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POLS 500 Ancient, Medieval and Early Political Theory 3 Credits
This course is a chronological survey of the history of ancient Greek, medieval and early modern political thought. It begins with the Greek classiscs and covers the medieval thinkers and ends with Renaissance and the 16th century thinkers. Given more than two millennia between the first and the last, the course aims to place each thinker within the relevant historical context linking each with the past and present day discussions thus preparing the students for a sound evaluation of later stages of political theorizing.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2012-2013 Ancient, Medieval and Early Political Theory 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 501 Concepts, Structures and Transformations 3 Credits
This course aims at equipping the students with a conceptual framework that will enable them to conduct qualitative studies in the field of Political Science. While the conventional literature on ideology, discourse, Orientalism, liberalism, democracy, and fascism will be covered on the one hand, approaches that go beyond nation-state paradigms in social sciences will be introduced, on the other. The latter will include a survey of the reconceptualization of citizenship as a result of the processes prompted by globalization. The critical issues concerning the dynamics and motor of political change will also be studied. (A required course for Political Science PhD students)
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2002-2003 Concepts, Structures and Transformations 3
Fall 2001-2002 Concepts, Structures and Transformations 3
Fall 2000-2001 Concepts, Structures and Transformations 3
Fall 1999-2000 Concepts, Structures and Transformations 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 502 Political Theory 3 Credits
A survey of the impact of dominant political theories in the 19th and early 20th centuries viewed as thematic constructions that have to be set in their historical context to be fully understood. The course shall focus both on political thought and on the concomitant social/intellectual movements, the latter, in turn breaking new ground for the emergence of new political cultures.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 Political Theory 3
Spring 2022-2023 Political Theory 3
Fall 2021-2022 Political Theory 3
Fall 2020-2021 Political Theory 3
Fall 2019-2020 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2018-2019 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2017-2018 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2016-2017 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2015-2016 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2014-2015 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2013-2014 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2012-2013 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2011-2012 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2010-2011 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2009-2010 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2008-2009 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2007-2008 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2006-2007 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2005-2006 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2004-2005 Modern Political Theory 3
Fall 2003-2004 Political Theory 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 503 Comparative Method 3 Credits
Graduate level course to be offered to students who had already been through Comparative Politics instruction. This course focuses on comparison as a method of control, the logic of comparison in most similar and most different systems, case study, area study approaches in comparative politics.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2020-2021 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2019-2020 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2018-2019 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2017-2018 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2016-2017 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2015-2016 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2014-2015 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2013-2014 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2012-2013 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2011-2012 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2010-2011 Comparative Method 3
Fall 2009-2010 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2008-2009 Comparative Method 3
Spring 2007-2008 Comparative Method 3
Fall 2002-2003 Comparative Method 3
Prerequisite: POLS 510 - Doctorate - Min Grade D
or POLS 510 - Masters - Min Grade D
and POLS 529 - Doctorate - Min Grade D
or POLS 529 - Masters - Min Grade D
and POLS 530 - Doctorate - Min Grade D
or POLS 530 - Masters - Min Grade D
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 504 Turkish Social and Political Thought 3 Credits
This course is asurvey of the main currents and their selected representatives in Turkish social and political thought since 1908.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Turkish Social and Political Thought 3
Spring 2021-2022 Turkish Social and Political Thought 3
Spring 2020-2021 Turkish Social and Political Thought 3
Spring 2018-2019 Turkish Social and Political Thought 3
Spring 2016-2017 Turkish Social and Political Thought 3
Spring 2015-2016 Turkish Social and Political Thought 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 505 Political Tought:Issues,Concepts,Debates 3 Credits
This course aims to introduce political science graduate students to some of the main concepts, theories and debates in political thought. The focus of the course will be to orovide a seminar in which students can wrestle with some of the fundamental questions that political scientists ask themselves. Hence, the course's aims are two-fold: To give the students a chance to familiarize themselves with major theories and debates in political philosophy, and to encourage analytical and critical skills necessary for graduate work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2014-2015 Political Tought:Issues,Concepts,Debates 3
Fall 2011-2012 Political Tought:Issues,Concepts,Debates 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 507 Political Ideologies 3 Credits
This course will review the fundamental contemporary ideoligies such as liberalism, conservatism, facism, and Marxism and recent manifestations of ideoligical politics such as political Islam, new Right politics feminism, and environmentalism.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2012-2013 Political Ideologies 3
Spring 2011-2012 Political Ideologies 3
Spring 2010-2011 Political Ideologies 3
Spring 2008-2009 Political Ideologies 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 508 Revitalization Movements in the Islamic World 3 Credits
A survey of the organizational and idealional changes that have marked the Islamic world in the last three centuries and that have been characterized as " Neo-sufism " . The course will start with a study of the mujaddidi movement of Ahmad Faruqi Sirhindi (1563 - 1624) and cover developments in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as ramifications of revivalism in Anatolia- Contributions to these movements by leaders such as Ahmad Ibn Idrıs (1760 - 1832),Muhammad Ali as-Sanusi 1787-1859),Shakh Khalid Shahrizuri al Bagdadi (1776 - 1827),Muhammad al Mahdi (1844-1881),and Ziyaeddin Gümüşhanevi (1812-1893) will be highlighted within two main frames:that of Islamic culture and that of recent theoretical contribution to the study of " Fundamentalism ". One aspect of these developments feeds directly into contemporary Turkish Politics through the influence of Mehmed Z. Kotku and N. Erbakan.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2009-2010 Revitalization Movements in the Islamic World 3
Spring 2007-2008 Revitalization Movements in the Islamic World 3
Spring 2006-2007 Revitalization Movements in the Islamic World 3
Spring 2004-2005 Revitalization Movements in the Islamic World 3
Spring 2003-2004 Revitalization Movements in the Islamic World 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 509 Greek-Turkish Relations 3 Credits
Beginning with the Greek independence in 1830, this course will first trace the development of Greek- Turkish relations in their historical, political, and ideological context and examine, in particular, the influence of nationalism on the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans, the effects of the resulting myths and narratives on nation-building, and the perceptions that define identity politics. Against this background, the course will then focus on the foreign policy of both Greece and Turkey; major bilateral issues between the two countries, the effect of Cyprus and the influence of the European Union on the bilateral relations; the new geopolitical environment of the two countries in which the recent détente took rise; and policy alternatives for the near future.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2011-2012 Greek-Turkish Relations 3
Fall 2010-2011 Greek-Turkish Relations 3
Fall 2007-2008 Greek-Turkish Relations 3
Fall 2006-2007 Greek-Turkish Relations 3
Fall 2005-2006 Greek-Turkish Relations 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 510 Comparative Politics 3 Credits
This course is designed to introduce the graduate students to the comparative study of politics. The objectives of the course are: 1. To enable students to develop skills in analysing political institutions, processes, and structures through comparisons of political systems embedded in different cultural contexts; 3. To introduce the students to the main issues and topics of the field of comparative politics; and 4. To introduce the students to the analysis of how major human concerns with freedom, social justice, equality, democracy etc. take shape and influence the emerge and structure of political institutions, processes, and practices in different polities.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2022-2023 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2021-2022 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2020-2021 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2019-2020 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2018-2019 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2017-2018 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2016-2017 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2015-2016 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2014-2015 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2013-2014 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2012-2013 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2011-2012 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2010-2011 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2009-2010 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2008-2009 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2007-2008 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2006-2007 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2005-2006 Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2004-2005 Comparative Politics 3
Fall 2003-2004 Comparative Politics 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 511 Great Powers and Origins of International Order 3 Credits
This course examines the foreign policies of great powers and their consequences for international order. It analyzes how great powers have used military and diplomatic tools in the international arena and how these tools have affected international rules, institutions, and norms. The course focuses on the strategies of the USA, Britain, and Germany since the 19th century and traces the development of international orders -from the failed attempts of Concert of Europe and the League of Nations to the Cold War order. It considers the foreign policies of current and rising powers, such as the EU, China, and the USA, and if in the post-9/11 era the policies of these states will produce a different order.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 512 Changing Parameters of the New Right 3 Credits
The primary purpose of this course is to give the student an understanding of the extreme right-wing phenomenon both in theory and practice. In an era in which some of these parties has made a remarkable progress in Turkey and Western Europe (i.e., Jörg Haider's Freedom Party in Austria), the study of right-wing extremism seems to be relevant for all students of political science and related disciplines. A theoretical framework of the extreme right-wing politics is constructed by the study of other ideologies, that has or is supposed to have influenced the phenomenon. These include conservatism, liberalism, fascism and racism.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2000-2001 Changing Parameters of the New Right 3
Spring 1999-2000 Changing Parameters of the New Right 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 513 Comparative Party Systems and Electoral Behaviour 3 Credits
This course is designed to provide a review of historical and conceptual bases of modern party systems, mass electoral behaviour and election systems. Competing theoretical paradigms that adress the enduring issues in the literature are introduced, application of the basic tools of analysis in the literature are presented and comparable research questions for the Turkish context are discussed.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 Comparative Party Systems and Electoral Behaviour 3
Fall 2022-2023 Comparative Party Systems and Electral Behaviour 3
Spring 2021-2022 Comparative Party Systems and Electral Behaviour 3
Fall 2020-2021 Comparative Party Systems and Electral Behaviour 3
Fall 2018-2019 Comparative Party Systems and Electral Behaviour 3
Spring 2017-2018 Comparative Party Systems and Electral Behaviour 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 514 Politics of Southern Europe 3 Credits
The European countries that lie at the Southern flanks of the continent share common political, economic, and cultural aspects that set them apart from their Western neighbors. For instance, they consolidated their democracies later and, with the exception of Italy, joined the European Community around thirty years after its creation. This course will study the politics, society, and economy of Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece from a comparative perspective. First, the state structure, party politics, and electoral systems of the Southern European countries will be introduced. Second, the causes, policies, and the collapse of the interwar authoritarian regimes of Salazar, Franco, Mussolini, and Metaxas will be examined. In this context, special emphasis will be given to how democracy consolidated in Southern Europe. Continuing political problems, such as Basque nationalism in Spain, the Sicilian mafia in Italy, and the Muslim minority in Greece will also be discussed. Finally, the course will conclude with the entrance of the Southern European countries to the European Community, their policies and roles within the Union, and the effects of the EU on Southern Europe..
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2008-2009 Politics of Southern Europe 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 521 Politics of Representation and Identity 3 Credits
This course will explore issues of representation and identity in the context of cultural pratices. It is concerned with clarifying processes of identity formation and transformation, especially as they take place in the political and cultural realms. The notion of 'representation' does not refer to electoral or to institutional representation narrowly understood but aims to capture the cultural and symbolic aspects of representation that have political and institutional repercussions. For these purposes, the course will analyze the myriad relationships among multiple forms of representation and the macro-social processes shaping the contemporary world as well as engaging in the current political debate and polemics that revolve around these ssues. Therefore, issues of multiculturalism, politics of difference and postmodernity will be taken up alongside issues of performativity, feminism, masculinity, surrealism and pornography. Our overriding concern will be to gain self-understanding regarding the identities we assume, reject or negotiate with. In other words, the ultimate speculative thrust of this course is to further our self-reflexivity with respect to our academic practices as well as our personal identities.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2005-2006 Politics of Representation and Identity 3
Fall 2002-2003 Politics of Representation and Identity 3
Fall 2001-2002 Politics of Representation and Identity 3
Spring 2000-2001 Politics of Representation and Identity 3
Fall 2000-2001 Politics of Representation and Identity 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 522 Politics and Culture 3 Credits
This course is a survey of theories that take “culture” seriously and regard it as a determining factor in the shaping of political phenomena. These are theories that emphasize the relevance of shared beliefs, ideologies, values or behavior patterns for making sense of political processes, events and institutions . The course draws on philosophical as well as empirical literature in this field. Course readings include works by Herder, Marx, Weber, Geertz, Almond, Putnam and Inglehart, among others
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2012-2013 Politics and Culture 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 523 Philosophical Approaches to Modernity 3 Credits
The primary goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the problems posed by the notion of "modernity", and the different approaches that attempt to conceptualize and criticize it. The focus will be on three main philosophical approaches; critical, hermeneutical and genealogical. By relying mainly on primary sources, the course will attempt to thoroughly explore each of these understandings. The focus will be on their respective methodologies as well as on their substantive claims about the modern period. Furthermore, the course will also explore how these three approaches engage and criticize each other.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2003-2004 Philosophical Approaches to Modernity 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 525 Civil Society 3 Credits
The course will have a twin foci: On the one hand, we will examine various theoretical formulations of the notion of civil society. We will study writings by classical liberal theorists as well as their critique from Hegelian and Marxist perspectives. On the other hand, we will engage the empirical, comparative analyses of civil society and discuss related issues of democratization, multiculturalism public sphere and identity politics. The experiences of East European and Middle East/North African countries (including Turkey's) will receive special attention. The intention of the course is to bring the theoretical and empirical aspects of the debates on civil society together in an attempt to clarify and critically appropriate this often-used but ill-understood concept.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2012-2013 Civil Society 3
Spring 2011-2012 Civil Society 3
Spring 2010-2011 Civil Society 3
Fall 2009-2010 Civil Society 3
Fall 2008-2009 Civil Society 3
Fall 2007-2008 Civil Society 3
Fall 2004-2005 Civil Society 3
Fall 2000-2001 Law, Property, State in the 18th and 19th Centuries Europe 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 526 Continental Political Thought 3 Credits
This is a critical study of some of the key concepts and theories that underlie most of political theorizing in Continental Europe since 19th century. Special emphasis will be placed on German and French traditions. The basic aim of the course is to elucidate the historical linkages and trajectories of different strands of political thought and thus to understand the distinctive features of Continental political theory traditions. Readings include selections from Kant, Hegel, Freud, Heidegger, and Baudrillard.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2013-2014 Continental Political Thought 3
Spring 2008-2009 Continental Political Thought 3
Spring 2007-2008 Continental Political Thought 3
Spring 2000-2001 Globalization and Law 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 529 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3 Credits
This course provides an introduction to philosophy of social sciences, various methodological approaches in political science and research methods and analysis. Components of research design, measurement, validity, data collection strategies and logic of inference are discussed. Various research design examples are provided from the recent political science literature and students are exposed to research process, article evaluation and thesis proposal writing. It also aims to expose students to ethical considerations in research and publishing.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2022-2023 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2021-2022 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2020-2021 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2019-2020 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2018-2019 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2017-2018 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2016-2017 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2015-2016 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2014-2015 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2013-2014 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2012-2013 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2011-2012 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis 3
Fall 2010-2011 Political Analysis and Research Design 3
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Corequisite: POLS 529D
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 529D Methods and Scope of Political Analysis - Discussion 0 Credit
