CORE PROGRAM COMPULSORY AND ELECTIVE COURSES / SPRING 2022-2023

COMPULSORY COURSES
Instructor Name /
Course Code Course Name Course Description Day-Time
Department
KHAS 1002 Scientific Course Objectives: Dr. Arif Selçuk Öğrenci Section 1:
Compulsory for Discoveries and The course aims that students gain ability to define Department of Electrical - Electronics Monday / Wednesday
Departments of Molecular Engineering engineering problems within their context; students gain Engineering 12:00 – 13:30
Biology and Genetics, knowledge about the connections of scientific fields and
Electrical-Electronics engineering; and students can carry out research about new Prof. Dr. Şevket Volkan Ediger Section 2:
Engineering and developments in those subjects. Students are also Department of Energy Systems Engineering Monday / Thursday
Mechatronichs Engineering encouraged to think about the significance of bearing 12:00 – 13:30
multiple viewpoints in producing, understanding, and utilizing Prof. Dr. Feza Kerestecioğlu
scientific knowledge. Additionally, students learn to take Department of Computer Engineering Section 3:
responsibility for professional development and improve Monday / Friday
their academic reading / listening / writing / presentation / Emeritus Prof. Dr. Erdal Panayrıcı 12:00 – 13:30
communication skills in English Department of Electrical - Electronics
Engineering
Course Content:
The goal of this course is to provide students a broad outline Prof. Dr. Şener Oktik
of scientific discoveries and engineering, and help them to Department of Mechatronics Engineering
develop their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. To
this purpose, the course explores different disciplines of Emin İstif
natural sciences and engineering and provides participants Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
with a broad background of engineering technologies.
Alan Michael Davies, Turgay Bayındır
Core Program

Esra Kurtuluş
School Of Foreign Languages
KHAS 1120 Thinking Course Objectives: Prof. Dr. Alp Erinç Yeldan Section 1-6:
Compulsory for Mathematically The goal of this course is to cover basic concepts of Department of Economics Monday / Wednesday
Departments of mathematics that will be of use to the students of any 10:30 – 12:00
Architecture, Economy, background using a modular teaching model. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Onurcan Yılmaz, Burak Doğruyol
International Relations, Students will be able to identify solution strategies Department of Psychology
Political Science and Public for real-life problems and comprehend the need for Asst. Prof. Dr. Sabri Gökmen Section 7-12:
Administration, mathematical tools. Department of Architecture Monday / Wednesday
Management, International Mathematical concepts will be discovered/thought through 13:30 – 15:00

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 Trade and Finance, MIS, experiments hence the student will be able to observe the Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özkan Karabacak
Molecular Biology and need for mathematics. Department of Mechatronics Engineering
Genetics, Industrial
Engineering, Computer Course Content: Burak Servili, Burak Kaynar, Tayyip Topuz
Engineering, Electrical - Finding Trends in Everyday Life, Rate of Change, Areas and Core Program
Electronics Engineering, Volumes, Uncertainty in Life, Statistics, Abstract Thinking and
Mechatronics Engineering, Mathematical Modelling
Civil Engineering,
Psychology
KHAS110 Civic Responsibility Course Objectives: Tayyip Topuz Section 1:
Compulsory for all Project This course introduces students to the concept of social Core Program Monday 10:00 – 12:00
departments responsibility with theoretical knowledge and universal Tayyip Topuz Section 2:
values. It aims to transform this information into active Core Program Monday 13:00 – 15:00
citizenship skills through civic engagement activities. İpek Erdoğmuş Section 3
Core Program Wednesday 10:00 – 12:00
Course Content: İpek Erdoğmuş Section 4:
This course introduces civic engagement and active Core Program Wednesday 13:00 – 15:00
citizenship concepts within the framework of social Tayyip Topuz Section 5:
responsibility. The course presents basic knowledge and Core Program Monday 10:00 – 12:00
understanding in the field of social responsibility Tayyip Topuz Section 6:
theoretically. Additionally, the course also allows the Core Program Monday 13:00 – 15:00
students to design and implement a project to develop their İpek Erdoğmuş Section 7:
skills of realizing problems of the society they live in and Core Program Wednesday 10:00 – 12:00
developing solutions for these problems. İpek Erdoğmuş Section 8:
Core Program Wednesday 13:00 – 15:00
Burak Servili Section 9:
Core Program Monday 10:00 – 12:00
Burak Servili Section 10:
Core Program Monday 13:00 – 15:00
Yağmur Yıldırım Section 11:
Core Program Wednesday 10:00 – 12:00
Yağmur Yıldırım Section 12:
Core Program Wednesday 13:00 – 15:00
Burak Servili Section 13:
Core Program Monday 10:00 – 12:00
Burak Servili Section 14:
Core Program Monday 13:00 – 15:00

Yağmur Yıldırım Section 15:

Core Program Wednesday 10:00 – 12:00

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 Yağmur Yıldırım Section 16:
Core Program Wednesday 13:00 – 15:00
Burak Kaynar Section 17:
Core Program Monday 10:00 - 12:00
Burak Kaynar Section 18:
Core Program Monday 13:00 – 15:00
Asst. Prof. Dr. Şehnaz Şişmanoğlu Şimşek Section 19:
Core Program Wednesday 10:00 – 12:00
Selver Sezen Kutup Section 20:
Core Program Wednesday 13:00 – 15:00
Burak Kaynar Section 21:
Core Program Monday 10:00 – 12:00
Burak Kaynar Section 22:
Core Program Monday 13:00 – 15:00
Asst. Prof. Dr. Şehnaz Şişmanoğlu Şimşek Section 23:
Core Program Wednesday 10:00 – 12:00
Selver Sezen Kutup Section 24:
Core Program Wednesday 13:00 – 15:00
Aylin Yurdacan Section 25:
School of Foreign Languages Monday 10:00 – 12:00
Nazlı Karaca Section 26:
School of Foreign Languages Monday 13:00 – 15:00
Nazlı Karaca Section 27:
School of Foreign Languages Wednesday 10:00 – 12:00
KHAS120 Civic Responsibility Course Objectives: Deniz Halman Tomaka Section 1:
Compulsory for all Project for This course introduces students to the concept of social Core Program Wednesday 13:00 – 15:00
departments / International International responsibility with theoretical knowledge and universal values. It Aylin Yurdacan Section 2:
Students Students aims to transform this information into active citizenship skills School of Foreign Languages Monday 10:00 – 12:00
through civic engagement activities.
Course Content: Deniz Halman Tomaka Section 3:
This course introduces civic engagement and active citizenship Core Program Monday 13:00 – 15:00
concepts within the framework of social responsibility. The course
presents basic knowledge and understanding in the field of social Section 4:
responsibility theoretically. Additionally, the course also allows the Wednesday 10:00 – 12:00
students to design and implement a project to develop their skills of
realizing problems of the society they live in and developing solutions Section 5:
for these problems.
Wednesday 13:00 – 15:00

TLL102 Critical Reading Course Objectives: Şenay Çınar Section 1:

Compulsory for all and Writing in Core Program Monday 16:30 – 18:30

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 departments Turkish II The course aims to define the elements of fiction (novel Dr. Yüce Aydoğan Section 2:
(Theatre students will and short story) such as character, plot, point of view, Core Program Monday 16:30 – 18:30
take this course in their description, time, space etc. and to interpret and criticize Dr. Ayşegül Pomakoğlu Section 3:
second year) Turkish novels and short stories in an analytical way. Core Program Monday 16:30 – 18:30
Additionally, the course enable students to write critical Selver Sezen Kutup Section 4:
articles on fiction using secondary sources and to develop Core Program Monday 16:30 – 18:30
their skills on storytelling/depiction/editing with short Bilge Ulusman Section 5:
creative writing studies. The course also aims to explore Core Program Monday 16:30 – 18:30
the various relationships of novel and short story with Şenay Çınar Section 6:
different genres through concepts such as intertextuality, Core Program Tuesday 16:30 – 18:30
adaptation and rewriting. Dr. Yüce Aydoğan Section 7:
Core Program Tuesday 16:30 – 18:30
Course Content: Başak Deniz Özdoğan Section 8:
The content of the course is based on the genres, novel and Core Program Tuesday 16:30 – 18:30
short stories. Focusing on the concept of "fiction" through Dr. Ayşegül Pomakoğlu Section 9:
novels and short stories in modern Turkish literature, Core Program Tuesday 16:30 – 18:30
students will be able to interpret and criticize novels and Bilge Ulusman Section 10:
stories in an analytical way and produce their own critical Core Program Tuesday 16:30 – 18:30
points of view. In addition, the relationship between novels Şenay Çınar Section 11:
and short stories with other texts and genres is discussed Core Program Wednesday 16:30 – 18:30
through concepts such as intertextuality, adaptation and Bilge Ulusman Section 12:
rewriting. Besides, in-class activities are designed in order to Core Program Wednesday 16:30 – 18:30
encourage the creative writing skills of students. Başak Deniz Özdoğan Section 13:
Core Program Wednesday 16:30 – 18:30
Dr. Ayşegül Pomakoğlu Section 14:
Core Program Wednesday 16:30 – 18:30
Selver Sezen Kutup Section 15:
Core Program Wednesday 16:30 – 18:30
Asst. Prof. Dr. Şehnaz Şişmanoğlu Şimşek Section 16:
Core Program Wednesday 16:30 – 18:30
Şenay Çınar Section 17:
Core Program Thursday 16:30 – 18:30
Dr. Yüce Aydoğan Section 18:
Core Program Thursday 16:30 – 18:30
Başak Deniz Özdoğan Section 19:
Core Program Thursday 16:30 – 18:30
Dr. Ayşegül Pomakoğlu Section 20:
Core Program Thursday 16:30 – 18:30
Bilge Ulusman Section 21:
Core Program Thursday 16:30 – 18:30

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 Dr. Doruk Tatar Section 22:
Core Program Thursday 16:30 – 18:30
Şenay Çınar Section 23:
Core Program Friday 16:30 – 18:30
Bilge Ulusman Section 24:
Core Program Friday 16:30 – 18:30
Dr. Ayşegül Pomakoğlu Section 25:
Core Program Friday 16:30 – 18:30
Selver Sezen Kutup Section 26:
Core Program Friday 16:30 – 18:30
Dr. Doruk Tatar Section 27:
Core Program Friday 16:30 – 18:30
TLL104 Introduction to Course Objectives: Dr. Nuran Buket Cengiz Section 1:
Compulsory for all Culture and Society This course has two main objectives: To help students Core Program Monday 16:30 – 18:30
departments / International in Turkey II understand the dynamics of social and cultural life in Section 2:
Students Turkey, to introduce students to Turkey's prominent and Tuesday 16:30 – 18:30
internationally acclaimed cultural and artistic works and Section 3:
artists, and to help them improve their Turkish language Wednesday 16:30 – 18:30
skills through the use of Turkish materials.
Esra Kurtuluş Section 4:
School Of Foreign Languages Thursday 16:30 – 18:30
Course Content:
Section 5:
• Urban transformation and urban segregation in Friday 16:30 – 18:30
Istanbul
• Yaşar Kemal
• Sait Faik
• Orhan Pamuk
• Ara Güler
• Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Popular Culture and Neo-Ottomanism
• Turkey-EU Relations
• Music in Turkey: Eurovision
• Turkey’s Geography
• Ecological Issues
• Gender and Society

ELECTIVE COURSES

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Instructor Name /
Course Code - Section Course Name Course Description Day-Time
Department
Course Objectives:
Understanding the difference between taste and flavour means enjoying
the food you eat every day at a new and deeper level. While analysing the
very well-known recipes from all over the world like eggs Benedict, osso Asst. Prof. Dr. Ebru Bilget Güven Tuesday
KHAS 1004 - S01 Chemistry On A Plate buco, ceviche, or içli köfte, we will actually be working on various culinary Department of Molecular 09:00 – 12:00
reactions such as caramelization, nixtamalization, pasteurization, Maillard Biology and Genetics
reactions, redox reactions, etc. Students will soon see that the chemistry
textbook was a part of their daily lives all along, even on something as Dr.Çimen Özgüç Önal
ubiquitous as their plate. The aim of this course is to teach how to benefit Core Program
from basic science to improve our way of living.

Course Content:
• Matter, Measurement, and Energy
• Water and its Properties
• Atoms, Elements, Molecules, Compounds, Mixtures, Solutions,
and Ions
• Proteins, Carbohydrates, and Nucleic Acids
• Nomenclature
• Fundamentals of Chemical Bonding
• Chemical Reactions and their Rates
• Acids, Bases, and Salts
• Fats and Oils
• Emulsions and Foams
• Enzymes
• Phenolic Compounds
• Taste and Flavour
Course Objectives:
At the end of the class, students will be able to Dr. Hüseyin Sungur Wednesday
KHAS 1006 – S01 Ethics of Artificial (1) demonstrate familiarity with contemporary challenges in ethics of Kuyumcuoğlu 15:00 – 18:00
Intelligence artificial intelligence, Core Program
(2) differentiate and assess ethical positions on the problems discussed,
(3) show ability to write short essays on the topic, and
(4) express arguments clearly and concisely. During the learning process,
students will
(5) take individual responsibility for and work collaboratively with

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 fellow students towards the completion of group assignments.

Course Content:
This course is an introduction to ethics of current and future artificial
intelligence technologies. Some topics that we will cover are existential
threat that AI is thought to create for humanity, autonomy of AI systems,
algorithmic bias, autonomous weapons, self-driving cars, and moral agency
of AI systems.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to develop an understanding of the notion of science, to
introduce various arguments on the scientific method in the context of
philosophy of science and to make students able to analyze scientific
developments by means of these notions and arguments. The course also
aims to develop student’s abilities in understanding scientific texts, searching
literature, applying abstract notion to concrete situations, developing
arguments and giving oral presentations. The ultimate intention of the
KHAS 1010 – S01 Introduction To course is that students become aware of the relation between science and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özkan Thursday
Philosophy of Science philosophy and that they develop a critical approach in their fields of study. Karabacak 09:00 – 12:00
Department of Mechatronics
Course Content: Engineering
The course covers the definition of the scientific knowledge (with
comparison to metaphysical, religious and philosophical knowledge),
fundamental concepts in the philosophy of knowledge and science
(experiment, observation, logic, induction, deduction, rationalism and
empricism) and the discussions on scientific methods (verification theory,
falsification theory, Lakatos’ research programmes, Kuhn’s paradigms).
During the course, students are required to perform case studies by choosing
and analysing a particular scientific development among various disciplines
(astronomy, chemistry, physics, geology, psychology, genetics, evolutionary
biology, sociology).
KHAS 1012 – S01 Polymers in Daily Life: Course Objectives: Dr. Çimen Özgüç Önal Wednesday
The Mystery within This course aims to provide the students with knowledge about the natural Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
Household Items and man-made polymers that are part of our daily lives. Within this context,
students will:
1) Become familiar with the polymeric materials that reside in everyday
objects and commonly useditems.
2) Examine different classes of polymers according to their
origins, properties, areas of usage and production
techniques.
3) Investigate the significant properties of polymers that enable them to be

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 utilized for specific purposes.
4) Acquire perspective and awareness on how polymers affect
our lives and how they will continue to influence our future.

Course Content:
Within the content of this course, different polymer types will be examined,
including naturally obtained polymers such as wool, silk, cellulose versus
synthetic polymers obtained by chemical reactions. Materials and items that
are widely known and used, such as non-stick “Teflon” pan, “foam” coffee
cup, “PET” bottle, “PVC” coating, car tires and plastics will be investigated.
The utilization of fibers spun from various polymeric materials in bullet-proof
or fire-retardant gear as well as in common clothing fabrics will be analyzed.
Apart from these subjects, the effect of plastics on waste accumulation and
environmental pollution, alongside the importance recycling and
biodegradable materials will be discussed.
KHAS 1014 – S01 The Path to the Nobel Course Objectives: Dr. Zeynep Sabahat Yunt Thursday
Prize: The Category of In this course, we will try to understand the research aims of scientists and Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
Physiology and the reasons why their studies were awarded with the Nobel Prize
Medicine specifically in the category of Physiology or Medicine. Additionally, we will
discuss the current impacts and usage areas of the previous Nobel prize-
winning studies. From this, we will predict the possible usage areas of the
recently awarded Nobel prize subjects in the future. The main aim of this
course is to comprehend the importance of the Nobel Prizes given in the
Physiology and Medicine category, to understand the path to the Nobel
Prize, and to be able to realize how to work creatively in the light of the
Nobel Prize-winning subjects.

Course Content:
• Biological Macromolecules
• Fundamentals of Biological Mechanisms
• Vitamins, Proteins and Hormones
• Viruses and Bacteria
• Immune System
• Organs and Organ Systems
• Receptors and Signal Transduction
• Sensory System
• Nervous System
• Apoptosis and Autophagy
• Circadian Rhythm

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 • Technological Advancements (X-ray, NMR, ECG..)

KHAS 1018 – S01 The World of Elements Course Objectives: Dr. Çimen Özgüç Önal Monday
The objective of this course is to introduce the concept of elements, the Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
substances that exist in everything around us not just as basic chemicals
but as the building blocks of our world. Through this course, students will:

1) Get acquainted with the elements that are present in all our
belongings, our food, our bodies, even in the air we breathe,
2) Gather knowledge regarding the properties of elements and
how they constitute the Periodic Table of Elements,
3) Learn about the characteristics of these substances and
investigate their various areas of use, 4)Gain awareness of the
significance of elements in our lives.

Course Content:
In the scope of this course, we will examine the unique and intriguing
properties of elements which, although rarely found alone in pure form in
nature, by combining with other elements constitute all the compounds
that surround us. Along with answering questions such as “What is the
property of gold that makes it so special? Are there metals in liquid state in
nature? Where does iron, the element that an age of mankind was named
after, reside in our bodies? How was phosphorus called as light bearer? What
does the halogen lamp contain?”; the presence of elements all around us
and their various areas of use will be investigated. The Periodic Table of
Elements will be examined with a new perspective; taking into account how
these substances, which could be familiar or only known by name, are
intertwined into our lives.

ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY, THE CITY

Instructor Name /
Course Code - Section Course Name Course Description Day-Time
Department
Course Content:
This course serves as an introduction to ethical issues regardingour
Dr. Hüseyin Sungur
environment, i.e. the natural world and the non-human entitiesin it. Thursday
KHAS 1200 - S01 Environmental Ethics Kuyumcuoğlu
Questions asked and discussed will include, but are not limitedto: What role 15:00 – 18:00
Core Program
does the environment play in human well-being? Howshould we go about
making environmental policy decisions? Howshould animal suffering affect

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 the way we treat non-humananimals? What obligations, if any, do we have
toward non-humananimals, plants and/or eco-systems? Students are
expected to havea comprehensive ethical understanding of environmental
issuesthrough these questions.

Course Objectives:
Students will:
●Analyze complex texts on environmental issues.
●Theorize and debate on the environmental issues usingreasoned
arguments.
●Assess other opinions and arguments on these issues, andgive well-
reasoned feedback.
●Develop and define a consistent system of ideas on ethicalissues regarding
the environment.
Course Objectives:
The goals of the course are 1) to expose students to sociological
perspectives on the place of animals in human society and on the
relationship between animals and humans, and 2) to expose students to
social science research which investigates the relationship between
humans and animals from the perspective of violence, capital formation,
and understandings of justice, and 3) to expose students to qualitative
sociological research methods.

Course Content:
This course explores what animals can teach about politics, particularly in
Animals and us:
relation to violence, capital accumulation, and formation of the relations Dr. Mine Yıldırım Monday
KHAS 1206 – S01 Violence, Capital,
of justice. We will look through various affective entanglements of Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
Justice
intimacy and dominance, care and violence,, detachment and control
between humans and animals. We will examine entwined histories of
modernity, capital accumulation, knowledge/power, urbanization, the
making of law, class, property relations in the cities across the
developed/the developing world, the West/non-west, the global
north/south. The course is an introduction to the rapidly growing field of
animal studies. It offers a focus on the main concepts of animal rights and
liberation politics, forth by climate catastrophe: Animality, sentience,
dominance, domestication, trans/ carcerality, Anthropocene,
post/transhumanism, speciesism, biopolitics, necropolitics, anthrozoology,
mass extinction, wildlife and zoonotic diseases.

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 Course Objectives:
KHAS1208 aims to equip students with an awareness of sustainable
living and eating leading to better health for people and the planet.
Food is the most basic thing. Everybody needs to eat, and it's easy to
calculate how much we need. We can measure it, and we can
measure health from it.

At its heart, this course, based on the groundbreaking 50+ year old book
by Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet, holds that universal
access to a healthy and sustainable diet provides a global springboard to a
better environment, functional democracies, stronger economies, and
increased social justice.
Diet for a Small Planet:
Course Content: David Reed Albachten Tuesday
KHAS 1208 – S01 Eating as if the World
The book Diet for a Small Planet, by Frances Moore Lappé, sparked the Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
Depended On It
beginnings of a food revolution when it was first published fifty+ years ago.
A revolution which has not only evolved from her starting point, but a
revolution that is becoming stronger due to additional constraints not
even considered when Ms.
Lappé first published her book, such as the climate crisis, chaotic migration,
and the rise of political and societal divisions.

Resources: Extracts from: Diet for a Small Planet (F. M. Lappé, 1971 (2021)),
and contemporary books, which influenced Diet for a Small Planet, at the
time: Silent Spring (R. Carson, 1962), The Population Bomb (P. Ehrlich, 1968),
and more contemporary resources: An Inconvenient Truth (A. Gore, 2006,
documentary), The Omnivore's Dilemma (M. Pollan, 2006), plus additional
contemporaryresources.
Course Objectives:
The course will teach students to look into the city as an ecological
formation. It will redefine the ecological problems of the city as political
problems and will explore the political, economic, and social factors that
Re-naturing The City: shape these problems. The course will particularly focus on gender, race,
Looking at The City and class as significant determinants that change the experience of the Dr. Özlem Aslan Thursday
KHAS 1216 – S01
From The Lens of ecological challenges in the city. Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
Political Ecology
Course Content:
This course analyzes the city from the perspective of political ecology.
Political ecology is an interdisciplinary framework to understand and
question the political, economic, and social factors that lead to ecological

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 degradation and transformation. Political ecology literature redefines
ecological problems as political problems. This course addresses some of the
foundational concepts and key themes of political ecology research
pertaining to land, property, agriculture, urban space, climate change,
extractive industries, and conservation. It also looks into the ways gender
and race-based inequalities relate to the drivers and consequences of
ecological change and explores the key contemporary debates over social
and ecological change.
Course Objectives:
The course will focus on relations between the sensory experience and the
urban experience, exploring a range of issues such as environmental
destruction, consumption, urban governance, identity, temporality, mobility,
and human and non-human relations. The course involves readings across
genres and disciplines (literary texts, travel writings, texts on visual arts and
architecture, and recipe books besides academic texts on senses and cities).
Throughout the semester, we will have trips to some neighbourhoods and
The Sensory City: Sights,
sites in Istanbul. The students are also expected to design and execute a Dr. Müge Özbek Wednesday
KHAS 1218 – S01 Smells, Sounds, and
research project about Istanbul as a laboratory to examine the relationship Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
Touch of Istanbul
between the senses and notions of identity, difference, intimacy, and affect.

Course Content:
The course focuses on relations between the sensory experience and the
urban experience, exploring as it does, a wide range of issues such as
environmental destruction, consumption, inequalities and claims on space,
cross-class encounters, resistance, memory, belonging/exclusion, and human
and non-human relations within Istanbul.
Course Objectives:

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the fundamental elements of food production, including
water, soils, nutrients, crops, and animals.
The Future of Food: • Analyze the carbon and water footprint of food production, Dr. Mine Yıldırım Wednesday
KHAS 1222 – S01 New Directions in ecological and climate impact of industrial farming, and examine
Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
Research and Advocacy the relations between land use,biological, energy and water
resources and climatic conditions in relation to food production
systems.
• Focus on the impact of agriculture on water, soil, biodiversity, and
climate. Critical discuss novel farming methods, such as urban
agriculture, hydroponics, and GMO’s.

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 • Discuss the health impacts of agrochemicals on human and other-
than-human bodies, including pesticides/ herbicides, and
fertilizers; and explore the relations between industrial
agriculture, zoonotic diseases, antibiotic resistances,
epidemics/pandemics.
• Understand the impact of politics, and the other industries on the
food industry;
• Evaluate scenarios for the future of food, considering resilience in
the context of climate change, human population growth, and
socioeconomic, cultural and policy factors.
• Develop sustainable solutions to agriculture, and consider
approaches tackling climate crisis, ecological degradation and
issues concerning the burgeoning global population.

