Qualification Awarded

Master

Specific Admission Requirements

Candidates for application to graduate program must; a) Have a bachelor's degree from Turkish or foreign faculties or colleges which are approved by the Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK), b) Have at least 55 points from ALES or an equivalent point from one of the exams accepted by the Interuniversitary Institute.

Qualification Requirements

In order to achieve sufficiency in the program, students must successfully complete all the courses (Z/S) enrolled in the program (120 ECTS credits), pass the thesis study and the courses they have taken during the thesis period and successfully defend their theses, as minimum qualification criteria for the program.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Candidates who have graduated from the History or other departments of the universities can apply to the master program provided that they have a minimum GPA of 2.30.

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 B2 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. The final exam grade must be at least 70. Students taking one of the (AA), (BA), (BB), (CB) and (CC) letter grades from a course are considered successful.

Graduation Requirements

The normal duration of the program is 2 years. In order to graduate from the master program, student are required to complete at least seven courses, one seminar an done thesis study. The course on specialized field, seminar and the thesis study are courses with credit and are graded as successful (GG) or unsuccessful (KK). The student who succeed chooses the thesis advisor. Afterwards, the student writes his/her thesis in accordance with the “Thesis Writing Guide” and submits at least one printed and one electronical copy at least one month before the date of the thesis defense. The student who successfully passed the thesis defense is entitled to graduate.

Occupational Profiles of Graduates

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

Access to Further Studies

Students who completed the graduate program can study for their PhD degree in accordance with the regulations ofthe Turkish Higher Education on Higher Education.

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 5090	SEMINAR	Required	0	2	6
TAR 5099	Scientific Research Techniques and Publishing Ethics	Required	3	0	6
TAR 5501	Ottoman Paleography	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5503	Eastern and Southern Policies of Ottoman State in New Age	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5505	New Age Ottoman History Resources	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5507	Ottoman Law History Texts of Modern Age	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5509	Establishment of the Ottoman Empire and Anatolian Principalities	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5511	Modern Age Ottoman Foreign Policy	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5513	Modern Age Ottoman History Resources	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5515	Modern Age Ottoman Socio-Economic History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5517	History of Ottoman Establishment in the Modern Age	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5519	History of Modern Turkey	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5521	History of Contemporary World	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5523	History of Atatürk’s Principles and Revolution	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5525	Analysis of Sources of the Turkey Repuclic History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5527	History of Turkish Law	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5529	Sources of Pre-Islamic Turkish History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5531	Sources of Medieval Historiography	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5533	Historical Text of Medieval	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5535	Arabic I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5537	Persian I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5539	Sources of Establishment Period of the Ottoman Principality	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5541	Byzantium Sources of Turkish History I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5543	Land and Tax system of Ottoman state in new age	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5545	The Relationship of Turkish-Hungarian in the End of 19th and 20th Centuries	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5547	The Text Translation of Hungarian I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5549	Interrelations between Ancient East and Anatolia	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5551	The Sources and Methodology of Ancient History I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5553	Ancient Anatolian Civilisations I	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5555	New age Ottoman naval history	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5557	Ottoman history of immigration in modern age	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5559	Modern Age Ottoman-Russian Relations	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5561	Near East during 13th -16th Centuries	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5563	Material Culture in Ancient Turkey	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5565	History of Travel, Reading and Knowledge in Early Modern Period	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5567	Ottoman Manufacturing Sector and Industry	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5701	Specialization Field Course	Required	4	0	6

1. Year - 2. Term

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Type	Theory	Practice	ECTS
TAR 5090-1	Seminar	Required	0	2	6
TAR 5502	Diplomatic Text Analysis of Ottoman History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5504	Archive Texts of Ottoman	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5506	The History of Seljuks Organisation	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5508	Sources of Medieval Historiography	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5510	Socio-Economic History of the Established Period of Ottoman Empire	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5512	West Policy of Ottoman Empire in the Modern Age	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5514	Daily Life in Ottoman	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5516	History of Turkish Modernization	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5518	Modern Age Ottoman Education History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5520	Foreign Policy of the Republic of Turkey	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5522	History of Turkish Democracy	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5524	Turkish Culture before Islam	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5526	Arabic II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5528	Persian II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5530	Byzantium Sources of Turkish History II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5532	Interrelations between Ancient West and Anatolia	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5534	Ottoman Center and Country Organization in New Age	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5536	The Sources and Methodology of Ancient History II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5538	History of Hungaria	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5540	The Text Translation of Hungarian II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5542	Ancient Anatolian Civilisations II	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5544	Constitutional attempts in 19th century Ottoman state	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5546	19th century Balkan history	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5548	Modern Age Ottoman-Iranian Relations	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5550	Religion, Society and Politics in Anatolia during 13th-16th Centuries	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5552	Political and Social Gender in Turkish History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5554	Reform movements in 17th century Ottoman state	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5556	Steppe Tribes History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5558	Turks in Islam Sources	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5560	Contemporary Eurasian History	Elective	3	0	6
TAR 5702	Specialization Field Course	Required	4	0	6

2. Year - 1. Term

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Type	Theory	Practice	ECTS
TAR 5000	Thesis	Required	0	0	24
TAR 5703	Specialization Field Course	Required	4	0	6

2. Year - 2. Term

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Type	Theory	Practice	ECTS
TAR 5000-1	Thesis	Required	0	0	24
TAR 5704	Specialization Field Course	Required	4	0	6

Evaluation Questionnaires

Course & Program Outcomes Matrix

1. Year - 1. Term

Ders Adı	Py1	Py2	Py3	Py4	Py5	Py6	Py7	Py8	Py9	Py10	Py11	Py12	Py13	Py14
SEMINAR	2	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	1
Scientific Research Techniques and Publishing Ethics	1	4	4	5	2	4	4	4	5	3	5	2	1	4
Ottoman Paleography	5	4	3	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	3	5	5	4
Eastern and Southern Policies of Ottoman State in New Age	1	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	1	1
New Age Ottoman History Resources	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	1
Ottoman Law History Texts of Modern Age	4	4		4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	4	1
Establishment of the Ottoman Empire and Anatolian Principalities	2	4	5	4	3	4	5	4	4	5	3	4	4	5
Modern Age Ottoman Foreign Policy	1	3	3	5	4	4	5	3	4	5	4	4	4	5
Modern Age Ottoman History Resources	4	4	5	4	3	4	5	4	4	3	4	5	5	5
Modern Age Ottoman Socio-Economic History	2	4	5	5	4	3	4	5	3	4	5	4	4	5
History of Ottoman Establishment in the Modern Age	1	3	4	4	5	5	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	5
History of Modern Turkey	1	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	1	1
History of Contemporary World	1	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	1	1
History of Atatürk’s Principles and Revolution	1	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	1	1
Analysis of Sources of the Turkey Repuclic History	1	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	5	4	4	5	5
History of Turkish Law	1	3	4	4	5	4	4	5	3	4	4	5	5	5
Sources of Pre-Islamic Turkish History	1	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	1	1
Sources of Medieval Historiography	1	3	4	5	5	4	3	4	4	4	5	3	4	4
Historical Text of Medieval	1	4	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4
Arabic I	1	3	3	3	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	5	1
Persian I	1	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	5	1
Sources of Establishment Period of the Ottoman Principality	2	3	4	5	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	2	4
Byzantium Sources of Turkish History I	1	4	4	5	4	4	5	3	4	5	4	3	4	4
Land and Tax system of Ottoman state in new age	2	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	2	1
The Relationship of Turkish-Hungarian in the End of 19th and 20th Centuries	1	3	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	1	1
The Text Translation of Hungarian I	1	3		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	5	1
Interrelations between Ancient East and Anatolia	1	4	4	4	2	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	1	1
The Sources and Methodology of Ancient History I	1	5	5	5	1	5	5	5	2	5	5	5	1	2
Ancient Anatolian Civilisations I	1	4	4	4	3	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	1	1
New age Ottoman naval history	1	3	4	4	3	4	5	5	5	4	5	4	2	5
Ottoman history of immigration in modern age	2	3	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	5	4	5	4	5
Modern Age Ottoman-Russian Relations	1	3	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	5	5	4	3	4
Near East during 13th -16th Centuries	1	4	3	4	5	4	4	3	5	5	4	4	5	4
Material Culture in Ancient Turkey	1	1	5	5	1	5	5	4	4	5	5	5	1	3
History of Travel, Reading and Knowledge in Early Modern Period	3	2	5	5	1	3	4	5	5	5	4	5	1	1
Ottoman Manufacturing Sector and Industry	1	1	5	5	1	5	5	4	4	5	5	5	1	3
Specialization Field Course	2	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	1

