The concept of law, rights, systems of law, the distinction between private and public law, various branches of law, sources of law, implementation of the law, courts and their competence, legal personality, natural and legal persons, capacity to act, basic concepts of property law and law of obligations.

The course takes the perspective of the practicing manager. The management of organizations is viewed as involving choices between different courses of action, which are constrained by those, which have already been made. Thus, the prime requirement of effective management is the ability to analyze the organization and then find ways to improve the way it works to increase organizational effectiveness. On a career level, the ability to analyze the situation that one is in, and thus the ability to respond appropriately to it is also a prerequisite for managerial success and the course should make students more “organization wise”.

This course provides an introduction to basic models and concepts in microeconomics and macroeconomics. Basic topics in microeconomics analyzed in this course include an introduction to market economies, supply and demand, consumer theory, the theory of the firm, perfect competition. Basic topics in macroeconomics analyzed in this course include national income, employment, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth.

The aim of this course is to inform students about the historical development of economic processes and institutions and the evolution of production, distribution, consumption patterns, and the factors of production in the world and particularly in Western Europe. Some of the topics on this course include: economic processes in the ancient world and middle ages, geographical expansion of the Western world, industrial revolution, developments in agriculture, finance, banking sectors during the expansion process of the main European countries, application of technology, developments in telecommunication and transportation, the role of the state, the growth of the world economy and impact of the European industrialized countries on the rest of the world, and the economic developments of the post World War I and II.

This course aims at equipping students with skills related to two main aspects of Academic English, which are listening and notetaking and academic speaking.

This course aims at equipping students with skills related to two main aspects of Academic English, which are reading and academic writing.

This course provides a general information of the events from the end of the 19. century until the end of the Turkish War of Independence and the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.

With special reference to the Principals of Atatürk the course will examine the philosophy of the foundation and existence of the republican regime as well as the democratic developments in secular Turkey during the twentieth century and in the era of extending globalization.

In addition to a specific discussion on the nature of scientific knowledge and social sciences, the course will cover selected issues from anthropology, sociology, psychology, social psychology, political science and economics.

The course involves a careful study of the formation of various aspects of modern societies. It examines the key ideas of the Enlightenment, the development of the modern state, the economic formation of modernity, the relevance of class and gender issues to industrial societies, and the political and cultural significance of religion, secularism and ideology in the modern world.

Presentation of Administrative Units, Academic Units and Student Clubs

Sets, functions, matrices, introduction to statistics, data types and collecting data, permutation, combination, probability function, random variable, their expected values and variances and distribution fuctions.

In this course, the relations between media and society will be discussed thematically by focussing on a range of popular media. These media include women’s magazines, popular music, news, TV soaps, film advertising and sport. Themes include nationalism, globalization, democracy, radical politics and gender.

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This course will focus on classical theories in sociology, reading, interpreting and writing on these theories and also on social research, on how it is conducted, basic ethical concepts in social research and key resources while conducting social research.

The course covers introductory topics in the field of sociology ranging from the description of sociology, the logic and method of sociological inquiries, foundational theories in the discipline to the examination of important sociological concepts such as culture, social structure, socialization, deviance, social control, bureaucracy, social change and patterned social inequalities.

The course introduces social institutions, structural transformations and processes which give shape to social conditions in modern society. The focus of the course will be on key social themes and institutions including gender, family, religion, media, work and economy, urbanization, population growth, migration, government and politics, modern organizations and globalization.

This course discusses the different aspects of culture as the basis of differentiation in human societies. By examining the theories of culture and social structure, it aims to understand the constitutive human institutions (kinship, economic, political and religious) in a crosscultural perspective.

The course involves an examination of the fundamental problems that define basic areas of philosophical enquiry: 1) the concepts of validity, truth, and soundness; common forms of fallacies, 2) knowledge as justified true belief, 3) the good life as philosophical ideal and practical problem; consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, 4) contractarian theories of political legitimation, 5) tragedy as limitcase for the presupposition of rationality.

This course covers basic statistics subjects with SPSS applications for social research studies like, organizing the data, measures of central tendency and variability, hypothesis testing, correlation, simple regression, analysis of variance and chisquare distribution with SPSS applications.

The course introduces classical theories of sociology. The main approaches in the discipline are examined through the discussion of the names like Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, George Simmel George Herbert Mead.

