension of history texts. Except 

for those who are already well-advanced in English and 

hence to be exempted from these courses, students in 

each of the three levels will each year either pass or fail. 

Courses will take place in the evenings and attendance 

will be obligatory. 


HIST 298 - ENGLISH FOR HISTORIANS II 

These core courses (I to VI) which comprise three levels 

spread over six semesters, are obligatory for all history 

students and will be conducted by the staff of the History 

Department with a view to enabling students in the reading 

and comprehension of history texts. Except for those who 

are already well-advanced in English and hence to be 

exempted from these courses, students in each of the three 

levels will each year either pass or fail. Courses will take 

place in the evenings and attendance will be obligatory. 


HIST 311 - METHODOLOGY AND 

PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY I 

This course introduces students to the concepts and 

methods of the most influential schools of historical

practice. An introduction to the epistemology of history 

and the role of language in historical thinking will be 

followed by the reading of texts on issues in historical 

theory. The impact of social sciences on “mainstream” 

historical practices will be specifically investigated. First 

an overview over main schools of thought will be given, 

afterwards an exemplary debate will be studied in some 

detail. Student papers will look into the application of 

historical theory in case studies. 



HIST 312 - METHODOLOGY AND 

PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY II 

This course introduces students to the application of 

historical theory specifically in the fields of Middle 

East/Islamic and Ottoman History. Topics dealt with 

include Edward Said’s ”Orientalism” and subsequent 

critical responses to Said, as well as various theoretical 

questions and issues related to Eastern Mediterranean and 

Middle Eastern history such as the paradigms of national/ 

nationalist historiography or the applicability of socalled 

Western models. Student papers will look into the 

application of historical theory in case studies. 



HIST 321 - EUROPEAN SOCIAL 

HISTORY 

The course focuses on the modes, customs and traditions 

of the lives of people in early modern and modern Europe. 

The main subjects of Social History are the reaction of 

different sub-groups of society to the emergence of the 

modern state, the relations between city and country 

and the conflicts between social strata. Their life 

styles changed considerably parallel to the growth of 

urbanization: the development of the guilds and their 

transformation into trade-unions, changes in agriculture 

and their repercussions on peasantry, belief systems 

and folk practices as well as gender issues are among 

the topics to be studied. This year the course will focus 

particularly on material culture and urban social history. 



HIST 322 - OTTOMAN SOCIAL 

HISTORY 

The course will concentrate on subjects that are part of 

recent discussions by historians. Special focus will be on 

the history of gender, urban history, the relations between 

social sub-groups with different ethnic, religious and 

linguistic backgrounds and social conflicts in Ottoman 

history. Continuities and ruptures between the Byzantine 

and Ottoman societies will be discussed, as well as the 

dynamics bringing about Ottoman modernity. This term 

the course will focus on material culture and urban issues. 



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HIST 371 - CONTEMPORARY 

TURKISH HISTORY I 

This course will stress political and intellectual 

developments and cover milestones like the First 

Constitutional Period, the Revolution of 1908, the 

establishment of the Unionist authoritarian regime and 

the Tripolitan, Balkan and first World Wars. 



HIST 372 - CONTEMPORARY TURKISH 

HISTORY II 

This course will stress political and intellectual 

developments during the years of national struggle and 

the early Republican period, the transition to a multiparty 

democracy, the transformations after the “coup 

d’état” of 1980 and the problems encountered in this 

process. 



HIST 381 - READING SKILLS IN 

OTTOMAN TURKISH I 

This course aims to improve the reading skills of the 

students focusing exclusively on printed text materials. 

It is suitable both for students who want to apply the 

knowledge of grammar that they acquired in HIST 

221 and HIST 222 and for students who have a sound 

knowledge of the Arabic alphabet but without reading 

experience in Ottoman Turkish. 




OSMANLICA METİN OKUMALARI I 

Bu ders, özellikle basılı metinler üzerinden 

öğrencilerin Osmanlıca okuma becerilerini geliştirmeyi 

amaçlamaktadır. Dersi HIST 221 ve HIST 222’de 

öğrendikleri dilbilgisi kurallarının uygulamalarıyla 

tanışmak isteyen öğrenciler alabilirler. Ayrıca, sağlam 

bir Arapça alfabe bilgisine sahip olan ancak daha önce 

Osmanlıca metin okuma tecrübesi bulunmayan öğrenciler 

de dersten faydalanacaklardır. 

HIST 382 - READING SKILLS IN 

OTTOMAN TURKISH II 

This course is a continuation of HIST 381. It offers 

readings in a large variety of printed sources covering the 

period between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries. 




OSMANLICA METİN OKUMALARI II 

Bu ders, HIST 381’in devamı niteliğindedir. Derste, 16. 

yüzyıldan 19. yüzyıla kadarki dönemi kapsayan çeşitli 

basılı metinler üzerinde çalışılacaktır.

HIST 397 - ENGLISH FOR 

HISTORIANS III 











HIST 398 - ENGLISH FOR 

HISTORIANS IV 











HIST 411 - COMPARATIVE SOCIAL 

STRUCTURES 

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the ways 

history makes use of sociological theories in general 

and of theoretical/macro sociological approaches to the 

formation of modern capitalism in particular. We will 

start with the tradition of the philosophy of history of the 

19th and 20th centuries that mainly dealt with the change 

in the human condition with an eye for the non-Western 

world, like Danilevski, Spengler, Spencer, Toynbee and 

Diakanoff. Following this introduction we will study in 

the Fall term mainly the approaches that are informed 

by Marxian theories: Marx himself with his theory of 

stages, Soviet Marxism’s intellectual approach to change 

in human societies, Perry Anderson, E. P. Thompson, Eric 

Hobsbawm, A. Gunder Frank, Dependencia-School and 

Immanuel Wallerstein. 




HIST 422 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN HISTORY 

This course aims to give an overview of different fields 

of historical inquiry. It aims to understand the basic 

dynamics and methodological characteristics of the 

chosen sub-field in history. The main concern of this 

course is to introduce state of art studies in important 

fields of historical research. 




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HIST 431 - OTTOMAN INSTITUTIONS I 

This course will analyze the institutions of the Ottoman 

Empire as they had evolved by the 16th century. It covers 

institutions from both the governmental structure and the 

social order concerning administration, the military, the 

judiciary, education and religion. 




HIST 432 - OTTOMAN INSTITUTIONS II 

This course will deal with the evolution and transformation 

of Ottoman institutions beginning with the 17th century. 

It will also cover the emergence and creation of new 

institutions in the wake of the Ottoman reforms that began 

in the 18th century and gained momentum especially after 

1839. 




HIST 441 - SENIOR PROJECT I 

The aim of this course is to enable students to do 

independent research on a specific historical topic. Each 

student will work closely with other students and a senior 

faculty member on her/his proposal during the whole 

term. The weekly tutorials will bring together all the Year 

4 students around their personal projected paper subjects. 

At the end of the second term the student is expected to 

write an original research paper. An alternative to such 

a long project would involve tutorials in research and 

reading where students are expected to produce papers on 

a number of core but limited topics within the duration of 

the course. 



HIST 442 - SENIOR PROJECT II 

This course is a continuation of HIST 441. The students 

are expected to complete their research papers. Those 

who have chosen the alternative will continue with their 

research within the framework of the tutorials. 


Special Condition(s): HIST 441 


HIST 461 - READINGS IN OTTOMAN 

PALEOGRAPHY I 

This course aims to introduce students to reading Ottoman 

archival and manuscript sources, mainly by acquiring 

reading practice. In addition, some elements of Ottoman 

paleography (handwriting styles) and diplomatics (formats 

of documents) will be elucidated and basic information on 

major collections in the Ottoman Archives provided. In 

the first term, the focus will be on materials dating from 

the 19th and 20th centuries written in “rik’a”. Reading 

skills in printed Ottoman Turkish (having successfully 

passed HIST 222 or 382 or having achieved proficiency

at that level) are a precondition for attending this course. 





OSMANLICA PALEOGRAFİK 

OKUMALAR I 

Dersin amacı, öğrencilerin Osmanlı arşiv belgeleri ve el 

yazmaları okumakta ilk pratik tecrübeleri edinmeleridir. 

Buna ek olarak Osmanlı paleografyasının (yazı 

çeşitlerinin) ve diplomatiğinin (belge kalıplarının) bazı 

öğeleri açıklanacak, Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi’nde 

bulunan en önemli fonlar hakkında temel bilgiler 

verilecektir. İlk dönemde, 19. ve 20. yüzyılda “rik’a” ile 

yazılmış belgelere odaklanılacaktır. Bu derse katılmak 

isteyen öğrencilerin, matbu Osmanlıca okuma becerisine 

sahip olmaları (HIST 222’yi ya da 382’yi başarıyla 

tamamlamış ya da Osmanlıca’yı aynı derecede bilmeleri) 

gerekmektedir. 

HIST 462 - READINGS IN OTTOMAN 

PALEOGRAPHY II 

This course aims to introduce students to reading Ottoman 

archival and manuscript sources, mainly by acquiring 

reading practice. In addition, some elements of Ottoman 

paleography (handwriting styles) and diplomatics 

(formats of documents) will be elucidated. In the second 

term, the focus will be on materials dating from the 18th 

century written in “dîvânî”. Reading skills in printed 

Ottoman Turkish (having successfully completed HIST 

222 or 382 or having achieved proficiency at that level) 

are a precondition for attending this course. 




OSMANLICA PALEOGRAFİK 

OKUMALAR II 

Dersin amacı, öğrencilerin Osmanlı arşiv belgeleri ve el 

yazmaları okumakta ilk pratik tecrübeleri edinmeleridir. 

Buna ek olarak Osmanlı paleografyasının (yazı 

çeşitlerinin) ve diplomatiğinin (belge kalıplarının) bazı 

öğeleri açıklanacak. İkinci dönemde 18. yüzyılda “dîvânî” 

ile yazılmış belgelere odaklanılacaktır. Bu derse katılmak 

isteyen öğrencilerin, matbu Osmanlıca okuma becerisine 

sahip olmaları (HIST 222’yi ya da 382’yi başarıyla 

tamamlamış ya da Osmanlıca’yı aynı derecede bilmeleri) 

gerekmektedir. 

HIST 497 - ENGLISH FOR HISTORIANS V 








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HIST 498 - ENGLISH FOR HISTORIANS VI 











HS 103 - NORMAL MOTOR DEVELOPMENT 

The observation of motor development throughout 

life and the understanding of the basic structures of 

movements at all ages. This information will be used 

in later studies to diagnose movement disorders. 

Emphasis on the factors of family, nutrition and the 

environment which contribute to optimal development. 

The necessary nutritional conditions for growth 

and development. The principles and methods of 

rehabilitation for the aged. 



HS 104 - ETHIC CODES IN HEALTH 

SCIENCES 

History of health sciences, definition of physiotherapist, 

nurse, dietician, speech and language therapist and 

occupational therapist. Work descriptions, responsibilities, 

multidisciplinary behavior, ethic principles in health 

sciences, health sciences professionals, patients’ rights, 

ethics codes in clinics and ethics in research. 



HS 105 - POSTURE ANALYSIS 

Posture development, factors affecting posture, causes of 

poor posture, postural factors, structural factors. Common 

spinal deformities: lordosis, kyphosis, scoliosis. Postural 

history, observation. Anterior view: head, the jaw, tip 

of the nose, trapezius-neck line, the shoulders level, the 

scapulae and acromio-clavicular joints, sternum-ribscostocartilage, 

waist angles, angles of each elbow, palms, 

high points of the iliac crest, ASIS level, pubic bones, 

patellae, knees, the heads of the fibula level, medial and 

lateral malleoli, the arches of feet, the feet angles, bowing 

of bone, the bony and soft tissue contours, and patient’s 

skin. Lateral view: ear lobe, spinal curve, shoulders, 

tone of the chest, abdominal and gluteal muscles, chest 

deformities, pelvic angle, the knees. Posterior view: 

shoulders level, the spines of the scapula, the spine, 

bowing of bones. Forward flexion: assimetry of the 

rib cage- spinal musculature, kyphosis, lumbar spine

straightens or flexes and restriction to forward bending. 

Sitting: spinal curves, knees level from the floor, from the 

side, knee protrudes. Supine lying: the position of body 

parts. Prone lying: the position of body parts. Examination 

and measurement. 


HS 106 - CORRECTIVE EXERCISES FOR 

MALPOSTURE 

Corrective exercises will be given to each student 

specifically according to the student’s malposture. For 

each, corrective exercises are included for head and 

neck problems and round shoulder. Kyphosis, lumbar 

lordosis, scoliosis, chest problems, barrel chest, pigeon 

chest, funnel chest, genu varum, genu vaglum, genu 

recurvatum, tibial torsion, foot problems, adduction, 

abduction, hallux valgus/varus, flat foot, club foot, 

hammer toes, and so on. 


HS 121 - ANATOMY I 

General knowledge about anatomy, anatomic terminology, 

bones and skeleton. Types of bones, bones of skull, trunk, 

columna vertebralis/axial skeleton, upper extremity, 

lower extremity. Joints and muscles. Vessels and nerves. 

Musculoskeletal system of the human body, trunk, 

vertebral column and skull, with emphasis on osteology, 

joints, muscles and nerves. Carry out examinations, 

especially on the neuro-musculo-skeletal systems of the 

human body, in order to evaluate the relationships among 

the structures as regards to normal functions. 



HS 122 - ANATOMY II 

Neuroanatomy of the (CNS) brain and spinal cord with 

emphasis on tractology, afferent and efferent tracts, 

sensory and motor centers, medulla oblongata, pons, 

mesencephalon, thalamus, hypothalamus, as well as 

vascular supply of the brain. Cranial nerves, sympathetic 

system, parasympathetic system. Facial anatomy, thorax, 

lungs, cardiac, larynx, pharynx, trachea, kidneys, urethra, 

genital organs of both male and female, eyes, ears and 

anatomy of vestibular system. Macroscopic structure of 

organs and tissues will be defined. 



HS 131 - PHYSIOLOGY I 

Cell and its function, membrane physiology, the 

electrolytic balance and body liquids, synaptic 

transmission, blood cells, heart, blood circulation, 

perspiration, kidney and its functions. Physiology of cell, 

blood, nerve-muscles, circulatory, respiratory, excretory, 

digestion, and endocrine systems. Cardiovascular 

physiology, the principles of hemodynamism. The 

physiology of heart’s musculature, heart’s cycles and 

regulation of the heart’s activity, cardiac output, arterial 

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blood pressure, the peripheral resistance and venous 

return. Factors affecting the arterial blood pressure, 

the noral and auto regulation of cardiovascular system. 

Blood, lynph and other body fluids, composition of body 

fluids, red blood cells, white blood cells, blood platelets, 

plasma, blood groups and tissue fluid, intracellular 

water, transcellular water, gas transport in the blood, 

carbon dioxide. 



HS 132 - PHYSIOLOGY II 

Respiratory system, the diaphragm, lungs and air 

passages, micro vascular regulation. Physiology 

of lymphatic system, urinary system, regulation of 

gastrointestinal system and digestive system. Effects 

of endocrine systems and hormones on the liver, 

physiology of liver, gastrointestinal system, kidneys, 

the regulation of ions and gases balances, renal 

circulation, glomerular filtration, tubular secretion and 

reabsorbtion. Physiology of reproductive systems and 

growth and development. 



HTR 101 - HISTORY OF TURKISH 

REVOLUTION I 


















REVOLUTION II 



subject of the course is the building of a modern Turkish 

Republic and the Kemalist principles. 


Prerequisite(s): HTR 101 




önemini öğrencilere öğretebilmektir. Modern Türkiye

Cumhuriyeti’nin kuruluşu ve Kemalist ilkeler dersin 

temel konularını oluşturur. 


REVOLUTION I 


















REVOLUTION II 



subject of the course is the building of the modern Turkish 

Republic and the Kemalist principles. 


Prerequisite(s): HTR 111 









HUM 107 - ART, HISTORY AND 

CULTURE I 

What is art? How it is related to different geographical 

and cultural environments? What is the relation between 

art and history? Is there a necessity of evolution in the 

cultural history of art? What are the main conceptsrepresentation, 

function, reception, pleasure, faith? In 

this course, we will try to understand the historical and 

cultural conditions of what we call “art”. The course 

is related to several art events in the city of İstanbul – 

museums, biennials, galleries, etc. 


HUM 108 - ART, HISTORY AND 

CULTURE II 

In this course, we will try to understand different artistic 

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productions and different artistic traditions, such as 

religious art, decoration, art in the city, monuments, 

classical art, baroque and modern... The course will focus 

on specific themes and works. 



HUM 120 - HISTORY OF RELIGIONS 

The course aims to introduce the major religions of the 

world and to familiarize students with the development 

of various religions from their inception to modern 

times, along with the key symbols, terminology, beliefs 

and practices of various traditions. Although an attempt 

will be made to cover the religious spectrum as widely 

as possible, special emphasis is placed on monotheistic 

religions. 



HUM 121 - WESTERN CULTURE I 

This course studies the sources of Western humanistic 

culture: its spread from river cultures through the 

Anatolian civilizations, archaic and classical Greece and 

Alexander the Great. Throughout both semesters, the 

course highlights achievements in sculpture, architecture, 

painting, philosophy, literature, music, science, 

mathematics and social organization. 


Restriction(s): HUM 101 or LIT 131 


HUM 122 - WESTERN CULTURE II 

This course studies the cultural heritages of republican 

Rome, the Roman Empire, the Byzantines, the European 

Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Age 

of Discovery and the birth of modern science. Throughout 

both semesters, the course highlights achievements in 

sculpture, architecture, painting, philosophy, literature, 

music, science, mathematics and social organization. 


Restriction(s): HUM 102 or LIT 132 


HUM 203 - MUSIC APPRECIATION 

During the first third of the course, the basic (physical and 

musical) components of sounds will be introduced and the 

way in which historical music systems like the Western 

diatonic, the Far Eastern pentatonic and the African 

polyrhythmic systems are constructed from these basic 

components will be described. During the second third, 

attention will be focused on the prominent musical centers 

that existed around the Mediterranean from antique times 

onward and the story of the musical differentiation of the 

western and eastern Mediterranean will be told. In the 

final third, wherein the development of polyphonic and 

harmonic music in Europe will be recounted, examples 

will be chosen mostly from opera, which will be treated as 

the interface between musical and social structures.


HUM 204 - RENAISSANCE 

Today personalities like Leonardo and Michelangelo are 

revered as culture heroes. On the other hand, knowledge 

of the Renaissance, which cultivated them, has for 

some time become defunct as a part of general culture. 

Yet the Renaissance was unique in setting an example 

to subsequent periods both in terms of the prospects 

it offered to individuality and the shining forth of the 

”dignity of man”. In this course we shall, starting with 

Andalusia and Dante, review the conditions that prepared 

the Renaissance, navigate through the period and witness 

its final years with Michelangelo. 


HUM 207 - THE REPRESENTATIONS 

OF NATURE 

The representations of nature in texts and visual images 

(paintings, photographs, films, documentaries, ads, 

installation art and so on). The relationship between 

nature and society, between nature and culture. Nature as 

being constructed socially and culturally. The perception 

and conception of nature in different historical periods 

and societies. Domination and representations of nature. 

Landscape paintings as a way of seeing Parks and gardens 

as the representations of domesticated nature. Earth 

works. Nature as a subject of domination. Touristic gaze 

and the representations of nature. Ecological thought and 

utopias. The city and nature. 


HUM 208 - THE REPRESENTATIONS 

OF BODY 

The represantations of body in visual art (painting, 

sculpture, photography, cinema, etc.) and texts, body 

and society, the body on the boundary between the 

public and the private, between the social and the 

subjective, canons of body, the holy body, the body as a 

manifestation of allure, grotesque, gothic and baroque 

bodies, the perfect and corrupted bodies, hygienic 

body, bodies of modernity and modernism, postmodern 

bodies, body in the public space, city as an extension 

of the body. 



BEDEN TEMSİLLERİ 

Bu derste, görsel sanatlarda (resim, heykel, fotoğraf 

ve sinema) ve metinlerde beden temsilleri, beden ve 

toplum, kamusal ile özel olanın ve toplumsal ile öznel 

olanın sınırındaki beden, beden kanunları, kutsal beden, 

cazibenin dışavurumu olarak beden, grotesk, gotik ve 

barok bedenler, mükemmel ve yoz bedenler, hijyenik 

beden, modernite ve modernizmin bedenleri, postmodern 

bedenler, kamusal alanda beden, bedenin uzantısı olarak 

şehir konuları irdelenecektir. 

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HUM 211 - TEMPLES 

This course, which is going to be exploratory in nature 

rather than presenting a completed theory or taxonomy, 

will explore the characteristics of temples as sources 

of meaning, loci of power, economic organizations, 

types of building and even perhaps as forms of 

art throughout various geographies and historical 

periods. Introduction: Heidegger’s views on temples, 

Mesopotamia, the sources of the conflict between court 

and temple; the Epic of Gilgamesh (guest speaker- 

İştar Gözaydın), Egypt, the relationship of temples to 

mortuaries, sources of monotheism, Akhenaten, the 

Other Civilization, temples in Far Eastern civilizations, 

the Judaic Tradition, from the tent to the temple, 

Solomon and Jerusalem, the Origins and Development 

of the Church: The Mosque. Supplementary course: 

The current situation. 

Credit(s): 3 ECTS Credit(s): 6 Term(s): Summer only 

IND 101 - BASIC DESIGN I 

Basic Design I is a studio course that aims to help the 

participating students re-evaluate the environments in 

which they live through abstraction and conceptualization 

and create designs and organizations by synthesizing, 

organizing and changing spatial concepts like form, 

color, pattern, material, scale and space. The exercises 

realized during the term focus on understanding designoriented 

relationships and developing the students’ 

skills in building these relationships. While data and 

limitations allow students to concentrate on specific 

design themes, exercises done with hand and mind aim 

to enrich the products. The design process is valued as 

much as the design product in the Basic Design studio. 

The process evolves through critical discussions that 

take place in the studio in light of the general interests 

and insights of individuals. These discussions develop 

students’ skills of self-expression. Both the process and 

the product are documented through daily notes, sketches 

and photographs. 


IND 102 - BASIC DESIGN II 

Basic Design II, which is the design course of the second 

term, focuses on assignments that aim to reinforce the 

comprehension of the concepts introduced to the students 

in the first term. Monthly and weekly assignments 

interpret the concept of “space” as series with systematic 

relationships, centers, clusters and surroundings that 

can be investigated analytically while at the same time 

examining the “human being” as the one who lives in, 

interprets, accepts and/or reacts to this system. Students 

start gaining skills in using concepts like form, light 

and material as space-building data. While studies of 

three-dimensional models enable research on the role 

of surfaces, masses and voids in the organization of 

space, the character of the materials used in making the 

models lead to the discovery of ideas about construction 

and detailing. A model is a structure in itself, apart from

eing a tool of representation. Computer technologies and 

relational model research done in digital conception are 

among the main factors determining the character of the 

studio. 


IND 113 - DESIGN GEOMETRY 

Geometry deals with size, shape and relative position 

of figures in space and helps us understand the world 

as we experience it. It is an indisputable part of 

architectural design as it plays a key role from the very 

initial steps of design process to the actual construction. 

A solid background in geometry is necessary not 

only for form-finding studies in architecture but also 

for accurate communication of design ideas. Design 

Geometry is an undergraduate course offered to first 

year students. As fluency in geometry enhances 

cultivation and communication of design ideas, this 

course aims to help understand fundamentals of 3D 

space and geometric definition of objects. Further goals 

include familiarization with concepts of geometry and 

techniques in representation: the descriptive geometry. 

An advanced version of the course concentrates on use 

of contemporary computing techniques of geometry in 

architecture. 


IND 114 - DESIGN COMPUTING 

Design Computing encourages analytical design 

thinking. Computational methodologies as well as 

computational technologies and tools lie in the core 

of the subject. Design computing builds skills on top 

of the given ones in the Architectural Geometry I, but 

moves onto a further step by placing computing (via the 

computer) as the driver of the studies. While geometric 

knowledge helps students build precisely-controlled 

geometrical compositions, algorithms become the 

exploratory tools to investigate emergent forms of 

design. Two-way reflection of ideas with the design 

studio, Basic Design II, from and to Design Computing 

helps students harness design ideas, concepts of 

computation and geometry simultaneously. 


IND 169 - INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN I 

Every student of design should learn to think about, 

evaluate and understand spaces they use, rather than just 

being passive users. This course is designed to expose 

first-year students to basic elements of interior design 

such as light, texture, color, structure and space within 

the context of the chronological historical development 

of architecture in order for them to acquire critical skills. 

The first semester of this course starts with the primitive 

hut and investigates public and private interior spaces up 

to the 19th century. 


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IND 170 - INTRODUCTION TO 

DESIGN II 

The 19th century was the start of a new era in architecture 

with the introduction of new materials and technologies 

that resulted in the development of new concepts and 

ideologies. These concepts lie at the foundation of the 

contemporary spaces we live in. In this course, basic 

elements of interior design will be investigated within the 

context of these concepts in order for the students to arrive 

at a better understanding and evaluation of contemporary 

interior spaces. This investigation will be geared towards 

providing a critical design approach for the students in 

their future projects. 


INF 301 - INTRODUCTION TO FINANCE 

The aim of this course is to teach students the basic ideas 

of business finance by introducing them to the financial 

environment, financial instruments and the financial 

decision-making process. On successful completion of this 

course, students will be able to utilize financial statements 

in analyzing the firm’s financial performance, employ 

the necessary tools in understanding the management of 

working capital and apply a variety of financial planning 

and controlling techniques. 


Special Condition(s): BUS 211 or BUS 213 

Restriction(s): BUS 331 or EC 371 or EC 372 or EC 412 or FM 

301 


INF 302 - CORPORATE FINANCE 

The aim of this course is to analyze the firm’s long-term 

investment and financing decisions and describe the 

operations of financial markets by focusing on the issuing 

of securities. At the end of this course, students will be 

familiar with advanced analysis of special corporate 

finance topics including risk, value, capital budgeting, 

cost of capital, capital structure and the dividend policy. 


Prerequisite(s): FM 301 or INF 301 

Restriction(s): BUS 331 or EC 371 or EC 372 or EC 412 


INF 311 - INTERNATIONAL 

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 

The aim of this course is to develop familiarity with 

the accounting practices in an international context and 

provide an appreciation of the environmental influences 

on the function and methods of accounting in other 

countries. This course will also introduce the students 

to international financial accounting standards and show 

them how these standards are applied. 




INF 312 - ADVANCED FINANCIAL R 

EPORTING 

The aim of this course is to encourage students to apply 

their understanding of conceptual issues in accounting 

to the current state of external financial reporting and 

to proposed and possible future developments. On 

successful completion of this unit students should be 

able to critically appraise the current state of external 

financial reporting in Turkey and analyze the application 

of theoretical concepts to a wide range of practical issues 

in financial accounting. 




INF 401 - INTERNATIONAL FINANCE 

The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the 

operations of global financial markets and the analysis 

of financial decisions of multinational firms. By the end 

of this course, the student will have gained knowledge 

about special financial problems of corporations 

operating in more than one country, including decisions 

to invest abroad, forecasting exchange rates, measuring 

and managing exchange risk, international capital 

movements and portfolio diversification, the management 

of international working capital and the tools used in 

multinational fixed asset decisions. 


Prerequisite(s): BUS 331 or BUS 352 or BUS 431 or INF 302 


INF 403 - STRUCTURED FINANCIAL 

PRODUCTS 

The course will address students who already have a 

basic knowledge of finance. Contemporary finance 

has broadened in ways where structured products are 

being used to meet the demands for the growing needs 

of corporations and institutional investors. The course 

intends to take a closer look at these structures as well as 

the tax and rating implications of these products. 




INF 412 - CURRENT ISSUES IN 

FINANCE 

The aim of this course is to provide a broad scope and 

a greater emphasis on general principles in finance. On 

successful completion of this course, students will have 

learned about capital market theories, security analysis, 

portfolio management, derivative pricing as well as 

various other topics. 


Special Condition(s): (BUS 331 or INF 301) and (BUS 352 or 

INF 302) 


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INF 414 - BEHAVIORAL FINANCE 

This course aims to investigate psychology’s contribution 

to finance and economics. The standard approach in 

finance theory is based on the assumption of rational and 

unemotional economic agents. However, the anomalies in 

the financial markets have evidenced that the decisions 

of investors may not be in line with this assumption, 

leading to inexplicable events, such as bubbles. This 

course discusses psychological explanations for irrational 

financial decisions. The analysis of deviations from 

rationality will lead us to the predictability of financial 

asset price movements by employing psychological 

principles and explanation of real world market 

anomalies. Upon successful completion of this course, 

students will be able to understand the decision behavior 

of an individual investor within a market context, which 

would help them have a better understanding of financial 

market dynamics. 


Special Condition(s): BUS 331 or INF 301 



INT 202 - FUNDAMENTALS OF 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 


technically sophisticated international trade practices. 

International trade themes such as globalization, free 

trade vs. trade barriers, and trade policies for industrial 

and developing countries will be introduced. Major 

institutions (GATT, WTO, etc.) and the principal players 

of international trade will be discussed with special 

reference to their roles in world economy. Some of the 

basic settlement methods, the risks involved in crossborder 

trading, the contracts between the players, 

financing methods, logistics and an introduction to ICC 

rules will also be discussed. This course aims not only 

to introduce the students to the basic concepts and tools 

in international trade necessary in current applications 

but also to provide the background essential for their 

following international trade and business courses. 



INT 264 - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 

ENVIRONMENT 

Innovations and improvements in transportation, 

manufacturing, communications and technology along 

with the commercialization and expansion of the Internet 

have resulted in a truly global economy. With the 

development of the worldwide marketplace comes a need 

for business people to understand the sometimes subtle 

nuances of doing business overseas and across borders. 

Designed for the future executive engaged in international 

enterprise and those affected by it, this course covers 

the essential areas of difference between international 

and domestic business. It answers crucial questions and 

develops a starting ground in the areas of primary concern

to participants in the global economy by helping students 

build a solid foundation in international business. 




INT 326 - MANAGING 

MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES 

The competitive global business life of the twentyfirst 

century mandates that managers develop the skills 

necessary to design and implement global strategies, 

to conduct effective cross-national interactions and to 

manage daily operations in foreign subsidiaries. This 

means that the success of overseas operations of a 

multinational firm depends on the international manager’s 

cultural skills and sensitivity, and the ability to carry out 

the company’s strategies within the framework of the host 

country’s business practices. The aim of the course is to 

enable students to develop the skills needed for effective 

management of people and processes in a global context 

in the twenty-first century. The primary focus will be on 

the actual management functions and behaviors necessary 

to develop global vision and management skills at both 

the organizational (macro) and the interpersonal (micro) 

levels. Some of the topics that will be covered during the 

course are: regional and global management, corporate 

strategy and national competitiveness, EU, Japan and 

NAFTA and emerging markets. 




INT 328 - INVESTMENT BANKING AND 

VENTURE CAPITAL 

This course aims to first introduce the students to the 

history and structure of the investment banking industry. 

In general, it analyzes the services provided by securities 

firms, investment banks, and mutual, venture, capital, 

and leveraged buyout funds. Specifically, spreadsheet 

skills focusing on pro-forma statement preparation 

of new issues and pro-forma statements of merged 

firms will be provided. Students will be introduced to 

the tax implications of mergers and the due diligence 

requirements in assessing new issues. The course also 

focuses on the role of investment banking in the exiting 

from investments by taking the portfolio firms public 

through initial public offerings. 




INT 330 - INTERNATIONAL 

TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS 

This course will give the students a thorough understanding 

of the main modes of transport in international trade and 

address the more common management issues related to 

them. The first part of the course consists of analysis of 

the four modes of transportation and their characteristics 

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as well as the transportation documents required for each 

mode of transport. The first part of the course examines 

different types of packaging options, which materials, 

the use of pallets and containers, packing marks, modes 

of transport and packaging. The second part of the 

course aims to teach about the logistics process and the 

different concepts involved in logistics. Further aims are 

to examine the different logistical infrastructures and to 

analyze the factors to be considered when selecting a 

logistics company. 




INT 334 - BRAND MANAGEMENT 

Brand management is the application of marketing 

techniques to a specific product, product line, or brand. 

It seeks to increase the product’s perceived value to the 

customer and thereby increase brand franchise and brand 

equity. Marketers see a brand as an implied promise that 

the level of quality people have come to expect from a 

brand will continue with present and future purchases of 

the same product. This may increase sales by making a 

comparison with competing products more favorable. 

It may also enable the manufacturer to charge more for 

the product. The value of the brand is determined by 

the amount of profit it generates for the manufacturer. 

This results from a combination of increased sales and 

increased price. Today, the entire marketing issue is 

based on managing brands successfully. This course will 

concentrate on issues such as different branding strategies, 

brand rationalization, brand identity system, brand 

personality, identity implementation, brand strategies 

over time, managing brand systems, leveraging the 

brands, measuring brand equity and organizing for brand 

building. The lectures will be supported by intensive case 

analysis. 



Restriction(s): ADV 351 or BUS 334 


INT 427 - STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN 

GLOBAL INDUSTRIES 

The aim of the course is to enable students to conceptualize 

and analyze various dimensions of a global strategy that 

includes operating in foreign countries, adaptation to local 

political, social and cultural conditions and globalization. 

Such an approach requires management of multinational 

companies on an integrated worldwide basis rather than 

loosely knit subsidiaries with a deliberate awareness of 

local institutions, industry structure and company position 

within that industry. A critical approach to the lecture 

topics will be supported by case discussions, movies and 

simulations. 



Requires consent of instructor for non-faculty students.

INT 429 - CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES IN 

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR 

The aim of the course is to provide the student with 

a comprehensive understanding of the theories, 

applications and measures of consumer studies in a 

global perspective. The global perspective mentioned 

here does not necessarily imply globally valid standard 

communication and marketing strategies. Concepts and 

messages developed in one culture may lose their meaning 

when conveyed to another one. Processing, evaluation 

and judgment of brand and product information reflect 

important cross-cultural differences. International 

marketing research has focused more and more heavily 

on the topic of cross-cultural consumer behavior. Some of 

this research suggests that cultural differences stem from 

persistent socio-cultural or cognitive factors at a national 

level. On the other hand, other research suggests that 

cultural diversity resides in futile, everyday experiences 

in today’s fragmented postmodern societies rather than 

in national identities. In this course, a balanced approach 

toward both perspectives will be adopted. In addition 

to theoretical topics, some applied issues such as crosscultural 

survey methods and problems in adapting 

marketing scales developed for another culture will 

be discussed. On completion of the course, the student 

will be able to have a comprehensive understanding of 

concepts such as life-styles, values, culture, identity and 

post-modernization and their implications for consumer 

behavior in contemporary societies. 



Restriction(s): ADV 231 or BUS 429 or BUS 471 


INT 430 - INTERNATIONAL TAXATION 

The course will provide basic principles of international 

taxation which may effect the business decisions of foreign 

investors who do business or intend doing business in 

Turkey and of Turkish investors doing business abroad. It 

covers residence rules, taxation of foreign persons, source 

of income and deduction, cross-border transactions and 

transfer pricing, foreign tax credit, tax haven operations, 

anti-avoidance, international tax planning, double tax 

treaties and principles of international taxation. 



INT 437 - INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

This course aims to bring together the theoretical and 

practical issues in international trade with special emphasis 

on recent developments in international economy. 

Students are expected to be equipped with the knowledge 

to evaluate the changing world trade structures, and 

analyze actual problems in the world economy. Topics 

will cover major theoretical approaches to international 

trade, theories of tariffs and subsidies, political economy 

of international trade, controversies in trade policies, 

and the open economy framework including balance of 

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payments, exchange rate determination and exchange rate 

systems. Economic crises and their impact on global trade 

and capital flows are other topics to be examined in this 

course. 



Restriction(s): BUS 437 or EC 401 


IR 101 - INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL 

SCIENCE 

This course aims to familiarize the student with the 

concept of politics, how human societies are governed, 

how citizens interact with political and governmental 

institutions, how they participate in the political life of their 

countries, why citizens usually obey their government, 

how and why politics and political institutions change 

over time, as well as how political decisions are made and 

implemented. The course will analyze political processes 

in a society, employing both an empirical and a theoretical 

perspective. The students will be exposed to the major 

concepts and theoretical perspectives used in the analysis 

of political phenomena. 



IR 102 - BASIC ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL 

RELATIONS 

This course aims to introduce the students to the basic 

concepts and events of international relations of the 

twentieth century through documentaries and other audiovisual 

material on major events such as World Wars I and 

II, the forced migrations in the aftermath of the World 

Wars, the Soviet Revolution and the Cold War. 



IR 112 - CULTURE AND POLITICS IN 

MODERN TURKEY 

This course is a visual survey of the evolution of culture 

and politics in modern day Turkey. 



GÜNÜMÜZ TÜRKİYE’SİNDE KÜLTÜR VE 

SİYASET 

Bu ders, günümüz Türkiye’sinin kültürel ve siyasi 

dönüşümünün görsel bir incelemesidir. 

IR 124 - GLOBAL CHALLENGES 

This course aims to provide students with a framework 

for understanding the main issues and concepts of 

international relations like international anarchy, 

international system, international organizations, balance 

of power, war, terrorism, diplomacy, intelligence, 

espionage, development, globalization and environment. 

Lectures and readings will help students analyze traditional 

and alternative approaches to international relations and

their relevance in contemporary global context. 



IR 179 - POLITICS, CULTURE AND 

SOCIETY I 

This introductory course aims to develop students’ 

abilities to analyze academic texts and engage in critical 

discussions. By enhancing their capability to reflect on 

issues under discussion and express themselves clearly, 

the course will provide a first step for students on their 

way to becoming successful university graduates. The 

course will be comprehensive in nature, constructing a 

foundation for academic thinking and research. It will 

also consider key topics in politics and international 

relations, to familiarize students with the key questions 

and topics in these areas. 


IR 180 - POLITICS, CULTURE AND 

SOCIETY II 

This introductory course aims to develop students’ 

abilities to analyze academic texts and engage in critical 

discussions. By enhancing their capability to reflect on 

issues under discussion and express themselves clearly, 

the course will provide a first step for students on their 

way to becoming successful university graduates. The 

course will be comprehensive in nature, constructing a 

foundation for academic thinking and research. It will 

also consider key topics in politics and international 

relations, to familiarize students with the key questions 

and topics in these areas. 


IR 211 - POLITICAL THOUGHT I 

The aim of this course is to examine the methodological 

basis of political thought and to provide an introduction 

to central concepts of early modern political thought in 

a historical context. Topics such as the Renaissance and 

utopia, Machiavelli, Protestant reformation, Bodin and 

sovereignty, modern natural law theories, the English Civil 

War and Thomas Hobbes, Levellers and Republicans, 

John Locke and the contract theory, Montesquieu and J.J. 

Rousseau and David Hume and his conservative criticism 

will be covered. 


Restriction(s): HIST 292 



IR 212 - POLITICAL THOUGHT II 

The aim of this course is to evaluate the works of selected 

modern political theorists and to examine the historical 

development of the science of political thought in the 

French Revolution as well as Abb Sieyes, Robespierre’s 

Jacobinism, Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, 

G.W.F. Hegel and history, utilitarianism, J. Bentham’s 

philosophical radicalism, J.S. Mill’s liberalism, liberalism 

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of the Oxford idealist T.H. Green, dialectical materialism, 

Marx and Engels, social democratic revisionism, 

romanticism in politics and fascism, the creative Marxists 

and Gramsci. 


Restriction(s): HIST 292 



IR 213 - SOCIAL STATISTICS 

Introduction to statistics with special emphasis on the 

utilization of statistical methods in social sciences: 

organization of data, measures of center and variability, 

basic probability concepts, descrete and continuous 

random variables and their distributions and inferences 

about the mean. 


Restriction(s): PSY 213 or PSY 214 or SOC 213 or SOC 214 


IR 215 - POLITICS AND MOVIE 

This course is about political incidents and their reflections 

in cinema in various countries of the world. We will cover 

the internal politics of a diverse set of states, such as 

South Africa, Chile, Greece, Iran and Cambodia. Each 

session will be followed by one movie. 



IR 217 - MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS 

The Mediterranean Sea is surrounded by three continents 

comprising dozens of countries, in which reside millions 

of people of an endless social, historical and cultural 

diversity. It is an area that has shaped world politics 

since Ancient times. This class is intended to familiarize 

the students with the contemporary importance of the 

Mediterranean as a whole, while focusing on selected 

cases to be studied in detail, such as Greece, Italy, 

Lebanon and Egypt. 



IR 218 - POLITICAL AND SOCIAL 

TRANSFORMATIONS 

The main focus of this course will be the study of ideas 

on social change from the Age of Enlightenment to 

the present day. The relationship between the ”great 

transformation” which European societies experienced in 

the early nineteenth century and the rise of sociological 

thought in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries will 

be considered at large. 



SİYASAL VE TOPLUMSAL DÖNÜŞÜMLER 

Bu dersin odak noktası, Aydınlanma Çağı’ndan günümüze 

sosyal değişim konusundaki düşüncelerdir. Avrupa 

toplumlarının 19. yüzyılda tecrübe ettikleri “büyük

dönüşüm” ile, geç 19. yüzyıl ve 20. yüzyıl sosyolojik 

düşüncesinin yükselişi arasındaki ilişki etraflıca 

değerlendirilecektir. 

IR 227 - THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY AND 

NATIONALISM 

The aim of this course is to introduce students to major 

conceptual and theoretical debates in the study of ethnicity 

and nationalism with a view to increasing their awareness 

and sensitivity to problems that stem from the pursuit of 

identity politics. The course will then consider some of 

the main identity- and nationalism-related problems that 

continue to afflict Turkey’s domestic and foreign politics, 

including the 1915 deportation and massacre of Ottoman 

Armenians, the Kurdish question, non-Muslim minorities, 

Turkish-Greek relations, Cyprus, Islam, nationalism and 

Turkey’s membership of the EU, among others. The 

course will conclude with an assessment of the prospects 

for empathy, tolerance and peaceful coexistence in Turkey 

drawing on classroom experiences. 


IR 231 - POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC 

HISTORY I 

This course aims to provide students with an introduction 

to European history. The focus will be on major political, 

economic and diplomatic developments in the period 

1815-1914. Topics covered will include the Settlement 

of 1815, Italian and German reunification, Bismarck’s 

alliance systems, the development of socialism and 

liberalism, imperialism and colonialism, and the origins 

and causes of World War I. 



IR 232 - POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC 

HISTORY II 

This course aims to provide students with a survey of 

key political, economic and diplomatic developments 

in Europe from 1914-1945. Topics covered include the 

World War I Peace Settlement, collective security and the 

role of the League of Nations, the rise of fascism in Italy 

and Germany, the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalinism, 

the impact of the Great Depression, Appeasement, and 

the origins and causes of World War II. 



IR 251 - TURKISH POLITICS I 

The course is designed to provide an introduction to Turkish 

politics that aims to familiarize the student with the recent 

political history of Turkey and to develop a framework for 

analysis of contemporary Turkish politics. The subject matter 

of the course covers the modernization process in the late 

Ottoman period, the establishment of the Turkish Republic, 

the single-party period, transition to the multi-party system 

and political developments up to the 1960s. 


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Restriction(s): IR 323 or IR 505 or MED 271 


IR 252 - TURKISH POLITICS II 

The course is a continuation of IR 251. The subject 

matter of the course covers the various aspects of Turkish 

politics since 1960. The main topics are the constitutions 

and constitutional changes, basic institutions (executivelegislature-judiciary), 

elections and electoral system, 

political parties and the party system, political culture 

and voting behavior, civilian-military relations, Islam and 

politics, the Kurdish Question, political corruption and 

the political regime debate. 


Restriction(s): IR 323 or IR 505 or MED 272 

IR 292 - SOCIETY AND POLITICS 

The course has been designed to study the nature and 

the mutual interpenetration of two important concepts: 

globalization and sustainability. Various viewpoints 

will be used to survey their interaction. Environmental 

problems will be used as case studies throughout the 

course. 




IR 301 - COMPARATIVE POLITICS I 

This course is designed to introduce the basic concepts, 

theories and problems in the field of comparative politics. 

It offers a survey of the field’s history, some of its key 

methodological debates and a selection of core reading 

of the comparative studies. Topics to be covered include 

the comparative study of revolutions, development and 

modernization, dependency theory, democratic political 

systems and the political culture. 




IR 302 - COMPARATIVE POLITICS II 

The course is designed to provide an understanding of 

different political systems in a comparative perspective. 

As a continuation of IR 301, crucial countries which 

represent different paths to modern society and polity 

will be studied: Britain, France, Germany, the USA, the 

Russian Federation and China. Throughout the course, 

the historical development of political institutions, statesociety 

relations, current constitutional-institutional 

framework and political culture of these countries will be 

analyzed. 




IR 303 - CULTURE AND POLITICS 

The course aims to extend the understanding of the 

key notions of ethnicity, nationalism, globalize,

multiculturalism, localism and identity in an international 

setting to address comparatively some of the theoretical, 

methodological and empirical issues that have arisen 

in analyses of the above-mentioned notions to address 

some of the vital issues of contemporary geopolitics and 

globalization in an interdisciplinary way and redefine the 

notion of politics, and the relation between politics and 

culture. 



IR 304 - PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL 

SCIENCES 

The focus of this course is on questions of epistemology 

in social and political scientific inquiry. The students 

will be introduced to positivistic, hermeneutical and 

critical theoretical approaches to social and political 

scientific inquiry. Debates revolving around such issues 

as “objectivism and relativism”, “hermeneutics and the 

critique of ideology” and “the problem of paradigmatic 

and cross-cultural in commensurability” will be examined 

in greater detail. In this context, the students will be 

introduced to the thoughts of such thinkers as Popper, 

Nagel, Kuhn, Lyotord, Rorty, Taylor, Gadamer and 

Habermas. 




SOSYAL BİLİMLER FELSEFESİ 

Ders, toplumsal ve siyasal bilimsel incelemelerde 

epistemoloji sorunları üzerinde yoğunlaşır. Bu bağlamda 

öğrencilere, toplumsal ve siyasal bilimsel incelemelere 

pozitivist, hermenötik ve eleştirel kuramsal yaklaşımlar 

tanıtılır. “Objektivizm ve relativizm”, “hermenötik ve 

ideolojinin eleştirisi” ve “paradigmatik ve kültürlerarası 

kıyaslanamazlık sorunu” gibi konular etrafındaki 

tartışmalar ayrıntılı olarak incelenecektir. Bu amaçla 

Popper, Nagel, Kuhn, Lyotard, Rorty, Taylor, Gadamer ve 

Habermas’ın düşünceleri tartışılır. 

IR 305 - WORLD POLITICS I 

This course is designed to familiarize students with the 

history and politics of international relations after 1945. 

The first part of the course will deal with developments 

from 1945 until the end of the twentieth century. The 

course will analyze currents and developments within 

and between countries, looking at the domestic and 

international systemic parameters of world politics. 



IR 306 - WORLD POLITICS II 

This course focuses on the developments that led to the 

end of the Cold War era and the politics of the post-Cold 

War period. Starting with the last decade of the Soviet 

Union and the forces that brought about the demise of 

Leninism in Eastern Europe, the break-up of Yugoslavia 

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is studied as the paradigmatic case of the post-Cold War 

era. Other issues include the politics of the Middle East, 

post-Cold War American foreign policy and the pluses 

and minuses of globalization. 



IR 318 - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND 

CINEMA 

This course aims to introduce and interpret basic political 

philosophical concepts and/or approaches through 

cinema. Each week we shall watch one movie, and use 

it to interpret, understand and/or analyze one central 

philosophical concept and/or approach. The movies 

we shall watch will include such works as “Matrix”, 

“Exotica”, “The Element of Crime”, “The Lord of the 

Flies”, “The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover”, 

“Jesus of Montreal,” and “Smoke.” The concepts and/or 

approaches we cover will include Plato’s cave allegory, 

Gadamer’s “philosophical hermeneutics”, Hobbes’ s 

“state of nature”, Aristotelian notions of friendship and 

community and the Kantian idea of moral rationalism. 



SİYASAL FELSEFE VE SİNEMA 

Bu ders, temel siyaset felsefisi kavram ve/veya 

yaklaşımlarına, sinema aracılığıyla giriş yapılması ve 

yorumlanması amacını taşır. Ders kapsamında, her hafta 

bir film seyredilerek, temel bir felsefi kavram ve/veya 

yaklaşımın yorumlanması, anlaşılması ve/veya analiz 

edilmesinde kullanılacaktır. İzlenilecek filmler arasında 

“Matrix”, “Exotica”, “The Element of Crime”, “The 

Lord of the Flies”, “The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and 

her Lover”, “Jesus of Montreal” ve “Smoke” gibi yapıtlar 

bulunmaktadır. İşlenilecek kavram ve yaklaşımlar 

arasında Plato’nun ‘mağara alegorisi’, Gadamer’in 

“felsefi hermeneutik”i, Hobbes’un “doğa durumu”, 

Aristotalyan dostluk ve toplum kavramları ile Kantçı 

ahlaki rasyonalizm kavramı bulunmaktadır. 

IR 322 - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 

THEORY 

The aim of this course is to equip students with conceptual 

resources that will allow them to understand and critically 

evaluate both world political events and the contemporary 

academic literature analyzing and explaining these events. 

The focus of the course is on three prominent traditions 

in international relations theory realism, the Marxist 

critique of imperialism and liberal cosmopolitanism. 

These traditions underpin much of recent academic 

work on world politics. They also structure the ways in 

which professionals of world politics (e.g. governmental 

foreign-policy makers, IGO and/or NGO officials, 

MNC managers) perceive, assess and act in response 

to world political situations and problems. A thorough 

understanding of and critical reflection on these three 

theoretical traditions, their philosophical foundations and

the historical and socio-political contexts in which they 

gain(ed) intellectual prominence are therefore essential 

for anyone who would like to make sense of recent history 

and the contemporary reality of world politics. 



IR 323 - TURKISH POLITICS AND FOREIGN 

POLICY 

This course is highly recommended for international 

students who are interested in Turkish politics and foreign 

policy. In order to maximize the benefit to the student, the 

course is structured as a modular course where a variety of 

professors teaches different aspects of Turkish politics and 

foreign policy. From political history to current affairs, the 

course covers institutional, historical, and social aspects 

of politics and foreign policy of Turkey. Democratization, 

reform processes, civil–military relations, political parties 

and institutions, the EU accession process and Turkey’s 

foreign relations are among the subjects covered in the 

course. 


Restriction(s): (IR 251 or IR 252) and (IR 441 or IR 442) and 

IR 505 



IR 324 - INTERNATIONAL 

ORGANIZATIONS 

The aim of this course is to enable students to understand 

the origins, structures and functioning of international 

organizations, their role in contemporary world politics 

and their future development. The first part of the course 

will focus on the historical evolution of the idea of 

international organization and examine the attempts in 

the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries to turn this 

idea into an international reality. The second part of the 

course will focus on the basic principles, organizational 

structure and internal functioning of the United Nations. 

The politics of UN reform will be discussed in the context 

of two contradictory trends in contemporary world 

politics-globalization and fragmentation. In the final 

part of the course, the changing concept of security will 

be discussed and the structure and functioning of such 

regional security organizations such as NATO and OSCE, 

will be examined. 



IR 325 - TURKISH NATIONALISM 

This course is on the history of Turkish nationalism from 

Ziya Gökalp onwards. By recourse to primary sources, 

it aims at building a historical understanding of Turkish 

nationalism along with the major intellectual and political 

figures in the movement from past to present. 



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TÜRK MİLLİYETÇİLİĞİ 

Bu ders, Türk milliyetçiliğinin Ziya Gökalp’ten bu 

yana tarih içinde bir panoramasını çizmeyi amaçlıyor. 

Tarihselliği içinde Türk milliyetçiliğini anlama çabamıza, 

birincil kaynaklar eşliğinde, hareketin önemli aydın ve 

siyasetçilerinin yazdıkları rehberlik edecektir. 

IR 342 - RESEARCH METHODS 

This course examines the basic aspects of the philosophy 

of science and the methods of social science research with 

a particular focus on political science and international 

relations. Topics to be covered include the paradigms 

of the social science: methodological traditions (mainly 

qualitative and quantitative methods) and research designs 

with various research tools and techniques. The first part 

of the course will be devoted to lectures and discussions 

of the research methods. And in the second part, students 

are expected to conduct their own research projects either 

individually or as a group. 


Restriction(s): BUS 391 or BUS 392 or EU 223 or PSY 301 or 

SOC 211 



ARAŞTIRMA YÖNTEMLERİ 

Bu derste, bilim felsefesinin temel kavramları ve 

sosyal bilimlerde araştırma yöntemleri siyaset bilimi 

ve uluslararası ilişkilere odaklanarak incelenmektedir. 

İşlenecek konular arasında sosyal bilimlerdeki temel 

paradigmalar, metodolojik gelenekler (özellikle niteliksel 

ve niceliksel araştırma yöntemleri) ve farklı araştırma 

teknik ve araçları ile yapılan araştırma planları yer 

almaktadır. Dersin birinci bölümü, araştırma yöntemleri 

ile ilgili seminer ve tartışmalardan oluşurken, ikinci 

bölümde, öğrencilerin bireysel olarak veya grup halinde 

kendi araştırma projelerini yapmaları beklenmektedir. 

IR 352 - ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS 

The course examines issues and concepts central 

to environmental politics, ranging from theory to 

practice. Lectures will cover topics from global to local 

issues, enabling the student to assess the role of the 

global economy and international organisations in the 

development of environmental policy, as well as the 

importance of taking action at the local level. Issues 

addressed include the concept of sustainable development, 

green thought and political parties, environmental 

policy options, environmental pressure groups, the 

problems of collective action, international dimensions 

of environmental policy, international structures for the 

environment, international environmental agreements, 

European Union environmental policy and environmental 

security. The course also attempts to explore the linkages 

between environmental, social, ethical, political and 

economic issues. These links address the question of 

whether we need to modify our mode of conduct and way 

of thinking on a variety of issues including consumption

patterns, life-styles, moral traditions, education, the 

value assigned to environmental goods and services and 

national accounting systems. 



IR 362 - MODEL UNITED NATIONS 

Model United Nations is an authentic simulation of 

UN organs. Students are introduced to the practical 

aspects of diplomacy and negotiation, assuming roles 

of ambassadors of UN member states to debate issues 

on the Organization’s agenda. As part of the course, in 

cooperation with the MUN Club, students will be prepared 

to attend one or more MUN international conferences in 

Europe and the USA. The goals of the course comprise 

enhancing student research, public speaking, writing and 

diplomacy skills fostering a thorough understanding of 

the role of the UN in international politics and diplomacy 

and facilitating a hands-on approach to dealing with 

global issues through negotiation, resolution drafting and 

strategy developing. 




IR 372 - THEORIES OF DEMOCRACY AND 

HUMAN RIGHTS 

This course examines the philosophical foundations, 

historical evolution and institutional practice of the idea 

of universal human rights in contemporary world politics. 

At the theoretical level students will be introduced to 

classical and contemporary political and philosophical 

approaches to justifying the moral universality of human 

rights against the challenge of cultural particularism and 

political irrationalism. At the practical level the course 

will focus on contemporary political controversies both 

among world governments and INGOs, concerning the 

promotion, protection and implementation of international 

human rights standards at global and regional levels. In 

this context particular emphasis will be put on the United 

Nations’ legal order in the field of human rights and on 

European human rights institutions. 


IR 374 - POLITICS OF CENTRAL ASIA 

This course will focus on political, social, and 

economic developments in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, 

Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan 

since the break-up of the Soviet Union. The politics of 

state-building and nation-building, the role of Islam, 

the importance of energy, the impact of water disputes, 

drug-trafficking and organised crime will be discussed 

among other topics. The interests of outside states– 

particularly Turkey, Russia, Iran, China and the US – 

in the politics and economics of the region will also 

be examined. 



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IR 382 - DEBATES IN CONTEMPORARY 

TURKISH POLITICS II 

This course covers two major themes in Turkish politics 

from a historical perspective. Predominantly based on 

primary sources, we will cover Islam and the left in 

Turkey. The aim is to provide students with a plurality 

of perspectives on each subject in order to enhance their 

understanding of persistent issues in Turkish politics. 


IR 391 - POLITICAL ECONOMY FOR 

POLITICAL SCIENTISTS 

This course aims to provide first, a thorough understanding 

of the major schools of thought in political economy 

and, second, a close analysis of current issues in world 

economics. In the first semester, classical, Keynesian, 

neo-classical, Marxist, public choice approaches, along 

with concepts such as market socialism, stake holding and 

distributive justice, are critically discussed. In the second 

semester, the course focuses on globalization, the nature 

of international financial institutions, the transition to 

capitalism in countries such as Russia, the characteristics 

of South-East Asian economies, the political economy of 

Europe and the European Monetary Union. 



IR 395 - CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS 

This course focuses on the interactions between the 

military and civilians in politics, with specific examples 

from Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe (including 

Turkey). After analyzing the institutional characteristics 

of the professional military, the course asks how the role 

of the military in politics and society changes at different 

development levels. Particular attention is given to the 

reasons for military interventions and their consequences. 

The course also tackles the question of civilian control 

over the military in democracies. 



IR 406 - RELIGION AND 

POLITICS:DEBATES ON SECULARISM 

This course will focus on practical and/or conceptual 

problems in current political theory. It will specifically 

address the relationship between religion and politics. It 

will examine in detail secularism, the secularization thesis 

and the public role of religion. The Turkish case will also 

be discussed at length. 


IR 411 - DISSERTATION I 

This is a non-credit core course based on research, reading 

and writing about a topic of the student’s choice. The aim 

is to enable students to conduct research drawing on what 

they have learned prior to their fourth year and culminate 

it in a written work. Students are expected to prepare their 

dissertations according to the guidelines provided by the

department and under the guidance of supervising faculty. 



IR 412 - DISSERTATION II 

This course is based on research, reading and writing 

about a topic of the student’s choice. The aim is to enable 

students to conduct research drawing on what they have 

learned prior to their fourth year and culminate it in a 

written work. Students are expected to prepare their 

dissertations according to the guidelines provided by the 

department and under the guidance of supervising faculty. 


Special Condition(s): IR 411 


IR 413 - FRENCH POLITICS 

The course aims at giving the students an enlarged view 

of French political life, starting from the foundation of 

the first modern Republic, to vicissitudes in the twentieth 

century. A special emphasis will also be placed on the 

influence of French political thought on the shaping of the 

European integration, in terms of institutional framework 

and common policies. 



IR 415 - URBAN POLITICS 

In a rapidly globalizing world order, cities are gaining new 

political importance. As contested sites of multicultural 

encounters between people from different classes, ethnic, 

religious and social backgrounds, cities further alternative 

definitions of citizenship and state-society relations. 

Apart from covering basic theories in the area of urban 

studies, we will examine the dynamics of urban politics 

from the point of view of both policy-makers and social 

actors. Issues of focus will include industrialization, 

social mobility, rural migration, social segregation, slum 

settlements, festivals, tourism or violence. İstanbul will 

be taken as the basic case for drawing comparisons to 

various Mediterranean (Athens, Alexandria, Barcelona), 

postcolonial (Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, Casablanca), and 

other metropolitan (London, New York, Berlin, Tokyo) 

cities worldwide. Audiovisual material and guest 

lecturers will supplement class discussions. Student 

will be expected to attend and participate in all classes, 

engage in term projects and class presentations, as well as 

write a final paper involving original research within the 

framework of urban studies. 




IR 418 - POLITICS AND CULTURE IN 

SOUTHERN EUROPE 

Since man was declared a political animal in Ancient 

Greece, Southern Europe has long been marked as the 

birthplace of modern politics. Today, it continues to 

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be a focal point of political discussions in Europe. The 

class will include analyses of the political geography and 

cultural history of specific countries and cultural groups, 

as well as selected topics including the Renaissance, 

fascism, tourism, the environment and the process of EU 

expansion in the Southern European region. 



IR 421 - MIDDLE EAST: HISTORY 

The course is designed as a historical introduction to 

today’s Middle East for students who might decide 

to further their study of the region. It aims to provide 

a comprehensive history of the Middle East in the 

twentieth century, taking a closer look at major historical 

transformations, wars, crises and pan-ideologies that have 

shaped the modern Middle East since the beginning of the 

last century. 




IR 422 - CURRENT ISSUES IN THE 

MIDDLE EAST 

The course deals with the current issues of the Middle East 

through an international relations perspective. The first 

lectures will focus on regional fallouts of the Gulf War 

and evolution of the Oslo peace process. The following 

weeks will address other regional issues with an emphasis 

on their relevance for Turkey. Among the issues the 

course will take up are the regionalization of the Kurdish 

issue, fragmentation in Palestinian politics, transnational 

organizations in regional contexts, ramifications of US 

occupation of Iraq and Israel’s regional policies. 




IR 423 - GERMAN POLITICS AND 

POLICIES 

The course aims to introduce students to German politics 

and economy. It will touch on German federalism, the 

(crisis of) ‘Rheinish’ capitalism and German unification 

as well as German foreign policy. It will depict Germany 

as one of the most important countries in the European 

Union which has faced dramatic political and economic 

challenges in recent years. Students graduating from 

the course shall be able to work with ‘state of the art’ 

literature in political science and political economy and 

also shall be able to evaluate the political development 

within Germany and its relation to its neighbor states. 



IR 431 - EUROPEAN INTEGRATION 

This course aims to explore the historical context and 

economic theories of European integration since 1945. 

Topics covered in the course include the evolution of the

European Community, theories of economic integration, 

the structure of the European Union, the community 

budget, the establishment of the single market, the 

exchange rate mechanism, the European Monetary 

System, economic and monetary union, wider European 

integration and the Economic Community and the rest of 

the world. 


Restriction(s): EU 212 and EU 311 


IR 441 - TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY 

This course outlines the major contours, trends and 

problems of Turkish foreign policy between 1923 

and 2002. Starting with the War of Independence, the 

course deals with major foreign policy issues in three 

respective periods: The Interbellum era, the Cold War 

years and the post-Cold War era. Lectures will focus 

on the impact of international crises on Turkey, and on 

factors that shape Turkey’s responses to these crises. 

In order to analyze Turkish foreign policy decisions, 

the course will employ a three-level perspective: the 

international/regional, national/domestic, and decision 

maker/leadership levels. 



IR 442 - CURRENT ISSUES OF TURKISH 

FOREIGN POLICY 

The course deals with the current issues that maintain 

their priority in the agendum of the Turkish policy 

making establishment as well as public opinion for 

the last decade. Relevant topics are included in the 

program, and guest speakers who have first-hand 

information on some issues that the lectures take up 

will be hosted in the class. The lectures provide a 

short historical background for the week’s topic and 

an analytical perspective based on interplay between 

three levels of analysis: the international/regional, 

national/domestic, and decision maker/leadership 

levels. 



IR 444 - TURKEY AND THE MIDDLE EAST 

The course is designed to give a detailed account of 

Turkey’s policies towards the Middle East in the twentieth 

century. Lectures will deal with Ankara’s regional policies 

as a response to major international crises and to chronical 

regional issues. The course will focus on three distinct 

periods: the interbellum years, the Cold War era and post- 

Cold War period. It will aim to highlight turning points 

in the evolution of the role Turkey played in regional 

politics and delineate major domestic and international 

factors that shaped Ankara’s approach to the issues that 

the course covers. 



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IR 451 - BALKAN POLITICS 

This course studies the Balkans in their historical and 

current context by devoting special attention to major 

conflicts and questions in the region, such as the breakup 

of Yugoslavia, war and peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 

the Kosovo problem, the Albanian question, the conflict 

in Macedonia and the Greek-Macedonian dispute, as well 

as multiple regional rivalries and cooperation efforts. 




IR 453 - OTTOMAN BALKANS IN THE 19th 

CENTURY 

This course examines economic, social and political 

transformations in the nineteenth-century Ottoman 

Balkans. 



IR 461 - TURKISH-GREEK RELATIONS 

This course is aimed at understanding the dynamics of 

confrontation and prospects for cooperation in Turkish- 

Greek relations. The course is divided into four parts. In 

the first part, students will be introduced to the historical 

background of Turkish-Greek relations. Building on this 

introduction, the second part will examine the emergence 

and proliferation of problem areas between Turkey and 

Greece after the 1974 Cyprus crisis with their legal, 

political and military implications. The next part is 

devoted to third-party involvement and international 

mediation attempts in Turkish-Greek disputes with 

special emphasis on the EU dimension. The fourth and 

final part will explore the possibilities of Turkish-Greek 

reconciliation in the emerging post-Cold War Europe. 





IR 472 - EUROPE AND MIGRATION 

This course aims to extend the understanding of the 

key notions of migration, globalization, diasporas, 

colonization, integration and assimilation in the 

contemporary world. International Migration as a module 

also aims at equipping the students with the tools to 

compare different forms of migration since the antiquity 

as well as alternative forms of regimes of migrations 

implemented by different states such as Germany, France, 

Turkey, USA and Britain. Students will be asked to write 

two working papers. 



IR 492 - GOVERNANCE AND POLICY 

MAKING IN THE EU 

This module offers students the opportunity to obtain 

an in-depth understanding of EU policy making,

implementation and governance issues, especially 

in relation to the multi-level character of the EU 

policy process and a wide range of substantive 

policy areas. This includes governance of the EU, 

theories of integration, institution-society linkages 

including the role of public opinion, pressure 

groups and issues of legitimacy and accountability, 

assessment of perspectives and models such as 

intergovernmentalism, federalism, institutionalism 

and neo-functionalism. 