Course Content:
This is an an introductory-level course that highlights the major challanges
facing food production today and in the future. We will cover the issues of
sustainability for agriculture, carbon footprint and ecological impacts of
industrial farming, concentrated animal feding operations, fishing, hunting,
meat, egg and dairy production, genetically modified organisms-based food
systems, and their implications on biodiversity, life in water, food safety and
human health. Topics covered will also include the poitical economy of food
production, circulation and consumption; as well as the ethics, politics and
technologies of lab-grown meat, plant-based nutrition, cellular agriculture
and other alternative ways of feeding increasing human population without
destroying other-than-human lives any further.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to familiarize students from different backgrounds with the
concept of energy poverty and to provide them with the basic knowledge to
hone their thinking skills. While providing the knowledge, the course also
aims to introduce several experts in the relevant field to students through
Understanding Energy seminar organizations. Prof. Dr. Meltem Ucal Friday
KHAS 1224 – S01 Poverty: How to Tackle
Department of Economics 12:00 – 15:00
It in the World Course Content:
• Introduction to the Energy/Fuel Poverty Concept: Discussing
Several Definitions in the World
• Understanding Energy/Fuel Poverty Definitions in the Context of Its
Measurement Methods

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 • A Relatively New Measurement Method of Energy Poverty:
Multidimensional Energy Poverty Indices
• Factors Influencing Energy/Fuel Poverty
• Negative Consequences of Energy/Fuel Poverty
• Introduction to Recent Concepts in The Literature: Energy Justice
and Energy Inequality
• Discussing Welfare, Housing and Energy Policies to Fight Against
Energy Poverty
• Tackling the Problem of Energy Poverty in Turkey and the Other
Countries in the World
Course Content:
This course will examine the feminist approaches to environmental crisis. It
will explore the ways gender affects our understanding of and interactions
with nature. It will cover the core questions and debates that feminist critique
brings to the environmental agenda and analyze the alternative visions that Dr. Özlem Aslan Wednesday
KHAS 1226 – S01 Ecological Feminisms
feminist perspectives create in response to the ecological crisis. The course Core Program 15:00 – 18:00
will look at concrete environmental struggles around to globe to map out the
connections between gender, feminism, and the environment. It will cover an
array of issues varying from climate change to medicine and disease,
population, migration, disasters, and conflicts.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to achieve two goals: (1) help students learn how to live in a
more sustainable world as a responsible citizen and, perhaps more
importantly, (2) teach them how to identify and act on opportunities to be the
next generation of energy leaders in their future careers.

Course Content:
Prof. Dr. Şevket Volkan Ediger,
Sustainability is the new buzzword for the 21st century, and for good reason:
Dr. John V. Bowlus
the major actors across the global community now agree that the transition to
Energy and Department of Energy Systems Wednesday
KHAS 1228 – S01 a sustainable world is inevitable. Fighting climate change is the most essential
Sustainability Engineering 15:00 – 18:00
element of achieving sustainability, and it is impossible to sustain the earth’s
natural resources without harnessing green energy. National governments
have signed several international agreements that seek to foster a sustainable
future, from the Millennium Development Goals of 2000 to the UN Sustainable
Development Goals and the Paris Climate Accords of 2015. The targets of
these initiatives were first put into action through the European Green Deal in
2020. Although contrasting ideas exist about the future of “sustainable energy
for all,” the world is progressing towards these goals, with encouraging signs
that energy is becoming more sustainable and widely available.

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HISTORY, CULTURE, SOCIETY
Instructor Name /
Course Code - Section Course Name Course Description Day-Time
Department
Course Objectives:
This course aims to familiarize students with the basic themes and
questions in feminist historiography at introductory level. Drawing on a
range of sources (including archival, visual, and fictional ones) and case
studies, students will gain a deeper understanding of gender history and
the major themes and questions within the field. Students will also acquire
the necessary intellectual tools to develop historical perspective and critical
thinking.

Course Content: Dr. Zeynep Kutluata Tuesday

KHAS 1300 - S01 Gender and History
This course focuses on the main issues in gender history and feminist Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
historiography with particular attention to inequalities and power relations
in history writing. The course will reflect on the following questions: Why is
gender a useful analytical category for history writing? How is the process
of writing "history" gendered? What are the theoretical and
methodological approaches introduced by feminist historiography? The
course will discuss these questions emphasizing the relationship between
histories and theories of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Throughout the
course, we will examine the challenges that emerge from utilizing gender
as an analytical category in history writing.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to
1) introduce key concepts and debates around the relationship between
gender and the life course,
2) expand knowledge and awareness about gendered experiences,
norms, and representations, and
Gender and the Life 3) offer life course as a useful analytical framework to critically Dr. Nurseli Yeşim Sünbüloğlu Monday
KHAS 1302 – S01
Course understand people’s lives from birth to death. Core Program 12:00 – 15:00

Course Content:
This course aims to provide an understanding of gender, the life course,
and the relationship between the two. It explores how experiences and
representations of the life course vary according to gender. It begins with
an overview of the life course, what is understood as the major events and

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 phenomena over individuals’ lifetime, and how social theories of gender
and gender identity may provide important tools in understanding these
complex processes. The course then examines a series of concrete areas in
which different gender groups are affected by culture, demography,
economic and political stratifications as well as biological and psychological
processes. Gendered experiences over life course will be explored through
various areas, including childhood and education, experiences of the body,
sports, reproduction, paid work, ageing, and dying.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to discuss issues in Turkish history and society through
the perspective of movies. The goal is to familiarize the students with
several central themes such as modernization, secularism, westernization,
and migration through visual popular culture materials. Thanks to this, the
students will not only learn about major codes of Turkish political culture
subjects but will also see how different Turkish directors and scriptwriters
utilized these codes in both arthouse and commercial films. In fact, even
though there are many differences between these films in terms of style
History, Politics and and production, there is a critical thematic connection “characterized by an Dr. Güldeniz Kıbrıs Tuesday
KHAS 1304 - S01 Culture of Turkey through obsession with the tropes of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’” (Suner, 2004: 307). Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
Cinema This point, as it will be shown in the films, may have emerged as a
response to anxiety around ethnic/national/class-based/gender-based
identities and the Turkish modernization’s way of dealing with a multitude
of voices.

Course Content:
The course explores politics, history and culture of Turkey by relying on
specific themes about nationalism, internal and external migration, the
formation of social classes, gender, political Islam and globalization.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to
1) introduce key concepts and debates in the Critical Disability Studies,
2) develop a critical understanding of ability as the core of human
essence and social life, and
Disability: Questioning the 3) develop awareness about how social norms are (re)produced Dr. Nurseli Yeşim Sünbüloğlu Friday
KHAS 1312 – S01
Human Essence in various social, cultural, political,and economic realms as well as Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
how they generate stigmatisation.

Course Content:
This course aims to introduce a critical approach to some of the deep-
seated assumptions around physical and mental abilities as the basis of

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 human essence and social life. It focuses on disability as an analytical
category to question what is considered normal in society. This course
addresses disability as a wide spectrum, including physical, cognitive, and
intellectual disabilities as well as chronic illness and pain and looks at how
social norms operate to stigmatise certain bodies, minds, and groups of
people. Topics to be dealt with include history of disability, its cultural
representation, understandings of disability in the Global South, activism,
citizenship, and gendered experiences of disability.
Course Objectives:
This course is aimed at challenging the widespread image of the Dark Ages,
during which the cultural and scientific achievements of the classical
period (of ancient Greece and Rome) disappeared for a period of around
1,000 years, before they were “re-born” during the renaissance.

This course will suggest a different view of the middle ages, in which
classical knowledge and cultural achievements not only continued to be
present, but further developed and progressed. In addition, it will present
new developments in science and technology (printing press and
mechanical clock); new developments in geography and cartography and
Don’t Be Afraid of The Dr. Dan Goldenberg Friday
KHAS 1314 – S01 discuss the encounters between Latin Europe and other cultures and its
Dark (Ages) Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
influence in art, architecture, and written culture.

Course Content:
This course will present a new approach to some questions related to the
middle ages, in order to change
the popular image of the “Dark Ages”. Among the issues which will be
discussed during the course, one can find the following questions: What
are the Middle Ages; Did the Roman Empire fall; did medieval people
believe that the world is flat; was there a technological revolution in the
middle ages; did Marco Polo go to China? And, when did the Middle Ages
end?
Course Objectives:
The course aims to introduce students to the debates over memory,
space, and identity. Each module is designed around a specific concept
Memory, Space and and theme that is introduced through multiple case studies involving
Asst. Prof. Dr. Doğu Durgun Friday
KHAS 1318 – S01 Identity in Contemporary different groups, periods, and geographies in contemporary Turkey. Each
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Turkey module poses the same set of questions: How does individuals and
groups’ relation to the past shape their identities, claims and discourses?
How are sites of memory involved in the making and remaking of these
identities, as well as their claims to rights and justice? In which ways are

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 different constructions of the past is contested, negotiated, and
reconciled? What is the scope for the exercise of individual and collective
agency in shaping the present? The course aims to encourage students to
critically engage with the history of modern Turkey, to acknowledge
different perspectives on the past, and to develop their own voice in
shaping the present.

Course Content:
Memory has been central to the question of identity and difference in
contemporary Turkey. Individuals, groups, and communities remember
events, periods, figures, and places differently, negotiate how we
remember the past, and reshape the present. The course questions
different ways in which memory shapes social, cultural, and political
issues pertaining to national, religious, ethnic, class, gender, and sexual
identities, with a specific focus on sites of memory. We will explore
controversies over memory, space, and identity through an analysis of
monuments, memorials, museums, heritage sites, objects, and symbols.
In
doing so, we will discuss how state, social movements, citizen initiatives,
local communities, and minorities shape, reshape and transform their
identities and put forth their claims to rights and justice. The course aims
to develop an analytical and critical perspective on the current debates
over national identity and belonging in contemporary Turkey.
Course Objectives:
The main purpose of this course is to give an overview of the lives of the
non-Muslim minorities in Istanbul, and to think specifically about their
place in Istanbul culture. In addition, raising awareness about the
problems that the community has faced throughout history is also among
the objectives of this course. In order to make non-Muslim minorities
more visible for various reasons, their traditions, customs and lifestyles
will be introduced in general terms. The ultimate goal here is to
Non-Muslim minorities in Tuğrul Özkaracalar, Ahmet Ergenç Monday
KHAS 1320 – S01 strengthen the 'culture of living together' in Istanbul, one of the world's
Istanbul Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
richest cities in terms of history and culture.

Course Content:
Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Levantines and other non-Muslim minorities who
have been living in Istanbul for hundreds of years have influenced
Istanbul's culture in various ways. So much so that we are sometimes
unaware of this influence of non-Muslim minorities at the root of many
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 non-Muslim minorities not only in terms of their cultural contributions, but
also in terms of their lives in today's Istanbul. The traditions of these
communities, their social existence and the problems they face will be
discussed during the semester. Our course will also focus on the 'culture of
living together'.
Course Objectives:
This course has two main objectives: To examine the history of soccer,
the most popular sport of our time, and to look at football in the light of
various disciplines. It can be said that soccer is one of the most important
means to understand our age. Because, indeed, soccer is met with great
interest and love almost all over the world. More importantly, the
reasons for this interest and love can differ significantly from person to
person and from society to society. In our lesson, we will try to think
about soccer and its history through these differences. Tuğrul Özkaracalar
Core Program
Thursday
KHAS 1324 - S01 History of Soccer Course Content:
15:00 – 18:00
The most popular sport today is soccer. Soccer, which was invented in Nazlı Karaca
England in the 19th century, is a sport that is widely known, loved and School of Foreign Languages
increasingly industrialized all over the world since the second half of the
20th century. Soccer is indeed, as the saying goes, "never just soccer". In
this course, we will primarily focus on the history of this sport from its
invention to the present day. At the same time, we will refer to readings on
soccer from various fields, especially economics, politics and even
philosophy. Also, in the last few weeks of the semester, we will touch on
the birth of soccer in Turkey and the dynamics of its evolution up to
present in our country.
Course Objective:
This course intends to introduce students to the wide variety of approaches
to the history of global capitalism. Throughout the course, we will engage
with approaches including Marxist examinations of capital in relationship to
labor, approaches that study capital in relation to ecology, mobility, and
ideas, as well as from feminist critiques of capitalism and anti- and post-
Global History of colonial readings of history of capitalism. Through readings, including Dr. Önder Eren Akgül Thursday
KHAS 1328 – S01
Capitalism academic articles, primary sources, excerpts from fictional narratives and Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
life writings, and viewings of films, videos, and documentaries, we will trace
the arc of history of capital across the planet. From early networks of
merchant capital in the Indian Ocean World to early sugar plantations and
finance in the Mediterranean, from silver mines and slave plantations in the
Americas to join-stock companies and merchant vessels plying the Atlantic
and Indian Oceans, from the factories and mills of industrial Europe to the

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 peasant farms in Asia, Middle East, and Africa, from the nineteenth century
era of British imperialist dominance to the twenty-first century
neoliberalism, students will leave the course well-versed in the history of the
social, economic, and ecological crises that mark the world we live in.

Course Content:
This course examines the history of capitalism, focusing on how capital has
operated in different geographic and ecological contexts from the 14th
century to the present. In the course, we will explore questions raised in the
historical examination of capital “in motion”, tracing how investable wealth
moves across the planet, transforming places into property, things into
commodities, people into labor, natures into productive spaces. The course
also relates the global economy to the everyday lives and labor of a variety
of economic communities across the globe: including traders, bankers,
creditors, plantation owners, industrialists, peasants, workers, enslaved
people, pirates, and smugglers. It analyzes the fundamental processes and
contingencies that the global expansion of capitalism relied upon and
reinforced, including—but not limited to—debt and indebtedness, colonial
hierarchies, dispossession, ecological crisis, and gendered social
reproduction and care.
Course Content:
In this course, the students will be introduced to the most important
elements of popular culture (fashion, film, music, tv, media technology) in
Oldies But Goldies:
Turkey defining the period 1980-2000. They will also learn about the most Dr. İpek Yeğinsü
Popular Culture in Turkey Friday
KHAS 1330 – S01 important political and historical events shaping this era, and to explore Department of Visual Communication
during the 80s, 90s and 15:00 – 18:00
the connections between social developments and their cultural Design
2000s
reflections. Evaluation will be based on individual and group research and
presentation as well as tracing objects in today’s world with references to
this period.
Course Objectives:
This course aims
• to introduce key concepts of and debates around popular culture
Popular Culture in • to address the impact of social, economic, and political
Dr. Doruk Tatar Thursday
KHAS 1332 – S01 Modern World: Genre, developments on popular culture and its products throughout
Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
Medium, Context modern history
• to provide students with a degree of “literacy” of world popular
culture by familiarizing them with not only the historical context
but also the recurring narratives, themes, tropes, images, etc.

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 across works of culture from various geographical and temporal
contexts

Course Content:
In 1938, a radio drama called “The War of the Worlds,” based on H. G.
Wells’s homonymous novel, created and performed by Orson Welles was
aired. Presented in “breaking news” format, the play narrated a fictional
alien invasion and created chaos on mass scale as it convinced many of its
listeners that the invasion was authentic. As an example of popular culture,
Wells’s radio drama had real-life repercussions for several reasons: the
play sounded like breaking-news, radio was at the time the main source of
news for Americans, and the American public had already been on edge
due to the pending war in Europe. The case of “The War of the Worlds”
showcases what this course tries to unpack.
As an area that been dismissed as “mere entertainment,” popular culture
provides invaluable insights into a given social, political, and economic
context. Accordingly, this course takes popular culture seriously and
engages with some conceptual questions in relation to popular culture:
What is culture? Is it possible to differentiate popular culture from other
types of culture? How can we define the relation of the “popular” with
capitalism and democracy? How does the “real life” speak through works
of popular culture and vice versa? How does the invention of new
technologies and mediums affect popular culture? In the context of these
questions, each week we focus on a different case study of varying
mediums and genres (e.g., books, print media, radio, film, television, etc.;
sci-fi, crime fiction, invasion-scare, melodrama, horror, etc.) with the
intention to unfold the complex set of relations among technology, society,
politics, economy, and culture.
Given the reciprocal relationship between popular culture and its context,
this course (1) will discuss the ways in which certain social, political,
economic, and technological developments have shaped popular culture;
(2) will read the modern history through the lens of popular culture. Each
week, our discussions will be centered around the cultural products that
were produced in the context of certain historical moments and periods
(e.g., industrialization and labor movements, imperialism, world wars,
global economic crises, etc.).
Because what we characterize as popular culture today emerged initially in
Europe and the USA, we will initially focus on cultural works within the
English-speaking countries. Moving into the 20th century, however, our
purview will expand to the non-English speaking and non-Western parts of
the world.

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 Course Objective
This course aims to familiarize students with the major political, social, and
economic developments of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth-
century Middle East at an introductory level. By using a wide range of
primary and secondary sources, it will focus on how the Middle Eastern
World was influenced by and responded to global developments like
political and military rivalry and conflict, the expansion of the capitalist
market, the rise of colonialism, and the spread of nationalism. The course is
designed to pay attention to the agencies of a variety of local actors
including notables, peasants, merchants, and nomads. At the end of the
State, Society, and semester, students will not only have basic knowledge about the modern
Dr. Yener Koç Thursday
KHAS 1334 – S01 Economy in the Middle history of the Middle East, but also will be able to place and evaluate current
Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
East (1800-1945) political, economic, and social events of the Middle East within a larger
historical perspective.

Course Content
This course will explore the history of the Middle East from the beginning of
the nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War. The course
will focus on some of the following themes: reforms in the Ottoman and
Qajar Empires and Egypt; integration of the Middle Eastern economies into
the world economy; the emergence of new social, political, and economic
classes; social movements and revolutions; WWI and Empire; mandates and
nationalism.
Course Content:
This course examines the transformation of the Ottoman political order
with a particular focus on the reforms from 1700 to 1922. It investigates
the major political and economic reforms in a period when European
pressure increasingly mounted over the empire. The purpose of this course
is two-fold: First is to show that the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire
was not inevitable; the Ottoman Empire proved quite adaptable in
Reform and Change in the transforming its political system in line with global changes between the
Dr. Burak Başaranlar Wednesday
KHAS 1338 – S01 Ottoman Empire (1700- 18th and 20th centuries. Second, the political change in the Ottoman
Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
1922) Empire did not merely stem from the “West.” While the Ottomans
increasingly interacted with countries and empires in Western Europe and
elsewhere, they did not simply “copy” and “paste” the Western political
systems into their reform movement. Instead, they developed their own
peculiar response to internal and external challenges that necessitated the
introduction of reforms. Major topics to be considered in this course
include Nizâm-ı Cedid reforms, the rise of nationalism in the Balkans, the
centralization attempts of the Tanzimat period, the rise of the

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 constitutional movement, the revival of Islamism in the era of Abdulhamid
II, and the emergence of Young Turks and the rise of Committee of Union
and Progress. At the end of this course, students will develop an
understanding of the Ottoman political change in relation to global
developments and identify the distinct characteristics of the Ottoman
reforms.
Course Content:
Many people tend to believe in things that are contrary to what science
teach us (e.g., the Earth is flat), or think that governments are trying to
The Truth Is Out There: hide the truth (conspiracy theories).
Dr. Dan Goldenberg Tuesday
KHAS 1340 – S01 Alternative History and This course will discuss some of these beliefs and theories and will try to
Core Program 15:00 – 18:00
Conspiracy show that this is not a modern phenomenon – it has its roots since ancient
times.
In addition, the course will examine the “evidence” of those beliefs and will
discuss them critically.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to develop skills on how to
- define and describe video games
- analyse its narrative and aesthetics
- develop a critical understanding to video games / cultures /
players
- analyse the discourse, politics of representation and ethical
issues in a videogame
- describe their experiences of video games

Course Content:
From Tetris to Massively Multiplayer Online Games, videogames, as both Dr. Özden Öncül Durğut Monday
KHAS 1342 – S01 Video Game Cultures culture and cultural artifact(s), can tell us a lot about our increasingly Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
networked world. The aim of this course is to build a critical understanding
for video games content, culture, and players by raising social,
psychological, and ethical questions. The program offers students
opportunities to explore their interests and experiences in dept with the
help of documentaries, discussions, and academic research. Through the
course, students will be assigned several game(s) to play and/or watch
their trailer, share their experiences / analysis during in-class discussions
and debate groups. Summary and reflection to weekly readings will pave
the way for them to question the matters academically by developing their
research question. The main project of the class is to prepare a Video
Game Reviews as a group/class, composed of presentations including
digital subjectivities they have experienced through games where each

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 student describes, analyses, and raises a critical question to discuss about
the game(s) and cultures.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to raise awareness of students on how to understand
society and urban space by using several different visual methods. To
practice observational skills and different ways of seeing will help them to
question and analyze society, thus develop their sociological imagination.
With the projects students prepare, the course aims to introduce and
practice a range of visual methodologies and frameworks of analytical
inquiry.

Course Content: Dr. Özden Öncül Durğut Wednesday

KHAS 1344 – S01 Visual Sociology
Visual Sociology course aims to develop necessary skills to understand and Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
use visual media for sociological research. Visual Sociology course offers
various means to visualize, interpret and represent dynamics of society and
social problems. By capturing images students are expected to analyze social
structures and relations and dynamics of urban space. The program focuses
on socio-cultural, political and ethical relations people build and uses visuals
as a key component to understand those relations. Students are required to
take photos, short documentaries and prepare individual presentations and
Visual Sociology Projects as a group, where they combine written and visual
work on the topics assigned or chosen
Course Content:
This course surveys the history of the world’s first socialist state, the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the larger framework of 20th
century’s global history. While it introduces students the history of the
Soviet Union from its foundation in 1917 to its disintegration in 1991, a
particular focus will be placed on the Cold War. The following questions
will be addressed throughout the semester: 1-) What conditions of 20th-
The Red Century: The
century Russia prepared the ground for the first socialist revolution? 2-)
Entangled Histories of
How did the Soviet Union influence the course of the Cold War, and was Dr. Burak Başaranlar Friday
KHAS 1346 – S01 Soviet Union,
influenced by it? 3-) Why did this once formidable empire disintegrate, and Core Program 15:00 – 18:00
Communism and Cold
was this outcome inevitable? The course will cover issues such as: the New
War
Economic Policy, the struggle for power within the Communist Party during
the 1920s, collectivization, World War II, the Soviet’s participation in the
Cold War, the impact of socialism on decolonization movements, and the
gradual decline of the Soviet Union’s economic model. At the end of this
course, students will develop an informed understanding of the Soviet
Union’s role in 20th- century global history. Students are NOT expected to
have prior knowledge of the Soviet Union’s history to take this course.

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 Course Content:
This course explores the paths of specific historical changes that led to the
formation and construction of Western identity as opposed and in relation
to its non-Western ‘others’ or counterparts. Mainly from the 15th century
onwards, the West represented itself as a distinct, unique, and triumphant
civilization and, at the same time, marked its difference from other
cultures, peoples, and civilizations. This course’s task is to investigate
under which circumstances this formation has been taking place.
Questions like: “What is Western identity? Who defines it? Who and what
does it include and not include? On what grounds?” will be answered
through the analysis of various primary sources produced during the
Dr. Güldeniz Kıbrıs Thursday
KHAS 1348 – S01 Identity, Power, Culture period between the 15th century and present times. The assumption in
Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
this course is that the meanings of ‘Western self’ and its ‘others’ are never
simply given, but they imply relations of power, domination, and exclusion.
In fact, at the turn of the 21st century, the definition of ‘Western identity’
has become the focal point for political and cultural contestation, on the
level of the European Union and its individual member states, over issues
ranging from global capitalism, national identity, immigration, citizenship,
racism, to the place of Islam within Europe. This course at the end hopes to
address a number of critical issues of modern times by revealing the
interconnections between politics, identity formation, culture, power, and
history in Europe while at the same time presenting a double exploration
of both ‘ideal’ and ‘real’ Europe.

ART, LITERATURE, MUSIC

Course Code - Instructor Name /
Course Name Course Description Day-Time
Section Department
Course Objectives:
The students are expected to:
1) Understand the changing meanings and functions of art and literature,
KHAS 1400 – S01 2) Develop skills in the interpretation of contemporary forms of art and
Compulsory for Art, Literature and literature, Turgay Bayındır Monday
Department of Controversy 3) Develop interdisciplinary perspectives to study how art and Core Program 15:00 – 18:00
Theatre literary works are connected topolitical, social, economic, and
technological contexts,
4) Improve critical thinking of selected material enabling them to discuss
and debate topics with confidence.