The course involves an introduction to and examination of the major theoretical orientations and types of explanation in sociology ranging (roughly) from the end of the second world war to the present. In particular, it aims to provide the student with a perspective from which to question the distinction between “classical” and “contemporary” in theoryconstruction, to examine the relevance of theory to fieldwork, to assess the relative strengths of types of explanation, and to reflect on the implications of theorychange and controversy in sociology.

Demography is defined as the scientific study of the size, composition and distribution of human populations and their changes resulting from fertility, mortality and migration. The course is concerned with how populations are composed in terms of various characteristics (age, sex, marital status, race/ethnicity…); how populations are distributed in physical space (urban/rural); how and under the affect of which factors population size, composition and distribution change over time.

The course introduces to the both theoretical and emprical discussions of social stratification in regard to the different forms of inequality in societies. Stratification is discussed with a specific emphasis on the concepts like class, gender, race/ethnicity, power, elites, poverty, legitimization and social mobility.

Criminology deals, scientifically, with the topics of crime and deviant behavior. It primarily attempts to situate the crime and deviant behavior into historical and theoretical context in order to reveal out the answers for questions such as: Why do people commit crime? What are the resons and consequences of criminal behaviour? What kind of typologies of crime can we observe in different societies?This class, in this respect, attempts to investigate the answers of these questions in relation to major criminology theories by highlighting major categories such as class, age, race, ethnicity, gender, violence, political and organized crimes.

The course moves from the assumption that there is a reciprocal relationship between society and politics in the sense that as social actors and processes shape political processes and institutions, the latter also retains greater capacity to shape the social. The course hence focuses on the complex interactions that take place between economy and politics, states and societies, civil society and politics, and it extends the discussion to basic forms of political rule, power and equality, political parties and factors behind political participation.

This course covers basic steps for quantitative social reseach: Defining problem, literature survey, ethics, sampling, data gathering tools, analyses and preparing research proposals.

This course covers qualitative research procedures such as, the nature of qualitative reseach studies, ethnography and participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, document analysis, case studies, as well as computer based data analysis and eresearch.

This course deals with the dynamics, the components and the engines of “Social Change” from the theoritical perspective and discusses the historical instances justifying the theories in question. The formation of the Urban World in the 21st century through the changes at the macrolevel, the Modern World system, and the sociocultural, political and economic dynamics lying behind the making tomorrow’s society by planned changes are also involved in the content of the course.

This course examines the family as an institution at the intersection of a number of social structures: religion, the law, morality, and the economy. Moreover, it studies the emotive foundations and functions of the family from a number of sociological perspectives.

The course introduces basic concepts and theories of urban sociology. Some of the topics of the course are rise of city and city life, industrialisation, Chicago School, urban politics, public space, stranger, segregation, ghettoization, gendered space and consumption.

The course deals with the main sociological facts and cultural values of Turkey such as modernity, nationalism, social change, gender, urbanizaiton, migration, unemployment, crime and so forth.

This course covers formation and dynamics of public opinion, the design of surveys, ethics, the use and effects of opinion polls.

This course is designed for senior students to prepare them for postgraduate studies as well as professional life and to enable them to approach sociology from a wider perspective.

This course is designed for senior students to prepare them for postgraduate studies as well as professional life and to enable them to approach sociology from a wider perspective.

This course consists of lectures and laboratory meetings that aim to teach research methods and tools, thereby enabling the student to develop competence in designing, presenting and evaluating research projects.

This course consists of lectures and laboratory meetings that aim to teach research methods and tools, thereby enabling the student to develop competence in designing, presenting and evaluating research projects. In particular, the course comprises a series of case studies that are designed to develop said competencies.

Internship covers field experience at any work place (public or private) for six weeks (thirty work days). Students should follow the instructions stated in IUE Internship Guide in order to successfully complete their internships.

Students will be taught how to use the written communication tools accurately and efficiently in this course. Various types of written statements will be examined through a critical point of view by doing exercises on understanding, telling, reading, and writing. Punctuation and spelling rules, which are basis of written statement, will be taught and accurate usage of these rules for efficient and strong expression will be provided.

Students will be taught how to use the written communication tools accurately and efficiently in this course. There will be exercises on understanding, telling, reading, and writing; types of speeches (panel, symposium, conference, etc.) will be introduced; the student will be equipped with information on using body language, accent and intonation, and presentation techniques.