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis - Discussion 0
Fall 2022-2023 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis - Discussion 0
Fall 2021-2022 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis - Discussion 0
Fall 2020-2021 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis - Discussion 0
Fall 2019-2020 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis - Discussion 0
Fall 2018-2019 Methods and Scope of Political Analysis - Discussion 0
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Corequisite: POLS 529
ECTS Credit: NONE ECTS (NONE ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 530 Quantitative Research Methods 3 Credits
This course provides an introduction to quantitative research methods used in political science. Basic exposure is provided to descriptive tabular analysis and statistics, probability, distribution theory, central limit theorem, hypothesis testing, ordinary least squares and multivariate regression methods. It also aims to expose students to ethical consideration in research and publishing.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2022-2023 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2021-2022 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2020-2021 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2019-2020 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2018-2019 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2017-2018 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2016-2017 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2015-2016 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2014-2015 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2013-2014 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2012-2013 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2011-2012 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Spring 2010-2011 Quantitative Research Methods 3
Fall 2009-2010 Research Methods I 3
Fall 2008-2009 Research Methods I 3
Fall 2007-2008 Research Methods I 3
Fall 2006-2007 Research Methods I 3
Fall 2005-2006 Research Methods I 3
Fall 2004-2005 Research Methods I 3
Fall 2003-2004 Research Methods I 3
Prerequisite: POLS 529 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D
Corequisite: POLS 530D
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 530D Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0 Credit
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2022-2023 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2021-2022 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2020-2021 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2019-2020 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2018-2019 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2017-2018 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2016-2017 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2015-2016 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2014-2015 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2013-2014 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2012-2013 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2011-2012 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Spring 2010-2011 Quantitative Research Methods Discussion 0
Fall 2009-2010 Research Methods I-Discussion 0
Fall 2008-2009 Research Methods I-Discussion 0
Fall 2007-2008 Research Methods I-Discussion 0
Fall 2006-2007 Research Methods I-Discussion 0
Fall 2005-2006 Research Methods I-Discussion 0
Fall 2004-2005 Research Methods I-Discussion 0
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Corequisite: POLS 530
ECTS Credit: NONE ECTS (NONE ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 531 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3 Credits
This course is designed to help students develop their research design skills in qualitative methods. The objective is to enable graduate students to create and critique sophisticated qualitative research designs in political science. In order to do so, the seminar explores the techniques, strengths, and limitations of qualitative methods by scrutinizing the logic and application of comparative-historical research, case- study, process-tracing, and textual analysis. The course further takes on epistemological issues in the social sciences such as causality, theory testing, case selection, inference, and the philosophy of social science. Even though qualitative research can stand on its own, this course stresses the advantages of not viewing the qualitative methods in isolation from other methods. Accordingly, the course encourages the use and application of mixed-method research in political science. It also aims to expose students to ethical considerations in research and publishing.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3
Spring 2022-2023 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3
Spring 2020-2021 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3
Spring 2019-2020 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3
Fall 2018-2019 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3
Fall 2017-2018 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3
Fall 2016-2017 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3
Fall 2015-2016 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3
Fall 2014-2015 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3
Fall 2013-2014 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3
Fall 2012-2013 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3
Fall 2011-2012 Qualitative and Textual Research Methods 3
Spring 2006-2007 Research Methods II 3
Spring 2004-2005 Research Methods II 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 532 Survey Research Methods 3 Credits
This course builds on "Methods and Scope of Political Analysis" course and provides a working knowledge of the total survey approach, sampling, questionnaire design and collection and analysis of survey data.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Survey Research Methods 3
Spring 2022-2023 Survey Research Methods 3
Spring 2020-2021 Survey Research Methods 3
Spring 2019-2020 Survey Research Methods 3
Spring 2009-2010 Survey Research Methods 3
Spring 2007-2008 Survey Research Methods 3
Spring 2004-2005 Survey Research Methods 3
Prerequisite: POLS 529 - Masters - Min Grade D
or POLS 529 - Doctorate - Min Grade D
or CONF 512 - Masters - Min Grade D
or CONF 512 - Doctorate - Min Grade D
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 534 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3 Credits
This course is designed to provide an introduction to deductive theory and formal modelling. Topics covered include elementary decision theory, game theory and theory of social choice, with no mathematical prerequisites assumed expect high school algebra.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Spring 2022-2023 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Fall 2021-2022 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Fall 2020-2021 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Fall 2019-2020 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Fall 2018-2019 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Fall 2017-2018 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Spring 2016-2017 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Fall 2015-2016 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Fall 2014-2015 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Fall 2013-2014 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Fall 2012-2013 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Fall 2011-2012 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Fall 2010-2011 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Fall 2009-2010 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
Spring 2003-2004 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis I 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 535 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis II 3 Credits
This course builds on POLS 534 and aims to expose the students to recent applications of formal analysis in various fields of political science. Assuming a sound understanding of basic formal tools of analysis examplary articles focusing on selected topics in comparative politics, international relations and social choice are discussed and various extensions are opened for discussion.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2020-2021 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis II 3
Spring 2019-2020 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis II 3
Spring 2018-2019 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis II 3
Spring 2015-2016 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis II 3
Spring 2014-2015 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis II 3
Spring 2013-2014 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis II 3
Spring 2012-2013 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis II 3
Spring 2010-2011 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis II 3
Spring 2009-2010 Formal Modelling and Political Analysis II 3
Prerequisite: POLS 534 - Masters - Min Grade D
or POLS 534 - Doctorate - Min Grade D
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 536 Introduction to Computational Social Science 3 Credits
This course interweaves three main themes: (1) Graduate level introduction to computational concepts, principles and modeling approaches in the social sciences, with an emphasis on simulations and elements of cpmlexity theory as these apply to social phenomena. Topics include systems dynamics, cellular automata, and agent-oriented models. (2) Hands-on examination of agent simulations in the social sciences by examining and experimenting with a variety of social simulation projects conducted in Repast Agent Simulation Environment (3) Ability to design experiments and evaluating results for the purpose of testing research hypotheses
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 537 Advance Research Methods and Data Analysis in Political Science 3 Credits
This course trains students to use statistical models for forecasting societal, mainly political, outcomes The students learn how to use Machine Learning and Data Mining algorithms to explore topics such as measuring the extent of partisan polarization, predicting electoral outcomes, predicting local violence, analyzing the trend of interstate war, and forecasting civil war. Subjects to be covered include understanding the differences and similarities between Correlation Analysis, Causal Inference, and Forecasting Principles; Naive Bayes; k-Nearest Neighbors (KNN); Regularized Linear Regression (Lasso, Ridge, eNet); forecasting using Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE); Trees methods; Clustering; and Dimension Reduction.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Advance Research Methods and Data Analysis in Political Science 3
Spring 2022-2023 Advance Research Methods and Data Analysis in Political Science 3
Spring 2018-2019 Advance Research Methods and Data Analysis in Political Science 3
Prerequisite: POLS 530 - Doctorate - Min Grade D