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 5) Improve reading, writing and presentation skills in English
6) Develop a willingness to seek academic integrity

Course Content:
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of the appreciation of
works of art and literature with a critical perspective. The course
introduces works of art and literature together with the social and political
contexts surrounding them and the controversies that they are engaged in.
It aims to help students gain critical thinking skills as well as equipping
them with the necessary tools to see, read, and analyse works of art and
literature. Moreover, the course encourages students to be more
perceptive to artistic expressions and creations they encounter in their
everyday surroundings in Istanbul.
Course Objectives:
1) Given a recording of a jazz performance, students will correctly
identify the style of the piece.
2) Given the name of a jazz artist, students will identify the artist's
major contribution to the development of jazz.
3) Given specific identifying characteristics, students will differentiate
between contrasting styles ofjazz.
4) Given the title of a specific trend in the history of jazz, Güç Başar Gülle Wednesday
KHAS 1402 - S01 History of Jazz
students will discuss its function in social and historical context. Core Program 09:00 – 12:00

Course Content:
This course provides a general survey of the history of jazz from its origins
to the present. This class will put emphasis on the stylistic and evolutionary
development of the music and the significant contributors to jazz styles.
Class time will be spent listening to, analyzing, and discussing a wide
variety of recorded jazz performances.
Course Objectives:
Study of feeling/emotion in modern and contemporary literary and cultural
texts has always been a topic of theoretical and critical attention, with a
growing number of conferences, fellowships, books, and journal articles
devoted to it. This course examines human feelings/emotions as a theory
Emotion in Contemporary Dr. Yüce Aydoğan Tuesday
KHAS 1404 - S01 for understanding the expression and formation of modern social identities
Literature and Culture Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
and contemporary cultural and political formations.
That the feelings/emotions do not only vary from culture to culture but
also have histories within cultures is our guiding supposition. By watching
films and reading novels, short stories, and essays by some prominent
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 between the emotions and modern and current socio-cultural formations.
We will ask whether it makes sense to understand our contemporary
world as a number of characteristic ways of feeling. Throughout the
course, we will consider a way to interpret human feelings as a theory for
critiquing culture, politics, and society.
The course is interdisciplinary in aim: we will consider literary and
philosophical texts as well a range of basic writings on feelings/emotion
in history, sociology, cognitive sciences, psychoanalysis, and cultural
studies. Students will have an opportunity to work on areas of their own
choosing. Also, this should be noted that this is not a psychology course,
it is mainly based on literary works and their interpretation with respect
to some culturally specific emotions.

Course Content:
The course encompasses three thematic units: Structures of feelings,
history of feelings (with a focus on the 20th and 21st centuries); Specific
feelings, emotions; Affective spaces.
The biggest part of the course will be dedicated to specific
feelings/emotions (and their cultural/literary/aesthetic representations)
that are thought to have contemporary cultural significance: pain (with a
focus on its bodily part); nostalgia and melancholy; happiness/bliss; anger
and resentment; desire/love; haptic/tactile etc. visual sentiments;
boredom/depression/indifference; anxiety and fear; intimacy and
distance; mass culture, mass feelings; the role of feelings within public life
and the cultural formations that create affective public spheres; politics of
affect; ordinary affects.
Because the study of emotion is interdisciplinary, the range of issues we
will explore could be varied and extensive at times. Don't be scared or
annoyed by this; be fearless and excited about it. Our primary purpose will
always be to invent ways of analysing, thinking about, talking about, and
writing about the connection between literature, culture and emotion.
Thus, class sessions should be more like a lab than a recitation; class
discussions should be opportunities to try out new ideas, figure things out,
and examine unexplored areas of feeling, thinking, and learning.
Course Objectives:
The curriculum is an introduction to the study of film and its formal and
Film: Experiencing, Seeing narrative elements. It takes an analytical/critical approach to the study of Anna Maria McMurray Wednesday
KHAS 1406 - S01
and Analyzing film, examining how film communicates through technique, convention, Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
form, and style, as well as what film communicates through the politics,
cultures, values, and beliefs it invokes. By the end of the course,

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 students should have acquired a basic understanding of film form,
theory, and ideology.

Course Content:
The course introduces students to a variety of film styles and genres, such
as classical, contemporary, independent, experimental, avant-garde, and
international cinema. It teaches students how to "read" a film through
formal elements such as cinematography, mise-en-scene, and editing.
Classes will incorporate film viewings, readings, discussion, presentation,
and lecture.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to introduce social, political, and cultural atlas and
history of Istanbul through the images of the city in music, film, and
literature. For this purpose, each week is designed as a musical, visual,
and literary journey to the main districts of the city (Üsküdar, Beyoğlu,
Haliç, Sultanahmet, Bosphorus, The Prince Islands, Kadıköy, and Northern
Forests). For each week, a brief historical introduction will be followed by
a student discussion session about the assigned music, film or reading
material. At the end of the course, students will not only gain the
significant historical knowledge about the city, but also they will be able
Exploring Istanbul Through to relate to the socio-cultural transformation of modern Turkey to Başak Deniz Özdoğan Wednesday
KHAS 1408 - S01
Music, Film and Literature Istanbul’s polyphonic and cosmopolitan life and history. Poetry, novel, Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
short story, classical Ottoman music, popular songs, Yeşilçam movies,
audio recordings, words, musical notes, and images create infinite spatial
entities of a city. Therefore, as the outcome of the course, students will
be asked to do a thematic city atlas which will include a literary,
audio/visual mapping, marking, and explaining of a specific district or
neighbourhood.

Course Content:
This course explores Istanbul, its daily life and history with a focus on
musical, visual, and literary images of the city.
Course Objectives:
Istanbul is a bad romance for too many. Life in it is difficult yet leaving it
behind is almost impossible. Located in the west of the east and east of the
Reading Istanbul: In the Dr. Nuran Buket Cengiz Tuesday
KHAS 1410 – S01 west, Istanbul has always been full of conflicts and possibilities. This is a
Footsteps of the Literary Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
city, conquest of which resulted in the start of a new epoch in history.
City
Having been the capital of two empires, namely the Byzantine and the
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 Istanbul constantly offers magnificent views and exciting encounters,
together with many sorts of hardships and problems to its residents.
Since the vast majority of the world population have started to reside in
cities, urban conflicts abound. In the case of Istanbul; the city’s integration
to the global city network, the European migration crisis, and a violent
urban transformation justified with the high risk of an earthquake are
added to the conflicts. Istanbul is a megacity which becomes more and
more difficult to survive in each passing second, yet somehow managing to
keep its charm as one of the most interesting and fascinating metropolises
of the world.
Unsurprisingly, such a city has always been the inspiration and setting for a
significant amount of literary output. In this course while we trace this
output we will enjoy high quality literature and gain knowledge about the
city. While reliving the urban experience, unfamiliar and familiar, through
the selected fictional texts, we will try to look at our city with a completely
fresh perspective.
All primary and secondary sources to be read here are in English, the
literary texts are translated from Turkish to English by reliable translators.
Hence, the course welcomes both foreign and native students to this
journey into the depths of the city through space and time.

Course Content:
Istanbul: globalisation, urban transformation, and gentrification
Istanbul in literary arts: novel, short-story, poetry
Setting in literary fiction: analysis of a narratological category
Nostalgic discourse on Istanbul
The gendered city
Course Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course the student should be able to:
1) Develop a basic skill for correctly reading rhythmic notation,
2) Identify and write key signatures, major scales and the three forms of
minor scales,
3) Identify and write major, minor, diminished and augmented chords, Güç Başar Gülle Monday
KHAS 1412 – S01 Basic Musicianship 4) Identify and write intervals, Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
5) Harmonize and analyse the chordal structure of simple melodies

Course Content:
The study of fundamentals in elementary theory of music, note reading,
rhythm, key signatures, major scales, letter names, bass clef and treble
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 Course Objectives:
In this course, the students are expected to:
- Gain a critical perspective of a historical event based on academic
discussions and analyzingfictional works,
- Develop a critical understanding of the notions of “identity”, “collective
memory” and “nostalgia”,
- Comprehend argumentative articles and interpret them in a critical way,
- Select and use relevant resources for academic research,
Identity, Collective Memory - Gain presentation skills in leading a discussion and presenting the final
and Nostalgia: The Greco- project, Asst. Prof. Dr. Şehnaz Şişmanoğlu
- Apply the rules of academic honesty in written and oral productions. Tuesday
KHAS 1414 – S01 Turkish Population Şimşek
15:00 – 18:00
Exchange (1923) in Core Program
Literature, Film and Music Course Content:
This course is an introduction to understand the 1923 Greek-Turkish
population exchange which constitutes a historical turning point in the
processes of nation-building both in Greece and in Turkey which directly
affected more than 2 million people, including approximately 1.5 million
Greek Orthodox Christians who lived in Ottoman lands and 400,000
Muslims who resided in former Ottoman provinces. This course aims to
explore various representations of this historic event through cultural
productions in literature, film and music making use of the concepts such
as identity, collective memory and nostalgia
Course Objectives:
Students completing this course will be able to:
• Understand key modernist notions and theories.
• Understand the ‘radical’ sociological, cultural and political
changes brought by modernist notions. Examine and
appreciate the modernist strategies in literature, visual
arts and cinema.
• Have a basic knowledge of modernist movements like
Modernism: Literature, Ahmet Ergenç Friday
KHAS 1416 – S01 Dadaism, Futurism, Expressionism and Surrealism that
Visual Arts and Cinema Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
changed the trajectory of 20th century.
• Discuss what it means to ‘modern’ today in 21th century in
various fields.
• Read, think and write critically.

Course Contents:
This course explores the effects of modernist notions and practices in
literature, visual arts, and cinema. At the beginning of the 20th century,

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 the modes of thinking underwent a radical change and this resulted in new
experimentations in various fields of literature and visual arts. To grasp this
‘radical change’ we will read key modernist thinkers (starting from Marx,
Nietzsche and Freud, reaching to Benjamin, Adorno and others) and
examine the radically new and ‘avant-garde’ movements like Dadaism,
Futurism, Expressionism, and Surrealism which changed the trajectory of
modern thought and practice. Writers like Baudelaire, Kafka, Beckett, and
Woolf, groundbreaking artists like Duchamp, Malevich and Picasso and,
filmmakers like Bunuel, Vertov and Godard will be among the ‘modernist’
practitioners examined to comprehend the full effect of modernism and
modernity in contemporary thought. In the end, students will be asked to
write comprehensive essays discussing modernism and what it means to
be 'modern' through movements, writers, artists, or filmmakers examined
throughout the course.
Course Content:
This course will teach participants the art of improvisation, through
implemented games and exercises to help students to react impulsively.
It’s a perfect method to enhance listening, awareness, flexibility, and
teamwork. All these games and exercises are simply a lot of fun, as
participants push themselves outside their usual patterns of behavior and
expression, creating scenes and situations that are often as unexpected as
they are enjoyable and entertaining. We will learn how to trust ourselves
and others, suspend censorship and judgment, take risks, and expand our
range of expression, overcome fears and blunder joyously, value our Jörg Alexander Menke Peitzmeyer Thursday
KHAS 1432 – S01 Improvisation Class
intuition and inspire our partners. Department of Theatre 12:00 – 15:00
The art of improvisation is not only a theatrical but even more an
educational and communal experience. Furthermore, it can be used in the
world of corporate development and training. Improv and theatre skills are
useful to all, from scientists who must explain their work, to entrepreneurs
who need to woo backers. The ability to be present in the moment,
receptive to and actively listening to others, and to react with honesty are
all skills actors learn as fundamental tools. These are all critical for success
in life.

Course Objective:
The course aims at enhancing students critical thinking, writing, and
speaking skills through a literary piece. By the end of the course students Aylin Yurdacan Tuesday
KHAS 1434 – S01 Literary Analysis
will be able to critically and literally analyse a dystopic novel, Animal Farm School of Foreign Languages 09:00 -12:00
by George Orwell. They will also elaborate on the relevant themes that
may shed light on our current lives. The course involves doing a

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 presentation and writing a literary analysis about the themes that come up
in the novel.

Course Content:
The course focuses on two main elements. The former is some literary
devices that can guide students to better understand the novel; namely,
use of metaphors, allusions, allegory, and conflict. The latter is the ability
to discuss the themes of the novel such as corruption of socialist ideas in
the Soviet Union, societal tendency to class stratification, the failure of
intellect and the abuse of language as instrumental to the abuse of power.
Course Objective:
In this course the students will analyze the urban space through movement
and bodily experience. They will reflect on the architectural dimensions of
the urban space and human body and on the way our bodies get in contact
with the spaces around us. The readings and other course materials
(videos, visuals, 3D maquettes etc.) will be on literature of urban
landscape, the anatomy of human body in motion and movement
Bodily Experience in Urban Banu Açıkdeniz Monday
KHAS 1438 – S01 experience in urban space, human gestures (including gait), ryhthm as a
Space Core Program 15:00 – 18:00
musical concept and its correspondance in daily life.

Course Content:
The course will be based on (1)observations of human behaviour in urban
space, (2) written and visual materials and (3) movement practices which
aims to comprehend and trigger comparisons and start discussions on the
subject.

DESIGN
Instructor Name /
Course Code - Section Course Name Course Description Day-Time
Department
Course Objectives:
Ayşe Aslı Suner Başal
Biomimicry is a practice that aims to learn from and be
Core Program
inspired by nature translating it to novel ways of problem-
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ebru Bilget Güven,
solving and innovative design. This modular course seeks to
Asst. Prof. Dr. Bengü Özuğur Uysal
guide students to make informed observations about nature Tuesday
KHAS 1422 - S01 Biomimicry Department of Molecular Biology and
to understand how nature operates and solves problems. The 15:00 – 18:00
Genetics
course focuses on the evolution of biomimicry through case
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eser Selen
studies and encourages students to be inspired by nature’s
Department of Visual Communication
design. We intend to provide a comprehensive perspective
Design
into diverse fields, where implementing biomimicry could lead

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 the way to new potentials. This course is designed to learn
about biomimicry and to promote cross- disciplinary
relationships among students from different departments for
potential future collaborations.

Course Content:
This course is planned to be transdisciplinary, and all the
lecturers and guests invited to talk are from different
disciplines and will introduce various aspects of biomimicry.
The course emphasizes nature- inspired designs, structures,
materials, mechanisms, processes, patterns, algorithms, and
attitudes.
Course Objectives:
This course focuses on three-dimensional thinking, practical
knowledge about clay and ceramic materials with designing
processes. Attendees will be able to generate numerous
geometric unique forms iteratively while working with
different manufacturing methods. This hands-on course
offers a tacit knowledge by exploring & experimenting with
various raw materials and manufacturing techniques.

Course Content:
In this course, which we will start with bare-handed forming Ahmet Sertaç Öztürk Thursday
KHAS 1424 – S01 Ceramics 101
exercises with various clays, small-scale mass production with Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
different moulding methods is aimed at the end of the
semester. First, we'll work on flat clay sheets, then on three-
dimensional free forms with ancient techniques for shaping.
There will be no use of a lathe. Among the products aimed to
produce will be: ceramic wall panel (group work), salt & pepper
shaker set, a product family in various sizes (bowl, plate etc.)
and abstract sculpture experiments. Students will make their
own tools for shaping. Since our ceramic workshop has not yet
been fully productive, we will fire the works made in the
ceramic kiln at the Rezan Has Museum Workshop.
Course Objectives:
This is not an engineering class, but a critical and playful
Ayşe Aslı Suner Başal, Ahmet Sertaç
Engineering of Wandering: investigation into the process of making as a way of discovery Friday
KHAS 1426 – S01 Öztürk
Making in Urban Context and design. It is also intended as an inquiry into the poetics of 15:00 – 18:00
Core Program
urban space, that is in some way engineered/designed. The
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 and performing through the exploration of creative ways in
engaging with the materials, with the environment, and with
the human & more than human citizens of the city. Working at
the scales ranging from domestic to urban at the threshold of
the boundaries of the private to public space, we aim at
designing dynamic interplay and expression tools as possible
alternatives to the existing interfaces, where our interactions
and partnerships could be redefined.

Course Content:
Methods of individual inquiry and material research will lead to
processes of design and discovery through making in the first
half of the course. In the second half group works will be
introduced and students will be encouraged to create
performative interfaces, which are expected to be unique to
their context as a result of radical observation and participatory
research made in specific parts of the city. Both through the
individual and the collective inquiry we like to embrace a
diversity of practices in noticing, experiencing, engaging and
experimenting with, and transforming these interfaces, using a
variety of domains in design ranging from making artifacts to
performing actions.

This class requires direct engagement in place and will involve

some excursions, yet considering the conditions imposed on us
by the pandemic, our methods will have the flexibility for
online participation, expanding on the making using digital
technologies. The whole process will be documented and
shared as open source.
Course Objectives:
The objectives of this course include
1) Enriching students’ familiarity with how
architecture reflects the cultural and political
Zehra Betül Atasoy
developments of the period and how those Monday
KHAS 1428 -S01 Photographing Architecture Department of Interior Architecture and
defined the discipline of architecture and 12:00 – 15:00
Environmental Design
photography;
2) Promoting students’ understanding of the
relationship between the built environment
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 3) Developing critical thinking and enhancing analytical
skills of students for an overall comprehension of
architectural/urban forms.

Course Content:
This course investigates the interrelated relationship between
architecture and photography. It examines the history of this
relationship through key topics, such as the documentation of
modern architecture and city planning, historic preservation,
new trends in architecture, and the creation of canonical
buildings from the invention of photography in the nineteenth
century to the present day. The case studies are drawn from
various parts of the world, situated in their political, social, and
cultural contexts. Students will get acquainted with the
canonical buildings and pivotal figures in the history of
photography as the course progresses. The course is conducted
mainly as a workshop. Students are required to present
photographs on the weekly topics, accompanied by brief
research that will be discussed in class collectively. Students will
conduct a research project at the end of the semester
Course Objectives:
We are continuously exposed to visual stimuli in every
moment. Processing these visual stimuli are crucial to carry out
daily life and professional tasks. Visual thinking and reasoning
are at the core of this processing. An architect working on a
sketch, a tourist trying to find the way around unfamiliar city, a
radiologist examining a scan, or a data scientist choosing the
best way to convey a message on a graph all need to rely on
their visual reasoning skills. This course aims to introduce visual Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahu Gökçe Friday
KHAS 1436 – S01 Visual Thinking and Reasoning
thinking and reasoning processes and their implications on Department of Psychology 09:00 – 12:00
behaviour by focusing on human cognition.

Course Content:
• Visualization
• Visual communication
• Risk perception
• Graph perception
Attention and spatial navigation

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LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Course Code - Instructor Name /
Course Name Course Description Day-Time
Section Department
Course Objectives: Anna Pinosa Section 1:
By the end of this course, students will be able to conduct School of Foreign Languages Tuesday 12:00 – 15:00
university-level research and use writing skills and critical Anna Pinosa Section 2:
thought for the purpose of analyzing or documenting a topic of School of Foreign Languages Monday 12:00 – 15:00
academic, cultural, or social importance. Nil Senem Çınga Çarıkçı Section 3:
School of Foreign Languages Monday 15:00 – 18:00
Course Content: Nil Senem Çınga Çarıkçı Section 4:
In this course, students will explore the fundamental methods School of Foreign Languages Wednesday 09:00 – 12:00
of research writing and acquire the essential skills to write up Dr. Gulnara Kenzhebulatova Section 5:
and present their research. The course will provide learners Core Program Monday 09:00 – 12:00
with a workshop setting that will take them through the Nazlı Karaca Section 6:
process of drafting and completing a research paper. School of Foreign Languages Friday 15:00 – 18:00
Research Paper Writing The course will focus on the following skills: Alan Michael Davies Section 7:
KHAS 1502
- Critical thought and creative inquiry School of Foreign Languages Thursday 12:00 – 15:00
- A process approach to writing research papers Nil Tonyalı Section 8:
- Library skills Core Program Friday 09:00 – 12:00
- Using databases
- Note-taking and documentation
- Evaluating sources
- Analyzing print and non-print research sources
Nil Tonyalı Section 9:
- Basic research methods
Core Program Wednesday 15:00 – 18:00
- Distinguishing between primary and secondary research
sources
- Distinguishing between primary and secondary data
- Presentation skills
Course Objectives:
KHAS1504 will:
Academic English is 1) Introduce students to the research prospectus and
Nobody’s First Language: academic writing process with the focus on both the David Reed Albachten Monday
KHAS 1504 – S01
Academic Writing and rhetorical framework and grammatical patterns germane Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
Speaking to these tasks and the purpose of the research project.
2) Provide training in regularly occurring rhetorical tasks
and patterns associated with writing up research. This

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course includes but is not limited to: producing literature
reviews and/or annotated bibliographies with the
concentration on conventions of style and format of
specific academic disciplines; synthesizing and relating
verbal and nonverbal materials; analyzing research data
and drawing conclusions.
3) Provide training for the development of self-editing and
proofreading skills.
4) Provide individualized assistance with the drafting phase of
documents.
5) Facilitate by the end of the course the students should
understand and have demonstrated their ability to:

- Produce coherent and cohesive academic papers of

the following types . . . general-specific, problem-
process solution, data commentary, summary,
critiques and reviews, arguments, and research . . . of
up to 700+ words, which fully address the question at
hand by developing the main ideas and using
supporting details which provide full reasoning
and/or exemplification and taking the audience,
purpose, organization, style, flow, and register into
consideration.

- Follow advanced punctuation rules when writing

academic papers.
- Summarize texts by extracting the main ideas.
- Describe/respond to visual data/input in
written form by selecting and
summarizing the main features of the
visual data.
- Effectively paraphrase texts by using academic
resources.
- Effectively write by following the APA
citation and formatting guidelines in
content andstyle
(http://www.apastyle.org/styletips.html)
- Understand plagiarism and how and why plagiarism
must be avoided.
- Be exposed to other forms of academic

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 communication, such as letters and e-mails as
well as oral presentations and defence.
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Course Content:
KHAS 1504 guides students through the process of writing an
academic essay following the guidelines/practices of their field.
The course topics include: idea organization and development,
structure and organization of texts, audience, claims,
summaries, critiques, argumentation, word choice, grammar,
and revising their own writing. Plagiarism and APA
documentation and citation of sources are also covered.
Individualized attention is an integral part of the course. Oral
presentation skills will be explored. The course is designed to
assist students in taking charge of communicating their ideas
and thoughts in academic English.

Teacher Lead: David Reed Albachten, seven years founder and

head of The Academic Writing Center at Istanbul Sehir
University, graduate writing teacher and Master’s and PhD
thesis advisor, writing researcher and published author and
international speaker on L2 English Academic Writing.

Centered on: Non-native speaker academic writing and

presentations, with weekly tasks and group and comprehensive
individual feedback and revision

Resources: Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition

(J.M. Swales & C.B. Feak, 2012) and Academic Writing: A
handbook for international students, (S. Bailey, 2011)
Course Objectives:
The primary objective of the course is to help learners meet
the challengers of communicating in English in the academic
and professional environment. Teaching basics of
interpersonal and intercultural communication is another
Dr. Gulnara Kenzhebulatova Thursday
KHAS 1506 – S01 Effective communication integral part of the course.
Core Program 15:00 – 18:00
Course Content:
KHAS 1506 is designed to introduce students to theory of
communication and teach them to communicate effectively
in English in a variety of contexts. There will be five in-class

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 group activities throughout this course. Each group will be
given a problem to solve in class using the material of the
course taught to that point. Every group member will be
evaluated by the rest of their group in terms of their
preparation and contribution to problem solving in group
exercises.

Each student will prepare and present a 5-7-minute-long

informative speech on the topic of his/her choice. This speech
should be designed to educate the audience. Each speech will
become a subject of critique prepared by one of its author’s
fellow students.
In conclusion, each student will write a short reflection paper
summarizing their experience working in a group.
Course Content:

This course is an introduction to the study of language and

linguistics and provides students with an overview of the field of
modern linguistics and basic skills in linguistic analysis from a
generative perspective. It focuses on the properties of natural
human languages and aims to familiarize students with the basic
concepts and issues underlying linguistic phenomena. The course
will explore the fundamental question of what human language is
and the properties of human language capacity, which define us
as a species and make us unique. Students will be familiarized
with the design features of language and how linguists use the
Introduction to Language principles of the scientific method to explain these features. Nil Tonyalı Tuesday
KHAS 1508
and Linguistics There will also be an emphasis on the building blocks of language Core Program 09:00 -12:00
that define the major subfields of linguistics. Throughout the
course, we will also look at some common myths about language,
and some of the unsolved problems we face in explaining
language.

Content and Objectives:

• What is human language: Linguistic knowledge, mental

grammar, language & thought
• Students will examine the structural aspects of
language: Morphology, phonology, syntax, pragmatics
and semantics

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 • Students will be introduced to major linguistic theories
and gain a fundamental understanding of the subfields
of linguistics and the history of linguistic inquiry
• Language in society and linguistic change: Regional vs.
social dialects, languages in contact, language in use,
morphological, phonological and lexical change, the
history of writing Language and cognition: Language
processing and the human brain

PHILOSOPHY
Course Code - Instructor Name /
Course Name Course Description Day-Time
Section Department
Course Objectives:
The course aims to provide an introductory background for the
philosophy of art and art appreciation. It introduces basic conceptual
tools regarding the philosophical relevance of aesthetic experience. It
also aims to reflect on the cultural, social, and universal significance
and communicability of aesthetics.