Restriction(s): EU 212 or EU 311 


IR/E 179 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 


















developed. 


IR/E 180 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 









researching, collecting, and organizing information. 









developed. 


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IT 111 - INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL 

LITERACY 

The course covers fundamentals of Office and 

Desktop Publishing applications like word processors, 

publishing software and presentation programs. 

Essential tools and some web-based applications to 

design, create, publish and manage web sites and blogs 

are also included. 


IT 200 - INTRODUCTION TO 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 

The aim of this course is to support students with the basic 

computer literacy skills necessary for academic life. The 

course covers fundamentals of Microsoft Windows as well 

as Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel 

and PowerPoint at the intermediate level. Throughout 

the course students are also introduced to basic computer 

concepts. 


Restriction(s): COMP 101 or IT 101 or IT 103 

IT 201 - INFORMATION 

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS 

The objective of this course is to provide students with 

skills in professionally manipulating Microsoft Office 

documents and in producing and modifying reports, 

charts and business mailings. Recent technological 

developments and innovations will also be introduced to 

the students to keep them up-to-date. 


Prerequisite(s): COMP 101 or IT 101 or IT 103 or IT 200 

Restriction(s): IT 102 

IT 202 - DATA MANAGEMENT 

TECHNIQUES 

The objective of this course is to introduce the basics of 

data management techniques. The course aims to improve 

students’ computer skills to create and manage databases 

and advanced spreadsheets. 


Prerequisite(s): COMP 101 or IT 101 or IT 102 or IT 103 or IT 

200 or IT 201 

JUS 111 - FUNDAMENTAL LEGAL 

CONCEPTS AND JUSTICE 

INSTITUTIONS 

Within the scope of this course, students will be 

introduced to basic legal concepts which are relevant 

for understanding the practice of law. The role, structure 

and organization of the judiciary and other institutions of 

justice will also be covered. In this way, students will be 

familiarized with concepts and issues that are frequently 

encountered in the paralegal profession. 




TEMEL HUKUKİ KAVRAMLAR VE YARGI 

ÖRGÜTÜ 

Bu derste, hukuk uygulamasında sıklıkla karşılaşılan 

kavramlar tanıtılacak, mahkeme ve adli organlar 

ile ilgili idari organların işlevleri ve teşkilatlanması 

anlatılacaktır. Bu şekilde, dersi alan öğrencilerin, adli 

organlarda veya özel sektörde yardımcı personel olarak 

görev yaparken karşılaşacağı kavramlara aşina olması 

sağlanacaktır. 

JUS 112 - LAW FIRM MANAGEMENT 

Students will be introduced to fundamental concepts 

and methods related to the day-to-day functioning 

and management of law firms, and the techniques of 

effective communication. The course will introduce 

students to contemporary approaches on firm 

organization including on-line firm administration. 

Additionally, fundamental accounting notions such 

as overall statement, table of receipts and expenses, 

inventory, depreciation, capital and net worth will 

also be covered. Finally, students will learn distinctive 

methods of filing and archiving used in law and the 

judiciary, and will also learn alternative approaches 

and solutions to filing needs in law firms. 




HUKUK BÜROSU YÖNETİMİ 

Bu derste, hukuk büro yönetimi ile ilgili temel kavramlar, 

yöntemler ve etkin iletişim hakkında bilgi verilecektir. 

Büroların örgütlenmesinde yeni yaklaşımlar, sanal 

büro kavramı ve sanal büroların çalışma yöntemleri 

tanıtılacaktır. Ayrıca, bu derste temel muhasebe 

kavramları da ele alınacaktır (bilanço, gelir-gider tablosu, 

envanter, amortisman, kapital ve özsermaye gibi). Son 

olarak, dosyalama ve arşivleme konusunda adli teşkilatın 

kendine has kuralları olduğundan, öğrencilere bu kurallar 

öğretildikten sonra alternatif dosyalama ve arşivleme 

teknikleri öğretilerek farklı ihtiyaçlara yönelik çözüm 

yolları gösterilecektir. 

JUS 113 - INTRODUCTION TO 

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW- 

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND 

FREEDOMS 

Within the context of this course, students will be 

introduced to general principles and basic concepts 

of constitutional law. This course will cover subjects 

such as fundamental rights and freedoms, legislation, 

enforcement, the judiciary, elections, political parties and 

constitutional review. Current human rights issues and 

their relation to substantive law will be explored in the 

light of constitutional law. 




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ANAYASA HUKUKUNA GİRİŞ-TEMEL 

HAKLAR VE ÖZGÜRLÜKLER 

Ders kapsamında, Anayasa Hukuku’nun genel esasları ve 

temel kavramları anlatılacaktır. Temel hak ve özgürlükler, 

yasama, yürütme, yargı, seçim, siyasi partiler ve anayasa 

yargısı konularına değinilecektir. İnsan haklarının 

günümüzde ulaştığı nokta, bunların pozitif hukuka 

yansımaları anayasal hükümlerle birlikte izah edilecektir. 


ADMINISTRATIVE LAW 

The aim of this course is to introduce students to 

the body of rules that regulate the relations between 

administration and individuals. Administrative structure 

and administrative operations such as public service, law 

enforcement, planning and regulation will be discussed. 




İDARE HUKUKUNA GİRİŞ 

Bu derste, idare hukukunun temel kavramları hakkında 

bilgi verilecek, idari teşkilat ve idari faaliyetler (kamu 

hizmetleri, kolluk, planlama, regülasyon) ele alınacaktır. 

JUS 115 - INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL 

LAW I (BASIC CONCEPTS AND LAW OF 

PERSONS) 

In this course, the fundamental principles of civil law and 

essential law of persons issues and family law will be 

covered. In particular, the concepts of legal person, natural 

person, legal capacity, personality rights, protection of 

personality, associations and trusts, family law, general 

provisions of marriage, divorce, guardianship and 

trusteeship will be covered. 




MEDENİ HUKUKA GİRİŞ I (TEMEL 

KAVRAMLAR VE KİŞİLER HUKUKU) 

Bu derste, medeni hukukun temel ilkeleri, kişiler hukuku 

ve aile hukukuna dair temel konular ele alınacaktır. 

Özellikle kişi ve kişilik kavramları, gerçek kişiler, kişinin 

ehliyeti, kişilik hakkı, kişiliğin korunması, tüzel kişiler, 

dernekler, vakıflar, aile hukuku, evlenme, evliliğin 

genel hükümleri, boşanma, soy bağı, velayet, vesayet, 

kayyımlık incelenecektir. 

JUS 116 - INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL LAW 

II (PROPERTY LAW AND INHERITANCE 

LAW) 

Fundamentals of property law and inheritance law will be 

covered within the scope of this course. General principles 

of property law will be examined, as well as fundamental 

subjects of property law such as real right, possession, 

property register, real proprietary and deposition.

Fundamental concepts of inheritance law, including the 

concept of beneficiary, legal heir, testamentary depositions 

and appointed executor will also be dealt with. 




MEDENİ HUKUKA GİRİŞ II (EŞYA VE 

MİRAS HUKUKU) 

Bu ders kapsamında, eşya ve miras hukukuna ilişkin 

temel kavramlar ele alınacaktır. Ayni hak, zilyetlik, tapu 

sicili, taşınmaz mülkiyeti, kat mülkiyeti, rehin gibi temel 

eşya hukukunun konuları ele alınırken, aynı zamanda 

eşya hukukunda hakim prensipler de incelenecektir. 

Miras hukukunun temel kavramları, mirasçılar, yasal 

mirasçılar, atanmış mirasçılar ve ölüme bağlı tasarruflar 

incelenecektir. 


CRIMINAL LAW 

General notions of criminal law, including the common 

categories of crime, will be explained. Consequently 

students who successfully complete this course will be 

able to determine which behaviors match which type of 

crime. 




CEZA HUKUKUNA GİRİŞ 

Derste, ceza hukukunun genel kavramları açıklanacak 

ve çok karşılaşılan suç tipleri öğretilecektir. Bu şekilde, 

derste başarılı olan öğrenci uygulamada karşılaştığı 

fiillerin hangi suç kalıbına girdiğini, hangi fiillerin suç 

teşkil edip etmeyeceğini tespit edebilecektir. 

JUS 150 - KEYBOARD LAB 

In this course, students will learn how use the computer 

keyboard and how to type in the computer lab setting. 

This course is a pass/fail course: students get no grade, 

and it does contribute to GPA calculation. 




KLAVYE KULLANIMI 

Bu derste, öğrenciler on parmakla yazma ve diğer 

bilgisayar klavyesi fonksiyonlarını bilgisayar laboratuvar 

ortamında öğrenecekler. Bu ders bir “geçme/kalma” 

dersidir, not verilmez ve ortalamaya katkısı yoktur. 

LAN 107 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 

LAN 107 is a compulsory English structure and vocabulary 

course, mainly for Vocational School students in order to 

improve their general English language skills to successfully 

cope with their vocational studies. Upon consent, the course 

is also offered as an elective course for students who have 

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completed their preparatory year English program but still 

need to improve their English language skills in order to 

successfully participate in their core courses. This course 

focuses on the application and correct use of language 

structures and vocabulary when speaking and writing in 

academic contexts. There will be intensive individual and 

group tutorials in order to diagnose, focus on and cater 

to the individual needs of students. Upon completion of 

the course, the students are expected to be able to apply 

a variety of vocabulary learning strategies and the use of 

different structural forms to be able to express viewpoints 

and make inquisitions in their academic studies. 



LAN 108 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 

LAN 108 is a compulsory advanced English structure and 

vocabulary course, mainly for Vocational School students 

who successfully completed the LAN 107 course in order 

to further improve their general English language skills 

to successfully cope with their vocational studies. Upon 

consent, the course is also offered as an elective course for 

students who successfully completed the LAN 107 course 

but still need to improve their English language skills in 

order to successfully participate in their core courses. The 

course aims to help students improve the level of their 

language proficiency with special emphasis on the English 

language structures widely used in the academic discourse 

through text analysis and accurate and communicative 

language production in the written mode. There will 

be intensive individual and group tutorials in order to 

diagnose and focus on the individual needs of students. 

Upon completion of the course, the students are expected 

to have a sufficient range of academic vocabulary and 

have become confident in using the English language in 

their academic studies. 


Prerequisite(s): LAN 107 



LAN 201 - INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE 

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 

The aim of this course is to provide a basic knowledge 

of the Japanese language and some culture that helps to 

understand Japanese people and their use of language. 

The course is designed for students to learn essential 

daily expressions, basic grammar and vocabulary through 

classroom activities. 



LAN 202 - ELEMENTARY JAPANESE 

As a continuation of LAN 201, with further studies 

on grammar and vocabulary at the elementary level. 

Japanese writing systems (Hiragana alphabets) will be 

also introduced. The classroom activities are provided for

eading and writing skills as well as oral communication 

skills. 




BAŞLANGIÇ DÜZEYİNDE JAPONCA 

LAN 201’in devamıdır. Dil ve sözcük bilgisi geliştirilir. 

Japonca yazı sistemi (Hiragana alfabesi) tanınır. Japonca 

konuşmayla birlikte, yazma ve okuma yeteneklerinin 

geliştirilmesi için sınıf çalışmalarına katılım sağlanır. 

LAN 207 - INTENSIVE COURSE IN 

PRACTICAL JAPANESE 

This is an intensive course in Japanese for beginners. The 

aim is to provide basic grammar and expressions useful in 

daily conversation and to develop communication skills. 

It is suitable for students who intend to visit Japan or 

work for a Japanese company or with Japanese people. 

The writing systems (Japanese alphabets) are not included 

in the syllabus. 



LAN 210 - TURKISH SIGN LANGUAGE I 

Turkish Sign Language is visual language deaf people 

use for communication by signs with hands and facial 

gestures. The purpose of this elective course is to teach the 

alphabet, vocabulary and grammar structure of Turkish 

Sign Language and to enable the communication of the 

students who with the deaf. This course is recommended 

to all students who would like to develop their nonverbal 

communication skills. The students who take this 

course have to sit one midterm and one final examination: 

both exams are realized by utilizing video cameras. The 

students who pass the course can take a certified Turkish 

Sign Language examination. 



TÜRKÇE İŞARET DİLİ 

Türkçe İşaret Dili işitme engellilerin kendi aralarında 

iletişim kurarken, el hareketlerini ve yüz mimiklerini 

kullanarak oluşturdukları görsel bir dildir. Bu dersin 

amacı, Türkçe İşaret Dili’nin alfabesi, kelime dağarcığı 

ve gramerini öğreterek dersi alan öğrencilerin işitme 

engellilerle bu dil aracılığıyla iletişim kurmasını 

sağlamaktır. Ayrıca, sözsüz iletişim becerilerini 

geliştirmek isteyen tüm öğrencilere tavsiye edilir. Dersin 

kamera aracılığıyla gerçekleştirilen bir ara sınav, bir de 

final sınavı vardır. Derste başarılı olan öğrenciler İşaret 

Dili Sertifikası sınavına girebilirler. 

LAN 211 - ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN I 

This course is an introduction to Russian aiming to 

give the history of the language, its structure and basic 

grammar rules. Basics of phonology, grammatical 

concepts, personal pronouns, roots, affixes and suffixes, 

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masculine, feminine and neutral nouns will be covered. 



BAŞLANGIÇ DÜZEYİNDE RUSÇA I 

Rusça’nın genel tanıtımı, kökenleri, tarihi gelişimi ve 

alfabe ile ilgili bilgiler. Bu aşamada Rusça sesbilimi, 

alfabe, telaffuz özellikleri, temel gramer kavramlarıyla 

ilgili genel bilgiler, kelime cinsleri (eril, dişil ve nötr), 

şahıs zamirleri, iyelik zamirleri, sıfatlar ve bazı temel 

ifade ve sözcükler verilmektedir. 

LAN 212 - ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN II 

As a continuation of LAN 211, this course aims to further 

students’ communication skills in Russian, developing 

their speaking skills with emphasis on pronunciation. 

Grammar instruction covers word order, present tense 

verb conjugations, pronouns, adjectives and auxiliary 

verbs. 




BAŞLANGIÇ DÜZEYİNDE RUSÇA II 

Rusça’nın genel tanıtımı, kökenleri, tarihi gelişimi ve 

alfabe ile ilgili bilgiler. Bu aşamada Rusça sesbilimi, 

alfabe, telaffuz özellikleri, temel gramer kavramlarıyla 

ilgili genel bilgiler, kelime cinsleri (eril, dişil ve nötr), 

şahıs zamirleri, iyelik zamirleri, sıfatlar ve bazı temel 

ifade ve sözcükler verilmektedir. 

LAN 220 - TURKISH SIGN 

LANGUAGE II 

Turkish Sign Language is the visual language used by deaf 

people for communication by signs with hands and facial 

gestures. The purpose of this elective course is to develop 

the vocabulary, grammar knowledge and conversational 

fluency of students who have taken Turkish Sign 

Language I. The students who take this course have to sit 

one midterm and one final examination. Both exams are 

conducted one-on-one and recorded by video cameras for 

grading. Students who pass the course can take a certified 

Turkish Sign Language examination. 




TÜRKÇE İŞARET DİLİ II 

Türkçe İşaret Dili, işitme engellilerin kendi aralarında 

iletişim kurarken, el hareketlerini ve yüz mimiklerini 

kullanarak oluşturdukları görsel bir dildir. Bu dersin 

amacı, Türkçe İşaret Dili I dersini alarak bu dilde iletişim 

kurma becerisini kazanmış öğrencilerin kelime dağarcığı, 

gramer ve anlatım becerilerini geliştirmektir. Dersin 

kamera aracılığıyla gerçekleştirilen bir ara sınav, bir de 

final sınavı vardır. Derste başarılı olan öğrenciler İşaret 

Dili Sertifikası sınavına girebilirler.

LAN 241 - KURDISH I 

This course aims to present the history of the Kurdish 

Language, its structure and alphabet. The target dialect 

will be Kurmancî and by presenting the basic grammatical 

concepts and vocabulary used in daily life, the course 

will provide the students to have the basic knowledge of 

expressing themselves in Kurmancî. 



KÜRTÇE I 

Bu ders, Kürt dilinin kökenleri, tarihi gelişimi ve alfabesi ile 

ilgili genel bir tanım vermeyi amaçlar. Kürt dilinin Kurmancî 

lehçesinin dil bilgisi kurallarıyla ilgili genel bilgi ve gündelik 

dilde kullanılabilecek kelimelerini sunarak, dönem sonunda 

öğrencilerin bu dilde kendilerini ifade edebilecekleri temel 

bir dil bilgisine sahip olmalarını amaçlar. 

LAN 242 - KURDISH II 

This course aims to present the history of the Kurdish 

Language, its structure and the alphabet. The target dialect 

will be Kurmancî and the course aims to develop the 

students’ communication skills by emphasizing grammatical 

concepts and presenting a variety of vocabulary. 


LAN 331 - INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE I 

The aim of this course is to develop communication 

skills based on pre-acquired knowledge in LAN 201 and 

202. It provides more activities and tasks for accuracy of 

language use. Another kind of alphabet called Katakana 

will also be introduced at this level. Learning the usage of 

Katakana serves to understand how the Japanese express 

foreign names and borrowed words and helps to develop 

reading skills for further study. 




ORTA DÜZEYDE JAPONCA I 

LAN 201 ve 202’de öğrenilen konuların günlük 

konuşmada daha fazla kullanılabilmesi sağlanır. Dilin 

doğru kullanımına özen gösterilir. Katakana alfabesi 

tanıtılır. Bu alfabe, Japonca’da yabancı isim ve 

sözcüklerin yazılması için kullanılır. Katakana alfabesinin 

öğrenilmesiyle okuma yeteneği geliştirilir. 

LAN 332 - INTERMEDIATE 

JAPANESE II 

One of the most difficult and interesting characters in the 

world, called Kanji, will be introduced at this level. Kanji 

is originally from China, though used in the Japanese 

writing systems in a different way. Learning Kanji serves 

to improve reading and writing skills as well as to expand 

vocabulary. For this course, 80 Kanji are chosen, carefully 

based on the JLPT 4th level (official Japanese Language 

Proficiency Test equivalent to TOEFL). Useful and very 

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unique expressions for daily life such as onomatopoeia are 

also introduced in order to enrich expressions of feelings, 

natural phenomenon and state of conditions. 




ORTA DÜZEYDE JAPONCA II 

Dünya yazı sistemleri arasında en ilginç ve zor 

alfabelerden biri olan Kanji tanıtılır. Kanji alfabesi, 

orijinal olarak Çin’den gelmiştir. Japonca’ya uyarlanmış 

halde kullanılır. Kanji alfabesinin öğrenilmesi, yazma 

ve okuma yeteneklerini geliştirirken, sözcük bilgisini de 

arttırır. 4.Seviye JLPT sınavı (TOEFL sınavına benzeyen 

Resmi Japonca Seviye Tespit Sınavı) düzeyinde, 80 

adet temel Kanji karakter öğrenilir. Günlük yaşamda 

duyguları, doğal olayları ve içinde bulunulan durumu 

betimlemek için kullanılan zengin ve doğal ifadeler (lapa 

lapa kar, şakır şakır yağmur, sırılsıklam gibi) öğrenilir. 

LAN 341 - INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN I 

In this course, students will practise and develop language 

skills and learn past and present verb tenses and adverbs. 




ORTA DÜZEYDE RUSÇA I 

Gramer bilgileri derinleştirilmekte, cümle yapıları 

ve konuşma dilinin özellikleri incelenmektedir. Bu 

çalışmalar, konuşma kılavuzları ve okuma kitapları temel 

alınarak yapılmaktadır. 

LAN 342 - INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN II 

Continuation of LAN 341. Grammatical instruction will 

cover noun declensions and sentence structure, while 

developing skills in spoken Russian through question- 

and-answer practice. 




ORTA DÜZEYDE RUSÇA II 

Güncel Rusça konuşma, soru sorma ve cevaplama 

becerileri geliştirilmekte, yazılı ve sözlü ifade teknikleri 

verilmektedir. Bazı standart ifadelerin anlamı ve kullanım 

biçimleri öğretilmektedir. 

LAN 343 - KURDISH III 

The aim of this course is to present the history of 

the Kurdish Language, its structure and its alphabet. 

The target dialect will be Kurmancî: the course aims 

to develop the students’ communication skills by 

emphasizing grammatical concepts and presenting a 

variety of vocabulary. 




KÜRTÇE III 

Bu ders, Kürt dilinin kökenleri, tarihi gelişimi ve alfabesi 

ile ilgili genel bir tanım vermeyi amaçlar. Kürt dilinin 

Kurmancî lehçesinin dil bilgisi kurallarını açıklayarak 

ve mevcut kelime hazinesini genişleterek, öğrencilerin 

iletişim yeteneklerini geliştirmeyi hedefler. 

LAN 421 - ADVANCED JAPANESE I 

Knowing grammar and vocabulary is not enough to use 

a language. Successful learners know which expressions 

to be used, to whom and when. Providing students with 

specific expressions of honorific and humble forms, as 

well as informal expressions which help to create intimacy 

among friends, this course is aimed to give sufficient 

language skills for discussions concerning their own 

interests and ideas. 100 more Kanji will be added to the 

vocabulary list for further reading and writing exercises. 




İLERİ DÜZEYDE JAPONCA I 

Dil ve sözcük bilgisi, bir lisanı etkin kullanmak için yeterli 

değildir. İfadelerin kime karşı, ne zaman kullanılacağı da 

önemlidir. İnsanlararası yakınlık seviyesine ve konuşulan 

kişinin statüsüne göre ifade biçiminin ayarlanması 

(resmiyet, samimiyet, cinsiyet, vb. etkisi) öğrenilir. 

Düşünceleri ifade etmeye yönelik yetenekler geliştirilir. 

Yaklaşık 100 adet daha Kanji karakter öğrenilir. Bunları 

kullanmaya yönelik yazma ve okuma çalışmaları yapılır. 

LAN 422 - ADVANCED JAPANESE II 

This course completes the three-year Japanese language 

series. Opportunities are available for further readings or 

translations, discussions and presentations. 120 Kanji will 

be taught to assist in the achievement of the JLPT 3rd 

level. 




İLERİ DÜZEYDE JAPONCA II 

Üç yıllık Japonca dil derslerinin sonuncusudur. İleri seviye 

okuma, çeviri ve sunum yetenekleri geliştirilir. JLPT 

3. seviyeye ulaşmak için 120 adet daha Kanji karakter 

öğrenilir ve sınıfiçi ve dışı çalışmalarda kullanılır. 

LAN 431 - ADVANCED RUSSIAN I 

In this course, students develop reading comprehension, 

writing and speaking skills and learn to express themselves 

with ease in the target language. 



İLERİ DÜZEYDE RUSÇA I 

Bu aşamada, adapte edilmiş hikâyeleri ve güncel metinleri 

(gazete, dergi, vb.) okuma, anlama, Türkçe’ye çevirme, 

Rusça yazılı ve sözlü diyalog becerileri geliştirilmektedir. 

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LAN 432 - ADVANCED RUSSIAN II 

Continuation of LAN 431 and final level of the fouryear 

Russian language course series. The course aims to 

elevate students to an advanced level of proficiency in the 

Russian language. 




İLERİ DÜZEYDE RUSÇA II 

Bu son aşamada, hem tekrar yapılarak, hem de ileri 

düzey metinler üzerinde çalışılarak Rusça bilgileri 

pekiştirilmektedir. 

LAN 433 - KURDISH IV 

This course aims to introduce a detailed analysis of the 

roots and historical development of the Kurdish language. 

By improving the students’ knowledge of grammar and 

vocabulary, it will allow the students to write essays in Kurdish 

and translate written English and Turkish works into Kurdish. 



LAW-EP 101 - ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN 

TURKEY: RESEARCH AND POLICY 

The objective of this course is to give students a brief 

introduction to the legal system in Turkey based on 

research in the field. The course will develop around the 

core theme of access to justice and introduce students 

to studies on various dimensions of access to justice in 

Turkey. Studies on the quality and accessibility of legal 

aid in Turkey, on citizens’ experiences with the legal 

system, on dispute resolution mechanisms, on procedural 

justice, court management, etc., will be covered during the 

course to allow students to think upon various dimensions 

of access to justice. 




LAW-EP 102 - INTRODUCTION TO 

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 

WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON TURKEY 

The aim of this course is to provide a comprehensive 

introduction to the theoretical foundations, structures and 

procedures of international human rights law. Throughout 

the course, the basic principles of human rights will be 

illustrated with a considerable number of Turkey-related 

case-studies. This will enable the students to grasp the 

practical implications of human rights law in our daily lives 

and to analyze the current human rights situation in Turkey. 



LAW 105 - RESEARCH METHODS AND 

ACCESSING LEGAL INFORMATION 

RESOURCES 

This course aims to provide students with a working

knowledge of the academic research process and research 

methods, focusing on printed and electronic legal 

information resources along with recent academic research 

on the subject. The goals of the course are, in addition to 

the above, to develop students’ academic writing skills 

and increase their exposure to various applications used in 

academic research and to help them become proficient in 

using traditional and online library systems. 



ARAŞTIRMA YÖNTEMLERİ VE 

HUKUK BİLGİ KAYNAKLARINA ERİŞİM 

Bu derste, bilimsel araştırma süreci ve temel araştırma 

yöntemleri incelenmektedir. Ayrıca, basılı ve elektronik 

ortamda bulunan hukuk bilgi kaynaklarını tanıma, 

veri toplama ve bilimsel yazım teknikleri üzerinde 

durulacaktır. Dersin hedefleri: bilimsel araştırma süreci 

ve yöntemleri hakkında bilgi vermek, hukuk alanında 

basılı ve elektronik ortamda bulunan bilgi kaynaklarını 

tanımak, etkin biçimde erişmek ve kullanmak, akademik 

çalışmalarda kullanılan bazı programları incelemek, 

otomatik referans vermek, öğrencilerin bilimsel yazım 

yetenekleri ile geleneksel ve online kütüphane sistemlerini 

kullanımını geliştirmektir. 

LAW 111 - ROMAN LAW I 

Roman law constitutes the basis of European continental 

law on which the Turkish legal system is based. Through 

the examination of Roman law concepts such as civil 

rights, law of persons, ownership and possession, the 

student will become familiar with the basic principles and 

rules. This course is particularly useful for those who are 

interested in the area of civil law. 




ROMA HUKUKU I 

Roma Hukuku, Türk hukuk sistemi’nin de üzerinde 

temellendiği Avrupa hukuku’nun temelini oluşturur. 

Hukuk kurumlarının nasıl doğduğu, geliştiği üzerinde 

durulacaktır. Roma Hukuku kavramları incelenerek 

öğrencinin temel ilkeler ve kurallara aşina olması 

sağlanacaktır. Bu ders, özellikle özel hukuk alanına ilgi 

duyanlar için yararlı olacaktır. 

LAW 112 - ROMAN LAW II 

The Romans had established one of the most excellent 

law systems in history. Today the impact of Roman 

law can be traced more or less in every country. In this 

course, we will be analyzing the following: how Roman 

law came into existence, through which stages it passed, 

the importance of Roman law for today’s law, its main 

concepts and Roman procedural law, basic principles and 

rules. This course is particularly useful for those who are 

interested in the area of civil law. 


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ROMA HUKUKU II 

Romalılar tarihteki en mükemmel hukuk sistemlerinden 

birisini kurmuşlardır. Bugün Roma Hukuku’nun etkisi az 

ya da çok her ülkede izlenebilir. Bu derste, Roma Eşya 

Hukuku, Roma Borçlar Hukuku günümüz kavramlarıyla 

kıyaslanarak anlatılacaktır. Bu bağlamda, Roma Hukuku 

ve Medeni Hukuk’un kesiştiği noktalarda pratik 

çalışmalar yapılacaktır. 

LAW 113 - LAW AND SOCIETY 

Law exists in all parts of social life, at all times. Many of 

us may have never been to a court, but we are engaged 

in legal relationships when we register for school, apply 

for a driver’s license, pay our bills, etc. One of the most 

commonly employed questions regarding this relationship 

between law and society has been whether it is law that 

gives shape to whatever we take as the social, or the social 

that determines law, which will in turn affect the ways in 

which that society lives. The aim of this course is to think 

upon this intricate relationship from both sides, attempt 

to see law as a living entity within social life that not 

only shapes society but also is shaped by it. Although the 

principal theoretical framework will be sociological, this 

course intends to keep an interdisciplinary approach with 

the contribution of students from different departments. 

Through readings that study law in practice (courtroom 

practices, narratives, legal profession, etc.), everyday 

experiences with law (relationship between law and 

justice, how does social identity affect our relationship to 

law, etc.) and readings that investigate how expectations 

from law are developed (dispute resolution mechanisms 

and law, procedural justice, justice as an end result, etc.), 

the idea that law belongs to all people living in a society 

will be enhanced. For this purpose, the readings are 

selected predominantly from empirical works to allow the 

students to think upon law as it exists in everyday life. In 

this sense, it is intended as a self-reflexive course which 

will require the participants to think upon law not only as 

it is practiced at the institutional level but also as it takes 

place around them, in their own lives. 



HUKUK VE TOPLUM 

Hukuk toplumsal hayatın her alanında, her anında var 

olan bir olgudur. Birçoğumuz hiç mahkemeye gitmemiş 

olabiliriz, ancak gündelik işlerimizi yaparken-okula kayıt 

olurken, ehliyet çıkarırken, telefon faturamızı öderken 

vb.-her daim hukuki ilişkiler içerisine gireriz. Hukuk ve 

toplum arasındaki bu ilişki genelde hukuk mu toplumu 

şekillendirir, toplum mu hukuku yaratır sorusu üzerinden 

düşünülür. Bu dersin amacı ise, bu illişkiyi çift taraflı bir 

etkileşim üzerinden düşünerek, hukuku toplumsal hayatın 

içerisinde yaşayan bir olgu olarak görmeye çalışmaktır. 

Temel teorik çerçevesi sosyolojik yaklaşımlar üzerinden

kurulacak olsa da, bu ders farklı bölümlerden gelen 

öğrencilerin de katılımıyla hukuka disiplinlerarası bir 

perspektiften bakmayı amaçlamaktadır. Yazılı kuralların 

ötesinde, hukukun uygulamadaki örnekleri (mahkeme 

pratikleri, meslek olarak hukuk vb.), gündelik hayatta 

hukuk ile olan tecrübeler (örn. hukuk ve adalet arasındaki 

ilişki, hukuk ve toplumsal kimlik arasındaki kimlik), 

hukuktan beklentilerin nasıl şekillendiği (örn. uyuşmazlık 

çözme yöntemleri ve hukuk, süreç olarak mı sonuç 

olarak mı adalet?) üzerine okumalar yapılarak, hukukun 

toplumun tüm bireylerine ait bir varlık olduğu düşüncesi 

geliştirilecektir. Dersin okumaları özellikle hukukun 

gündelik hayattaki işleyişini inceleyen çalışmalar 

arasından seçilecektir. Bu şekilde, dersi alan öğrencilerin 

hukuk hakkında sadece kurumsal düzlemde değil, aynı 

zamanda kendi hayatları üzerindeki etkileri üzerinden de 

düşünmeleri sağlanacaktır. 

LAW 114 - POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN THE 

ROMAN EMPIRE 

The Romans, who established one of the greatest 

civilisations of world history, practised methods of public 

administration which later had great impact on Europe. In 

this course, these methods of public administration will 

be examined. 



ROMA DEVLETİ’NDE YÖNETİM 

BİÇİMLERİ 

Dünya tarihindeki en büyük medeniyetlerden birini kuran 

Romalılar, daha sonradan Avrupa üzerinde büyük etkisi 

olacak olan kamu yönetimi biçimleri uygulamışlardır. Bu 

derste, bu yönetim biçimleri incelenecektir. 

LAW 115 - LAW AND POLITICS 

How do political events and problems become legal 

matters, or what political factors are behind legal 

disputes? In this course, in light of the decisions of the 

Constitutional and other courts issued in the multi-party 

era, political events of the time will be reviewed. In that 

sense, while reviewing recent Turkish political history, 

the course will also look into how daily politics effect 

preferences in the courts’ decisions. 



HUKUK VE SİYASET 

Siyasi olaylar ve meseleler, nasıl hukuki meselelere 

dönüşüyor veya hukuki sorunlar olarak ortaya çıkan 

ihtilafların gerisinde ne tür siyasi gelişmeler var? 

Bu derste özellikle Türkiye’de çok partili dönemde 

yasama ve yürütme faaliyetlerine ilişkin olarak verilmiş 

Anayasa Mahkemesi, Danıştay ve Yargıtay kararları, 

sözkonusu yıllarda yaşanan siyasi gelişmeler ile birlikte 

ele alınacaktır. Bu bağlamda derste Türkiye’nin Yakın 

Siyasi Tarihi gözden geçirilirken aynı zamanda gündelik 

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hayattaki siyasetin bu dönemdeki mahkeme kararlarında 

hangi tercihlere nasıl etki ettiği de incelenecektir. 

LAW 116 - ECONOMICS FOR LAWYERS 

The aim of this course is to introduce law students to the 

main topics, concepts and methods of economics and to 

provide the basic knowledge needed to understand the 

important economic problems of our time. 


Restriction(s): LAW 371 



HUKUKÇULAR İÇİN EKONOMİ 

Bu dersin amacı, hukuk öğrencilerine ekonomi biliminin 

başlıca konularını, kavramlarını ve yöntemlerini tanıtmak, 

zamanımızın önemli ekonomik sorunlarının anlaşılmasına 

yardımcı olacak temel bilgileri vermektir. 

LAW 117 - LAW OF INTERNATIONAL 

ORGANIZATIONS 

The overall aim of the course is to shed some light on the 

interaction between international law and international 

organizations, International organizations play a very 

important role in the international community. While there 

are many types of international organizations, differing 

from each other in terms of their structure, functioning, 

extent of powers and objectives, the institutional 

problems confronted by international organizations are 

similar. The course will begin with a discussion of these 

common problems, i.e., membership, legal personality, 

responsibility, decision-making, privileges and 

immunities in the light of the basic principles of the law of 

international organizations. The second part of the course 

will focus on the role of international organizations in the 

maintenance of the international legal order. The major 

issues which will be discussed in this part of the course 

will be international peace and security, human rights, the 

environment, international economic order and the role of 

international organizations in these areas. 


Special Condition(s): (LAW 271 or LAW 301) and (LAW 272 or 

LAW 302) 


LAW 118 - EUROPEAN UNION 

INSTITUTIONS 

Turkey is a state which aims to become a member of the 

European Union. Even if this aim could not be achieved, 

economic and commercial relations will continue to 

influence Turkish Law as they have until today. Therefore 

it is very important, especially for lawyers, to have a 

knowledge of the structure, function and authority of the 

Community institutions which make up and apply this law 

and their relations with one other. Besides an introduction 

to the establishment and development of the European 

Community and the Community Law, this course covers 

the structure, function, authority and transaction processes

of the Community institutions and their relations with one 

another. 



AVRUPA BİRLİĞİ KURUMLARI 

Türkiye, Avrupa Birliği’ne üye olmak hedefini güden 

bir devlettir. Bu hedefe ulaşılamasa bile, ekonomik ve 

ticari ilişkiler Türk Hukuku’nu bugüne kadar olduğu 

gibi etkilemeye devam edecektir. Bu nedenle, bu hukuku 

üreten ve uygulayan Topluluk kurumlarının yapısı, görev 

ve yetkileri ile birbirleriyle olan ilişkilerinin bilinmesi 

özellikle hukukçular için büyük önem taşımaktadır. Bu 

derste, Avrupa Topluluğu’nun kuruluş ve gelişimi ile 

Topluluk Hukuku’na ilişkin bir girişten sonra, ağırlıklı 

olarak Topluluk kurumlarının yapısı, görev ve yetkileri, 

işlem yapma süreçleri ve birbirleriyle olan ilişkileri ele 

alınacaktır. 

LAW 121 - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I 

The purpose of this course is to describe the concepts of 

political power, sovereignty, democracy, separation of 

powers, the state and basic characteristics of the state, and 

to set forth the structure and functioning of legislative and 

executive bodies in a comparative perspective. This course 

aims to elaborate on the enactment of the constitution and 

other legal norms as well as the hierarchy between them 

in the context of Turkish constitutional law. This course 

also focuses on the development of Turkish constitutions 

since the Ottoman Empire, as well as the concepts of 

democracy, secularism, rule of law, welfare state, human 

rights and the principle of equality, also defined as the 

principles of the state in the constitution. 





ANAYASA HUKUKU I 

Bu dersin amacı, genel olarak siyasi iktidar, egemenlik, 

demokrasi, erkler ayrılığı, devlet ve devletin temel 

nitelikleri gibi kavramları tanımlamak, yasama ve 

yürütme organlarının yapılarını ve işleyişlerini ortaya 

koymak ve karşılaştırmalı bir biçimde tartışmaktır. Bu 

derste, anayasa hukuku çerçevesinde anayasa ve diğer 

hukuk normlarının hangi organlar tarafından yapıldığı 

ve kurallar hiyerarşisinde nasıl bir yere sahip oldukları 

üzerinde durulacaktır. Bu derste, ayrıca Osmanlı 

İmparatorluğu’ndan günümüze Türk anayasalarının 

gelişimine ve Anayasa tarafından devletin nitelikleri 

olarak tanımlanmış demokrasi, laiklik, hukuk devleti, 

sosyal devlet, insan hakları, eşitlik ilkesi gibi kavramlara 

odaklanmaktadır. 

LAW 122 - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW II 

This course focuses on the development of the Turkish 

Constitutions since the Ottoman Empire, the structure 

and functioning of legislative and executive bodies 

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in a comparative perspective, as well as concepts of 

democracy, secularism, rule of law, welfare state, 

human rights and the principle of equality, also defined 

as the principles of the state in the Constitution. This 

course also embraces topics such as, but not limited to, 

political parties, electoral systems, freedom of expression 

and association, freedom of religion, constitutional 

proceedings, independence of the judiciary, right to a fair 

trial and social rights. The emergence and functioning of 

the judicial review of constitutionality and the European 

Convention on Human Rights will be particularly 

emphasized whilst encouraging students to analyze the 

decisions of these judicial bodies. 





ANAYASA HUKUKU II 

Bu ders, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’ndan günümüze Türk 

anayasalarının gelişimine, yürütme organlarının yapılarını 

ve işleyişlerine ve Anayasa tarafından devletin nitelikleri 

olarak tanımlanmış demokrasi, laiklik, hukuk devleti, 

sosyal devlet, insan hakları, eşitlik ilkesi gibi kavramlara 

odaklanmaktadır. Derste özellikle siyasi partiler, seçim 

sistemleri, ifade ve örgütlenme özgürlüğü, din ve vicdan 

özgürlüğü, anayasa yargısı, yargı bağımsızlığı, adil 

yargılanma hakkı ve sosyal haklar gibi konular üzerinde 

durulmaktadır. Anayasa yargısının ortaya çıkışı, gelişimi 

ve işleyişi ile Avrupa İnsan Hakları Sözleşmesi özellikle 

vurgulanarak, öğrencilerin Anayasa Mahkemesi ve 

Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi kararlarını analiz 

etmeleri teşvik edilecektir. 

LAW 131 - CIVIL LAW I 

This course is divided into two parts: introduction to civil 

law and the law of natural persons. The aim of the first 

part is to enable students to understand the sources and 

the general principles of civil law. The second part of 

the course covers topics such as capacity, protection of 

personality and personal status. 




MEDENİ HUKUK I 

Bu ders iki bölümde incelenecektir: Medeni Hukuk’a 

giriş ve gerçek kişilerin hukuku. Birinci bölümde, Medeni 

Hukuk’un genel ilkelerinin ve kaynaklarının öğrencilere 

tanıtılması amaçlanmaktadır. İkinci bölüm ise, hak ve fiil 

ehliyeti, kişiliğin korunması ve kişisel durum sicilleri gibi 

konuları kapsayacaktır. 

LAW 132 - CIVIL LAW II 

The aim of this course is to give the students detailed 

knowledge of the law of legal persons and family law. 

In the first part, the student will get acquainted with the 

theory of legal persons and especially with the regulations

for associations and charitable foundations. In the second 

part of the course, Turkish family law will be examined 

with regard to engagement, marriage, divorce, kinship 

and guardianship. 




MEDENİ HUKUK II 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilere tüzel kişiler hukuku ve aile 

hukuku hakkında ayrıntılı bilgi vermektir. İlk bölümde, 

öğrenciler tüzel kişilik teorisi ve özellikle dernekler ve 

vakıflarla ilgili olarak bilgilendirilecektir. Dersin ikinci 

yarısında, Türk aile hukuku evlilik, boşanma, hısımlık ve 

vesayet başlıkları altında ele alınacaktır. 

LAW 141 - POLITICAL HISTORY 

This course covers the period from the beginning of the 

16th to the middle of the 17th century. Latin America was 

conquered during that time and Spain dominated intellectual 

and political life in Europe. The period covered in the 

course witnessed both the birth of modern thought and the 

emergence of political colonialism. The course takes up such 

issues as the Vallodolid debates, Encomienda politics, the 

collapse of the Aztec and Incan empires, the emergence of 

nativist movements, the question of communication and the 

demise and rebirth of a continent. 



SİYASİ TARİH 

Dünyayı bir anda ”eski” ve ”yeni” olarak ikiye bölen 

tarih, Amerika’nın İspanya Krallığı tarafından fethi, 1492. 

Oysa, Avrupa için yeni bir dünyanın keşfi sadece coğrafi 

değildir. Dinsel, hukuksal, siyasi, tüm düşünsel alanlarda 

hızlı yeni yapılanmalara gidilecektir. Yeni dünyanın 

keşfi aslında modern düşüncenin de icadıdır. Avrupa 

kendisinden farklı olanı, bir sömürgeleştirme sürecinde 

dönüştürürken, baktığı bu aynada kendisini de dönüşmüş 

görecektir. “Kapalı dünya”dan “sonsuz evren”e geçen, 

dünyayı anlamlandırmaya, biçimlendirmeye çalışan 

Avrupa ülkeleri içinde en ilginç düşünsel çabayı İspanya 

Krallığı verecektir. 

LAW 179 - LEGAL THINKING AND SKILLS I 

Law is a field of interest which regulates the human 

relations that may appear in different forms. In the light 

of this fact, the aim of this course is to scrutinize the 

conceptual and institutional framework of law. In this 

context, it is surely significant to obtain knowledge 

about the technical means and methods of law and skills 

regarding their effective use. But, it is also important to 

take into account the position of law in a wider context 

and with a special comparative emphasis on methods 

which are used by the social sciences and the natural 

sciences. The major topics in this course for students 

who are at the initial stage of their legal education are 

analysis of the larger framework of law and its effect 

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on social life in general and in the relations of daily 

life. 



HUKUKSAL DÜŞÜNME VE BECERİ I 

Hukuk, değişik biçimlerde görülebilen insan ilişkilerini 

düzenleyen bir inceleme ve uygulama alanıdır. Bu 

dersin temel amacı, bu gerçeğin ışığında, ilişkilerimizin 

hukukla düzenlenmesinin hangi kavramsal ve 

kurumsal çerçeveye sahip olduğu sorusuyla ilgilidir. 

Bu bağlamda, hukukun dili ve yöntemleri konusunda 

bilgi edinmek elbette önem taşır. Ancak, sosyal 

bilimlerin ve fen bilimlerinin insanı ve doğayı 

inceleme yöntemlerinin ayırdında olmak ve hukuku 

bu geniş ilişkiler evreni içinde konumlandırmak, bir 

hukuk düzeninin varlığı konusunda, onun yapıtaşlarını 

kavramak bakımından da değer taşır. Bu derste, hukuk 

eğitiminin henüz başlangıç basamağında bulunan 

bir öğrenciye, hukukun bu büyük resmiyle kendi 

günlük hayatındaki deneyimlerini birlikte düşünmeye 

yönelik bir bilgilenme ve bu bilgiyi kullanmaya ilişkin 

becerilerin kazandırılması amaçlanmaktadır. 

LAW 180 - LEGAL THINKING AND 

SKILLS II 

Law is a field of interest which regulates human relations 

that may appear in different forms. In the light of this fact, 

the aim of this course is to scrutinize the conceptual and 

institutional framework of law. In this context, it is surely 

significant to acquire knowledge about the technical 

means and methods of law and skills regarding their 

effective use. But, it is also important to take into account 

the position of law in a wider context and with a special 

emphasis comparatively to methods which are used by the 

social sciences and the natural sciences. Briefly, in this 

course for students who are at the initial stage of their 

legal education, the analysis of the larger framework 

of law and its effects on social life in general and the 

relations of daily life are the major topics. 



HUKUKSAL DÜŞÜNME VE BECERİ II 

Hukuk, değişik biçimlerde görülebilen insan ilişkilerini 

düzenleyen bir inceleme ve uygulama alanıdır. Bu dersin 

temel amacı, bu gerçeğin ışığında, ilişkilerimizin hukukla 

düzenlenmesinin hangi kavramsal ve kurumsal çerçeveye 

sahip olduğu sorusuyla ilgilidir. Bu bağlamda, hukukun 

dili ve yöntemleri konusunda bilgi edinmek elbette önem 

taşır. Ancak, sosyal bilimlerin ve fen bilimlerinin insanı 

ve doğayı inceleme yöntemlerinin ayırdında olmak ve 

hukuku bu geniş ilişkiler evreni içinde konumlandırmak, 

bir hukuk düzeninin varlığı konusunda, onun yapıtaşlarını 

kavramak bakımından da değer taşır. Bu derste, hukuk 

eğitiminin henüz başlangıç basamağında bulunan bir 

öğrenciye, hukukun bu büyük resmiyle kendi günlük 

hayatındaki deneyimlerini birlikte düşünmeye yönelik bir

ilgilenme ve bu bilgiyi kullanmaya ilişkin becerilerin 

kazandırılması amaçlanmaktadır. 

LAW 201 - GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LAW 

The course aims to provide a general understanding of the 

concept of law. The content of the course is as follows: 

the basic concept of law, theories of legal interpretation, 

sources of Turkish Law and comparative law-making 

processes. On completion of this course, students will 

have gained the ability to use analytical skills in legal 

research and problem solving. 


Restriction(s): LAW 231 or LAW 232 or VOC 203 


LAW 202 - GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF 

CONTRACT LAW AND LAW OF TORTS 

The aim of this course is to build an academic basis for the 

future study of subjects based on contract law and law of 

torts. Upon completing the course, the student should have 

acquired a sound background knowledge of the relevant 

law and its application within a business context and have 

developed skills for clear and accurate communication as 

well as problem solving skills. 


Restriction(s): LAW 231 or LAW 232 


LAW 203 - INTRODUCTION TO MOOT 

COURT COMPETITION 

The course is intented to improve the legal writing and 

oral skills of students who will participate in any Moot 

Court Competition, national or international. Instruction 

and guidance on legal research methods, how to prepare 

and organize a legal memorandum, litigation and 

advocacy strategies and improvement of oral presentation 

skills will be given. 




FARAZİ MAHKEME YARIŞMALARINA 

HAZIRLIK 

Bu ders, ulusal veya uluslararası bir farazi mahkeme 

yarışmasına katılacak olan öğrencilerin, gerekli yazılı ve 

sözel becerilerini geliştirmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Hukuki 

araştırma yöntemleri, dilekçe ve hukuki memorandum 

yazımı, dava stratejileri ve sözlü savunma yapma 

teknikleri üzerine çalışmalar yapılacaktır. 

LAW 204 - LAW FOR ARTS AND CULTURE 

This course will address the needs of persons who will 

be active in the arts and culture business as artists, 

managers, organizers or sponsors. The course will 

begin by explaining the basic concepts of copyright 

and contract laws and continue by focusing on different 

transactions that may take place between the actors of 

the business, such as licence contracts, performance 

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contracts, exhibition contracts, sponsorship contracts 

and the like. 




LAW 205 - LAW AND PSYCHOLOGY 

This course will introduce law students to the psychological 

aspects of the legal profession. They will learn about 

different aspects of human behavior that will help them 

improve their lawyering skills and understand the legal 

process better, such as the art of persuasion, influences on 

human behavior, stereotypes and prejudice, reliability of 

the testimony, etc. They will further study psychological 

aspects of legal issues, such child abuse, drug addiction, 

mental capacity, and other issues that cut across the legal 

and psychological professions. This course is offered in 

coordination with the Psychology Department and Psy 

355 (Forensic Psychology), with joint discussion sessions 

between two courses. 


Restriction(s): PSY 355 



HUKUK VE PSİKOLOJİ 

Bu dersin hukuk öğrencilerini mesleklerinin psikolojik 

taraflarıyla tanıştırması planlanmaktadır. Derste, insan 

davranışının değişik yönleri, öğrencilere hukukçuluk 

yetilerini geliştirmeleri ve hukuk sürecini anlamalarında 

yardımcı olacak şekilde öğretilecektir. Örneğin ikna 

sanatı, insan davranışını etkileyen hususlar, stereotip ve 

önyargılar, tanık ifadelerinin güvenilirliği, vb. Derste, 

aynı zamanda psikolojik meselelerin hukuki tarafları 

incelenecektir. Örneğin: çocuk istismarı, bağımlılık, 

zihinsel yeterlilik (temyiz kudreti) ve iki mesleği de 

ilgilendiren diğer hususlar, vb. Bu ders, PSY 355 dersiyle 

işbirliği içinde sürdürülecek ve derste her iki bölümden 

öğrenciler somut vakaları tartışma fırsatı bulacaklardır. 

LAW 207 - INTRODUCTION TO 

TURKISH LAW AND EU 

This course aims at providing Erasmus Exchange Students 

and other participants with a general understanding of 

the Turkish legal system and the reforms that are being 

undertaken in the framework of Turkey-EU negotiations. 

In addition, the course will provide an opportunity 

to Turkish students to become acquainted with legal 

terminology in English. The course will thus focus on 

the EC’s acquis communautaire and the different areas 

where the harmonization between European and Turkish 

legislation is sought. 



LAW 210 - METHODOLOGY OF LAW 

Methodology of Law concentrates on the concept of 

information. Further, the classification of sciences

and their interaction is examined. This course enables 

students to distinguish between natural sciences and 

social sciences leading to the questioning of law as a 

social science. Law, by its very nature, is very systematic 

and must be handled in a systematic way. Methodology of 

Law provides a foundation for the student upon on which 

the other law subjects may be based. 



HUKUK METODOLOJİSİ 

Hukuk Metodolojisi bilgi kavramı üzerine yoğunlaşacaktır. 

Bundan başka, bilimlerin sınıflandırılması ve aralarındaki 

ilişkiler incelenecektir. Bu ders, öğrencilerin sosyal 

bilimler ile doğa bilimlerini birbirlerinden ayırmalarını, 

aralarındaki ilişkiyi irdelemelerini ve hukukun bir sosyal 

bilim olarak değerlendirilip değerlendirilemeyeceğini 

sorgulamalarını sağlayacaktır. 

LAW 212 - INTRODUCTION TO 

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 

The aim of the course is to enable the students to grasp the 

structure, organization and functioning of the state. The 

development of constitutionalism and the principles and 

procedures of constitutional law will also be covered. 




ANAYASA HUKUKUNA GİRİŞ 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilerin devletin yapısını, 

örgütlenişini ve işleyişini sorgulamalarını sağlamaktır. 

Anayasacılığın gelişmesi ve Anayasa Hukuku’nun ilkeleri 

ile prosedürleri de bu ders kapsamında incelenecektir. 

LAW 220 - POLITICAL PARTIES AND 

DEMOCRACY 

The aim of this course is to identify the factors that 

influence the stability of government and the political 

regime and to examine their interaction. The types of 

governmental systems (presidential, semi-presidential 

and parliamentary) the party systems (single party, twoparty 

and moderate multi-party) and the electoral systems 

(proportional representation and majoritarian) are among 

the subjects considered to be related to the stability of 

government and of democracy. Governmental systems and 

the impact of political parties and electoral systems on the 

creation of stable governments and the consolidation of 

democracy are discussed and analyzed on a comparative 

basis in the light of theoretical propositions and empirical 

observations. 



SİYASİ PARTİLER VE DEMOKRASİ 

Bu dersin amacı, hükümet ve siyasi rejimin istikrarını 

etkileyen faktörleri tespit ederek aralarındaki etkileşimi 

incelemektir. Yönetim sistemleri (başkanlık, yarı- 

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başkanlık, parlamenter), parti sistemleri (tek parti, iki parti, 

ılımlı çok parti) ve seçim sistemleri (nisbi temsil, çoğulcu 

temsil) hükümetin istikrarı ve demokrasiyle ilintili olarak 

işlenecek konular arasında yer almaktadır. Hükümet 

sistemleri ile siyasi partilerin ve seçim sistemlerinin 

istikrarlı hükümetler yaratılmasında ve demokrasinin 

yerleşmesinde etkisi tartışılacak ve teorik önermelerin ve 

ampirik gözlemlerin ışığında karşılaştırmalı bir açıdan 

analiz edilecektir. 

LAW 230 - CRIMINOLOGY 

Criminology is a branch of the social sciences dealing 

with crime as a social phenomenon. The course consists 

of the following main topics: theories of criminology, the 

victim, the aetiology of crime, penology and their effects 

on the law-making process. On the successful completion 

of this course, students should have gained a sound 

knowledge of the general theories of criminology. 



KRİMİNOLOJİ 

Kriminoloji, toplumsal bir fenomen olarak suç ile ilgilenen 

bir sosyal bilim dalıdır. Bu ders, şu temel konulardan 

oluşacaktır: Kriminoloji teorileri, suçlunun konumu, 

suçun sebepleri, penoloji ve bunların yasama sürecindeki 

etkileri. Bu dersi başarıyla tamamladıklarında öğrenciler, 

kriminolojinin genel kuramları hakkında ayrıntılı bilgi 

sahibi olacaklardır. 

LAW 231 - LAW OF OBLIGATIONS- 

GENERAL PROVISIONS I 

This course is designed to give students a theoretical 

and practical understanding regarding the first part of 

the general provisions of the Turkish law of obligations. 

The course focuses mainly on the law of contracts and 

especially on formation of contracts, authority of agents, 

validity issues, interpretation and content of contracts, 

performance and remedies in case of non-performance. 




BORÇLAR HUKUKU-GENEL 

HÜKÜMLER I 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrenciye Türk Borçlar Hukuku genel 

hükümlerinin ilk bölümüne ilişkin teorik ve pratik bilgi 

aktarmaktır. Ders, özellikle sözleşmeler hukuku alanına 

yoğunlaşmakta ve sözleşmelerin kuruluşu, temsil, 

sözleşmelerin geçerliliği, yorumlanması ve içeriği, 

ifası ve ifa etmemeye bağlanan sonuçlar gibi konulara 

odaklanmaktadır. 

LAW 232 - LAW OF OBLIGATIONS- 

GENERAL PROVISIONS II 

The aim of this course is to provide students with detailed 

knowledge of the general provisions of the Turkish

Code of Obligations. Particular attention is given to 

the performance, non-performance and discharge of 

obligations which arise from contracts, torts, unjust 

enrichment and other legal reasons. Other subjects to 

be examined are obligations of special nature (such as 

solidarity, conditional obligations and penalty clauses 

for non-performance) and the assignment of claims and 

assumption of obligation. 





BORÇLAR HUKUKU-GENEL 

HÜKÜMLER II 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilere Türk Borçlar Kanunu’nun 

genel hükümleri hakkında detaylı bilgi sağlamaktır. 

Özellikle ifa, ifa engelleri ve sözleşme, haksız fiil, 

sebepsiz zenginleşme ve diğer hukuki sebeplerle 

oluşmuş borçlanmanın sükûtu üzerinde durulacaktır. 

İncelenecek diğer konular arasında (müteselsil borçlar, 

şarta bağlı borçlar, cezai şart gibi) özellik arz eden 

borç ilişkileri ve borcun nakli ve alacağın temliki yer 

almaktadır. 

LAW 241 - ADMINISTRATIVE LAW I 

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the body 

of rules that regulate the relations between administration 

and individuals. The character of these rules, the 

structural meaning of ‘administration’, the administrative 

authorities which make up the administration and 

administrative activities (public services, police services) 

are the subjects of this course. 



İDARE HUKUKU I 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilere idare ile bireyler arasındaki 

ilişkileri düzenleyen kurallar bütününü tanıtmaktır. Bu 

kuralların niteliği, ”idare”nin yapısal anlamı, ”idare”yi 

oluşturan kuruluşlar, idari faaliyetler (kamu hizmetleri, 

kolluk) bu dersin konularını oluşturmaktadır. 

LAW 242 - ADMINISTRATIVE LAW II 

The aim of this course is to further elaborate upon the 

foundation presented to students in the Administrative 

Law I course. The subjects that will be covered this 

semester include administrative activities (planning, state 

aids, regulation) administrative property, administrative 

decision-making and administrative jurisdiction. 



İDARE HUKUKU II 

LAW 241’in devamı niteliğinde olan bu derste, idari 

faaliyetler (planlama, özendirme-destekleme, regülasyon) 

kamu malları, karar alma süreci ve idari yargı konuları 

detaylandırılarak ele alınacaktır. 

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LAW 251 - CRIMINAL LAW-GENERAL 

PROVISIONS I 

Criminal law is mainly concerned with those violations 

of social order which are regulated as ”crimes” by the 

legislative organ and their prescribed punishments. In 

this course, we will analyze the history and sources of 

criminal law (especially the Turkish Penal Code and other 

special provisions): general principles and techniques of 

interpretation governing criminal law and the general 

theory of crime, whose main objective is to break down 

into components and analyze the concept of crime. 



CEZA HUKUKU-GENEL HÜKÜMLER I 

Ceza Hukuku, sosyal düzenin bozulmasına yol açan ve 

yasama tarafından “suç” olarak nitelendirilen fiilleri 

ve bunlar için öngörülen ceza ve emniyet tedbirlerini 

incelemektedir. Bu ders çerçevesinde, Ceza Hukuku’nun 

tarihçesi, başta Türk Ceza Kanunu olmak üzere 

kaynakları, Ceza Hukuku’na hâkim olan genel ilkeler ile 

yorum teknikleri üzerinde durulacaktır. Bu girişten sonra, 

amacı suçu çeşitli unsurlara ayırarak analiz etmek olan 

“Suç Genel Teorisi” incelenmeye başlanacaktır. 

LAW 252 - CRIMINAL LAW-GENERAL 

PROVISIONS II 

In this course, evaluation of the general theory of crime, 

which the students began to analyze in the General 

Provisions I course, will be completed. Essential topics 

such as the attempt to commit a crime, conspiracy, the 

concept of error in criminal law and the techniques used 

in determining punishments and other security measures 

will also be analyzed. 




CEZA HUKUKU-GENEL HÜKÜMLER II 

Bu ders kapsamında LAW 251 dersinde başlanmış olan 

“Suç Genel Teorisi”nin analizi sona erdirilecek ve suça 

teşebbüs, tekerrür, cezaların hesap edilmesi gibi esaslı 

başlıkların üzerinde detaylı olarak durulacaktır. 

LAW 261 - HISTORY OF TURKISH LAW 

The aim of this course is to provide sound background 

knowledge of the history of Turkish Law. The course 

is designed to examine pre-Islamic and Islamic legal 

systems that have been applied during Turkey’s history. 

Topics include pre-Islamic Turkish law, the Mecelle and 

the history of modern Turkish law. 



TÜRK HUKUK TARİHİ 

Bu dersin amacı, Türk Hukuk tarihi konusunda 

öğrencilere temel bilgi sağlamaktır. Bu ders, Türk 

tarihinde uygulanmış olan İslamiyet öncesi ve İslami

hukuk sistemlerini incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. İşlenecek 

olan konular: İslamiyet öncesi Türk hukuku, İslam 

Hukuku, Mecelle ve modern Türk hukuku’dur. Derslerde 

tarihsel bilgiler de verilmektedir. 

LAW 271 - PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW I 

The aim of the course is to analyze international public 

order and its legal basis. In this context, different aspects 

of world public order and their impact on law-making 

are also emphasized. Major topics in this course are 

sources and characteristics of international law and the 

jurisdiction of the state over its territory and its limitations. 

Specifically, international legal personality, statehood 

and recognition, sources of international law, customary 

international law and the law of treaties will be studied in 

depth. It is quite possible to access many legal resources 

for this course through the Internet. 



LAW 272 - PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL 

LAW II 

The aim of the course is to analyze international public 

order and its legal basis. In this context, different aspects 

of world public order and their impact on law-making 

are also emphasized. Major topics in this course are 

sources and characteristics of international law and the 

jurisdiction of the state over its territory and its limitations. 

Specifically, international organizations the United 

Nations, peaceful settlement of disputes, maintenance of 

international peace and security and the law of the sea will 

be studied in depth. It is quite possible to access many 

legal resources for this course through the Internet. 



LAW 298 - PHILOSOPHY AND 

SOCIOLOGY OF LAW 

This course is composed of two sections. The first section 

covers the philosophy of law and aims to introduce 

students to the major issues of legal philosophy such as 

rights, the reason for law, justice, morality and reasons for 

sanctions. It also examines the history of legal thought and 

general philosophy. On completion of the course, students 

will have acquired detailed knowledge of different 

theories of law, such as positivism, realism, utilitarianism, 

Marxism and natural law. The second section deals with 

the sociology of law, studying the effects of social factors 

on law, particularly the way in which lawmakers and law 

enforcement agents use general sociological data in the 

lawmaking process. The section also covers the social 

consequences of legal systems. 



HUKUK FELSEFESİ VE SOSYOLOJİSİ 

Bu ders, iki alt bölümden oluşmaktadır. İlk bölüm, hukuk 

felsefesini kapsar ve haklar, hukukun dayandığı temeller, 

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adalet, ahlak ve yaptırımların gerekçeleri gibi hukuk 

felsefesinin temel konularına öğrencileri aşina kılmayı 

amaçlar. Bu bölümde, hukuki düşüncenin tarihi gelişimi 

ve genel felsefesi incelenecektir. Dersi tamamladıklarında 

öğrenciler pozitivizm, realizm, faydacılık, marksizm ve 

doğal hukuk gibi farklı teoriler hakkında ayrıntılı bilgi 

sahibi olacaklardır. İkinci bölüm, hukuk sosyolojisini 

kapsar ve hukuku etkileyen sosyal faktörleri, özellikle 

de yasa yapıcıların ve uygulayıcıların sosyolojik verileri 

yasa yapma sürecinde kullanma biçimlerini inceler. Bu 

bölüm, hukuk sistemlerinin sosyal sonuçlarını da kapsar. 

LAW 301 - INTERNATIONAL LAW I 

The aim of this course is to analyze the international legal 

order in its institutional and practical dimensions. The rule 

of law in international relations will be examined, with a 

view to establishing the role and scope of application of 

international law in the relations between international 

legal personalities – states and international organizations. 

Major topics include the nature and sources of public 

international law, statehood and recognition, the law 

of treaties, jurisdiction, state responsibility, diplomatic 

immunity and law of the sea. 




LAW 302 - INTERNATIONAL LAW II 

This course, a continuation of LAW 301, aims at critically 

examining issues of current interest in international 

law, posing a challenge to traditionally accepted norms 

and rules. A more detailed approach is attempted, of 

international institutions and their corresponding legal 

frameworks, including inter alia the United Nations 

system and international mechanisms for the settlement 

of disputes. The positive development of international 

institutions is examined alongside international challenges 

against them, with a view to explaining current realities 

and detecting future trends in major areas of the field 

such as the use of force, human rights and international 

criminal responsibility. 




LAW 303 - LAW OF MEDIA AND 

COMMUNICATION 

The world is witnessing rapid changes in the areas of 

mass media and communication which result in a need 

for the law to adapt. The purpose of this course is to 

familiarize students with the relevant legal concepts 

and issues of the law of media and communication. The 

content of the course includes the following: information 

and communication, freedom of information, law of 

defamation, obscenity laws and the right to privacy. 




MEDYA VE İLETİŞİM HUKUKU 

Medya ve iletişim alanında dünya çapında çok hızlı 

gelişmeler yaşanmaktadır. Yasaların da bu yeni duruma 

uyum sağlaması gerekmektedir. Bu dersin amacı, 

öğrencileri medya ve iletişim hukukuyla ilgili kavramlara 

ve sorunlara aşina kılmaktır. Dersin içeriği, bilgi ve 

iletişim, bilgi edinme özgürlüğü, basın hukuku’na ilişkin 

hakaret ve sövme cürümleri, müstehcenliğe ilişkin yasal 

düzenlemeler ve özel yaşamın gizliliği gibi konulardan 

oluşmaktadır. 

LAW 311 - INCORPORATION AND 

CORPORATE LAW 

The aim of this course is to give the student detailed 

knowledge of the law relating to incorporation and the 

constitution of companies. On completion of this course, 

the student should be in a position to understand the 

advantages and disadvantages of incorporation, how 

companies are created and classified and how a company 

is regulated by law. This course also enables students to 

understand the differences between a personal company 

and a capital company and between ordinary partnership 

and commercial associations. 



