MA in Turkish Studies (in English)
The Turkish Studies MA Program (MATS for short) was the first master’s program that was launched by the History Department. It started admitting students in Fall 2017, and has continued to this day. As the name implies, it is not a History program, narrowly defined, but an interdisciplinary program, receiving strong support from the Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Economics departments, and also containing a lot of History. It has two versions: with thesis and without thesis. In both cases, its purpose is to attract three kinds of applicants, though the MATS without thesis is likely to prove more attractive for the first two groups (a and b) over the coming years:
(a) A certain group of international students, possibly but not only from the West, who would like to acquire a degree of academically grounded familiarity with Turkey’s history, economy, politics and culture, and who on that basis are likely to look for employment in or about Turkey, perhaps in multinational corporations doing business with/in Turkey, or ngo’s working in Turkey, or in the service or education sectors or other lines of work.
(b) Another group of international students, more probably from the West, who are in the process of pursuing PhD’s in Islamic, Middle Eastern, Turkish or Ottoman History, and who by spending two years in Istanbul and IHU can take lots of specialized courses in all these fields, including their relevant research languages, for tuition fees and other living costs that are far lower than in Europe or the US.
(c) Also a group of academically oriented Turkish students who are not sure about which PhD to pursue, and who would therefore like some more time to explore History (including extra time for languages and more in depth readings) as well as neighboring disciplines in the Social Sciences.
Esteemed Academics
One-on-One Education
Boutique University
Student-Centered Approach
On-Campus Dormitories for Female and Male Students
Sports Center
Supportive Research and Project Ecosystem
Acting Head of The Department:
Prof. Halil Berktay
Purposes of the Program:
To meet these various needs and also to maintain a high degree of flexibility, the two-year Turkish Studies MA Program (with thesis) incorporates the following elements or equirements:
- 10 academic courses in all
4 required courses, to be taken as 2+2 in the first year
HIST 572 POLS 501
ECON 546 SOC 508
6 electives, which can be taken from the HIST, POLS, ECON or SOC departmental course pools, provided they are strongly related to Turkey - in addition, two YÖK-required seminars, also to be taken in the first year
TS 500 TS 501plus an MA thesis of around 70 pages (as a rough guideline), to be researched and written, in the framework of TS 599, over the second year of the program
The following lesson plan is for informational purposes only. Click here to access the Bologna information.
Click here to access the course information package.
| IBN HALDUN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES TURKISH STUDIES (ENGLISH) WITH THESIS PROGRAM COURSE PLAN | |||||
| I. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| ECON 546 | An Economic History of Modern Turkey | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| POLS 505 | Turkish Politics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| TS 500 | MA Pro-Seminar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | |
| Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | |
| Language Courses (TUR …) | |||||
| Total Credit | 12 | 35 | |||
| II. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| HIST 572 | From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 508 | Religion in Modern Turkey | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| TS 501 | Academic Research Methods and Publishing Ethics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | |
| Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | |
| Language Courses (TUR …) | |||||
| Total Credit | 15 | 35 | |||
| III. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | |
| Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | |
| TS 599 | Master's Thesis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Total Credit | 6 | 46 | |||
| IV. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| TS 599 | Master's Thesis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Total Credit | 0 | 30 | |||
| Overall Total Credit | 33 | 146 | |||
| COMPULSORY COURSES | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| ECON 546 | An Economic History of Modern Turkey | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| POLS 505 | Turkish Politics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| TS 500 | MA Pro-Seminar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| HIST 572 | From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 508 | Religion in Modern Turkey | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| TS 501 | Academic Research Methods and Publishing Ethics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| DEPARTMENTAL ELECTIVE COURSES | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| Modern Turkish | |||||
| TUR 501C | Basic Modern Turkish I | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TUR 502C | Basic Modern Turkish II | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TUR 503C | Intermediate Modern Turkish I | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TUR 504C | Intermediate Modern Turkish II | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TUR 505C | Advanced Readings in Modern Turkish I | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TUR 506C | Advanced Readings in Modern Turkish II | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| Ottoman Turkish | |||||
| TLL 501C | Basic Ottoman Turkish | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TLL 502C | Intermediate Ottoman Turkish | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TLL 503C | Advanced Ottoman Turkish I | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TLL 504C | Advanced Ottoman Turkish II | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TLL 505C | Ottoman Paleography and Diplomatica | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TLL 506C | Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| History | |||||