or POLS 530 - Masters - Min Grade D
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 539 Turkey and the Middle East 3 Credits
This course will explore the story of Turkey's relations with the main middle eastern states since the 1920s, within the context of its wider foreign policy concerns. Opening classes will cover the historical background of Turkish policies in the region between 1945 and 1960, Turkey's interests and capacities in the region, the linkage between regional policies and Turkey's relations with the superpowers, and the role of economic factors. Subsequent sessions will deal with Turkey's policies towards the main regional states, closing with Turkey's position in the first and second Gulf wars (1991, 2003) and an overall assessment of the evolution of Turkish policy and interests.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2007-2008 Turkey and the Middle East 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 540 International Relations Theory 3 Credits
This course aims at providing the political science graduate students with a thorough analysis of international relations theory. The course will do so first, by analyzing the emergence of the modern state system and the evolution of the international relations as a discipline. Second, the course will focus on major approaches and paradigms in international relations theory, namely realism, neorealism,liberalism, neoliberal institutionalism. and contructivisim. By differentiating between rationalist and sociological approaches to international relations, the course will expose the students to the major current debates in IR theory. The course aims to furnish the students with advanced theoretical skills on international relations that would enable them to further their studies on international relations.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 International Relations Theory 3
Fall 2022-2023 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2021-2022 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2020-2021 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2019-2020 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2018-2019 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2017-2018 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2016-2017 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2015-2016 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2014-2015 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2013-2014 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2012-2013 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2011-2012 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2010-2011 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2009-2010 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2008-2009 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2007-2008 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2006-2007 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2005-2006 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2004-2005 International Relations Theory 3
Spring 2003-2004 International Relations Theory 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 541 International Organizations 3 Credits
What role do International Organizations (IOs) play in world politics? Why do states establish supranational and international institutions, and what determines both their design and evolution? How do international and domestic forces impact their effectiveness and function? This course provides an in-depth look at the theory behind and practice of IOs and focuses on both theoretical and methodological issues related to IOs. It looks at the interaction between international law and politics as exemplified by the United Nations, international financial institutions (the IMF and World Bank), selected regional organizations (NATO and EU), and the WTO. Finally, and considers their substantive work in areas such as the promotion of democracy, peace and security, human rights, and sustainable development. Primary goal is to understand the interplay between interests, institutions and information in defining how IOs influence world politics.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2015-2016 International Organizations 3
Spring 2014-2015 International Organizations 3
Fall 2012-2013 International Organizations 3
Fall 2011-2012 International Organizations 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 542 NGO Governance 3 Credits
The world is in the midst of a global 'associational revolution' and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) feature prominently in this process. There are many different types of NGOs, with varying goals and priorities and one major aim of the course is to de-mystify the NGO scene. In order to do this, theoretical framework will be developed at the onset relating NGOs to civil society, globalization, new division of labour in polity and dynamics of governance. NGO role in developmental work, promotion of civil society, service delivery, advocacy work will be discussed as well as challenges facing NGOs in an evolving complex world of organizational/institutional matrixes. The enhanced role for NGOs also obliges them to be responsible, efficient, ethical, transparent, participatory and accountable true to the spirit of good governance. Building NGO capacity on one hand and empowerment by levels of government on the other hand, will be taken up together. The course will be concluded with critical evaluation of select NGO work both from Turkey and elsewhere.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2013-2014 NGO Governance 3
Spring 2012-2013 NGO Governance 3
Spring 2011-2012 NGO Governance 3
Spring 2010-2011 NGO Governance 3
Spring 2009-2010 NGO Governance 3
Spring 2008-2009 NGO Governance 3
Spring 2007-2008 NGO Governance 3
Spring 2006-2007 NGO Governance 3
Spring 2005-2006 NGO Governance 3
Spring 2004-2005 NGO Governance 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 543 International Negotiation 3 Credits
In a chaotic international environment, negotiation is often what all stands between war and peace. In the peace time interactions negotiation is an essential mechanism to achieve constructive solutions, and mutually satisfactory agreements. International actors- states, non governmental actors, firms, and their representatives- often negotiate to settle their differences, to build new systems of interactions, and to renew trust. This course is designed to provide the students with the essentials of the art and science of negotiation. The first part of the course will introduce basic components, concepts and contexts of international negotiation. In this section, the nature of negotiation, prenegotiation, preparing for negotiation, power, strategies, and tactics, gender and the impact of culture, multilateral negotiation will constitute some of the issues to be discussed. Part two is concerned with hands-on negotiation games and simulations. The course will be conducted through lectures, participatory discussions, simulation exercises, and seminars by experienced diplomats
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2019-2020 International Negotiation 3
Fall 2018-2019 International Negotiation 3
Spring 2017-2018 International Negotiation 3
Spring 2016-2017 International Negotiation 3
Spring 2015-2016 International Negotiation 3
Fall 2014-2015 International Negotiation 3
Fall 2013-2014 International Negotiation 3
Fall 2012-2013 International Negotiation 3
Fall 2011-2012 International Negotiation 3
Fall 2010-2011 International Negotiation 3
Fall 2009-2010 International Negotiation 3
Fall 2008-2009 International Negotiation 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: POLS 543D
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 543D International Negotiation - Discussion 0 Credit
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2018-2019 International Negotiation - Discussion 0
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: POLS 543
ECTS Credit: NONE ECTS (NONE ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 546 Latin American Politics 3 Credits
This course studies Latin American Politics from theoretical and empirical perspectives. First, it will provide a short introduction to the history of Latin America based on major theoretical perspectives with a particular emphasis on the second half of the twentieth century and current context. Then, it will mainly focus on major political, social and economic institutions in the region, while studying intra-regional variation in this respect as well as the common patterns. It will examine the evolution of democratic regimes, military interventions, transitions and civil society politics from an institutionalist perspective, focusing on the so-called ''third wave'' of democratization processes in the region. The course will finally explore the politics of ongoing processes of regionalization within Latin America and between Latin America and other regions of the world. The politics and ideology behind the ideal of ''Latin American integration'' will be studied in this final section. The mail goal of this course is to expose students to substantive empirical issues and theoretical debates in the contemporary scholarship on Latin American politics.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 Latin American Politics 3
Spring 2019-2020 Latin American Politics 3
Spring 2018-2019 Latin American Politics 3
Spring 2017-2018 Latin American Politics 3
Spring 2016-2017 Latin American Politics 3
Spring 2015-2016 Latin American Politics 3
Spring 2014-2015 Latin American Politics 3
Spring 2013-2014 Latin American Politics 3
Spring 2011-2012 Latin American Politics 3
Spring 2010-2011 Latin American Politics 3
Spring 2009-2010 Latin American Politics 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 548 Conflicts in the Middle East 3 Credits
Conflicts in the Middle East is an overview of conflicts in the Middle East. In the latter half of the twentieth century, inter-state wars, civil wars, insurgencies and terrorism in this region have increased without a comprehensive resolution of a single conflict. The focus of the course will be an analysis of the roots of these conflicts, such as inter-religious, inter-sectarian, inter-ethnic tensions and the possibilities for their resolution. Special attention will be paid to the Lebanese and Yemeni civil wars and post-World War two inter-state conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli wars, the Iran-Iraq war, and finally the last two Gulf Wars. Student simulations will explore conflict resolution issues and techniques in the Arab-Israeli peace process and post-conflict Iraq.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2018-2019 Conflicts in the Middle East 3
Spring 2005-2006 Conflicts in the Middle East 3
Spring 2004-2005 Conflicts in the Middle East 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 549 Middle Eastern Politics and Government 3 Credits
A course of comparative government and politics of the Middle East. It aims to analyze the emergence of the post World War I state system,major factors influencing political stability and change in the new states of the Middle East, with special reference to the role of religion, and oil.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Summer 2013-2014 Middle Eastern Politics and Government 3