LAW 312 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE 

In this class we will discuss social, economic and political 

theories that guide criminal justice policies, from early 

criminology to contemporary routine activities and 

situational crime prevention. We will specially discuss 

theories of deterrence and rehabilitation as well as issues of 

social and economic justice and their relationship with crime. 



CEZA ADALETİ 

Bu derste, ceza adaleti politikalarına yön veren teoriler 

ve yaklaşımlar tartışılacaktır. Erken dönem kriminoloji 

teorilerinden, çağdaş teorilere kadar (sosyal, ekonomik, 

siyasi, rutin faaliyetler (“routine activities”) ve durumsal 

suç önleme (“situational crime prevention”), suç önleme 

politikalarının hangi amaçlarla geliştiğine ve nasıl 

değiştiğine değinilecektir. Bu ders kapsamında, özellikle 

caydırma ve rehabilitasyon teorileri ve aynı zamanda 

sosyal ve ekonomik adalet konuları ve bunların suç 

kavramıyla ilgileri üzerinde durulacaktır. 

LAW 317 - EU COMPETITION LAW 

This course offers an overview of the main areas of 

European Union competition law including state aid 

and liberalization in network industries. It examines the 

competition rules of the EU, particularly the competition 

rules concerning undertakings in Articles 101-106 of the 

Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU). On successful 

completion of this course, students are expected to be able 

to identify the circumstances in which an undertaking’s 

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activity or agreements will come within the scope of the EU 

competition rules and identify contractual arrangements 

and business practices which may infringe those rules, 

to understand the methods for obtaining exemption from 

the EU competition rules and the principles applied to the 

grant of exemptions, to be aware of the underlying policy 

objectives of competition rules and be able to evaluate 

critically their effectiveness in achieving those objectives, 

to be able to analyze the effects of different commercial 

arrangements on competition in the relevant market and 

advise undertakings on compliance with EU competition 

rules in their commercial contracts and practices. 



LAW 321 - LAW OF PROPERTY I 

Property law is a component of civil law that is taught 

over a period of four years. In the first semester of this 

course, after completing a general introduction to property 

law, we will analyze the concept of goods, real rights and 

possession over property and land registry. 




EŞYA HUKUKU I 

Kişinin eşya ile olan ilişkisinin ele alındığı Eşya Hukuku 

dersi, Hukuk Fakültesi’nde dört yıl boyunca okutulan 

medeni hukuk konusunun bir parçasıdır. Dersin ilk 

kısmında, Eşya Hukuku’na dair genel bilgiler verildikten 

sonra, eşya üzerindeki hâkimiyetin görünümünü ifade 

eden zilyetlik ve tapu sicili konuları anlatılacaktır. 

LAW 322 - LAW OF PROPERTY II 

In this course, building upon the foundations of property 

law that were established during the Law of Property 

I course, we will analyze the concept of ‘ownership’ 

and its sub-categories, such as ownership of movable 

and immovable property, co-ownership and collective 

property. We will also analyze servitude encumbrance of 

real estate and pledge. 




EŞYA HUKUKU II 

Eşya hukuku dersinin ikinci kısmında, mülkiyet ve sınırlı 

ayni haklar konuları işlenecektir. Mülkiyet kavramı, paylı 

mülkiyet -elbirliği halinde mülkiyet, bütünleyici parçaeklenti 

gibi konuları takiben, taşınmaz ve taşınır mülkiyeti 

çerçevesinde ayrı ayrı ele alınacaktır. Sınırlı ayni haklar 

konusu kapsamında ise, irtifak hakları, taşınmaz yükü ve 

rehin hakları ele alınacaktır. 

LAW 323 - INTERNATIONAL 

SALES LAW 

This course aims at studying the law of international sales 

agreements based on the United Nations Convention on

Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), 

which entered into force in 1988 and has today more 

than seventy contracting states. Emphasis will be given 

especially on the scope of application of the Convention, 

the hierarchy between the CISG and the national sales 

law provisions, formation of the contract under the CISG, 

obligations of the parties and remedies in case of nonperformance, 

and the liability regime of the CISG. Since 

the CISG was influenced by both the common law and 

civil law systems of contract law, the course will also 

focus on the basic principles of the law of contract of both 

systems in a comparative approach. Successful students 

will have the opportunity to participate in the team of the 

University for the Annual Willem C. Vis International 

Commercial Arbitration Moot. 


Prerequisite(s): LAW 231 and LAW 232 



LAW 324 - HARMONIZATION IN 

EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL 

PRIVATE LAW: SELECTED TOPICS 

This course will analyze and discuss the harmonization 

efforts in current and dynamic areas of European and 

international private law. Each year a different topic such 

as contract law, consumer law, company law or banking 

law will be chosen and discussed. The course will host 

expert guest lecturers from universities from all over the 

world. 




LAW 326 - CYBER LAW: RIGHTS AND 

RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE 

INFORMATION AGE 

Cyberlaw is an emerging legal topic which will continue 

to grow in importance as we ascend into the information 

age. Cyberlaw focuses upon the interaction of law 

with information communications technologies and 

computer-mediated communications systems in the area 

that is increasingly becoming known as “cyberspace”. 

Although initially it was not considered a separate topic 

of study, since the mid 1990s cyberlaw has become 

a separate topic for research and study. Constantly 

evolving by taking into account new and emerging 

technologies, applications and services such as those 

offered by Web 2.0 technologies including YouTube, 

Facebook, Last.fm and Blogger, cyberlaw is found at the 

cutting edge of law, where the ability of law to achieve 

its goals is challenged. Thus, the “law” in cyberlaw 

takes as its subject not only the law that applies to 

the Internet as we know it, but also the wider range of 

regulatory responses and strategies of governance that 

subsequently arise. Therefore, the topic is as much about 

the “law in action” as the “law in books”. The aim of this 

course is to introduce students to the legal implications 

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that arise from the concept of cyberspace. This course 

will therefore explore the impact of cyberspace, the 

Internet, and existing and emerging information and 

communication technologies from a socio-legal point of 

view. The sessions (involving both public and private 

law issues) chosen for this module will each explore 

very different aspects of the legal action that we now 

call cyberlaw. State level issues will be assessed from a 

comparative angle even though the focus will be Turkish 

law. Relevant legal and policy developments from 

Europe as well as from North America will be part of the 

module’s debate. Furthermore, Europe-wide (European 

Union and Council of Europe) legal and policy initiatives 

will also form part of the module’s content. 



LAW 328 - INFORMATION LAW: ACCESS 

TO INFORMATION IN TURKEY 

The right to information is guaranteed in international 

law, including as part of the guarantee of freedom of 

expression in Article 19 of the International Covenant 

on Civil and Political Rights. Many countries around 

the world, including Turkey, gave (or are about to give) 

legal effect to access to information as a fundamental 

right, both by enshrining such a right in their constitutions 

and by adopting laws which give practical effect to the 

right, providing concrete processes for its exercise. 

The Information Law module, therefore, aims to cover 

and assess legal and policy issues surrounding citizens’ 

access to official government information in Turkey. The 

implementation and application of the Turkish Right to 

Information Act 2003 will be assessed critically during 

the delivery of this module. 



BİLGİ HUKUKU: TÜRKİYE’DE BİLGİ 

EDİNME HAKKI 

Bu ders, bireylerin resmi bilgilere erişim hakkı 

konusunu işleyecektir. Türkiye’de bu hak vatandaşlara 

kanun yolu ile verilmiş ve 4982 sayılı “Bilgi Edinme 

Hakkı Kanunu” 24 Nisan 2004 tarihinde yürürlüğe 

girmiştir. Bilgi Edinme Hakkı demokratikleşme 

sürecinde son derece önemli bir hak olmuş ve birçok 

ülkede anayasal koruma altına alınmıştır. Bireylerin 

bu hakkı kamu faaliyetlerini izleme, açık ve şeffaf 

politikaların oluşturulması açısından çok önemlidir. 

Aynı zamanda, bilgi toplumuna geçişte ve gizlilik 

kültürünün kırılmasında önemli bir rol oynamaktadır. 

Bu derste, Türkiye’de Bilgi Edinme Hakkı’nın gelişimi, 

4982 sayılı Kanun’un yürürlüğe girmesi, kamu kurum 

ve kuruluşları tarafından uygulanması, vatandaşlara 

verilen hakkın ne şekilde ve nasıl kullanıldığı 

incelenecektir. Kanun yolu ile getirilen sınırlamalar, 

Kanun’dan sorumlu kurum olan Bilgi Edinme 

Değerlendirme Kurulu kararları ışığında incelenecek ve 

AİHM’e kadar giden itiraz süreci değerlendirilecektir.

Kanun’un yürürlüğe girmesinden sonraki ilk beş yılın 

analizi ve ortaya çıkan problemler incelenecektir. Gerek 

Türkiye’den gerek yurtdışından uygulama örnekleri 

ders sırasında öğrencilerle paylaşılacaktır. 

LAW 331 - LAW OF OBLIGATIONS-SPECIAL 

PROVISIONS 

As a follow-up to the second year course, Law of 

Obligations-General Provisions, this course aims to 

analyze various types of contracts such as sale, barter, 

donation, hire, labor and procuration that are regulated 

under the second section of the Code of Obligations. 



BORÇLAR HUKUKU-ÖZEL HÜKÜMLER 

”Borçlar Hukuku-Özel Hükümler” dersinde, temel olarak 

Borçlar Kanunu’nun İkinci Kısmı’nda düzenlenen, satım, 

bağışlama, kira, hizmet, istisna, vekalet, kefalet ve adi 

ortaklık gibi tipik akitler ve bunun yanı sıra kanunda 

düzenlenmemiş tek satıcılık, satım için bırakma, arsa payı 

karşılığı inşaat sözleşmesi gibi atipik mahiyetteki akitler 


LAW 334 - INNOMINATE CONTRACTS 

Contracts which are not regulated either under the Code 

of Obligations (Special Provisions) or other specific 

legislation are called innominate contracts. They are based 

on freedom of contract as being the essence of the Law 

of Obligations. Those contracts are often a part of daily 

life, such as: Bank Guarantees, Contract for Credit Card, 

Sponsorship Contract, Contract for Medical Services, 

Travel Contract, Contract for Securities Management, 

Contract of Construction, Joint Venture Contract, Know- 

How Contract, Public Procurement Contract. Those 

contracts which stem from the necessities of daily life 

are the subject of this Course and will be co-lectured 

with scholars who work in the area. The course aims 

to introduce innominate contracts and to improve the 

problem-solving skills of the students. 




ATİPİK SÖZLEŞMELER 

Borçlar Kanunu’nun özel hükümlerinde ve özel 

kanunlarda düzenlenmemiş sözleşmelere atipik 

akitler denir. Bu akitler, Borçlar Kanunu’nun 

temelinde bulunan sözleşme serbestisi ilkesinden 

doğmuştur. Yaşamın her alanında karşımıza çıkan bu 

akitlere aşağıda zikredilen bazı sözleşmeler örnek 

gösterilebilir: ”Factoring”, Kredi Açma Sözleşmesi, 

Banka Teminat Mektubu, Kredi Kartı Sözleşmesi, 

Sponsorluk, Hastane Kabul Sözleşmesi, Seyahat 

Düzenleme Sözleşmesi, Portföy Yönetim Sözleşmesi, 

Yatılı Okul Sözleşmesi, Arsa Payı Karşılığı Kat 

Yapım Sözleşmesi, ”Joint-Venture” Sözleşmesi, 

”Management” Sözleşmesi, ”Know-How” Sözleşmesi 

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ve Kamu İhale Sözleşmesi. Uygulamanın doğurduğu 

pratik ihtiyaçlar karşısında ortaya çıkan bu sözleşmeler 

atipik akitler dersinin konusunu oluşturacaktır. Kendi 

uzmanlık alanındaki atipik sözleşmeleri işleyecek 

birden çok öğretim üyesi tarafından yapılacak bu 

dersin amacı, öğrenciye atipik akitleri tanıtmak ve 

uygulamada gelişen sorunlar karşısında pratik sorun 

çözme becerisini kazandırmaktır. 

LAW 341 - COMMERCIAL LAW I 

The Turkish Commercial Code assembles its general 

system on commercial enterprises. Commercial matters 

are covered by the Code, which describes as commercial 

any issue that is related to a commercial enterprise. The 

subject of the course includes commercial provisions and 

activities, commercial enterprises, commercial disputes 

and merchants and the status of the persons assisting 

merchants, namely commercial representatives, brokers, 

commercial middleman and agents. 



KARA TİCARETİ HUKUKU I 

Türk Ticaret Kanunu’nun genel hükümleri ticari işletme 

kavramı üzerine inşa edilmiştir. Ticari işletme ve ilgili 

unsurlar bu dersin alt başlıklarını oluşturmaktadır. Tacir, 

ticari işletme, ticari hükümler, ticari işletme rehni ve 

bağlı, bağımsız tacir yardımcıları ticari işletme dersi 

kapsamında ele alınacak konulardır. 

LAW 342 - COMMERCIAL LAW II 

The course will begin with an explanation of the 

general principles of company law and distinctive 

features of companies regulated by the Turkish 

Commercial Code. Following this introduction, 

the establishment, functioning and termination of 

joint stock companies will be examined in detail. A 

second track in the same course will cover the law of 

negotiable instruments. 




KARA TİCARETİ HUKUKU II 

Ticaret şirketleri olarak kolektif, komandit, anonim ve 

limited şirketlere ilişkin genel esaslar yanında, özellikle 

anonim şirketlerin kuruluş, işleyiş ve sona ermeleri 

bu dersin temel konularını oluşturmaktadır. Bu ders 

kapsamında anlatılacak diğer konular ise, kıymetli evrak 

hukukunun temel ilkeleri ile birlikte kambiyo senetlerinin 

düzenlenmesi, devri ve ödenmemenin sonuçlarıdır. 

LAW 351 - CIVIL PROCEDURE LAW I 

The law of civil procedure is a branch of the law which 

regulates the enforcement of the rights of individuals 

under civil law, in the event that they are violated. The 

individual has a claim to his/her legal rights through 

a procedure known as a ‘trial’ in the state courts. Civil

procedure law regulates the courts’ structure, the trial, the 

status of the plaintiff and the defendant, filing the lawsuit. 



MEDENİ USUL HUKUKU I 

Medeni Usul Hukuku, özel hukukun fertlere tanıdığı 

hakların ihlal edilmesi durumunda, bu hakların devlet 

yardımıyla nasıl yerine getirileceğini düzenleyen 

hukuk dalıdır. Bireyler ihlal edilen hakların yerine 

getirilmesini devlet mahkemelerinde “dava” açarak 

sağlayabilirler. Medeni Usul Hukuku mahkeme 

teşkilatını, dava prosedürünü, davacı ve davalının 

haklarını ve yükümlülüklerini, mahkemelerin verdikleri 

kararları denetleyecek olan üst mahkemeler teşkilatını 

düzenlemektedir. 

LAW 352 - CIVIL PROCEDURE LAW II 

Civil procedure law also regulates duties imposed on 

judges and parties to the trial for due conduct of the 

process, the proof of claims, which has for the judges 

a great importance in order to give judgement over the 

complaint, judgement and appeal procedures. Alternative 

dispute resolutions, arbitration in particular, are topics of 

civil procedure as well. 




MEDENİ USUL HUKUKU II 

Medeni Usul Hukuku ayrıca davaya bakan hâkim ve 

davanın taraflarının hak ve yükümlülüklerini, iddia ve 

savunmayı ispata yarayan delillerin neler olduğunu, 

hükme karşı tanınan kanun yollarını ve izlenecek 

prosedürü de düzenlemektedir. Bunun dışında, ”Alternatif 

Yargı Yolları” adını verdiğimiz mahkeme dışı uyuşmazlık 

çözüm metotları, özellikle Tahkim de Usul Hukuku’nun 

konuları arasındadır. 

LAW 360 - INTERNET LAW 

The internet is one of the most significant consequences 

of developments in information technology. Today, the 

internet pervades individuals’ lives. Furthermore, there 

are increasing numbers of transactions concluded via the 

internet in the international as well as the national arena. 

The principles and manner concerning the settlement of 

disputes arising out of these cyber-transactions are the 

subject of this course. The legal nature of the institutions 

that are encountered in the cyber environment stands 

as a challenge. In this course, the digital and electronic 

signature as an outcome of the internet, as well as the 

effects of electronic money on the monetary policies of 

governments and other issues such as domain names, 

e-commerce and related payment methods, are studied 

from a legal perspective. 




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İNTERNET HUKUKU 

Bilgi teknolojilerindeki ilerlemenin en önemli 

sonuçlarından biri, bugün hayatın her alanında 

yararlanılan internettir. Ulusal ve uluslararası çerçevede 

internet üzerinden yapılan hukuki işlemlerin çokluğu 

dikkat çekmektedir. Bu işlemlere ilişkin ilkeler ve 

işlemler sonucu doğabilecek hukuki uyuşmazlıkların 

halli, bu dersin kapsamını oluşturmaktadır. Ayrıca, 

internete ilişkin olarak gelişen dijital ve elektronik 

imza, elektronik paranın devletlerin para politikası 

üzerindeki etkileri, elektronik ticaret ve ödeme usulleri 


LAW 361 - THEORY OF STATE I 

The aim of the course is to give students a better 

understanding of the notion of the state, the modern 

world’s dominant political organization. In this course, 

the concept of the state and its relevant components, i.e., 

sovereignty, power and authority, will be elaborated upon. 

Such a study has two dimensions: comparing the state to 

non-state political organizations, that is, state versus prestate 

societies, and comparing and contrasting different 

approaches (historical, anthropological and legal) to the 

theory of state. 




DEVLET KURAMI I 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilerin modern dünyanın hâkim 

siyasi örgütü olan devlet kavramını daha iyi anlamalarını 

sağlamaktır. Bu derste, devlet kavramı ilintili kavramlarla, 

örneğin egemenlik, güç ve otorite kavramlarıyla beraber 

derinlemesine işlenecektir. 

LAW 362 - THEORY OF STATE II 

(CONTEMPORARY THEORIES) 

This course aims to analyze the relation between state 

theory and rights theory. It determines how justice theories 

have evolved in modern constitutions and establishes 

their diverse references, the common mentality that they 

are part of and the modern boundaries. Subsequently, it 

examines theoretical studies on the alternative models 

beyond the classical models concerning rights. 


Special Condition(s): LAW 361 



DEVLET KURAMI II 

(ÇAĞDAŞ KURAMLAR) 

Bu ders, devlet kuramı ve hak kuramı ilişkisini ele alır. 

Hak kuramlarının modern yapılanma içinde nasıl ortaya 

çıktıklarını, farklı referanslarını, bağlı oldukları ortak 

zihniyeti ve modern sınırları saptar. Sonra da, haklara 

ilişkin klasik modeller ötesinde, alternatif modeller üstüne 

sürdürülen kuramsal çalışmaları gözden geçirir.

LAW 371 - PUBLIC FINANCE 

Public finance covers types of revenue as well as methods 

of acquisition and of expenditure in the provision of 

public services. The main issues of the course are public 

revenues, public expenses, budgets, finance policy and 

public debt. Turkey’s candidacy for the European Union 

has put strong pressure on the process of harmonization of 

Turkish public finance with European Union legislation. 

This issue is another focus of the course. 



KAMU MALİYESİ 

Kamu Maliyesi, gelir türleri ve kamu hizmetlerinin 

finansmanı ve sağlanmasını incelemektedir. Ders 

kapsamında işlenen esas başlıklar: Kamu gelirleri, kamu 

harcamaları, bütçeler, kamu maliyesi politikası ve kamu 

borçlarıdır. Ayrıca, Avrupa Birliği’ne adaylık süreciyle 

ortaya çıkan Türk kamu maliyesi’nin Avrupa Birliği 

normlarına uyumlu hale getirilmesi sorunu üzerinde 

durulacaktır. 

LAW 372 - TAX LAW 

Tax law comprises all public revenue taxes that are 

collected through the public authority of the state. 

Therefore, in addition to taxes, duties, charges and 

betterment taxes are also examined in this course. 

Students who successfully complete the course will gain 

an understanding of all the legal aspects of public finance. 

The harmonization of Turkish tax law with European 

Union legislation will also be covered in the course. 



VERGİ HUKUKU 

Vergi Hukuku, devletin kamu gücünü kullanarak elde 

ettiği tüm kamu gelirlerini incelemektedir. Bu sebeple 

vergilere ek olarak harç, ücret, rüsum gibi kavramların 

da üzerinde durulacaktır. Öğrenciler bu derste, kamu 

maliyesi’nin hukuki yapısını inceleyeceklerdir. Ayrıca 

Türk vergi hukuku’nun, Avrupa Birliği normlarına uyumu 

sorunu üzerinde de durulacaktır. 

LAW 380 - BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION 

LAW 

This course covers the relationship between urban 

planning and personal property, the areas of responsibility 

for local administration and central administration, 

the practice of nationalization of private lands and 

privatization of public lands, the protection of natural and 

cultural entities, touristic and organized industrial regions 

and the new criteria required by the adaptation process to 

the European Union. 





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İMAR HUKUKU 

Bu ders kapsamında, şehir planlaması ile gayrimenkul 

mülkiyeti arasındaki ilişkiler, yerel ve merkezi 

yönetimlerin sorumluluk alanları, toprak mülkiyeti 

çerçevesinde kamulaştırma ve özelleştirme, doğa ve 

kültür varlıklarının korunması, turistik ve organize 

sanayi bölgelerine ilişkin düzenlemeler ve Avrupa Birliği 

müktesebatına uyum sürecinde uyulması gereken yeni 

kriterler incelenecektir. 

LAW 382 - CRIMINAL LAW-SPECIAL 

PROVISIONS 

The aim of this course is to introduce students to special 

provisions under the Turkish Criminal Code and other 

codes. The special provisions concern types of crimes 

classified according to their subject matter. Upon 

completing the course, students will have acquired 

sound background knowledge of the general theory of 

the special provisions and will be able to identify crimes 

such as crimes against persons, crimes against the public, 

crimes against the nation, state and public peace. 



CEZA HUKUKU-ÖZEL HÜKÜMLER 

Bu dersin amacı, Türk Ceza Kanunu ve diğer kanunlarda 

düzenlenen özel suç tiplerinin incelenmesidir. İncelemede 

sınıflandırma korunan hukuki yarara bağlı olarak 

yapılmaktadır. Ders kapsamında, ceza özel hükümlerinin 

genel teorisi, kişilere ve mala karşı cürümler, kamu 

güvenine karşı işlenen cürümler, kamunun selametine 

karşı işlenen cürümler ve kamu idaresine karşı işlenen 

suçlar incelenecektir. 

LAW 390 - CONSUMER PROTECTION LAW 

The course will focus on various types of consumer 

contracts. Particular emphasis will be on consumer 

sales agreements, promotional sales, installment sales 

and consumer credit agreements. In addition, consumer 

protection against unfair contract terms, product liability, 

door to door and distance contracts, time share and package 

travel contracts will also be studied. A comparison of the 

laws of different European countries and the EU Directive 

for Consumer Protection will be included in the course. 


Special Condition(s): LAW 231 and LAW 232 



TÜKETİCİNİN KORUNMASI HUKUKU 

Bu ders çerçevesinde, taraflardan birini tüketicinin 

oluşturduğu sözleşme türleri üzerinde durulacaktır. 

Bu bağlamda, özellikle ”Tüketicinin Korunması 

Hakkında Kanun”da ele alınmış olan tüketici satım 

sözleşmeleri, taksitli ve kampanyalı satışlar, kapıdan 

ve mesafeli sözleşmeler ve tüketici kredisi sözleşmeleri 

incelenecektir. Bunun yanı sıra genel işlem şartlarının yer 

aldığı sözleşmelerde tüketicinin korunması, imalatçının

sorumluluğu, turistik gezi sözleşmeleri, devre tatil gibi 

konular da incelenecektir. Derste, Avrupa Birliği’nin 

tüketicinin korunması alanında yayınlanmış yönergeleri 

ve çeşitli Avrupa ülkelerinin mevzuatı mukayeseli olarak 

değerlendirilecektir. 

LAW 402 - FORENSIC MEDICINE 

Forensic medicine is a branch of science which applies 

medical knowledge to the purpose of the law: hence 

its limits are, on the one hand, the requirements of 

the law and on the other, the entire range of medicine. 

Forensic medicine has been of great help to the judiciary, 

particularly in criminal and civil law cases. Anatomy, 

physiology, surgery, chemistry and physics lend their aid 

as necessity arises and in some cases all these branches of 

science are required to enable a court of law to arrive at 

a proper conclusion on a contested question affecting life 

or property. 



ADLİ TIP 

Adli tıp, tıp bilimine ilişkin bulgu ve kuralları hukuka 

uygulayan bir bilim dalıdır. Bu sebeple adli tıp, işleyişiyle 

hem hukuk hem de tıp bilimine dayanmaktadır. Birçok 

hukuki ve cezai davada adli tıptan büyük ölçüde 

yararlanılmaktadır. Yargılama sırasında hakkaniyete en 

uygun çözüme ulaşabilmek için ihtiyaç duyulduğunda 

anatomi, fizyoloji, cerrahi, kimya ve fizik bilimlerinin 

bazılarından veya tümünden yararlanılmaktadır. 

LAW 403 - DISSERTATION I 

Law students will prepare their dissertation projects 

according to faculty guidelines. 





Hukuk Fakültesi öğrencileri, bitirme tezlerini fakülte 

kurallarına uygun olarak hazırlarlar. 

LAW 404 - DISSERTATION II 

Law students will prepare their dissertation projects 

according to faculty guidelines. 






Hukuk Fakültesi öğrencileri, bitirme tezlerini fakülte 

kurallarına uygun olarak hazırlarlar. 

LAW 405 - STREET LAW CLINIC I 

The course, started in 2003 at BİLGİ, remains a rare example 

of a course being taught in a prison setting anywhere in the 

world. This course aims to empower vulnerable persons 

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through the provision of legal information relevant to their 

lives by law students. In this course, for eight weeks students 

teach convicts and those detained for trial in women’s and 

men’s prisons in İstanbul. In taking this course, students have 

the opportunity to view the law through the eyes of those 

who live it and develop first-hand experience regarding 

prisons while also developing skills such as teaching with 

interactive methods, speaking in public and responding to 

spontaneous questions. 




GÜNLÜK YAŞAMDA HUKUK KLİNİĞİ I 

İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’nin ilk 

olarak 2003’te başladığı ve dünyada pek az ülkede 

cezaevlerinde yürütülmekte olan Hukuk Kliniği 

dersinde, toplumda kırılgan olduğu düşünülen kişilerin, 

hukuk öğrencilerinin verdiği hak eğitimi yoluyla 

güçlendirilmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Bu ders kapsamındaki 

öğrenciler, Bakırköy Kadın ve Ümraniye E ve T tipi 

Kapalı Ceza İnfaz Kurumu’nda tutuklu ve hükümlü 

olarak bulunanlara yönelik olarak sekiz hafta boyunca 

hukuk dersleri vermektedir. Ders sayesinde öğrenciler, 

uygulamadaki hukuku bunu yaşayanlardan bizzat 

öğrenme ve cezavlerine ilişkin doğrudan tecrübe edinme 

imkânına kavuşmaktadır. Bunun yanında, topluluk 

önünde konuşma, interaktif metotlarla ders anlatma ve 

beklenmedik soruları cevaplama gibi hukukçular için 

önemli becerileri geliştirmektedir. 

LAW 406 - STREET LAW CLINIC II 

The course, started in 2003 at BİLGİ, remains a rare 

example of a course being taught in a prison setting 

anywhere in the world. This course aims to empower 

vulnerable persons through the provision of legal 

information relevant to their lives by law students. In 

this course, for eight weeks students teach convicts and 

those detained for trial in women’s and men’s prisons 

in İstanbul. In taking this course, students have the 

opportunity to view the law through the eyes of those 

who live it and develop first-hand experience regarding 

prisons while also developing skills such as teaching with 

interactive methods, speaking in public and responding to 

spontaneous questions. 





GÜNLÜK YAŞAMDA HUKUK KLİNİĞİ II 

İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’nin ilk 

olarak 2003’te başladığı ve dünyada pek az ülkede 

cezaevlerinde yürütülmekte olan Hukuk Kliniği 

dersinde, toplumda kırılgan olduğu düşünülen kişilerin, 

hukuk öğrencilerinin verdiği hak eğitimi yoluyla 

güçlendirilmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Bu ders kapsamındaki 

öğrenciler, Bakırköy Kadın ve Ümraniye E ve T tipi

Kapalı Ceza İnfaz Kurumu’nda tutuklu ve hükümlü 

olarak bulunanlara yönelik olarak sekiz hafta boyunca 

hukuk dersleri vermektedir. Ders sayesinde öğrenciler, 

uygulamadaki hukuku bunu yaşayanlardan bizzat 

öğrenme ve cezavlerine ilişkin doğrudan tecrübe edinme 

imkânına kavuşmaktadır. Bunun yanında, topluluk 

önünde konuşma, interaktif metotlarla ders anlatma ve 

beklenmedik soruları cevaplama gibi hukukçular için 

önemli becerileri geliştirmektedir. 

LAW 407 - SPECIAL TOPICS: 

E-GOVERNMENT 

The development in information and communication 

and its diffusion to all areas of human life has also 

affected the governments all over the world. Today, there 

is a shift in the classic public service understanding of 

the governments by means of the opportunities that 

information technologies have offered. These innovations 

force the classic concept of “government” and its structure. 

As a matter of fact, the concepts of e-Government and 

Mobile Government that we hear a lot about recently 

indicate the model for this new government. In the scope 

of this course, the evolution of the government concept 

that electronization has caused and the efforts on this 

evolution will be explained by the government agents in 

person. No doubt, the e-transformation observed in the 

government has its legal facets, its effects on our legal life 

will be discussed in the context of this course. 



ÖZEL KONULAR: E-DEVLET 

Bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerinin gelişimi ve insan 

hayatının her alanına girmesi, tüm dünyada devletleri 

de etkilemiştir. Bugün artık devletler bilişim 

teknolojilerinin sunduğu olanaklardan yararlanarak, 

klasik hizmet anlayışlarını değiştirmektedir. Bu 

yenilikler, devlet kavramının ve yapısının da 

değişmesini zorunlu kılmaktadır. Nitekim son yıllarda 

sık karşılaştığımız ”e-Devlet” veya ”Mobil Devlet” 

kavramları bu yeni devlet modelini ifade etmektedir. Bu 

ders kapsamında, devlet kavramının elektronikleşme 

yüzünden geçirdiği değişim ve bu değişimin nasıl 

gerçekleştirilmeye çalışıldığı bizzat devletin yetkili 

kurumları aracılığıyla anlatılacaktır. Şüphesiz devlette 

yaşanan bu e-dönüşümün hukuksal tarafı da söz 

konusu olduğu için, hukuk yaşantımızın bundan nasıl 

etkilendiği de ders çerçevesinde irdelenecektir. 

LAW 408 - CAPITAL MARKETS LAW 

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the 

essential concepts of financial markets, particularly capital 

markets in the light of securities regulations. This course 

will deal with publicly held corporations, instruments 

and institutions of the capital market, capital market 

transactions such as portfolio management, underwriting, 

investments consultation, auditing of corporations, tender 

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offer and takeover, stock exchanges, disclosure and capital 

market crimes such as insider trading and manipulation. 


Prerequisite(s): LAW 342 


SERMAYE PİYASASI HUKUKU 

Finansal piyasaların bir ayağını oluşturan sermaye 

piyasasını düzenleyen ve denetimini öngören Sermaye 

Piyasası Kanunu ve ilgili Mevzuat çerçevesinde, bir 

sermaye piyasası aracı ihraççısı olarak halka açık anonim 

şirketlerin özellikleri ve yükümlülükleri: sermaye 

piyasası araçları ve sağladığı haklar: sermaye piyasası 

faaliyetleri, özellikle aracılık, portföy yöneticiliği, 

portföy işletmeciliği, yatırım danışmanlığı, bağımsız 

denetim ve derecelendirme faaliyetleri: bu faaliyetleri 

gerçekleştiren sermaye piyasası kurumları: halka açık 

anonim şirketlerde kontrolün el değiştirmesi ve sonuçları: 

sermaye piyasası suçları, özellikle içerden öğrenenlerin 

ticareti, manipülasyonlar ve örtülü kazanç aktarımı: 

borsalar ile kamunun aydınlatılması hususları bu dersin 

ana konularını oluşturmaktır. 

LAW 409 - LAW OF CORRECTIONS 

This course aims to explain and discuss the correction 

period which starts with the conviction of the defendant 

by the criminal court. The major topics will include the 

regulations regarding correctional facilities, the rights of 

prisoners and the parole release period. 



LAW 411 - MARITIME LAW 

The course deals with the different legal aspects of 

maritime commerce. As one of the oldest activities of 

trade, the law of carriage of goods by sea which governs 

such activity has always been of an international character. 

Although it is categorized as a branch of commercial law, 

maritime law includes many separate and distinctive 

features. The ownership of seagoing vessels, ship registry, 

mutual liabilities of carriers and shippers, ship liens and 

mortgages, the limitation of ship-owners’ liability and 

carriers’ liability in respect of environmental damage are 

the main issues covered in this course. 




DENİZ TİCARET HUKUKU 

Bu ders kapsamında, deniz ticaret hukukuna ilişkin esaslı 

konular üzerinde durulacaktır. Ticaret hukuku’nun en eski 

dallarından biri olarak ortaya çıkan malların denizyoluyla 

taşınması genellikle uluslararası niteliktedir. Bu sebeple, 

ticaret hukuku’nun bir dalı olsa da Deniz Ticaret Hukuku, 

hukukun birçok dalına temas etmektedir. Derste gemi 

mülkiyeti, gemilerin tescili, taşıyanların ve taşıtanların 

sorumluluğu, gemi ipoteği, çevreye verilen zarardan 

sorumluluk gibi konular üzerinde durulacaktır.

LAW 412 - LAW OF INSURANCE 

The course basically concentrates on the different types of 

insurance coverage available on the market. The subject of 

the course may be defined as the legal aspects of insuring 

risks and liabilities. It aims to provide a basic understanding 

of the general principles of insurance contracts under Turkish 

law. Issues such as the legal nature of insurance contracts, 

insured values and mutual liabilities of the insurers and the 

insured persons are covered. 




SİGORTA HUKUKU 

Bu derste, çeşitli sigorta türleri üzerinde durulacaktır. 

Dersin konusu, sigorta risk ve sorumluluklarının 

hukuki yapısıdır. Dersin amacı, Türk hukukunda sigorta 

sözleşmelerine hâkim olan ilkelerin incelenmesidir. 

İncelenecek konular arasında sigorta sözleşmelerinin 

hukuki yapısı, sigortalanan değerler ile sigortalayan ve 

sigortalanan arasındaki karşılıklı hak ve yükümlülüklerdir. 

LAW 414 - THE LAW AND PRACTICE OF 

THE LEGAL PROFESSION 

It is known that most law graduates seek careers in the 

profession of legal practice. However, law faculties fail 

to provide courses which deal with the rules pertaining to 

legal practice. Therefore, through this course we aim to 

fill this significant gap in the legal education. The subjects 

to be handled are as follows: legislation regulating the 

legal profession, relations between the client and the legal 

practitioner, organisations of legal practitioners, law firm 

management, specialization, rights and liabilities of legal 

practitioners, rules of ethical conduct, meetings, hearings, 

file preparation and evidence gathering. The following 

may be offered as methods of teaching: lecturers within 

and outside the university, visits to the Bar, courthouses 

and enforcement offices, visits to law firms and other 

consulting institutions. 




AVUKATLIK HUKUKU VE UYGULAMASI 

Hukuk Fakültesi mezunlarının büyük bir kısmı avukatlık 

mesleğine yönelmektedir. Oysa bu mesleğin hukukunu 

tanıtan derslere, hukuk eğitiminde yer verilmesi ihmal 

edilmektedir. Bu dersle, bu alanda hissedilen ciddi 

bir boşluğun doldurulması amaçlanmaktadır. Ders 

kapsamında ele alınacak konular şunlardır: Avukatlık 

mesleğine ilişkin yasal düzenlemeler, avukatla müvekkil 

arasındaki ilişkiler, avukatlık örgütlenme türleri, ücret 

ve uyuşmazlıkları, büro organizasyonu, uzmanlaşma, 

avukatın hak ve yükümlülükleri, etik/mesleki kurallar, 

toplantı-duruşma-dosyalama-dilekçe ve delil hazırlama 

yöntemleri. Ders şu yöntemlerle yürütülecektir: Üniversite 

içinden ve dışından öğreticiler, baro-mahkeme-icra dairesi 

ziyareti, hukuk bürosu ve kurumsal danışmanlar ziyareti. 

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LAW 416 - FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAW 

Foreign investments have been growing more and more 

in Turkey. Turkish investors make investments abroad, 

many projects are conducted. Thus the protection of 

foreign investments has become more important. The 

legal source of foreign investments is national law, the 

bilateral and multilateral investment treaties. In this 

course, foreign investment, the foreign investor, the rights 

and the protection of foreign investors in the meaning of 

the Code of Direct Foreign Investments and the bilateral 

and multilateral treaties where Turkey is a contracting 

state will be analyzed. Other topics of the course include 

the settlement of investment disputes and especially 

ICSID arbitration. 



YABANCI YATIRIM HUKUKU 

Türkiye’de yabancı yatırımlar gün geçtikçe artmaktadır. 

Yine Türk yatırımcıları da yurtdışında yatırım 

yapmakta, birçok proje gerçekleştirmektedir. Yabancı 

yatırımların korunması büyük bir önem kazanmıştır. 

Yabancı yatırımlar milli kanunlarla, ikili ve çok taraflı 

yatırımların korunmasına ve teşvikine ilişkin anlaşmalarla 

sağlanmaktır. Bu derste, Doğrudan Yabancı Yatırımlar 

Kanunu ve Türkiye’nin taraf olduğu ikili ve çok taraflı 

sözleşmeler anlamında yabancı yatırım, yabancı 

yatırımcı, yabancı yatırımcıların hakları ve bu hakların 

korunması konuları işlenecektir. Yine yabancı yatırım 

uyuşamazlıklarının çözüm yolları, özellikle ICSID 

tahkimi hakkında bilgi verilecektir. 

LAW 417 - SPORTS LAW 

It is easy to observe the increasing significance of sports 

and sports events in our daily lives. The legal aspect of 

sports is becoming more important every day. This is 

due largely to growing professionalization, side effects 

such as hooliganism and violence which spread beyond 

playing fields, and the nationwide and international effects 

of sports events. Also, the enlarging sports economy, 

taking the peculiarities of sports law into account, makes 

the expertise on this field substantial in transactions of 

a sporting nature. This course will initially provide the 

participants with information on the economical and 

sociological dimensions of sports. The characteristics 

of sports business and the role of the media will be 

described. Following this introduction, the law of sports, 

the regulations on or related to sports, and the resolution 

of disputes arising from sports shall be discussed. 



SPOR HUKUKU 

Sporun ve spor müsabakalarının toplum açısından 

önemi, yaşamın her noktasında hissedilmektedir. Sporun 

profesyonel yanının ağırlığının gün geçtikçe artması, gerek 

ulusal gerekse uluslararası düzeyde doğurduğu etkiler, 

spor sahalarının dışına da taşan şiddet ve holiganizm,

u alandaki hukuki düzenlemelerin öneminin artması 

sonucunu doğurmaktadır. Ayrıca, spor ekonomisinin 

gün geçtikçe büyümesi ve spor hukukunun kendine 

has kuralları, spor kaynaklı ilişkilerin hukuki yapısının 

kurulmasında uzmanlığın önemini artırmaktadır. Ders ile 

öncelikle, katılımcıların, sporun ekonomik, sosyolojik 

boyutları hakkında bilgi edinmeleri sağlanacaktır. Daha 

sonra, spor işletmelerinin kendilerine has özellikleriyle 

iletişimin spor açısından önemine değinilecektir. Son 

olarak, spora özel hukuki düzenlemeler, sporun hukuku, 

spor kaynaklı uyuşmazlıkların çözümü gibi spora has 

hukuki sorunlar anlatılacaktır. 

LAW 418 - INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW 

This course aims at exploring both the private law and 

the public law issues applicable to international trade 

relations. The first and public law part of the course 

will focus on the main treaties regulating international 

trade as embodied in the General Agreement on Tariffs 

and Trade and the World Trade Organization, as well as 

regional trade entities such as the European Union and 

the North American Free Trade Agreement. This part 

will examine the law applicable to tariff and non-tariff 

barriers, discrimination, regionalism, anti-dumping 

duties, countervailing duties, safeguard measures and 

the devices for international settlement of trade disputes. 

The second and private law part will deal with the key 

rules in international commercial transactions. To 

achieve this aim, the course will cover the fundamental 

characteristics of international sales of goods and 

essential contracts for the financing of trading activities, 

transportation of goods to their place of destination, 

settlement of disputes, and methods of payment in 

international commercial transactions. 



LAW 419 - INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL 

LAW 

The course will focus on contemporary international 

criminal law as applied by national and international 

courts. In the first part of the course, the fundamental 

principles of international criminal law, like non bis in 

idem, legality and personal guilt, will be discussed. In the 

second part, the emphasis will be placed on crimes against 

the international community as described in national 

and international legal texts, as well as the perspective 

of creating a common criminal law of the European 

Communities. The third part of the course will concern 

methods of international legal cooperation in criminal 

investigation and procedure, as well as extradition. 



ULUSLARARASI CEZA HUKUKU 

Ders, tıp mesleği mensuplarının özel hukuk ve ceza hukuku 

alanında karşılaştığı hukuksal sorunlara eğilecektir. Tıbbi 

müdahalelerin hukuka uygunluk koşulları, hekimler ile 

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diğer sağlık çalışanlarının özel hukuk ve ceza hukuku 

sorumlulukları dersin ana konusunu oluşturacak ve 

kendine özgü özellikleri bulunan tedavi yöntemleri ile 

ötanazi gibi ölüm-kalım sorunları hakkında tartışmalar ön 

plana çıkarılacaktır. 

LAW 421 - LABOR LAW 

This course is focused on the individual employment 

relationship. The following topics will be examined in the 

course: Fundamental concepts of employment law such 

as the employee, employer, subcontracting relationship. 

Types of the contract of employment. Conclusion of 

the employment relationship. Rights and duties of the 

parties to the contract and termination of the contractual 

relationship as well as its results. 



İŞ HUKUKU 

Bireysel iş ilişkisi üzerinde yoğunlaşan İş Hukuku dersi 

kapsamında işçi, işveren, işveren vekili, alt işveren gibi 

iş hukukunun temel kavramları, iş sözleşmesi türleri, iş 

ilişkisinin kurulması, işçi ve işverenin iş sözleşmesinden 

doğan hak ve borçları, iş sözleşmesinin sona ermesi ve 

sona ermenin sonuçları konuları ele alınıp incelenecektir. 

LAW 425 - PRIVATE LAW CLINIC I 

The success of the Street Law Clinic has allowed BİLGİ 

to develop the Private Law Clinic. Through the clinic, 

students are given the opportunity to provide legal 

information to persons in Dolapdere who cannot afford 

lawyers. Usually, low income persons need information 

on matters of divorce/alimony, lease-and title-related 

problems. The project allows law students to facilitate 

access to justice for the poor on the one hand, and 

allows them to develop private-practice skills such as 

interviewing and writing legal opinions on the other. To 

accomplish this, students are first introduced to effective 

listening and communication skills to enable them to 

conduct good interviews, while also discussing ethical 

issues in legal matters. Students also discuss critical legal 

theory and are encouraged to take a pro-poor stance when 

looking at the legal problems of the poor. In the second 

semester, students are allowed contact with the people in 

Dolapdere who seek information from the clinic. Students 

are expected to write legal memoranda on the particular 

problem and discuss it in class with their teachers before 

they are allowed to meet the applicant again. They can 

then meet with the applicants to give legal information 

about the problem in a way the person can understand. 




ÖZEL HUKUK KLİNİĞİ I 

Gündelik Hayatta Hukuk Kliniği’nin başarısı BİLGİ’nin 

Özel Hukuk Kliniği’ni kurmasını sağladı. Klinik sayesinde, 

öğrenciler Dolapdere’deki avukat tutacak parası olmayan

kişilere hukuki bilgi verme olanağına kavuşmaktadır. 

Genelde, dar gelirli bu başvurucuların boşanma-nafaka, 

kira ve tapu gibi konularda bilgiye ihtiyacı olmaktadır. 

Proje sayesinde, bir yandan hukuk öğrencilerinin dar 

gelirli kesimin adalete erişiminine katkı sağlaması 

hedeflenmekte, diğer yandan öğrencilere uygulamaya 

dönük mülakat yapma, hukuki görüş yazma gibi beceriler 

kazandırılmaktadır. Bunun için, öğrencilerin öncelikle 

etkin dinleme ve iletişim becerileri ile tanıştırılarak 

iyi bir mülakat yapabilmek için gereken yetilere sahip 

olmaları sağlanmakta, aynı zamanda öğrencilerle 

hukuki konularda ortaya çıkabilen etik meseleler 

değerlendirilmektedir. Öğrenciler, eleştirel hukuk 

teorisini tartışmakta ve yoksulların hukuki sorunlarına 

“yoksuldan yana” bir bakış geliştirmeleri yönünde 

cesaretlendirilmektedir. İkinci yarıyılda, öğrencilerin 

Dolapdere’de Klinik’ten bilgi isteyen başvurucularla 

görüşmeleri sağlanmaktadır. Öğrenciler, söz konusu 

sorunla ilgili hukuki görüş yazmakta ve başvurucuya hak 

arama yollarını göstermeden önce, öğretim elemanıyla 

bunu sınıfta tartışmaktadır. Başvurucularla daha sonra 

görüşen öğrencilerin hukuki bilgiyi karşılarındakinin 

anlayabileceği şekilde sunmaları beklenmektedir. 

LAW 426 - PRIVATE LAW CLINIC II 

The success of the Street Law Clinic has allowed BİLGİ 

to develop the Private Law Clinic. Through the clinic, 

students are given the opportunity to provide legal 

information to persons in Dolapdere who cannot afford 

lawyers. Usually, low income persons need information 

on matters of divorce/alimony, lease-and title-related 

problems. The project allows law students to facilitate 

access to justice for the poor on the one hand, and 

allows them to develop private-practice skills such as 

interviewing and writing legal opinions on the other. To 

accomplish this, students are first introduced to effective 

listening and communication skills to enable them to 

conduct good interviews, while also discussing ethical 

issues in legal matters. Students also discuss critical legal 

theory and are encouraged to take a pro-poor stance when 

looking at the legal problems of the poor. In the second 

semester, students are allowed contact with the people in 

Dolapdere who seek information from the clinic. Students 

are expected to write legal memoranda on the particular 

problem and discuss it in class with their teachers before 

they are allowed to meet the applicant again. They can 

then meet with the applicants to give legal information 

about the problem in a way the person can understand. 




ÖZEL HUKUK KLİNİĞİ II 

Gündelik Hayatta Hukuk Kliniği’nin başarısı 

BİLGİ’nin Özel Hukuk Kliniği’ni kurmasını sağladı. 

Klinik sayesinde, öğrenciler Dolapdere’deki avukat 

tutacak parası olmayan kişilere hukuki bilgi verme 

olanağına kavuşmaktadır. Genelde, dar gelirli bu 

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başvurucuların boşanma-nafaka, kira ve tapu gibi 

konularda bilgiye ihtiyacı olmaktadır. Proje sayesinde, 

bir yandan hukuk öğrencilerinin dar gelirli kesimin 

adalete erişiminine katkı sağlaması hedeflenmekte, 

diğer yandan öğrencilere uygulamaya dönük 

mülakat yapma, hukuki görüş yazma gibi beceriler 

kazandırılmaktadır. Bunun için, öğrencilerin öncelikle 

etkin dinleme ve iletişim becerileri ile tanıştırılarak 

iyi bir mülakat yapabilmek için gereken yetilere sahip 

olmaları sağlanmakta aynı zamanda öğrencilerle 

hukuki konularda ortaya çıkabilen etik meseleler 

değerlendirilmektedir. Öğrenciler, eleştirel hukuk 

teorisini tartışmakta ve yoksulların hukuki sorunlarına 

“yoksuldan yana” bir bakış geliştirmeleri yönünde 

cesaretlendirilmektedir. İkinci yarıyılda, öğrencilerin 

Dolapdere’de Klinik’ten bilgi isteyen başvurucularla 

görüşmeleri sağlanmaktadır. Öğrenciler, söz konusu 

sorunla ilgili hukuki görüş yazmakta ve başvurucuya hak 

arama yollarını göstermeden önce, öğretim elemanıyla 

bunu sınıfta tartışmaktadır. Başvurucularla daha sonra 

görüşen öğrencilerin hukuki bilgiyi karşılarındakinin 

anlayabileceği şekilde sunmaları beklenmektedir. 

LAW 432 - SOCIAL SECURITY LAW 

Collective labor relations and arrangements in the area 

of social security are in a controversial period where 

social and economical perspectives engage. Modern law 

systems which do not disregard economical interests 

attempt to solve the existing problems by considering the 

close relations of this subject to fundamental rights and 

freedoms. In this course, the approach of Turkish law to 

these existing problems will be analyzed. 




SOSYAL GÜVENLİK HUKUKU 

Gerek toplu iş ilişkileri, gerekse sosyal güvenlik 

alanındaki düzenlemeler, ekonomik ve sosyal bakış 

açılarının karşı karşıya geldiği, oldukça tartışmalı bir 

dönemden geçmektedir. Ekonomik kaygıları göz ardı 

edemeyen günümüz hukuk sistemleri, konuların temel 

hak ve özgürlüklerle yakın ilişkisini dikkate alarak 

mevcut sorunlara çözüm yolları aramaktadır. Bu derste 

ağırlıklı olarak Sendikalar ve Toplu İş Sözleşmesi Grev ve 

Lokavt Kanunları çerçevesinde Türk hukukunun mevcut 

sorunlara yaklaşımı ele alınıp incelenecektir. 

LAW 441 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW I 

Criminal procedure law is concerned with the enforcement 

of substantive criminal law. In this course, general and 

constitutional principles governing criminal procedure 

law, the role of human rights in criminal procedure 

systems, the structure of Turkish criminal courts and the 

main actors participating in criminal procedure law will 

be analyzed. 



CEZA MUHAKEMESİ HUKUKU I 

Ceza Muhakemesi Hukuku, Maddi Ceza Hukuku’nun 

nasıl hayata geçirileceğiyle ilgilenen bir hukuk dalıdır. 

Bu ders kapsamında, Ceza Muhakemesi Hukuku’na 

hâkim olan genel ve Anayasal ilkeler, Ceza Muhakemesi 

hukukunda insan haklarının rolü, Türk ceza yargılaması 

teşkilatı ve ceza yargılamasına katılan belli başlı kişiler 

üzerinde durulacaktır. 

LAW 442 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW II 

In this course, starting with the legal principles governing 

the identification and collection of evidence, we will 

analyze the apprehension and indictment of criminals, 

interim measures, the procedure governing criminal trials 

and other proceedings and special regulations concerning 

organized crime. Upon successful completion of Criminal 

Procedure Law I and II, students will have gained a 

thorough perspective on how a criminal trial is and should 

be conducted. 




CEZA MUHAKEMESİ HUKUKU II 

Bu ders çerçevesinde, ceza yargılamasında delil 

toplanması kurumuna hâkim olan ilkeler, koruma 

tedbirleri, ceza muhakemesinin yürüyüşü, denetim 

muhakemeleri ve organize suçluluğa ilişkin özel 

düzenlemeler incelenecektir. LAW 441 ve LAW 442 

derslerini başarıyla tamamlayan öğrenciler, ceza 

yargılamasının nasıl yapıldığı ve nasıl yapılması gerektiği 

hakkında genel bir bakış açısı kazanmış olacaklardır. 

LAW 450 - COMPETITION LAW 

This course considers the control of private economic 

power through competition law that has been in effect since 

the enactment of the Act on the Protection of Competition 

in 1994. The course basically covers the substantive 

provisions of the Act, which can be categorized into four 

parts. The first part concerns introductory provisions of 

the Act and the basic information regarding the concept of 

competition laws. The second part deals with vertical and 

horizontal cooperation agreements between undertakings 

in the market. Cartels, distribution agreements and the 

cooperative joint ventures will be the main subjects 

of this section. The third part involves the abusive 

and anti-competitive practices of monopolies such as 

discrimination, tying, monopoly and predatory pricing. 

The final part comprises the legal analysis of structural 

alliances, namely mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures 

in the markets. Time permitting, the course will also cover 

the enforcement structure of the Act. While the primary 

concern of the course is Turkish competition law, these 

subjects will be covered in a comparative perspective, 

examining U.S. and European competition laws. 

Theoretical economic assumptions about the behavior 

of markets will also be analyzed, given that competition 

rules are primarily based on economic theory. 

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REKABET HUKUKU 

Ders, serbest rekabetin işleyişini tehdit eden 

“yoğunlaşma” olgusunu önlemeyi amaçlayan rekabet 

hukukunu konu almaktadır. Temel olarak 4054 sayılı 

Rekabetin Korunması Hakkında Kanun’un maddi 

hükümleri çerçevesinde işlenecek olan ders, dört ana 

bölüme ayrılmaktadır. İlk bölümde, 4054 sayılı Kanun’un 

giriş hükümleri çerçevesinde, rekabet, yoğunlaşma, ilgili 

piyasa, teşebbüs gibi temel bazı kavramlar anlatılacaktır. 

İkinci bölüm, teşebbüsler arası yatay ve dikey anlaşmaların 

incelenmesine tahsis edilmiştir. Burada, kartel anlaşmaları, 

işbirliğine yol açan ortak girişimler ve dağıtım anlaşmaları 

incelenecektir. Üçüncü bölümde ise, ilgili piyasada hâkim 

durumda olan teşebbüslerin kötüye kullanma teşkil eden, 

ayırımcılık, aşırı ve yıkıcı fiyatlandırma, kelepçeleme 

gibi uygulamaları ele alınacaktır. Dördüncü bölüm, 

piyasadaki yapısal birliktelikler, yani birleşme, devralma 

ve ortak girişimlerin analizini konu almaktadır. Nihayet 

zaman imkân verdiği takdirde, Kanun’un öngördüğü 

yaptırım sistemi, özel hukuk ve idare hukuku boyutuyla 

anlatılacaktır. Dersin temel konusu, Türk rekabet hukuku 

olmakla birlikte, bu konular Avrupa Birliği ve ABD 

rekabet hukuku ile mukayeseli olarak incelenecek ve 

rekabet kurallarının ekonomik teoriye dayandığı dikkate 

alınarak, piyasa davranışları ile ilgili ekonomi biliminin 

teorik varsayımları da aktarılacaktır. 

LAW 451 - INHERITANCE LAW 

Inheritance law, as a part of civil law, deals with the 

legal situation commencing with the death of a person. 

Following his death, any person leaves his assets to 

be inherited by his successors. Inheritance law covers 

the issues of the appointment of an heir, testamentary 

contracts, partition of succession and disinheritance. 



MİRAS HUKUKU 

Miras Hukuku, medeni hukukun bir bölümü olarak, bir 

şahsın ölümüyle başlayan hukuki durumu ele almaktadır. 

Ölümünü takip eden süreçte herhangi bir kimse mal 

varlığını varislerine bırakabilir. Miras Hukuku, varisin 

tayini, vasiyetname ve mirastan mahrumiyet gibi sorunları 

kapsamaktadır. 

LAW 461 - HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 

The aim of this course is to cover the basic issues of 

discussion and the methods in human rights law. Primarily, 

the theoretical approaches to the concept of “violation 

of rights” will be dealt with. Secondly, the judicial and 

nonjudicial methods regarding international human rights 

monitoring and their practical effects and functions will 

be examined in detail. Within this context, the UN human 

rights system and regional human rights systems will be

critically analyzed on the basis of case studies concerning 

fundamental rights and freedoms. 




İNSAN HAKLARI HUKUKU 

Bu dersin amacı, İnsan Hakları Hukuku’nun temel 

tartışma konuları ve yöntemlerini incelemektir. Bu 

bağlamda, öncelikle ‘hakların ihlali’ kavramına 

ilişkin kuramsal yaklaşımlar ele alınacaktır. Daha 

sonra, uluslararası bir hukuk düzeni içinde insan 

haklarının korunmasına ilişkin yargısal ve yargısal 

olmayan yöntemler ve bunların uygulamadaki etki ve 

işlevi irdelenecektir. Bu bağlamda, özellikle Birleşmiş 

Milletler İnsan Hakları Sistemi ve bölgesel koruma 

sistemleri temel hak ve özgürlüklere ilişkin vaka 

çalışmaları çerçevesinde tartışmalı incelenecektir. 

LAW 470 - LAW OF INTELLECTUAL AND 

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY 

Intellectual property rights, by virtue of their aim, are 

considered a part of commercial law. The framework of 

the course covers patents, trademarks, copyrights and other 

related intellectual property issues. Protection of intellectual 

property rights at the national and international levels, 

assertion of the rights and particular protection by lawsuits 

are the other topics that constitute the basis of the course. 



FİKRİ VE SINAİ MÜLKİYET HUKUKU 

Fikri ve sınai haklar ticaret hukukunun özellikli bir alanını 

oluşturmaktadır. Dersin kapsamında patent, marka, 

tasarım gibi sınai hakların tanımlanması temel konuyu 

oluşturmaktadır. Sınai hakların ulusal ve uluslararası 

düzeyde korunması, bu hakların doğumu için yapılması 

gerekenler ve doğmuş hakların korunmasına ilişkin 

davalar ders kapsamında ele alınacak diğer başlıklardır. 

LAW 471 - INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE 

LAW I 

The subject of private international law consists of the 

legal relations and facts related to more than one legal 

system. Private international law has a wide scope of 

application and is focused particularly on the conflict 

of legal rules which govern matters having foreign 

elements and the applicable law for them. Thus the 

scope of this course is limited by the conflict of law 

rules. This course aims to provide students with a 

detailled knowledge of the general perpective of private 

international law and the conflict of legal rules in the 

scope of Turkish Private International and Procedural 

Law and the treaties to which Turkey is a contracting 

state. Particular attention is given to the court decisions 

and doctrine. 



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MİLLETLERARASI ÖZEL HUKUK I 

Birden çok hukuk düzeni ile ilişkili olan hukuki olay 

ve ilişkiler devletler özel hukukunun konusu içine 

girmektedir. Yabancılık unsuru taşıyan bu ilişki ve 

olayları düzenleyen ve bunlara hangi devletin hukukunun 

uygulanacağını gösteren kurallardan oluşan devletler 

özel hukuku geniş bir uygulama alanına sahiptir. Bu 

bağlamda Devletler Özel Hukuku I dersinin kapsamı, 

kanunlar ihtilafına ilişkin konular ile sınırlıdır. Kanunlar 

ihtilafına ilişkin konuların mevzuat ve milletlerarası 

antlaşmalar kapsamında açıklanması, ortaya çıkan 

sorunların mahkeme kararları ve doktrindeki görüşler 

çerçevesinde değerlendirilmesi bu dersin temel amacını 

oluşturmaktadır. 

LAW 472 - INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE 

LAW II 

International procedural law, international arbitration, 

nationality law and the legal status of aliens are the 

topics of this course. In this context, the first part of this 

course is focused on the general rules of international 

procedural law, the jurisdiction of Turkish courts and 

the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. 

International arbitration, which became the usual method 

of settlement of international disputes, constitutes the 

second part of this course. The aim is to provide students 

with a basic and essential knowledge of international 

arbitration. The concept of international arbitration 

and the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral 

awards compose the main topics of this part. Finally, the 

main matters of nationality law and the legal status of 

aliens are the subjects that will be covered at the end 

of this semester. In this context, the principles of the 

nationality law, the acquisition and the loss of Turkish 

nationality, the rights of entry and residence of aliens in 

Turkey, the right to work and the right of acquisition of 

immovable property and foreign investment in Turkey 

are topics that are covered. 



MİLLETLERARASI ÖZEL HUKUK II 

Devletler Özel Hukuku II dersinin içeriğini, 

milletlerarası usul hukuku, milletlerarası tahkim, 

vatandaşlık ve yabancılar hukuku oluşturmaktadır. Bu 

çerçevede, dersin ilk bölümünü oluşturan milletlerarası 

usul hukuku bahsinde, milletlerarası usul hukukunun 

temel kavramları açıklanacak, Türk mahkemelerinin 

milletlerarası yetkisi ile yabancı mahkeme kararlarının 

tanınması ve tenfizi konuları incelenecektir. 

Günümüzde milletlerarası uyuşmazlıkların olağan 

çözüm yolu haline gelmiş olan milletlerarası tahkim, 

dersin ikinci bölümünü oluşturmaktadır. Milletlerarası 

tahkim kavramı ile yabancı hakem kararlarının 

tanınması ve tenfizi konularının inceleneceği bu 

bölümde, öğrencilerin milletlerarası tahkim hukukuna 

ilişkin temel bilgi ve kavramları kazanmaları 

amaçlanmaktadır. Dersin son bölümünde ise, Türk

vatandaşlık ve yabancılar hukukunun temel kavramları 

üzerinde durulacaktır. Bu kapsamda vatandaşlık 

hukukunun temel ilkeleri, Türk vatandaşlığının 

kazanılması ve kaybı, yabancıların Türkiye’ye giriş, 

ikâmet ve seyahatleri, yabancıların Türkiye’de çalışma 

hakları ve taşınmaz mal edinmeleri ile Türkiye’deki 

yabancı sermaye yatırımlarının hukuki çerçevesi 

hakkında öğrenciler bilgilendirilecektir. 

LAW 481 - ENFORCEMENT LAW 

Enforcement law deals with the enforcement by the state 

of court orders, as well as with the forcing of payments of 

debts. Enforcement is divided into two categories: the first 

one is partial enforcement. Partial enforcement occurs 

when there are several creditors of an unpaid debt, which 

has to be collected by the force of the state. In this case, 

a certain amount of the assets of the debtor is attached in 

order to satisfy the claims of the creditors. 




İCRA HUKUKU 

İcra Hukuku, borcunu kendi rızasıyla ödemeyen bir 

borçluyu devlet gücü yardımıyla bu borcu ödemeye 

zorlayan, devlet tarafından düzenlenen prosedürdür. 

Burada, özellikle bir mahkeme kararına rağmen 

borcun ödenmemesi durumunda neler yapılacağı önem 

taşımaktadır. İcra Hukuku iki çeşide ayrılmaktadır. İlki, 

Cüz’i icradır. Cüz’i icrada borçlunun karşısında sadece 

bir veya birkaç alacaklısı yer almaktadır. Borçlu, kanunda 

öngörülen süre içinde borcunu ödemezse, alacaklının 

alacağını karşılamaya yetecek kadar mal varlığına icra 

organlarınca el konulur (haciz), satılır ve alacaklının 

alacağı ödenir. 

LAW/E 179 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 


















developed. 


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LAW/E 180 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 

English for Academic Purposes is a course designed 

to develop the academic language skills needed by 

students in order to be successful in their academic 

departments. The course focuses on academic 

language skills required by all university students as 

well as specific academic language skills of primary 

importance for students’ specific fields of choice. 

Students will be guided through the various stages 

of essay writing, including planning, researching, 

collecting and organizing information. Students will 

be working with semi-authentic to authentic academic 

texts. The course aims to introduce efficient reading 

strategies to cope with such texts as well as to increase 

students’ confidence and comprehensibility when 





developed. 


LIT 145 - LITERATURE AND OTHER ARTS I 

The objective of this course is to provide the students 

with the necessary cultural background for the study of 

Western literature, focusing on Western music, plastic arts 

and mythology. 


LIT 146 - LITERATURE AND OTHER 

ARTS II 

The objective of this course is to provide the students 

with the necessary cultural background for the study of 

Western literature, focusing on Western music, plastic arts 

and mythology. 


LIT 179 - WESTERN CULTURE AND 

CIVILIZATION I 

This course is a survey of Western culture and civilization 

from antiquity to the Middle Ages as shaped by the 

political, social and economic conditions of the times. The 

literary, artistic, architectural and musical achievements 

of each period are explored in detail. Written, visual and 

auditory materials supplement the course. 



BATI KÜLTÜRÜ VE MEDENİYETİ I 

Bu ders, Antik Çağ’dan Orta Çağ’a, Batı kültür ve 

uygarlığının geçirdiği toplumsal, siyasi ve ekonomik 

dönüşümleri ele almaktadır. Bu zaman dilimi içindeki 

farklı dönemlerin edebiyat, resim, mimari ve müzik 

alanındaki ürünleri ayrıntılı olarak incelenmektedir. Ders 

yazılı, görsel ve işitsel malzemeyle desteklenmektedir.


CIVILIZATION II 


from the later Middle Ages to the beginning of the 

Reformation with special emphasis on the Renaissance 

movement. The literary, artistic, architectural and musical 

achievements of each period are explored in detail. 

Written, visual and auditory materials supplement the 

course. 



BATI KÜLTÜRÜ VE MEDENİYETİ II 

Bu derste, Orta Çağ’ın sonlarından Reform hareketinin 

başlangıcına, Batı kültür ve uygarlığının geçirdiği 

toplumsal, siyasi ve ekonomik dönüşümler, Rönesans 

dönemi üzerinde özellikle durularak ele alınmaktadır. Bu 

zaman dilimi içindeki farklı dönemlerin edebiyat, resim, 

mimari ve müzik alanındaki ürünleri ayrıntılı olarak 

incelenmektedir. Ders yazılı, görsel ve işitsel malzemeyle 

desteklenmektedir. 