| HIST 503 | World History I | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 504 | World History II | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 508 | Oral History and Social Memory | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 509 | Introduction to Orientalism and Oriental Studies | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 511 | Early Islamic History: A Survey (to AD 1100) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 512 | Islamic History: The Middle Period (c.945-1500) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 514 | Three Gunpowder Empires | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 515 | History of the Modern Middle East (to the 1920s) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 516 | History of the Contemporary Middle East (from the 1920s) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 519 | Mediterranean Cities | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 521 | Medieval Anatolia | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 532 | History of Ottoman Political Thought | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 533 | Religion in the Ottoman Empire | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 536 | History of a City II: Ottoman Istanbul, 1450-1900 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 537 | History of Education in Islam | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 538 | Introduction to Islamic and Ottoman Material Culture | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 539 | Reading Evliya Çelebi | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 540 | Ordinary People and Daily Life in the Late Ottoman Empire | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 541 | Ottoman History I, 1300-1600 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 551 | Ottoman History II, 1600-1800 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 553 | Ottoman Women, c.1300-1900 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 561 | Ottoman History III, 1789-1908 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 562 | Modernization and Reform in the Ottoman Empire | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 571 | From “Far Asia” to the Mediterranean: Turkish History, Turkey’s History | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 574 | Sources and Methods for the History of Modern Turkey I (1908-1950) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 581 | Environmental History | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 593 | Historical Marxism I: (19th Century Socialism) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 596 | Iran and Shiism | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 597 | History of Modern Iran | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 602 | Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 603 | Research Seminar in Islamic and Ottoman Legal Culture | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 604 | Research Seminar in Islamic and Ottoman Material Culture | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 641 | Research Seminar for Ottoman History, 1300-1600 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 651 | Research Seminar for Ottoman History, 1600-1800 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 661 | Research Seminar for Ottoman History, 1789-1908 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 662 | Muslim Women Writers in the Late Ottoman Empire (1789-1908) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 672 | Texts and Constructions of National Memory I: Varieties of Early Turkish Nationalism | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 673 | Texts and Constructions of National Memory II: Reading the Republican Historians | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 681 | Research Seminar for Modern Turkish History I (1908-1950) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 682 | Research Seminar for Modern Turkish History II (1945-2002) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 705 | Literature Survey: Historiography | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 726 | Literature Survey: The Middle Ages in Europe | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 727 | Literature Survey: The Early Modern Era | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 728 | Literature Survey: Modern and Contemporary History | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 731 | Literature Survey: Modern Balkan History, 1800 to the Present | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 736 | Literature Survey: Inner Asian and Turkic History | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 741 | Literature Survey: Ottoman History, 1300-1600 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 751 | Literature Survey: Ottoman History, 1600-1800 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 761 | Literature Survey: Ottoman-Turkish History, 1789-1908 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 771 | Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1908 to the Present | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 791 | Literature Survey: Cultural History | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Political Science and International Relations | |||||
| POLS 507 | Turkey from 1980 to the Present | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| POLS 509 | Identity and Ethnicity in Modern Turkey | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| POLS 512 | Turkish Foreign Policy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| POLS 575 | States, Nations, and Empires | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Economics | |||||
| ECON 545 | Current Issues in Turkish Economy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Sociology | |||||
| SOC 514 | Urban Sociology | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 516 | Social Movements | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 520 | Political Frontiers and Frontier Regions | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Anthropology | |||||
| ANTH 512 | Ethnography of Turkey | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| ANTH 519 | Ethnography of the State | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| ANTH 522 | Anthropology of Emotions | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Eğitim Kurumları İşletmeciliği | |||||
| EDU 525 | Özel Eğitim Politikaları ve Uygulamaları | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |