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POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PROGRAM

Within the context of globalization, it has been an increasingly tremendous need to understand the dynamics of ever-changing world and the activities of numerous actors involved and to resolve the problems and conflicts resulting from this process. In this regard, it is obligatory for the individuals, organizations, states and for every level of international system to be eligible to understand and explain the aforementioned political and administrative processes. The discipline of Political Science and International Relations, which has been structured departing from this need, analyses the processes by which resources are allocated and values are developed and discussed within a political system and the interaction of states, international organizations and other actors in this process. The discipline, on one hand, deals with political ideas and ideologies relating to issues like political justice, ideologies and political ideas such as liberty, democracy, morality, and equality while, on the other hand, analyzing how and to what extent these concepts effect the structures such as states, governments and international organizations.

The Aim of the Program

Political Science and International Relations Undergraduate Program has been designed as an interdisciplinary program serving to the needs of students who are interested in contemporary political, economic and social problems. This four-year program aiming to analyze the developments at both national and international realms involves must and elective courses. It is constructed on the idea of scrutinizing the political and economic processes at most crucial regions of the world such as Mediterranean Region via the elective courses of a very wide spectrum from a historical perspective. It is aimed that both the theoretical and methodological problems and policy-making processes are discussed at the lectures.

What Can You Do With a Political Science and International Relations Degree?

With this degree, the graduates may get access to several different careers at different levels of Turkish bureaucracy as well as they can work as middle and top managers in both public and private sector. Various public and private finance institutions and banks, as well as the news media are other fields that our graduates may be employed at. Some other important institutions which serve job opportunities to our graduates are State Planning Organization, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Undersecretary of the Treasury, Undersecretary of Foreign Trade, General Secretariat for European Union, Ministry of Finance, Central Bank, Capital Market Boards of Turkey as well as numerous local and municipal government positions throughout the country. Another important mission of our program is to provide the students who would like to pursue a career in the academic world in social science disciplines with the necessary knowledge and analytical perspective.

Curriculum

FIRST YEAR
First Semester
MAT 101	Mathematics for Social Sciences	(4-0) 4
ENGL 101	Development of Reading and Writing Skills I	(4-0) 4
ECO 101	Microeconomics	(4-0) 4
PSIR 101	Intro. to Sociology and Politics	(3-0) 3
PSIR 103	World History	(3-0) 3
TUR 101a	Turkish I	(2-0) NC
CNG 100	Introduction to Information Technologies and Applications	(1-0) NC
Second Semester
ENGL 102	Development of Reading and Writing Skills II	(4-0) 4
BUS 152	Statistics for Social Sciences	(3-0) 3
ECO 102	Macroeconomics	(4-0) 4
PSIR 102	Introduction to International Politics	(3-0) 3
PSIR 104	History of Civilization	(3-0) 3
TUR 102a	Turkish II	(2-0) NC
SECOND YEAR
Third Semester
BUS 221	Org. Beh. and Soc. Psychology	(3-0) 3
PSIR 201	Principles of Law	(3-0) 3
PSIR 203	History of Political Thought	(3-0) 3
ENGL 211	Academic Oral Presentation Skills	(3-0) 3
	Elective
HST 201b	Principles of Kemal Atatürk I	(2-0) NC
Fourth Semester
ECO 212	History of Economic Thought	(3-0) 3
PSIR 202	Constitutional Law	(3-0) 3
PSIR 204	Issues in Global Politics	(3-0) 3
	Elective
	Elective
HST 202b	Principles of Kemal Atatürk II	(2-0) NC
THIRD YEAR
Fifth Semester
ENGL 311	Advanced Communication Skills	(3-0) 3
PSIR 301	Comparative Politics	(3-0) 3
PSIR 303	Public International Law	(3-0) 3
PSIR 305	International Political Economy	(3-0) 3
	Elective
Sixth Semester
PSIR 302	Comparative Government	(3-0) 3
PSIR 304	International Organizations	(3-0) 3
PSIR 306	Process of European Integration	(3-0) 3
	Elective
	Elective
FOURTH YEAR
Seventh Semester
PSIR 401	Contemporary Political Theory	(3-0) 3
	Elective
	Elective
	Elective
	Elective
Eighth Semester
ECO 400	Graduation Project	(0-6) 3
PSIR 402	Theories of International Relations
	Elective
	Elective
	Elective

(a) Foreign students will take TUR 201 and TUR 202, which may be taken in the first year by the consent of the advisor.
(b) Foreign students will take HST 400 instead of HST 201 and HST 202

The elective courses indicated below are not exhaustive. There will also be additional electives to cover local and regional agenda and issues.

• PSIR 211 Turkish Administrative System
• PSIR 311 Turkish Politics and Pol. Structure
• PSIR 312 Turkish Foreign Policy
• PSIR 313 Political Geography
• PSIR 314 Theories of Democracy
• PSIR 315 Bureauc. and Turkish Bureaucracy
• PSIR 316 Middle East in World Affairs
• PSIR 317 Foreign Policy Analysis
• PSIR 411 Political Parties
• PSIR 412 Urban Politics
• PSIR 413 Western European Politics
• PSIR 414 Southern Europe in World Politics
• PSIR 415 Comparative Ethnicity
• PSIR 416 Europ. Identity and Turk. Western
• PSIR 421 Media and Opinion
• PSIR 422 Politics in the Balkans
• PSIR 423 Law and Institutions of the EU
• PSIR 424 Human Rights in World Politics
• PSIR 425 International Security
• BUS 111 Fundamentals of Business
• BUS 142 Financial Accounting
• BUS 222 Organizational Theory
• BUS 232 Info. Sys. and Prog.
• BUS 281 Principles of Finance
• ECO 201 Intermediate Microeconomics
• ECO 202 Intermediate Macroeconomics
• ECO 211 Economic History
• ECO 411 Topics in Economic History
• ECO 412 Turkish Economy

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