LIT 203 - PRACTICAL CRITICISM I 

This course is designed to familiarize second-year 

students with the basic methods and terminology 

employed in the analysis of literary texts. It aims to 

serve as an introduction to more specialized courses on 

particular genres and literary theory. The genres mostly 

focused on are poetry, the short story and the novella. 

Texts from different historical periods will be studied, 

though nineteenth and twentieth century pieces comprise 

the greater part of the syllabus. Students will also be 

occasionally assigned scholarly studies on the texts they 

have read and thus become acquainted with the issues and 

debates in contemporary literary criticism. Though some 

samples from Turkish literature are studied, the majority 

of the texts are in English. 





UYGULAMALI ELEŞTİRİ I 

Bu dersin amacı, ikinci sınıf öğrencilerini edebi metinlerin 

analizinde kullanılan temel yöntemler ve terimler ile 

tanıştırmaktır. Belirli edebi türler ve edebi kuramlar 

üzerine odaklanan daha özgül içerikli derslere hazırlık 

amacını taşımaktadır. Bu derste, üzerinde özellikle 

durulacak olan türler şiir, kısa öykü ve romandır. Her ne 

kadar pek çok farklı tarihsel dönemden eserler okunacaksa 

da seçilen metinlerin büyük kısmı modern dönemdendir. 

Zaman zaman öğrencilere okudukları eserler üzerine 

yazılmış incelemeler de verilecek ve böylece günümüz 

edebiyat eleştirisindeki temel tartışmalarla tanışıklık 

kazanmaları sağlanacaktır. Türk edebiyatından bazı 

örnekler okutulacak ise de metinlerin büyük kısmı 

İngilizce’dir. 

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LIT 204 - THE FRAME TALE 

The aim of this course is to study Boccaccio’s Decameron, 

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and One Thousand and One 

Nights, as examples of a narrative device (“the frame 

tale”) which is not a literary genre in itself, but prepares 

the way for the novel. The frame tale does not have the 

plot integrity of the novel, but all the same creates a world, 

a space/time of structural integrity, without which the 

novel would not have been possible. The course will be 

complemented by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s films of the same 

texts and, through this trilogy, will dwell upon Bakhtin’s 

concept of the carnivalesque in art. 




LIT 206 - LANGUAGE AND GENDER 

This course explores the relationship between language 

and gender. We compare and contrast the spoken and 

written communication styles of men and women and 

discuss how and why they are different. Examples from 

various cultures are analyzed within their own social, 

ethnic and cultural contexts and compared to examples 

from Turkish culture. The course also looks at major 

debates in current feminist thinking about language 

through a discussion of issues such as sexist language, 

gender-based discrimination and the quest of women’s 

voice in cultures. 




LIT 211 - THE DEVELOPMENT OF 

DRAMA I 

This course is a chronological survey of dramatic literature 

from the ancient Greeks to Shakespeare. 




DRAMA II 

This course is a survey of 20th century dramatic literature 

from Ibsen to Beckett. 




CIVILIZATION III 

This course focuses on the Reformation period and the 

Age of Enlightenment as shaped by the political, social 

and economic conditions of the times. The literary, 

artistic, architectural and musical achievements of each 

period are explored in detail. Written, visual and auditory 

materials supplement the course. 


Restriction(s): LIT 131 and LIT 132 


BATI KÜLTÜRÜ VE MEDENİYETİ III 

Bu derste, Reform hareketi ve Aydınlanma Çağı, 

zamanın toplumsal, siyasi ve ekonomik koşullarıyla 

ilişkili olarak ele alınmaktadır. Bu zaman dilimi 

içindeki farklı dönemlerin edebiyat, resim, mimari 

ve müzik alanındaki ürünleri ayrıntılı olarak 

incelenmektedir. Ders yazılı, görsel ve işitsel 

malzemeyle desteklenmektedir. 


CIVILIZATION IV 


from the Age of Enlightenment to the present, as shaped 

by the political, social and economic conditions of the 

times. The literary, artistic, architectural and musical 

achievements of each period are explored in detail. 

Written, visual and auditory materials supplement the 

course. 


Restriction(s): LIT 131 and LIT 132 


BATI KÜLTÜRÜ VE MEDENİYETİ IV 

Bu ders, Aydınlanma Çağı’ndan günümüze, Batı 

kültür ve uygarlığının geçirdiği toplumsal, siyasi ve 

ekonomik dönüşümleri ele almaktadır. Bu zaman 

dilimi içindeki farklı dönemlerin edebiyat, resim, 

mimari ve müzik alanındaki ürünleri ayrıntılı 

olarak incelenmektedir. Ders yazılı, görsel ve işitsel 

malzemeyle desteklenmektedir. 

LIT 291 - ONLINE RESEARCH 

TECHNOLOGIES 

This course will introduce students to online techniques 

and technologies used in academic research, focusing 

on the analysis and evaluation of search and navigation 

techniques: selection, analysis, synthesis and evaluation 

of online information resources and standards and 

practices for the organization of knowledge and 

information. 




LIT 292 - PRACTICAL CRITICISM II 

This course is a continuation of LIT 203 “Practical 

Criticism I” and is likewise designed to familiarize 

second-year students with the basic methods and 

terminology employed in the analysis of literary texts. 

It aims to serve as an introduction to more specialized 

courses on particular genres and literary theory. The 

genres mostly focused on are poetry, the short story and 

the novella. Texts from different historical periods will 

be studied, though nineteenth and twentieth century 

pieces comprise the greater part of the syllabus. 

Students will also be occasionally assigned scholarly 

studies on the texts they have read and thus become 

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acquainted with the issues and debates in contemporary 

literary criticism. Though some samples from Turkish 

literature are studied, the majority of the texts are in 

English. 





POETRY I 

This course presents a close look at the genre both 

historically and technically. The ways in which poets 

structure poetry through rhyme, rhythm, form, pattern, 

address, tone, figurative language, etc., are explored 

within a historical survey from the classical age to the 

Renaissance. 




POETRY II 

This course presents a close look at the genre both 

historically and technically. The ways in which poets 

structure poetry through rhyme, rhythm, form, pattern, 

address, tone, figurative language, etc., are explored 

within a historical survey from the Renaissance to the 

present. 



LIT 311 - METHODS OF CRITICISM I 

The course aims at understanding how different social 

and cultural assumptions may condition what is regarded 

as literature, studying how various literary schools 

have arrived at their respective interpretive decisions, 

exploring the interaction between literary movements and 

cultural history and how the socio-cultural positioning of 

the writer as well as the reader affect the production and 

consumption of literary texts, from Aristotle to Marxism 

and Russian Formalism. 




LIT 312 - METHODS OF CRITICISM II 

This course covers 20th century critical thought from 

New Criticism to feminist theory and cultural studies 

through structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis 

and reception theory. 




LIT 317 - SHORT FICTION I 

This course offers a broad survey of the short fiction genre 

from its beginnings (i.e., tales, Decameron) to the present 

day. Studying different types of stories from various 

writers (i.e., P’u Sung Ling, Voltaire, Poe, Chekhov,

Kafka, Woolf, Borges, Calvino, etc.), the course aims to 

familiarize students with the key steps and taste for short 

fiction reading. 




KISA HİKÂYE I 

Bu ders, kısa hikâye türünü, başlangıcından günümüze, 

çeşitli örnekleriyle ele almaktadır. P’u Sung Ling, 

Voltaire, Poe, Çehov, Kafka, Woolf, Borges, Calvino 

gibi yazarların kısa hikâyelerinin incelenmesi yoluyla 

öğrencilerin, bu türün kendine has özelliklerini tanıması 


LIT 318 - SHORT FICTION II 

This course offers a chronological survey of the short 

fiction genre of Turkish Literature from the late 19th 

Century to the present. Studying different types of stories 

from various writers (i.e., Halit Ziya, Sait Faik, Sabahattin 

Ali, Sevim Burak, Leyla Erbil, Sevgi Soysal, Murathan 

Mungan, etc.), the course aims to familiarize students 

with the key issues and taste of short fiction reading in 

Turkish Literature. 



LIT 319 - OTTOMAN TURKISH I 

This course is an introduction to Ottoman Turkish. 

Primary focus will be on the script and the grammatical 

peculiarities of the language. By the end of the semester, 

students are expected to be able to read relatively simple 

texts from the early twentieth century. 




OSMANLI TÜRKÇESİ I 

Bu derste, başlangıç düzeyinde Osmanlı Türkçesi 

öğretilmektedir. Öncelikle yazının öğrenilmesi ve 

Osmanlıca’daki Arapça ve Farsça unsurlardan gelen 

gramer özellikleri üzerinde durulacaktır. Dönem 

sonunda, öğrencilerin yirminci yüzyıl başından görece 

kolay metinleri rahatlıkla okuyabilir hale gelmesi 

hedeflenmektedir. 

LIT 320 - OTTOMAN TURKISH II 

This course is designed as a continuation of LIT 319 

“Ottoman Turkish I”. Students will be familiarized with 

nineteenth century texts and given some samples from 

earlier periods. Particular emphasis will be placed on 

vocabulary and advanced grammatical issues. Relatively 

easily legible types of handwriting will also be introduced 

towards the end of the semester. 




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OSMANLI TÜRKÇESİ II 

Bu ders, LIT 319 “Osmanlı Türkçesi I”in devamıdır. 

Öğrencilere ağırlıklı olarak 19. yüzyıl metinleri ile daha 

eski dönemlerden bazı örnekler okutulacaktır. Öğrencilerin 

kelime dağarcığının genişletilmesi ve gramerin dönemsel 

incelikleri ana odaklar olacaktır. Dönem sonuna doğru el 

yazısının görece basit türleri de tanıtılacaktır. 

LIT 331 - HISTORY OF ART AND 


This course is a historical and critical survey of visual arts 

and architecture from the medieval period to the Baroque. 

Basic terms and major artistic movements are presented 

within their intellectual, aesthetic and social contexts. 

Viewing and discussion of visual material is a major part 

of this course. 



LIT 332 - HISTORY OF ART AND 


This course is a historical and critical survey of visual arts 

and architecture from the Baroque to the present. Basic 

terms and major artistic movements are presented within 

their intellectual, aesthetic and social contexts. Viewing 

and discussion of visual material is a major part of this 

course. 



LIT 341 - PSYCHOANALYSIS AND 

LITERATURE I 

A psychoanalytic approach to literature usually treats 

the literary text as a symptom and tries to unravel its 

symbolic structure in order to generate an insight about 

its author, its audience or its socio-cultural context and 

its dramatis personae. This course, following Peter 

Brooks’ ”Reading for the Plot” and ”Psychoanalysis and 

Storytelling”, will focus on the actual reading of literary 

texts selected from differing historical periods and cultural 

contexts ( from Homer’s ”Odyssey”, through Marlowe’s 

“Doctor Faustus”, Conrad’s ”Heart of Darkness” and 

Dostoyevsky’s ”Notes from Underground”, to Freud’s 

”Case History of Dora” ) and will try to convey an 

understanding of the uses of psychoanalytic devices for 

a more comprehensive and critical reading of literature. 




LIT 401 - TURKISH LITERATURE I 

Every year the course takes an author, genre, style, period 

or problem in Turkish literature as its starting point. This 

year’s course investigates the development of Turkish 

poetry. 




TÜRK EDEBİYATI I 

Bu derste, her yıl Türk edebiyatından belli bir yazar, 

üslup, dönem ya da mesele çıkış noktası alınır. Bu yıl, 

Türk şiirinin gelişimi üzerinde durulacaktır. 

LIT 402 - TURKISH LITERATURE II 

This course is devoted to the study of ”historical novels” 

of the post-modern era. Historical novels of the 1980s 

will be analyzed in depth with a view to determining the 

techniques and strategies employed by the authors in order 

to problematize history and evoke a critical understanding 

of the past as well as the present. 




TÜRK EDEBİYATI II 

Bu derste, 1980 sonrası ”tarihi” romanlar incelenecektir. 

Bu romanların belli bir tarihsel döneme hangi açıdan 

baktıkları ve toplumsal dokuyu ne şekilde çözümleyip 

yorumladıkları araştırılacaktır. Bu romanların belgelere 

dayanmakla birlikte tarihi nasıl sorunsallaştırdıkları, 

düşgücü ve fantaziden yararlanarak tarihe nasıl 

daha eleştirel bir açıdan bakmamızı sağladıkları da 

gösterilmeye çalışılacaktır. 

LIT 403 - MODERNISM 

Major modernist works from Baudelaire through Joyce 

will be studied. 




LIT 421 - SENIOR PROJECT I 

The senior project involves independent research and 

writing on a specific field of study in comparative 

literature. The students are expected to write a paper 

of considerable length in which they demonstrate their 

ability to handle critical material as well as contribute 

their own insight and interpretation to the task at hand. 

An alternative to such a long project involves tutorials in 

research and reading where three or four students will be 

assigned to a tutor and, meeting on a weekly basis, will be 

expected to produce papers on designated topics (history 

and literature, comparison of genres, periods, thematics, 

etc.). 



LIT 422 - SENIOR PROJECT II 

The senior project involves independent research and 

writing on a specific field of study in comparative 

literature. The students are expected to write a paper of 

considerable length in which they demonstrate their ability 

to handle critical material as well as contribute their own 

insight and interpretation to the task at hand. An alternative 

to such a long project involves tutorials in research and 

reading where three or four students will be assigned to a 

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tutor and, meeting on a weekly basis, will be expected to 

produce papers on designated topics (history and literature, 

comparison of genres, periods, thematics etc.). 


Special Condition(s): LIT 421 


LIT 431 - SHAKESPEARE I 

This course aims to familiarize the student with the breadth 

of Shakespearean dramatic writing (tragedy, comedy, 

romance and history) while developing the competence 

to interpret the work in its historical, political and literary 

context. The plays for this semester will be Romeo and 

Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the 

Shrew and Hamlet. 



LIT 432 - SHAKESPEARE II 

This course aims at familiarising the student with the 

breadth of Shakespearean dramatic writing (tragedy, 

comedy, romance, history) while developing the 

competence to interpret the work in its historical, political 

and literary context. The plays for this semester will be 

The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Macbeth 

and The Tempest. 



LIT 441 - TYPOLOGIES OF THE NOVEL I: 

18th AND 19th CENTURIES 

The aim of this course is to trace the development of 

the novel in its relation to currents of thought, cultural 

and epistemological frameworks, social issues regarding 

women, family, education, social mobility, censorship and 

the challenges of critical theory and practice. Examples 

from the subgenres, such as the picaresque, the Gothic, 

the novel of manners and morals, the epistolary novel 

and the Bildungsroman will be studied. Authors: Defoe, 

Fielding, E. Bronte, Dickens, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert. 




LIT 442 - TYPOLOGIES OF THE NOVEL II: 

20th CENTURY 

The aim of this course is to trace the development of 

the novel in its relation to currents of thought, cultural 

and epistemological frameworks, social issues regarding 

women, family, education, social mobility, censorship and 

the challenges of critical theory and practice. Examples 

from subgenres such as the Künstlerroman, the new 

novel, the existential novel, magical realism and the postmodern 

novel will be studied. Authors: Joyce, Woolf, 

Robbe-Grillet, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Garcia Marquez. 




LIT 452 - IDEAS AND TECHNOLOGY 

This course is concerned with how ideas are produced, 

stored, disseminated and consumed or used. Theoretical 

perspectives will be related to the history of ideas’ and 

history of ideas technologies. Reproductive technology, 

librarianship, information storage and “products” such 

as books, the internet and e-resources will be discussed 

within their historical development. 




LIT 492 - PRINCIPLES OF EDITORSHIP 

This course focuses on the relationship between 

publishing and social change in Turkey. The course will 

primarily focus on what has been published, when, and 

how, in terms of books and periodicals (including printing 

houses and rural publishing) in the process of Turkey’s 

modernization. The students will be asked to reflect 

upon social change through such issues as censorship, 

prohibition and confiscation. The items on the reading 

list include texts concerned with the types of publication, 

prohibitions, court cases and confiscations. 




EDİTÖRLÜK 

Bu ders, Türkiye’de yayıncılık ile toplumsal değişim 

arasındaki ilişkiye odaklanmaktadır. Türkiye’de neyin, 

ne zaman, nasıl yayımlandığı ana izleğini taşıyacak 

derste, modernleşme döneminde süreli yayın ve kitap 

yayıncılığının tarihi (matbaalar, taşra yayıncılığı, 

vb.) anlatılacaktır. Toplumsal değişimin yayın türleri, 

yayın yasakları, yayın davaları, toplatmalar üzerinden 

değerlendirilmesini sağlayacak metinler aracılığıyla 

öğrencilerin sansür, yasak, toplatma, vb. kavramlar 

üzerinde düşünmeleri istenecektir. 

LIT 496 - READING PROUST 

This course consists of a continuous reading of Marcel 

Proust’s novel, ”In the search of lost time” in the contexts 

of movements, theories and critics of aesthetics, literature, 

music, philosophy and social/historical events of the 

final period of the 19th century and the very beginning 

of the 20th century. Each session aims to understand a 

specific relationship between the novel and its artistic, 

philosophical and socio-political background. This course 

also focuses on how the novel (as a literary form) changes, 

especially in the modern era, with its literal instruments. 




PROUST OKUMALARI 

Bu derste, Marcel Proust’un “Kayıp Zamanın İzinde” 

romanının güzel sanatlar, müzik, edebi göndermeler, 

edebiyat kuramları, felsefi alanlar ve kavramlar ve 

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tarihsel olaylar bağlamında bir okumasının yapılması 

planlanmaktadır. Her derste, yeni bir bağlamdan 

hareketle romanın içeriği ve dönemsel olarak ilişkide 

olduğu/olabileceği, kültürel, sosyal, politik alan ve 

nitelikleri, karşılıklı ilişkileri çerçevesinde incelenecektir. 

Böylece 19. yüzyıl edebiyatını, tür, biçim ve içerik 

özellikleri bakımından 20. yüzyıla bağlayan bu roman 

üzerinden, “roman”ın modernlik deneyimiyle nasıl bir 

ilişkisinin olabileceği, nasıl bir değişim geçirebileceği, 

hangi bilgilerle donatılmasının mümkün olduğu, bu 

bilgileri edebi alanda nasıl dönüştürebileceği ve bu 

açıdan sınırlarının var olup olmadığının tartışılması da 


LIT/E 179 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 


















developed. 


LIT/E 180 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 


















developed. 


MAP 111 - PERFORMING ARTS I 

Performing Arts I is an appreciation of dance, theatre 

and performance art, namely all cultural and artistic 

performances, through readings, observation, watching 

and seeing. The class includes lectures, discussions, 

written exercises and attendance at performances. The 

varied roles of the performing arts are considered from 

historical, sociological, cultural, business-related and 

contemporary points of view. The first semester of the 

Performing Arts course will concentrate mostly on 

theatre, drama and contemporary theatrical and cultural 

performances. 





SAHNE VE GÖSTERİ SANATLARI I 

Bu ders, dans, tiyatro ve performans sanatlarının, genel 

adıyla kültürel ve sanatsal performansların okuma, 

gözlem, seyir ve görme yoluyla değerlendirilmesidir. 

Derste, anlatılacak konular üzerinde tartışılacak, 

yazılı alıştırmalar yapılacak ve öğrencilerin bazı 

prodüksiyonları seyretmeleri beklenecektir. Sahne ve 

ve gösteri sanatlarının üstlendiği çeşitli roller, tarihsel, 

sosyolojik, kültürel, mesleki ve çağdaş bakış açılarıyla 

değerlendirilecektir. Dersin ilk döneminde tiyatro, 

yazılı eserler ve çağdaş teatral ve kültürel performanslar 


MAP 112 - PERFORMING ARTS II 

Performing Arts II is an appreciation of dance, theatre 

and performance art, namely all cultural and artistic 

performances, through readings, listening, watching 

and seeing. The class includes lectures, discussions, 

written exercises and attendance at performances. The 

varied roles of the performing arts are considered from 

historical, sociological, cultural, business-related and 

contemporary points of view. The second semester of 

the Performing Arts course will concentrate mostly on 

classical and contemporary dance and performance 

art. 




SAHNE VE GÖSTERİ SANATLARI II 

Bu ders, dans, tiyatro ve performans sanatlarının, genel 

adıyla kültürel ve sanatsal performansların okuma, 

gözlem, seyir ve görme yoluyla değerlendirilmesidir. 

Derste, anlatılacak konular üzerinde tartışılacak, 

yazılı alıştırmalar yapılacak ve öğrencilerin bazı 

prodüksiyonları seyretmeleri beklenecektir. Sahne ve 

ve gösteri sanatlarının üstlendiği çeşitli roller, tarihsel, 

sosyolojik, kültürel, mesleki ve çağdaş bakış açılarıyla 

değerlendirilecektir. Dersin ilk döneminde tiyatro, 

yazılı eserler ve çağdaş teatral ve kültürel performanslar 


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MAP 301 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES I 

This course covers performance studies as an independent 

discipline dealing with the body and the expressions of the 

body as pure performance (from dance to modern dance 

and contemporary performance). It involves extensive 

information and discussion on selected issues, people, 

theories and the problematic of performance studies. 




PERFORMANS İNCELEMELERİ I 

Bu derste, performans sanatı başlı başına bir disiplin 

olarak ele alınmakta ve beden dilinin dans, modern 

dans ve performans sanatındaki farklı ifadeleri 

değerlendirilmektedir. Önemli temalar, bu temalar 

etrafında gelişen teoriler üzerine tartışmaları, kişiler ve 

performans sanatının problemleri üzerinde durulmaktadır. 

MAP 302 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES II 

This course aims at developing a sense of critical 

analysis in the field of performance regarding the 

notions covered in MAP 301. The student is expected 

to lead an argumentative discussion on filmed and live 

performances. 


Prerequisite(s): MAP 301 



PERFORMANS İNCELEMELERİ II 

Bu ders, MAP 301 dersinde öğretilen kavramlar 

çerçevesinde öğrencilerin, performans dünyasına ait 

eleştirel bir perspektif geliştirmeleri amaçlamaktadır. 

Öğrencilerin kayıtlı veya canlı performanslar hakkında 

tartışma ortamı yaratmalarını da teşvik etmektedir. 

MAP 306 - LIGHTING TECHNIQUES AND 

SPACE 

This course contains the reference knowledge for all 

the kinds of performing techniques in which light can 

be utilized. Students will learn stage techniques and 

equipment and their technical information alongside the 

exemplary exercises. Students will be quizzed during each 

lesson. The aim of the quiz is to teach the students to create 

diverse problem-solution techniques. The application of 

stage and lighting design-based computer programs will 

also be included in the course contents. Through this, the 

students will have the chance to learn the usage of stage, 

light and spacing techniques in the virtual environment 

with the knowledge of actual materials. They will also 

have the opportunity to attend lighting design workshops 

and practice as an operator. By visiting the rental and 

distribution companies regularly they will be able to keep 

track of technological improvements. The students will 

have the chance to participate in the preparation process 

of dance, concert and theatre shows. There will also be 

regular visits to State Theatres and Municipal Theatres to

see the process of staging and lighting designs during the 

setup of the plays. 



MAP 313 - INTERNATIONAL TOURING OF 

STAGE PRODUCTIONS 

This course familiarizes students with touring skills 

and strategies for small-, mid- and large-scale stage 

productions on the international level. Primarily via 

case studies, students will be introduced to the planning, 

negotiating, contracting and, finally, the touring conditions 

of stage productions. It covers touring conditions for local 

and international productions in both directions. 




SAHNE YAPIMLARININ ULUSLARARASI 

TURNELEMESİ 

Bu ders küçük, orta ve büyük çaplı sahne yapımlarının 

uluslararası sanat alanında turneleme stratejileri ve 

koşullarını açmayı hedeflemektedir. Bir turnenin 

planlanma, anlaşmaya varılma, kontratlanma ve 

nihayet gerçekleştirme aşamaları öğrencilere gerçek 

örneklemelerden yola çıkarak anlatılmaktadır. Konu, 

yerli ve yabancı prodüksiyonların her iki yöne turneleme 

koşullarını kapsamaktadır. 

MAP 321 - THEATRE AND EVENT 

PRODUCTION I 

Artistic and cultural events, their methods of production, 

technique, aesthetic awareness, audience reception, public 

relations: in short, every aspect of work revolving around an 

event is dealt with and supported with relevant case studies. 




TİYATRO VE ETKİNLİK PRODÜKSİYONU I 

Ders, kültürel ve sanatsal etkinliklerin yapımı, gerektirdiği 

teknik özellikleri ve estetik farkındalığı, izleyici algısının 

önemi, halkla ilişkileri gibi konulara bakar. Kısaca bir 

kültürel ve sanatsal etkinliğin sahne etrafında ilgi kurduğu 

her konuyla ilgilenir ve örnek çalışmalarla destekler. 

MAP 324 - THEATRE AND EVENT 

PRODUCTION II 

Artistic and cultural events, their methods of production, 

technique, aesthetic awareness, audience reception, 

public relations, in short, every aspect of work revolving 

around an event is dealt with and supported with relevant 

case studies and practical work. 


Prerequisite(s): MAP 321 

Requires consent of instructor for non-departmental 

students. 


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TİYATRO VE ETKİNLİK 

PRODÜKSİYONU II 

Ders, kültürel ve sanatsal etkinliklerin yapımı, 

gerektirdiği teknik özellikleri ve estetik farkındalığı, 

izleyici algısının önemi, halkla ilişkileri gibi konulara 

bakar. Kısaca bir kültürel ve sanatsal etkinliğin sahne 

etrafında ilgi kurduğu her konuyla ilgilenir, örnek 

çalışmalarla ve pratik işlerle destekler. 

MAP 352 - CULTURE, MARKET 

AND GAME 

Any cultural initiative must target its audience. This 

course is designed to question and analyze basic 

terms such as culture in the broad sense, heritage, 

initiative, enterprise and market. It offers an EU 

vs. US comparative overview of cultural endeavors 

with historical and theoretical references, based on 

case studies and role-playing. The intention is that 

the course has the general structure of a game in the 

sense of de-constructing and de-composing concepts, 

proceeding to free associations and digressions and 

undertaking a kind of cultural ‘vagabondage’ in 

order to trace the adventures of concepts and cultural 

experiences. 




KÜLTÜR, PAZAR VE OYUN 

Her kültürel faaliyet hedef kitlesini seçmelidir. Bu 

ders, kültür (geniş anlamıyla), kültürel miras, girişim, 

piyasa gibi temel terimleri sorgulamayı hedefliyor. 

Ayrıca, vaka çalışmaları ve rol oyunlarına başvurarak 

ve tarihi ve teorik referanslara dayanarak Avrupa- 

Amerika karşılaştırması yapmaktadır. 

MAP 362 - MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT 

This course will consist of a short introduction to 

the basic social, economic and philosophical issues 

regarding music as a medium for entertainment. 

The students will analyze discourses, tools and 

politics regarding the production, reproduction and 

consumption of audial material by diverse means. 


Requires consent of instructor for non-departmental 

students. 


MÜZİK VE EĞLENCE 

Bu ders, bir eğlence sektörü olan müziğin sosyal, 

ekonomik, felsefi sorunlarına bir giriş niteliğindedir. 

Bu derste öğrenciler, her alanda işitsel malzemenin 

üretimi, yeniden üretimi ve tüketimi üzerine olan 

söylemleri, araçları ve siyaseti analiz ederler. 

MAP 401 - SENIOR THESIS I 


individual study and is based on the student’s own


of the dissertation is to foster students’ capacities in 

the practice and/or theoretical evaluation of cultural 

management on a particular topic of their own choice 

with the guidance and consent of their dissertation 

advisor. The course offers students the opportunity 

for independent field studies and/or bibliographical 

independent study, enhancing their analytical and 

critical ability to design their own particular research 

topic, thereby deepening their knowledge of their 

subject. 
















MAP 402 - SENIOR THESIS II 

The dissertation is an extensive individual academic 

study and is based on the student’s own work, learning, 

research and original thought. The aim of the dissertation 

is to foster the students’ own capacities in the practice 

and/or theoretical evaluation of cultural management on a 

particular topic of their own choice, with the guidance and 

consent of their dissertation advisor. The course offers 

students the opportunity for independent field studies 

and/or bibliographical independent study, enhancing their 

analytical and critical ability to design their own particular 

research topic, thereby deepening their knowledge of 

their subject. 


Special Condition(s): MAP 401 















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MAP 403 - ARTS AND NEW MEDIA 

New technological developments have changed the 

production and exhibition of the arts. This course will 

focus on the examples where new media is used either 

as a production or an exhibition tool. It will also make 

practical inquiries into how to use this technology. 



SANAT VE YENİ MEDYA 

Teknolojinin gelişmesine paralel olarak sanat üretimine 

aracı ve konu olan yeni medya, gittikçe yaygınlaşan bir 

dışavurum yöntemi olarak kendini kabul ettirmektedir. 

Bu ders, sanatın bu teknolojiyle ilişkisini örnekleriyle 

anlatırken, üretimi ve sergilenmesi için gereken yönetim 

becerilerini işlemektedir. 

MAP 407 - ARTS AND CULTURE 

PRACTICUM I 















MAP 408 - ARTS AND CULTURE 

PRACTICUM II 
















MAP 412 - CONTEMPORARY THEATRE 

This course is a critical evaluation of the contemporary 

theatre and performing arts. The course will analyze 

theatre and its issues, statements and theories from Artaud

to today, through examples. There will be attendance 

to and screenings of works from contemporary theatre 

directors. 





ÇAĞDAŞ TİYATRO 

Bu ders, çağdaş tiyatro ve sahne sanatlarının eleştirel 

bir incelemesini içerir. Derste, örneklerle, Artaud’dan 

günümüze çağdaş tiyatronun konu, söylem ve kuramlarının 

analizi yapılacaktır. Derste çağdaş tiyatro yönetmenlerinin 

eserleri seyredilecek, çeşitli performanslara gidilecektir. 

MAP 462 - MULTICULTURALISM AND THE 

ARTS 

This course looks at the artistic and cultural production 

in a globalized world and multicultural societies. How 

do artists, audience and cultural operators with different 

ethnical, cultural and social histories guide artistic 

production and distribution, how are they effected through 

this process? 




ÇOKKÜLTÜRLÜLÜK VE SANAT 

Bu ders sahne, gösteri ve görsel sanatlarının üretim ve 

tüketim ilişkilerini küreselleşen dünya ve çokkültürlü 

toplumlarla olan ilişkisi bağlamında ele almaktadır. 

Farklı etnik, kültürel ve sosyal geçmişten gelen sanatçı, 

seyirci, sanat yöneticileri sanat üretimi ve dağıtımı 

süreçlerini nasıl yönlendirmekte, bu süreçlerden nasıl 

etkilenmektedirler? 

MATH 103 - INTRODUCTION TO 

QUANTITATIVE METHODS 

Collecting data. Using diagrams to present data. Using 

numbers to describe data. Uncertainty and probabilities. 

Decision trees. Probability distributions. Sampling 

testing. 


Restriction(s): CMN 148 or MATH 141 


MATH 111 - INTUITIVE SET THEORY 

Sets, elements, subsets. Bertrand Russell Paradox. 

Union, intersection, difference, complement of sets. Set 

of subsets. Cartesian product of two sets. Functions, 

bijections, Sym(X), relations, orders, equivalence 

relations, quotient spaces, quotient maps, cartesian 

product of several sets, sequences, family of sets. Number 

systems (intuitively). Countable and uncountable sets. 

Structures, morphisms, automorphisms. Von Neumann’s 

definition of ordinals. Time permitting, additional topics 

selected by the instructor. 


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MATH 112 - AXIOMATIC SET THEORY 

Construction of number systems: N, Z, Q, R using 

minimal number of axioms. Peano arithmetic and proof 

by induction and other methods of proof. Ordinals and 

cardinals. Axiom of Replacement, Axiom of Choice, 

Zorn’s Lemma, König’s Lemma. 





MATH 151 - ANALYSIS I 

Axiomatic treatment of real numbers and their properties. 

Uniqueness of real number system. Natural numbers, 

integers, rational numbers. Polynomial and rational 

functions over R. Real number sequences, limit, 

Cauchy sequences, subsequences, completeness of R. 

Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem. Nested Interval Property. 

Divergence to infinite. Limit, limit inferior and superior. 

Series, alternating series, absolute convergence, criteria 

of convergence. Limit and continuity of functions. 

Intremediate value theorem. 




MATH 152 - ANALYSIS II 

Curve sketching, maxima and minima. Definite and 

indefinite (Riemann) integral. Area under a curve. 

Fundamental theorem of calculus. Logarithms. 

More curve sketching. Functions defined by series 

(transcendental functions). Exponentiation, trigonometric 

hyperbolic functions, inverse trigonometric functions. 

Approximation by Taylor polynomials. 





MATH 169 - CALCULUS FOR 

SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS I 

Analytic geometry in the plane and in the three 

dimensional space: Cartesian coordinates, vectors and 

their algebra, scalar product, cross product, lines and 

conics. Trigonometric functions and their basic properties. 

Inverse trigonometric functions. Logarithmic and 

exponential functions. Limits. Continuity. Differentiation 

and its rules. Function sketching. Applications of 

derivatives and max-min problems. Definite and indefinite 

(Rieamann) integral, area under a curve. Fundamental 

theorem of calculus, techniques of integration, areas, 

surfaces, volumes. 


Restriction(s): MATH 103 or MATH 105 or MATH 110 or MATH 

163 or MATH 175 or MATH 176 



SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS II 

Sequences, series, convergence tests. Vector functions 

and space curves. Derivatives and integrals of vector 

functions. Functions of several variables. Limit and 

continuity. Partial derivatives. Directional derivatives and 

the gradient vector. Double integrals and its applications. 

Triple integrals and its applications. Vector fields. Green’s 

and Stokes’ Theorem. Curl and divergence. Surface 

integral. The Divergence theorem. 



Restriction(s): MATH 103 or MATH 106 or MATH 164 



ECONOMISTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE 

SCIENCES I 

Cartesian coordinates in the plane and 3-space. Vectors 

in the plane and the 3-space. Algebra of vectors. Scalar 

product. Cross product. Trigonometric functions (sine, 

cosine, tangent, cotangent), their basic properties. Basic 

trigonometric formulas. Polar coordinates. Inverse 

trigonometric functions. Lines in the plane. Lines and 

planes in the 3-spaces. Rudiments of linear algebra, with 

its geometric interpretation in case of dimensions 2 and 3. 

Ellipse, hyperbola, parabola. General quadratic equations. 

Basic quadratic surfaces. 



110 or MATH 163 or MATH 164 or MATH 169 or MATH 170 




SCIENCES II 

Real numbers and the real line. Limits of functions. Limits 

at infinity. Continuity. Tangent lines and differentiation, 

derivatives and their geometric interpretation. 

Differentiation rules. Derivatives of trigonometric 

functions. Chain rule. Applications of derivatives, 

max-min problems. Higher order derivatives. Function 

sketching. 




163 or MATH 164 or MATH 169 or MATH 170 


MATH 177 - READING AND STUDY 

COURSE I 

The students study a special subject with an instructor. 

The students prepare the lecture and expose it to the 

others. 




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COURSE II 


The students prepare the lecture and present it to the 

others. 




MATH 179 - NUMERACY FOR 

MATHEMATICIANS I 

Propositional logic. Mathematical induction. Equivalent 

propositions. Theorems and proofs. Basic set theory. 

Functions. Predicate logic. Graph theory. 



MATH 180 - NUMERACY FOR 

MATHEMATICIANS II 

Combinatorics, counting, probability and game theory. 




MATH 204 - NUMERICAL ANALYSIS 

Floating-point arithmetic and errors. Root finding. 

Numerical differentiation and integration. Approximation 

of functions. Numerical linear algebra. Computation 

of eigenvalues and solution of ordinary differential 

equations. 





MATH 217 - LINEAR ALGEBRA AND 

COMPLEX NUMBER FOR CS 

Matrices and determinants. Systems of linear equations. 

Cramer’s rule. Complex numbers. Operations and 

properties. Euler’s and Moivre’s formulas. Geometric 

interpretation and applications. Linear space, linear 

independence, rank of matrix, linear transformation, 

solution of linear systems. 




MATH 219 - ALGEBRA I 

For Math 219 and 220 and not necessarily in the 

order of teaching: Group Theory: Groups, subgroups, 

cyclic groups, permutation groups, Abelian groups, 

direct product and sum of groups, theorems of Cauchy 

and Lagrange, normal subgroup, factor group, homo 

morphism, kernel, image, isomorphism, fundamental 

theorems of group theory, generators and relations. 

Group actions. Sylow Theorems. Sharply transitive 

groups. Ring Theory: Rings, subrings, ideals, operations 

with ideals, factor rings, homomorphism, kernel,

isomorphism, fundamental theorems of ring theory. 

Polynomial rings, the ring of integers and power series, 

group rings. Euclidean algorithm. Integral domains, 

characteristic of a ring, ring of endomorphism of an 

Abelian group, prime and maximal ideals, existence of 

maximal ideals. PIDs, Euclidean domains, UFD’s and 

Noetherian rings. Hilbert’s basis theorem. Idempotents 

and the decomposition of rings. Field Theory. Study 

of finite fields. Field of fractions. Field extensions. 

Algebraic closure. Some number fields including 

Gaussian integers. Module Theory: Modules and vector 

spaces, submodules, irreducible submodules, Schur’s 

Lemma, linear independence, generators, free modules, 

bases (using Zorn’s Lemma), dimension, morphisms, 

matrix rings, modules over pid’s, matrix operations, 

matrix rings, invertible matrices, determinants, systems 

of linear equations. Base change. Eigen-values and 

eigen-vectors. Diagonalization. Jordan canonical 

form. Characteristic and minimal polynomials of 

matrices, theorem of Cayley-Hamilton. Abelian groups: 

Classification of finitely generated abelian groups. 

Classification of divisible groups. Pure subgroups of 

Abelian groups. Automorphisms of finite abelian groups. 

Prüfer p-groups.Field of p-adic numbers and the Prüfer 

p-group. Tensor products and exterior algebra. Inner 

product spaces, bilinear and quadratic forms, dual vector 

spaces. Basics of representation theory. 




MATH 220 - ALGEBRA II 

For Math 219 and 220 and not necessarily in the 

order of teaching: Group Theory: Groups, subgroups, 

cyclic groups, permutation groups, Abelian groups, 

direct product and sum of groups, theorems of Cauchy 

and Lagrange, normal subgroup, factor group, homo 

morphism, kernel, image, isomorphism, fundamental 

theorems of group theory, generators and relations. 

Group actions. Sylow Theorems. Sharply transitive 

groups. Ring Theory: Rings, subrings, ideals, operations 

with ideals, factor rings, homomorphism, kernel, 

isomorphism, fundamental theorems of ring theory. 

Polynomial rings, the ring of integers and power series, 

group rings. Euclidean algorithm. Integral domains, 

characteristic of a ring, ring of endomorphism of an 

Abelian group, prime and maximal ideals, existence of 

maximal ideals. PIDs, Euclidean domains, UFD’s and 

Noetherian rings. Hilbert’s basis theorem. Idempotents 

and the decomposition of rings. Field Theory. Study 

of finite fields. Field of fractions. Field extensions. 

Algebraic closure. Some number fields including 

Gaussian integers. Module Theory: Modules and vector 

spaces, submodules, irreducible submodules, Schur’s 

Lemma, linear independence, generators, free modules, 

bases (using Zorn’s Lemma), dimension, morphisms, 

matrix rings, modules over pid’s, matrix operations, 

matrix rings, invertible matrices, determinants, systems 

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of linear equations. Base change. Eigen-values and 

eigen-vectors. Diagonalization. Jordan canonical 

form. Characteristic and minimal polynomials of 

matrices, theorem of Cayley-Hamilton. Abelian groups: 

Classification of finitely generated abelian groups. 

Classification of divisible groups. Pure subgroups of 

Abelian groups. Automorphisms of finite abelian groups. 

Prüfer p-groups.Field of p-adic numbers and the Prüfer 

p-group. ensor products and exterior algebra. Inner 

product spaces, bilinear and quadratic forms, dual vector 

spaces. Basics of representation theory. 






SCIENCES III 

Definite and indefinite (Riemann) Integral. Area under 

a curve. Fundamental theorem of calculus. Logarithms. 

More curve sketching. Techniques of integration. 

Exponentiation, logarithms. Differential equation. 


Prerequisite(s): MATH 110 or MATH 156 or MATH 162 or 

MATH 176 


150 or MATH 163 or MATH 164 


MATH 263 - LOGIC AND COMPUTATIONAL 

THEORY I 

This course aims to provide computer science students 

with the grounding in mathematical logic necessary to 

grasp some of the major theorems with implications in 

computer science. Propositional logic. First-order logic, 

theory and model. Quantification theory. Truth. Theorems 

and proofs. Arithmetic. Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. 





THEORY II 

Automata and languages. Regular languages. FSA, 

Nondeterminism, regular expressions, Nonregular 

languages. Context-free languages. Pushdown aoutomata. 

Non-context-free languages. 





COURSE III 



others. 





COURSE IV 



others. 




MATH 281 - ELEMENTARY NUMBER 

THEORY 

Unique factorization, applications of unique factorization, 

congruence, the structure of U(Z/nZ) quadratic reciprocity, 

quadratic Gauss sums, finite field, Gauss and Jacobi sums, 

equation of finite field, Weyl Conjecture. 




MATH 285 - ANALYSIS III 

Metric spaces. Basic topology of metric spaces. Continuity, 

compactness, connectedness. Baire category Theorem. 

The space Rn. Heine-Borel theorem. Connected and 

compact subsets of Rn. Limit and continuity of functions 

of several variables. Directional and partial derivatives, 

total differential, chain rule. Functions of class Cr. 

Vector-valued functions of several variables. Calculus of 

functions of several variables, using vector and matrix 

methods. Inverse and implicit function theorems. 



MATH 286 - ANALYSIS IV 

The Riemann-Stieltjes integral. Diffeomorphisms. 

Gradient, tangent plane. Extrema of functions of several 

variables. Lagrange multipliers. Orthogonal curvilinear 

coordinates (polar, spherical and cylindrical coordinates). 

Divergence, curl and Laplace operators. Transformation 

of multiple integrals. Line and surface integrals of 

vector fields. Curl and divergence. Differential forms. 

Theorems of Green, Gauss and Stokes. Point-set 

topology: open and closed sets, neighborhood, interior, 

boundary, closure, dense subsets, subspaces, sequences, 

limits of sequences, continuity, homeomorphisms, 

product topology. Metric spaces, normed vector spaces, 

completeness. Compactness and connectedness. 

Uniform continuity of functions. Simple and uniform 

convergence of sequences of functions. Tychonoff’s 

theorem, compact and connected spaces. Contractions. 

Fixed-point theorems. Convexity. Countability and 

separation axioms. 




MATH 292 - DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS 

Solution of ordinary linear differential equations using 

theorems and methodology of linear algebra. General 

116 

theory of linear differential equations, equation with 

constant coefficients, the Laplace transform, Power series 

solutions, Bessel’s equation, boundary-value problems. 

Fourier series. 




MATH 295 - SELECTED TOPICS IN 

INTERMEDIATE MATHEMATICS I 

The topic of the course will be decided by the instructor. 




INTERMEDIATE MATHEMATICS II 

The topic of the course will be decided by the instructor. 




MATH 297 - SEMINAR I 

Students should attend the departmental colloquium, 

which is 2 hours per week, and give a 2-hour seminar on 

a selected topic. 


MATH 298 - SEMINAR II 





MATH 301 - STATISTICS 

Review of normal distribution and central limit theorem. 

Law of large numbers. Problems of estimation and 

confidence intervals. Hypothesis testing. Analysis of 

variance (ANOVA). Line fitting. Simple regression. 

Multiple regressions. Experiment design. Correlation. 

Nonparametric and robust statistics. 



Restriction(s): BUS 274 and EC 272 

MATH 303 - PROBABILITY 

Basic topics in probability theory. Sample space, 

probability and conditional probability. Random 

variables, marginal joint and conditional distributions. 

Expectations and conditional expectations. Binomial and 

geometric distributions. Poisson, exponential, Erlang, 

gamma distributions. Moment generating functions and 

Laplace transforms. Normal Distribution. Central Limit 

Theorem. 


Prerequisite(s): MATH 106 or MATH 150 or MATH 164 or 

MATH 235 



MATH 311 - BASIC GROUP THEORY 

Review of the basic definitions. Permutation groups, 

Sylow theorems, alternating groups, general and special 

linear groups, orthogonal groups, simplectic groups, 

semi-direct products, solvable groups, nilpotent groups, 

abelian groups, divisible groups, simple groups, free 

groups, finite groups. 





MATH 312 - BASIC RING THEORY 

Review of the basic definitions. Artinian and Noetherian 

modules, Jordan-Hölder theorem, Azummaya’s theorem, 

Krull-Schmidt’s theorem, completely reducible modules, 

Schur’s Lemma, tensor product of modules, projective and 

injective modules. Weddenburn-Artin theorem for simple 

rings. Primitive and semi-primitive rings, Jacobson radical, 

Jacobson’s density theorem, the structure of simple and 

Artinian rings. The structure of semi-primitive Artinian rings. 





MATH 321 - MEASURE THEORY 

Measure spaces. The spaces l^p. The Dirac distribution. 

Decomposition of measures. Radon-Nykodym Theorem. Outer 

measure. Caratheodory extension theorem. N-dimensional 

intervals in E^n. The Lebesgue measure on E^n. Measurable sets 

and functions. Definition of the Lebesgue integral on E^n. The 

spaces L^p(E^n). Iterated integrals, Fubini’s theorem. Change 

of variable formula. Convergence theorems. Differentiation 

under the integral sign. Curves and differential 1-forms. Line 

integrals. Green’s theorem. Haarmeasure. 





MATH 322 - CALCULUS ON MANIFOLDS 

Vectors and covectors. Alternating multilinear functions. 

Differential r-forms. The exterior algebra of forms. The 

pull-back of a differential form by a transformation. 

The exterior derivative. Vector fields and local groups 

with one parameter. The volumen-form and orientation. 

Manifolds. Measure, orientation and the integration of 

forms on manifolds. Generalized Stoke’s theorem. Closed 

and exact forms. Poincare’s lemma. 





MATH 331 - COMPLEX ANALYSIS I 

The metric space C of complex numbers and its 

topology. Power series. Analytic functions. Möbius 

transformations. The Riemann-Stieltjes integral, power 

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series representation of analytic functions, zeroes of an 

analytic function, the index of a closed curve, Cauchy’s 

theorem and integral formula. 





MATH 332 - COMPLEX ANALYSIS II 

The open mapping theorem, Goursat’s theorem, 

singularities, residues, the argument principle, the 

maximum modulus theorem, Schwarz’ Lemma, the space 

of continuous, analytic and meromorphic functions, the 

Riemann mapping theorem, Weierstrass factorization 

theorem, the gamma function, the Riemann zeta function. 

Schwartz reflection principle, analytic continuation 

along a path, Monodromy theorem, the sheaf of germs 

of analytic functions on an open set, analytic manifolds, 

covering spaces. Harmonic functions. The Dirichlet 

problem, Green’s functions. Entire functions, genus, order, 

Hadamard’s factorization theorem. Picard’s theorems. 






THEORY III 

This course builds on MATH 281 to give a grounding in 

the use of logic for mechanized theorem proving and also 

deals with the issues of computability, suitable models 

for computation and the major outstanding question in 

computational theory, the P-NP problem. The course 

will include the following: logic and resolution, theorem 

proving, relation to logic programming languages, 

Turing machines, computability, P-NP and NP-complete 

problems. 


Special Condition(s): COMP 250 or MATH 205 or MATH 264 


MATH 371 - BASIC ALGEBRA III 

Transcendence basis of a field. Nullstellensatz. 

Weddenburn’s theorem about finite division rings. 

Permutation groups. Symmetric groups and linear groups 

including orthogonal, unitary and sasimplectic groups: 

properties of Euclidean and Hermitian spaces.Some 

examples of group representations. Valuation theory. Real 

fields. Local ring. Dedekind rings. 






COURSE V 

The students study a special subject with an instructor. The 

students prepare the lecture and present it to the others. 





COURSE VI 



others. 





ADVANCED MATHEMATICS I 

The course is intended to cover some modern topics in 

advanced mathematics. The content will be decided by 

the instructor. 





ADVANCED MATHEMATICS II 

The course is intended to cover some modern topics in 

advanced mathematics. The content will be decided by 

the instructor. 



MATH 397 - SEMINAR III 





MATH 398 - SEMINAR IV 






MATH 411 - FIELD THEORY AND 

GALOIS THEORY 

Review of polynomial rings, field extensions, ruler and 

compasses (impossibility theorems), transcendence of 

e and pi. Splitting fields, normality and separability, 

Galois correspondence, solution of polynomial 

equations by radicals, finite fields. Fundamental theorem 

of algebra, algebraic closure, transcendence bases, 

separable and inseparable extensions, finite fields, 

primitive element theorem, Weddenburn’s theorem, 

cyclotomic polynomials over Q, Kummer extensions. 

Nullstellensatz. 





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MATH 421 - FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS I 

Definition of Hilbert spaces, examples, the Riesz Lemma and 

its applications (Radon-Nikodym theorem). Orthonormal 

bases. Separable Hilbert spaces. Tensor product of Hilbert 

spaces. Definition of Banach spaces and examples. Dual 

and double dual spaces. The Hahn-Banach theorem. 

Operations on Banach spaces. Baire category theorem and 

its consequences (principle of uniform boundedness, open 

mapping theorem, inverse mapping theorem). Topological 

spaces. Nets and convergence, compactness, the Stone- 

Weierstrass theorem, measure theory on compact spaces, 

weak topologies on Banach spaces. 





MATH 422 - FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS II 

Locally convex spaces. Bounded operators. The spectral 

theorem. Unbounded operators. The Fourier transform. 





MATH 432 - ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY 

Manifolds, orientable manifolds, triangulation of compact 

surfaces, classification of compact surfaces, Euler 

characteristic of a surface, manifolds with boundary, 

classification of compact, connected 2-manifolds with 

boundary. Fundamental group. Brouwer fixed point theorem 

in dimension 2. Theorem of Seifert and Van Kampen. The 

structure of the fundamental group of a compact surface. 

Application to knot theory. Covering spaces. 




MATH 451 - DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY I 

Parametrized curves. Regular curves, Frenet formulas, 

curvature, torsion. Global properties of plane curves. 

Regular surfaces, the tangent plane, the first fundamental 

form, the Gauss map and the second fundamental form. 

Sectional curvature, principal directions and asymptotes. 

Ruled surfaces and minimal surfaces. Isometries and 

conformal maps. Geodesics. The exponential map. The 

Gauss-Bonnet Theorem. 



MATH 452 - PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL 

EQUATIONS 

The Schwartz Space S(R^n). The Fourier transform 

on S(R^n) and on L^p(R^n). Tempered distributions. 

Initial value problems: Schroedinger’s equation, the heat 

equation, the wave equation. Propagators. The Dirichlet 

problem. The Fredholm alternative. 



MATH 461 - ALGEBRAIC CURVES 

Affine algebraic sets, Zariski topology. Hilbert’s 

nullstellensatz. Irreducible components, morphism of 

affine algebraic sets, rational functions, local rings, 

localization. Regular and singular points, multiplicity. 

Discrete valuation ring. Number of intersection of two 

curves. Besout’s theorem. Resultant. Ring of formal 

series, ring of convergent series. Puiseux’s theorem. 




COURSE VII 



others. 




COURSE VIII 

The students study a special subject with an instructor. The 

students prepare the lecture and present it to the others. 





ADVANCED MATHEMATICS I 

The course is intended to cover some modern topics 

in advanced mathematics. The course content will be 

decided by the instructor. 





ADVANCED MATHEMATICS II 

The course is intended to cover some modern topics 

in advanced mathematics. The course content will be 

decided by the instructor. 




MATH 497 - SENIOR PROJECT I 


which is two hours per week, and give a two-hour seminar 

on a selected topic. Furthermore, the student should select 

his/her advisor, his/her topic of thesis and start reading. 


MATH 498 - SENIOR PROJECT II 


which is two hours per week, and give a two-hour seminar 

on a selected topic. Furthermore, the student will write 

a thesis on an advanced topic of mathematics with the 

guidance of an advisor. 

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Special Condition(s): MATH 398 or MATH 497 

MED 119 - SOCIOLOGY FOR MEDIA 

STUDIES 

What makes up a society is the relations of mutual 

constitution which involve face-to-face and/or mediated 

communication. In modern societies, everyday life has 

become a complex web of expressions and intimations 

stemming from various sources including media. Media, 

here, is understood as the ground of all kinds of mediation 

including its mass and interactive forms. This course 

aims at introducing the students to the basic concepts 

underlying the understanding of mediated society. As 

students of media, the participants of the course should 

be able to utilize such basic concepts toward a better 

analysis and understanding of society as well as the media 

of communication. 




MEDYA ÇALIŞMALARI İÇİN SOSYOLOJİ 

Toplumu oluşturan yüzyüze ve/veya dolayımlı iletişim 

sayesinde girilen karşılıklı şekillendirme ilişkileridir. 

Modern toplumlarda gündelik yaşam medya dahil muhtelif 

kaynaklardan yayılan ifade ve imalar ağına dönüşmüştür. 

Burada medya, kitlesel ve etkileşimli biçimleri dahil, her 

türlü dolayımın oluşturduğu temel olarak anlaşılmalıdır. 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencileri dolayımlanmış toplumun 

anlaşılması için gerekli temel kavramlarla tanıştırmaktır. 

Medya öğrencileri olarak derse katılanlar, bu temel 

kavramları hem toplumun hem de iletişim medyasının 

daha iyi anlaşılması doğrultusunda kullanabilmelidirler. 

MED 120 - POLITICS, MEDIA AND 

DEMOCRACY 

This course is specifically intended for media students to 

provide them with basic knowledge of political science. 

The course is designed as an introduction to the main 

themes and concepts that are central to understanding 

political life, the functioning of democracy and the central 

position that the media occupies in modern states. In the 

first half of the semester, the course aims to introduce 

students to the main questions of political thinking, to 

acquaint them with political ideologies, comparative 

politics, political parties and election systems, as well 

as with concepts like citizenship, democracy and civil 

society. The interstate system and the development of 

international organizations are also among the topics to 

be covered. In the second half of the semester, students 

will learn the Turkish political system: the functioning of 

the judicial, legislative and executive bodies in Turkey. 


Restriction(s): MED 123 or MED 243 



SİYASET, MEDYA VE DEMOKRASİ 

Siyaset biliminin temel kavramlarını öğretmeyi 

amaçlayan bu ders, özellikle medya öğrencileri için 

düzenlenmiştir. Ders, siyasi hayata, demokrasin işleyişine 

ve modern devletlerde medyanın rolüne ilişkin temel konu 

ve kavramlara giriş niteliğindedir. Dönemin ilk yarısında, 

siyasi düşünceler, siyasi ideolojiler, karşılaştırmalı siyasal 

sistemler, siyasi partiler ve seçim sistemleri, vatandaşlık, 

demokrasi ve sivil toplum gibi konu ve kavramlar 

üzerinde durulacaktır. Uluslararası sistem ve uluslararası 

organizasyonlar da ele alınacak konular arasındadır. 

Dönemin ikinci yarısında, Türkiye’deki siyasi sistemin, 

yasama, yürütme ve yargı organlarının işleyişini 

incelemeyi hedeflemektedir. 

MED 167 - MAKING SENSE OF NUMBERS 

Numbers and numerical descriptions make up a significant 

portion of our lives. Modern life involves a high level of 

quantification, making sense of which is a necessity. This 

course aims to create numerical awareness for first-year 

media students. It has two main parts: 1) Descriptive 

level statistics for social sciences and 2) presentation 

techniques of the quantitative data. The understanding 

and critique of already-produced numerical presentations 

are also covered in the course. 


Restriction(s): CMN 147 or CMN 148 



SAYILARI ANLAMLANDIRMAK 

Sayılar ve sayısal tanımlar hayatımızın önemli bir parçasını 

oluşturmaktadır. Modern yaşamda anlamlandırmadan 

geçemeyeceğimiz yüklü bir sayısal ağırlık bulunmaktadır. 

Bu ders, birinci sınıf medya öğrencilerine yönelik olarak 

sayısal farkındalık yaratmayı hedeflemektedir. Ders 

iki ana unsurdan oluşmaktadır: 1) Sosyal bilimler için 

betimleyici düzeyde istatistik bilgisi 2) Sayısal verilerin 

nasıl sunulacağına dair yöntemler. Halihazırda üretilmiş 

sayısal sunumların anlaşılması ve eleştirisi de dersin 

kapsamında işlenmektedir. 

MED 168 - READING ECONOMIC DATA 

In today’s world, like all other news, the news about the 

economy reaches us through “media.” As these news 

items require primarily the evaluation of numerical/ 

quantitative data and findings, the students who receive 

education in news reporting should develop some degree 

of expertise in producing and analyzing such news. From 

Internet to television broadcasting, many sub-sectors 

offer developments pertaining to the economy to people’s 

attention and assessment. It is a must that the media 

should hire people who are informed and skilled in this 

field in order to be able to inform the society and fulfill 

their main function. It is therefore required that those who 

prepare news in the media sector know the basic concepts 

of the economy and be able to read and comment on the 

relationships between these concepts and numerical data. 

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This course is prepared with this purpose in mind. It is a 

course specially designed to teach the students of news 

reporting about economic information as well as how one 

can obtain information regarding the economy and how 

such information is to be interpreted. 




EKONOMİK VERİLERİ OKUMAK 

Bugünün dünyasında bütün diğer haberler gibi 

ekonomiyle ilgili haberler de “medya” aracılığıyla 

bizlere ulaşıyor. Bu haberler, ağılıklı olarak sayısal/nicel 

verilerin analizi ve değerlendirmesini gerektirdiğinden, 

habercilik eğitimi alan öğrencilerin ekonomik veri 

ve bulguları üretmek ve analiz edebilmek yönünde 

belli bir uzmanlık geliştirmeleri zorunludur. İnternet 

yayıncılığından televizyon yayıncılığına kadar bir çok alt 

sektör ekonomiyle ilgili gelişmeleri, olayları ve bunların 

muhtemel sonuçlarını hemen her gün insanların dikkatine 

ve değerlendirmesine sunuyor. Temel misyonlarından 

biri toplumu bilgindirmek olan medyanın bu misyonunu 

yerine getirebilmesi ise, bilgili ve yetenekli insanları 

istihdam etmesiyle mümkün. Bu nedenle de medya 

sektöründe ekonomiyle ilgili haberleri hazırlayanların 

ekonominin temel kavramlarını bilmesi, bu kavramlar 

ile sayısal veriler arasındaki ilişkileri okuyabilmesi ve 

yorum yapabilmesi elzemdir. Bu ders, temel olarak böyle 

bir amacı yerine getirmek üzere hazırlanmıştır. Daha çok 

habercilik mesleğini öğrenenlerin ekonomi konularında 

duyabilecekleri eksiklikleri gideren ekonomik bilgilerin 

yanı sıra, ekonomiyle ilgili kaynakların nasıl elde 

edilebileceğini ve nasıl yorumlanabileceğini de ele alan 

bir derstir. 

MED 179 - FOUNDATIONS OF MEDIA 

STUDIES I 

This course is designed for the first year students 

who are experiencing and participating in the radical 

transformations taking place in the global multimedia 

environment. Being a foundation-year core course, its 

purpose is to evolve students into more literate and 

critical consumers and producers of culture while offering 

them an open forum/experience environment. The course 

approaches media cultures from an interdisciplinary, 

comparative and historical perspective, defining “media” 

in such broad terms as to cover oral, written, print, 

theatrical, photographic, broadcast, cinematic and digital 

cultural forms and practices. 



MED 180 - FOUNDATIONS OF MEDIA 

STUDIES II 

This course is designed for the first year students 

who are experiencing and participating in the radical 

transformations taking place in the global multimedia

environment. Being a foundation-year core course, its 

purpose is to evolve students into more literate and 

critical consumers and producers of culture while offering 

them an open forum/experience environment. The course 

approaches media cultures from an interdisciplinary, 

comparative and historical perspective, defining “media” 

in such broad terms as to cover oral, written, print, 

theatrical, photographic, broadcast, cinematic and digital 

cultural forms and practices. 



MED 200 - MEDIA AND CHILDREN 

This course is highly recommended for media students who 

are interested in children’s rights and child representation 

in the media. Emphasizing the transformative power of the 

media for the protection, development and realization of 

children’s rights, this course is designed to contribute to 

the empowerment of students as advocates for children’s 

rights. The course covers social construction of children 

and childhood, children’s rights and obstacles to realization, 

media portrayal of children, influence of media on children, 

child participation in the media, guidelines for interviewing 

children and relevant codes of conduct. 



ÇOCUK ODAKLI MEDYA 

Bu ders, çocuk hakları ve çocukların medyada temsili 

konularına ilgi duyan medya öğrencilerine özellikle 

önerilir. Medyanın çocuk haklarını koruma, geliştirme 

ve gerçekleştirme konusundaki dönüştürme kabiliyetine 

ağırlık veren ders, öğrencilerin çocuk hakları savunucuları 

olarak güçlendirilmelerine katkıda bulunmak üzere 

tasarlanmıştır. Dersin kapsamında, toplumsal bir kurgu 

olarak ‘çocuk’ ve ‘çocukluk’ kavramları, çocuk hakları ve 

gerçekleşmesini engelleyen faktörler, medyadaki çocuk 

imgesi, medyanın çocuklara dönük etkileri, çocukların 

medyaya katılımı, çocuklarla röportaj yapmada yol 

gösterici ilkeler ve çocuk ve medyaya ilişkin etik ilkeler 

yer almaktadır. 

MED 204 - CULTURE, COMMUNICATION 

AND SOCIETY 

The aim of this course is to provide students with a 

firm background in social scientific literature relevant 

to culture, its practices and implications and help them 

develop a critical perspective. Throughout the course, 

the students will be introduced to major issues and 

debates around the notions of culture, communication 

and society, such as, mass society and mass culture, 

ideology, representation, stereotypes, language, 

semiology, reception, audience and interpretation, postmodernism, 

cultural studies, and the information age. 

The focus is on the application of such a theoretical 

outlook towards a valid evaluation of the mechanisms 

of mass communication and the social and cultural 

structures they endorse in contemporary society. 

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MED 207 - SOCIAL MEDIA 

This course aims to discuss a number of social media 

environments and use various concepts, debates and 

issues related to this networked culture, such as virtuality, 

constructing identities in a virtual community, the new 

individualism and the political sphere. Some of the 

questions this course will address are: How is social 

media changing the way we live and perceive life? What 

are the implications of this change on our daily lives and 

political choices? What opportunities and challenges 

do social media offer to individuals, communities and 

news organizations? The course will also be grounded 

in practice and enable students to engage in an array of 

different social media practices, including web forums, 

blogs, wikis, Facebook, chat, Twitter and virtual worlds. 




MED 209 - BASICS OF REPORTING 

This course is designed to make students familiar with 

the basics of news gathering and writing strategies. The 

main concern of the course is to teach students how to 

think and write as a journalist. Accuracy in journalism, 

newsworthiness, deadlines, balance and fairness will 

be the central issues of this course. The course includes 

instruction in both formal methods of information 

gathering and writing journalistically. In-class 

assignments and activities will be organized during the 

semester and peer-editing/creative feedback will be used 

as important elements of the course. 





HABER YAZIMININ TEMELLERİ 

Bu ders, öğrencileri haber toplama ve yazma stratejilerinin 

temelleriyle tanıştırmak için tasarlanmıştır. Dersin 

temel amacı, öğrencilere bir gazeteci gibi düşünmeyi 

öğretmektir. Temel meseleleri gazetecilikte kesinlik ve 

doğruluk, haber değeri, teslim tarihleri, denge ve adalet 

olacaktır. Ders, bilgi toplamanın formel metodlarına ve 

gazeteci gibi yazmaya dair eğitim sunacaktır. Dönem 

boyunca sınıf içi ödevler ve aktiviteler düzenlenecek, 

peer-editing ve yaratıcı geribildirim dersin önemli 

unsurları olacaktır. 

MED 210 - INTELLECTUAL HERITAGE 

The course explores the nature of debates in art, literature 

and philosophy in Western civilization and also aims to 

give students the basic concepts of intellectual life. This 

course aims to spark an intellectual curiosity among

students in the field of the liberal arts by discussing various 

issues of the 20th century. This course is part of an effort 

in interdisciplinary collaboration among anthropologists, 

psychologists, linguists, philosophers, legal theorists and 

specialists in literature, art and philosophy. It will be the 

student’s job to synthesize the views they bring and to 

observe the way different disciplines go about trying to 

understand what it is to be human. 




DÜŞÜNSEL MİRAS 

Bu ders sanat, felsefe ve Batı uygarlığına damgasını 

vurmuş temel akım ve görüşleri inceler. Entelektüel 

birikimin ilk adımlarını öğrenciye sunmayı amaçlar. 