Summer 2011-2012 Middle Eastern Politics and Government 3
Fall 2008-2009 Middle Eastern Politics and Government 3
Fall 2006-2007 Middle Eastern Politics and Government 3
Fall 2005-2006 Middle Eastern Politics and Government 3
Fall 2004-2005 Middle Eastern Politics and Government 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 550 Turkish Politics 3 Credits
This course aims to provide a systematic historical review of classic and contemporary literature on the Turkish political institutions and processes from the Ottoman period to the present. Special attention will be paid to public policy making processes, forms of political participation, organisation and structure of diffrent levels of government institutions and mass movements.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2022-2023 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2021-2022 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2020-2021 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2019-2020 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2018-2019 Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2017-2018 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2016-2017 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2015-2016 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2014-2015 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2013-2014 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2012-2013 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2011-2012 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2010-2011 Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2009-2010 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2008-2009 Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2007-2008 Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2006-2007 Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2005-2006 Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2004-2005 Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2003-2004 Turkish Politics 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 553 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3 Credits
This course aims at contributing to the ability of students to analyze analytically and critically the diversities and vicissitudes of political institutions, actors, and discourses in Turkey, as well as, 'continuities and changes' in Turkish politics. In doing so, the course begins by discussing the question of how to approach methodologically to Turkish politics, and then proceeds by focusing on crucial problem areas, namely those of institutional problems, societal changes and demands, and identity questions. The course attempts to discuss these issues and problems by locating them at the international/the domestic nexus. To achieve its aim, the course involves lectures, class discussions, and class presentations, and requires both active student participation and reading course material before attending the lectures.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2022-2023 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2021-2022 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2020-2021 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2018-2019 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2017-2018 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2016-2017 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2015-2016 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2014-2015 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2013-2014 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2012-2013 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2011-2012 Current Issues in Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2009-2010 Issues and Concepts in Post-1960 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2008-2009 Issues and Concepts in Post-1960 Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2007-2008 Issues and Concepts in Post-1960 Turkish Politics 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 554 Turkish Electoral Behaviour and Party System Research 3 Credits
This course is intended to provide students with a structured opportunity to formulate cutting edge research questions on electoral behaviour and party system research. The primary objective is to guide students in formulating research questions and then actually carrying out the research and contribute to the existing literature.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 555 Turkish Foreign Policy 3 Credits
This course aims to provide students with a ststematic study of Turkish foreign policy. The course will elaborate on the basic principles of Turkish foreign policy making in the 20th century. Major turning points such as the developments in the Post World War II period and Cold War era, as well as the post-Cold War era will be yhoroughly investigated. The course analyzes the basic parameters of Turkish foreign policy during the Cold War era and then proceeds onto an analysis of the changes in these parameters after the end of the Cold War. The course empirically focuses on Turkey's foreign policy towards Europe, Turkey's policy towards the NATO-EU relations, the Middle East, Arab-Israeli conflict, and Transcaucasia. In addition, Turkey's positon in the Gulf crisis of 1990-1991 and the Cyprus problem are investigated through the theoretical lenses provided in the course.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2019-2020 Turkish Foreign Policy 3
Fall 2018-2019 Turkish Foreign Policy 3
Fall 2016-2017 Turkish Foreign Policy 3
Fall 2015-2016 Turkish Foreign Policy 3
Fall 2014-2015 Turkish Foreign Policy 3
Fall 2013-2014 Turkish Foreign Policy 3
Fall 2011-2012 Turkish Foreign Policy 3
Fall 2009-2010 Turkish Foreign Policy 3
Fall 2007-2008 Turkish Foreign Policy 3
Fall 2006-2007 Turkish Foreign Policy 3
Fall 2005-2006 Turkish Foreign Policy 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 556 Tanzimat Studies 3 Credits
This course is a survey of the main currents and their selected representatives in Turkish social and political thought since the Tanzimat period. This course will attempt to analyze a number of basic documents relevant to the history of Ideas in the period of the Tanzimat. At each stage eminent personalities having contributed to the reform movement will be drawn into the study as a "constellation" of the thinkers of the time.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2004-2005 Tanzimat Studies 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 557 The Politics of Authoritarian Regimes: 3 Credits
This course aims to provide students with a better understanding of the conceptual and operational differences between authoritarian and democratic regimes. It examines the similarities and differences among varieties of authoritarian regimes, the factors that lead to democratic backsliding and establishment of authoritarian rule, the strategies that authoritarian power-holders use for regime survival, state-society relations under authoritarian rule the paths toward the end of authoritarian regimes and re-democratization.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 The Politics of Authoritarian Regimes: 3
Fall 2022-2023 The Politics of Authoritarian Regimes: 3
Fall 2021-2022 The Politics of Authoritarian Regimes: 3
Spring 2019-2020 The Politics of Authoritarian Regimes: 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 560 Modern State in Europe 3 Credits
This course aims at providing the students with a basic understanding of European politics. The course will do so first, by analyzing the historical background of European politics from the Peace of Westphalia and onwards, with specific emphasis on the state building process in Western Europe.Second the course will focus on the political dynamics in Europe with the aim of isolating commonalities and similar patterns in European politics. Third, the course will analyze the challenges in European politics today, specifically those posed by integrative and fragmentary forces. The course aims to provide a comparative analysis of European politics in a multi-disciplinary manner.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Summer 2010-2011 Modern State in Europe 3
Spring 2008-2009 Modern State in Europe 3
Spring 2006-2007 Modern State in Europe 3
Spring 2005-2006 Modern State in Europe 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 561 Transition to Democracy in Eastern Europe 3 Credits
This course is primarily designed to focus on the Eastern and Central European transformations to democracy. Thus, it aims to equip the students with a broad understanding of both "democratization" as a concept and how it was achieved in the post-communist Europe. Other examples of democratization in the world are also dealt within the course.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 562 Analytical Approaches To The European Union 3 Credits
This course is designed to introduce the students to rational choice institutionalism as it is applied to European integration studies. Institutional configurations and their impact upon political outcomes within the study of European integration are analyzed with a focus on the analytic character of group choice, voting methods and behavior, cooperation, collective action, public goods, institutional choice and reform. First institutions are discussed as formal, legalistic entities and decision rules imposing restrictions upon utility maximizing self-interested political actors. Second, applications to our understanding of the EU enlargement, ratification and intergovernmental negotiations, European integration and governance are discussed.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2009-2010 Analytical Approaches To The European Union 3
Spring 2007-2008 Analytical Approaches To The European Union 3
Fall 2005-2006 Analytical Approaches To The European Union 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 563 Political Violence in the Post-Cold War Era 3 Credits
This is a course on political violence in contemporary era, as such it mainly deals with global issues like terrorism, civil war, ethnic conflict, and weapons of mass destruction. The objective of the course is first to define these problems, then to explore the causes, and the proposed solutions to them. While doing so, the course touches upon concepts like religion, nationalism, and ethnicity, and examines how these concepts can turn into major driving forces of conflict by studying some of the recent conflicts in different parts of the world. The discussion on possible solutions includes domestic policy alternatives as well as international intervention and the role of international organizations.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2019-2020 Political Violence in the Post-Cold War Era 3
Fall 2018-2019 Political Violence in the Post-Cold War Era 3
Spring 2015-2016 Political Violence in the Post-Cold War Era 3
Spring 2014-2015 Political Violence in the Post-Cold War Era 3
