Qualification Awarded

Doctorate

Specific Admission Requirements

Master of science graduated and ALES score which is determined by the Senate of Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University is required. Students must have minimum score determined by Senate in UDS, TOEFL, TOEFL or equivalent examinations accepted by YÖK.

Qualification Requirements

In order to obtain a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, students must successfully complete all compulsory and elective courses (total 240 ECTS) and achieve a GPA of at least 3.0 out of 4.00.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Depending on the degrees awarded, theoretical or practical courses taken as part of a degree (completed or not completed) may lead to recognition of these as prior learning by the programme administration. The students who have taken courses in another institution in Turkey or abroad can ask for credit and grade transfer. The executive boards of relevant programme will decide on the courses to be transferred covering students' entire academic program once and for all with the condition that the request for transfer be made within the first week of the academic year, the requests cannot be repeated.

History

The Department of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Letters at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University started Barchelor’s and Master degree programs in the Academic Year 1994-1995. In the academic year 2010 - 2011, the department started evening education offering B. Sc. Degree, and since the academic year 2011-2012, Ph. D. degree program is available for those who desire further their studies in history.

Profile of the Programme

The mission of the History Department is not only to promote historical knowledge and related disciplines but also to get the students gain a perspective of awareness by which today's political, economic, social, cultural events are possible to evaluate in a comprehensive perspective.

Program Outcomes

1-	They can read and use related resources written in Ottoman Turkish.

2-	They adopt the principles of quality and productivity and use these principles actively in their academic activities.

3-	They follow scientific methods in their academic research.

4-	Thanks to the history as a discipline they conduct academic research, evaluate their findings and comment on them and promote their country's both material and moral values.

5-	They get accustomed to utilize archives and use them for their academic studies effectively.

6-	They identify and analyze the concepts of history, ideas and science and offer a perspective on behalf of the development of their community.

7-	They get up to date with basic historical concepts, ideas and analyze data in accordance with historical methods.

8-	They adopt the principles of objectivity and unprejudicedness; take into consideration communal, scientific and ethical values while conducting their research.

9-	They comprehend common cultural heritage and promote to strengthen the belief for the development of their community in the future.

10-	They acquire historical perspective by comparing past and present.

11-	They acquire analytic and integral perspective.

12-	They can collect the data, organize and present the findings in written and oral form following the historical and scientific methods.

13-	A foreign language using the European Language Portfolio C1 level and using verbal and writing ability to communicate.

14-	Using the informatics and communication technologies, with computer programs, as required by History field.

Exam Regulations & Assesment & Grading

Each student must register for courses at the beginning of the semester and must attend at least 70% of the courses in order to be able to take the final exam. At least 1 midterm exam, final exam and unsuccessful students are subject to make-up exams for each course. The grade of the midterm exam is 50% and the final exam is 50%. All exams are evaluated over 100 points. At the end of the semester, the grade must be at least 75 for each course. Students taking one of the letter grades (AA), (BA), (BB) and (CB) are considered successful.

Graduation Requirements

Minimum Graduation ECTS (Master) must be 240 and must defence a thesis in front of a selected jury. In order to complete the program successfully, it is required to pass all the courses available in the program, to obtain a weighted grade point average of at least 3.00 out of 4.00 and to complete the doctoral thesis successfully.

Occupational Profiles of Graduates

Graduates can work as an academician if they fulfill the terms of acceptance

Access to Further Studies

Mode of Study

Graduate

Programme Director

Prof.Dr. Bayram AKÇA (bakca@mu.edu.tr)

ECTS Coordinator

Research Assist. Mehmet Sait BENEK (m.s.benek@mu.edu.tr)