Disiplinlerarası bir yaklaşım belirlemiş olan ders, 

öğrencilere dünyaya daha geniş bir perspektiften 

bakışı sunmaya çalışır. Marksizm’den psikanalize, 

varoluşçuktan, feminizm ve postmodernizme kadar çok 

geniş bir yelpazede entelektüel dünyamızı biçimleyen 

konulara eklektik bir biçimde yaklaşır. 

MED 218 - WOMEN AND MEDIA 

This course is organized into three sections. First, by 

examining how women are portrayed in the cinema, it 

explores the representation and position of women within 

film. It examines how visual media construct images of 

gender. Starting with the 8th week, the desires and fears 

activated by the media images of women in both films 

and magazines and the effects of these images on identity 

formation is examined. Finally, the role of women in the 

media industry and the advantages and disadvantages of 

being a female journalist are discussed. 




MED 226 - INTRODUCTION TO 

JOURNALISM 

The aim of this course is to teach students what is like 

to be a journalist and to make them familiar with the 

current issues facing contemporary journalism today. 

Our goal is not only discussing the basic tenets of 

journalism (fairness, accuracy, balance, honesty, etc.), 

but also drawing a large picture of the disputed practices 

(bias, manipulation, distortion, reproduction of reality, 

etc.) which we have to deal with in the field as well. 

This course also examines the structure of national and 

international news media in terms of ownership, news 

production process and news readership. 



GAZETECİLİĞE GİRİŞ 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrenciye gazeteciliği tanıtmak ve 

günümüz gazetecilik dünyasına ilişkin temel kavramları 

öğretmektir. Hedefimiz sadece gazeteciliğin temel 

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ilkelerini (doğruluk, dengelilik, adil tutum, onurluluk) 

aktarmak değil, aynı zamanda alanda gözlemlenen 

yanlış pratiklere de (yanlılık, manipülasyon, çarpıtma, 

gerçekliğin yeniden üretimi, vb.) dikkat çekmektir. Bu 

ders, ulusal ve uluslararası medyayı sahiplik, haber üretim 

ve izlerkitle yapıları açısından da incelemektedir. 

MED 228 - WEB RADIO 

Students will learn how the World Wide Web is re-shaping 

both the form and content of modern media by using 

online radio as a unique teaching tool. The course will 

explore online listening, the fragmentation of traditional 

media and the rapid development of new technologies. 

Students develop an understanding of the basic elements 

of radio station operation. Students demonstrate the 

ability to perform on-air and manage and operate Bilgi 

Radio on the internet. They will be expected to produce 

bi-weekly RealAudio installations on the web radio. 




MED 231 - CURRENT ISSUES IN 

COMMUNICATION 

This course introduces various ethical, social and 

political issues raised by the impact and power of 

mass communication around the world. It explores 

the regulation of mass media and the ethical choices 

journalists and TV producers need to make in a legal 

environment as well as the effects of mass media on 

popular culture, political process and the individual. 

Through this course the students gain a familiarity with 

these issues by reading newspaper articles, research 

papers and watching movies and documentaries and 

discussing them in class. 



İLETİŞİMDE GÜNCEL KONULAR 

Bu ders, kitle iletişiminin gücünü etik, sosyal ve 

politik meseleler üzerindeki etkisini tartışarak ele 

alır. Regülasyon, gazeteci ve prodüktörlerin yapmak 

zorunda kaldıkları etik seçimler gibi konuların yanı 

sıra kitle iletişimin popüler kültür, siyasi süreç ve birey 

üzerindeki etkileri tartışılır. Ders boyunca, öğrenciler 

makaleler ve gazete haberleri okuyarak, filmler ve 

belgeseller izleyerek bu konular üzerine düşünür, tartışır 

ve yazarlar. 

MED 233 - NEWS ANALYSIS 

This course is recommended for students who intend to 

learn how news is produced. During the course students 

are informed about the news production process, 

including its actors and the relationships between the print 

media, society and power. In order to do this, students 

are responsible for reading and comparing the newspapers 

every day and are expected to critically analyze them with 

the guidance of the lecturer.





HABER ANALİZİ 

Bu ders, haber üretim süreçlerini öğrenmeye ilgi 

duyan öğrencilere tavsiye edilir. Ders süresince, 

öğrenciler yazılı basında haber üretim süreçlerinde 

rol alan aktörlerin ve bu aktörlerin güç odaklarıyla 

kurdukları ilişkilerin medya içeriğine etkisi konusunda 

bilgileneceklerdir. Bu nedenle, öğrencilerin her gün 

karşılaştırmalı gazete okumaları yapmaları ve öğretim 

elemanıyla birlikte haber içeriklerine eleştirel gözle 

bakmaları gerekmektedir. 

MED 251 - READING SKILLS 

The course, to be conducted in two languages, aims to 

develop skills of in-depth reading and high comprehension 

as well as to help students appreciate and differentiate 

between various literary forms. Techniques of written 

expression, distinguishing stylistic features, literary terms 

and narrative strategies will be demonstrated through the 

analysis of selected essays and short stories in English 

and Turkish. At the end of the course, students will be 

expected to possess a large range of vocabulary and 

know-how in idiomatic usage in both languages and to 

have an eye for style, background and color as well as 

content. Critical evaluation of the texts is a part of the 

course, therefore class participation is vital. 




OKUMA BECERİLERİ 

Bu ders, iki dilde de öğrencilerin edebî formları 

derinlemesine incelemesine ve ayırt etmesine odaklanır. 

Yakın okuma ve anlama becerilerini geliştirmeyi amaçlar. 

İngilizce ve Türkçe’den seçilmiş öykü ve denemelerin 

analizini yaparken, öğrenciler yazılı ifade tekniklerini, 

ayırt edici üslup özelliklerini, edebiyat tekniklerini ve 

anlatı stratejilerini görür. Dersin sonunda, öğrencilerin 

her iki dilde de o dillere özgü ifade biçimlerine ve geniş 

bir kelime hazinesine hâkim olmaları, ayrıca üslup, arka 

zemin ve renklerle birlikte içeriğe dair bakış açısına 

sahip olmaları beklenir. Metinlerin eleştirel bir şekilde 

değerlendirilmesi dersin bir parçasıdır, dolayısıyla derse 

katılım çok önemlidir. 

MED 252 - WRITING SKILLS 

This course is designed to teach students the basic principles 

of good writing and to provide them with opportunities to 

practice good writing and to develop skills of organization, 

coherence and clarity, unity, use of detail and example. 

The course’s aim is to improve the student’s ability to read 

analytically with perception and discernment. 


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MED 271 - COMMUNICATION AND 

POLITICS IN TURKEY 

This course is designed to involve the student in an 

investigation of the intricate and often mutually formative 

interaction between politics and communication, how 

the immediate world of political praxis is conceived 

and articulated, how the common forms and courses 

of collective experience co-evolve through what is 

communicated. The objective of this course is to probe 

dominant structures of thought and action in Turkish 

political experience that have delimited and defined the 

collective experience of “reality” and its communication. 

The course is research oriented. Theoretical premises are 

to be tested and demonstrated through research into how 

the Turkish press depict events and issues, in the hope that 

the students will reach original syntheses in understanding 

how political praxis in Turkey is translated politically into 

terms of the “collective social reality”. 




TÜRKİYE’DE İLETİŞİM VE SİYASET 

Bu ders, öğrencilerin iletişim ve politika arasındaki 

etkileşimi ve bu noktada araştırma konularını gündeme 

getirir. Bu dersin amacı, Türkiye’deki politik gerçekliğin 

üzerinden farklı siyaset terimlerinin ve akımlarının 

irdelenmesidir. 

MED 302 - PUBLIC DEBATE AND 

ARGUMENTATION 

The idea behind this course is to introduce the basic 

principles and skills of speaking and arguing issues 

in public. The course material follows a compact, 

comprehensive theoretical background in the media 

and means of public communication and the sociopsychological 

mechanisms that render arguments 

plausible and theses convincing for other people. 



KAMUSAL TARTIŞMA VE 

ARGÜMANTASYON 

Bu dersin amacı, kamusal alanda konuşmanın ve 

tartışmanın temel yöntem ve ilkelerini öğretmektir. 

Öğrenciye bu bağlamda kamusal iletişim araçlarıyla ilgili 

teorik altyapı ve ikna edici, akla yatkın tezler sunmanın 

sosyal psikolojik arka planı sunulur. 

MED 303 - VIDEO GAMES HISTORY 

This course is recommended for students who have an 

interest in video games. The course is structured in a 

modular way, in which the seven cycles of video games 

development – starting from the 1960s – are discussed. 

The discussions refer to capitalism, youth culture, gender 

issues and other sociological themes which are related to 

video games both as entertainment and as a form of art.

The discussions are based on readings as well as in-class 

experience of the students through playing the games. 

Genres of video games (such as MMO, first/third person 

shooter, platformer, RPG, RTS, adventure, puzzler, 

etc.) as well as TV and handheld consoles will also be 

elaborated in the lecture. 




VİDEO OYUNLARI TARİHİ 

Ders, video oyunlarına ilgili duyan öğrencilere 

önerilmektedir. Modüler olarak tasarlanan ders, 60’lardan 

başlayarak 7 kuşak video oyunlarını ve konsollarını 

tarihsel bir perspektifle ele alacak ve günümüze kadar 

getirecektir. Tartışmalarda sıklıkla piyasa, gençlik 

kültürü, toplumsal cinsiyet ve benzeri sosyolojik olgulara 

video oyunlarıyla ilişkileri kurularak (hem eğlence, hem 

de sanat biçimi olarak) referans verilecektir. Okumalar ve 

ders içinde oyunların bizzat gözlemlenmesi/oynanmasıyla 

tartışmalar zenginleştirilecektir. Oyun türleri (MMO, 

FPS, TPS, platform, RPG, RTS, macera, yapboz, vb.) ile 

televizyon ve el konsolları da ayrıntılı olarak işlenecektir. 

MED 304 - MAGAZINE EDITING 

This course is aimed at introducing the students to the 

principles and practical aspects of magazine editing. 

Starting off from concept development, the different 

stages of magazine editing will be explored. Throughout 

the course, students will be provided with a general 

understanding of the magazine industry as well as 

becoming familiar with different aspects of magazine 

editing and production such as: editorial concepts, 

editorial administration, creative editing, article editing, 

magazine research, editorial and production planning, 

electronic (desktop) production and layout. Current 

editorial technology, computer-assisted research and 

reporting will also be covered after the basic concepts are 

introduced. 



MED 305 - POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES 

This course aims to explore popular music as a medium 

of mass communication from a wide range of disciplines 

including communications, cultural studies, economics, 

history and musicology. The course will have a two-fold 

structure, where firstly popular music will be studied as 

a cultural text through which meanings are produced, 

negotiated, transmitted and subverted. Secondly, popular 

music will be studied in terms of style, technology, industry, 

audience and fans, gender, youth and globalization. 



MED 306 - SEMINAR IN MEDIA AND 

COMMUNICATION STUDIES 

This seminar provides an opportunity to explore 

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existing and emerging issues, theories and practices 

in media studies and communication. Throughout this 

course, students will be engaging with each other and 

the material on different issues. Our common goal 

this semester is to develop a sophisticated, nuanced 

engagement with the media texts by which we are 

perpetually surrounded. 




MEDYA VE İLETİŞİM ARAŞTIRMALARI 

SEMİNERİ 

Bu seminer dersi, medya çalışmaları ve iletişim 

alanlarında teori ve uygulamaları tartışma imkânı 

sağlar. Ders boyunca, öğrenciler bir yandan verilen 

okumalar üzerine düşünüp yazılar yazarken bir yandan 

da birbirlerinin sunumları üzerine yorum yaparlar. Bu 

dersin temel amacı, öğrencilerin etrafımızı saran medya 

metinleri ile sofistike ve detaylı bir biçimde inceleme ve 

eleştirme imkânı bulmasıdır. 

MED 308 - CONTENT PRODUCTION AND 

MANAGEMENT 

This course is designed for students who are at least in the 

third year of their undergradute study in Communication 

related fields and other social sciences fields such as 

economics, sociolgy, etc. The primary aim of this course 

is to provide students with necessary practice and skills in 

the field of content production and management. By doing 

so, the course also aims at contributing to development of 

people who are equipped with skills and experiences that 

are necessary in communication sector today. 




İÇERİK ÜRETİMİ VE YÖNETİMİ 

İletişim alanında çalışacaklar için temel öge içeriktir. 

İletilecek bilginin türü, haber, derleme, araştırma, 

konuşma olabilir. İçeriğin yer aldığı araç, gazete, dergi, 

radyo, televizyon, internet, yüzyüze platform olabilir. 

İletişim, bilgi yani içerik olmadan yapılamaz. İçerik 

yazılı, sözlü ya da görsel fotoğraf ve tasarım şeklinde 

ortaya çıkabilir. Her ne şekilde olursa olsun, amaç iletişim 

kurulmak istenen kitleye bir bilgi iletmektir. İletişimci 

hangi araçlarla iş yaparsa yapsın, iletişimcinin işi içerik 

üretmek, kurgulamak, yönetmektir. 

MED 310 - PRACTICUM 

The aim of the course is to equip students with the skills 

of producing audio-visual news, duty-share in the creation 

of audio-visual news, the principles of video camera 

usage, lighting and the fundamentals of lighting, the 

fundamentals of microphone, and the practice of camera 

and editing. 


Restriction(s): TVJ 212 or TVJ 221



UYGULAMA 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilere sesli ve görüntülü haber 

üretme, üretim esnasında görev paylaşma, video kamera 

kullanımının ilkeleri, ışık, ışık kullanımının temelleri, 

mikrofon kullanımının temelleri, kamera kullanma 

pratiği ve montaj konuları hakkında bilgi ve beceri 

kazandırmaktır. 

MED 314 - MEDIA AND CONTEMPORARY 

SOCIAL THOUGHT 

In the twenty-first century, the media of communication 

is understood as the prime mechanism for the constitution 

of society. The “post-modern” take, as it is sometimes 

called, or the contemporary epistemologies in general, 

regard mediated communication as the central modality of 

the social, the analysis of which goes well beyond simple 

considerations of “effects” or “use” of the media. Instead, 

media, especially the interactive media, is taken as the model 

and maker of the social relations. The main objective of the 

course, then, can be described as developing a critical and 

synthetic view around this new understanding of society and 

media. Theorists to be included in the list of readings will be 

Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Baumann, Castells, Kroker, Haraway 

and Deleuze. 



MED 315 - ONLINE JOURNALISM 

The aim of this course is to provide a new ground 

for students who want to become journalists, where 

they will prepare an electronic newspaper under the 

supervision of professional journalists. This way they 

will be able both to put their journalistic knowledge 

and skills into practice and to learn to function under 

pressing deadlines, which would prepare them for a 

newspaper of their own. 



ELEKTRONİK GAZETECİLİK 

Bu dersin amacı, gazeteci olmak isteyen öğrenciler 

için, profesyonel gazetecilerin gözetiminde elektronik 

haber yazabilecekleri yeni bir alan açmaktır. Bu sayede 

gazetecilik hakkındaki bilgi ve becerilerini pratiğe 

dökebilecekler, teslim tarihine haber yetiştirme baskısı 

altında çalışmak için alıştırma yapacaklardır. 

MED 317 - NEWS WRITING 

This course provides an overview and exercise of 

contemporary journalistic writings. While exploring the 

difference between hard news and soft news, students 

will be able to produce interviews, feature news stories 

and editorial columns. Writing personality profiles, 

background and investigative reports and human 

interest stories are basic concerns of this course as well. 

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Because writing in style is important for today’s media, 

contemporary journalistic examples such as “new 

journalism”, “gonzo journalism” and “literary journalism” 

will be discussed during the lectures. 





HABER YAZIMI 

Bu ders, çağdaş gazetecilik yazım tekniklerine genel 

bir bakışı ve alıştırmaları sunmaktadır. Öğrenciler 

önemli/güncel haberler ve diğerleri arasındaki farkları 

keşfederken aynı zamanda röportajlar hazırlayacak, 

haberler ve editoryal yazılar oluşturacaklardır. Kişilik 

profilleri, kişilerin geçmişine dair ve araştırmacı raporlar, 

ilginç insanlara dair hikâyeler yazmak da dersin temel 

meseleleri arasındadır. Üsluplu yazmak günümüzün 

medyası için önemli olduğundan, “yeni gazetecilik”, 

“edebi gazetecilik” ve “gonzo gazetecilik” gibi çağdaş 

gazetecilik örnekleri derslerde tartışılacaktır. 

MED 318 - CRIME, SOCIETY AND MEDIA 

The phenomenon of crime, which creates a significant field 

of survey for disciplines such as sociology, social history and 

psychology, does so also for the news media. This course 

utilizes studies of social sciences and journalism regarding 

crime. Cases taken from Turkey and other countries are 

examined. The course has two main aims. The first is to 

facilitate the conveyance of information under titles like 

sociology of crime, crime theories, the history of crime and 

its future. The second is to examine and discuss how crime 

is perceived, processed and reflected by the media and the 

corresponding social perceptions of this. 



SUÇ, TOPLUM VE MEDYA 

Sosyoloji, sosyal tarih ve psikoloji gibi disiplinler için 

önemli bir inceleme alanı oluşturan suç olgusu, haber 

medyası için de geniş bir mesai alanı yaratmaktadır. 

Bu derste, suça ilişkin sosyalbilim ve habercilik 

çalışmalarından yararlanılır, Türkiye’den ve çeşitli 

ülkelerden seçilmiş vakalar incelenir. Dersin iki ana 

hedefi vardır. Birincisi, suç sosyolojisi, suç teorileri, 

suçun tarihi, suçun geleceği gibi başlıklar altında 

bilgi aktarımı ve paylaşımını sağlamaktır. İkincisi, 

suçun medya tarafından algılanma, değerlendirilme, 

yansıtılma biçimlerini ve buna bağlı olarak ortaya 

çıkan toplumsal algı biçimlerini inceleyerek tartışmaya 

açmaktır. 

MED 321 - INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM 

Designed to train students to research and write stories 

that others do not want written. Involves research in 

public records and training in techniques of obtaining 

information from reluctant sources. Students are expected 

to work independently on a few major writing assignments

that require extensive interviewing and investigation. 



ARAŞTIRMACI GAZETECİLİK 

Güç elde edilen bilgilerin nasıl erişilmesi gerektiğine 

ilişkin bir ders olan MED 321, öğrencilerin bireysel ve 

özgür projelerini desteklemektedir. 

MED 331 - HISTORY OF TURKISH MEDIA 


knowledge of the history of the Turkish press within the 

context of Turkish politics. Starting from the mid-19th 

century, the evolution of the press is examined in parallel 

with the movement of Turkish modernization. While 

the relationship between the press and the government 

is examined in a chronological way, the course covers 

the period from the single party years to the evolution 

of media holdings. This course also aims to identify the 

reactions of the Turkish media towards diversifying social 

and political movements in Turkish history. 



TÜRK MEDYA TARİHİ 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilere Türk siyaseti bağlamında 

Türk basınının tarihini öğretmektir. 19. yüzyılın 

ortalarından itibaren basının gelişimi, Türk modernleşme 

hareketi paralelinde incelenmektedir. Basın ve siyasi 

iktidarlar arasındaki ilişki tek parti döneminden başlayarak 

medya holdinglerinin oluşumuna kadarki süreçte 

kronolojik olarak ele alınmaktadır. Bu ders, Türkiye’deki 

toplumsal ve siyasal olaylar ışığında medyadaki gelişim 

ve değişimleri anlamayı amaçlar. 

MED 332 - MEDIA MANAGEMENT 

The aim of this course is to introduce the basic 

organizational charts, production and technical 

infrastructures and managerial processes of broadcast 

and non-broadcast media. It will introduce students to the 

basic production, broadcasting and financial strategies, 

particularly as they interact with legal, public and political 

policies. The course will cover important concepts and 

components of media management, such as: ownership, 

frequency allocations, licence, production stages and 

techniques, transmission and distribution systems, 

audience analysis and reporting. 



MEDYA YÖNETİMİ 

Bu dersin amacı, yazılı basının ve elektronik medyanın 

temel kurumsal alt yapılarını ve yönetim biçimlerini 

tanıtmak, irdelemek ve tartışmaktır. Dönem boyunca 

radyo, televizyon, kablo TV, digital platform, yazılı basın 

ve elektronik gazeteciliğin temel yönetim stratejileri, 

yasal düzenlemeleri örnekleriyle birlikte öğrencilere 

sunulacak ve tartışılacaktır. Ders, medyada sahiplik, 

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frekans tahsisleri, lisans, yapım, yayın, denetim ve 

dağıtım sistemleri, finans, insan kaynakları, seyirci, 

dinleyici, okur araştırması, reklam ve satış gibi temel 

medya yönetimi kavramlarını kapsamaktadır. 

MED 378 - MEDIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS 

This course aims to expand students’ understanding of 

the term ‘human rights’ in theory and practice. It will 

interrogate the complex relationship between media and 

human rights with a focus on the rights of children, the 

elderly and the disabled, and issues such as terrorism, 

immigration, discrimination, hate speech, genocide and 

the death penalty. The monitoring and reporting of human 

rights violations will also be discussed. 



MED 383 - LEGAL ISSUES IN THE MEDIA 

SECTOR 

This course will explore legal issues in connection with 

freedom of expression and speech, right of privacy and 

libel. This course will explore the intellectual property 

law, with special reference to copyright law in relation 

to media production and distribution together with ethical 

issues. Students will investigate and analyze a number 

of legal issues in connection with media production and 

distribution through case studies and current practice. 


Restriction(s): LAW 303 or TVJ 425 



MEDYA SEKTÖRÜ HUKUKU 

Bu ders, medya sektöründe fikir özgürlüğü, mahremiyet 

hakkı ve karalama hedefli yayınlar gibi yasal durumları 

kapsar. Ders, bir medya sektörü çalışanının bilmesi 

gereken, fikri mülkiyet ve telif hakkı, yayıncılıkta eser 

hakları gibi yasal sorumluluk ve yaptırımlarla beraber 

etik kuralları içermektedir. Üretim ve dağıtımla ilgili 

örnek olay incelemeleri, öğrencilere bu alanda araştırma 

ve analiz olanakları verir. 

MED 388 - ADVANCED NEWS WRITING 

This course is designed for students interested in pursuing 

professional careers and further study in such areas 

as reporting, editing, media design, photojournalism, 

broadcasting, public relations and advertising. The 

strength of this course is the number of one-on-one classes 

received from instructors and our focus on strong writing 

and editing skills. Because of the course’s connection 

with the campus newspaper, it offers students ample 

publication/broadcasting opportunities, but, because 

the newspaper is not published daily, students still have 

plenty of time for other coursework and activities. 





İLERİ HABER YAZIMI 

Bu ders muhabirlik, editörlük, medya tasarımı, fotoğraf 

gazeteciliği, radyo-televizyon yayıncılığı, halkla ilişkiler 

ve reklamcılık gibi alanlarda profesyonel kariyer ya 

da daha fazla çalışma yapmak isteyen öğrenciler için 

tasarlanmıştır. Öğretim elemanlarıyla sınıfın kurduğu 

birebir iletişim ve güçlü yazma/düzeltme becerilerine 

verilen önem, dersin güçlü noktalarındandır. Dersin 

okul gazetesiyle bağlantısından dolayı öğrencilere geniş 

yayın imkânları sunulmaktadır, fakat gazete günlük 

olmadığı için öğrencilerin diğer dersler ve aktiviteleri için 

zamanları kalacaktır. 

MED 391 - THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL 

ENVIRONMENT OF COMMUNICATION 

The idea behind this course is to study the social and cultural 

environment in which the essence of communication, “what 

is communicated”, generates. The cultural environment is 

not only the source and the medium of communication but 

also its “matter”, because all knowledge of life is created 

and articulated in the social life world. Thus society is “the 

riverbed of communication” and as such, it is the field where 

meanings are attributed to the phenomena of life. With 

particular modes of organizing social cognition and praxis, 

communication plays a role in creating, reproducing and 

articulating social reality or meaning, while also reporting 

it. In this milieu, communication is directly related to issues 

and balances of power that appear as an indispensable 

phenomenon of social order and continuity. Thus, by 

charting the flow of meanings in the habitat of the political 

animal, this course aims to study the mutually formative 

relationship between communication, social order, power 

structures and the cognitive processes and actions of the 

people who experience all this as “social life”. 



İLETİŞİMİN TOPLUMSAL VE SİYASAL 

ORTAMI 

Bu dersin ardındaki düşünce, iletişimin özünün -iletilen 

şeyin- doğduğu sosyal ve kültürel çevreyi araştırmaktır. 

Kültürel çevre iletişimin yegâne kaynağı ve aracı değil, 

aynı zamanda onun “malzemesi”dir. Zira, yaşama dair 

bütün bilgiler sosyal yaşam içinde üretilir ve eklemlenir. 

Yani toplum, “iletişimin dere yatağıdır” ve bu haliyle yaşam 

fenomenine anlamların atfedildiği bir alandır. Toplumsal 

icranın ve idrakın tikel örgütlenme biçimlerinde iletişimin 

rolü, toplumsal gerçekliği veya anlamları bir yandan 

ihbar ederken diğer yandan yaratmak, yeniden üretmek 

ve eklemlemektir. Toplumsal çevremizde iletişim, iktidar 

dengeleriyle doğrudan bağlantılıdır ve sosyal düzen ve 

süreklilikten ayrı tutulamaz. Böylelikle, politik hayvanın 

habitatında yer alan anlamların akış haritasını çıkaran bu 

ders, karşılıklı olarak birbirini oluşturan iletişim, sosyal 

düzen, iktidar yapıları ve bütün bunları “sosyal yaşam” 

olarak deneyimleyen insanların bilişsel süreçlerini ve 

eylemlerini araştırır. 

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MED 392 - IMAGES OF THE 20th CENTURY 

This course aims to reconstruct the social history of the 

20th century from the standpoint of motion pictures and 

their implicit discourses, which both reflect and make 

the epoch. The idea is to help students grasp the link 

between the popular art of cinema and the zeitgeist (soul 

of the times) and to explore the link between the images 

as they are reflected onto the silver screen and the actual 

events that form the social history of the 20th century. 

The essence of the course will be to enable the student 

to acquire a sense of socio-historical depth about the past 

century, which will inevitably form the source and the 

base of the next. Throughout the course, the students will 

be encouraged to understand the importance of reading 

the sub-texts of the images and comprehend the reigning 

socio-political dynamics of the era. 



20. YÜZYIL İMGELERİ 

Bu dersin amacı, 20. yüzyılın toplumsal tarihini, dönemi 

yansıtan ve oluşturan sinema ile onun örtük söylemleri 

üzerinden yeniden yapılandırmaktır. Öğrencilerin popüler 

sinema sanatı ile ‘zeitgeist’ (zamanın ruhu) arasındaki 

bağlantıyı kavraması ve beyaz perdeye yansıyan imgeler 

ile 20. yüzyılın toplumsal tarihini meydana getiren gerçek 

olaylar arasındaki ilişkiyi araştırması beklenmektedir. 

Dersin çekirdeğindeki fikir, öğrencilerin bir sonraki 

yüzyıla kaynaklık edecek ve temelini oluşturacak olan 

geçtiğimiz yüzyıl hakkında sosyo-tarihsel bir derinlik 

duygusu kazanmasıdır. Ders boyunca öğrenciler, 

imgelerin alt metinlerini okumanın önemini ve çağımızın 

egemen sosyo-politik dinamiklerini anlamaya teşvik 

edileceklerdir. 

MED 402 - SENIOR PROJECT 

The aim of this course is to gather all the information 

acquired through research and put it into a written project 

before graduating. 


Prerequisite(s): MED 428 


BİTİRME PROJESİ 

Bu dersin amacı, araştırmalar sonucu elde edilen bütün 

bulguları bir araya getirerek mezuniyet öncesinde yazılı 

bir proje halinde sunulmasını sağlamaktır. 

MED 411 - POLITICAL ECONOMY OF 

THE MEDIA 

This course is about the political and economic 

organization (political economy) of the media. The aim is 

to explore the role of the media in society, what shapes the 

media, how it should be organized and what influence it 

has, viewed from different perspectives. By the end of this 

course, the students will be familiar with those different 

viewpoints and will be expected to analyze various media 

and media systems from a political economy perspective.




MED 421 - WRITING WITH A VISION 

Because gender is socially constructed, it is 

constructive to study how gender ideologies have 

been articulated in the form of narratives through 

women’s own voices. Besides ethnographical works, 

this course will also use autobiographical writings 

such as letters, diaries by women (not only of Western 

feminists but also of the Diaspora) and Middle 

East women’s texts to explore feminist theoretical 

issues. Theoretical themes will include: subjectivity, 

embodiment, the fact/fiction dichotomy, identity, 

colonization and decolonization, hybridism, location, 

resistance, authority and agency. 



VİZYONLA YAZIM 

Cinsiyet kavramının toplumsal bağlayıcılığından 

yola çıkan bu ders, kadın yazarların kendi seslerini 

duyurdukları metinlerin incelemesi ve daha çok bu 

metinlerin ihtiva ettikleri ‘teorik kavramları’ günışığına 

çıkarma prensibine dayanmaktadır. 

MED 424 - PRESS AND THE PUBLIC 

The purpose of the course is to examine the news media 

in this time of dynamic change and especially to probe 

the media’s role in politics and policy. This course will 

be conducted around the following themes: What is the 

role of news media during the national crises? What role 

do the media play in how we conduct politics? How will 

the explosion of blogging shake up politics, policy and 

journalism? What is the impact of foreign news coverage 

on Turks? How do advocacy groups affect the media? 

What is the importance of public service broadcasting? 



BASIN VE TOPLUM 

Bu dersin amacı, dinamik bir değişim sürecinde olan 

haber medyasını incelerken, özellikle medyanın siyasal 

süreçlerdeki rolüne eğilmektir. Ders, temelde şu konular 

çerçevesinde işlenecektir: Haber medyasının ulusal 

kriz dönemlerindeki rolü nedir? Siyaseti gerçekleştirme 

biçimimizde medya ne kadar etkili olmaktadır? Blog 

patlaması, siyaset etme biçimlerini, politikaları ve 

gazeteciliği değiştiriyor mu? Dış haberlerin Türkler 

üzerindeki etkisi nedir? Çıkar grupları medya içeriğini 

nasıl etkiliyor? Kamu hizmeti yayıncılığının önemi nedir? 

MED 428 - ADVANCED RESEARCH FOR 

SOCIAL SCIENCES 

This course is designed for the students in the media studies 

track and aims to provide them with advanced methods of 

research in social sciences to apply in their senior thesis. The 

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course objective is to equip students to design and conduct 

their own research, specializing in at least two specific 

research methods relevant to their interests. Design issues, 

developing the theoretical framework, using the library 

and electronic resources, content analysis and coding, 

using SPSS in qualitative research, interviewing, visual 

media analysis, advanced questionnaire and survey design, 

qualitative data and discourse analysis, ethnography and 

participant observation are among the topics to be covered 

in this course. 


Restriction(s): ADV 362 or BUS 391 or BUS 392 or CAM 324 or 

IR 342 or MED 206 or PSY 301 or SOC 211 



SOSYAL BİLİMLER İÇİN İLERİ 

ARAŞTIRMA 

Bu dersin amacı, medya çalışmaları alanında tez yazacak 

öğrencilerin sosyal bilimlerde ileri düzey araştırma 

metotlarını öğrenip uygulayabilmelerini sağlamaktır. 

Öğrencilerin ilgi alanları doğrultusunda, tezlerinde 

kullanmak üzere en az iki metod üzerinde uzmanlaşmaları 

beklenmektedir. Derste, araştırmanın tasarlanması, 

kuramsal çerçeve oluşturulması, kütüphanenin ve 

elektronik kaynakların kullanımı, içerik incelemesi 

ve kodlama, niteliksel araştırmalarda SPSS kullanımı, 

mülakat, görsel medya incelemesi, ileri düzey anket 

hazırlama teknikleri, söylem incelemesi, etnografi ve 

katılımcı gözlem gibi konular üzerinde durulacaktır. 

MED 431 - TURKISH POPULAR CULTURE 

This course studies social history through a sociological 

perspective, with a special emphasis on the social, 

political, economic and institutional contexts in which 

various forms of popular culture are produced, practiced 

and consumed. It mainly examines popular culture and the 

emergence of mass culture in Turkey from the nineteenth 

century to the present day, but local trends that shaped 

various countries’ culture and global trends are also 

discussed. Examples of popular culture and mass culture 

in this course are drawn from a wide range of material, 

including music, movies, television, novels, advertising, 

fashion, food, porn and sports. 




TÜRKİYE’DE POPÜLER KÜLTÜR 

Bu ders, sosyal tarihe sosyolojik bir bakış açısıyla yaklaşır: 

çeşitli popüler kültür formlarının üretimini ve tüketimini 

belirleyen sosyal, politik, ekonomik, kurumsal etkenleri 

inceler. 19. yüzyıldan bugüne Türkiye’de popüler kültürün 

gelişimi ve kitle kültürünün ortaya çıkışı dersin ana 

çerçevesini oluşturmaktadır. Ancak küresel eğilimler ve 

çeşitli ülkelerinin kültürlerini biçimlendiren yerel eğilimler 

de dönem boyunca ele alınmaktadır. Popüler kültür ve 

kitle kültürüne ilişkin örnekler müzik, sinema, televizyon,

edebiyat, reklam, moda, yemek, porno, spor gibi başlıkların 

oluşturduğu geniş bir alandan seçilmektedir. 

MED 432 - GLOBAL COMMUNICATION 

This course provides perspectives on contemporary global 

communication. It examines the transformation of global 

communication in terms of purpose, ownership, reporting 

standards and dissemination techniques. It also discusses 

the debates and issues related with globalization, media 

imperialism, digital divide, privatization, international 

news and information flow, and the impact of ICTs on 

different global media systems. 



MED 444 - APPROACHES TO WRITING AND 

LIFE 

The goals of the class are to introduce students to some 

of the interesting texts (autobiographic, biographic and 

ethnographic) by writers and journalists and to help 

students develop in knowledge about multicultural 

ethnographies and stories with a theoretical challenge. 



YAZI VE HAYATA YAKLAŞIMLAR 

Bu dersin amacı, gazeteci ve yazarlar tarafından ortaya 

konmuş olan ilginç metinleri (otobiyografik, biyografik 

ve etnografik) öğrencilerle tanıştırmak ve öğrencileri 

teorik açılım arz eden çokkültürlü etnografik çalışmalar 

ve hikâyeler hakkında bilgi sahibi yapmaktır. 

MED 451 - POLITICAL COMMUNICATION 

This course examines the complex issue of political 

communication through the mass media. The lectures will 

explore the history of political communication, looking 

particularly at questions of regulation, press ownership, 

representation of party politics, election broadcasts, bias 

in the press and agenda setting. It will use historical core 

studies to highlight such techniques as spot advertising and 

polling and their roles in party strategies. Case studies from 

Turkish political communication will be introduced in order 

to provide the students with a comparative perspective. 



SİYASAL İLETİŞİM 

Kitle iletişim araçları yardımıyla siyasal iletişimin 

karmaşık konularını irdelemeyi hedefleyen bu ders, 

seçimler, parti politikaları, basında bu konuların 

yansımaları ve siyasal kampanyalar üzerinde durur. 

MED 452 - JOURNALISM IN TURKEY-PAST, 

PRESENT, FUTURE 

The course aims to make a detailed analysis of the 

evolution of the Turkish press, the first newspapers in the 

Ottoman Empire, the role of journalists and newspapers 

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before the Republic, the first independent papers, the 

most important journalists and their roles, the changing of 

patronage, technology, the history of offset printing, the 

role of politicians in the importance of newspapers and 

the media, the TRT phenomenon. 



TÜRKİYE’DE GAZETECİLİĞİN DÜNÜ, 

BUGÜNÜ, YARINI 

Bu ders, Türk basının evrimini ve sorunlarını detaylı 

inceleyerek, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’ndan başlayıp 

günümüze değin gazetecinin rolü ve önemini, değişen 

teknolojik yapı çerçevesinde öğrencilere sunmayı 

hedefler. Ayrıca, belli başlı gazeteciler ve rolleri, patronaj 

değişikliği, teknoloji, ofset baskı tarihi, siyasetçilerin 

medya ve gazeteler üzerindeki etkileri ve TRT fenomeni 

bu ders altında tartışılan konulardır. 

MED 462 - CREATIVE WRITING 

Various prose and dramatic writing techniques will 

be explored (through reading of exemplary texts) 

and implemented (through students’ own writing and 

rewriting) during the course. Students will be able to write 

in the language and the genre of their choice. At least one 

complete piece of fiction (written during the term) will be 

required at the end of the term. 




YARATICI YAZIM 

Derste, çeşitli nesir ve tiyatro yazım teknikleri araştırılır 

(örnek metinler okunarak) ve uygulanır (öğrencilerin 

kendileri yazar ve yeniden yazar). Öğrenciler kendi 

seçtikleri bir dilde ve türde yazabilirler. Dönem sonunda 

öğrenciler, ders boyunca yazılmakta olan en az bir adet 

kurgu metni tamamlamış olurlar. 

MED 472 - PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES 

IN JOURNALISM 

The aim of this course is to present, analyze and assess 

the theory and practice of both global and national media, 

together with its economy, trends and future. 



GAZETECİLİKTE PROFESYONEL 

YAKLAŞIMLAR 

Dersin amacı, küresel ve ulusal medya kuram 

ve uygulamalarının analiz ve değerlendirmesini, 

ekonomik sonuçları, gidişatı ve geleceği ile birlikte 

sunmaktır. 

MED 481 - REPORTING FOR THE 

NEWSROOM I 

The purpose of this course is to develop the skills of

students in creative thinking about topics from Turkey 

that would interest a foreign readership, to learn how to 

access sources and to advance their news-writing skills in 

English according to internationally accepted norms. The 

news items produced by the students are published online 

at ”News, etc.” news portal. 



MED 482 - REPORTING FOR THE 

NEWSROOM II 

The purpose of this course is to allow students who have 

taken MED 481 the previous semester to accumulate 

more experience and development in their skills in writing 

news and feature stories in English: to increase their 

capacity for writing news analysis and in-depth stories 

that are in line with international norms of reporting: to 

move into more subtle topics that would increase their 

understanding of political, cultural and current issues in 

Turkey and elsewhere. The course will aim at making 

students approximate professional skills that a foreign 

correspondent needs for reporting for international media. 

Perfect knowledge of English is a must for the course. 



MED 491 - NEWSROOM I 


professional careers and further study in such areas as 

reporting, editing, media design or photojournalism. 

The strength of this course is the number of one-on-one 

classes received from instructors and our focus on strong 

writing and editing skills. This course aims to expose 

students to the real world of newspapers in a professional 

newsroom environment. The course equips them with 

core skills essential to any trainee journalist: reporting, 

news gathering, interviewing, writing and newspaper 

design. Newsroom classes (Advanced Reporting- 

Photojournalism-Newspaper Layout and Design) 

concentrate on teaching students how to gather and 

organize information for news articles and how to write 

according to acceptable professional standards under 

deadline pressure. 




HABER MERKEZİ I 

Bu ders, muhabirlik, basın fotoğrafçılığı, editörlük, sayfa 

tasarımı alanlarında profesyonel kariyer yapmak isteyenler 

için tasarlanmıştır. İleri haber yazım ve kurgu teknikleri 

üzerinde şekillenecek olan derste, öğrencinin öğretim 

elemanlarıyla bire bir çalışması gerekmektedir. Haber 

Merkezi dersi, öğrenciye gerçek hayatta profesyonel 

bir haber merkezinin sahip olduğu tüm teknik altyapıyı 

sağlar. Dersin amacı, öğrencilere muhabirlik, haber 

toplama, haber kurgulama, yazma, söyleşi teknikleri gibi 

alanlarda gerekli olan zorunlu becerileri kazandırmaktır. 

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Haber Merkezi dersleri (İleri Gazetecilik Teknikleri- 

Basın Fotoğrafçılığı-Gazete Mizanpajı) öğrencileri zaman 

baskısı altında, profesyonel ve etik standartlara uygun 

gazetecilik pratiğine hazırlamak için kurgulanmıştır. 

MED 492 - NEWSROOM II 


professional careers and further study in such areas as 

reporting, editing, media design or photojournalism. The 

strength of this course is the number of one-on-one classes 

received from instructors and our focus on strong writing and 

editing skills. This course aims to expose students to the real 

world of newspapers in a professional newsroom environment. 

The course equips them with core skills essential to any trainee 

journalist: reporting, news gathering, interviewing, writing and 

newspaper design. Newsroom classes (Advanced Reporting- 

Photojournalism-Newspaper Layout and Design) concentrate 

on teaching students how to gather and organize information 

for news articles and how to write according to acceptable 

professional standards under deadline pressure. 


Prerequisite(s): MED 491 



HABER MERKEZİ II 

Bu ders, muhabirlik, basın fotoğrafçılığı, editörlük, sayfa 

tasarımı alanlarında profesyonel kariyer yapmak isteyenler 

için tasarlanmıştır. İleri haber yazım ve kurgu teknikleri 

üzerinde şekillenecek olan derste, öğrencinin öğretim 

elemanlarıyla bire bir çalışması gerekmektedir. Haber 

Merkezi dersi, öğrenciye gerçek hayatta profesyonel 

bir haber merkezinin sahip olduğu tüm teknik altyapıyı 

sağlar. Dersin amacı, öğrencilere muhabirlik, haber 

toplama, haber kurgulama, yazma, söyleşi teknikleri gibi 

alanlarda gerekli olan zorunlu becerileri kazandırmaktır. 

Haber Merkezi dersleri (İleri Gazetecilik Teknikleri- 

Basın Fotoğrafçılığı-Gazete Mizanpajı) öğrencileri zaman 

baskısı altında, profesyonel ve etik standartlara uygun 

gazetecilik pratiğine hazırlamak için kurgulanmıştır. 

MED/E 179 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 















will be equally emphasized in the course. Additionally,




MED/E 180 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 


















developed. 


MIS 300 - YEAR II SUMMER PRACTICUM 

This is the first of the two summer practicums of the 

Business Informatics Program. The practicum is an 

obligation that will be completed during the Summer 

following the second year of the business informatics 

curriculum. Students are expected to spend a minimum 

of three weeks at an organization in the Information 

and Communication Technologies (ITC) sector or at 

the Information Technology (IT) department of an 

organization and gain practical experience in the field of 

business informatics. At the end of the summer practice, 

students should prepare and submit a report about their 

experiences to the Program Coordinator. 


MIS 302 - DATABASE MANAGEMENT 

In today’s world, data are one the most important 

and critical type of organizational assets. Database 

management is central to the information technology 

strategies and information resource management efforts 

within an organization. This course provides the student 

with up-to-date knowledge and skills of analysis, design, 

and implementation of databases by covering theoretical 

and practical aspects of database concepts, technologies 

and systems. The course will cover data modeling and 

logical database design, data definition-manipulation 

and control languages, physical database design, SQL 

programming, standards for database access, transaction 

management, client/server systems. Students are also 

briefed about advanced topics in database management, 

such as object-oriented databases, distributed databases 

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and data warehousing. 


Prerequisite(s): (COMP 112 or COMP 150) and (COMP 150 or 

COMP 151) 


MIS 306 - BUSINESS DATA 

COMMUNICATIONS 

This course presents the fundamental concepts of data 

communications, networking, distributed applications, 

and network management and security. The course will 

cover the networking hardware and software: network 

protocols and topologies: network design techniques: 

local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks 

(WANs): the Internet, intranets and extranets: and wireless 

networking. Topics such as firewalls, cryptography and 

data compression are also included. The aim of the course 

is to provide a solid understanding of not only to describe 

how current technologies work, but also to discuss the 

emerging technologies and demonstrate how current and 

emerging technologies can be applied to create business 

solutions. The course relates technology concepts to 

the business environment and demonstrates how data 

communications and networking supports business 

objectives. 




MIS 311 - SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND 

DESIGN I 

This is the first of the two system analysis and design 

courses offered by Bilgi’s Business Informatics Program. 

System analysis and design covers the concepts, skills, 

methodologies, techniques, tools and perspectives 

essential for systems analysts to successfully develop 

business information systems. The course approaches 

system development from a business perspective with a 

strong emphasis on the role, responsibilities and mindset 

of the system analyst. It assists in developing analytical, 

technical, managerial and social skills required to establish 

the organizational link between users of the information 

systems and information technology specialists. The 

course links all dimensions of system development 

skills, principles, methodologies, tools and decisions to 

organizational factors and management of change. After 

an overview of system development methodologies, 

traditional analysis and design methods are covered in 

the course. Students gain first-hand experience on various 

computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools and 

associated methodologies by using them for running cases 

and real-world group projects. 



MIS 312 - SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND 

DESIGN II 

This is the second of the two system analysis and design

courses offered by Business Informatics Program. 

System analysis and design covers the concepts, skills, 

methodologies, techniques, tools and perspectives 

essential for systems analysts to successfully develop 

business information systems. The course approaches 

system development from a business perspective with a 

strong emphasis on the role, responsibilities and mindset 

of the system analyst. It aids in developing the analytical, 

technical, managerial and social skills required to establish 

the organizational link between users of the information 

systems and information technology specialists. The 

course links all dimensions of system development 

skills, principles, methodologies, tools and decisions to 

organizational factors and management of change. After 

an overview of system development methodologies, 

object-oriented analysis and design methods are covered 

in the course. Students gain first-hand experience in 

various computer-aided software engineering (CASE) 

tools and associated methodologies by using them for 

running cases and real-world group projects. 


Prerequisite(s): MIS 301 or MIS 311 


MIS 400 - YEAR III SUMMER PRACTICUM 

This is the second of the two summer practicums of 

the Business Informatics Program. The practicum is an 

obligation that will be completed during the Summer 

following the third year of the business informatics 

curriculum. Students are expected to spend a minimum 

of three weeks at an organization in the Information 

and Communication Technologies (ITC) sector or at 

the Information Technology (IT) department of an 

organization and gain additional practical experience in 

the field of business informatics. At the end of the summer 

practice, students should prepare and submit a report 

about their experiences to the Program Coordinator. 


MIS 401 - ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS 

The Internet has enabled organizations to communicate 

with customers, suppliers, and sellers at the speed of 

light. Despite the possibilities of the Internet, however, 

companies still need efficient internal processes in areas 

such as making and moving products, offering highquality 

services, managing finances, and recruiting and 

motivating employees. In order to do so, many companies 

have already allocated considerable resources and time 

in implementing integrated enterprise solutions such as 

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. This course 

provides an overview of ERP systems and their use in the 

business environment. It also covers the skills and tools 

needed to combine existing ERP software and capabilities 

with emerging Web-based technologies because ERP 

systems provide the foundation for a wide range of 

e-commerce applications including web-based ordering 

and order tracing, inventory management, and built-toorder 

goods. Topics include basic ERP system concepts, 

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business processes, functions and data requirements, 

and system implementation and integration issues 

including Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Upon 

successful completion of this course, students should be 

able to understand not only what ERP systems are and 

how they are used, but also why these systems should be 

used in an organization. 


Prerequisite(s): BUS 212 and BUS 321 and MIS 302 


MIS 402 - MANAGEMENT SUPPORT 

SYSTEMS AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE 

This course examines the principles, categories, 

development and use of a specific set of information 

systems for supporting management decisions at all 

levels in an organization for faster and better decisions. 

It involves both theoretical and practicalaspects of 

management support systems. The course starts with a 

discussion of the decision making styles and decisional 

needs of managers. Then it relates distinct management 

support systems (MSS) to those styles and needs. Among 

the systems studied are data-, model-, knowledge- and 

document-driven decision support systems (DSS): 

executive support systems (ESS): group decision support 

systems (GDSS): and Web-based DSS. In addition, the 

course investigates the principles and business uses of 

artificial intelligence (AI) applications: expert systems, 

fuzzy logic, pattern recognition, genetic algorithms, 

artificial neural networks, data- and Web-mining, and 

intelligent software agents. Finally, a discussion of the 

justification and development of MSS followed by a look 

into their future and business intelligence trends closes 

the course. 


Prerequisite(s): BUS 274 and BUS 314 


MIS 497 - INFORMATION SYSTEMS 

PROJECT I 

This course is the first of the two information systems 

project courses. The aim is to expose the students to 

the system development life cycle and information 

technology (IT) project management with the help of a 

live and working project. 


Prerequisite(s): COMP 150 and (MIS 301 or MIS 311) and MIS 

302 

MIS 498 - INFORMATION SYSTEMS 

PROJECT II 

This course is the continuation of the MIS 497 Information 

System Project I. The aim is to expose the students 

to the system development life cycle and information 

technology (IT) project management with the help of a 

live and working project. 


Prerequisite(s): MIS 497

MUS 141 - PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP I 

In this course, the students will learn how to play and 

sound together as an ensemble. Students will listen, 

transcribe, practice and play different styles of grooves. 

By means of this course, the students have the opportunity 

to increase their aural and musical literacy skills and will 

develop their sense of internal beat, physical confidence 

and inherent musicality. 



MUS 142 - PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP II 

In this course, the students will learn how to play and 

sound together as an ensemble. Students will listen, 

transcribe, practice and play different styles of grooves. 

By means of this course the students have the opportunity 

to increase their aural and musical literacy skills and will 

develop their sense of internal beat, physical confidence 

and inherent musicality. 



MUS 167 - FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC I 

This course is designed to help the students to improve 

their own musical intuitions. Students will develop every 

aspect of their musical abilities through intensive training 

in part writing, counterpoint, ear training and musical 

analysis. Musical examples of the course will be chosen 

from a wide range of western music history literature 

(pop songs, jazz and classical) to show the development 

of western music theory in history. 



MUS 168 - FUNDAMENTALS OF 

MUSIC II 

This course aims to help the students to improve their 

own musical intuitions. The kind of harmony dealt with 

primarily in this class is the harmonic style of music 

composed during the period from 1650 to about 1900. 

Students will develop every aspect of their musical 

abilities through intensive training in part writing, 

keyboard harmony, ear training and musical analysis. 

Musical examples of the course will be chosen from a 

wide range of western music history literature (pop songs, 

jazz and classical) to show the development of western 

music theory in history. 



MUS 169 - SURVEY OF ESSENTIAL TEXTS 

ON MUSIC I 

The course will concentrate on the texts that illustrate 

conceptual frameworks corresponding to the music of the 

past as well as to the music of the 21st century. The focus 

will be on developing an analytical approach towards 

the topics of each class through critical reading, class 

discussion and weekly assignments. The texts will cover 

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a broad range of topics from music history, musicology 

and music theory, as well as cultural studies, critical 

theory and sociology. The plan is to combine important 

analytical texts from the musical and sociological realms 

with historical documents to help students establish 

links between socio-economic conditions, philosophical 

concerns, the aesthetic spectrum and musical realities. 


MUS 170 - SURVEY OF ESSENTIAL TEXTS 

ON MUSIC II 

The course will concentrate on the texts that illustrate 

conceptual frameworks corresponding to the music of the 

past as well as to the music of the 21st century. The focus 

will be on developing an analytical approach towards 

the topics of each class through critical reading, class 

discussion and weekly assignments. The texts will cover 

a broad range of topics from music history, musicology 

and music theory, as well as cultural studies, critical 

theory and sociology. The plan is to combine important 

analytical texts from musical and sociological realms 

with historical documents to help students establish 

links between socio-economic conditions, philosophical 

concerns, the aesthetic spectrum and musical realities. 


MUS 171 - PIANO I 

The course will cover simple two-hand pieces and simple 

melodies with chordal accompaniment: techniques 

involving scales: and coordination studies with fingering 

for various two-hand patterns. 



MUS 172 - PIANO II 

Various techniques for left-hand accompaniment: easy 

to intermediary standards: usage of 7th chords and their 

inversions in the left-hand accompaniment. Students will 

be encouraged to do more sight-reading. 



MUS 209 - MUSICIANSHIP I 

This is the introductory class of Musicianship courses 

which aim to help the students to improve their own 

musical intuitions. Students will develop every aspect of 

their musical abilities through intensive training in part 

writing, keyboard harmony, ear training, and musical 

analysis. The musical examples of the course will be 

chosen from a wide range of Western music history 

literature (Pop songs, Jazz and Classical) to show the 

development of the Western Music Theory in history. 


Prerequisite(s): CMN 145 or CMN 146 or MUS 167 or MUS 168 

MUS 210 - MUSICIANSHIP II 

This is the second class of Musicianship courses which 

aim to help the students improve their own musical

intuitions. The kind of harmony that this class deals 

with primarily is the harmonic style of music composed 

during the period from 1650 to about 1900. Students will 

develop every aspect of their musical abilities through 

intensive training in part writing, keyboard harmony, ear 

training, and musical analysis. The musical examples of 

the course will be chosen from a wide range of Western 

music history literature (Pop songs, Jazz and Classical) 

to show the development of the Western Music Theory 

in history. 


Prerequisite(s): MUS 209 or MUS 211 

MUS 215 - MIDI AND SOUND 

TECHNOLOGY I 

This course aims to introduce students to an audio and MIDI 

music production studio. Students acquire knowledge 

about sound recording history and the development 

of MIDI technology. Students will be introduced 

to audio production devices such as microphones, 

mixing consoles, effect and dynamic processors, studio 

monitors. Students will learn the basic of audio and MIDI 

sequencers, hardware and software sound modules, sound 

cards and computer systems designed for computer music 

applications. Students will acquire the knowledge to 

properly set up their home studio, CUBASE SX Audio 

and MIDI Sequencer, VST Instrument Technology and 

Finale Notation Software. 



MUS 221 - CRITICAL LISTENING 

In our cultural environment a person receives very little 

explicit listening instruction and as a result, tends to think 

of listening as passive rather than active behavior, failing 

to recognize the amount of effort and skill that it takes 

to be a good listener. This course, by focusing on the 

significance of listening, aims to open up student’s ears 

to a whole new level of music listening and awareness. 

The course work will be shared among the music faculty 

in order to enable students to hear different approaches 

to listening by discussing materials selected from various 

musical genres. 


MUS 223 - PHYSICS OF SOUND AND MUSIC 

Theoretical and practical information about sound 

waves, penetration of sound, sound sources, the factors 

making sound, the meaning of frequency, amplitude, 

frequency ranges and the relationship between sound 

and music. 



MUS 230 - STUDIO AS A COMPOSITIONAL 

TOOL 

The course will present the historical usage of the 

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studio concept as a part of composition. On the 

theoretical side, the works of Stockhausen, Ligeti, 

Nono, the French Spectral School, Brian Eno, Björk 

and many others will be analyzed and discussed. The 

practical part will deal with conceptualization and the 

application of various digital processes to the student 

compositions. Students are expected to contribute 

by doing research and integrating it into the course 

through a wiki site. They will compose a final project 

for which they will use the new technology-based 

techniques in their own compositions. 


MUS 236 - INTRODUCTION TO 

COMPOSITION 

This course is planned as a preparation course for 

Composition Studies. Students will be working on a 

systematic approach to the art of composing through 

analyzing and writing small pieces in different styles and 

forms of music. Weekly assignments of written projects 

are required. 



MUS 241 - ENSEMBLE I 

This course is designed to improve students’ playing 

ability within a group and their improvisational 

skills. 




MUS 243 - AUDIO RECORDING 

TECHNOLOGIES I 

This course is designed to develop students’ theoretical 

knowledge of advanced audio recording techniques. They 

will practice both analog and digital recording techniques. 

They will learn all aspects of Digidesign Protools Audio 

recording software. Students will practice both analog 

and digital recording. 


Restriction(s): MUS 337 


MUS 244 - AUDIO RECORDING 

TECHNOLOGIES II 

This course is designed to develop the student’s theoretical 

knowledge of advanced microphone techniques, 

professional microphone placement and advanced analog 

and digital signal processing during recording. Students 

will be introduced to mixing and mastering applications. 

Students will have the opportunity to record and produce 

their own projects. 


Prerequisite(s): MUS 243 or MUS 337 



MUS 261 - ARRANGING 

In this course the student will learn the principles of 

scoring for the different set-ups of instrumentation 

groups from the small rhythm section to the large, fivehorn 

group. In one semester voicing techniques, chord 

scales, linear and horizontal approach techniques and reharmonization 

techniques will be discussed. The course 

requires intensive score writing and analysis. 



MUS 281 - HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC 

The course consists of a survey of music in its historical 

and social context, starting from ancient Greece and 

continuing through the middle of the Classical period. 

Philosophical aspects of music will be discussed. 

Performance and compositional techniques will be 

analyzed. Extensive listening will take place in each 

lecture. Visual aids such as movies and slides will be used 

as well. 



MUS 282 - HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF 

NEW MUSIC 

This course is designed to explore the new musical 

directions of the 20th century. The lectures will begin 

with challenges of tonality and serialism and continue 

with experimentalism, indeterminacy, from pointillism 

to group composition, new instrumental resources, 

minimalism and rediscovery of tonality, new approaches 

to language and extended media resources. Students will 

learn different composition techniques and compare 

musical styles of the twentieth century. Weekly lectures 

will include listening to the material of several composers 

such as John Cage, Earl Brown, La Monte Young, David 

Tudor, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Luciano 

Berio, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and others. 



MUS 305 - MODAL HARMONY 

This course is designed to teach the modal approach of 

twentieth-century contemporary music. The subjects of 

the course are the Modes of Major, Harmonic and Melodic 

Minor scale, modal voicing, using color tones, cadential 

chords, harmonic rhythm and spacing considerations, 

tetra chords, synthetic scales. Weekly assignments and 

projects will be required. 



MUS 316 - VISITING ARTISTS SEMINARS 

This seminar course aims to match students with art and 

music professionals who will share their professional 

and career experiences with the students. Open to all 

university students. Guest artists and performers will be 

part of the course. 

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KONUK SANATÇI SEMİNERLERİ 

Bu ders, çeşitli alanlarda çalışan sanatçıları öğrencilerle 

buluşturmayı ve öğrencilere sanatçıların profesyonel 

hayata ilişkin deneyimlerini paylaşabilecekleri bir ortam 

sağlamayı amaçlamaktadır. Konuk sanatçılar her dönem 

farklı bir konu çerçevesinde seçilecektir. 

MUS 334 - SURVEY OF WORLD MUSIC II 


overview of the great diversity of the world’s musics 

focusing on: styles-genres, musical systems and 

instruments. We will examine some of the discussions that 

underline the ideas of “world music” and globalization. 

Europe, Asia and Australia will be the geographical areas 

of the music to be discussed. 



MUS 335 - JAZZ STYLES AND ANALYSIS 

While introducing the jazz styles in chronological 

sequence, the course involves an in-depth cultivation of 

listening skills that will enable the student to graduate 

from course work to a lifetime of appreciating jazz 

improvisation. After an in-depth evaluation of what 

jazz is and how it has been defined, the course explores 

the African roots of jazz. The remaining 12 weeks are 

spent on the major styles, usually one decade every 2 

weeks. Both information and listening-skill goals will be 

achieved on the following topics: early jazz, swing style, 

Ellington, Basie, bop, cool and hard-bop styles. 



MUS 338 - SOUND REINFORCEMENT AND 

CONCERT SOUND 

This course aims to introduce students to live sound 

systems, stage design, and signal distribution in 

sound reinforcement application. Students acquire 

knowledge about signal processing in sound 

reinforcement, P.A. systems, system speaker design 

and applications, power amplifiers, active and passive 

crossovers, sound processors, installation of club 

systems and hands-on training in front-of-the-house 

and monitor mixing. 



MUS 367 - INTERACTIVITY AND SOUND 

SYNTHESIS 

This course will concentrate on the contemporary 

issues of interaction and sound synthesis through 

the software Max/MSP. Algorithmic processes, 

programming strategies, machine-human interaction, 

control interfaces, signal networks and various sound

synthesis techniques will form the core of the course. 

There will be weekly assignments, two musical projects 

and one final project. 



MUS 369 - JINGLE WRITING 

This course is designed for students to specialize in 

composing music for radio and television commercials. 

To present a commercial idea by music, students will 

learn to use their skills in all styles. 



MUS 374 - ORCHESTRATION 

The Orchestration course is designed to teach the 

students the art of combining the sounds of a complex 

of instruments to form an effective mix and balance 

by using the musical examples and the scores of the 

significant composers of Western music history. At the 

end of the course the student will have gained a strong 

foundation for the understanding of all the various 

instruments, and the handling of the various sections 

of the orchestra. 



MUS 375 - CREATIVE WORKSHOP 

AND ENSEMBLE 

This course is planned as a continuation of the 

Introduction to Composition course. Students will 

be working on a systematic approach to the art of 

composing through analyzing different styles of music 

and writing pieces for a specific instrumentation and 

duration as directed by the instructor. The students 

will regularly listen to, analyze and discuss many 

styles and forms of various music, from western 

classical music to most contemporary genres. Weekly 

assignments of written projects are required. The 

projects of the students will be performed regularly 

by a student ensemble. 


Prerequisite(s): MUS 236 

MUS 376 - COMPOSITION WORKSHOP 

This course is a continuation of the Creative Workshop 

course. The students will continue working on a 

systematic approach to the art of composing through 

analyzing different styles of music. They will write 

and perform various types of music as instructed by 

the teachers of the course. The performance aspect of 

innovative music is the main subject of the course. 

The students will regularly play their works and other 

originals of the great composers of the contemporary 

literature. Weekly assignments of written projects are 

required. 


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MUS 378 - POST PRODUCTION AND 

REMIXING 

A project oriented class dealing with creating stereo 

remixes for specific markets including radio, club and 

dance formats. Using musicianship and appropriate 

technology to strengthen the arrangement, beat and sonic 

impact of recording with focus on the technical, practical 

and artistic applications of mixing. 



MUS 380 - MULTIMEDIA AND 

PERFORMANCE 

This course will deal with advanced concepts of 

programming such as designing visual interfaces, 

building your own plug-ins, incorporating visual 

elements (through Jitter), sound installation design, using 

sensors and control interfaces for live performance, and 

collective improvisation using laptops. There will be 

weekly assignments, one multimedia project and one final 

performance project. 



MUS 383 - RHYTHMICAL CONCEPTS 

This course is designed to provide an understanding 

of rhythm through the analysis of syncopation, time 

feel and phrasing, permutation, metric modulation, the 

clave and rhythmic modes, polyrhythm and irregular 

groupings, meter and tempo, cross-rhythms and rhythmic 

composition. A weekly assignment is required. The final 

project includes a composition with an analysis of the 

different concepts used in the piece. 



MUS 384 - RHYTHMICAL CONCEPTS AND 

ENSEMBLE 

In this course, students will concentrate on nonwestern 

rhythmic concepts from Africa and South 

India. Periodically, organized in an ensemble situation, 

emphasis is put on aural and kinesthetic learning skills. 

Through demonstration and imitation, students learn the 

rhythmical concepts of Karnataka music and West African 

percussion music. 




MUS 386 - EXPERIMENTAL 

IMPROVISATION 

This course is a seminar-based course where we 

will meet with students to practice improvisation at 

a more experimental level. Students will use their 

traditional, computer-based or any experimental musical 

instruments in this course. This is be a collective musical 

improvisation process where during each session, 

students will experience different improvisation strategies

and methods in practice. There will also be listening 

sessions to introduce various experimental musical 

improvisation pieces to the students. The course will 

focus on performing and critical listening separately in 

collective improvisation. Each week discussions will take 

place about the improvisation session and the listening 

material of that week. Visitor musicians will be invited to 

improvise with the students at some sessions. At the end 

of each term, public concerts will be organized for the 

students to perform collective musical improvisation as 

the final work of the course. 



MUS 388 - SOUND ART 

This course aims to introduce students to the evolution 

of sound art from the early 20th century to the present. 

Each week a selected work of a contemporary artist 

such as Cage, Eno, Fontana, Amacher, Lucier, Oliveros, 

Marclay, Oswald, Ono, Tone, Viola or Westerkamp will 

be investigated. This survey aims to help students to 

understand and criticize the possible artistic, narrative and 

compositional structures and strategies of contemporary 

sound art and to use that understanding while developing 

their own projects. 



MUS 394 - SONGWRITING 

This course is designed to practice songwriting techniques. 

Students who complete this course will be able to combine 

lyrics accurately and effectively with melody, to construct 

strong, expressive melodies with an understanding of how 

harmony can help to articulate the essential meaning of a 

song and the ways to adapt chords and progressions to suit 

songwriting style and ideas. 



MUS 437 - RECORDING STUDIO LAB I 

This course elevates students to the advanced topics of 

digital audio, automated mixing, specialized engineering 

techniques and digital signal processing equipment. 

Time is spent learning the various facets of professional 

audio by discussing and experiencing projects from preproduction 

through completion. 



MUS 438 - RECORDING STUDIO LAB II 

Studies include the application of modern recording 

techniques with hands-on experience in a multi-track 

recording studio, covering microphone techniques, 

tape machine operation, session procedures and basic 

production techniques. Students are expected to learn 

studio operational procedures in the studio. Supervised 

practical experience in multitrack recording and mixing 

will also be included small groups and individual project 

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work will be undertaken with group listening and 

discussion. 



MUS 439 - CURRENT ISSUES IN THE 

MUSIC INDUSTRY 

This course aims to encourage students to discuss currents 

issues in the music industry. Some of the topics that will 

be handled are the relationship between music genres 

and the structure of music corporations, major labels vs. 

independent labels, the impact of digital technologies on 

the industry, legal protection and copyright. 




MUS 440 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSIC: 

PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC BUSINESS 

This course aims to encourage students to discuss the 

current issues in the record industry. Students acquire 

knowledge about how to produce and distribute music. 

