NON-THESIS MASTER'S PROGRAM COURSE CONTENTS

SEMESTER 1

Code : SBUI 4001
Course Name : SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH METHODS AND ETHICS
Hours/Week : 3+0 Hours/Week
ECTS Credits : 6
Language : Turkish
Course Content : The main objective of this course is to teach the steps necessary to conduct research on a specific topic by establishing knowledge about defining a research problem, forming the theoretical framework, data collection and analysis, interpreting results, and major research methods in social sciences. The course focuses on how to determine a research topic before starting, how to formulate related questions and hypotheses, how to collect and analyze data, and the techniques for evaluating and writing up the research. This course also deals, in a comparative manner, with the differences between scientific and non-scientific works, following the rules of written and oral presentation.

Code : SBUİ 4009
Course Name : EUROPEAN UNION INTEGRATION THEORIES
Hours/Week : 3+0 Hours/Week
ECTS Credits : 6
Language : Turkish
Course Content : The EU Integration Theories course has two main objectives. The first is to explain European integration, conceptualized as the construction and evolution of the European Communities and the European Union, as defined, understood, and predicted by various social science theories. The second is to analyze the various theories dealing with European integration and its outcomes. This course requires basic knowledge of EU history and institutions.

Code : SBUİ 4007
Course Name : RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Hours/Week : 3+0 Hours/Week
ECTS Credits : 6
Language : Turkish
Course Content : The course will focus on developments in Middle Eastern politics from the post-Ottoman era to the present. The colonial processes experienced in the region and the formation of nation-states and their borders will be analyzed. Additionally, the course will address the emergence and development of political movements such as Wahhabism, Shiite revisionism, and the Muslim Brotherhood, which have deeply influenced regional politics. The aim of the course is to enable students to comprehend the regional and global dynamics of politics in the region.

Code : SBUİ 4016
Course Name : COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Hours/Week : 3+0 Hours/Week
ECTS Credits : 6
Language : Turkish
Course Content : The course deals comparatively with the fundamental topics of comparative politics: the state, nation-state, democracy, political parties, political culture, political economy, electoral systems, social movements, and ethnic and identity debates. The manifestations of each of these topics in different countries are presented. Furthermore, the political systems of key model countries from different continents are analyzed in terms of their historical background, political culture, state-society relations, and institutional structure. In this context, the political structures of countries such as the USA, UK, France, Federal Germany, Russian Federation, Japan, China, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Iran, and Egypt are examined.

Code : SBUİ 4010
Course Name : FORMATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM
Hours/Week : 3+0 Hours/Week
ECTS Credits : 6
Language : Turkish
Course Content : The aim is to introduce the student to the work published in 4 volumes under the main title "The Modern World-System" between 1982 and 2011, to discuss the arguments developed therein, and to evaluate the criticisms brought by contemporary authors against world-systems theory. Utilizing the "world-economy" approach of the French historian Fernand Braudel, Wallerstein traces the origins of the capitalist economy and political-military dominance built step by step by the West from the 16th century onward, examining the world-system in 4 phases: 1- Capitalist Agriculture and the European Centered World-Economy (16th Century), 2- Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the World-Economy (1600-1750), 3- The Second Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy (1730-1840), 4- The Triumph of Moderate Liberalism (1789-1914). Throughout the course, these four phases will be evaluated with a critical eye; how the geographies termed by Wallerstein as "core" (the Western world, founder of the world-economy) and "periphery" (colonized Americas, Africa, and Southeast Asia) were affected by an asymmetrically functioning world-economy will be investigated.

Code : SBUİ 4003
Course Name : POLITICAL THEORY
Hours/Week : 3+0 Hours/Week
ECTS Credits : 6
Language : Turkish
Course Content : In this course, fundamental themes of political theory such as the individual, human, society, nation, state, sovereignty, governance, government, freedom, justice, equality, legitimacy, and national liberation are addressed and discussed from different intellectual perspectives. The approaches of liberal, authoritarian, socialist, conservative, feminist, and postmodern thought traditions to each of these topics; similarities and differences between different schools and ideologies are subjects covered in the course. The course also emphasizes the change and transformation that political theory has undergone throughout history, as well as the prominent political philosophers in this process.

SEMESTER 2

Code : SBUİ 4002
Course Name : POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF TURKEY
Hours/Week : 3+0 Hours/Week
ECTS Credits : 6
Language : Turkish
Course Content : The aim of the course is to enable the graduate student to see the continuities and sometimes changes in Turkish politics and its institutional structure. For this purpose, the focus will be on constitutional developments during the transition from an empire to a nation-state and the positions taken by political actors in the country's "unstable, fragile, and hesitant democratization" process. Naturally, all political parties established in Turkey and playing an active role in political life, along with the attitudes of their leading cadres, will also be covered in the course.

Code : SBUİ 4017
Course Name : INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Hours/Week : 3+0 Hours/Week
ECTS Credits : 6
Language : Turkish
Course Content : The course will focus on the processes that led to the emergence of the concept of security in international relations. Furthermore, theoretical approaches to the concept of international security and the factors leading to the change in international security will be analyzed in this course. The post-Cold War expansion of the security concept and the emergence of environmental, social, and economic security approaches will be discussed. The aim of the course is to enable students to grasp the fundamental parameters of international security and to analyze events in global politics within this conceptual framework.

Code : SBUİ 4020
Course Name : INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORIES
Hours/Week : 3+0 Hours/Week
ECTS Credits : 6
Language : Turkish
Course Content : The course will focus on theoretical approaches emerging in the field of international relations since ancient Greece. The main arguments of important theoretical approaches, primarily Realism, as well as Idealism, Marxism, the English School, and Constructivism, will be discussed. The aim of the course is to enable students to comprehend these theoretical approaches and to analyze cases in international politics according to these theoretical approaches.

Code : SBUİ 4013
Course Name : DEMOCRACY THEORIES AND MODELS
Hours/Week : 3+0 Hours/Week
ECTS Credits : 6
Language : Turkish
Course Content : This course deals with the historical development, intellectual background, processes, mechanisms, actors, and dynamics of modern democracy. The crises experienced by modern democracy regarding issues such as representation, participation, and power distribution, as well as alternative understandings of democracy developed in response to these crises, are also emphasized. In this context, debates concerning understandings of liberal democracy, social democracy, deliberative democracy, radical democracy, inclusive democracy, local democracy, and participatory democracy, along with the similarities and differences between them, are among the other topics on which the course concentrates.