Course Structure Diagram with Credits

1. Year - 1. Term

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Type	Theory	Practice	ECTS
TAR 6090	Seminar	Required	0	4	6
TAR 6099	Scientific Research Techniques and Publishing Ethics	Required	3	0	6
TAR 6501	History and Civilization of Egypt	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6503	Sources and Problems of History of Ancient Greece	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6505	History and Civilization of Prehistoric Aegean	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6507	History and Civilization of Persian	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6509	History and Civilization of Lydia	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6511	Medieval Historiography I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6513	Turkish History and Culture of Middle Ages I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6515	The Classical Period of Islamic History and Civilization I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6517	Byzantine History and Civilization-I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6519	Pre-Islamic Central Asian Turkish History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6521	Turco-Mongolian History in Central Asia in 13th and 16th Centuries I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6523	Ottoman World and Nomads I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6525	Agreements made by Ottoman Empire and Analysis	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6527	Ottoman History Resources I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6529	Ottoman-West Relations in Modern Age	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6531	History of Ottoman Institutes I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6533	International Relations in the 19th Century	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6535	History of Turkish Constitution	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6537	The Sources of Turkish Republic History and Its Analysis	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6539	Foreign Policy of Turkish Republic	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6541	History of Turkish Education	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6543	Turkish-Hungarian Relations I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6545	The Historical Text Analysis of Hungarian	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6547	II.Abdülhamid and Pan-Islamism	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6549	Ottoman Social Structure I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6551	Archive Documents and Text Analysis	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6553	Philosophy of History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6555	Ottoman Urban History and Its Resources	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6557	Manorial System in Ottoman State and Its Transformation	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6559	Modern Age Ottoman Administration History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6561	Travelbooks Turkestan	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6701	Specialization Field Course	Required	4	0	6

1. Year - 2. Term

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Type	Theory	Practice	ECTS
TAR 6090-1	Seminar	Required	0	4	6
TAR 6502	History and Civilization of Mesopotamia	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6504	History and Civilization of Hittite	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6506	History and Civilization of Phyrgian	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6508	Sources and Problems of History of Rome	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6510	History and Civilization of Rome in Anatolia	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6512	Medieval Historiography II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6514	Turkish History and Culture of Middle Ages II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6516	The Classical Period of Islamic History and Civilization II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6518	Turkish Cultural History Before Islam	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6520	Turkish Cultural History Before Islam	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6522	Turco-Mongolian History in Central Asia in 13th and 16th Centuries II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6524	Ottoman World and Nomads II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6526	Ottoman History Resources II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6528	East and South Politics of Ottoman State	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6530	History of Ottoman Institutes II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6532	Europe in Modern Ages	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6534	International Relations in 20th Century	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6536	Archival Resources and Diplomatics	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6538	Socio-Cultural Developments in the Republic of Turkey	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6540	Political Party and İnstitutions in Turkish Republic Era	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6542	Turkish-Hungarian Relations II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6544	Hungarian Cultural History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6546	History of Turkish Modernization	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6548	Ottoman Diplomatic History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6550	Political Parties in Ottoman State (1908-1918)	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6552	Ottoman Social Structure II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6554	Foundations and Foundation-Related Applications in Ottoman State	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6556	Housing and Demography in Ottoman State	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6558	Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 6702	Specialization Field Course	Required	4	0	6

2. Year - 1. Term

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Type	Theory	Practice	ECTS
TAR 6703	Specialization Field Course	Required	4	0	6
TAR 6800	Preparation for the qualification examination	Required	0	0	24

2. Year - 2. Term

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Type	Theory	Practice	ECTS
TAR 6704	Specialization Field Course	Required	4	0	6
TAR 6900	Thesis Proposal	Required	0	0	24

3. Year - 1. Term

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Type	Theory	Practice	ECTS
TAR 6705	Specialization Field Course	Required	4	0	6
TAR 6901	Thesis Work (1.TİK)	Required	0	0	24

3. Year - 2. Term

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Type	Theory	Practice	ECTS
TAR 6706	Specialization Field Course	Required	4	0	6
TAR 6902	Thesis Work (2.TİK)	Required	0	0	24

4. Year - 1. Term

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Type	Theory	Practice	ECTS
TAR 6707	Specialization Field Course	Required	4	0	6
TAR 6903	Thesis Work (3.TİK)	Required	0	0	24

4. Year - 2. Term

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Type	Theory	Practice	ECTS
TAR 6000	Thesis Work (Thesis Defense)	Required	0	0	24
TAR 6708	Specialization Field Course	Required	4	0	6

Evaluation Questionnaires

Course & Program Outcomes Matrix