Students will be introduced to how the record industry 

operates. Students will acquire knowledge about how 

musicians plan their recording environment/budget 

when they start a project. This course will cover topics 

like getting a record/publishing contract, online music 

distribution solutions for both signed and unsigned 

musicians and the legal aspects of the music market. 

During this course visiting artists/lecturers will join in 

discussing the current strategies in the music industry. 




MUS 441 - SENIOR PROJECT I 

For performance majors, the project leads up to 

the performance of the senior recital, which is the 

performance major’s final project, and focuses on 

developing performance technique, expanding his/her 

repertoire and honing a sense of musical direction in 

building a performance. For composition majors, the 

course provides guidelines for graduation compositions, 

and for professional music majors it provides guidelines 

for the graduation thesis with an advisor/instructor. For 

sound technology students, the course helps them to carry 

out live and studio recordings. 


MUS 442 - SENIOR PROJECT II 

For performance majors, the project leads up to 

the performance of the senior recital, which is the 

performance major’s final project and focuses on 

developing performance technique, expanding his/her 

repertoire and honing a sense of musical direction in 

building a performance. For composition majors, the 

course provides guidelines for graduation compositions 

and for professional music majors it provides guidelines

for the graduation thesis with an advisor/instructor. For 

sound technology students, the course helps them to carry 

out live and studio recordings. 


Special Condition(s): MUS 441 

MUS 445 - STEREO MIXING AND 

MASTERING 

This course will cover the practical aspects of stereo 

mixing and mastering at a professional standard, with 

emphasis on digital and analog techniques, in conjunction 

with critical listening and aesthetic considerations. The 

functional operation of studio equipment and application, 

including outboard processing and DAW plug-ins. 

Session procedures and protocols, mix formats and data 

management. 


MUS 446 - SURROUND MIXING AND 

MASTERING 

This course will cover the practical aspects of surround 

mixing and mastering at a professional standard, with 

emphasis on digital and analog techniques, in conjunction 

with critical listening and aesthetic considerations. The 

functional operation of studio equipment and application, 

including outboard processing and DAW plug-ins. 

Session procedures and protocols, mix formats and data 

management. 


MUS 459 - POST-TONAL MUSIC 

The course will concentrate on post-tonal repertoire and 

will deal with how analytical approaches can enrich our 

experience of modern musical works. This is a course 

aiming to understand new music by analyzing early 

atonal repertoire, Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, 

Webern, Berg), post-war serialism, aleatory music, 

minimalism and spectral music. The focus of the seminars 

is listening to music, analyzing it, and then discussing 

how the analysis contributes to our understanding of the 

works under study 



MUS 460 - MUSIC AND GENDER 

This course will introduce students to various issues 

concerning women in music in different genres. During the 

course the students will explore the role of women in music 

as teachers, composers, performers, scholars and patrons. 

Emphasis on women’s contribution to western music, within 

the economic, social, educational and political framework 

to which they belong. Discussing challenges to gender 

stereotypes and the feminine. Exploring the “feminine” 

aesthetic in music. Formal training in music is not required. 

Evaluation based on class participation, papers, a class group 

presentation and a final exam. 



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MUS 466 - MUSICAL COMMUNICATION 

Music is nonverbal communication in the form of sound. 

Expressing music is the craft of musical communication, 

the art of delivery. This course covers different cognitive/ 

communication techniques designed to enhance the 

delivery. The language, management and mastery of affect 

will be studied through intensive in-class performances. 



MUS 471 - PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS IN 

CONTEMPORARY ART AND MUSIC I 

This course is designed both to explore new musical 

directions in the 20th century and to introduce students to 

critical and theoretical debates and new ways of thinking 

in contemporary culture, philosophy and music. 



PA 101 - MOVEMENT AND ACTING I 

This course will present the basics of movement and 

acting that are necessary for all kinds of performing 

arts. The students will do exercises which focus on 

fundamentals like correct posture, distribution of weight, 

kinetic awareness and coordination in order to develop 

their movement skills. The student will also be introduced 

to theatre vocabulary and to acting techniques through 

kinesthetic, vocal, sensory and imaginative exercises. 

There will also be improvisation sessions, which will 

awaken their creativity and work on the performative 

quality. In addition to this course, there will be regular 

monthly ‘body-based arts’ workshops in which the students 

will have the opportunity to work with invited performing 

artists and develop their acting and performance skills. 

One of the goals of these workshops will be to create and 

experiment and/or be part of a creation or performance. 


Restriction(s): PA 191 



HAREKET VE OYUNCULUK I 

Bu ders, her tür performans sanatlarında gerekli 

olan hareket temellerini öğretir. Öğrenciler, doğru 

beden duruşu, ağırlık dağılımı, kinetik farkındalık ve 

koordinasyon geliştirmek üzere temel alıştırmalarda 

bulunur. Öğrenciler ayrıca tiyatro terimleri ve kinestetik, 

vokal, duyusal ve hayalgücü egzersizleri yoluyla 

oyunculuk teknikleriyle tanışacaklar. Diğer taraftan, 

yaratıcılıklarını uyandıracak ve performatif nitelikleri 

üzerine çalışmalarını sağlayacak doğaçlama çalışmaları 

olacaktır. Bunun yanında, öğrencilerin diğer performans 

sanatçılarından öğrenme ve kendi oyunculuk ve hareket 

becerilerini geliştirme imkânını sağlayan ‘beden odaklı 

sanat’ atölyeleri her ay düzenli olarak yapılacaktır. 

Bu atölyeler esnasında, öğrenciler bir yaratının ya da 

performansın parçası olma ve/veya bunu yaratma ve 

deneyimleme imkânına da sahip olacaklardır.

PA 102 - MOVEMENT AND ACTING II 

This course will present the basics of movement and 

acting that are necessary for all kinds of performing 

arts. The students will do exercises which focus on 

fundamentals like correct posture, distribution of weight, 

kinetic awareness and coordination in order to develop 

their movement skills. The student will also be introduced 

theatre vocabulary and to acting techniques through 

kinesthetic, vocal, sensory and imaginative exercises. 


awaken their creativity and work on the performative 

quality. In addition to this course, there will be regular 

monthly ‘body-based arts’ workshops in which the students 

will have the opportunity to work with invited performing 

artists and develop their acting and performance skills. 

One of the goals of these workshops will be to create and 

experiment and/or be part of a creation or performance. 


Prerequisite(s): PA 101 



HAREKET VE OYUNCULUK II 

Bu ders, her tür performans sanatlarında gerekli 

olan hareket temellerini öğretir. Öğrenciler, doğru 

beden duruşu, ağırlık dağılımı, kinetik farkındalık ve 

koordinasyon geliştirmek üzere temel alıştırmalarda 

bulunur. Öğrenciler ayrıca tiyatro terimleri ve kinestetik, 

vokal, duyusal ve hayalgücü egzersizleri yoluyla 

oyunculuk teknikleriyle tanışacaklar. Diğer taraftan, 

yaratıcılıklarını uyandıracak ve performatif nitelikleri 

üzerine çalışmalarını sağlayacak doğaçlama çalışmaları 

olacaktır. Bunun yanında, öğrencilerin diğer performans 

sanatçılarından öğrenme ve kendi oyunculuk ve hareket 

becerilerini geliştirme imkânını sağlayan ‘beden odaklı 

sanat’ atölyeleri her ay düzenli olarak yapılacaktır. 

Bu atölyeler esnasında, öğrenciler bir yaratının ya da 

performansın parçası olma ve/veya bunu yaratma ve 

deneyimleme imkânına da sahip olacaklardır. 

PA 201 - IMPROVISATION TECHNIQUES I 

In this course, students will do exercises to trigger their 

talent and creativity. They will work on basic techniques 

that develop their instincts and imagination, and their 

individual characteristics. This course will use the 

methods of collaborative work as in a theatre company. 

The students will realize a short performance at the end 

of the course, based on personal stories into which they 

bring themselves as a character. 




DOĞAÇLAMA TEKNİKLERİ I 

Bu derste, öğrenciler yeteneklerini ve yaratıcılıklarını 

öne çıkaran alıştırmalar yapacaklardır. İçgüdü ve hayal 

gücünü harekete geçirecek temel teknikler üzerinde 

çalışıp bireysel özellikler geliştirilecektir. Bu ders, bir 

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tiyatro topluluğu üyelerinin birlikte çalışma yöntemlerine 

dayanacak ve dersin sonunda öğrenciler kişisel 

hikâyelerinden yola çıkarak bir karakter oluşturmaya 

yönelik kısa birer performans gerçekleştireceklerdir. 

PA 202 - IMPROVISATION TECHNIQUES II 

This course is designed to provide the students with better 

understanding of themselves and their relation with their 

environment. They will become aware of their bodily habits 

and will be led to diversify them. Through improvisation, 

students will learn to observe their own bodies, to seize 

the moment and to build a relation with their environment. 

Students will be encouraged to explore their creative 

potentials and to develop their personal qualities. 




PA 203 - MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES I 

This course will be a continuation of the first year 

Movement course. The students will further develop 

their movement skills by focusing on functional anatomy, 

dynamics and eurhythmics, and by working on a more 

complex relationship of space, time and movement. 


awaken their creativity. Regular ballet technique classes 

are also part of the work. In addition to this course, there 

will be regular monthly ‘body-based arts’ workshops in 

which the students will have the opportunity to work with 

invited performing artists and develop their acting and 

performance skills. One of the goals of these workshops 

will be to create and experiment and/or be part of a 

creation or performance. 



Restriction(s): PA 293 



HAREKET TEKNİKLERİ I 

Bu ders, ilk yılda alınan Beden Temelleri dersinin devamı 

olarak işlenecektir. Öğrenciler hareket kapasitelerini 

geliştirecek işlevsel anatomi ve dinamikler üzerine 

yoğunlaşarak mekân, zaman ve hareket arasında daha 

karmaşık bir ilişki kurmaya yönelik çalışırlar. Derste, 

ayrıca öğrencilerin yaratıcılıklarını uyandıracak 

doğaçlamaya da yer verilecektir. Bale tekniği çalışmaları 

da dersin kapsamındadır. Bunun yanında öğrencilerin 

diğer performans sanatçılarından öğrenme ve kendi 

oyunculuk ve hareket becerilerini geliştirme imkânını 

sağlayan ‘beden odaklı sanat’ atölyeleri her ay düzenli 

olarak yapılacaktır. Bu atölyeler esnasında, öğrenciler bir 

yaratının ya da performansın parçası olma ve/veya bunu 

yaratma ve deneyimleme imkânına da sahip olacaklardır. 

PA 204 - MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES II 

This course will be a continuation of the first year 

Movement course. The students will further develop

their movement skills by focusing on functional anatomy, 

dynamics and eurhythmics, and by working on a more 

complex relationship of space, time and movement. 


awaken their creativity. Ballet technique classes are also 

part of the work. In addition to this course, there will be 

regular monthly ‘body-based arts’ workshops in which 

the students will have the opportunity to work with 

invited performing artists and develop their acting and 

performance skills. One of the goals of these workshops 

will be to create and experiment and/or be part of a 

creation or performance. 




PA 205 - ACTING TECHNIQUES 

In this course, students will be encouraged to develop their 

artistic skills as reflective theatre practitioners. Students 

will build on the first year acting courses by exploring 

specific methodologies and texts. They will be directed 

towards the realization of a selected text. 



PA 206 - RHYTHM AND VOICE 

This course is designed to develop the sense of rhythm 

in the student as an effective performer. Body percussion 

and voice exercises will build a ground for creative 

expression as well as develop a deeper sense of gravity 

and coordination among the body parts. 




PA 211 - INTRODUCTION TO 

INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK 

Students will read and design one project per week, 

providing visual research, sketches, abstract instinctual 

material, story boards, and sometimes models. Projects 

will be interdisciplinary. They have to include at least one 

different discipline other than movement. Students will be 

guided to create interdisciplinary projects. 




PA 212 - BODIES AND TECHNOLOGIES 

This course aims at familiarizing the student with 

the relationship between the body and technology in 

contemporary art-making. The course material will 

include readings of theoretical texts, screenings of 

artworks, lectures and discussion. The student will be 

asked to perform research on a notion, technique or tool 

upon which he/she will devise a performance/installation 

project at the end of the semester. 



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PA 301 - PERFORMANCE IN CONTEXT 

This course introduces students to various contexts of 

performance: social, cultural and political. It examines 

the form, function and reception of performances within 

contexts like community, disabled, border, urban and 

globalization. The students will be encouraged to design 

and develop a performance project at the end of the 

course. 



PA 302 - AUDIO APPRECIATION FOR 

PERFORMERS 

This course is designed to give the student basic tools for 

listening, identifying and analyzing sound. The student 

will be equipped with a fundamental knowledge of sound 

in order to include audio awareness into the creative 

process of performance. The student will recognize sound 

as a composition in itself so as to build a dialogue with the 

movement pattern. 




PA 303 - CREATIVE PROCESS I 

The course will explore how to go through the 

process of creation towards the creation of an artistic 

project. Students will be asked to create a concept and 

throughout the course they will experience how to 

develop, research, communicate, construct and clarify 

their visions and intentions. The course will provide 

both the tools and practice which lead to the personal 

and inner sources of creation of each individual. The 

students will have the opportunity to analyze their own 

artistic projects as well as develop thoughts about their 

fellow students’ projects, thus enriching their visions 

through the process of sharing their analytic views and 

constructive criticism. 



PA 304 - CREATIVE PROCESS II 

As the continuation of Creative Process I, this course 

will provide deeper research methods in order to achieve 

different qualities in the process of creation. The given 

tools and exercises will help the students to choose from 

their accumulated working material and make conscious 

choices according to their aims and intentions. The course 

will introduce approaches to composition, deepen the 

qualities of listening, analysis and perception, and will 

encourage thinking about meaning. Towards the end of 

the course the students will present their projects and will 

analyze the outcome and the entire creative process from 

beginning to final product. 




YARATICI SÜREÇ II 

Bu ders, bir yaratıma doğru ilerlerken, farklı niteliklere 

ulaşmak için daha derin araştırma yöntemlerini 

işleyecektir. Sunulan yöntemler ve çalışmalar sayesinde 

öğrenciler şimdiye kadar topladıkları çalışma malzemeleri 

içinden, niyet ve amaçlarına uygun olarak bilinçli 

seçimler yapabileceklerdir. Ders boyunca kompozisyon 

yaklaşımları işlenecek, dinleme, çözümleme ve algılama 

nitelikleri derinleştirilecek, öğrenciler anlam üzerine 

düşünmeye teşvik edileceklerdir. Dersin sonuna doğru 

öğrenciler projelerini sunacaklar ve sonuçta bütün 

yaratım sürecini başından sonuna kadar gözden geçirerek 

inceleyeceklerdir. 

PA 305 - PERFORMANCE AND SOMATICS I 

This course is the continuation of Movement courses of 

the second year. It explores performative practice with 

creativity, individuality, and sensitivity. The work is based 

on the self-discovery, non-judgment and self-reflexivity 

which are fundamental for any performer. Techniques 

such as Alexander, Feldenkrais, Laban and Bartenieff 

are used as means of discovering further potentials of the 

body with economical use of movement. Regular ballet 

technique classes are also part of the work. In addition 

to this course, there will be regular monthly ‘body based 

arts’ workshops in which the students will have the 

opportunity to work with invited performing artists and 

develop their acting and performance skills. One of the 

goals of these workshops will be to create and experiment 

and/or be part of a creation or performance. 




PA 306 - PERFORMANCE AND SOMATICS II 

This course is the continuation of Movement courses of 

the second year. It explores performative practice with 

creativity, individuality, and sensitivity. The work is based 

on the self-discovery, non-judgment and self-reflexivity 

which are fundamental for any performer. Techniques 

such as Alexander, Feldenkrais, Laban and Bartenieff 

are used as means of discovering further potentials of the 

body with economical use of movement. Regular ballet 

technique classes are also part of the work. In addition 

to this course, there will be regular monthly ‘body based 

arts’ workshops in which the students will have the 

opportunity to work with invited performing artists and 

develop their acting and performance skills. One of the 

goals of these workshops will be to create and experiment 

and/or be part of a creation or performance. 




PESP 179 - POLITICAL ECONOMY AND 

SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY I 

The objective of this course is to offer a structured firstyear 

education in which students will build up fundamental 

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academic skills such as textual analysis, critical and 

creative thinking, active participation in teamwork and 

research and argumentative writing. To this end, students 

will be introduced, through a close study of primary 

texts, to the basic notions of political economy and social 

philosophy with a view to exploring their emergence and 

interaction throughout history, their present-day meaning, 

their significance in human sciences and their application 

to contemporary issues. 


PESP 180 - POLITICAL ECONOMY AND 

SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY II 

The objective of this course is to offer a structured firstyear 

education in which students will build up fundamental 

academic skills such as textual analysis, critical and 

creative thinking, active participation in teamwork and 

research and argumentative writing. To this end, students 

will be introduced, through a close study of primary 

texts, to the basic notions of political economy and social 

philosophy with a view to exploring their emergence and 

interaction throughout history, their present-day meaning, 

their significance in human sciences and their application 

to contemporary issues. 


PESP/E 179 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 


















developed. 


PESP/E 180 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 







specific fields of choice. Students will be guided through











developed. 


PHIL 103 - PHILOSOPHY AND 

LITERATURE 

This course will begin with the transformations of Western 

narrative forms with the transition from the oral to the 

written tradition. The change undergone by literary forms 

previously informed by mythology upon their contact 

with philosophy and new social/political institutions 

will be discussed in detail. Starting from epic poetry, the 

course will follow the trajectory of Western literature up 

to modern forms of narrative. 


PHIL 105 - PHILOSOPHY AND ANCIENT 

GREEK THOUGHT 

This course aims to provide an understanding of the 

meaning, significance and function of “philosophy” as 

a theoretical and practical activity in ancient Greece. 

Its main objective is to uncover various transformations 

of philosophical activity through a discussion of the 

continuities and discontinuities that mark the tradition. 

Pre-Socratic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, as well as the 

major schools of the Hellenistic era such as Epicureanism, 

Stoicism and Skepticism will be discussed. 


PHIL 106 - PHILOSOPHY AND MODERNITY 

In this course, the conception of rationality peculiar to 

modernity will be examined in the light of the works 

of such philosophers as Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, 

Hume and Kant. The limits and problems of the 

new meaning, significance and function acquired by 

philosophy in this period will be discussed and the 

new conception of rationality adopted by modernity 

will be submitted to a critical analysis from the 

perspective described above. 


PHIL 301 - PROBLEMATIZATION OF 

HUMAN ACTION AND THE EMERGENCE 

OF THE SELF 

The course aims to study the various ways in which human 

action has been problematized within western tradition 

from ancient Greek to modern times, the conceptions of 

human self that these problematizations gave rise to and 

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the relationship of these conceptions to philosophy and 

to such narrative forms as tragedy, dialogue, meditations, 

confessions and essays. 


Restriction(s): LIT 321 



İNSAN EDİMİNİN 

SORUNSALLAŞTIRILMASI VE 

KENDİLİĞİN ORTAYA ÇIKIŞI 

Bu ders, batı geleneğinde Eski Yunan’dan modern döneme 

dek insan ediminin farklı sorunsallaştırma biçimlerini, 

bu sorunsallaştırmaların beraberinde getirdiği kendilik 

kavramlarını, bu kavramların felsefenin yanı sıra trajedi, 

diyalog, meditasyon, itiraf/günah çıkartma ve deneme 

gibi anlatı biçimleriyle ilişkisini ele alır. 

PHIL 302 - THE MODERN SELF AS A 

PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM 

The course discusses the emergence and development 

of the modern notion of human self from Descartes to 

the 19th century with an emphasis on the implications 

that this tradition had on such ethical and political 

issues as human nature, subjectivity, autonomy 

and power. This survey will be situated within the 

context of major philosophical doctrines including 

social contract theory, idealism, historicism and 

materialism. 





FELSEFİ BİR SORUN OLARAK MODERN 

BENLİK 

Bu ders, Descartes’tan 19. yüzyıla dek uzanan bir süreçte 

modern kendilik kavramının ortaya çıkışı ve gelişimini, bu 

geleneğin insan doğası, öznellik, otonomi ve iktidar gibi 

etik ve politik meselelere etkisini inceler. Bu inceleme, 

toplumsal sözleşme teorisi, idealizm, tarihselcilik 

ve maddecilik gibi felsefi doktrinler bağlamında 

gerçekleştirilir. 

PHYS 101 - PHYSICS I 

Standards and units. Vectors and coordinate systems. 

Kinematics. Dynamics, work, energy and power. 

Conservation of energy. Dynamics of system of particles. 

Collisions. Rotational kinematics and dynamics. 

Equilibrium of rigid bodies. Oscillations. 


PHYS 169 - PHYSICS 

Move, measure, vector, work, power and energy, 

Newton’s laws, energy, energy conservation, solidstate, 

center of mass, rotational mechanics-dynamics. 

Physical quantities, vectors, uniform accelerated 

motion, Newton’s laws of motion, static equilibrium,

work and energy, linear momentum, circular motion, 

in turn, work, energy and momentum. Vibrations 

and waves, sound, electric forces and fields, electric 

potential, DC circuits, magnetism. 



PHIL 402 - PHILOSOPHICAL 

FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL THOUGHT 

Aiming at an exploration of the philosophical 

foundations of recent social thought, this course will 

begin with an exposition of the competing conceptions 

of reason and rationality which have conditioned 

philosophical activity from Descartes to our days and 

will critically compare and contrast, on the background 

of this exploration, various approaches to social 

science. Readings will include Comte, Durkheim, 

Weber, Adorno, Horkheimer, Heidegger, Foucault, 

Deleuze. 




POV 221 - DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING 

This course is an introduction to photographic image 

modification through the use of computer technology. 

Topics include the use of scanners and other input devices, 

image editing software, various output options, as well as 

the commercial and aesthetic potential and application of 

digital imagery. 



POV 232 - EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY 

Digital Photography focuses on working with digital 

cameras. Students are expected to create a semesterlong 

project of their own choice. This course gives the 

students the opportunity to create an extended body of 

work using the imaging software previously learned in 

Digital Image Processing. Students will investigate a 

variety of image-making plans that are enhanced by the 

use of digital tools. 


Prerequisite(s): VCD 211 



POV 321 - CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT I 

This course is concerned with the cultivation of ideas 

and problem-solving strategies for photography and 

video projects. This course aims to guide students 

in how to acquire the skill to generate ideas and 

concepts through a variety of methodologies. Students 

are expected to develop their own project using the 

visualization tools and techniques they have learned 

in previous courses. Performance assessment will 

be based both on project quality and participation in 

discussions. 

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POV 322 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ADVANCED 

PHOTO STUDIO 

This course will be conducted as a series of workshops 

where students are expected to master the skills they 

acquired in previous courses. Students are required 

to work on a group project and will be encouraged to 

collaborate in solving some of the difficult technical 

and conceptual problems that are part of their project. 

Assignments will be carried out through sample published 

photographs sourced by the instructor or by the students 

themselves. 





POV 324 - CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT II 

This course is concerned with the cultivation of ideas and 

problem-solving strategies for photography and video 

projects. This course aims to guide students in how to 

acquire the skill to generate ideas and concepts through 

a variety of methodologies. Students are expected to 

develop their own project using the visualization tools 

and techniques they have learned in previous courses. 

Performance assessment will be based both on project 

quality and participation in discussions. 


Prerequisite(s): POV 321 


POV 331 - ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY 

The structure of this course takes students from 

conceptualization to the execution of creative, problemsolving 

photography in this highly competitive field. 

Students are encouraged to work with variety of formats, 

using black and white, color and digital techniques. 

Weekly assignments will be given in areas such as 

fashion, still life, food and people. 


Prerequisite(s): VCD 211 and VCD 212 and POV 322 



POV 341 - MUSIC VIDEO 

In this course, students will have the opportunity to direct 

their own professional-quality music video. This course 

will cover how to direct music videos from a technical 

point-of-view, from writing the concept to budgeting to 

shooting and editing it: how to direct music videos from 

a creative point of view and to think in video images. The 

students are expected to complete a music video with 

their own choice of music. 



Requires consent of instructor.

POV 342 - ARCHITECTURAL 

PHOTOGRAPHY 

In this course, emphasis will be on the study of the 

equipment, processes and procedures necessary for 

the photography of building exteriors and interiors and 

architectural landscapes. Students will use all formats 

with emphasis on large format cameras. Through various 

assignments and field studies, issues such as composition, 

styling, use of props, photographing within the landscape 

and editorial content will be covered. 




POV 401 - SENIOR PROJECT I 


basis of graduation project for the BA candidates of the 

Photography and Video department. The focus will be 

on the progression of the concept and to help students 

develop the skills needed to understand and carry out 

a research based visualization process. Students will 

generate practical solutions with their specific adviser and 

will visualise their concept. In successfully completion of 

the course the students will have acquired the experience 

ofcoordinating independent visual projects depending on 

investigation and research. 


POV 402 - SENIOR PROJECT II 

This course aims to organise and monitor the graduation 

project for BA candidates of the Photography and Video 

department. The students are expected to continue 

developing their graduation project which has started 

to shape in the previous project courseSenior Project I. 

Students will try to exterminate the problems that are 

determined by the project committee. 


Prerequisite(s): POV 401 

POV 441 - EXHIBITION DESIGN 

This course will cover issues related to exhibition and 

presentation systems. This course will relate the concepts 

of design components like video-art, new media, digital 

technology and architectural studies to the 3D display 

space. As a result the course will guide the students through 

the entire process of merging design into conceptual public 

display systems. At this point the project development will 

provide interaction with the spectators and bring the visual 

side of the presentation to an advanced stage. The course 

will focus on methods like video-art installations, demo 

creation, vj performances and experimental projects. 




PSY 110 - GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY 

Psychology is the study of how we think, act and feel. 

This is a survey course which covers some of the major 

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topics, theoretical perspectives and research findings in 

psychology. The course starts with an overview of the 

science of psychology, what psychologists do and their 

research methods. It continues with a study of the self, 

including theories of personality and cognitive, physical 

and social development over the life span. A major set of 

topics includes how our environment affects our behavior 

and attitudes and the different aspects of being social. 

Emotions and motivation, the different aspects of our 

physical selves including how the brain and the nervous 

system work and how we sense and perceive the world 

constitute another set of topics. Problems of mental health 

and other aspects of the mind, such as how we think, will 

constitute the last set of topics. 



PSY 179 - CRITICAL THINKING IN 

PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL 

SCIENCES I 

An introduction to basic texts in psychology, the humanities 

and social sciences, with an emphasis on comprehension, 

discussion and written and oral criticism of the texts. 


PSY 180 - CRITICAL THINKING IN 

PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL 

SCIENCES II 

Continuation of PSY 179. An introduction to further basic 

texts in psychology, the humanities and social sciences, 

with an emphasis on comprehension, discussion, and 

written and oral criticism of the texts. 


PSY 201 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY I 

This course is the first of a two-part sequence on social 

psychology, a discipline which is concerned with 

understanding how our thoughts, feelings and actions are 

influenced by social structures and processes. The focus is 

on social interaction. The social relevance of the theory and 

research in the field and a cross-cultural perspective are 

emphasized. The topics covered include: the history of the 

field, major theoretical and methodological issues, social 

cognition, stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination, and 

the self in cultural context. 



PSY 202 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY II 

This course is the second of a two-part sequence on social 

psychology (refer to PSY 201 above). The topics covered 

include: interpersonal attraction, close relationships, 

interpersonal aggression, attitudes, social influence, 

persuasion and attitude change, conformity, politics, 

leadership and power, group processes, organizational 

dynamics and environmental psychology. 



PSY 213 - STATISTICS FOR SOCIAL 

SCIENCES I 

This is the first part of a two-course sequence. The 

aim of the course this semester is to introduce students 

to the basics of statistical reasoning in the context of 

the social sciences. Towards this end, students will be 

provided with the statistical skills required to collate, 

summarize, present and analyze data. Students will be 

expected to master the underlying logic of statistical 

operations and reasoning and to begin to apply their 

understanding to research in the social sciences via 

hypothesis testing. 


Restriction(s): BUS 273 or IR 213 or MATH 213 or SOC 213 



PSY 214 - STATISTICS FOR SOCIAL 

SCIENCES II 

This is the second part of a two-course sequence in 

statistics. This semester, students will continue learning 

the basics of statistical reasoning in the context of the 

social sciences, doing further work on developing the 

statistical skills required to collate, summarize, present 

and analyze data. Mastery of the statistical techniques 

most commonly used in the social sciences will be 

emphasized. 


Special Condition(s): PSY 213 or SOC 213 

Restriction(s): BUS 274 or IR 213 or MATH 214 or SOC 214 



PSY 221 - CHILD DEVELOPMENT 

This is the first of a two-part sequence that offers a study 

of change and continuity in the physical, cognitive and 

psychosocial domains of human development from 

an ecological perspective. The aim is to provide an 

understanding of both some relatively common changes 

that most individuals experience and the variations to 

these patterns. The study of issues related to birth, infancy, 

pre-school and middle childhood is informed by various 

theoretical approaches. 




PSY 222 - ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT 

This course aims to examine the physical, cognitive and 

psychosocial dimensions of human development from an 

ecological perspective with attention to both continuity 

and change. Both typical and unusual courses of 

development in the individual and in relationships during 

adolescence will be examined, covering the period from 

puberty to young adulthood. 




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PSY 233 - PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING 

This course offers a survey of theory and research in 

the psychology of learning. It emphasizes laboratory 

work done with animals using the techniques of 

Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning at the 

behavioral level. Cognitive and biological aspects of 

learning and applications to human learning are also 

discussed. 




PSY 234 - COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 

This course provides a survey of psychology as the 

science of mental processes and an introduction to human 

cognition. Topics covered include perception, attention, 

short-term and long-term memory, levels of processing, 

categorization, problem solving and decision-making. 




PSY 301 - RESEARCH METHODS 

This course examines primary issues and methods of 

social science research. It covers basic aspects of the 

philosophy of science, methodological traditions and 

the main approaches to social research. A wide range 

of research methods, both quantitative and qualitative, 

that social scientists employ in attempting to understand 

the social world are described and evaluated. The 

course provides students with an understanding of the 

relationship between theory and method. 


Restriction(s): BUS 391 or EU 223 or IR 342 or SOC 211 



PSY 302 - RESEARCH PRACTICUM 

Individual and small-group applications of PSY 301 

content. Students learn the different steps involved in 

carrying out a research project from start to finish. Parallel 

to this, issues in the history and philosophy of science are 

discussed. 



PSY 311 - THEORIES OF PERSONALITY 

This course offers a critical review of major approaches to 

the study of personality, such as Freudian, neo-Freudian, 

interpersonal and humanistic, that have shaped thinking in 

the field and informed the study of normal and abnormal 

behavior and psychotherapy. There is a focus on the 

usefulness of these approaches for studying personality 

development across the life span and in social and cultural 

contexts. 




PSY 312 - INTRODUCTION TO 

PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 

This course provides an introduction to theoretical 

perspectives, descriptions, epidemiology, diagnostic 

techniques, clinical patterns, explanations and treatment 

methods related to psychological disorders. The course 

will emphasize continuities between normal and abnormal 

behavior and maintain a humanistic approach toward 

psychopathology. Attention will be paid to understanding 

the experience of pathology in its physiological, 

psychological and socio-cultural context. The course 

format will include interactive techniques such as role 

play, case study and brainstorming as well as theoretical 

presentations and discussion. 




PSY 322 - EXPERIMENTAL METHODS 

This course covers experimental methods in psychology 

including independent, repeated-measures and complex 

designs. Students learn by participating in and designing 

psychology experiments, writing up research reports in 

perception, attention, learning, memory, thinking and 

language, and analyzing published reports of experiments. 


Special Condition(s): BUS 273 or PSY 213 or SOC 213 



PSY 331 - PSYCHOLOGICAL 

MEASUREMENT 

This course aims to improve the students’ knowledge and 

understanding of the meaning and utility of test scores and 

to introduce them to testing procedures. The course covers 

the background and methodology of testing, elementary 

statistical concepts needed for a basic understanding of 

psychological measurement and examples of cognitive 

and affective assessments. Research and theories related 

to intelligence and personality tests, as well as clinical 

interpretation of results, are examined. 





PSY 341 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL 

PERSPECTIVES ON SEX AND GENDER 

This course aims to introduce students to the range and 

complexity of thinking theoretically about gender. It has an 

interdisciplinary and contextual emphasis, including both a 

historical overview of theories about gender differentiation 

and inequality and an examination of current dialogues. A 

major goal is to offer a critical perspective about the meaning 

of gender and of the many ways in which gender structures 

social life. There will also be a consideration of diversity 

within gender and the intersection of sex-gender and other 

social, cultural psychological relations and experiences. 

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PSY 352 - ORGANIZATIONAL 

PSYCHOLOGY 

This course is designed to give an overview of the field of 

organizational psychology and to help students develop 

a systems approach to behavior in organizations. Topics 

will include individual motivation, person-organization 

relationships, leadership and participation, inter-group and 

system dynamics, issues related to gender, conflict and conflict 

resolution, communication, cooperation and decision-making, 

as well as organizational power and politics. 




PSY 355 - FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY I 

Forensic psychology deals with the interaction between 

psychology and law as well as clinical applications within 

the legal system. The course is designed to acquaint 

the student with the uses of psychological knowledge 

and techniques in the areas of investigation of crime, 

assessment of both offender and victim, dynamics of 

victimization, psychology of offenders and treatment and 

rehabilitation of the convicted. In addition, consideration 

is given to aspects of violence, and interactions among 

the legal system, the individual and society. In the 

fields of both criminal justice and civil law (particularly 

family courts and children’s courts), law and psychology 

professionals must collaborate in various stages of the 

legal process. This course aims to provide students with 

the necessary theoretical background and relevant skills 

for some of these applications. The course will be carried 

out in cooperation with LAW 205 – Law and Psychology 

– to allow students from both departments to debate 

concrete cases together. 




PSY 357 - PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTIONS 

This course is designed to help students to better 

understand the process of addiction and the development 

of an addictive personality. The term addiction 

has moved from having a very limited focus-being 

associated almost entirely with alcohol and other drugs- 

to a much broader definition. With a broad vision of the 

addiction area the aim is to address not only substance 

abuse but also internet, eating, gambling, shopping and 

sexual behavior. Overall, addiction as a process, stages 

of addiction, addictive thinking, managing addictions 

and the process of recovery are the main headlines of 

the course. 




PSY 391 - COMMUNITY-FOCUSED 

APPROACHES IN PSYCHOLOGY 

This course provides an overview of the literature on 

the relationships of individuals to communities and 

society and on community-based approaches to applied 

developmental questions. Community-based approaches 

use an ecological and preventive perspective and focus 

on work with individuals, groups, communities and social 

institutions to create change. In this course students learn 

about the many roles psychologists can play in working 

with applied developmental questions and bringing 

about change. Students are required to complete multiple 

assignments and on-site projects that facilitate linking 

course material to real life. 


Prerequisite(s): PSY 202 



PSİKOLOJİDE TOPLUM ODAKLI 

YAKLAŞIMLAR 

Bu ders, bireylerin topluluklar ve toplum ile kurdukları 

ilişki ve uygulamalı gelişimsel sorulara toplulukodaklı 

yaklaşımlar üzerine literatürü gözden geçirir. 

Topluluk-odaklı yaklaşımlar ekolojik ve önleyici bir 

perspektif kullanırlar ve değişimi gerçekleştirmek 

için bireyler, gruplar, topluluklar ve sosyal kurumlarla 

çalışmaya odaklanırlar. Bu derste, öğrenciler 

psikologların uygulamalı gelişimsel sorularla ve değişimi 

gerçekleştirmekle ilgili üstlenebilecekleri rollerle ilgili 

bilgi edinirler. Öğrencilerin ders malzemesinin gerçek 

hayata bağlanmasını hızlandıran saha projeleri ve bunun 

yanında çok sayıda ödev tamamlamaları gerekmektedir 

PSY 392 - INTERPERSONAL DYNAMICS 

This course provides an introduction to the basic issues 

related to interpersonal dynamics. The theoretical base 

informing the didactic part is psychodynamic in general 

and phenomenological in particular. Gestalt methodology 

is used for the experiential part. A strong emphasis in the 

course is practice in increasing the participants’ awareness 

with respect to the issues covered, including self-other 

awareness in interpersonal issues. 


Special Condition(s): PSY 311 


PSY 401 - HISTORICAL AND MODERN 

PERSPECTIVES IN PSYCHOLOGY I 

This course is the first of a two-semester series on 

historical and modern perspectives in psychology. 

The course provides a critical examination and general 

overview of the science of psychology, covering important 

theoretical issues and enduring controversies such as the 

nature-nurture issue. Students learn about the historical 

development and present state of psychological theories 

and systems such as structuralism, functionalism, Gestalt, 

behaviorism and psychoanalysis. 

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PSY 402 - HISTORICAL AND MODERN 

PERSPECTIVES IN PSYCHOLOGY II 

This course is the second of a two-semester series on the 

historical and modern perspectives in psychology (refer 

to PSY 401 above). The focus of the course is on recent 

developments in psychology, such as cognitive psychology, 

postmodernist theories, cognitive neuroscience and 

evolutionary psychology. These approaches are analyzed 

in the light of historical controversies and implications for 

the future development of psychology are examined. 




PSY 412 - DATA ANALYSIS 

This course introduces the student to the techniques 

of analysis of social science data on the computer. In 

addition to a brief review of commonly used statistical 

tests (t-test, ANOVA, chi-square, correlation) using 

computerized statistical packages, the generation of 

descriptive statistics, the application of standard tests of 

significance, analysis of variance and regression analysis 

are studied and applied. 


Prerequisite(s): BUS 274 or PSY 214 or SOC 214 



PSY 461 - CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 

This course provides an overview of the field of clinical 

psychology, the status of the mental health professions 

in Turkey and a survey of theories of technique used 

in clinical assessment and intervention. Students are 

introduced to psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, 

Gestalt, family systems and group modalities. The course 

format includes lectures, discussions and role playing. 




PSY 481 - ISSUES IN 

PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 

This course is a complementary course to PSY 312. 

The course examines special topics in psychopathology 

selected either because of their unique characteristics, 

such as disorders appearing first in infancy, childhood or 

adolescence, because of their special importance, such 

as suicidal behavior, or because of their high prevalence 

rates. The course mainly emphasizes descriptive and 

explanatory approaches rather than the treatment 

procedures. The course format includes theoretical 

presentations and discussions as well as interactive 

techniques and case studies. 





PSY 482 - FAMILY AND GROUP DYNAMICS 

This course focuses on the psychology of family and 

group dynamics. The emphasis is on understanding 

individual issues in relation to the person’s family and 

group membership and in terms of the patterns and 

dynamics of the particular social system. The course 

explores the interaction of family with other significant 

systems such as marriage, education and employment. 

The course format will include elaboration on and 

discussion of relevant theories and concepts, as well as 

experiential exercises designed to promote the students’ 

understanding and insight into their family, group and 

intimate relationships. It is also hoped that the students’ 

learning will provide them with some useful theoretical 

tools that they can later use in their work with families 

and other social systems. 



PSY 484 - HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 

This course will provide an overview of the area of health 

psychology, with an emphasis on the social psychological 

perspective. The topics and issues covered will include 

social construction of health and illness, precursors of 

stress and illness, coping, social support, doctor-patient 

communication, adherence, self regulation and models 

of health promotion. The course will follow a seminar 

format and will include a research project. 




PSY 486 - THEORIES OF HUMAN CRISIS 

AND BASIC TECHNIQUES OF CRISIS 

INTERVENTION 

The primary purpose of this course is to present theories 

of crisis in general and crisis intervention in particular, 

describing basic problem-solving tactics, methods of 

coping and brief intervention strategies to alleviate the 

crisis. The course introduces students to the conceptual 

and multicultural dimensions of crisis, as well as to 

principles and strategies that can be applied broadly to 

psychological trauma and other human problems. 




PSY 491 - SENIOR PROJECT I 

This two-semester course aims to support the students in 

a year-long senior project. The project may be based on 

original quantitative or qualitative research, or another 

type of project chosen in consultation with the project 

advisor. Students will be required to work closely with 

their advisers and the course assistant throughout project. 

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PSY 492 - SENIOR PROJECT II 

Continuation of PSY 491. Students are expected to 

complete their projects. 



PSY/E 179 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 


















developed. 


PSY/E 180 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 


















developed. 


PTR 101 - HEAT-LIGHT THERAPY 

What is heat and light? Natural sources, review of physics 

of heat and light. History of heat and light therapy. The 

physiological effects of heat as a cold and hot. Light’s 

wave-lengths, the physiological and chemical effect of

infrared, ultraviolet, helium and laser. Review of dermis, 

reflex arc, the dermatomes of the body. The effects of 

cold and heat on the human body. Application techniques 

of IR, UV, laser, heliotherapy. Indications and contraindications 

of IR, UV, laser and heliotherapy. 



PTR 102 - HYDRO THERAPY 

After successfully completing this course, the studens will 

have learned the definition and rationale of hydrotherapy, 

properties of water, physiological effects of water, local 

effects of heat, local effects of cold. Reflex or consensual 

effects, segmental relationship of skin and viscera, reflex 

effects of prolonged heat, reflex effects of prolonged cold, 

reflex effects of short cold, reflex effects by alternating 

hot and cold procedures. Hydrostatic effect. Pascal’s, 

Archimedes’ Laws. Viscosity and turbulence. Local 

effects by alternating hot and cold, general effects of 

heat. General application of cold, use of cold in spasticity, 

reactions to the cold. Students will be capable of preparing 

and applying the local thermal procedures, chemical pack, 

the parafin bath, hot foot bath, whirlpool bath, sitz bath, 

cold compress, heating compress, the ıce pack, contrast 

local application, contrast baths. Technique of frictions, 

sprays and douches, percussion douche. Fluidotherapy, 

cleansing tub bath, hubbard tank, the Russian bath. 

Technique of medicated bath, underwater and spa therapy. 

Students will have a general knowledge of the planning 

and construction for pool therapy, underwater exercises 

- aquatic exercises, gases bath, sauna, Turkish baths, spas 

and health resorts in Turkey. 



PTR 104 - PSYCHO-SOCIAL 

REHABILITATION 

Introduction to psychology, methods, physiology and 

behavior, memory, personality, concepts of behaviorist level, 

general factors of status and symbols of status and culture 

concepts are handled. Stress and health, therapies, abnormal 

behaviors, social psychology, life-time improvement, 

relationships between patients and health professionals, 

social support and health, crises related with illnesses, 

psycho-immunology, chronic pains, aging, patients with 

cancer, communication, psychosocial approaches towards 

the disabled, neurophysiologic deficiencies, psychological 

status of the patients and different approaches, psychological 

tests and evaluation, intelligence and intelligence handicaps 

are focused on as well. 



PTR 105 - THEORY OF PHYSICAL 

ACTIVITY AND SPORT 

How muscles are structured, type of muscles, muscle 

tissues, gross molecular level, mechanism of contraction, 

how muscles respond, reciprocal innervation and inverse 

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myotatic reflex. How connective tissues are structured and 

how bones and joints are structured. Review of the breathing 

mechanism. Physics rules, Newton’s Law, kinesiology and 

biomechanics of major joints, biomechanics of specific 

exercises, appropriate sports activity. The benefits of physical 

activity, how aging affects physical activity. Physical fitness 

exercises for healthy lifestyles in childhood, teenage, adult 

and later years. 



PUB 179 - FOUNDATION YEAR SEMINAR I 

This modular first-year course aims to develop analytical 

capability in a social context, develop a historical 

perspective and advance various communication skills. 

The course is designed to allow complete student 

participation through classroom discussions, case studies, 

role playing exercises and field work. Each week, the 

focus will be on a particular social case or issue so that the 

students may better understand and work with the myriad 

influences shaping social phenomena and develop a basic 

knowledge of social change 



BAŞLANGIÇ SEMİNERİ I 

Bu modüler dersin amacı, tarihi bir bakış açısı, sosyal 

bağlamda analitik beceriler ve ileri düzeyde çeşitli iletişim 

becerileri geliştirmektir. Ders, sınıf içi tartışmalarda, 

vaka çalışmalarında, rol oyunu etkinliklerinde ve saha 

çalışmasında eksiksiz öğrenci katılımını sağlamak 

üzere tasarlanmıştır. Her hafta, belirli bir sosyal vakaya 

ya da konuya odaklanılacaktır. Böylece öğrenciler, 

sosyal olguları şekillendiren sayısız faktörleri daha iyi 

anlayabilecek, bunların üzerinde daha iyi bir şekilde 

çalışabilecek ve sosyal değişim konusunda temel düzeyde 

bilgi sahibi olacaklardır. 

PUB 180 - FOUNDATION YEAR SEMINAR II 

In today’s information-based world, organizations 

have come to recognize the important role played by 

communications in the accomplishment of their goals. 

Today’s public relations professionals need to be effective 

not only in such implementation areas of PR as media 

relations, publicity, promotions and special events, but 

must also have the skills and training to analyze trends, 

predict consequences and counsel management in 

achieving success. The starting point for this is developing 

one’s basic skills in thinking critically and analytically, 

and then communicating your viewpoint clearly and 

coherently. That means, first, getting straight the ideas 

presented to you (analysis), second, evaluating the truth 

of claims made (criticism) and third, communicating a 

properly justified standpoint. This course aims at offering 

opportunities to develop these skills. It consists of several 

one -or two-week modules, each facilitated by a different 

resource person in coordination with academic skill 

instructors and core content instructors. In each module,

you will meet a new topic and new ideas, just as you would 

constantly in your life, private or professional. None of 

them claims to be a full introduction to the topic, but all 

aim at strengthening your skills for analysis, evaluation 

and communication. Each module will have its own way 

of presenting ideas and asking for your response, and each 

will be an opportunity for you to reflect on, to question 

and to clarify how you think what you think on a given 

subject, and to come to a better understanding of different 

ways of viewing the world. 



BAŞLANGIÇ SEMİNERİ II 

Bu modüler dersin amacı, tarihi bir bakış açısı, sosyal 

bağlamda analitik beceriler ve ileri düzeyde çeşitli iletişim 

becerileri geliştirmektir. Ders, sınıf içi tartışmalarda, 

vaka çalışmalarında, rol oyunu etkinliklerinde ve saha 

çalışmasında eksiksiz öğrenci katılımını sağlamak 

üzere tasarlanmıştır. Her hafta, belirli bir sosyal vakaya 

ya da konuya odaklanılacaktır. Böylece öğrenciler 

sosyal olguları şekillendiren sayısız faktörleri daha iyi 

anlayabilecek, bunların üzerinde daha iyi bir şekilde 

çalışabilecek ve sosyal değişim konusunda temel düzeyde 

bilgi sahibi olacaklardır. 

PUB 201 - INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC 

RELATIONS I 

The course aims to provide an in-depth understanding 

of the profession of public relations and help develop 

and understanding of the true scope of the profession by 

explaining the basic theory and practice. The students will be 

taught how PR can be practiced effectively and accomplished 

professionally. The content will cover areas such as the 

nature of public relations, communication theories, public 

relations research and evaluation, public relations planning 

and implementation. The course also provides students with 

the basics of the public relations process (research, strategic 

planning, implementation and evaluation). 





PUB 202 - INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC 

RELATIONS II 

The course aims to provide students with theoretical and 

practical information on different working areas of public 

relations. The content will focus on different practice 

areas of public relations, such as issues management, 

corporate social responsibility, integrated marketing 

communications, internal communications and crisis 

communication. 


Prerequisite(s): PUB 201 



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PUB 203 - THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 

OF COMMUNICATION 

This course explores the prominent schools of thought 

in the history of Western civilization. The course aims 

thereby to provide a basic theoretical background so that 

the students have an intellectual basis to understand the 

forms of human communication. The course is particularly 

designed to familiarize students with the fundamentals of 

intellectual skills to deconstruct the flowing discourses 

produced by the tools of mass communication. Thus the 

course will introduce the roots of forms and concepts of 

contemporary popular culture, and will spark interest in 

advanced courses on related topics. 



PUB 204 - DIGITAL CULTURES 

Digital Cultures is an introductory course that investigates 

the social and cultural impacts of digital media 

technologies. Special attention is given to how social 

media networks transform everyday lives. The course 

focuses on how audiences are turning into producers by 

focusing on concepts such as ”collective intelligence” 

or ”participatory culture”. In this context, students are 

expected to rethink schools of cultural analyses such as 

“Marxism”, “structuralism”, “semiology”, feminism” and 

“postmodernism”. 


Prerequisite(s): MED 201 or PUB 203 or TVJ 205 

Restriction(s): MED 204 or VOC 296 


PUB 205 - PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS 

The aim of the course is to provide students with an 

understanding of the business environment and the basics 

of business life. At the completion of the course, students 


as systems, understand the environment within which the 

business undertakings take place, gain an understanding of 

different business functions such as marketing, finance and 

human resources management, the principles and methods 

which govern business decisions and their solutions, and 

be able to critically analyze and evaluate business-related 

problems within and outside the organization. 





İŞLETMECİLİK İLKELERİ 

Dersin amacı, öğrenciyi iş ortamı ve iş dünyasının 

temel ilkeleriyle tanıştırmaktır. Dersin içeriğinde 

işletmecilik ve işletme çevresine dair terminolojinin 

tanıtılması, Türkiye’de ve dünyada iktisadi sistemler, 

işletmelerin ve iş ortamının yapısı, muhasebe, pazarlama, 

finansman, insan kaynakları yönetimi gibi temel işletme 

fonksiyonları, iş kararlarının alınmasında kullanılan temel 

ilke ve yöntemler yer alır. Dersi tamamlayan öğrencilerin

işletmenin iç ve dış sorunlarını ve çözümlerini eleştirel 

bir gözle inceleyebilmeleri ve değerlendirebilmeleri 

beklenmektedir. 

PUB 206 - BUSINESS GAME 

This course is designed to provide students with a broad 

introduction to a number of contemporary business 

issues, particularly strategic decision-making and related 

analyses, by combining hands-on practical decision 

making with real-world modeling. The course is an 

integrative, cross-functional course where students will 

have a chance to work in teams and practice the real world 

of business and management. 







İŞLETME OYUNU 

Bu ders, ‘İşletmecilik İlkeleri’ dersinin devamı niteliğinde 

olup, uygulamalı karar verme sürecini, gerçek dünya 

modeliyle birleştirerek, öğrencilere iş dünyasının bir dizi 

konusunu özellikle stratejik karar alma ve ilgili analizlerini 

tanıtmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu ders, öğrencilerin takımlar 

halinde çalışma ve gerçek iş ve yönetim dünyasını 

uygulama şansı bulduğu, bütünleştirici çapraz-işlevsel bir 

derstir. 

PUB 207 - BASIC LEGAL CONCEPTS FOR 

COMMUNICATORS 

The course will focus on the legal and ethical environment 

of communication. It provides a broad introduction 

to the basic concepts of communication law and legal 

regulations in the area of intellectual property. Particular 

emphasis will be placed on freedom of speech, freedom of 

information, law of defamation, the right to privacy and 

intellectual property rights. 


Restriction(s): LAW 303 or VOC 120 


İLETİŞİMCİLER İÇİN HUKUKUN TEMEL 

KAVRAMLARI 

İletişimin yasal ve etik boyutlarını ele alan ders, iletişim 

hukukunun temel kavramlarının ve fikri haklar alanındaki 

hukuki düzenlemelerin geniş bir şekilde tanıtılmasını 

amaçlar. Bu bağlamda, özellikle ifade özgürlüğü, bilgi 

edinme hakkı, basın hukukuna ilişkin hakaret ve sövme 

cürümleri, özel yaşamın gizliliği ve fikri mülkiyet hakları 

konuları ele alınacaktır. 

PUB 222 - CURRENT TOPICS IN CONTEXT 

The course aims to offer a perspective to position current 

developments within a national/international context and 

to encourage students to develop their capabilities in this 

area. The course will provide the necessary cultural and 

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historical basis upon which a continuous and meaningful 

interest in current issues will be developed. On the successful 

completion of the course, the students will be equipped 

with a wide horizon of topics ranging from arts to sports, 

geography to history, environmental issues to politics. 



GÜNCEL KONULARA KAVRAMSAL 

YAKLAŞIMLAR 

Bu derste, güncel gelişmeleri ulusal/uluslararası 

çerçeveye yerleştirmeye ve öğrencilerin bu alandaki 

kabiliyetlerini geliştirmeleri hususunda teşvik etmeye 

yönelik bir perspektif kazandırmak amaçlanmaktadır. 

Derste ayrıca, güncel meselelere sürekli ve anlamlı bir 

ilgi duyulmasını sağlayacak gerekli kültürel ve tarihsel 

temel oluşturulacaktır. Öğrenciler, dersi başarıyla 

tamamladıklarında sanattan spora, coğrafyadan tarihe, 

çevre meselelerinden politikaya kadar çok çeşitli 

konularda donanım kazanacaklardır. 

PUB 253 - ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY 

IN ECONOMIC CONTEXT 

The course aims to offer the core concepts and methods 

of economics as a social science, the factors affecting the 

decisions of economic actors, the dynamics and types of 

markets and industries and the organizational strategy that 

shapes internal factors and industry structure. On successful 

completion of this course, the student will be able to grasp 

the microeconomic dynamics influencing individual 

markets and industries and to critically analyze and compare 

the business strategies of different organizations in their 

industrial and technological contexts. 


Restriction(s): EC 201 or EC 202 or VOC 205 or VOC 206 


PUB 304 - STRATEGIC PUBLIC RELATIONS 

MANAGEMENT 

The main focus of this course is to familiarize the 

student with the application of public relations as 

a strategic function. The course concentrates on 

developing integrated communication plans that help 

achieve the strategic aims of organizations. Topics to 

be covered include goal-setting, strategy formulation, 

strategy versus tactics, planning and implementation of 

a crisis communication system and issues management. 

Discussions will highlight how public relations strategies 

match the political, social, economic and technological 

context within which organizations operate. 




STRATEJİK HALKLA İLİŞKİLER 

YÖNETİMİ 

Bu dersin temel amacı, halkla ilişkiler uygulamalarının, 

stratejik bir fonksiyon olarak önemini vurgulamaktır.

Derste kurumların stratejik amaçlarına ulaşabilmeleri 

için kullanılan bütünsel iletişim planının geliştirilmesi 

üzerinde durulacaktır. İşlenecek konular içerisinde: hedef 

belirleme, strateji geliştirme, strateji-taktik farklılıkları, 

kriz yönetiminin planlanması ve uygulanması ve 

gündem yönetimi yer alacaktır. Dersin işleniş sürecinde, 

kurumların yer aldıkları politik, sosyal, ekonomik ve 

teknolojik çevrenin, geliştirilmiş olan halkla ilişkiler 

stratejileri ile nasıl uyum içerisinde olduğu tartışılacaktır. 

PUB 306 - INNOVATION AND 

ENTREPRENEURSHIP 

Innovation is the prime driving force of economic 

growth. Technological advances in information and 

communication technologies since the 1990s have 

created extensive customer choice at a scale and cost that 

could never have been achieved in the past. Innovation 

has thus acquired paramount trendy importance because 

it signifies anything that is new, be it an idea, method, 

device, process or product. This term is used more and 

more by the Turkish economy and finance media. Also, 

companies have become keen on communicating their 

innovation processes. Thus, a PR person should be able 

to understand what innovation is and how it should be 

communicated. This course will present the student with 

real-life examples of Turkish and foreign innovation 

processes focusing on the print media, advertising, 

marketing and public relations. 




İNOVASYON VE GİRİŞİMCİLİK 

İnovasyon, ekonomik büyümenin başlıca itici 

güçlerindendir. 1990’lı yıllardan itibaren enformasyon ve 

iletişimdeki teknolojik gelişmeler tüketici ve tercihlerini 

odak noktası haline getirmiştir. İnovasyon, fikir, metot, 

araç, süreç, ürün dahil olmak üzere yeni olan herşeyi 

kapsaması sebebiyle önem kazanmış ve medyanın her 

geçen gün daha fazla yer verdiği bir konu haline gelmiştir. 

Bu doğrultuda, kurumlar da inovasyon süreçlerini 

paylaşmaya önem vermişlerdir. Dolayısıyla, bir halkla 

ilişkiler uzmanının inovasyon konusunda bilgi sahibi 

olması ve inovasyonun paydaşlara aktarımı konusunda 

yetkin olması gerekmektedir. Bu ders öğrencilere medya, 

reklamcılık, pazarlama ve halkla ilişkiler alanlarında 

inovasyon konularını ele alan süreçlerden gerçek örnekler 

sunacaktır. 

PUB 307 - WRITING FOR PUBLIC 

RELATIONS 

The students will further familiarize themselves with 

the writing tools used by public relations professionals 

and strengthen their writing ability with hands-on 

experience. The course will cover the fundamentals of 

public relations writing and the requirements for writing 

clearly and concisely when communicating with various 

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publics and stakeholders. The areas covered will include 

press releases, pamphlets and brochures, media kits, 

public relations plans, newsletters and other controlled 

media and writing for new media. Students will learn 

the objectives of each type of writing and guidelines for 

concise, clear writing. 





HALKLA İLİŞKİLER İÇİN YAZIM 

TEKNİKLERİ 

Öğrenciler, halkla ilişkiler sorumlularının kullandığı 

yazım tekniklerini tanıyacak ve yazma kabiliyetlerini 

güçlendirecektir. Derste, özellikle, halkla ilişkiler yazım 

tekniklerinin temel özellikleri ve farklı paydaşlarla iletişim 

kurarken kısa ve özlü yazı yazma yöntemleri üzerinde 

durulacaktır. Öğrenciler her malzemenin amacını, özlü 

ve açık yazma kurallarını tartışarak öğrenecekler ve basın 

bültenleri, basın dosyaları, tanıtım metinleri, broşürler, 

halkla ilişkiler planları, vb. malzemeler hazırlayarak 

öğrendikleri teknikleri uygulama fırsatı bulacaklardır. 

PUB 310 - SPECIAL TOPICS II 

The aim of this modular course is to familiarize the 

students with areas of specialization in the public 

relations discipline. Thus, the course is organized as two 

independent and distinct modules, seven weeks each. The 

topic of the modules may include: project management, 

event management, internet and new media, healthcare 

public relations, etc. Requirements and evaluation will be 

separate, and the grade for the course will be the average 

of the two module grades. 



PUB 311 - SPECIAL TOPICS III 

The aim of this modular course is to familiarize the 

students with areas of specialization in the public 

relations discipline. Thus, the course is organized as two 

independent and distinct modules, seven weeks each. The 

topic of the modules may include project management, 

event management, internet and new media and healthcare 

public relations. Requirements and evaluation will be 

separate, and the grade for the course will be the average 

of the two module grades. 



PUB 312 - MARKETING PUBLIC 

RELATIONS 

The course is designed to provide students with the basic 

concepts and essential tools of marketing public relations. 

The course aims to highlight marketing public relations 

as a specialized and increasingly important function 

that requires full focus on the consumer and those who 

influence buying behavior. The course relates marketing

public relations to all other marketing communication 

disciplines and shows the role it is playing in the emerging 

electronic media whilst examining national and global 

campaigns. 



PAZARLAMADA HALKLA İLİŞKİLER 

UYGULAMALARI 

Bu ders, öğrencilere pazarlamada halkla ilişkiler 

konusunun ana kavramlarını ve temel araçlarını 

kazandırmak üzere tasarlanmıştır. Ders, bu alanın 

müşteriye ve satın alma davranışı üzerinde etkisi olan 

kişilere yoğun olarak odaklanmayı gerektiren ve giderek 

önem kazanan bir uzmanlık dalı olduğunu vurgulamayı 

amaçlamaktadır. Pazarlamada halkla ilişkiler ile diğer tüm 

pazarlama iletişimi disiplinleri arasında bağlantı kuran bu 

ders, ulusal ve küresel kampanyaları incelerken, bu alanın 

elektronik medyada oynadığı role işaret etmektedir. 

PUB 313 - MARKETING FOR 

COMMUNICATORS I 

The aim of the course is to give communication students 

a first approach to marketing in order that they can evolve 

at ease in a professional environment. Students are 

provided the key marketing concepts that enable them 

to develop the knowledge and skills required to analyze 

the marketing environment, customers and competitors. 

The course covers a variety of topics including market 

environment, consumer behavior, marketing research, 

segmentation, positioning and branding. The course also 

aims to inspire curiosity by referring to current, local and 

practical cases using genuine material. 


Restriction(s): ADV 209 or BUS 311 or PUB 211 or VOC 283 

PUB 314 - MARKETING FOR 

COMMUNICATORS II 

As the second part of the two-semester Marketing for 

Communicators sequence, the aim of the course is to give 

the students a strategic marketing perspective in today’s 

competitive business world. Students learn to analyze 

the marketing environment of a firm and are also taught 

to make use of this analysis for preparing marketing 

plans, developing appropriate product, price, place and 

promotional strategies. 




PUB 331 - CORPORATE COMMUNICATION 

The aim of this course is to introduce the concept of 

corporation-wide communication, encompassing the main 

aspects of managerial issues and their effects on corporate 

image. The course will develop an understanding of the 

need and practice of harmonizing internal and external 

communication. Sample cases of communication and 

reputation management topics will be discussed. The second 

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part of the course acquaints the students with the concept of 

corporate identity and its role in designing corporate future 

and change management, as well as corporate identity 

programs and visual identity principles as the most visible 

outcome of corporate thinking and character. 



PUB 363 - MANAGEMENT OF 

ORGANIZATIONS 

The students will be instructed about modern concepts 

of management, analyzing texts written by prominent 

management authors about the structure of organizations, 

the organization in its environment, the management of 

organizations, decision-making in organizations, people 

in organizations, organizational change and learning. The 

course is a general course about management and not 

specifically crafted for communicators. 


Restriction(s): BUS 221 or BUS 231 or PUB 262 



PUB 401 - ACADEMIC MENTORING 

The course is specifically designed for final-year students 

who choose to prepare an academic paper or dissertation 

on an area of interest relating to the public relations 

discipline. The course requires students to understand the 

basics of scholarly research, a conceptual apprehension of 

the topic chosen, its relation with academic discipline(s) 

and the basic formatting of an academic paper/dissertation. 

Students are required to work closely with an academic 

advisor and are required to submit a comprehensive 

written report at the end of the semester. 


Prerequisite(s): PUB 202 and ADV 362 



AKADEMİK MENTORLUK 

Bu ders, özellikle araştırma projesi veya tez yazmayı 

seçmiş Halkla İlişkiler Programı’na kayıtlı son sınıf 

öğrencileri için tasarlanmıştır. Dersin temel amacı, 

öğrencilere temel akademik araştırma prensiplerini 

öğretmek, araştırma konusunun kavramsal çerçevesini 

çizmek için yol göstermek, konunun ilgili disiplin ve 

diğer disiplinlerle arasındaki bağlantısını kurmak ve temel 

akademik yazım tekniklerini göstermektir. Öğrencilerin 

dönem içerisinde atanmış oldukları akademik danışmanlar 

ile yakından çalışmaları ve dönem sonunda da araştırma 

projesinin ya da tezin ilk halini yazılı bir rapor olarak 

teslim etmeleri gerekmektedir. 

PUB 402 - CALL FOR PAPERS 

The course builds upon the basis given by PUB 401 

Senior Project I. The course requires students to develop 

an ability to interpret evidence, to demonstrate clarity 

in argument and expression and to show competence in

scholarly and bibliographical skills. Students are required 

to work closely with their academic advisor and are 

required to submit a comprehensive written report as well 

as make an oral presentation of the research results in 

front of a professional academic panel. 




MAKALE İÇİN ÇAĞRI 

Ders, PUB 401 – Bitirme Projesi I’in oluşturmuş olduğu 

temelin devamı niteliğindedir. Dersin temel amacı, 

öğrencilerin okumuş oldukları teorileri yorumlamalarını, 

argümanlarını açık ve anlaşılır bir akademik dille ifade 

etmelerini ve akademik referanslama kabiliyetlerini 

geliştirmeyi hedeflemektedir. Öğrencilerin ilk dönemde 

olduğu gibi atanmış oldukları akademik danışmanlar 

ile yakından çalışmaları, dönem sonunda araştırma 

projesinin ya da tezin son halini teslim etmeleri ve 

araştırma bulgularını akademik bir jüri karşısında 

sunmaları gerekmektedir. 

PUB 405 - SENIOR YEAR SEMINAR 

This seminar course aims to examine current issues/trends 

within the discipline of public relations and critically 

analyze a selection of topics/debates. Accordingly, the 

seminar is designed to provide a culminating experience 

for students who have completed foundation courses in 

the Public Relations Program. A faculty member will act 

as a facilitator, providing issues and questions to stimulate 

class discussion. The students will have the opportunity to 

integrate and extend their knowledge of public relations. 





SON SINIF SEMİNERİ 

Bu seminer dersinin amacı, halkla ilişkiler disiplini içindeki 

mevcut konuları/eğilimleri incelemek ve seçilen konuları/ 

tartışmaları eleştirel bir bakış açısıyla analiz etmektir. 

Dolayısıyla, seminer Halkla İlişkiler Programı’nın temel 

derslerini tamamlayan öğrencilere eksiksiz ve nihai bir 

deneyim sağlamak üzere tasarlanmıştır. Bir öğretim üyesi, 

sınıf içi tartışmaları teşvik etmek için konuları ve soruları 

ortaya atarak “kolaylaştırıcı” görevini üstlenecektir. 