Spring 2013-2014 Political Violence in the Post-Cold War Era 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 564 Energy Politics 3 Credits
Energy affects all aspects of individual and collective life. Economic growth requires increasing supplies of energy, making security of supply important for both developing and mature markets. On the other hand, energy producing countries are more concerned about the security of future demand for their exports. After beginning with an introduction to the geopolitics of energy, the course focuses on political, economic, strategic implications of current trends in energy markets. It will also take into account the relationship between energy and environment and alternative sources of energy in the context of the EU energy policy and the Turkish market.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Energy Politics 3
Fall 2022-2023 Energy Politics 3
Spring 2021-2022 Energy Politics 3
Spring 2020-2021 Energy Politics (ES504) 3
Spring 2019-2020 Energy Politics (ES504) 3
Spring 2018-2019 Energy Politics (ES504) 3
Spring 2017-2018 Energy Politics (ES504) 3
Spring 2016-2017 Energy Politics (ES504) 3
Spring 2015-2016 Energy Politics (ES504) 3
Spring 2014-2015 Energy Politics (ES504) 3
Spring 2013-2014 Energy Politics (ES504) 3
Fall 2012-2013 Energy Politics (ES504) 3
Spring 2011-2012 Energy Politics (ES504) 3
Spring 2010-2011 Energy Politics (ES504) 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 565 Rise and Fall of Democracy 3 Credits
This course is designed to give the student an understanding of the democratic regime as well as the way in which it has come under attack in the contemporary period. It offers an introduction to the conflicting definitions of the term and addresses such issues as democracy as government and representation. The course reviews the phenomenal rise of electoral democracies after the Third Wave and the proliferation of 'democracy with adjectives' in the global south. Particular emphasis is be placed on those factors and mechanisms that have eroded democratic institutions and facilitated democratic backsliding and breakdown in different parts of the globe.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 Rise and Fall of Democracy 3
Fall 2022-2023 Rise and Fall of Democracy 3
Fall 2020-2021 Rise and Fall of Democracy 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 572 Nietzsche 3 Credits
This course focuses on one of the seminal figures of continental political philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s thought has long been acknowledged to present one of the most trenchant critiques of modern society, science, philosophy, art and politics. His insights into the nature of truth, subjectivity and morality have been extremely influential on many of the major currents of thought of contemporary philosophy; from the phenomenology of Heidegger to the existentialism of Sartre, from the critical theory of Adorno and Horkheimer to the poststructuralism of Foucault. The overall aim of the course is to orient the students towards an in-depth, sustained critical engagement with some of the foundational ideas of contemporary philosophy and politics via a close reading of Nietzsche’s work. Issues that are of special interest include the nature of morality, ideology, politics and the state.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2012-2013 Nietzsche 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 580 Political Economy 3 Credits
This course is designed to equip the student with basic concepts and tools necessary to understand the literature and to conduct research in this field. The substantive question is why governments do what they do and with what consequences. Discussions focus on the recent contributions to the political economy of development; principal characteristics of the contemporary world economy, especially patterns of inequality and the varying explanations for their emergence.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 Political Economy 3
Spring 2022-2023 Political Economy 3
Fall 2019-2020 Political Economy 3
Spring 2018-2019 Political Economy 3
Fall 2017-2018 Political Economy 3
Fall 2016-2017 Political Economy 3
Fall 2014-2015 Political Economy 3
Fall 2013-2014 Political Economy 3
Fall 2011-2012 Political Economy 3
Fall 2010-2011 Political Economy 3
Spring 2009-2010 Political Economy 3
Spring 2008-2009 Political Economy 3
Spring 2007-2008 Political Economy 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 581 European Politics 3 Credits
This course aims to introduce the politics of the new Europe in the aftermath of the collapse of the communist bloc. Europe, a continent historically torn by divison and conflic now encompasses 38 nations that are almost all democratic in reality or aspiration and oriented towards market, rather than command economies. Given its historical and cultural commonalities, Europe is a natural unit for an area studies approach to political science. The course covers the politics of the established democracies and also concentrates on democratic transitions on the continent. Although in a limited extend, it also reflects on the politics in the European Union (Also see POLS 491)
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2016-2017 European Politics 3
Fall 2015-2016 European Politics 3
Fall 2014-2015 European Politics 3
Spring 2012-2013 European Politics 3
Summer 2011-2012 European Politics 3
Spring 2010-2011 European Politics 3
Spring 2009-2010 European Politics 3
Spring 2007-2008 European Politics 3
Fall 2006-2007 European Politics 3
Fall 2005-2006 European Politics 3
Fall 2004-2005 European Politics 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 583 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3 Credits
This course aims to explore relations (or the absence of relations) between nationalism and ethnicity in different socio-political contexts. This course is designed not only for developing a comparative theoretical approach to nationalism and ethnicity, but also for attempting to make a collective enquiry into the emergence and transformation of the concept of nation, nationalism, patriotism and ethnicity through time. While surveying the classical and current theories of nationalism and ethnicity, this course also aims to address the concepts of migration, diaspora, collective memory and reconciliation as relevant concepts of social sciences.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3
Spring 2020-2021 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3
Spring 2019-2020 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3
Spring 2018-2019 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3
Spring 2017-2018 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3
Spring 2016-2017 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3
Spring 2015-2016 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3
Spring 2014-2015 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3
Spring 2012-2013 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3
Spring 2009-2010 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3
Fall 2001-2002 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3
Fall 1999-2000 Ethnicity and Nationalism 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 584 Theorizing Nationalism and Civil Society 3 Credits
Comparative study of the Turkish single-party period and political system using first-hand original sources and within their historical and political contexts. Starting with the political situation and separations involved within the period of the War Independence, that period's impact on the period prior to the building of the Republic, until the end of the early Republican period, will be studied. This will include a comprehensive view of that whole period's political, cultural, economical, foreign policy-related situation, in particular focusing on political organizations. Cross-listed as HIST 591
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2002-2003 Theorizing Nationalism and Civil Society 3
Spring 2001-2002 Theorizing Nationalism and Civil Society 3
Spring 2000-2001 Theorizing Nationalism and Civil Society 3
Spring 1999-2000 Theorizing Nationalism and Civil Society 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 589 Human Rights in World Affairs 3 Credits
This course introduces students to the foundations of human rights theory and practice. The course analyzes what constitutes as human rights (political, economic, social, and cultural rights) and examines contemporary issues around the globe. The course will also offer a critical analysis of international human rights norms and its enforcement by focusing on major international institutions and the documents that govern the human rights regime as well as the role of states, individuals, NGOs and the media.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 Human Rights in World Affairs 3
Fall 2022-2023 Human Rights in World Affairs 3
Fall 2021-2022 Human Rights in World Affairs 3
Spring 2020-2021 Human Rights in World Affairs 3
Fall 2019-2020 Human Rights in World Affairs 3
Fall 2018-2019 Human Rights in World Affairs 3
Spring 2017-2018 Human Rights in World Affairs 3
Spring 2016-2017 Human Rights in World Affairs 3
Spring 2015-2016 Human Rights in World Affairs 3
Spring 2014-2015 Human Rights in World Affairs 3
Spring 2013-2014 Human Rights in World Affairs 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 592 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3 Credits
This course aims to provide the students with a basic understanding of the European Union. The course will give an evolution of the idea of European unity through a neo-functionalist framework. The main focus of the course is on the emergence of the European Union and its institutions in a historical framework. The ultimate objective is to furnish students with the comprehension that the state is going through a major transformation in Europe due to the process of European integration.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2021-2022 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2020-2021 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2019-2020 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2018-2019 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2017-2018 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2016-2017 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2015-2016 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2014-2015 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2013-2014 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2012-2013 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2011-2012 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2010-2011 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2009-2010 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2008-2009 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2007-2008 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2006-2007 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2005-2006 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2004-2005 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