1. Year - 2. Term

Ders Adı	Py1	Py2	Py3	Py4	Py5	Py6	Py7	Py8	Py9	Py10	Py11	Py12	Py13	Py14
Seminar	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	2	1
Diplomatic Text Analysis of Ottoman History	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	1	3
Archive Texts of Ottoman	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	4	5	5	5	1	2
The History of Seljuks Organisation	1	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	1	1
Sources of Medieval Historiography	3	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	4	1	2
Socio-Economic History of the Established Period of Ottoman Empire	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	1	3
West Policy of Ottoman Empire in the Modern Age	1	3	4	3	1	4	4	4	4	5	4	3	1	1
Daily Life in Ottoman	3	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	2	2
History of Turkish Modernization		4	5	4	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	1	1
Modern Age Ottoman Education History	2	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	1	1
Foreign Policy of the Republic of Turkey	1	4	4	4	1	4	4	4	4	5	5	4	1	1
History of Turkish Democracy	1	5	2	4	1	5	5	5	5	5	5	1	1	1
Turkish Culture before Islam	1	3	4	4	3	4	3	4	5	5	5	2	2	3
Arabic II	1	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Persian II	2	5	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	4	5	5	2
Byzantium Sources of Turkish History II	1	3	4	3	1	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	1	1
Interrelations between Ancient West and Anatolia	1	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	1	1
Ottoman Center and Country Organization in New Age	3	2	4	4	3	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	1	1
The Sources and Methodology of Ancient History II	1	5	5	5	4	4	5	5	5	4	5	5	2	3
History of Hungaria	1	5	5	5	3	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	3	2
The Text Translation of Hungarian II	1	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	5	5	5	5	5	2
Ancient Anatolian Civilisations II	1	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	1	1
Constitutional attempts in 19th century Ottoman state	3	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	4	1	1
19th century Balkan history	1	4	4	2	4	3	3	3	4	5	4	4	1	1
Modern Age Ottoman-Iranian Relations	1	4	4	4	2	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	1	1
Religion, Society and Politics in Anatolia during 13th-16th Centuries	1	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	1	1
Political and Social Gender in Turkish History	1	5	5	4	1	3	4	5	3	4	4	4	1	1
Reform movements in 17th century Ottoman state	1	3	4	3	3	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	1	1
Steppe Tribes History		1	5	5	1	5	5	4	4	5	5	5	1	3
Turks in Islam Sources	1	1	5	5	1	5	5	4	4	5	5	5	1	3
Contemporary Eurasian History
Specialization Field Course	2	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	2	1

2. Year - 1. Term

Ders Adı	Py1	Py2	Py3	Py4	Py5	Py6	Py7	Py8	Py9	Py10	Py11	Py12	Py13	Py14
Thesis	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	3	1
Specialization Field Course	3	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	3	1

2. Year - 2. Term

Ders Adı	Py1	Py2	Py3	Py4	Py5	Py6	Py7	Py8	Py9	Py10	Py11	Py12	Py13	Py14
Thesis	3	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	3	1
Specialization Field Course	3	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	3	1