Öğrenciler, halkla ilişkiler konusundaki bilgilerini 

artırma ve anlamlı bir bütün haline getirme fırsatına sahip 

olacaklardır. 

PUB 407 - APPLIED COMMUNICATION 

RESEARCH 

Most of the research in advertising and public relations 

is applied research, which attempts to solve a specific 

problem. Two basic questions a researcher must learn 

to answer are how and when to use research methods 

and statistical procedures. The “real world” requires an 

understanding of what the statistics produce and how to 

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use the results in decision making. In this course, students 

will enjoy the power of statistical tools such as Statistical 

Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) which is among 

the most widely used software. At the end of this course, 

we will have the ability to make scientific comments on 

research results and convert these results into practical 

solutions in communication. 




UYGULAMALI İLETİŞİM 

ARAŞTIRMALARI 

Reklam ve halkla ilişkiler alanında yapılan çalışmaların 

çoğu, belirli bir sorunu çözmeye yönelik uygulamalı 

araştırmalardır. Bir araştırmacının yanıt vermesi gereken 

iki temel soru, araştırma yöntemlerinin ve istatistiksel 

prosedürlerin nasıl ve ne zaman kullanılacağı sorusudur. 

“Gerçek dünya,” istatistik prosedürünün ne olduğunu ve 

karar verme aşamasında sonuçların nasıl kullanılacağını 

anlamayı gerektirir. Bu derste, öğrenciler, en yaygın 

olarak kullanılan yazılımlardan biri olan SPSS (Statistical 

Package for the Social Sciences) paket programı gibi 

istatistik araçlarının gücünden yararlanabilecektir. Bu 

dersin sonunda, öğrenciler araştırma sonuçları üzerinde 

bilimsel yorumlar yapma ve bu sonuçları iletişimde pratik 

çözümlere dönüştürme becerisini kazanmış olacaklardır. 

PUB 409 - CORPORATE SOCIAL 

RESPONSIBILITY OBSERVATORY I 

This course is constructed to analyze and evaluate 

the corporate social responsibility concept introduced in 

previous lectures, and to examine the conception of CSR, 

the various projects conducted and the success stories on 

the matter in the Turkish business arena. Structured and 

organized as an observatory, the course will require the 

preparation of an almanac including the various studies and 

reports created by the students and work groups. The studies 

conducted throughout the year will be shared with various 

target audiences, also via a web-site created by the students. 



PUB 410 - CORPORATE SOCIAL 

RESPONSIBILITY OBSERVATORY II 

This course is constructed to analyze and evaluate the 

corporate social responsibility concept introduced in 

previous lectures, and to examine the conception of CSR, 

the various projects conducted and the success stories on 

the matter in the Turkish business arena. Structured and 

organized as an observatory, the course will require the 

preparation of an almanac including the various studies 

and reports created by the students and work groups. The 

studies conducted throughout the year will be shared with 

various target audiences, also via a web-site created by 

the students. 


Prerequisite(s): PUB 409

PUB 413 - PERSPECTIVES ON THE 

CORPORATION AND ITS 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

The role of the corporation in society is increasingly 

the subject of critical scrutiny. The business world is 

by and large accepting that “the business of business 

is business” approach is no longer tenable. In a world 

where the boundaries between public and private 

sectors are changing, the concepts of “Corporate Social 

Responsibility” and sustainable development have been 

key concepts for corporate governance. This course 

will look at the development of “Corporate Social 

Responsibility” and certain theoretical approaches. 

“CSR: substance or spin?” We shall look at answers to 

this frequently asked question and examine the role of 

public relations in CSR. 




PUB 421 - CREATIVE PROCESS 

The course aims to provide the codes for understanding 

and appreciation of the inner creative process, 

concentrating on symbolism, monomyths and cognition, 

showing its interrelations with other forms of creative 

and artistic expression. It will combine class lectures 

and discussions with museum/studio/site visits and/or 

performance attendance. Evaluation will be on the basis 

of a project that will involve preparation of a setting for 

an artistic input. 



YARATICI SÜREÇ 

Dersin amacı sembolizm, monomitler, algı ve bunların 

yaratıcı ve sanatsal ifadelerine odaklanarak içsel 

yaratıcı süreci anlamak ve tadına varmaktır. Ders, 

sınıf içi konferanslar, müze/kültür merkezi ziyaretleri, 

stüdyo ziyaretleri ve/veya performans izlencelerini 

bir araya getirecektir. Değerlendirme, öğrencilerin 

seçtikleri sanatsal bir olguyu kendi perspektiflerinden 

yorumlayacakları proje(ler) bazında gerçekleştirilecektir. 

PUB 422 - ETHICAL ISSUES AND 

DILEMMAS IN PUBLIC RELATIONS 

The course aims to give an in-depth understanding of the 

significance of ethical conduct for the practice of public 

relations. Focusing on the responsibilities of the public 

relations practitioner both to clients and to the public, the 

course discusses moral issues facing practitioners, ethical 

issues in business, business and society and ethical issues 

in media relations on the basis of real and/or fictional 

cases. The course also aims to provide students with 

relevant laws and regulations and with practical concepts 

such as copyright and intellectual property. 




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HALKLA İLİŞKİLERDE ETİK 

Bu ders, halkla ilişkiler mesleğinde etik kuralların 

önemini anlatmayı amaçlamaktadır. Ders, halkla ilişkiler 

profesyonellerinin gerek müşterilerine gerek kamuoyuna 

karşı olan sorumluluklarına odaklanarak profesyonelleri 

bekleyen farklı etik sorunları, gerçek ya da kurmaca 

vakalar temelinde tartışmaktadır. Derste, aynı zamanda 

halkla ilişkiler profesyonellerini yakından ilgilendiren 

yasalar ve yönetmelikler de anlatılmakta, ayrıca fikri 

mülkiyet hakları, telif hakları ve benzeri konularda pratik 

bilgiler verilmektedir. 

PUB 431 - PUBLIC RELATIONS AS NEWS 

Public relations is a writing-intensive field. Nearly all 

of what a public relations practitioner does is writing in 

order to convince and persuade the media ‘of something’. 

Much of what is written by the practitioners actually 

gets published. Accordingly, in this course the students 

will learn about how journalists think and function and 

understand how to write pieces as if they are journalists. 

The students will then produce the main forms of writing 

in greatest use in public relations settings. Words are the 

tools of this profession and real public relations work is 

all about deadlines, form and content. Therefore, they 

are expected to demonstrate the mastery of use of time, 

form and content necessary for most entry-level jobs in 

the field. 


Special Condition(s): PUB 307 


HALKLA İLİŞKİLER VE HABERCİLİK 

Halkla ilişkiler, yazı ağırlıklı bir alandır. Bir halkla ilişkiler 

sorumlusunun neredeyse tüm yaptığı, medyaya sunduğu 

konunun önemine medyayı ikna etmektir. Halkla ilişkiler 

sorumlularının yazdıklarının büyük bir kısmı haber olarak 

yayınlanır. Bu nedenle bu derste, öğrenciler gazetecilerin 

nasıl düşündüğünü ve çalıştığını öğrenecekler ve neden 

gazeteci gibi yazı yazmaları gerektiğini anlayacaklardır. 

Ayrıca öğrencilerden, halkla ilişkiler sahasında giriş 

seviyesindeki işlerin çoğunda istenen zamanı kullanma, 

şekil ve içerikte ustalık göstermeleri beklenmektedir. 

PUB 432 - COMMUNICATION AND 

PERSUASION 

The course focuses on communication skills such as 

persuasion, negotiation and attitude change. Students will 

become familiar with a variety of social-psychological 

theories of attitude change and persuasion. Those theories 

will also be applied to a variety of communication 

situations. Students will be given real-life situations to 

develop their oral and written presentation skills. 



PUB 441 - PRACTICES OF EVERYDAY LIFE 

The course will equip students to focus on the ways 

people, cultures and institutions create, share and

influence each other’s values. Direct approaches will 

be employed to examine the ”persuasion industries” of 

advertising and public relations to show how marketers 

have developed new ways of integrating their message 

into the fabric of our lives. The aim is to explore how 

the culture of marketing has come to shape the way 

people understand the world and themselves and how the 

techniques of the persuasion industries have migrated to 

politics. The method used to achieve these aims will be 

cases and case discussion: cases are factual or factuallybased 

complex dilemmas, descriptions of a situation. 

‘Case discussion’ is used to engage students to define the 

problem, think it through, come up with a solution and 

defend their position with their knowledge from diverse 

fields such as media, management, culture and business. 

Students must collaborate to analyze the full dilemma and 

the data provided and decide upon a course of action. 



PUB 442 - FINANCIAL COMMUNICATION 

The course aims to equip students with the necessary 

communications tools that will help them deal with the 

new market sophistication and the diverse and complex 

problems that corporations face: explaining a company’s 

new strategic direction, going public, communicating 

with shareholders and investors, communicating the 

rationale for a merger or acquisition and the process of 

privatization. 



FİNANSAL İLETİŞİM 

Bu dersin temel amacı, şirketlerin benimsediği stratejilerin 

paydaşlarla paylaşımının, halka arz sürecinin, hissedarlar 

ve yatırımcılarla kurulan iletişimin, bir şirket evliliği 

veya devralmanın mantığını anlatmaktır. Özelleştirme 

süreci olmak üzere öğrencilerin, yeni piyasa kültürü ve 

kurumların karşılaştığı çeşitli ve karmaşık sorunlarla başa 

çıkmasına yardımcı olacak gerekli iletişim teknikleriyle 

donatılması hedeflenmektedir. 

PUB 452 - PUBLIC RELATIONS 

LABORATORY 

This course is designed to prepare senior students to enter 

the marketplace with professional experience in the field 

of public relations. Through supervised work experiences 

in a professional agency, students will not only be able 

to gain insight into the public relations process based on 

actual PR situations, but they will also hone their abilities 

and translate their existing critical thinking, planning, 

implementation and writing skills into marketable assets. 



HALKLA İLİŞKİLER LABORATUVARI 

Bu ders, Halkla İlişkiler Programı dördüncü sınıf 

öğrencilerini profesyonel deneyimle iş dünyasına 

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hazırlamak amacıyla oluşturulmuştur. Öğrenciler, gerçek 

bir ajansta profesyonel hayatı tecrübe ederken, eleştirel 

düşünce, planlama, uygulama ve yazım becerilerini 

geliştirecek ve böylece, profesyonel yeteneklerini 

zenginleştirecekler. 

PUB/E 179 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 



















PUB/E 180 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 



















SOC 110 - BASICS OF SOCIOLOGY 

The aim of this introductory course is to provide students 

with a general understanding of sociological themes and 

concepts and the ability to appreciate the differences 

between sociological and common-sense ways of thinking 

about the social world. It enables students to understand 

the major theoretical models that can be brought to bear 

in the analysis of social structure, social divisions, social 

processes and institutions and the significance of current

sociological theories, research and debates around the 

changing nature of contemporary societies. 


Restriction(s): SOC 150 or SOC 169 or SOC 170 

SOC 169 - LIVING IN SOCIETY, 

REFLECTING ON SOCIETY I 

This two-semester course offered to first-year sociology 

students provides an intense, interdisciplinary perspective 

on the interface between society and the individual. It takes 

as its starting point our everyday experiences in society 

and our commonsense efforts to understand ourselves in 

comparison to sociological, historical, literary and artistic 

ways of understanding our lives. Readings and other visual 

and aural materials will be made available to students from 

a variety of sources, and allow them to place their individual 

life-worlds in comparative and historical perspectives. 

In addition to the readings and other materials assigned, 

students are expected to attend classes regularly and actively 

participate in discussions of the issues as well as undertake 

various written and oral assignments which will be evaluated 

both for content and quality of expression. 


SOC 170 - LIVING IN SOCIETY, 

REFLECTING ON SOCIETY II 

This two-semester course offered to first-year sociology 

students provides an intense, interdisciplinary perspective 

on the interface between society and the individual. It takes 

as its starting point our everyday experiences in society 

and our commonsense efforts to understand ourselves 

in comparison to sociological, historical, literary and 

artistic ways of understanding our lives. Readings and 

other visual and aural materials will be made available 

to students from a variety of sources, and allow them 

to place their individual life-worlds in comparative and 

historical perspectives. In addition to the readings and 

other materials assigned, students are expected to attend 

classes regularly and actively participate in discussions of 

the issues as well as undertake various written and oral 

assignments which will be evaluated both for content and 

quality of expression. 


SOC 211 - RESEARCH METHODS 

The course examines issues and methods of social science 

research. It covers basic aspects of the philosophy of 

science, the logic of scientific inquiry, methodological 

traditions and the main approaches to and the main 

techniques and methods of social research. A wide range 

of research methods, both quantitative and qualitative, 

that social scientists employ in attempting to understand 

the social world are described and evaluated. The 

course provides students with an understanding of the 

relationship between theory and method. 


Restriction(s): EU 223 or IR 342 or PSY 301 


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SOC 213 - STATISTICS FOR SOCIAL 

SCIENCES I 

This course aims to provide students with the necessary 


and analyze data. It provides students with the necessary 

tools for handling and understanding empirical studies in 

the social sciences. 


Restriction(s): BUS 273 or EC 271 or EU 213 or IR 213 or 

MATH 213 or PSY 213 

SOC 214 - STATISTICS FOR SOCIAL 

SCIENCES II 

This course aims to provide students with the necessary 


and analyze data. It provides students with the necessary 

tools for handling and understanding empirical studies in 

the social sciences. 



Restriction(s): BUS 274 or EC 272 or EU 213 or IR 213 or 

MATH 214 or PSY 214 


SOC 221 - CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY 

TURKISH SOCIETY I 

The course is designed to develop a sociological 

understanding and analysis of social and cultural changes 

in contemporary Turkish society. Special emphasis is 

placed on the historical dimension of social change, 

which is conceptualized as a process of civilization 

transformation. Topics such as stratification, religion, 

gender, youth, blood-feud, identity politics, patron-client 

relations and migration are explored from both empirical 

and theoretical perspectives. The course aims to enable 

students to understand the structure of modern Turkey, 

to apply sociological thinking to current social trends in 

Turkey and to engage in independent analysis and research. 


SOC 222 - CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY 

TURKISH SOCIETY II 

The course invites students to critically reflect upon 

the meaning of the popular culture and everyday life in 

Turkey. In order to capture the dynamics of social change, 

the course looks at modern Turkey from within the cultural 

scene and examines fragments of daily life. A wide range 

of subjects including gender and shopping experience, the 

transformation of cartoons in satirical magazines, popular 

music, body and fashion are explored. The course aims to 

enable students to grasp the changing cultural texture of 

modern Turkey, to relate theory to practice and to engage 

in independent analysis and research. 


SOC 232 - SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES 

The course explores some of the current “hot topics” in 

sociology as well as broad theoretical perspectives and

examines their contribution to theories of social change, 

social stratification, power and globalization. It aims to 

enable students to apply sociological knowledge and 

thinking to a range of social issues and debates at local, 

national and global levels. Students are provided with an 

understanding of modern conceptions of social reality. 

Current sociological debates with respect to topics such 

as identity, ethnicity, imagined communities, cultural 

diversity, state and civil society, social movements, 

modernization and globalization are examined. Specific 

issues taken up for study vary from year to year. 


SOC 251 - SOCIAL AND CULTURAL 

ANTHROPOLOGY 

The course offers a comprehensive overview of the 

field of social and cultural anthropology from a crosscultural 

perspective and provides in-depth examples of 

the variety and diversity of cultures around the world, 

from both evolutionary-historical and synchroniccontemporary 

perspectives. In addition to discussing 

basic human institutions such as kinship and the family, 

belief systems and ritual, language, subsistence systems 

and stratification, it also presents important concepts, 

perspectives and theories in the discipline. The aim of 

the course is to provide a cross-cultural overview of 

human societies, past and present. Such an approach 

allows for insights into other ways of life in comparison 

with those in one’s own society, while at the same time 

it is a vehicle for greater awareness of xenophobic and 

other chauvinistic attitudes. Ethnographic descriptions 

of various peoples are complemented by anthropological 

documentary films. 



SOC 262 - URBANIZATION 

The course aims to provide students with a comparative 

and historical overview of the nature, causes and 

consequences of urbanization. Conceptual debates 

and major social theoretical perspectives on urban 

development are critically reviewed. Issues and debates 

in contemporary urban sociology are explored. Focus is 

upon the process of urbanization and an analysis of cities, 

urban behavior patterns, urban riots, social relationships 

and urban problems. 


SOC 271 - HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL 

THOUGHT I 

The course aims to develop a solid understanding 

of the intellectual origins of sociology. It examines 

sociological theory, schools of thought and individual 

theorists from the late nineteenth and early twentieth 

centuries and their influence in the emergence 

of major contemporary theoretical perspectives. 

The course systematically and critically analyzes 

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classical sociological theories, locating them in their 

philosophical and historical contexts and emphasizing 

their relevance for the analysis of contemporary 

societies and their contribution to the contemporary 

configuration of social thought. 



SOC 272 - HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL 

THOUGHT II 

The course aims to survey the current state of social theory 

by focusing on the major theoretical models, paradigms 

and central debates of modern sociological thought, with 

an emphasis on the diversity of orientations. It reviews the 

work of selected post-classical social theorists and links 

their ideas to current sociological issues. Main thinkers of 

major schools of thought such as symbolic interactions, 

phenomenology, critical theory, structuralism and poststructuralism 

are systematically and critically analyzed. 

Connections are drawn between modern thinkers and the 

founding figures of sociology. 



SOC 311 - POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY 

The course aims to familiarize students with the basic 

themes and research agendas in the field of political 

sociology. After a general coverage of the debates 

related to the origins of the modern state, topics such as 

the mutual impact of state and society, the politicization 

of society, the weight of social movements and the 

declining role of the nation-state throughout the process 

of globalization are discussed. This implicates the 

study of changing definitions of politics and power, 

as well as an intensive discussion on democracy and 

democratization. Finally, students are invited to think 

about the Turkish case by means of the given analytical 

framework. 



SOC 312 - ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY 

The course is located at the interdisciplinary intersection 

of economics and sociology within the context of the 

rise of new economic sociology in the recent decade. 

The first part of the course critically reviews the legacy 

of classical social and economic thought that contributed 

to the formation of the discipline of economic sociology 

(Weber, Marx, Simmel, Veblen, Polanyi and Schumpeter) 

including the work of Sabri Ülgener in Turkey. The 

second part of the course covers various topics in the field 

of ‘new economic sociology’, such as markets as social 

institutions, the meaning of consumption, social capital, 

the role of trust, networks, etc. 



SOC 322 - SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER AND 

THE FAMILY 

The course aims to provide students with a gender 

perspective in the study of the family and awareness of 

gender in the study of all social relationships. Conceptual 

debates and major social theoretical perspectives on 

family and gender will be critically reviewed. A historical 

and cross-cultural study of gender roles, statuses and 

identities as well as gender relations will be examined. 



SOC 332 - SOCIAL STRATIFICATION 

The course is based on the study of structured social 

inequalities. Discussion focuses on the classical theories 

of social stratification, class and social mobility and on 

recent contributions to the ongoing debate in the field. 

With regard to the post-industrial world, focus is placed 

on both the persistence (or not) of social class as an 

empirical phenomenon and its relevance as an analytic 

tool for understanding societies. Empirical studies of 

social inequality in various societies, notably in Turkey, 

are considered within the framework of changing 

theoretical issues on differences and otherness in urban 

spaces, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and tradition. 


SOC 341 - SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE 

The course aims to provide students with a general 

understanding of the role of culture in the constitution 

of social life and identities. It introduces students to key 

debates on the meaning of culture and explores the ways 

in which sociologists and cultural critics have approached 

the study of culture. The relationship between culture 

consumption and identity, the concepts of high and folk 

culture and the debate over postmodernism and cultural 

populism are critically examined. 



SOC 351 - SOCIAL CHANGE AND 

GLOBALIZATION 

The course, after introducing students to the major 

theories of social change, deals with the transformations 

of modernity. The students are familiarized with the 

changing tools of sociological analysis in order to 

enable them to grasp the changing dynamics of social 

transformation and to develop a critical and creative 

approach in the face of new socialities. The study of social 

change in the globalization process and the globalize 

world is connected with the theories and debates around 

‘modernity’, ‘post-modernity’, ‘reflexive modernity’ and 

‘risk society’. These debates have implications for the 

discussions not only on the new relationship between 

individual, society and globalization, but also on new 

forms of production, consumption, power and inequality, 

social structure, culture and personal life. 


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SOC 355 - SELECTED TOPICS IN 

CLASSICAL THEORY 

The course explores the intellectual foundations of 

Marx’s social theory as found in different traditions of 

enlightenment and his contemporaries and the preserved 

(also controversial) continuity of his fundamental themes 

between his “early” and “mature” writings. The first part 

of the course will concentrate on how the core themes 

of alienation and emancipation in his early writings are 

carried on to and preserved in his mature writings through 

a close reading of the original texts. Marx had arrived at 

his materialist conception of history through his encounter 

with the works of the Scottish enlightenment thinkers (via 

Hegel). They inspired him to focus on the “anatomy of civil 

society”, i.e. the study and critique of political economy, 

to reveal the inner contradictions of capitalist relations of 

production. Then the focus will be on the “young” Marx, 

writing in the orbit of German idealism, who developed 

his early themes to a mature social theory in the works of 

the “mature” Marx via encounters with different traditions 

of social and economic thought. In the second part of the 

course, selected themes which contribute to our reading 

of Marx as a social theorist, such as “capital as a social 

relationship”, “pre-capitalist economic formations”, 

“primitive accumulation”, etc., will be discussed. 


SOC 361 - SOCIOLOGY OF 

EVERYDAY LIFE 

Following Hegel’s maxim, ”The familiar is not necessarily 

the known”, the course aims to examine comparatively 

particular aspects of daily life in contemporary society 

from a theoretical perspective by analytically relating 

them to wider socio-historical developments. Topics 

include space, body, health, performance, privacy, 

consumption, fashion, lifestyles and leisure. The course 

provides a critical map of the field, bringing together 

work on everyday life, theory and practice. 


SOC 371 - MIGRATION AND 

DEVELOPMENT 

The course aims to provide students with an understanding 

of the complex and varied nature of both internal and 

international migration and their role in processes of 

social, cultural and economic development, both on the 

local and the global level. To this end, it examines theories 

and typologies of migration in relation to the processes of 

development, followed by a discussion on the contemporary 

debates and case studies within the field. 



SOC 411 - SENIOR PROJECT I 

This course offers students the opportunity to undertake 

independent research, study and writing in a variety 

of areas. Alternative types of projects are available to

students meeting their individual abilities, needs and 

future career choices. Among these alternatives are: 

a) a scholarly project based on secondary sources, 

b) a scholarly project based on original research, c) 

various forms of ‘field studies’ involving interviews, 

systematic observations, focus groups or combinations 

of these with the primary focus on methodological 

issues, d) an extensive review of a number of related 

books, e) a survey of the literature in a particular area, 

f) a sociological study of art works such as novels or 

films and g) a biographical study set in a sociological 

context. The department is open to the consideration of 

other alternatives. Each student will work closely with 

a senior faculty member and a teaching assistant on his/ 

her project throughout the year. 


SOC 412 - SENIOR PROJECT II 

This course offers students the opportunity to undertake 

independent research, study and writing in a variety 

of areas. Alternative types of projects are available to 

students meeting their individual abilities, needs and 

future career choices. Among these alternatives are: 

a) a scholarly project based on secondary sources, 

b) a scholarly project based on original research, c) 

various forms of ‘field studies’ involving interviews, 

systematic observations, focus groups or combinations 

of these with the primary focus on methodological 

issues, d) an extensive review of a number of related 

books, e) a survey of the literature in a particular area, 

f) a sociological study of art works such as novels or 

films and g) a biographical study set in a sociological 

context. The department is open to the consideration of 

other alternatives. Each student will work closely with 

a senior faculty member and a teaching assistant on his/ 

her project throughout the year. 


Prerequisite(s): SOC 411 

SOC 421 - HISTORY OF TURKISH SOCIAL 

THOUGHT I 

The course introduces students to the major currents 

and central concepts of Ottoman-Turkish social thought 

from the classical age up to the twentieth century. It 

systematically and critically analyzes the theories, central 

ideas and arguments of major intellectual figures, locating 

them in their philosophical and historical contexts and 

identifying their intellectual roots. 


SOC 422 - HISTORY OF TURKISH SOCIAL 

THOUGHT II 

The course’s initial objective is to provide students with 

an account of major currents of Turkish social thought 

since the beginning of twentieth century. The theories of 

major intellectual figures are analyzed in their political 

and social context in order to explore the links between 

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thought and social reality and to understand the solutions 

these theories offer to the problems that emerged in the 

process of the construction/reconstruction of a new society. 

Understanding the continuity and the discontinuity of the 

Turkish modernization/secularization process in parallel 

with social thought from the beginning to the end of the 

20th century is an ultimate aim of the course. Hence, the 

emphasis is placed on different currents, varying from 

state-centered theories to theories with relation to new 

social movements. 


SOC 432 - HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY 

This course focuses on everyday life in past times, 

drawing on the traditions of historical sociology, historical 

anthropology, social and economic history and historical 

demography. The emphasis is on microsociological 

dimensions of societies and cultures in the past. Building 

upon the Annales tradition, the course deals with issues of 

theory and method in understanding the lives of ordinary 

people in societies in the past. Among the topics covered 

are family history, population history, work, countryside 

and city, property and inheritance, popular movements, 

ritual in history, tradition, identity and remembering the 

past. European societies and cultures will be compared 

with non-European societies with special focus on the 

Ottoman world. 



SOC 433 - MODERNITY AND 

POST-MODERNITY 

The course examines both modernism and postmodernism 

by first presenting prominent sociological 

theories of modernity and introducing students to postmodern 

theory through major figures of post-modern 

theory. The relationship of sociology to modernity and the 

question of sociology after post-modernism are explored. 

Practical sociological issues and research are raised in 

Western and non-Western contexts. The course aims to 

enable students to put modernism and post-modernism 

in their contexts and relate theoretical issues to real-life 

situations. 


SOC 441 - RELIGION IN SOCIETY 

The course aims to locate the significance of religion in 

society and of religious consciousness in human action. 

It surveys comparatively and historically the role that 

religion has played in human society and explores the 

interaction between religion and worldwide social change. 

The different ways in which sociologists have defined 

religion and theorized its relation to wider society are 

examined. Other topics include the secularization debate, 

the concept of civil religion, new religious movements, 

public-private distinction with respect to religion and 

religious fundamentalism. 


SOC 442 - RACISM, COSMOPOLITANISM, 

POSTCOLONIALISM 

Bringing in the current conceptions of world societies as 

‘cosmopolitan’, ‘empire’ or ‘even stronger nation-states’, 

the course aims to engage students in thinking about the 

order and disorder of the newly dawning age and what 

these imply from the perspective of nationalism, racism 

and xenophobia as well as ethnicities. Also included 

will be an account of the history of nation-states, simple 

and reflexive globalization and the age-old discussions 

concerning ethnicity, nationalism and racism. The 

history of the ways in which different theoreticians have 

described, researched and/or experienced ethnic and 

racial identities, classical and contemporary approaches 

to ethnicity, nationalism, citizenship and diasporas, as 

well as theories of racism and discrimination, will be 

critically reviewed. Case studies of a variety of ethnic and 

racial groups are introduced. 



SOC 446 - HERMENEUTICS AND 

PHENOMENOLOGY 

The course provides students with an overview of the 

main focuses of hermeneutics and phenomenology. 

The topics of the course are the principal intellectual 

figures of Western philosophy. The relationship of 

sociology to hermeneutics and phenomenology and 

their impact on social research in general are explored. 

In addition, the course considers critical perspectives 

on mainstream approaches to sociological theory, 

epistemology and methodology and provides students 

with a critical understanding of the history of social 

thought. 


SOC 476 - İSTANBUL IN THE 20th CENTURY 

This course focuses on the social, political and cultural 

transformations that İstanbul underwent during the 20th 

century. İstanbul grew from a city of approximately 

1 million in 1900 to nearly 12 million in 2000. It was 

transformed from the capital of a polyglot, multi-ethnic 

Islamic empire into the commercial and cultural center 

of the more monolithic Turkish Republic. This political, 

economic and cultural transformation was accompanied 

by fundamental changes in the urban fabric. Throughout 

the century many of those who knew and loved İstanbul 

bemoaned a loss of something essential to the city. For 

the millions who moved to the city, especially after the 

1950s, İstanbul was a haven and a vehicle for mobility. 

This course will consider İstanbul both as it has been 

experienced, and as viewed from a more distanced 

sociological perspective. Readings will be selected 

from a variety of disciplines with the goal of more fully 

grasping what İstanbul was during this period of rapid and 

unprecedented change. 



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TK 111 - TURKISH LANGUAGE FOR 

FOREIGNERS I 

The aim of the course is to provide Turkish instruction 

at the elementary level to non-native speakers of the 

language. A further aim is to facilitate the adaptation of 

foreign residents to Turkish society and culture. This 

course is open to all foreign students at İstanbul Bilgi 

University regardless of whether they have previously 

taken the course or not. The instructor will also serve in 

the role of informal Turkish language and culture advisor 

to TK 111 students throughout their academic careers at 

BİLGİ. 




YABANCILAR İÇİN TÜRKÇE I 

Yabancı öğrencilere Türkçe öğretmeyi amaçlayan bu 

ders, öğrencilerin günlük hayattaki Türkçe ihtiyaçlarını 

karşılar ve Türk kültürü hakkında bilgiler verir. Yabancı 

öğretim elemanlarının da katılabileceği ders, başlangıç 

seviyesinde yürütülmektedir. 


FOREIGNERS II 

The aim of the course is to provide Turkish instruction 

at the intermediate level to non-native speakers of the 

language. 


Prerequisite(s): TK 111 




YABANCILAR İÇİN TÜRKÇE II 

Yabancı öğrencilere Türkçe öğretmeyi amaçlayan bu ders, 

öğrencilerin günlük hayattaki Türkçe ihtiyaçlarını karşılar 

ve Türk kültürü hakkında bilgiler verir. Yabancı öğretim 

elemanlarının da katılabileceği ders, orta seviyede 

yürütülmektedir. 


FOREIGNERS III 

The aim of the course is to provide Turkish instruction at 

the advanced level to non-native speakers of the language, 

helping to improve daily communicational skills and 

inform about the Turkish culture. Instructors may also 

attend this advanced course. 


Prerequisite(s): TK 111 




YABANCILAR İÇİN TÜRKÇE III 

Yabancı öğrencilerin Türkçe’lerini geliştirmeyi 

amaçlayan bu ders, öğrencilerin günlük hayattaki Türkçe 

ihtiyaçlarını karşılar ve Türk kültürü hakkında bilgi verir.

Yabancı öğretim elemanlarının da katılabileceği ders, ileri 

seviyede yürütülmektedir. 

TK 169 - TURKISH I 



of contemporary Turkish in spoken and written forms so 

that they can better express themselves in academic and 

professional settings. The emphasis is on short- and longterm 

research, in-depth reading in terms of academic 

principles, writing in process, making presentations in 

order to reconsider criticism, and perceptive listening. 

With this aim, various genres of writing are critically 

examined in class: reports, news items, interviews, and 

reviews are written, re-written and presented throughout 

the two semesters. The students are expected to prepare 

for classes, attend and participate regularly, and be 

punctual about assignments and presentations. 



TÜRKÇE I 

İki dönemlik bu derste, öğrencilerin akademik ve 

mesleki ortamlarda kendilerini yetkin şekilde ifade 

edebilmeleri için günümüz Türkçesinin sözlü ve yazılı 

biçimlerinin inceliklerine duyarlılık kazanmaları 

hedeflenmektedir. Derslerde, farklı kaynaklara yönelen 

kısa ve uzun süreli araştırma, akademik ilkeler eşliğinde 

derinlemesine okuma, süreç içinde yazma, eleştirileri 

öğrenme amacıyla sunum yapma ve nitelikli dinleme 

yöntemleri üzerinde durulmaktadır. Bu hedefler 

doğrultusunda, derslerde, çeşitli anlatım türlerindeki 

yazılar eleştirel olarak incelenmekte, rapor, haber, 

röportaj, tanıtım gibi türlerde metinler yazılmaktadır. 

Öğrencilerin derslere hazırlanmaları, düzenli devam 

etmeleri, sınıf çalışmalarına etkin olarak katılmaları, 

sunumları zamanında yapmaları, ödevleri gününde 

teslim etmeleri gerekmektedir. 

TK 170 - TURKISH II 



of contemporary Turkish in spoken and written forms so 

that they can better express themselves in academic and 

professional settings. The emphasis is on short- and longterm 

research, in-depth reading in terms of academic 

principles, writing in process, making presentations in 

order to reconsider criticism, and perceptive listening. 

With this aim, various genres of writing are critically 

examined in class: reports, news items, interviews and 

reviews are written, re-written, and presented throughout 

the two semesters. The students are expected to prepare 

for classes, attend and participate regularly and be 

punctual about assignments and presentations. 


Restriction(s): TK 101 and TK 102 


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TÜRKÇE II 

İki dönemlik bu derste, öğrencilerin akademik ve mesleki 

ortamlarda kendilerini yetkin şekilde ifade edebilmeleri 

için günümüz Türkçesinin sözlü ve yazılı biçimlerinin 

inceliklerine duyarlılık kazanmaları hedeflenmektedir. 

Derslerde, farklı kaynaklara yönelen kısa ve uzun süreli 

araştırma, akademik ilkeler eşliğinde derinlemesine 

okuma, süreç içinde yazma, eleştirileri öğrenme 

amacıyla sunum yapma ve nitelikli dinleme yöntemleri 

üzerinde durulmaktadır. Bu hedefler doğrultusunda, 

derslerde, çeşitli anlatım türlerindeki yazılar eleştirel 

olarak incelenmekte, rapor, haber, röportaj, tanıtım gibi 

türlerde metinler yazılmaktadır. Öğrencilerin derslere 

hazırlanmaları, düzenli devam etmeleri, sınıf çalışmalarına 

etkin olarak katılmaları, sunumları zamanında yapmaları, 

ödevleri gününde teslim etmeleri gerekmektedir. 

TK 201 - TURKISH LANGUAGE III 

The course aims to improve the students’ academic skills 

through academic writing and presentations. Students 

prepare a report for methodological research and engage 

in theoretical and practical training in library research, 

methods of research and reaching sources. The main 

assignment of the course is the preparation of a research 

paper and its presentation. The students are also expected to 

prepare questions for a public survey, carry out an interview 

and take notes and write reports on different types of texts. 


Prerequisite(s): (TK 101 or TK 121 or TK 149) and (TK 102 or 

TK 122 or TK 150) 


TÜRKÇE III: BİLİM DİLİ TÜRKÇE 

Dersin amacı, akademik yazı ve sunuş çalışmaları 

aracılığıyla öğrencilerin akademik becerilerini 

geliştirmektir. Öğrenciler, metodolojik araştırma süreci 

üzerine bir rapor hazırlarken kütüphane araştırmaları, 

araştırma yöntemleri ve kaynaklara ulaşma konusunda 

teorik ve uygulamalı deneyim kazanırlar. Derste, bir 

araştırma ödevi yazılacak ve sunulacaktır. Öğrencilerin, 

ayrıca, anket soruları hazırlama, mülakat yapma, farklı 

türlerde metinler hakkında not tutma, rapor yazma gibi 

çalışmalara katılmaları gerekmektedir. 

TK 301 - LITERATURE AND SOCIETY 

FROM TANZIMAT TO REPUBLIC 

The aim of this course is to analyze the modernization 

process in Turkey during the Tanzimat and early 

Republican eras through literary, historical and 

sociological texts. The social and cultural circumstances 

of the periods will be interpreted by focusing on selections 

from Ottoman and Turkish newspapers, magazines, 

advertisements, posters, songs, lyrics, book covers and 

various literary and historical texts. 



TK 122 or TK 150) 


TANZİMAT’TAN CUMHURİYET’E 

EDEBİYAT VE TOPLUM 

Bu dersin amacı, edebiyat, tarih ve sosyoloji metinleri 

aracılığıyla Türkiye’nin Tanzimat ve erken Cumhuriyet 

dönemlerindeki modernleşme sürecini analiz etmektir. 

Derste, Osmanlıca ve Türçe gazetelerden, dergilerden, 

reklamlardan, afişlerden, marşlardan, şarkı sözlerinden, 

kitap kapaklarından ve çeşitli edebi ve tarihsel metinlerden 

yararlanılarak dönemin toplumsal ve kültürel koşulları 

yorumlanacaktır. 

TK 311 - MODERN TURKISH POETRY 

This course explores the development and transformation of 

modern Turkish poetry from the Tanzimat era to the present 

in its fundamental aspects. It identifies the major poets and 

poems that have been influential in the formation of poetic 

language and structure as well as the major debates in the 

process of Turkish modernization. It critically investigates 

the significant periods of modern Turkish poetry in relation 

to such terms as aesthetic autonomy, modernism and the 

avant-garde. In order to provide a background in aesthetic 

appreciation, the course will also focus on poetry as a 

genre, its language and structure. 



TK 122 or TK 150) 


MODERN TÜRK ŞİİRİ 

Bu derste, Tanzimat’tan günümüze modern Türkçe 

şiirin gelişimi ve dönüşümü belli başlı özellikleriyle ele 

alınmaktadır. Modernleşme sürecine bağlı olarak, Türkçe 

şiir yapısının ve dilinin ortaya çıkmasında etkili olmuş 

şairlerin/şiirlerin tanıtılması ve şiirde yaşanan tartışmalar 

üzerinde durulmaktadır. Derste, şiirin dönemleri eleştirel 

olarak analiz edilmekte ve bu süreç estetik özerklik, 

modernizm, avangard gibi kavramlar eşliğinde tartışmaya 

açılmaktadır. Bunun yanı sıra, bir tür olarak şiir, şiirin 

yapısı ve şiir dili üzerinde durularak estetik beğeni için 

gerekli altyapının sağlanması hedeflenmektedir. 

TVJ 104 - BASICS OF IMAGE 

PROCESSING I 

The aim of this course is to introduce students to various 

image-processing and image-making tools. With this 

course, students will be familiarized with basic analogue 

photography, video camera and linear/non-linear editing 

tools. 





TEMEL GÖRÜNTÜ İŞLEME I 

Bu dersin amacı, çok çeşitli görüntü üretme ve işleme 

yöntemlerini öğrencilere tanıtmaktır. Bu derste 

öğrenciler, temel fotoğraf, video, doğrusal ve dijital kurgu 

yöntemlerini öğrenip kullanma imkanı bulacaklardır. 

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TVJ 105 - BASICS OF IMAGE 

PROCESSING II 

This course will focus on the digital video and postproduction 

process of digital image. The aim of this course 

is to introduce students to various image-processing and 

image-making tools. In this course, students will be 

familiarized with video camera and linear/non-linear 

editing tools. 


Special Condition(s): TVJ 104 



TEMEL GÖRÜNTÜ İŞLEME II 

Bu dersin amacı, çok çeşitli görüntü üretme ve işleme 

yöntemlerini öğrencilere tanıtmaktır. Öğrenciler, video, 

doğrusal ve dijital kurgu yöntemlerini öğrenip kullanma 

imkânı bulacaklardır. 

TVJ 179 - FOUNDATIONS OF SCREEN 

STUDIES I 

This course aims to equip students with the essential 

knowledge, skills and competencies they need in order 

to pursue their academic studies, to enable them to 

understand the key concepts in their discipline and 

develop learning skills to help them become self-directed 

learners. 




GÖRSEL EĞİTİMİN TEMELLERİ I 

Bu ders, öğrencilerin öğrenme becerilerini geliştirmelerine 

ve kendi disiplinderinde temel kavramları anlamalarına, 

akademik çelişmalarında ihtiyaç duydukları yetenek ve 

temel bilgileri edinmelerine olanak sağlar. 

TVJ 180 - FOUNDATIONS OF SCREEN 

STUDIES II 

This course aims to equip students with the essential 

knowledge, skills and competencies they need in order 

to pursue their academic studies, to enable them to 

understand the key concepts in their discipline and 

develop learning skills to help them become self-directed 

learners. 




GÖRSEL EĞİTİMİN TEMELLERİ II 

Bu ders,öğrencilerin öğrenme becerilerini geliştirmelerine 

ve kendi disiplinlerinde temel kavramları anlamalarına, 

akademik çalışmalarında ihtiyaç duydukları yetenek ve 

temel bilgileri edinmelerine olanak sağlar. 

TVJ 201 - VISUAL STUDIES 

The course will provide an introduction to the visual 

concerns of message design and interpretation, including

their bases in theories of visual perception, semiotics and 

media practices. Topics studied in the course include the 

role of visual depiction in cultural and social studies, 

the practices of visual production and reproduction, 

and the socialization, history and conventions of visual 

perception. On successful completion of this unit, students 

will be able to understand and analyze representational 

formations ranging through advertising, journalism, 

photography and television. 


Prerequisite(s): TVJ 180 




GÖRSEL ÇALIŞMALAR 

İletişimde görselliğin öneminin öğrenciye aktarıldığı ana 

derslerden biri olan bu derste, görsel algı, görüntü estetiği, 

kültürün görüntüye yansıması başlıca konular arasındadır. 

Öğrencilerin görsel analiz yeteneklerinin ön plana 

çıkarıldığı derste reklamcılık, gazetecilik, fotoğrafçılık ve 

televizyonculukta görselliğin sunumu örneklerle açıklanıyor. 

TVJ 205 - THEORETICAL DEBATES OF 

MASS MEDIA 

Students are expected to gain familiarity with central 

themes and current debates in the field of mass 

communication. The course presents an overall theoretical 

outline and different approaches to the discipline. 

The course covers the following issues: concepts and 

models, theory of media and theory of society, mass 

communication and culture, normative theories and 

media performance, media structures and institutions, 

media organizations, content and the effects of media. 




TVJ 208 - LIGHTING SKILLS 

The aim of this course is to familiarize students with TV 

program production lighting techniques. Students will 

gain experience with different lighting techniques and 

equipment. 






IŞIK TEKNİKLERİ 

Bu derste öğrenciler, değişik TV program formatlarında 

kullanılan ışık teknikleri ve ekipmanlarını tanıyacak ve 

kullanacaklar. 

TVJ 212 - TELEVISION PRODUCTION 

TECHNIQUES II 

This course is designed as a continuation of TVJ 221. 

Building on what was learned in the first semester, this 

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course will introduce the students to single and multicamera 

TV studio production techniques, procedures and 

equipment. 





TVJ 221 - TELEVISION PRODUCTION 

TECHNIQUES I 

The aim of this course is to provide students with the 

basic skills of audio-visual communication techniques. 

The course will be separated into sections on camera 

techniques, sound recording and production, lighting, 

video production, shooting and editing. The course will 

cover theoretical explanations of basic techniques and be 

supported with workshops on each of the above subjects. 

Students will be responsible for producing projects in 

each of the areas, thereby giving them the opportunity to 

practice. 





TVJ 232 - CURRENT AFFAIRS 

PRODUCTION PROCESS 

This course is designed to provide students with handson 

training in the ‘32nd Day’ news program. All students 

will participate in all the steps of the production process 

of ‘32nd Day’. The faculty of TV Journalism and 

Programming and the staff of ‘32nd Day’ will cooperate 

to provide the students with the ability to use technical 

equipment, to write broadcast texts, to handle studio 

operations and to make news research. 


Prerequisite(s): (MED 310 or TVJ 221 or VOC 161) and VOC 

162 



HABER PROGRAMI YAPIM SÜRECİ 

32.Gün haber programının yapım aşaması süreci 

eşliğinde işlenen bu derste amaç, tüm öğrencilerin 32.Gün 

haber programının yapımının farklı aşamalarında görev 

almalarını sağlamaktır. TV Haberciliği ve Programcılığı 

öğretim elemanları ile 32.Gün ekibinin birlikte yürüttüğü 

bu derste, teknik ekipmanın kullanımı, TV metni yazım 

süreci, stüdyo programcılığı konuları geniş bir şekilde ele 

alınmaktadır. 

TVJ 233 - PRINCIPLES OF SPORTS 

JOURNALISM 

This course covers sports reporting on television. The 

aim of this course is to enable students to understand the 

structure of the sports industry with the participation of 

prominent sports journalists. 




SPOR HABERCİLİĞİNİN PRENSİPLERİ 

Bu ders, televizyon için spor haberi yapma yöntemleri ve 

becerilerini kazandırır. Bu dersle amaçlanan, öğrencilere 

sporun bir endüstri olarak özelliklerini tanıtmaktır. Derse 

önemli spor gazetecilerinin katılımı da sağlanmaktadır. 

TVJ 234 - REPORTING SPORTS NEWS 

This course covers sports reporting on television. The 

aim of this course is to enable students to understand the 

structure of the sports industry with the participation of 

prominent sports journalists. 




TVJ 241 - CREATIVE WRITING AND 

VISUAL STORYTELLING 

This course explores ways of telling creative stories for 

television. Reporters, producers and photojournalists 

will discover story focus. They will learn how to write 

to video and graphics, gain the most out of interviews, 

develop characters, find the story lead and write copy 

while conveying energy, integrity and enterprise. 




YARATICI YAZIM VE GÖRSEL ANLATIM 

Bu ders, televizyon için yaratıcı hikâyeler üretme 

tekniklerini incelemektedir. Muhabirler, yapımcılar ve 

televizyon habercileri için televizyon hikâye üertme 

biçimleri, röportaj yapma teknikleri ve hikâyelerin 

içinde karakter yaratma yöntemleri bu dersin konularını 

oluşturmaktadır. 

TVJ 242 - TV NEWS WRITING AND 

ANALYSIS 

The purpose of this course is to provide advanced 

instruction in news writing for television, with specific 

emphasis on gathering, evaluating, writing and performing 

broadcast news copy. It will survey the basic techniques 

and styles used in TV news writing and critically analyize 

the current mode of broadcast news writing. The course 

will enable students to write simple news stories that are 

accurate, clear, interesting and concise. By the end of the 

semester, each student should be able to write television 

copy to match pictures and to write lead-ins for stories. 





TV HABER YAZIMI VE ANALİZİ 

Dersin amacı, öğrencilere televizyon için haber 

yazımının metotlarının öğretilmesidir. Haberin toplanma 

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aşamasından yayına gireceği ana kadar TV için ne 

gibi farkları olduğu üzerinde durulan derste, TV haber 

yazımında gelişen yeni yöntem ve uygulamalar ile 

haber metinleri analiz edilmektedir. Öğrencilerin kendi 

yazdıkları TV haberleriyle yaptıkları pratikleri dönem 

sonunda hazırlayacakları dönem projesine yansıtmaları 

beklenmektedir. 

TVJ 251 - COMPONENTS OF TV INDUSTRY 

The aim of this course is to provide the student with 

an overview of the history, production process and 

program types of television. The student will gain a deep 

understanding and appreciation of the way television 

works in Turkey and in the world. Lectures will also host 

different professionals from the field of broadcasting who 

will present issues in the Turkish television sector from 

different perspectives, and thereby students will have the 

opportunity to achieve a firsthand understanding of the 

current scene. Class hours are based on the analysis of 

television products. 



Restriction(s): MED 262 or TVJ 102 



TV ENDÜSTRİSİNİN BİLEŞENLERİ 

Bu ders öğrencilere, televizyon tarihine, yapım süreçlerine 

ve program türlerine genel bakışı sunmayı hedeflemektedir. 

Öğrenciler, Türkiye ve dünyada televizyonun çalışma 

yöntemleri hakkında bilgi alacaklardır. Derslere ayrıca 

televizyon dünyasından konuk olarak katılacak bir çok 

profesyonel , farklı perspektiflerden Türk televizyon 

sektörü hakkında bilgi verecek, öğrenciler ilk elden 

sektörde yaşananları anlama olanağını bulacaklardır. 

Derslerde televizyon yapımlarının analizleri temel olarak 

ele alınacaktır. 

TVJ 254 - INTRODUCTION TO MOTION 

GRAPHICS 

This course is designed as a workshop to teach students 

basic motion graphics for television production. The 

aim of this course is to familiarize students with postproduction 

skills such as motion graphics and color 

processing. 





DİJİTAL EFEKT VE GRAFİK TASARIM 

Bu ders, öğrencilere temel hareketli televizyon grafiği 

yetilerini kazandırmak üzere düzenlenmiş, pratik çalışma 

ağırlıklı bir atölye çalışmasıdır. 

TVJ 262 - FICTION/NON-FICTION 

This course focuses on the concepts of real, reality and 

realism in photography, film and television. The main

concern will be to analyze the representations of these 

concepts in the visual media cited above. Visual material 

will be analyzed/interpreted in the light of contemporary 

debates on the relation between fiction and non-fiction in 

visual storytelling. One of the main concerns of the course 

is to build an awareness of different codes of ethics and 

aesthetics among different media. 




GERÇEĞİ KURMAK 

Bu derste, farklı görsel mecralardaki gerçek, gerçeklik 

ve gerçekçilik gibi kavramların işleyişini merkeze alarak 

fotoğraf, film ve televizyon alanlarında gerçekliğin 

yeniden üretiminin mekanizmaları formal incelemeye 

tabi tutulacaktır. Görsel hikâye anlatımında kurmaca 

ile kurmaca olmayan arasındaki ilişki yakın dönem 

tartışmaları da içerecek şekilde ele alınırken, bol miktarda 

görsel malzeme bu ilişki çerçevesinde analiz edilecektir. 

Belgesel, haber, TV programı gibi üretimlerde, kullanılan 

mecraya dair estetik ve etik bir farkındalık yaratmak 

dersin öncelikli hedefidir. 

TVJ 273 - SOCIOLOGY FOR TV 

Television has become one of the main components of 

contemporary society. Locating television discourse 

in economic, social and cultural contexts, this course 

introduces key thinkers, key concepts and theories in 

sociology. It offers the opportunity to study and interpret 

television from a sociological perspective. 




TVJ 291 - KONTRA/SOCIAL SPOTS FOR 

TELEVISION I 

The aim of this course is to produce films and campaigns 

of less than one minute duration that are about social and 

environmental issues. As our world faces serious social 

and environmental problems, the aim of course is to 

create an objective atmosphere for students to understand 

such problems and to create films which either allow 

other people to hear (and see) about them or to find a 

solution to the problem. The course aims to bring together 

students from both inside and outside the communication 

faculty, consequently students are not required to have a 

knowledge of visual material such as film, billboard, etc. 




TVJ 292 - KONTRA/SOCIAL SPOTS FOR 

TELEVISION II 

The aim of this course is to produce films and campaigns 

of less than one minute duration that are about social and 

environmental issues. As our world faces serious social 

and environmental problems, the aim of course is to 

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create an objective atmosphere for students to understand 

such problems and to create films which either allow 

other people to hear (and see) about them or to find a 

solution to the problem. The course aims to bring together 

students from both inside and outside the communication 

faculty, consequently students are not required to have a 

knowledge of visual material such as film, billboard, etc. 




TVJ 301 - FIELD PRODUCTION 

This course is designed around advanced techniques in 

field production for commercial and industrial television. 

Emphasis will be given to pre- and post-production 

stages, as well as training for independent assignments. 

This is strictly a single-camera production course with 

projects to be completed by the student. Each student 

will be required to edit projects using both linear taped 

based and non-linear computer based methods such as the 

AVID. 


Prerequisite(s): FTV 271 or TVJ 221 or TVJ 232 or VOC 271 



YAPIM VE KURGU 

Yapım öncesi ve sonrası aşamalarının ayrı ayrı ele 

alındığı bu derste, öğrencilerden dönem boyunca tek 

kamerayla çekim aşamasını tamamlayacakları projelerini 

yine derste gösterilen yapım sonrası aşamalarına uygun 

olarak kurgulamaları beklenmektedir. 

TVJ 313 - NEWS COACHING I 

The purpose of this course is to provide coaching in 

television reporting with specific emphasis on gathering, 

evaluating, writing and performing broadcast news copy. 

Students are expected to work as professional reporters in 

the field. Students will have an opportunity to simulate a 

newsroom conference. The course will enable students to 

analyze and produce simple news stories that are accurate, 

clear, interesting and concise. 




TVJ 314 - NEWS COACHING II 

This course is designed as a continuation of TVJ 313. 

The purpose of this course is to provide coaching in 

television reporting with specific emphasis on gathering, 

evaluating, writing and performing broadcast news copy. 

Students are expected to work as professional reporters 

in the field. The course will enable students to analyze 

and produce simple news stories that are accurate, clear, 

interesting and concise. Students will have an opportunity 

to simulate a newsroom conference. Topics to be covered 

include news gathering instruments, evaluating day-today 

news production for TV and examination of up-to-

date examples, real-life situations and issues, using actual 

cases. 




TVJ 317 - POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE 

MEDIA AND SPORTS 

Political economy of the media and sports is an integral 

approach to mass communication and its relation with 

sports. This field seeks to provide scholars, journalists and 

public officials with an understanding of the foundation 

and control of media organi-zations in the society and 

describe them from the perspectives supported by history, 

social science, sociology and psychology, including the 

changing dynamics of sports. This course will mainly 

provide students with an understanding of the political 

economy approach in studying mass communication and 

sports and guide students to an understanding of how, why 

and for whom media institutions operate in a capitalist 

economic system. The rising importance of technology, 

the involvement of betting in the field of sports, the 

industrial aspect of sports including and affecting other 

issues like racism, ageism, sexism and nationalism, will 

be the other focus of this course. The course will inquire 

into the nature and impact of national, global, ideological 

and cultural influences in shaping media structures and 

their impacts on sports not only in the context of physical 

activity but as a whole system of industry. 



TVJ 318 - SOCIAL IMPACTS OF 

TECHNOLOGY 

An overview of the process and policies of 

telecommunications. Provides basic terms and definitions 

in telecommunications. Introduces the students to the 

issues of privatization and divestiture and to political 

and juridical problems arising from the convergence of 

diverse technologies. 



TVJ 321 - LET’S MAKE RADIO 

Whether a sporting event’s coverage, an interview with a 

famous personality, a production of a small play, a radio 

documentary, a news bulletin or a feature, this elective 

course offers the opportunity to the students for a “hands 

on” experience with radio production. The students will 

be able to learn the secrets of different genres of radio 

programs and chose their favorite. They will then be 

guided how to actually produce their own radio program. 

But that is not all: their programs will form part of our radio 

database which will supply our web radio stream. So, from 

production to broadcasting in one joyful semester! 




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TVJ 327 - FROM CREATIVE THINKING TO 

PROJECT DESIGN 

There are tools for generating an idea: it is an ability 

that can be learned and developed. The crucial steps are 

to develop an idea, work on it in detail and finally to 

embody the idea in a project/product. These steps are 

common in the processes of documentary filmmaking, 

photography projects and production of program 

formats for television. This course aims to give the 

students the ability to find an idea, develop it and make 

a project out of it. 




YARATICI DÜŞÜNCEDEN PROJEYE 

Fikir üretmek, öğrenilebilen ve geliştirilebilen bir 

yetidir. Belgesel film yapımından fotoğraf projelerine, 

televizyon formatı üretimine kadar her alanda ihtiyaç 

duyulan ortak yeti, yaratıcı fikir geliştirmek, bu fikri 

işleyerek olgunlaştırmak ve nihayetinde bir hedef 

doğrultusunda somutlaşmış bir projeye dönüştürmektir. 

Bu ders, öğrencilerin üniversite hayatlarından başlayarak 

meslek hayatlarına kadar uzanan süreç boyunca ihtiyaç 

duyacakları fikir üretme ve bu fikirlerini projelendirme 

yetilerini geliştirmeyi hedeflemektedir. 

TVJ 331 - SKILLS FOR TV PRODUCER 

This course is designed to teach prospective television 

producers to discover the essential skills for producing 

TV programs. Students will learn various producing 

skills from prominent professionals from the TV industry. 

Students will learn to develop TV program formats and 

their ideas as producers. They will also develop their 

presentation and sales skills for the industry. 




TV YAPIMCILIĞI 

Bu ders, geleceğin yapımcılarına tv yapımcılığının 

temel becerilerini kazandırmak üzere tasarlanmıştır. 

Derse çeşitli alanlarda tv yapımcılığı yapan önemli 

profesyoneller katılacaktır. Öğrenciler ayrıca birer 

yapımcı olarak geliştirdikleri fikirleri sunma tekniklerini 

geliştireceklerdir. 

TVJ 341 - AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION IN 

TV JOURNALISM I 

The course is designed to provide the student with an 

area of specialization in television journalism. Each 

area will be covered in detail and professional guest 

speakers specialized in different areas of journalism 

will teach different professional techniques to the 

students. Students will be expected to choose one of 

the areas and prepare a term project. A one- to twoweek 

period of hands-on training in a newsroom may 

be realized if cooperation between professionals and

the lecturer materializes. Areas to be covered are beat 

reporting, police and court beats, politics and diplomacy, 

earthquakes, covering crises, etc. 




TELEVİZYON GAZETECİLİĞİNDE 

UZMANLIK ALANLARI I 

TV gazeteciliğinde uzmanlık alanlarının ele alındığı bu 

derste, kendi alanlarında uzmanlaşmış sektör temsilcileri 

ve gazeteciler derse konuk olmakta ve deneyimlerini 

öğrencilerle paylaşmaktadır. Öğrencilerden, derste işlenen 

uzmanlık alanlarından herhangi birini seçerek dönem 

projesi hazırlamaları beklenmektedir. Derste ele alınan 

uzmanlık alanlarının başlıcaları: Polis-adliye muhabirliği, 

diplomasi muhabirliği, ekonomi muhabirliği. 

TVJ 342 - AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION IN 

TV JOURNALISM II 

The course is designed to provide the student with an 

area of specialization in television journalism. Each area 

will be covered in detail and professional guest speakers 

specialized in different areas of journalism will teach 

different professional techniques to students. Students 

will be expected to choose one of the areas and prepare a 

term project. Areas to be covered are health news, lifestyle 

news, sports news, business news, etc. 





TELEVİZYON GAZETECİLİĞİNDE 

UZMANLIK ALANLARI II 

TV gazeteciliğinde uzmanlık alanlarının ele alındığı 

ve devam niteliği taşıyan bu derste, kendi alanlarında 

uzmanlaşmış sektör temsilcileri ve gazeteciler derse konuk 

olmakta ve deneyimlerini öğrencilerle paylaşmaktadır. 

Öğrencilerden, derste işlenen uzmanlık alanlarından 

herhangi birini seçerek dönem projesi hazırlamaları 

beklenmektedir. Derste ele alınan uzmanlık alanlarının 

başlıcaları: Sağlık muhabirliği, eğitim muhabirliği, spor 

muhabirliği. 

TVJ 361 - TV ENTERTAINMENT 

PRODUCTION I 

The course is designed to teach students the fundamentals 

of entertainment in television production. Students will 

learn the different aspects of producing various TV genres 

such as talk show, quiz show and game show programs, 

TV drama, short documentaries, etc. The course will be 

supported by guest speakers from different TV channels 

and professionals in the TV production industry. 


Prerequisite(s): MED 310 or TVJ 221 or VOC 161 



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TV EĞLENCE PROGRAMI YAPIMCILIĞI I 

TV yayıncılığında eğlence programı yapımının tüm 

yönleriyle incelendiği derste talk show, bilgi yarışması, 

TV draması türleri ve yapım aşamaları üzerinde ayrı 

ayrı durulmaktadır. Ders, alanında uzman sektörden 

konuklarla desteklenmektedir. 

TVJ 367 - DOCUMENTARY 

The course examines the legacy of documentary pioneers 

like Vertov, Flaherty and Grierson, along with the works 

of controversial contemporary documentary makers. 

Through screenings, discussions and lectures, students 

will explore documentary as an evolving genre, in the 

form of social advocacy, propaganda, investigative 

journalism or a personal essay. 


Restriction(s): FTV 206 or FTV 209 or MED 372 


BELGESEL 

Bu ders, belgesel sinemanın öncülerinden Vertov, 

Flaherty ve Grierson ve yakın dönem belgeselcilerin 

yapıtlarını inceler. Öğrenciler sömestr boyunca yapılan 

film gösterimleri ve tartışmalar üzerinden belgesel sinema 

ile tanışacaklardır. Böylece propaganda, araştırmacı 

gazetecilik, sosyal sorumluluk ve ”essay” film olarak 

belgesel türlerini inceleyecekler. 

TVJ 372 - TV GENRES 

The course will examine television genres in relation to 

their specific historical, industrial, economic and cultural 

contexts and their social significance. The course will 

focus on several case studies: it will introduce a wide 

range of program forms, both fictional and factual, 

representing different countries and cultures. 



TV PROGRAM TÜRLERİ 

Televizyon program türlerinin kültürel ve toplumsal 

etkilerinin incelendiği bu ders, televizyonu ve farklı 

program formatlarını tarihsel, endüstriyel ve ekonomik 

bağlama oturtarak anlamlandırmaya çalışacaktır. 

TVJ 382 - TV ENTERTAINMENT 

PRODUCTION II 

This course is designed as an advanced level platform 

to teach students the fundamentals of entertainment 

in television production. The course will be supported 

by guest speakers from different TV channels and 

professionals in the TV industry. Different TV genres will 

be watched and criticized during the semester. The course 

will be supported by travels to major TV show studios in 

Turkey. 


Prerequisite(s): MED 310 or TVJ 221 or VOC 161 



TV EĞLENCE PROGRAMI YAPIMCILIĞI II 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilere ileri düzeyde televizyon 

eğlence programı yapımcılığını öğretmektir. Ders, 

sektördeki farklı televizyon kanallarından gelecek olan 

deneyimli yapımcıların katılımıyla desteklenecektir. 

Türkiye’nin önde gelen TV stüdyolarına teknik geziler 

yine dersin kapsamındadır. Dönem boyunca ayrıca Türk 

ve dünya televizyonlarından eğlence programı formatları 

izlenecek ve incelenecektir. 

TVJ 388 - TV LAB 

Students will have on-the-job experience in television 

production working for tvrp internet TV/BİLGİ TV and/or 

television channels and/or production companies. During 

their internship interns can be assigned any of the following 

tasks, depending on their field of internship: assisting 

mentors, reporters, editors, camera operators, sound and 

lighting operators and production teams covering field 

productions and studio productions, television program 

editors and producers where appropriate. 





TV LAB 

Öğrenciler televizyon program üretiminde TVRP Internet 

TV/BİLGİ TV ve/veya televizyon kanallarında ve/ 

veya yapım şirketlerinde iş deneyimi kazanacaklardır. 

Öğrenciler staj yaptıkları alanın özelliğine uygun olarak 

şu alanlarda görevlendirileceklerdir: uzmanlarla çalışmak, 

habercilik, editör, kamera, ses ve ışık, yapımcılık, 

stüdyoda ve/veya dışarıda program üretimi. 

TVJ 391 - INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM 

Designed to train students to research and write stories 

that others do not want written. Involves research in 

public records and training in techniques of obtaining 

information from reluctant sources. Students are expected 

to work independently on a few major writing assignments 

that require extensive interviewing and investigation. 




SORUŞTURMACI GAZETECİLİK 

Güç elde edilen bilgilerin nasıl erişilmesi gerektiğine 

ilişkin olan bu ders, öğrencilerin bireysel ve özgür 

projelerini desteklemektedir. Öğrenciler bu derste, 

röportaj ve araştırma tekniklerini kullanarak soruşturmacı 

gazetecilik örneği projeler hazırlayacaklardır. 

TVJ 401 - SENIOR PROJECT I 

This course aims to enable students to put to practical 

use all the skills and knowledge they have obtained up to 

this stage in terms of both equipment use and journalistic 

approaches. During the first semester students will design 

the structure of the reporting project, and at the end of 

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the second semester they will be expected to submit the 

completed work in mini DV and DVD format. 




BİTİRME PROJESİ I 

Öğrencilerin, bu döneme kadar almış oldukları derslerde 

edindikleri pratik ve teorik bilgileri bu dönemde 

aldıkları bitirme projesiyle uygulamaya aktarmaları 

beklenmektedir. İlk dönemde yapacakları projelerin 

araştırma aşamasını tamamlamaları, ikinci dönemde ise, 

bu projelerini sunmaları gerekmektedir. 

TVJ 402 - SENIOR PROJECT II 

This course aims to enable students put to practical 

use all the skills and knowledge they have acquired 

up to this stage in terms of both equipment use and 

journalistic approaches. During the first semester 

students will design the structure of the reporting 

project, and at the end of the second semester they will 

be expected to submit the completed work in mini DV 

and DVD format. 



TVJ 411 - BROADCAST ANNOUNCING 

This course is designed to introduce students to the 

fundamentals of announcing for broadcast media. It will 

be comprised of a combination of theory and handson 

experience in both radio and television announcing. 

Improving vocal quality for the microphone, good speech, 

proper enunciation and live announcing techniques in 

studio are among the topics to be taught. 




HABER SUNUCULUĞU 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencileri program sunuculuğu 

hakkında temel bilgiyle donatmaktır. Ders, radyo ve 

televizyon sunuculuğu alanlarında hem teorik bilgiyi 

hem de pratik çalışmayı iç içe işleyerek gelişecektir. Bu 

dersle, öğrenciler mikrofon kullanmayı, Türkçe’yi doğru 

konuşmayı, uygun vurgular yapmayı ve canlı yayın 

sunuculuğu tekniklerini öğreneceklerdir. 