Fall 2003-2004 European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 593 Turkish Politics in the Multi-Party Era 3 Credits
The course aims to analyze the developments and transformations in Turkish politics in the post-1960 period. The approach is intended to be more analytical rather than historical and relying on the recent concepts emerging in the field of social theory. In this regard the course will discuss the issues of the post-1960 such as modernity, Kemalism, secularism, nationalism, left, extreme right, popular culture more with a political theory and philosophy view point and taking politics of identity and difference as a starting point.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2002-2003 Turkish Politics in the Multi-Party Era 3
Fall 2001-2002 Turkish Politics in the Multi-Party Era 3
Fall 2000-2001 Turkish Politics in the Multi-Party Era 3
Fall 1999-2000 Turkish Politics in the Multi-Party Era 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 594 Turkish Political Thought 3 Credits
A study of the foundations of political thought in the Ottoman empire and modern Turkey. The first part of the course focuses both on continuities with the earlier "Islamicate" discourse, and on the crucial break with tradition initiated during the Tanzimat. Over the second part of the course, some key representatives of post- 1908 currents of thought such as liberalism, nationalism or feminism will also be investigated.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2001-2002 Turkish Political Thought 3
Spring 1999-2000 Turkish Political Thought 3
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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POLS 595 Reform and the History of Ideas in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century 3 Credits
The existing literature about reform in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century concentrates primarily on the institutional components of reform. A great deal of research on the intellectual and knowledge component of reform had appeared ever since the 1860s. The time has now come to review this literature and bring it into a course constructed for that purpose.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Summer 2009-2010 Reform and the History of Ideas in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century 3
Summer 2008-2009 Reform and the History of Ideas in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century 3
Summer 2007-2008 Reform and the History of Ideas in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century 3
Summer 2006-2007 Reform and the History of Ideas in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 596 European Security 3 Credits
This course provides an in depth analysis of the European security order from 1914 onwards. It covers basic theories of security and proceeds onto an investigation of World Wars and their impact on European security, as well as the institutional attempts of building a European security system. Particular emphasis will be on the institutional restructuring in the Cold War era and the transformation of the Cold war European security arrangements since 1989. The European security institutions, their evolution process and the European security architecture will be thoroughly analysed.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2004-2005 European Security 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 597 Dynamics of Governance in the European Union 3 Credits
Various institutions of the Union, with ever increasing frequency and emphasis, have devised policies and initiated mechanisms which are best represented by the concept of governance. The Union, while formulatinf common policy in limited areas, has accepted the principle of subsidiaity in many others, encouraging collaborative schemes and approaches among various actors, at the lowest possible administrative level. Major instruments for implementation like the Social Fund and Regional and Cohesion Fund envisage and encourage a new societal division of labour, new types of collaboration among a multiplicity of stakeholders and new forms of participation and accountability, true to the sprit of governance. All these developments and trends justify a course in which this concept and its various applications within the European Union are taken up systematically, with a view to derive policies for candidate countries during their process of harmonization.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 598 Comparative Local Government 3 Credits
A major structural change has taken place in Turkish society with the urban population surpassing the rural population for the first time in the Ottoman-Turkish continuum. The first rate of urbanization has not resulted in a parallel process of urban integration, creating serious problems in both tangible (infrastructure, housing, services and intangible (identity, participation, civic engagement) aspects of urban space. This dual character of urban settlements in Turkey has been compounded by a strained relationship between central and local govenment in sharing of competences and resources. The strategic decision of Turkey to join the European Union (EU); the need to harmonize policies; the prevalent trends and principles in the EU in the field of local govenment have created a new urgency to critically reappraise the administrative system in Turkey. The general tendency in the EU for decentralization, deconcentration and devolution, true to the spirit of local and regional governance, has necessitated local government reform to top the reform agenda in Turkey. Within the confines of the Course, a comparative analysis of existing institutions and processes will be taken up, followed by trends and evolving patterns of local governance in both the EU and Turkey.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Comparative Local Government 3
Spring 2018-2019 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Spring 2017-2018 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Spring 2016-2017 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Spring 2015-2016 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Spring 2014-2015 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Spring 2013-2014 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Spring 2012-2013 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Spring 2011-2012 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Fall 2010-2011 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Fall 2009-2010 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Fall 2007-2008 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Fall 2006-2007 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Fall 2005-2006 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Fall 2004-2005 Local Government in Turkey and the European Union 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 599 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0 Credit
Pro-Thesis Seminar provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty member from the relevant field over the second year of their course-work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2023-2024 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2022-2023 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2022-2023 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2021-2022 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2021-2022 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2020-2021 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2020-2021 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2019-2020 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2018-2019 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2018-2019 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2017-2018 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2016-2017 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2015-2016 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2015-2016 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2014-2015 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2014-2015 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2013-2014 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2012-2013 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2012-2013 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2011-2012 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2011-2012 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2010-2011 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2009-2010 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2009-2010 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2008-2009 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2008-2009 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2007-2008 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2006-2007 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2006-2007 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2005-2006 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2005-2006 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Spring 2004-2005 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Fall 2003-2004 Pro-Thesis Seminar 0
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 600 Seminar in Political Theory 3 Credits
This seminar is aimed to provide an in-depth discussion and extensive reading and research and research on a selected topic in political theory. Besides guiding lectures on cutting edge topics students are expected to take the initiative and actively contribute to seminar debates as well as writing papers aiming to form a substantial part of their thesis work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2022-2023 Seminar in Political Theory 3
Fall 2009-2010 Seminar in Political Theory 3
Fall 2007-2008 Seminar in Political Theory 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 601 Seminar in Comparative Politics 3 Credits
This seminar is aimed to provide an in-dept discussionand extensive reading and research on a selected topic in various aspects of nationalism. Besides guiding lectures on cutting edge topics students are expected to take the initiative and actively contribute to seminar debates as well as writing papers aiming to form a substantial part of their thesis work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2012-2013 Seminar in Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2008-2009 Seminar in Comparative Politics 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 610 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0 Credit
This course is mainly an exercise in listening, reading and writing on a regular basis. The lectures that will be offered by faculty members will introduce the students to new venues in Political Science. The students will not only be exposed to various research areas in the field towards which they may direct their future thesis work, but will also get in the habit of writing short concise essays. This course will be offered jointly by the Political Science faculty members in cooperation with Sabanci University's Academic Writing Center.(A required course for Political Science PhD. Students.)