Course Content:
This course aims to familiarize the students with the meaning of
Dr. Seniye Tilev Tuesday
KHAS 1602 – S01 Aesthetics aesthetic theory and basic aesthetic approaches. We will follow both
Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
a historical and a theoretical perspective in our inquiry. We start with
analyzing the concept of art and the philosophy of art. We will
examine Plato’s views on art and move on analyzing aesthetic
theories of representationalism, formalism and expressionism. In the
second half of the course, through the readings of philosophers and
art theorists (Leo Tolstoy, Collingwood, Hume and Kant), we will
discuss the relevance of art appreciation to social and cultural
context and the significance of artistic production for human
communities.
Course Objectives:
The aim of this course is to enable students from all disciplines to
Eylem Abalıoğlu
comprehend the basic creativity skills practically and to help to
Core Program
discover their own unique forms of expression. Wednesday
KHAS 1604 – S01 Creative Process
12:00 – 15:00
Aylin Yurdacan
Course Content:
School of Foreign Languages
Theoretical framework and practice-based studies will be carried out
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 improvisations, painting, installation, video and working with other
artistic materials constitute the applied studies, while the main
themes such as the philosophy of performance and creation, ancient
rituals, Cartesian period and rationality, body-mind relationship
constitute the theoretical framework. Studies of Nietzsche, Jean-
Pierre Vernant, Garcia-Plevin, Rollo May, and Byung Chul-Han can be
considered among some reference readings.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to familiarize the students with the prominent
figures of the existentialism movement from late 19th century till
the mid-20th century. It aims to provide a historical and
philosophical context in which the central themes of the course
texts can be examined. To achieve critical evaluation of and
engagement with the materials from a philosophical point of view
are other objectives of the course.

Existentialism in Course Content: Dr. Seniye Tilev Wednesday

KHAS 1606 – S01
Philosophy and Literature The Existentialism is a philosophical, literary, and artistic movement Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
which problematizes and investigates human freedom and its
possibility in general. The course focuses on the prominent figures of
the movement from late 19th century till mid 20th century from
philosophy and literature. The concepts of subjectivity, inwardness,
autonomy, authenticity and inauthenticity, individuality, political
liberty, rebellion, social identity, and consciousness will be the terms
that will be analyzed through close readings of the texts by
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Dostoevsky, Camus, Simone de
Beauvoir and Kafka.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to guide students in thinking about how life and
living itself becomes a philosophical issue. During the course, we
will consider questions that at least some of us visit as we live our
lives: What is the goal and meaning of life? What is a good life? Is
any form of life better than the other? What is the role of
Dr. Tuğba Sevinç Friday
KHAS 1610 – S01 Philosophy of Life happiness, pleasure, freedom, pain, and utility in life? How do
Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
reason and passion affect our life? What are freedom and
alienation? What is the meaning of death in relation to life? Within
the long course of the Western philosophical tradition, various
responses to these questions have been suggested. Whereas
Ancient Greeks viewed happiness as the ultimate aim of life, in the
modern era, the good life is equated with the life of reason and

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 capacity for rational self-determination. The course introduces
these questions and aims to equip the student with the necessary
tools for critically evaluating different answers given to these
questions.

Course Content:
This course aims to inquire and discuss these different approaches
regarding life and living within the Western philosophical canon. We
will be looking into Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Kant, Mill,
Marx, Russell, Simon de Beauvoir, and Sartre. At the end of the
course, we will examine one last question raised by feminist thinkers:
Is philosophical thinking on what constitutes (good) life gendered?
Course Objectives:
The aim of this course is to examine some of the historical ways of
approaching and dealing with anxiety. Anxiety, before being
considered as a special topic of clinical psychology was initially
discussed as an obstacle on the way towards happiness and a
satisfied life. It was a practical issue, whose solution was searched
not through clinical practices but rather through the general advice
of “embracing a philosophical life”. Such a life depended on
understanding the true principles of life and death; what remains
controllable and what is beyond our control; how to live in
accordance with virtue and wisdom; and finally, how to be true to
oneself (be authentic). In lead of these historical points, which date
all the way back to Ancient Greece (Epicureanism, Stoicism) and
A Philosophical Remedy reappear in existential philosophy and psychology, we will examine Dr. Maya Mandalinci Monday
KHAS 1612 – S01
for Anxiety the concept of anxiety and reevaluate its daily effects from an Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
objective and historical perspective.

Course Content:
Some of the main topics and questions are as following:
• Hellenistic philosophy (ataraxia: attaining happiness
through the tranquility of the mind; the controllable inner
states versus the uncontrollable externals);
• A comparison between the object of anxiety and the object
of fear (in Freud, Heidegger);
• Does the freedom of choice function as the source of
anxiety, or as the solution?
• The positive approaches: Is anxiety intrinsically bad? Or can
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 • The human nature and its existential impasses: death, the
meaning of life, responsibility, freedom and alienation. Can
we overcome these basic anxieties? (What do existential
philosophy and psychology have to offer?)
Course Objectives:
The objective of this course is to examine the basic concepts of free
will and determinism from numerous perspectives, both from moral
and empirical levels. Our basic understanding of the physical world
offers a deterministic picture of the universe, where all effects
depend on prior causes; whereas such a causal chain casts doubt on
the possibility of a “free choice”. As each prior effect causes another,
it seems logical to suggest that a person can never be the ultimate
cause of her/his action. Understanding and correctly interpreting this
basic problem requires a dialogue between philosophy, religion,
physics, psychology and neuroscience. Moreover, answering such a
question has important practical impacts: on our attitude towards
moral blame and responsibility, as well as some recent discussions on
AI (the criteria of a free consciousness).
Free Will and
Course Content: Dr. Maya Mandalinci Friday
KHAS 1614 – S01 Determinism: The Web of
Some of the main topics and questions are as following: Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
Life
• Is freedom ultimately an illusion?
• Can our actions be both determined and free;
• The difference between determinism, necessity and
destiny;
• How to interpret the free will experiments of Libet (1983)?
• Case studies and thought experiments in social sciences
(Phineas Gage, The Case of Leopold and Loeb (1924), the
effects of rationalization through hypnosis and
confabulation, the Milgram experiment (1961), Frankfurt
cases)
Is it possible to attribute indeterminism to the operations of the
universe, and if so, can this stand as a possible explanation of free
will? (Various interpretations of quantum mechanics and their
applicability to our deliberation processes)
Course Objective:
In this course, students will learn about the fundamental values in
Political philosophy: Core Dr. Tuğba Sevinç Thursday
KHAS 1616 – S01 political philosophy such as freedom, equality, justice, and so on, and
Political Values and Ideas Core Program 12:00 – 15:00
the different ways one could interpret and balance these values in
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 Course Content:
The course introduces students to the concepts of political freedom
(negative, positive, republican), (2) equality (equality of opportunity,
political equality, material equality, equity, and luck egalitarianism),
(3) justice (entitlement, need, recognition, fairness, affirmative
action), and (4) power and legitimacy. Learning about these key
concepts will enable students to develop a wider perspective in
understanding their status as citizens and the question of limiting
state power.
By educating students on the core concerns of political philosophy,
the course also helps students to dissect and evaluate the core
elements of political debate, so they can see the pros and cons of
every key political position. For instance, when they are to assess
distributive questions and public policy decisions (e.g., who will get
the state scholarship: the poor, the immigrant, the disabled, the
disadvantaged, the most hardworking, and so on?), they will be able
to assess the problem in terms of political concepts like desert, need,
and entitlement.

POLITICS, ECONOMICS, LAW

Course Code - Instructor Name /
Course Name Course Description Day-Time
Section Department
Course Objectives:
- Introduce students to key concepts and themes related to
globalization Asst. Prof. Dr. Kerem Yıldırım, Prof. Dr. Mary
- Give an overview of debates pertaining to Louise Şimşek, Prof. Dr. Himmet Murat
socioeconomic inequalities, limitations and challenges Güvenç, Asst. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kerem
that emerge with globalization Çoban, Asst. Prof. Dr. Berkay Ayhan
KHAS 1700 - S01 Global Issues and The - Outline key questions that global issues provoke Department of Political Science and Public
Human Condition - Provide a review of processes of globalization in economic, Administration Monday
environmentalist, cultural, political and social domains 09:00 – 12:00
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hasan Tekgüç
- Improve students’ oral and written communications skills and
Department of Economics
analytical thinking
Asst. Prof. Dr. Sezin Öner Yaman
Course Content:
Department of Psychology
This course aims to introduce students to key concepts and themes
related to globalization and give an overview of debates pertaining to
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 socioeconomic inequalities, limitations and challenges that emerge Core Program
with globalization. Additionally, the course outlines key questions
that global issues provoke and provides a review of processes of
globalization in economic, environmentalist, cultural, political and
social domains. The course also aims to improve students’ oral and
written communications skills and analytical thinking.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to introduce students to the basic principles and
concepts of modern economics. We want public policy to treat
everybody equally and to be efficient. However, in many instances
equality and efficiency principles point to different directions. This
course deals with this issues by examining various cases such as
access to healthcare, university placement, income inequality, work,
KHAS 1704 - S01 Economy and Society: wages, firms, unemployment, etc. We also discuss how to Asst. Prof. Dr. Ulaş Karakoç Friday
Compulsory for Equality, Efficiency and change/reform rules of the game (institutions) so that these Department of Economics 09:00 – 12:00
Department of Institutions desirable goals are less in conflict with each other.
Economics Lectures will utilize Economy, Society, and Public Policy (ESPP)
(https://www.core-econ.org/espp/) and CORE The Economy
textbooks. The books were developed by Core Economics
Project and completely free. They are interactive online books
including videos, interactive graphs and hands-on exercises.
They are flexible enough to be utilized by one lecturer in small
classes as well as in a big lecture aided by assistants for hands-
on exercises.

Course Content:
• Capitalist revolution, growth and inequality in historical
perspectives,
• Social interactions from game-theoretic perspective,
• Economic decision making under scarcity,
• Power and inequality,
• How firms determine wages and prices,
• Macroeconomic aggregates: Concepts and measurement,
• Money and banking,
• Market failures and public policy
Course Objectives:
This course provides an introduction to the debates on democracy,
justice, and revolution from an interdisciplinary perspective. It also
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 Democracy, Justice, and concepts heavily used in social and political sciences. Students will Core Program 12:00 -15:00
Revolutions have a hands-on experience in understanding social conflict and will
also gain practical skills in preparing and delivering speeches. By
end of the course, I hope that student will develop the tools for
critically analyzing ideas of social and economic justice, recognize
which ideological traditions they belong to, and how they were
transformed (and stigmatized) over time, as well as how they were
institutionalized in revolutionary moments.

Course Content:
This course focuses on the schools of thought on social & economic
justice and revolutions with a specific focus on the French Revolution
Course Objectives:
The course aims to introduce students to key concepts and themes
related to globalization, identity, and diversity. Each module is
designed around a specific concept and theme that is analyzed
through multiple case studies involving different time periods and
KHAS 1714 – S01 Identities and Diversity In geographies. Each module poses the same set of questions: How Asst. Prof. Dr. Doğu Durgun Thursday
A Global World do social, economic, and political inequalities and systems of Core Program 15:00 – 18:00
oppression pertaining to globalization construct identities and the
interaction between them? How do individuals and groups
experience, contest and reshape global processes? How do they
exercise freedom and take responsibilities in an interdependent
world? What scope is there for the exercise of individual and
collective agency in an era of uncertainty, ambiguity, and
complexity? The course aims to encourage students to critically
engage with the global challenges of our time and to develop their
own voice in responding to these challenges.