TVJ 412 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN TELEVISION 

The aim of this course is to provide students with the tools 

of criticism of TV programming. Students are expected to 

be able to analyse broadcast TV programming discourses 

and possible ways of reception by audiences. The course 

will cover comparative analyses between Turkish and 

foreign TV programme coverage and discourse and 

content analysis techniques. 




TVJ 415 - NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN 

COMMUNICATION 

This course will focus on the history of recording formats 

from paper to flash discs. The historical development of 

data storage formats and ways of data communication 

will be analyzed thoroughly and discussed in terms of 

their advantages and disadvantages. New broadcasting 

techniques in the television industry such as 3G, Hypertext 

TV and IPTV will be introduced. 




YENİ İLETİŞİM TEKNOLOJİLERİ 

Bu derste, kayıt biçimlerinin, beyaz kağıttan flaş diske 

uzanan tarihi ele alınacak. Bilgi saklama formatları ve veri 

ileti biçimlerinin tarihsel gelişimi, yayın formatlarının 

çeşitli formlardaki teknik alt yapısı, bunların avantaj 

ve dezavantajları öğrencilere aktarılacak. Televizyon 

endüstrisinin yeni yayın biçimleri olan 3G, Hypertext TV, 

IPTV gibi teknolojiler tanıtılacak. 

TVJ 421 - TV NEWS ANALYSIS 

This course is designed to enable the students to watch 

broadcast news analytically and from a professional point 

of view. Students will watch news bulletins of different 

TV channels from both Turkey and abroad during 

lecture hours and evaluate them comparatively. Thus the 

students will be able to gain an understanding of how the 

ideological, financial and ownership structures of media 

conglomerates affect the production and the presentation 

of news bulletins as well as how news values differ from 

country to country. 




TVJ 425 - LEGAL CONCEPTS AND ISSUES 

This course will explore legal issues in connection with 

freedom of expression and speech, right of privacy and 

libel. This course will explore the intellectual property 

law, with special reference to copyright law in relation 

with television program production and distribution 

together with ethical issues. Students will investigate 

and analyze a number of legal issues in connection with 

television program production and distribution through 

case studies and current practice. 


Restriction(s): LAW 303 or MED 383 



HUKUKİ KAVRAM VE MESELELER 

Bu ders, televizyon sektöründe fikir özgürlüğü, 

mahremiyet hakkı ve karalama hedefli yayınlar gibi yasal 

durumları kapsar. Ders, bir televizyon sektörü çalışanının 

bilmesi gereken, fikri mülkiyet ve telif hakkı, televizyon 

yayıncılığında eser hakları gibi yasal sorumluluk 

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ve yaptırımlarla beraber etik kuralları içermektedir. 

Televizyon program üretimi ve dağıtımı ile ilgili örnek 

olay incelemeleri, öğrencilere bu alanda araştırma ve 

analiz olanakları verir. 

TVJ 441 - FACTUAL TV 

This course explores the trends in factual TV formats. 

Students will be able to identify and discuss the nature and 

present status of factual programs in television schedules: 

identify the different film and interview techniques used 

and their effects on the subject matte: research, write and 

present a proposal on a topic of their choice. And students 

will be able to produce their own programs. 




“FACTUAL TV’’ 

Bu ders “Factual TV” formatında yapılan programlardaki 

farklı yaklaşımları ele alırken, öğrencilerin günümüz 

televizyonculuk dünyasının yayın akışında yer verdiği 

çeşitli “Factual TV” program türlerinin özelliklerini 

ayırt etmesini ve bu özellikleri kendi yaratıcılıklarıyla 

harmanlayıp uygulamasını amaçlamaktadır. Bu 

ders ile, öğrenciler farklı biçimleri konu bazlı 

olarak nasıl kullanmaları gerektiğine karar verecek, 

araştırmalarını yapacak, senaryo ve metinlerini 

hazırlayacak, hazırladıkları programın öneri metnini 

sunup ve nihayetinde programlarını yayına hazır hale 

getireceklerdir. 

TVJ 447 - INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION 

The course is designed for students who look for a further 

understanding of the system environments in which the 

television industry operates. This course will give the 

opportunity to discover television in different countries 

and be able to compare them. The students will have the 

opportunity to examine international perspectives. 



ULUSLARARASI TELEVİZYON 

Bu derste, öğrenciler televizyon sektörüne hâkim olan 

sistemi daha iyi anlayacaklar. Farklı ülkelerdeki televizyon 

sistemlerini öğrenerek onları karşılaştırabilecekler. 

Öğrenciler uluslararası perpektifleri inceleme şansına 

sahip olacaklar. 

TVJ 462 - HUMAN WRONGS AND TV 

This course examines the complex interconnection 

between the areas of human rights and the media. The 

students will acquire the necessary knowledge on the 

historical development, the policies and the applications 

of this complex relationship. The main focus will be on 

the notion of “rights”, which is crucial in the profession 

of news making as well as all other professions. During 

the course, some national and international defense 

mechanisms will be analyzed in terms of issues such as

gender, impairment, children and elderly rights/rights 

violation, hate speech, freedom of expression and human 

rights. 



İNSAN HATALARI VE TV 

Bu ders, insan hakları ile medya arasındaki karmaşık 

bağları inceler. Öğrencilere insan hakları ve medya 

konularındaki tarihi süreç, politika ve uygulamalar 

hakkında temel oluşturacak bir birikim kazandırmayı 

hedefler. Öğrencilere, hak bilinci kazandırılarak, başta 

habercilik mesleği olmak üzere, çalışma alanlarında 

hak eksenli düşünme ve etik davranışın habercinin 

sorumluluğu bakımından önemi benimsetilir. Toplumsal 

cinsiyet, engelliler, çocuk ve yaşlılara dair haklar ve 

hak ihlalleri, ayrıca devlet kuramı, nefret söylemi, ifade 

özgürlüğü ile insan haklarına dair ulusal ve uluslararası 

koruma mekanizmaları incelenir. 

TVJ 472 - DOCUMENTARY WORKSHOP 

This course is designed as a workshop with the 

participation of prominent documentary filmmakers 

who will share their experiences with the students. 

Their documentaries will be screened, discussed and 

analyzed thoroughly in the class. All students will 

create their own documentary projects under the 

supervision of these directors. At the end of the term, 

student projects will be screened as an event organized 

by the students. 




BELGESEL ATÖLYE 

Çeşitli belgesel yönetmenlerinin katılımıyla 

gerçekleşecek olan bu derste, öncelikle bu 

yönetmenlerin filmleri izlenerek tartışılacaktır. 

İzlenen filmler üzerinden yapılan deneyim paylaşımı, 

öğrencilerin üretecekleri projeler için yol gösterecek 

şekilde biçimlenecektir. Dönem boyunca, her öğrenci 

kendi belgesel film projesini üretecektir. Belgesel 

yönetmenlerinin kılavuzluğunda her bir projenin etik 

yaklaşımı, ele aldığı konuyla ilişki kurma biçimi, dili 

ve kurgusu biçimlendirilecektir. Dönem sonunda, ders 

kapsamında üretilen tüm belgesel filmlerin gösteriminin 

yapıldığı bir etkinlik düzenlenecek, öğrenciler bu 

etkinliğin örgütlenmesinde de aktif olarak rol alacaktır. 

TVJ 481 - BİLGİ TV EXPERIENCE 

The aim of this course is for students from various 

disciplines to contribute to the online television portal, 

BİLGİ TV, under the supervision of professionals 

covering television news and television programming. 


Restriction(s): TVJ 221 or VOC 161 



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BİLGİ TV DENEYİMİ 

Bu ders, Üniversite’deki tüm öğrencilerin BİLGİ TV 

online televizyonunun program üretim sürecinin içinde 

olmalarını hedeflemektedir. Öğrenciler, profesyonellerin 

denetiminde, televizyon haber ve program üretim 

sürecinin her aşamasına birebir katılırlar. 

TVJ/E 179 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES I 


















developed. 


TVJ/E 180 - ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 

PURPOSES II 


















developed. 


VBI 102 - INTRODUCTION TO BANKING 

AND INSURANCE 

This course aims to cover the definition and historical 

development of insurance and insurance trade, 

basic principles of insurance, types of insurance, 

insurance policy, damage, definition and attributes

of the concepts of compensation and reinsurance, 

basic principles of the insurance business, definition 

of risk and insurance, sources of risk and insurance, 

classification of risk and insurance, founding and 

organization structure of insurance companies, 

management related to insurance business 

administration, strategic planning, calculation and 

application of technical profit and loss in relation 

with insurance companies, budgeting, internal audit, 

government inspection, independent audit. 



VCD 145 - VISUAL PERCEPTION I 

The aim of the course is to supply the student with the 

essential concepts of the human visual process as a 

background for imaging, regardless of the medium 

(including cinema, computer animation and multimedia) 

used to capture, manipulate, reproduce or display visual 

information. 


Restriction(s): VCD 109 and VCD 101 and VCD 143 


GÖRSEL ALGI I 

Dersin amacı, ortama bakmaksızın (sinema, bilgisayar 

animasyonu ve multimedya dahil), öğrencilere 

kaydetmek, değiştirmek, yeniden üretmek ve sunmak için 

insanın görsel sürecinin önemli konseptlerini aktarmaktır. 

VCD 146 - VISUAL PERCEPTION II 

The aim of the course is to supply the student with the 

essential concepts of the human visual process as a 

background for imaging, regardless of the medium 

(including cinema, computer animation and multimedia) 

used to capture, manipulate, reproduce or display visual 

information. 


Restriction(s): VCD 102 and VCD 144 


GÖRSEL ALGI II 

Dersin amacı, ortama bakmaksızın (sinema, bilgisayar 

animasyonu ve multimedya dahil), öğrencilere 

kaydetmek, değiştirmek, yeniden üretmek ve sunmak için 

insanın görsel sürecinin önemli konseptlerini aktarmaktır. 

VCD 147 - BASIC DESIGN I 

Understanding basic design. Translation of the written or 

spoken words into visual symbols within the composition. 


Restriction(s): VCD 110 and VCD 143 


TEMEL TASARIM I 

Dersin amacı, öğrencilerin temel tasarımı anlamalarını, 

kompozisyon içinde yazılmış veya söylenmiş şeyleri 

görsel olgulara çevirebilmelerini sağlamaktır. 

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VCD 148 - BASIC DESIGN II 

Understanding basic design. Translation of the written or 

spoken word into visual symbols within the composition. 


Restriction(s): VCD 110 and VCD 143 and VCD 144 

VCD 169 - IMAGES, SOUNDS, CULTURES I 

This course aims to familiarize students with the basic 

issues of the image, the visual world, representation 

and culture at a number of levels. What is seeing, what 

is hearing and what are the cultural determinants that 

are at work in the processes of audio-visual perception? 

Special emphasis will be placed on spectatorship, and the 

place of the ”spectacle” will be discussed extensively. 

The significance of photography and moving images 

within the framework of art and technology will also 

be examined. There will be a special module devoted to 

”America”, in order to study how these issues materialize 

in the context of a country as an icon. These topics will be 

covered by drawing upon a wide range of cases. Students 

are expected to participate in discussions, bringing 

their own experiences and personal work that they have 

produced. 




GÖRÜNTÜLER, SESLER, KÜLTÜRLER I 

Bu ders, öğrencilerin görüntü, görsel dünya, temsil 

ve kültürle ilgili temel meselelerle farklı düzlemlerde 

yakınlık kurmalarını amaçlar. Görmek nedir, duymak 

nedir ve görsel-işitsel algı sürecinde etkin olan kültürel 

belirlenimler nelerdir? Seyircilik üzerinde önemle 

durulacak ve “görünüş” geniş çapta tartışılacaktır. Sanat 

ve teknoloji çerçevesinde fotoğraf ve hareketli görüntünün 

önemi de incelenecektir. Tüm bu meselelerin ikon 

konumundaki bir ülke bağlamında nasıl somutlandığını 

araştırmak için “Amerika”ya özel bir bölüm ayrılacaktır. 

Bu konular geniş çaplı örnekler üzerinden ele alınacaktır. 

Öğrencilerin kendi deneyim ve işleri ile tartışmalara 

katılımı beklenmektedir. 

VCD 170 - IMAGES, SOUNDS, CULTURES II 

This course aims to familiarize students with the basic 

issues of the image, the visual world, representation 

and culture at a number of levels. What is seeing, what 

is hearing and what are the cultural determinants that 

are at work in the processes of audio-visual perception? 

Special emphasis will be placed on spectatorship and the 

place of the ”spectacle” will be discussed extensively. The 

significance of photography and moving images within the 

framework of art and technology will also be examined. 

There will be a special module devoted to ”America”, in 

order to study how these issues materialize in the context 

of a country as an icon. These topics will be covered 

by drawing upon a wide range of cases. Students are 

expected to participate in discussions, bringing their own 

experiences and personal work that they have produced.




GÖRÜNTÜLER, SESLER, KÜLTÜRLER II 

Bu ders, öğrencilerin görüntü, görsel dünya, temsil 

ve kültürle ilgili temel meselelerle farklı düzlemlerde 

yakınlık kurmalarını amaçlar. Görmek nedir, duymak 

nedir ve görsel-işitsel algı sürecinde etkin olan kültürel 

belirlenimler nelerdir? Seyircilik üzerinde önemle 

durulacak ve “görünüş” geniş çapta tartışılacaktır. Sanat 

ve teknoloji çerçevesinde fotoğraf ve hareketli görüntünün 

önemi de incelenecektir. Tüm bu meselelerin ikon 

konumundaki bir ülke bağlamında nasıl somutlandığını 

araştırmak için “Amerika”ya özel bir bölüm ayrılacaktır. 

Bu konular geniş çaplı örnekler üzerinden ele alınacaktır. 

Öğrencilerin kendi deneyim ve işleri ile tartışmalara 

katılımı beklenmektedir. 

VCD 211 - PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES 

The students are expected to acquire the basic technical 

skills of black and white photographic techniques such 

as shooting, film processing and enlarging. The students 

are introduced to photographic equipment, materials, 

processes and philosophy. The course will make use of 

black and white materials, small camera operation, roll 

film processing, enlarging, finishing and presentation. 

Special emphasis is given to projects involving the 

development of camera vision and ideas. 




VCD 212 - PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP 

The second part of the course aims at developing skills 

regarding color photography and basic lighting techniques, 

with the compositional aspect of the medium always 

emphasized. This course introduces color materials, including 

color negatives/slides, applied color and experimental 

color processes. Black-and-white skills learned in the first 

semester are enhanced and reinforced. The class is designed 

to explore the inherent qualities of both color and black-andwhite 

photographic processes, so that students learn to make 

informed decisions in their choice of process. The course 

will also examine the impact of computer technology on 

photography. We will consider how these technologies alter 

our thoughts about photography and what opportunities they 

provide for the picture maker. Topics will include methods 

of transferring images into the computer by means of digital 

cameras, scanning photos, CD, video capture and internet 

image access. Photographic image alteration will be carried 

out primarily with Adobe’s Photoshop software. We will 

explore available output methods to enable the viewing 

of computer pictures, as these most recent manifestations 

determine our mark-making urge. The course will be 

organized around a series of assigned projects as well as the 

opportunity for independent work. 


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VCD 213 - BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN 

The aim of this course is to introduce the fundamentals 

and basic principles of visual communication design to 

a student from another major field in order to create an 

understanding of trending topics about design and its 

critic. Basic design issues such as balance, rhythm and 

color as well as typography and grid systems are the main 

topics to be covered. 


VCD 221 - CYBERCULTURE 

The computer, the most progressive tool that humans 

ever made, facilitates inward creative processes as well 

as outward physical productions. This puts computers 

in an even more critical position in the design world, 

as computing becomes more a subject of creativity than 

the object of production. The internet that began as a 

military project has now been transformed into a global 

virtual world accommodating many subcultures, known 

as cybercultures. These new cultural forms reshape and 

sometimes reinvent the traditional norms of society, 

culture, commerce, education and even aesthetics. This 

course identifies some of the key issues with cybercultures 

and virtual worlds, and provides in-depth information 

about them. These issues are investigated in close relation 

to the design and the media. 


Restriction(s): IT 102 or IT 201 



VCD 222 - TYPOGRAPHY 

This course covers the fundamentals of typography, its 

history, technology and theory. Course projects include the 

study of letterforms, typographic composition, typographic 

expression and communication. Goals and objectives of 

the course are: to create awareness of the power and role of 

typography in constructing meaning, to explore typography 

as a tool for representation of concepts and to encourage 

conceptual thinking, to explore the media which mediate 

typography but also to explore type itself as a medium. 




VCD 224 - MODALITIES OF 

INTERACTIVITY 

Introducing selected digital art works, this course 

examines major issues in the following fields: modalities 

of interactivity, immersion, interactive narration and 

exhibition design. This elective course is based on 

participatory teaching strategies. Students will contribute 

actively to the selection, presentation and discussion 

of innovative contemporary art works and will be

encouraged to develop critical thinking and the necessary 

methodological background. 




VCD 261 - DRAWING FOR DIGITAL 

MEDIA I 

The intention of this course is to provide students 

with an insight into computers as a means for creating 

artistic work and concentrating on creating artistic 

values. The course aims to develop the skills of hand 

and computer drawing, collage, image processing and 

computer animation. Concentrating on understanding 

comics as an urban culture, the course will teach the 

basics of creating comics in digital medium: drawing 

and coloring. 




VCD 262 - DRAWING FOR DIGITAL 

MEDIA II 

The intention of this course is to provide students with 

an insight into computers as a means for creating artistic 

work and, concentrating on creating artistic values. The 

course aims to develop the skills of hand and computer 

drawing, collage, image processing and computer 

animation. Concentrating on understanding comics as an 

urban culture, the course will teach the basics of creating 

comics in digital medium: drawing and coloring. 





VCD 271 - DIGITAL VECTOR GRAPHICS 

The goal of this course is to improve the student’s 

skills of drawing real objects, learning to perceive the 

compositions of object groups and interpreting them in 

the digital medium. 




VCD 281 - ANIMATION TECHNIQUES I 

The aim of the course is to introduce and familiarize 

students with the techniques of animation. Different 

techniques will be presented and students will be asked 

to realize the content through little animation exercises. 

They will be asked to apply each technique to a given 

piece of music or a storyboard. At the end of the semester, 

students will have learned all the stages of producing an 

animated film. 




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VCD 282 - ANIMATION TECHNIQUES II 

This course is the continuation of Animation Techniques 

I. Further techniques will be presented and students will 

be asked to realize the content through little animation 

exercises. 





VCD 301 - CONTEMPORARY MEDIA 

AESTHETICS 

The aim of the course is to introduce various forms of 

contemporary media. Through a series of in-depth 

seminars, students will be encouraged to realize how 

contemporary media resemble and differ from older 

media. All discussions will be oriented around visual 

materials which will be screened during the classes, such 

as samples of video art, music videos, advertisement 

clips, animations, digital videos, land art and conceptual 

art. The students are expected to develop skills in 

recognizing, understanding, appreciating, evaluating 

and using new media. Thus the students will be asked to 

develop their methods of critical thinking and approach to 

the practical works which they will generate throughout 

their profession of design. 



VCD 311 - WEB DESIGN 

The aim of this course is to make the students comfortable 

with the key design elements of publishing content on the 

World Wide Web. At the end of the semester, students 

are expected to be able to complete a fully-functional 

web project by themselves. This Project will include 

processes such as concept development for interactive 

design works, information design, interface design, 

interaction design, optimization and integration for the 

web, usability, beta-testing, etc. During the semester, they 

will learn to understand the basic principles of publishing 

and managing visual content for hypermedia and an 

interactive portal site. The students are introduced to 

the tools for creating and editing web projects: Browser, 

Browser Helper Applications, HTML Editors, Document 

Management Tools and Image Editors. 




VCD 312 - INTERACTIVE WEB PROJECTS 

Since the students are already familiar with the concepts 

and techniques of developing, building and managing 

web sites, this semester’s focus will be the enhancements 

and in-depth exploration of the ideas introduced in VCD 

311. Some of the areas covered during this semester 

include developing rich media applications, preparing 

flash animations, promoting the site and creating an 

e-campaign.





VCD 313 - PROJECT I 

This course is designed to encourage its participants to 

focus and work on various periodical design activities and 

accomplishing tasks to complete projects. These activities 

may include exhibitions, performances and seminars. The 

research, development, proposal and production phases 

of mostly international projects will be realized with the 

participation of the students under the supervision of 

academics and professionals. There will be an audition 

during the registration period for this elective course. 




PROJE I 

Bu ders, öğrencileri projelerini tamamlamaları için 

değişik dönemlerden tasarım aktivitelerine odaklanıp 

çalışmaları yönünde cesaretlendirir. Bu aktiviteler 

sergi, performans ve seminer olabilir. Çoğu uluslararası 

olan projelerin araştırma, geliştirme, sunum ve yapım 

aşamaları öğrenciler tarafından akademisyenlerin ve 

profesyonellerin gözetiminde yapılacaktır. Derse kayıtlar 

mülakat ile yapılacaktır. 

VCD 314 - PROJECT II 

This course is designed to encourage its participants to 

focus and work on various periodical design activities and 

accomplishing tasks to complete projects. These activities 

may include exhibitions, performances and seminars. The 

research, development, proposal and production phases 

of mostly international projects will be realized with the 

participation of the students under the supervision of 

academics and professionals. There will be an audition 

during the registration period for this elective course. 




VCD 321 - INTRODUCTION TO 

MULTIMEDIA 

Multimedia delivers information through the most 

accessible and appropriate use of all available 

communication levels, i.e., text, picture, video, 

animation, audio and intellectual methods of interactivity. 

Multimedia production is where all the different digital 

media meet: combining different types of media in one 

project requires a wide range of knowledge of each. The 

speed of the development of information technology 

and the short time between development and marketing 

prevents establishing standards, or causes any standard 

to have a very short life cycle. For the same reason, the 

knowledge that a multimedia author can rely on becomes 

out of date in a very short time. This is a major problem 

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of the authoring environment, but not the only one. The 

other problem with the rapid change in this market is the 

variety of the target machines that the end product will 

run on. All these make pausing learning impossible. But 

learning is always easier when one keeps track of current 

developments. As a process, multimedia production has 

its own rules and methods. This course’s objective is 

to teach the process of MM production with hands-on 

experience, to talk about the basics of most media and the 

details of combining them in the authoring environment. 

In addition, the idea is to bring the participants to a level 

of knowledge from which they can continue following 

new developments. 



VCD 322 - MULTIMEDIA DESIGN 

Multimedia delivers information through the most 

accessible and appropriate use of all available 

communication levels, i.e., text, picture, video, 

animation, audio and intellectual methods of interactivity. 

Multimedia production is where all the different digital 

media meet: combining different types of media in one 

project requires a wide range of knowledge on each. The 

speed of the development of information technology 

and the short time between development and marketing 

prevents establishing standards, or causes any standard 

to have a very short life cycle. For the same reason, the 

knowledge that a multimedia author can rely on becomes 

out of date in a very short time. This is a major problem 

of the authoring environment, but not the only one. The 

other problem with the rapid change in this market is the 

variety of the target machines that the end product will 

run on. All these make pausing learning impossible. But 

learning is always easier when one keeps track of current 

developments. As a process, multimedia production has 

its own rules and methods. This course’s objective is 

to teach the process of MM production with hands-on 

experience: to talk about the basics of most media and the 

details of combining them in the authoring environment. 

In addition, the idea is to bring the participants to a level 

of knowledge from which they can continue following 

new developments. 




VCD 331 - PUBLICATION DESIGN 

This course will guide the students through an in-depth 

investigation of the specific aspects of publication design. 

The first part of the semester will cover all aspects of 

designing comprehensive art and photographic books: the 

use of type on layouts, editing images, space, structure, 

scale and pacing. Particular attention will be paid to 

certain elements of the design production, including the 

visual, tactile and aesthetic qualities of paper, printing, 

binding, color separation and advanced techniques in 

reproduction. The second part of the semester will be

devoted to book design for works of literature and nonfiction, 

exploring the process by which manuscripts are 

transformed into printed books, as well as the fundamental 

methods underlying all successful typographical layouts. 

Finally, the third part will focus on magazine design. 





VCD 332 - URBAN GRAPHICS 

The core of this course will focus on the pragmatic aspects 

of graphic design in the urban environment. The objective 

is to purposely apply acquired knowledge and skills (e.g., 

typography, color, visual translation, photography and 

theory) to a set of “real” problems based on one theme. 

Necessary vehicles for information (maps, signage 

systems, posters and billboards, etc.) will be developed 

from concept up to production. This course will also 

involve the design of an identity system (e.g., symbol and/ 

or logo type and sample applications) for an organization. 




VCD 341 - LARGE FORMAT 

PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES 

The objective of this course is to convey to students 

the possibilities offered by large-format photography 

and to explain in a simple way how the (at-first-sight 

complicated) setting techniques can be employed to realize 

limitless creative visual ideas. The course is intended for 

students who have so far used small and medium format 

cameras with related darkroom techniques. Basic content 

of the course consists of the technical ideas behind largeformat 

cameras and their different versions, information 

on the requirements of lenses, the problems of exposure 

reading, handling contrast and filtering techniques, 

subject viewing, perspective theory and camera settings. 


Prerequisite(s): VCD 211 and VCD 212 



VCD 372 - DIGITAL ANIMATION 

This course explains animation concepts, moving images, 

types of movements and framing concepts. It also aims 

to improve students’ skills in drawing vectors and raster 

images for digital animation through weekly assignments. 




VCD 391 - STOP MOTION ANIMATION 

Stop motion animation is an amazing area that offers the 

opportunity to combine cinema and photography with a 

vast range of materials and animation techniques. This 

course will equip the students with the essentials of stop 

motion animation. Techniques and examples of stop 

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motion animation will be provided. Students will be asked 

to present a stop motion animation project with script and 

storyboard at the end of the semester. 




VCD 393 - SOUND FOR VISUAL DESIGN 

The aim of this course is to instill in students an awareness 

of the significance of sound and music production in 

visual design. The course begins with a brief survey of 

classical western music and continues with the history 

of electronic music. Each week the relationship between 

music, technology and contemporary art will be examined, 

drawing on the leading composers and visual designers of 

the 20th century. Students will be expected to complete 

two projects in music, sound design and visual design. No 

prior music experience is required. 





VCD 401 - MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION 

The objective of this course is to teach the process of 

multimedia production with hands-on experience and 

the basics of most media and details of combining them 

in the authoring environment. In addition, the idea is 

to bring the participants to a level of knowledge from 

which they can continue to follow new developments. 

The Advanced Multimedia Design course will be the 

hands-on, complete application of what is learned in the 

previous course. All the components will merge and reallife 

problems will be analyzed and solved. The course will 

culminate with a completed multimedia production that 

is ready to be delivered to the end user. Every aspect of a 

multimedia production will be planned, designed, edited 

and programmed through the efforts of the students who 

attend the course. By the end of this course, the attendants 

will have the knowledge and the complete experience of 

a multimedia production, from management to design and 

application. 





VCD 411 - 3D COMPUTER GRAPHICS 

The aim of this course is to introduce students to 3D 

modeling and rendering software, basic modeling 

concepts and techniques, how to create materials, 

scenes rendered with digital lights and cameras, and to 

provide a perspective on the 3D digital design and virtual 

environments. The students are expected to integrate their 

realistic or non-realistic digital 3D scenes with their 2D 

digital designs. 




VCD 412 - 3D COMPUTER ANIMATION 

Conceived as a continuation of VCD 411, this course aims 

to introduce students to the techniques of creating short 

animations with the digital 3D modeling and rendering 

techniques. The students are expected to create abstract 

3D animations, to use video editing and postproduction 

techniques and to produce a finalized abstract music 

video. Each lesson includes a theoretical lecture, a 

technical workshop in which students get acquainted with 

3D software and evaluation of projects. 





VCD 421 - SENIOR PROJECT I 


basis of the graduation project for the BA candidates of the 

VCD department. The focus will be on the progression of 

the concept and helping students develop the skills needed 

to understand and carry out a research based visualization 

process. During the course students will be encouraged 

with screenings, examples from audio-visual teaching 

material and preliminary discussions. The entire process 

will be supported by extensive research through surveys. 

Students will develop their concepts and write a proposal 

showing their awareness of the logical steps of production. 

They will generate practical solutions with their specific 

adviser and will visualize their concept. Finally they will 

prepare to make a presentation of the draft version of their 

project to the committee. In successfully completing the 

course, the students will have acquired the experience 

of coordinating independent visual projects based on 

investigation and research. 



VCD 422 - SENIOR PROJECT II 

This course aims at organizing and monitoring the 

graduation project for the BA candidates of the Department 

of Visual Communication Design. The students are 

expected to continue developing their graduation project, 

which started to take shape in the previous project 

course, VCD 421. During this course, students will try 

to eliminate the problems determined by the project 

committee. There will be ongoing discussions in order to 

overcome the technical obstacles the students face during 

the realization process of their projects. Solutions to these 

obstacles will be suggested accordingly. 



VCD 431 - BROADCAST DESIGN 

The course aims to provide students with the basics 

of production and post-production processes in the 

framework of graphics design. Some theory and 

conceptual issues are also covered. This course is the 

foundation course for VCD 432 Video Project II. 

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VCD 451 - PORTFOLIO DESIGN 

The objective of this course is to teach the fourth year 

students the basics of developing a portfolio, which will 

be their major representative in the market. Students are 

responsible for choosing the best works done through 

their undergraduate years and for designing the portfolio 

using the most appropriate presentation method. Students 

will try to establish a strong correspondence between the 

presentation material and the way it is presented. Students 

will be guided by their instructor in order to find the best 

way to represent themselves with this portfolio. 




VCD 471 - MAKING OF ... 

The course will cover the process involved in documenting 

the production sequence of a product that is designed and 

displayed (video, audio, sculpture, performance, new 

media, etc.). The students will focus on various techniques 

used to record the progress of the project development 

phase and meanwhile will access the theory of the issue. 

Both theory and technology will be based on the new 

approach of the digital media and the aesthetic analysis of 

already made examples. 



VCD 481 - PHYSICAL INTERACTION 

DESIGN 

The course will introduce physical interaction design 

in New Media works with microcontroller and sensor 

technologies. It will explore interaction design practices 

where they adapt physical interaction to daily-life 

applications and contemporary art works. Arduino 

microcontroller and PureData environment will be used 

as production tools. Arduino is an open-source physical 

computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a 

development environment for physical interaction with 

computing systems. The course will introduce artistic 

strategies, structures and methodologies for the creation 

of interactive installations, physical media – image-sound 

interaction projects. The course will be taught using 

PureData, an open source object-oriented programming 

environment and Arduino microcontroller. PureData is a 

dataflow programming (visual programming) language 

for audio and multimedia, which has been a recent 

pioneering application in the contemporary art field. 

The Physical Interaction Design course is a projectbased 

course. At the end of the academic term, students 

will submit and present the project works that they will 

have worked on during the course schedule. Arduino 

microcontroller (open source hardware) and PureData

are free software applications to be installed and used 

for any purpose. 



VHM 104 - MARKETING FOR SERVICE 

INSTITUTIONS 

The primary aim of this course is to enable students 

to understand the marketing strategies and tactics for 

institutions working in the service sector. 




VHO 102 - FOOD AND BEVERAGE 

MANAGEMENT 


practices of food and beverage services through a 

customer-oriented approach. 



VHO 103 - INTRODUCTION TO 

HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT 

The students will learn the basic elements of the hospitality 

industry including their future place in the industry, 

including the dynamics of restaurant business, restaurant 

operations, institutional food service, the history of 

the lodging industry, meeting the guests’ needs, hotel 

and motel operations, competition, the global tourism 

industry, destination management, ecotourism, marketing 

and, most importantly, the role of service in the industry. 



VHR 101 - HUMAN RESOURCE 

MANAGEMENT I 

The aim of this course is to examine the main functions 

of human resource management through an international 

and comparative approach. A fundamental element 

of this course is the need for effective employee 

management in professional life. On completion of 

this course, the successful student will have learned the 

fundamental aspects of human resource management, 

the problems that human resource managers face in 

professional life, functions of the human resource 

department, the strategic importance of human resource 

management in the company, etc. Moreover, this course 

focuses on the contradictory and arguable approaches 

that affect current human resource management 

practices. Within the framework of this course, the labor 

market, unemployment, employment, human capital, 

discrimination, unions and global human resource 

management are discussed. 





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İNSAN KAYNAKLARI YÖNETİMİ I 

Bu dersin amacı, uluslararası ve karşılaştırmalı bir 

bakış açısıyla İnsan Kaynakları Yönetimi’nin temel 

fonksiyonlarını incelemektir. Dersin temelini teşkil 

eden ana tema, iş dünyasında çalışanların etkin bir 

şekilde yönetilmesine duyulan ihtiyaçtır. Öğrencilerden 

İKY için önemli olan alanları, İKY yöneticilerinin 

karşılaştığı problemleri, İKY bölümünün fonksiyonları 

ve İKY’nin şirket içindeki stratejik önemini kavramaları 

beklenmektedir. Bu doğrultuda ders, günümüz 

uygulamalarını etkileyen çelişik ve tartışmaya açık 

yaklaşımlara da odaklanmaktadır. Ders kapsamında, 

iş gücü piyasaları, işsizlik, istihdam, beşeri sermaye, 

ayrımcılık, sendikalar, global İK yönetimi, vb. konular 

ele alınacaktır. 

VHR 102 - HUMAN RESOURCE 

MANAGEMENT II 

As the continuation of Human Resource Management I, 

the aim of this course is to examine the main functions 

of human resource management through an international 

and comparative approach. The fundamental element 

of this course is the need for effective employee 

management in professional life. On completion of 

this course, the successful student will have learned the 

fundamental aspects of human resource management, 

the problems that human resource managers face in 

professional life, functions of the human resource 

department, the strategic importance of human resource 

management in the company, etc. Moreover, this course 

focuses on the contradictory and arguable approaches 

that affect current human resource management 

practices. Within the framework of this course, the labor 

market, unemployment, employment, human capital, 

discrimination, unions and global human resource 

management are discussed. 


Prerequisite(s): VHR 101 



İNSAN KAYNAKLARI YÖNETİMİ II 

İnsan Kaynakları Yönetimi I adlı dersin devamı niteliğinde 

olan bu dersin amacı, yine benzer şekilde uluslararası 

ve karşılaştırmalı bir bakış açısıyla İnsan Kaynakları 

Yönetimi’nin temel fonksiyonlarını incelemektir. Dersin 

temelini teşkil eden ana tema, iş dünyasında çalışanların 

etkin bir şekilde yönetilmesine duyulan ihtiyaçtır. 

Öğrencilerden İKY için önemli olan alanları, İKY 

yöneticilerinin karşılaştığı problemleri, İKY bölümünün 

fonksiyonları ve İKY’nin şirket içindeki stratejik önemini 

kavramaları beklenmektedir. Bu doğrultuda ders, 

günümüz uygulamalarını etkileyen çelişik ve tartışmaya 

açık yaklaşımlara da odaklanmaktadır. Ders kapsamında 

iş gücü piyasaları, işsizlik, istihdam, beşeri sermaye, 

ayrımcılık, sendikalar, global İK yönetimi, vb. konular 

ele alınacaktır.

VIT 147 - MATH FOR FINANCIAL 

MATHEMATICS I 

Function sketching. Applications of derivatives and maxmin 

problems. Definite and indefinite (Rieamann) integral, 

area under a curve. Fundamental theorem of calculus, 

techniques of integration, areas, surfaces, volumes. 

Sequences, series, convergence tests, introduction to 

differential equations. First order differential equations. 




VIT 148 - MATH FOR FINANCIAL 

MATHEMATICS II 

Analytic geometry in the plane and in three-dimensional 

space. Cartesian coordinates, vectors and their algebra, 

scalar product, cross product, lines and conics. 

Trigonometric functions and their basic properties. 

Inverse trigonometric functions. Logarithmic and 

exponential functions. Limits. Continuity. Differentiation 

and its rules. Function sketching. 




VIT 149 - HOW TO SOLVE IT?-THE 


SCIENCE I 











VIT 150 - HOW TO SOLVE IT?-THE 


SCIENCE II 











VIT 151 - USING COMPUTERS 

PRODUCTIVELY I 

Effective and productive use of computers involves more 

than just programming. Many tasks can be accomplished 

using existing tools or techniques that involve only limited 

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programming. This course focuses on the effective use of 

these tools. Students will learn to use a variety of tools 

to perform data manipulation tasks, to create, share and 

maintain documents of acceptable professional quality, 

to create prototype data processing applications, to set up 

web sites and perform other online and offline computing 

tasks. The course includes a substantial practical element. 




VIT 152 - USING COMPUTERS 

PRODUCTIVELY II 

This course provides an introduction to programming 

using a commercially popular programming language, 

writing the programs in imperative style. At the conclusion 

of the course, a student should be able to write simple 

programs in both iterative and recursive style that can 

accept input and produce output, and manipulate basic 

data structures such as strings and arrays. 




VLO 102 - TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS 

AND TECHNOLOGIES 

The aim of this course is to give basic information on 

land, sea and air transportation systems, their advantages 

and disadvantages, infrastructure requirements and legal 

issues concerning each type of transportation. 



VLO 104 - INTRODUCTION TO LOGISTICS 

AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 

This course is designed to give basic information on 

the definition and historical development of logistics, 

procurement and supply systems, their integration into 

the production systems and the implementation of 

information technologies used in this field. 



VOC 101 - INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS 

ADMINISTRATION 


understanding of the business environment and basics of 

business life. At the completion of the course, students 


as systems, understand the environment within which 

business undertakings take place, gain an understanding 

of different business functions and the principles and 

methods which govern business decisions and their 

solutions and be able to critically analyze and evaluate 

business-related problems within and outside the 

organization. 


Restriction(s): PUB 205

VOC 106 - PERSPECTIVES ON 

MANAGEMENT 

The aim of the course is to give a basic understanding 

of management theories and practices. The course 

covers principles of managerial practices: planning, 

organizing, directing and controlling, decision-making, 

leading social responsibility and ethics, proper methods, 

strategy implementation and techniques for motivation, 

performance and satisfaction. 



VOC 107 - INTRODUCTION TO 

MARKETING 

This course is designed to underline the importance of 

marketing in contemporary business environments and to 

introduce the basic concepts and tools of marketing. This 

course is a beginning course in marketing that stresses the 

marketing function’s contribution to any organization. 



VOC 114 - BUSINESS COMMUNICATION 

This course aims to deal with methods and applications 

for communicating ideas clearly and effectively in a 

variety of business situations. The ability to reach others 

through the spoken and written word will be developed 

and strengthened through this course. Students will 

practice writing reports and business letters and making 

oral presentations for common and specific business 

applications. 


VOC 116 - SALES MANAGEMENT 

The goal of this course is the planning and implementation 

of personal selling activities in addition to examining the 

elements of an effective sales force as a key component 

of the organization’s total marketing effort. Course 

objectives include understanding the management of 

the sales force: objectives, recruiting, selection, training, 

motivation, compensation, evaluation and control. 


VOC 117 - BASICS IN COMMUNICATION 

AND MASS MEDIA I 

The objective of this course is to provide students with 

basic introductory concepts of mass media, allowing 

them to build on the broad knowledge they already 

have from their everyday experience with them. After a 

brief introduction to the main concepts of mass media, 

the course will focus on the major mass media: books, 

magazines, newspapers, records, radio, movies, television 

and the web. 




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VOC 118 - BASICS IN COMMUNICATION 

AND MASS MEDIA II 

As the continuation of VOC 117, this course focuses on 

the issues and debates related to mass media and mass 

communication, including discussions of the professions 

in the field and other issues such as ethics and democracy. 


Special Condition(s): VOC 117 


VOC 119 - GLOBALIZATION AND CHANGE 

MANAGEMENT 

This course will discuss the economic and financial 

foundations of global competition. It will analyze the 

mechanisms that transfer change from one country to 

another in a globalizing world. It will also provide a 

framework for the development of competitive advantage 

by international firms through controlling economic 

and operational exposure and managing change in an 

integrated global economy. 


VOC 120 - LAW OF MEDIA AND 

COMMUNICATION 

The aim of this course is to familiarise students with the 

relevant legal concepts and issues of the law pertaining to 

media and communication. 





MEDYA VE İLETİŞİM HUKUKU 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencileri medya ve iletişim alanını 

ilgilendiren hukuki kavram ve konularla tanıştırmaktır. 

VOC 123 - NEWS WRITING 

This course aims at developing practical skills in news 

writing. In order to achieve this, basic principles in news 

writing are discussed and extensive news analysis is 

conducted by exercises in writing sample news. 




HABER YAZIMI 

Bu derste, gazetecilik pratiğini öğrencilere yansıtmak 

amacıyla haber yazımının temel ilkeleri tartışılır ve varolan 

haberlerin çözümlenmesi yoluyla örnek haberler yazılır. 

VOC 124 - TELEVISION ANALYSIS 

As a continuation of VOC 123 (News Writing I), this 

course focuses on news and aims at analyzing information 

and news to create a synthesis. In this context, collection 

of news, ethics and clarity in news are discussed. 




TELEVİZYON ANALİZİ 

Bu ders, VOC 123’ün devamı olarak kurgulanmakta ve 

haberi dersin odağına yerleştirmektedir. Bilgiyi haberin 

sentezini yaparak incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Aynı 

zamanda haber toplama, haberde doğruluk, netlik de 

iletişim çerçevesinde tartışılmaktadır. 

VOC 131 - BASIC PRINCIPLES OF 

ACCOUNTING 

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with 

balance sheet and income statement recordings. In 

addition to this, understanding and appreciating basic 

accounting principles, concepts and relating them to 

everyday business operations will be among the basic 

objectives. Understanding the nature and legal use of 

trial balances and balance sheets as well as internalizing 

the necessity of legal reporting out of these books 

constitute the underlying aim of the course. Students 

will internalize the process of posting, recording of 

transactions, and will be able to relate them to Turkish 

accounting peculiarities. 



ADVERTISING 

This course is designed to familiarize students with various 

aspects of the advertising function as a communications 

force and profession. It focuses on the planning, 

budgeting, creation (concept and copy), execution and 

evaluation of advertising campaigns. 




VOC 158 - INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC 

RELATIONS I 

This course is designed to provide the necessary tools 

for a basic understanding of the field and an easy access 

to its vocabulary and to give an overall view of public 

relations as an integral function of management, with 

basic concepts and elements. 


Restriction(s): PUB 201 and PUB 202 



AUDIOVISUAL TECHNIQUES I 

The aim of this course is to present the conventional 

and recent developments in the field of audiovisual 

technology. 


Restriction(s): FTV 141 or TVJ 221 



GÖRSEL İŞİTSEL TEKNİKLERE GİRİŞ I 

Bu ders film ve video sanatına giriş niteliğinde 

tasarlanmıştır. Öğrencilerden beklenen imgeler 

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aracılığıyla iletişim kurmaya başlamalarıdır. Ders, görsel 

malzemelerin sunumlarını ve izlenen işler üzerinden 

yapılacak tartışmaları da içermektedir. 


AUDIOVISUAL TECHNIQUES II 

On successful completion of this unit, students will 

be able to develop their understanding of audiovisual 

communication techniques through a practical approach, 

to learn principles of production techniques and how to 

operate production equipment. 


Prerequisite(s): VOC 161 

Restriction(s): FTV 142 or TVJ 212 



GÖRSEL İŞİTSEL TEKNİKLERE 

GİRİŞ II 

Bu dersin amacı,öğrencilere görsel-işitsel iletişim 

tekniklerini uygulamalı olarak öğretmektir. 

VOC 168 - CURRENT ISSUES IN 

MANAGEMENT 

This course provides an opportunity for the student to 

become familiar with contemporary issues within the 

broad field of management. The topic(s) covered during 

each session of the course will depend upon current trends 

in management. 



VOC 170 - CURRENT ISSUES IN 

COMMUNICATION 

This course provides an opportunity for the student to 

become familiar with contemporary issues within the 

broad field of communication. The topic(s) covered 

during each session of the course will depend upon 

current developments in communication. 



İLETİŞİMDE GÜNCEL KONULAR 

Bu dersin amacı, öğrencileri iletişim alanındaki güncel 

konular hakkında bilgilendirmektir. Her oturumda ele 

alınacak konular iletişim alanındaki güncel gelişmeler 

doğrultusunda seçilecektir. 

VOC 172 - UNDERSTANDING 

MEDIA IN TURKEY 

Why rating is so important for any TV channel? How 

can you affect the reporter with your company’s press 

bulletin? How is it possible to tell the story in 30 seconds 

within commercials? Although the questions are different, 

the reference for the answers is clear: Media. In this 

course, we will address these questions and more by 

analyzing the media in Turkey that become a sector with 

its ”producers” and ”consumers”.




TÜRK MEDYASINA GENEL BAKIŞ 

Bir TV programının aldığı rating niçin önemlidir? Bir 

basın bülteni nasıl hazırlanmalı ki muhabirin dikkatini 

çeksin? Bir reklam metni 30 saniyede nasıl derdini anlatır? 

Sorular farklı, cevapların kaynağı ise ortak: Medya. İşte 

bu derste, Türkiye’de ”üreticileri” ve ”tüketicileri” ile bir 

sektör olan medyayı anlamaya ve bu sorulara kimi zaman 

konunun uzmanları ile, kimi zaman uygulamalarla cevap 

bulmaya çalışılacaktır. 

VOC 174 - SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND 

BUSINESS ETIQUETTE 

Being well equipped with job skills alone is no longer 

sufficient for a young person’s success in social and 

business life. Especially when international relations 

are involved, people skills are inevitably necessary. This 

course aims to provide students with the knowledge and 

practice in the skills of contemporary rules of etiquette 

that will guide them in varied activities and situations 

encountered in social and business life. 



SOSYAL DAVRANIŞLAR VE İŞ YAŞAMI 

ETİKETİ 

Bu ders kapsamında, öğrencilere sosyal yaşamın ve çalışma 

yaşamının çeşitli ortam ve durumlarında kendilerine yol 

gösterecek modern etiket (görgü) kurallarının bilgi ve 

becerisinin kazandırılması amaçlanmaktadır. Artık, genç 

insanların mesleki bilgilerle donanımlı olmaları, onların 

sosyal yaşamda ve iş yaşamında başarılı olmalarına 

yetmemektedir. Özellikle dış temaslar söz konusu 

olduğunda bu ihtiyaç daha da belirginleşmektedir. Bu 

amaçla ders, iş yaşamında giyim kuşam kurallarından, 

sosyal bir birey olmanın gereklerine varan geniş bir 

yelpazeyi ele almaktadır. 

VOC 176 - PRINCIPLES OF CAPITAL 

MARKETS AND STOCK EXCHANGE 

The objective of this course is the introduction of the 

basic principles of capital markets and the way in which 

organized exchange markets work. The course also 

includes subjects such as financial markets in Turkey, the 

role of financial markets in the Turkish economy, money 

markets, capital markets and their functions and offering 

company shares to the public. 



VOC 194 - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 

ENVIRONMENT 

Innovations and improvements in transportation, 

manufacturing, communications and technology along 

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with the commercialization and expansion of the internet 

have resulted in a truly global economy. With the 

development of the worldwide marketplace comes a need 

for business people to understand the sometimes subtle 

nuances of doing business overseas and across borders. 

Designed for the future executive engaged in international 

enterprise and those affected by it, this course covers 

the essential areas of difference between international 

and domestic business. It answers crucial questions and 

develops a starting ground in the areas of primary concern 

to participants in the global economy by helping students 

build a solid foundation in international business. 




VOC 201 - SPECIAL TOPICS: 

CASE STUDIES IN BUSINESS AND 

MANAGEMENT 

The aim of the course is for representatives of the national 

and international business world to share their experience 

with students. The course will be offered by lecturers who 

offer inspiring and exciting ways of comprehending the 

realities of the business world. 


VOC 203 - GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LAW 


essential concepts of law, enabling them to grasp the role 

of law in human societies. On completion of this course, 

students should have developed the necessary skills for 

legal analyses, legal research and problem solving. Topics 

will include the basic concepts and institutions of law, 

theories of legal interpretations, the main branches of law, 

sources of Turkish law and the Turkish legal system. 




ECONOMICS I 

The aim of this course is to develop an understanding of 

elementary micro-economic analysis and its applications. 

On completion of the course, students will have a basic 

understanding of the behavior of consumers, firms, 

production and cost, monopoly, market power, risk and 

uncertainty. 





ECONOMICS II 

The aim of this course is to develop an understanding of 

elementary macro-economic analysis and its applications. 

On completion of the course, students will have a basic 

understanding of economic growth, unemployment and 

inflation, government debt, money supply and money demand. 




VOC 216 - INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS 

This course is designed to familiarize students with basic 

statistical techniques and their application to the field of business. 




VOC 217 - INTERNATIONAL MARKETING 

The goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive 

understanding of marketing concepts, practices and 

applications in the international marketplace. The nature 

and dynamics of international/global trade, the marketing 

concepts and practices as they apply in international 

markets, integrated marketing systems through which 

strategic and operational international marketing plans 

are carried out and the tools and techniques for identifying 

and analyzing opportunities in international markets are 

discussed in detail. 



VOC 218 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT 


opportunity to study an area of special interest in greater 

depth and to give the student experience in coordinating 

independent investigation and research. The students will 

be encouraged to exercise and develop their analytical 

and critical skills by integrating and applying knowledge, 

concepts and experience to specific contexts. 




ACCOUNTING 

The aim of this course is to enable students to appreciate the 

role of accounting in the business environment, develop 

the skills required to record business transactions and to 

apply accounting concepts in the preparation of financial 

statements. Upon successful completion of this course, 

students should be able to demonstrate an understanding 

of the purpose of accounting, the applications of concepts 

and conventions and master the procedures for recording 

business events and compiling financial statements. 




VOC 222 - FINANCIAL REPORTING AND 

COST ANALYSIS 

The aim of the course is to enable students to distinguish 

the different forms of business ownership of financial 

reporting and the resulting capital structure and to 

understand the impact of statutory regulations and 

the accounting profession’s requirements regarding 

the format and presentation of company accounts. 

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On completion of this course, students should be able 

to prepare financial statements for partnerships and 

companies, make the adjustments required for the 

application of different accounting concepts, assess 

the financial wealth of a business from a set of annual 

reports and identify underlying reasons for changes in 

performance, adjust for businesses adopting different 

accounting policies, and identify how products are to be 

costed and how financial information is used to aid shortterm 

decision-making. 




VOC 230 - MANAGING EXPORTS AND 

IMPORTS 

The aim of this course is to familiarize the student with 

the international trade environment. Upon completion 

of the course, the student will be able to understand the 

economic, cultural and political/legal constraints in the 

international trade environment and have a substantial 

knowledge of international contracts of sale of goods, 

international trade transactions and the related documents, 

risks involved in international trade as well as their 

management. 



VOC 257 - MEDIA PLANNING 

One of the most important tasks of advertising messages 

is to attract potential consumers and establish a bonding 

with them. We have to answer several difficult questions 

in order to do this. These are some of the essential 

questions: How are we going to achieve this goal? Who 

are our potential customers? How many times do we have 

to expose our messages to our target customers? Which 

communication channels do we have to use? How are we 

going to arrange the insertion timing in several different 

communication channels? Some of these questions 

are answered by creative people and some of them 

by media planners. In contemporary advertising both 

parties work together. The changing role and growing 

importance of media planners forces agencies to separate 

media planning departments as independent entities. 

Consequently in the advertising and media market, 

properly and well-educated people are valuable assets. 

In media planning classes students will learn how to 

deliver the right messages in the right places and interact 

with the target audience, emphasizing the selection and 

usage of different communication alternatives to achieve 

marketing, advertising and media goals, and learning 

essential guiding concepts, through case studies and pre/ 

post-advertising campaign evaluations. 




VOC 258 - COMPARATIVE IMPORT- 

EXPORT LAWS, REGULATIONS AND 

CUSTOMS 

This course is aimed at providing students with information 

on international trade laws and regulations. The 

objectives of such laws and regulations, representation, 

implementation, documentation, customs controls and 

clearance are the major topics which are discussed in 

detail. 



VOC 260 - BUSINESS FINANCE 

This course presents a basic understanding of business 

finance. Financial issues within the firm and financial 

environment in which the firm operates will be examined 

in the content of this course. The primary objective of this 

course is to provide the tools and techniques to understand 

and solve the basic financial problems confronted in 

today’s business environments. The topics covered 

include the time value of money, valuation of assets, 

capital budgeting techniques, capital structure theory and 

project evaluation. On completion of the course, students 

will be expected to have an understanding of the financial 

environment and financial markets and instruments in 

order to decide on how, where and when to raise financial 

capital to urge economic projects. Students will also be 

expected to develop the systematic, analytical decisionmaking 

skills to choose among alternative projects and 

investments, and will be expected to interpret and utilize 

the firm’s financial statements to monitor, assess and 

improve the firm’s performance. 


Restriction(s): BUS 331 or INF 301 


VOC 261 - INTEGRATED MARKETING 

COMMUNICATIONS 

The aim of this course is to provide an integrated 

understanding of the communication function of 

marketing. The basic topics discussed in this course 

are: integrating the communication efforts into strategic 

management and marketing plans, integrating the various 

elements of the communications mix to build successful 

brands and to achieve company objectives and measuring 

the effectiveness and efficiency of communication 

elements. 


Special Condition(s): VOC 107 or VOC 283 

Restriction(s): ADV 202 or BUS 421 or PUB 312 


VOC 262 - PRINCIPLES OF ADVERTISING 

A course to familiarize students with various aspects of 

marketing communications, it will focus on IMC tools 

such as direct marketing, database marketing, CRM 

and sales promotion as well as the planning, budgeting, 

creation, execution and evaluation of IMC campaigns. 

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VOC 263 - WRITING FOR PUBLIC 

RELATIONS 

The primary aim of this course is to teach students the 

writing tools used by public relations professionals and 

strengthen their writing ability with hands-on experience. 

The course will cover the fundamentals of public relations 

writing and the requirements for writing clearly and 

concisely when communicating with various publics or 

stakeholders. 




VOC 264 - PUBLIC RELATIONS PRACTICES 

A wide range of issues and concepts interrelated with 

public relations are examined during this course. 

Social responsibilities, environment, tolerance, charity 

organizations, fundraising and sponsorship are some of 

the issues with which this course is designed to deal. 




VOC 267 - BRAND MANAGEMENT 

The aim of this course is to study how to construct 

brand loyalty programs and to position the brand in 

contemporary competitive market conditions. The 

students will learn how to use market research methods 

in brand management with an emphasis on the role of a 

brand manager as a bridge between the company and the 

agency. 


Restriction(s): ADV 351 and BUS 334 


VOC 271 - SINGLE CAMERA PRODUCTION 

This course is designed to introduce video equipment and 

its use. Throughout the course, world broadcast systems 

and technology will be explored and single-camera 

production process will be applied. The course aims to 

familiarize students with contemporary video production 

concepts and equipment with the help of projects 

completed throughout the semester, production and postproduction 

methods will be practiced and first steps will 

be taken towards the art of video in television production. 


Prerequisite(s): VOC 161 and VOC 162 



TEK KAMERALI PRODÜKSİYONLAR 

Bu ders, video ekipmanı ve kullanımını tanıtmak için 

tasarlanmıştır. Dünyadaki televizyon sistemlerini ve 

tekniklerini öğrenerek tek kameralı yapımların aşamaları 

uygulamalı olarak tamamlanacaktır. Bu derste, öğrenciler

kendi belirledikleri bir konu ya da hikayenin nasıl görsel 

bir anlatıma dönüştürüleceğini yapacakları projede 

uygulamalı olarak göreceklerdir. 

VOC 272 - MULTI CAMERA PRODUCTION 

The aim of this course is to introduce the students to 

studio based single camera production. During the course, 

the technical structure of the television studio and the 

principles of single camera television production will 

be covered. Each student will be expected to assume the 

various responsibilities associated with single camera 

production processes and participate in producing quality 

studio productions. Meticulous planning, execution of 

class projects and teamwork are the keys to success in 

this course. 


Prerequisite(s): VOC 271 

Restriction(s): TVJ 301 or TVJ 302 



ÇOK KAMERALI PRODÜKSİYONLAR 

Tek kameralı televizyon yapımlarını kapsayan bu 

ileri seviyedeki derste öğrenciler, hem bir hikayeyi 

televizyon diline dönüştürmeyi, hem de tek kameralı 

televizyon programcılığının temel bilgilerini edinme 

fırsatı bulacaklardır. Derse katılan her bir öğrenciden bir 

televizyon programının değişik aşamalarında çalışması ve 

bu aşamalarda farklı görevler üstlenmesi beklenmektedir. 

VOC 273 - TV BROADCASTING 


overview of the history, production processes and 

program types of television. The students will gain a deep 

understanding and appreciation of the way television 

works in Turkey and in the world. Lectures will also host 

different professionals from the field of broadcasting who 

will present issues in the Turkish television sector from 

different perspectives and thereby students will have a 

chance to get a first-hand understanding of the current 

scene.Class hours are based on the analysis of television 

products. 





TV YAYINCILIĞI 

Bu dersin amacı, televizyonculuk tarihine üretim ve 

program türleri çerçevesinden bakmaktır. Öğrenciler, hem 

Türkiye’de hem de dünyadaki televizyonculuk örneklerini 

kıyaslama ve irdeleme fırsatı bulurlar. 

VOC 278 - RADIO PRODUCTION 

This course’s objective is to provide students with the 

basic principles and techniques of radio production 

and broadcasting. On successful completion of this 

unit, students are expected to understand and apply the 

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techniques of producing and presenting radio programs 

and to have learned the basic principles of radio news 

writing with editorial values. At the end of the course, 

students will apply the content of the course in a radio 

workshop context. 


Restriction(s): TVJ 202 and TVJ 321 


VOC 281 - EDITING FOR TELEVISION 

This course is an advanced study of the various tools 

and techniques used in editing on non-linear electronic 

systems for television production. During the course, we 

will delve into the practical and aesthetic construction of 

television by using non-linear electronic editing systems. 


Restriction(s): FTV 282 



TELEVİZYONDA KURGU TEKNİKLERİ 

Bu ders, televizyon yapımlarının bilgisayar temelli 

kurgusunda kullanılan çeşitli araç ve tekniklerin gelişmiş 

bir içeriğini sunmaktadır. Derste, başlangıç düzeyinden 

başlanarak bilgisayar temelli kurgu sistemleri ile bir 

televizyon projesinin kurgu aşaması, gerek teknik gerekse 

mantık olarak adım adım incelenecektir. 

VOC 283 - MARKETING FOR 

COMMUNICATORS I 

The goal of this course is to provide an understanding of 

the modern marketing concepts, tools and applications 

that will enable the student to analyze the marketing 

opportunities and the competitive forces in the consumer 

and business markets. 


Restriction(s): PUB 211 and VOC 107 


VOC 284 - MARKETING FOR 

COMMUNICATORS II 

The goal of this course is to provide the students with 

an understanding of marketing strategies and tools for 

designing, organizing, implementing and controlling 

programs in product development, pricing, distribution 

and communication functions within the company. 


Special Condition(s): VOC 107 or VOC 283 




ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 

This course will deal with micro aspects of formal 

organizations from a behavioral science perspective. 




VOC 291 - CONSUMER BEHAVIOR 

This course is designed to inform students about the 

need for “consumer behavior” as a separate marketing 

discipline. While it will provide the students with an 

understanding of theory and practice in consumer 

behavior, it will also enable students to apply this 

information to marketing communication strategies. 

Specifically referring to consumer behavior, perception, 

learning, motivation, personality and attitudes are the 

topics to be covered with respect to internal factors: 

groups, family, social class and culture are the topics to 

be covered with respect to external factors. Additionally, 

by the end of the course, students will have a grasp of the 

various steps in the consumer’s decision-making process. 


Restriction(s): ADV 231 or BUS 471 


VOC 294 - MANAGEMENT FOR 

COMMUNICATORS 

The aim of this course is to introduce the basic 

organizational charts, production and technical 

infrastructures and managerial processes of broadcast 

and non-broadcast media. It will introduce students to the 

basic production, broadcasting and financial strategies, 

particularly as they interact with legal, public and political 

policies. The course will cover important concepts and 

components of media management, such as: ownership, 

frequency allocations, license, production stages and 

techniques, transmission and distribution systems, 

audience analysis and reporting. 





MEDYA YÖNETİMİ 

Bu dersin amacı, yazılı basının ve elektronik medyanın 

temel kurumsal alt yapılarını ve yönetim biçimlerini 

tanıtmak, irdelemek ve tartışmaktır. Dönem boyunca 

radyo, televizyon, kablo TV, dijital platform, yazılı basın 

ve elektronik gazeteciliğin temel yönetim stratejileri, 

yasal düzenlemeleri örnekleriyle birlikte öğrencilere 

sunulacak ve tartışılacaktır. Ders, medyada sahiplik, 

frekans tahsisleri, lisans, yapım, yayın, denetim ve 

dağıtım sistemleri, finans, insan kaynakları, seyirci, 

dinleyici, okur araştırması, reklam ve satış gibi temel 

medya yönetimi kavramlarını kapsamaktadır. 

VOC 296 - COMMUNICATION AND 

CULTURE 

The aim of this course is to provide students with a firm 

background in social scientific literature relevant to culture, 

its practices and implications, and help them develop a 

critical perspective. Throughout the course, the students 

will be introduced to major issues and debates around the 

notions of culture, communication and society, such as 

mass society and mass culture, ideology, representation, 

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stereotypes, language, semiology, reception, audience and 

interpretation, post-modernism, cultural studies and the 

information age. The focus is on the application of such 

a theoretical outlook towards a valid evaluation of the 

mechanisms of mass communication and the social and 

cultural structures they endorse in contemporary society. 




VOC 298 - RESEARCH METHODS 

The aim of this course is to provide insights into 

research concepts and procedures in the social sciences 

with an emphasis on marketing communications. Both 



the main techniques for specification, evaluation 

and application of research and supports them in the 

development of communication skills through research 

teams to be designed for assigned projects. 


Restriction(s): ADV 392 or BUS 391 or CAM 324 or IR 342 or 

MED 206 or PSY 341 or PSY 411 or PUB 407 


VOC 299 - INTERNATIONAL LOGISTICS 

AND VALUE CHAIN MANAGEMENT 

This course is aimed at providing students with an overview 

of the transportation and logistics activities involved in 

international trade. The program or the course includes the 

four different types of transportation, packaging alternatives, 

logistics processes and concepts, and insurance procedures 

used in import and export management. 




VSP 101 - TEAM SPORTS 

This is an introductory course for students who will 

become professionals in the area of sports management. 

This course covers not only instructions in and knowledge 

of a variety of team sports such as football, basketball, 

volleyball and tennis but also the history, rules, safety, 

strategies and methods of these sports. Within the 

framework of this course, some subjects such as business 

project development regarding sports management are 

especially emphasized. Moreover, some case studies of 

experiences of well-known sports clubs are discussed as 

course subjects. 




TAKIM SPORLARI 

Bu ders, ileride spor yöneticiliği alanında 

profesyonelleşecek olan öğrenciler için giriş niteliği 

taşımaktadır. Bu ders kapsamında futbol, basketbol, 

voleybol, tenis gibi birçok takım oyunununa dair 

açıklamalar ve bilgilerin yanında, bu sporların tarihi,

kuralları, güvenliği, stratejileri, takım oyunları üzerinden 

mevcut olan ve ileride uygulmaya konulabilecek iş 

geliştirme projelerinin ele alınması konularına da ağırlık 

verilmektedir. Belli başlı spor kulüplerinin yönetim 

ve iş geliştirme aşamalarında karşılaştığı örnek olay 

incelemeleri de dersin kapsamı dahilindedir. 

VSP 102 - INDIVIDUAL SPORTS 

This course includes managerial fundamentals of 

individual sports based on individual talent, discipline 

and development. Various subjects ranging from player 

coaching to sponsorship agreements are discussed in this 

course. Some guest lecturers from the sports sector who 

work in the field of sports management will also attend 

some classes to relay their personal experiences through 

case studies. 



VSP 201 - SPORTS MARKETING 

The aim of this course is examining the role of marketing 

activity from the viewpoint of sports clubs and institutions 

and teaching how marketing research techniques should 

be applied by the sports industry. Students will have 

learnt how to analyze the problems faced by marketing 

directors and which methods they can apply in order to 

make successful decisions in their professions as sports 

managers. 



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VSP 202 - SPORTS ETHICS AND LEGAL 

ISSUES 

This course aims to focus on the ethics and legal issues 

of sports management. Problems related to these issues 

will be covered by professionals throughout the semester. 




VSP 204 - SPORTS MARKET ANALYSIS 

This course focuses on marketing strategies and marketing 

research techniques used by the sports industry. Basic key 

terms and concepts used in solving problems in the sports 

marketing industry will be covered in this course during 

the semester. 



VSP 206 - SPORTS EVENTS PLANNING AND 

PROGRAMMING 

The aim of this course is to teach the fundamentals of 

sports events. Each step of global events will be analyzed 

during the semester. The relationship between sports 

and organization will be covered during the semester by 

professionals.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSE CATALOG - İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi

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