Course Descriptions

The founding dynamics of the Republic. Economic policy between statism and liberalism. The debates on Kemalism as an ideology. Kadro movement. New generation of Republican intellectuals. Second World War and Turkey. Integration to the Post-war World order. The Cold War and Turkey. Democratic Party. The 27 May Military Intervention and the constitution of 1961. 1960s new cultural and political dynamics. 12 March Military Intervention. Cyprus as an international question and the formation of European Union. The 1970s and political polarization. The 1980 military intervention and the 1982 Constitution. Özal governments. Social transformation in Turkey from 1980s to 1990s.

Social evolution. Types of societies: hunting and gathering, agricultural, industrial, post-industrial. Technological innovation, wealth, power, and inequality; Paradoxes of progress. Agricultural Revolution, Industrial Revolution, democratic revolutions. Development and freedom. Culture and social structure. Technological determinism and its critics. Human development in today's world. Information and communication technologies in developing societies. The future as history.

Sociological Method. Individual as the Sociological Unit of Analysis. Groups, Organizations and Society. Structures of Power and Inequality. Social Class, Gender, Race, Ethnicity. Global Inequality. Government and Political Power. Social Institutions: Work and Economy; Political Systems; Mass Media and Religion. Social change. Globalization. Functionalism. Conflict Theory. Symbolic Interactionalism.

The central ideas, methods, and debates in the anthropological study of human thought and behavior. Survey of ways of life in many different societies. The ways anthropologists have tried to understand societies. Hands-on ethnographic research. Tools, techniques and approaches for research and analysis. Ethnocentrism. Cultural relativism.

The main theoretical and methodological approaches to study the history of science. The central issues in the history of the physical sciences since the Renaissance; the Copernican Revolution, Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment. Social Darwinism and Eugenics. The Atomic theory and its implications. Theory of Relativity, and Quantum Theory. The Chemical Revolution. Scientific theories of the human mind

Introduction to theory-oriented research in political science. Research problems, research designs, qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques, data processing, data analysis. Interpretation of social science data with special emphasis on quantitative methods, and report writing on the basis of data analysis and findings.

The development of cultural studies as an approach to read and understand culture. The production of meaning in culture. German Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, British Cultural Studies, American Cultural Studies. Structuralism, post-structuralism, postmodernism. Representations of gender, race, ethnicity, East and West. Orientalism. Narration of nation. Analysis of texts, advertising, newspapers, magazines, fashion, film and photography.

A historical, sociological and philosophical analysis of the formation of modernity in the world. The Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment in Europe. Scientific, philosophical, artistic and political developments in Europe. The 1776 American and the 1789 French revolutions. Separation of powers, property rights, secularism, the freedom of expression and the press, parliamentary and constitutional systems. The abolishment of monarchy, theocracy and feudalism. The industrial revolution and the emergence of capitalism. The antagonism between capitalism and socialism. Socialist revolutions around the world. The debate between modernism and post-modernism.

Interpret and analyze the major achievements in art and architecture for centuries, from early Renaissance art to modern art. Introduction of the "rebirth" of painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy and Europe before and after the Renaissance. Following the evolution of art for centuries, art movements such as Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism and the concept of modern art are analyzed and interpreted. The meanings and theories carried by the art works are studied in historical perspective in chronological order. Aesthetics, social/political/religious/cultural/economic/scientific developments and their effects are discussed by applying visual and contextual analyses.

The development of science and technology from the Enlightenment to the present. The Industrial Revolution, and the emergence of engineering. Industry, time and clocks. Interdependency of science and technology. The development of medical sciences, biotechnologies and information technologies. . Technology and militarism. Technology and environmental change. Science and technology in the Ottoman Empire and in Turkey in the context of global developments.