Course Content:
Globalization is defined as a process of growing interdependence due
to the shrinking of distances between individuals, communities, and
cultures. In that, it brings the world closer than ever before. Yet, it is
also a process of growing conflict and violence among individuals and
social groups due to social, political, economic, and social inequalities
and interlocking systems of oppression. The course questions how
globalization process shapes identities and the interaction between
them. Taking identity as an intersectional process, it presents
contemporary issues pertaining to class, race, gender, sexuality, and
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 consumer culture, indigenous communities, migration and diaspora,
values and ethics, global jihad, and transnational social movements.
The course will follow a conceptual and historical approach to
develop an analytical and critical perspective on globalization and its
relation to identity and diversity. The overall aim is to question and
understand major challenges of our time and responses to them.
Course Objectives:
To enable the students to understand and to familiarise with:

1. the main features of the legal system;

2. the main challenges of ‘emerging concepts’ from a legal point of
view;
3. preparation of the regulatory response to new developments;
and
4. different manners of using emerging concepts within the legal
system itself.
KHAS 1716 – S01 Legal Implications of Asst. Prof. Dr. Alara Efsun Yazıcıoğlu Tuesday
Emerging Concepts By following an interdisciplinary approach, the course encourages Department of Law 12:00 – 15:00
the students to take a multidisciplinary approach when analysing a
topic. The course also develops students’ analytical, research and
writing skills.

Course Content:
This course aims to discuss legal implications of emerging concepts.
In the context of the course, the term ‘emerging concept’ refers not
only to technological advancements (such as artificial intelligence
and the
blockchain technology) but also to emerging concepts in the fields of
economy, sociology and psychology (such as ‘pink tax’ and
developments in gender studies). The course consists of a twofold
analysis: (i) regulatory response to new developments (like new rules
developed in relation to the emerging concept) and (ii) use of the
emerging concept within the legal system (like the integration of a
new technology within the design of the legal system). The course
analyses legal implications of different emerging concepts, such as
eSports, social media, digital economy, pink tax, artificial intelligence
(and the so-called ‘robot taxes’), big data (and ‘data tax’),
implications of the use of blockchain technology in various fields
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 Politics on The Ground: Course Objectives: Dr. Fırat Kurt Wednesday
KHAS 1718 – S01 An Anthropological This course aims to provide students with theoretical tools from Core Program 15:00 – 18:00
Introduction anthropological studies in analyzing contemporary or historical
political problems by focusing on the daily lives of ordinary people. It
is expected that students acquire facility in discussing and analyzing
social, cultural and political forms originated in different contexts and
attain a deeper understanding in reading theoretical and political
texts.

Course Content:
This course will combine ethnographic and theoretical works on
political questions, paying specific attention to meanings, signs,
imaginaries, and practices as enacted in the daily lives of ordinary
people. We will study specificities of political discourses, state
practices, and social movements in order to complicate and expand
our understanding of ideology, hegemony, class, and power. We will
be asking questions such as: How do specific histories emerge in
people’s political imaginaries? What are the social and political
practices that sustain such histories while erasing others? Is the state
an imagination of people or a material reality? Are people really
serious when they cry in political meetings? Can we observe the
ideologies and workings of world markets in local markets? Are there
any intersection points where ordinary people relate questions of
wealth to questions of political order? Focusing on a variety of
ethnographic works, this course asks these and other questions as
part of a broader effort to understand the origins, developments,
and possibilities of the modern political world.
Course Objectives:
This course provides an introduction to the debates on the concepts
of power, state and nation building, social movements, and modern
constitutions from an interdisciplinary perspective. It also provides a
framework for students to get to know some core concepts heavily
KHAS 1720 – S01 Power, People, States and used in social and political sciences such as majority rule, equality, Asst. Prof. Dr. Didem Türkoğlu Tuesday
Constitutions human rights, racism, colonialism, and sovereignty. Students will Core Program 15:00 – 18:00
have a hands-on experience in understanding social conflict and will
also gain practical skills in preparing and delivering speeches. They
will also have the chance to better understand how constitutional
norms affect the daily lives of citizens.

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 This course focuses on different political systems and institutions in
modern states and how they affect the distribution of power in
contemporary nation-states with a specific focus on the
constitutional debates in South Africa.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to introduce students to anthropological thinking
about economic inquiries by analyzing contemporary or historical
economic problems by focusing on the daily lives of ordinary
people. It is expected that students acquire facility in discussing
and analyzing social, cultural and economic practices originated in
different contexts and attain a deeper understanding in reading
theoretical and economic texts. Dr. Fırat Kurt Tuesday
KHAS 1722 – S01 Social Life of Economy Core Program 15:00 – 18:00
Course Content:
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, the course asks questions
such as:
1) Why are certain things more valuable than others?
2) Who or what determines the value of monies?
3) Why do we feel a compulsion to give gifts at birthday parties?
4) Does God help countries achieve high growth rates? Or
Is ‘the Wolf of Wall Street’ an accurate description of financial
markets? Throughout the semester, we will take up some of the most
salient themes of economic anthropology (e.g. value, money, or
morality), see how it emerges in popular media, and explore
anthropological examples that display alternative ways of imagining
economic life to complicate our preconceptions. By honing skills such
as critical thinking,reading, and writing, this course will help students
analyze complex economic situations with ethnographic lenses as
well as build a foundation for advanced courses in critical social
sciences.
Course Objective:
How do we become entrepreneurs? Students over the course of this
semester will learn the process of creating a new-venture.
Throughout this course we will focus on creating and developing
Building Blocks of essential parts of a business plan and pitch the business plan to
KHAS 1724 – S01 Entrepreneurship - From investors. Students will work in teams to launch a venture from an Asst. Prof. Dr. Aslı Togan Eğrican Monday
an Idea to a Business idea and work through market analysis, product viability assessment, Department of International Trade and 15:00 – 18:00
competitive positioning, team-building, product life-cycle planning, Finance
marketing strategy, and spend time on the financial planning. We will
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 brand-new company as well as the challenges of finding the
necessary financing. We will spend time in understanding value
creation with focusing on understanding how one’s decisions will
affect the future financials of the venture. At the end of the semester
students will gain skills necessary to be successful in creating a new
venture and will be comfortable at pitching in front of investors and
gain the confidence to engage and contribute in financial discussions.

Course Content:
Course will involve the steps from idea creating to the essential parts
of business plan building (with a focus on financial projections) and
pitching ideas to investors. Each team will create a venture and
successfully pitch these ideas to investors at the end of the semester.
The course will include guest speakers (thanks to Gokhan Tosun (our
PhD student) who is on the Board of Directors of Gedik Yatirim. We
will rely on his broad network of venture capitalists/private equity
teams). For the time being the potential guest list includes:
- Haluk Nişli / Inveo Ventures GM (Entrepreneurial ecosystem
overview – Turkey and Global)
- Yancep founding members - Pre seed and seed investment Tohum
öncesi ve tohum yatırımı - Yancep kurucu ortakları
- HOP founding members - Venture Growth
- Baki Kara / BiStock founding member - Product Market Fit & Pivot
- Boğazici Ventures / Barış Özistek - Technology Investments
Course Objectives:
Climate change is one of the most important global problems faced by
humanity after the industrial revolution. The European Union (the
“EU”) has taken important steps in the fight against climate change.
Undoubtedly, climate change is one of the most crucial struggle areas
for our country. Turkey is shown as one of the countries that will be
KHAS 1726 – S01 Climate Change Policy and most affected by climate change. In addition, Turkey, which is in the Gizem Arslan Wednesday
Legislation in the EU process of harmonization with the EU, should align its policies and Department of Private Law 12:00 – 15:00
legislation with the European Green Deal and the European Climate Esra Ünal
Law and other relevant European Union legislation to combat climate Department of General Public Law
change effectively. This course aims to provide a better understanding
for students about the climate change crisis, EU’s climate change
policies and the laws.

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 - Comment on the current discussions on climate change challenges
and legal dimension;
- Develop a solid comprehension of different perceptions and
approaches to climate change policy and its implications;
- Obtain extensive knowledge on EU’s Green Deal and European
Climate Law, their policy tools and legal background;
- Understand the importance of legal steps for climate change;
- Analyze in a critical way the EU’s policy decision and practices;
- Draw out implications of EU policies and Turkey’s accordance
process in different policy dimensions to the EU.

Course Content:
The course will consist of three sections:
- The first section will be an introductory section for EU’s climate
change policies, historical evolution of these policies, the objectives
and general regulations regarding to these policies.
- The second section will be about the core of climate change policies
of EU. In the scope of this section, the related regulations, laws, and
EU countries’ applications will be analyzed with students.
- The third section will include legal backgrounds and comparisons
between Turkey and EU regarding EU’s Green Deal and European
Climate Law.
Course Objectives:
- To develop a theoretically and critically informed understanding of
governance of migration and borders
- To assess and analyze contemporary debates around migration and
borders based on critical theory, actual cases/materials and lived
experience
- To facilitate nuanced and holistic engagement with experiences of
KHAS 1728 – S01 Mobility and Borders in mobility, security and borders by looking at a range of sites, actors, Asst. Prof. Dr. Sibel Karadağ Thursday
Europe narratives, practices and technological developments particularly in Department of Political Science and Public 15:00 – 18:00
the European context Administration
- Be able to combine and work with interdisciplinary approaches in
studying contemporary phenomena.

Course Content:
Over the past four decades, the expansion of flows of people, capital
and goods have been met by a proliferation of borders in Europe. The
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 since WWII. For millions of displaced people, escaping from
persecution, violence, and human rights violations, simultaneously
means beginning of another deadly journey at the European external
borders. Drastically increased number of deaths, images of hundreds
in shipwrecks, thousands climbing over barbed-wire fences, thousands
more contained in refugee camps, have been filling the pages of
reports and newspapers.
This course is designed with the aim of understanding the governance
of borders and human mobility – that is, ways in which lines,
boundaries, filters are drawn between geographical entities,
populations, identities and ultimately, people – establishing
hierarchical and moral categories, authorizing certain modes of
actions and violence. Drawing on insights from diverse range of
scholarship across the social sciences, this highly interdisciplinary
course design will address the general themes such as state,
sovereignty, territory, nation, citizenship etc. within the context of
European countries through reviewing a range of contemporary issues
in the 21st century – such as migration, everyday experiences of
security, borders and bordering practices, and surveillance.
The major objective of the course is to introduce the scholarship on
mobility, security and borders that has been growing tremendously in
the last decade. Nourished with a range of disciplines, from critical
international relations to political science, sociology and technology
studies, the scholarship provides analytical tools to grasp key themes
and theories in their connection to the human mobility and borders.
With the aim of facilitating creativity, critical perspective and analytical
reasoning, the course is designed in the way in which each topic in
every week is enriched with a related visual material. The course
requirements are also designated with the aim of facilitating active
learning and participation, close engagement with the field and
capacity to combine theory and practice.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the class, students will be able to (1) demonstrate
familiarity with fundamental business and management concepts; (2)
critically assess different aspects of sustainability and its intersection
KHAS 1730 – S01 Sustainability and Ethics with business, (3) develop their ability to support their arguments Prof. Dr. Nimet Uray Friday
in Business clearly and concisely in written form. Department of Business Administration 12:00 – 15:00

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 In this course, students will be introduced to fundamental concepts
in modern management from an ethics and sustainability
perspective. The course will highlight the impact of business on the
environment, introduce the role of managers in ethical business
practices, offer new perspectives on the question of sustainable
marketing, present trenchant dilemmas concerning organizations,
and discuss the responsibility of individuals as participants in the
world of business and management.

PSYCHOLOGY
Course Code - Instructor Name /
Course Name Course Description Day-Time
Section Department
Course Objectives:
This elective course is designed to give students an introduction to
psycholinguistics; the study of how we as humans acquire, process
and produce language. During this course, students will develop a
basic understanding of the relationship between language and the
processes of the brain and mind.
Course Content:
Introduction to KHAS 1800 Introduction to Psycholinguistics introduces the students Dr. Stacey Anne Johnson Friday
KHAS 1800 - S01
Psycholinguistics the key concepts and themes related to Pycholingustics. Throughout Core Program 09:00 – 12:00
the semester, we will have a crash course into topics such as visual
and auditory recognition of words, sentence comprehension and
production, bilingualism (and beyond), language acquisition, and
language disorders. It is ideal for students who have always
wondered how humans learn languages and those who have an
interest in reading and critiquing original psycholinguistics research
articles.
Course Objectives:
This elective course will enable students to demonstrate the
knowledge and ability to think critically about educational
psychology theories. Students will also apply theories of
educational psychology to the interpretation of classroom practices
and student behavior. By the end of this course, they will also be Dr. Stacey Anne Johnson Monday
KHAS 1804 – S01 Educational Psychology
able to describe the basic principles of child and adolescent Core Program 15:00 – 18:00
development and apply them to classroom practices.
Course Content:
KHAS 1804 introduces the students the key concepts and themes
related to Educational Psychology. It is ideal for students who have
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research articles

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