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2023-2024 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2022-2023 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2022-2023 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2021-2022 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2021-2022 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2020-2021 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2020-2021 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2019-2020 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2017-2018 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2017-2018 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2016-2017 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2015-2016 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2014-2015 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2014-2015 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2013-2014 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2012-2013 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2011-2012 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2011-2012 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2010-2011 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2010-2011 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2009-2010 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2009-2010 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2008-2009 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2007-2008 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2007-2008 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2006-2007 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Fall 2006-2007 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2005-2006 Thesis Preparation Seminar 0
Spring 2002-2003 Thesis Preparation Seminar 3
Spring 2001-2002 Thesis Preparation Seminar 3
Spring 2000-2001 Thesis Preparation Seminar 3
Spring 1999-2000 Thesis Preparation Seminar 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 1 ECTS (1 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 620 Seminar in Nationalisms 3 Credits
This seminar is aimed to provide an in-depth discussion and extensive reading and research and research on a selected topic in various aspects of nationalism. Besides guiding lectures on cutting edge topics students are expected to take the initiative and actively contribute to seminar debates as well as writing papers aiming to form a substantial part of their thesis work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 630 Seminar in Research Methods 3 Credits
This seminar is aimed to provide an in-depth discussion and extensive reading and research and research on a selected topic in various aspects of quantitative research methodology. Besides guiding lectures on cutting edge topics students are expected to take the initiative and actively contribute to seminar debates as well as writing papers aiming to form a substantial part of their thesis work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2014-2015 Seminar in Research Methods 3
Fall 2007-2008 Seminar in Research Methods 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 640 Seminar in International Relations 3 Credits
This seminar is aimed to provide an in-depth discussion and extensive reading and research and research on a selected topic in international relations.Besides guiding lectures on cutting edge topics students are expected to take the initiative and actively contribute to seminar debates as well as writing papers aiming to form a substantial part of their thesis work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2019-2020 Seminar in International Relations 3
Fall 2018-2019 Seminar in International Relations 3
Fall 2017-2018 Seminar in International Relations 3
Fall 2016-2017 Seminar in International Relations 3
Spring 2015-2016 Seminar in International Relations 3
Spring 2014-2015 Seminar in International Relations 3
Spring 2013-2014 Seminar in International Relations 3
Spring 2011-2012 Seminar in International Relations 3
Fall 2010-2011 Seminar in International Relations 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 650 Seminar in Turkish Politics 3 Credits
This seminar is aimed to provide an in-depth discussion and extensive reading and research and research on a selected topic in Turkish politics.Besides guiding lectures on cutting edge topics students are expected to take the initiative and actively contribute to seminar debates as well as writing papers aiming to form a substantial part of their thesis work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 697 Term Project 0 Credit
Students taking this courses are expected to write a research paper on a topic agreed upon by a faculty member.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2017-2018 Term Project 0
Spring 2016-2017 Term Project 0
Fall 2015-2016 Term Project 0
Spring 2014-2015 Term Project 0
Fall 2014-2015 Term Project 0
Spring 2013-2014 Term Project 0
Fall 2013-2014 Term Project 0
Spring 2010-2011 Term Project 0
Fall 2010-2011 Term Project 0
Spring 2009-2010 Term Project 0
Fall 2008-2009 Term Project 0
Spring 2005-2006 Term Project 0
Fall 2005-2006 Term Project 0
Spring 2004-2005 Term Project 0
Fall 2004-2005 Term Project 0
Summer 2003-2004 Term Project 0
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 20 ECTS (20 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 699 Master Thesis 0 Credit
Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a faculty member from the relevant field of their course-work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2023-2024 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2022-2023 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2022-2023 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2021-2022 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2021-2022 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2020-2021 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2020-2021 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2019-2020 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2019-2020 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2018-2019 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2018-2019 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2017-2018 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2017-2018 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2016-2017 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2016-2017 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2015-2016 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2015-2016 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2014-2015 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2014-2015 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2013-2014 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2013-2014 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2012-2013 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2012-2013 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2011-2012 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2011-2012 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2010-2011 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2010-2011 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2009-2010 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2009-2010 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2008-2009 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2008-2009 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2007-2008 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2007-2008 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2006-2007 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2006-2007 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2005-2006 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2005-2006 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2004-2005 Master Thesis 0
Fall 2004-2005 Master Thesis 0
Spring 2003-2004 Master Thesis 0
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 30 ECTS (30 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 700B Readings&Research in Political Science:European Union 3 Credits
A multi-purpose course is designed to research on a specific subject, European Union, through special readings.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2006-2007 Readings&Research in Political Science:European Union 3
Fall 2006-2007 Readings&Research in Political Science:European Union 3
Fall 2001-2002 Readings&Research in Political Science:European Union 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 700C Readings and Research in Political Science: Comparative Politics 3 Credits
A multi-purpose course is designed to research on a specific subject, Political Theory, through special readings
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022 Readings and Research in Political Science: Comparative Politics 3
Spring 2007-2008 Readings and Research in Political Science: Political Theory 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 700I Readings and Research in Political Science: International Politics 3 Credits
A multi-purpose course is designed to research on a specific subject through special readings.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 700P Readings and Research in Political Science: Public Policy 3 Credits
A multi-purpose course is designed to research on a specific subject through special readings.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 700R Readings and Research in Political Science: Research Methods 3 Credits
A multi-purpose course is designed to research on a specific subject through special readings.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2021-2022 Readings and Research in Political Science: Research Methods 3
Spring 2014-2015 Readings and Research in Political Science: Research Methods 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 700T Readings and Research in Political Science: Political Theory 3 Credits
A multi-purpose course is designed to research on a specific subject through special readings.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2021-2022 Readings and Research in Political Science: Political Theory 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 700TR Readings and Research in Political Science: Turkish Politics 3 Credits
A multi-purpose course is designed to research on a specific subject, Turkish Politics, through special readings.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Readings and Research in Political Science: Turkish Politics 3
Spring 2014-2015 Readings and Research in Political Science: Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2014-2015 Readings and Research in Political Science: Turkish Politics 3
Fall 2009-2010 Readings and Research in Political Science: Turkish Politics (POLS700A) 3
Fall 2007-2008 Readings and Research in Political Science: Turkish Politics (POLS700A) 3
Spring 2006-2007 Readings and Research in Political Science: Turkish Politics (POLS700A) 3
Fall 2001-2002 Readings and Research in Political Science: Turkish Politics (POLS700A) 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 790 Guided Study I 0 Credit
Students will be guided through major academics texts in comparative politics, Turkish politics and political theory.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2004-2005 Guided Study I 0
Fall 2003-2004 Guided Study I 0
Fall 2002-2003 Guided Study (POLS790A) 0
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 791 Guided Study II 0 Credit
Students will be guided through major academics texts in comparative politics, Turkish politics and political theory.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2003-2004 Guided Study II 0
Spring 2002-2003 Guided Study (POLS790B) 0
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 792 Guided Study III 0 Credit
Students will be guided through major academics texts in comparative politics, Turkish politics and political theory.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2004-2005 Guided Study III 0
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
POLS 799 Ph.D. Thesis 0 Credit
Ph.D. Thesis provides a non-credit framework for the continuous monitoring and collegial discussion of PhD students' thesis research and writing, which they are expected to accomplish under the supervision of a Faculty advisor plus two other examiners from the relevant field over three or four years following the completion of their course-work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2023-2024 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2022-2023 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2022-2023 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2021-2022 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2021-2022 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2020-2021 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2020-2021 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2019-2020 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2019-2020 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2018-2019 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2018-2019 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2017-2018 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2017-2018 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2016-2017 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2016-2017 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2015-2016 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2015-2016 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2014-2015 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2014-2015 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2013-2014 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2013-2014 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2012-2013 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2012-2013 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2011-2012 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2011-2012 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2010-2011 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2010-2011 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2009-2010 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2009-2010 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2008-2009 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2008-2009 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2007-2008 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2007-2008 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2006-2007 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2006-2007 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2005-2006 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2005-2006 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2004-2005 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Fall 2004-2005 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Spring 2003-2004 Ph.D. Thesis 0
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 149 ECTS (149 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements: