The discipline of sociology aims to analyze social, cultural, political, economic, and legal problems that have arisen since people started living together, as well as to make comparative analyzes and offer solutions. Today, globalization, ethnic, religious, and regional wars, and economic, environmental, legal, and social crises have increased the importance of sociological research data. Ibn Haldun University Graduate Program of Sociology aims to create a new understanding, conceptualization, and research space at the point of experience, analyzing, and proposing solutions for various problems regarding human beings and society in our country and the world. Our graduate program, which is both theoretical and methodologically nourished from the world's different sociological and social science traditions, is also claiming to create a new tradition of sociology from the perspective of civilization.
Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
The master's program in Sociology aims to train highly competent sociologists, intellectuals, and researchers at the international level in today's local and global processes and crises. In line with our university's vision, educating experts, administrators, and diplomats equipped with knowledge and skills that can meet the needs of our country and the institutions and organizations operating in the world are among the critical missions of our program.
The very objective of the program is to improve research in the field of Sociology in our country and to train sociologists who can identify and solve problems to meet the needs of the country so that essential contributions can be obtained from this research activities both at national and international level and their effects can be disseminated.
The fact that the language of education in the program is English makes it possible for our graduates to work and conduct research worldwide.
The master's program in Sociology combines different theoretical and methodological approaches to researching, understanding, and proposing solutions for social, cultural, political, environmental, and economic crises and problems in today's societies by examining the traditions of thought in different civilizations and cultures basins comparatively.
The knowledge and skills that the graduates of the program will acquire can be listed as follows:
Individuals who want to increase or improve their knowledge and skills in sociological thinking, theory, and research methods targeted by the program are as follows:
| IBN HALDUN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES SOCIOLOGY (ENGLISH) WITH THESIS PROGRAM COURSE PLAN |
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| I. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| SOC 501 | Research Methods and Publication Ethics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 503 | Social Theory I | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC…/.. | Departmental/General Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Language Courses | |||||
| Total Credit | 12 | 32 | |||
| II. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| SOC 500 | Seminar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| SOC 504 | Social Theory II | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 506 | Ibn Khaldun and Contemporary Issues | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC…/... | Departmental/General Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Language Courses | |||||
| Total Credit | 12 | 35 | |||
| III. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| SOC 599 | Master's Thesis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Total Credit | 0 | 30 | |||
| IV. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| SOC 599 | Master's Thesis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Total Credit | 0 | 30 | |||
| Overall Total Credit | 24 | 127 | |||
| COMPULSORY COURSES | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| SOC 500 | Seminar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| SOC 501 | Research Methods and Publication Ethics | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 503 | Social Theory I | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 504 | Social Theory II | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 506 | Ibn Khaldun and Contemporary Issues | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| DEPARTMENTAL ELECTIVE COURSES | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| ANTH 509/609 | Ethnography of Muslim Societies | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| ANTH 511/611 | Ethnography of Space and Place | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| ANTH 512/612 | Ethnography of Turkey | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| ANTH 513/613 | Anthropology of Islam | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| ANTH 518/618 | Anthropolgy of the Political | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| ANTH 520/620 | Political Border and Border Regions | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| ANTH 522/622 | Anthropology of Emotions | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| CULT 510/610 | Readings in Orientalism | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| CULT 517/617 | Genealogies of Multiculturalism | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 508 | Oral History and Social Memory | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 505/605 | Political Sociology | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 507/607 | Sociology of Religion | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 508/608 | Religion in Modern Turkey | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 510/610 | Gender and Society | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 514/614 | Urban Sociology | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 515/615 | Historical Sociology | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 516/616 | Social Movements | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 517/617 | Sociology of Media | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 521/621 | Discourse Analysis | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 525/625 | Modernity, Post-Modernity and Beyond | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 530/630 | Sociology of Disaster | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 535/635 | Sociology and Anthropology of Secularism | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 536/636 | Advanced Comparative Theories and Methods | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 537/637 | Sociology of Southeast Asia | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 538/638 | Nation State and Nationalism | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 539/639 | Selected Topics in Sociology | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 540/640 | Colonialism and Postcolonialism | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 541/641 | Sociology of Literature | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 542/642 | Civilizations | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 543/ 643 | Social Inequality | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 544/644 | Sociology of Labor and Work | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| SOC 546/646 | Sociology of Childhood and Family | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
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