DEGREE PROGRAMMES

: Principles of Atatürk and Turkish Revolution History

General Description

History

Dokuz Eylül University the Institute of Principles of Ataturk and Turkish Revolution History, affiliated to rectorate of the mentioned university, was founded in 1983 by the date of 03.24.1983 and 2809 numbered law. When the Institute was founded, its old building was at Ikinci Kordon in Alsancak where is today the administration building of the university. A single-storey building added to the administration building was determined as the institute building. The institute firstly undertook the education of the Atatürks Principles and Revolution History lessons for the faculties and high schools of the university. One year later after its foundation, it also started the education of master of sciences and philosophy of doctorate. Now there are a professor, five assistant professors, and three research assistants in the institute. Also there are eight administrative staffs.

Qualification Awarded

Principles of Ataturk and Turkish Revolution History, Master's Degree (M.Sc.)

Level of Qualification

Second Cycle (Master's Degree)

Specific Admission Requirements

To apply to Master Programme, anyone must have graduated from a related undergraduate programme. The number of the students who will be enrolled to Master Programme and the qualifications which will be demanded from prospective students are announced before the beginning of every semester. In this announcement, there are application circumstances, the deadline, place and date specified for the interview of prospective students. The students must obtain in the related field 55 standard points out of 100 in ALES exam prepared by Student Selection and Placement Center or these students must obtain from other equivalent exams (GRE, GMAT) an enough point which is equal to 55 points of ALES. The equivalent of Bachelors Degree diploma taken from abroad must be approved by High Education Council (YÖK). Until the last date of application, the students fulfill a form related to registration information on the internet and then they apply the directorate of the institute with their ALES grade paper, bachelor diploma, transcript, candidate number which can be taken via internet on registration platform. The students who fulfill all required application terms are taken to foreign language exam by the Institute. To be successful in this exam, the students must obtain 70 points out of 100. Furthermore, if the student has taken 50 points out of 100 in ÜDS and KPDS exams or she/he has taken an equivalent point from another exam which is approved by Interuniversity Council, she/he will be exempted from the Institute foreign language exam. Successful students in foreign language exam are taken to interview exam by the assessment jury. The interview note is given out of 100. A candidates grade-level academic achievement is total of 50% of ALES point, 25% of bachelor diploma point, and 25% of interview point. The candidates interview point must be at least 65 point out of 100 and grade-level academic achievement must be at least 70 point out of 100.

Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning (Formal, Non-Formal and Informal)

According to the Regulations of Dokuz Eylül University for Graduate Schools, students are not connected to the right for internal transfer, previously taken courses at another graduate programme by another university with a successful grade may be recognized by the related programmes after the letter of the students includes course contents and the transcript, and by the recommendation of the head of the departments and by the decision of the Board of Directors. The courses taken by the outgoing Exchange students have the recognition at the school either as compulsory or elective.

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

Second Cycle (Masters Degree) Program with thesis is comprised of at least 7 courses, not being less than 21 national credits, a seminar and specialization courses and thesis studies, in total 120 ECTS credits.
The completion time of Master Programme is two semesters. If a student cannot takes thesis exam because of not completing his/her thesis until the end of four semesters, maximum two semesters additional time are given this student to defend his/her thesis in front of jury.

Profile of the Programme

Main objectives of this master degree program are to enable to students to gain fundamental values of Republic of Turkey that designed as a civilization project by Ataturk and represents a substantial change in the Turkish modernization process; to enable to students to gain the ability of understanding on and explaining for changes taken place in the social, political, legal, economic and cultural fields during the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to Republic of Modern Turkey and after the Republic period; to enable to students to gain the ability of evaluating Turkish Foreign Policy and International Relations before and after the World War I and World War II from the perspective of General World History; to enable to students to gain the ability of comparatively analyzing Western and Turkish modernizations and to enable to students to gain the ability of evaluating Ataturks Revolution from the perspective of Eastern and Western civilizations.
By the way of the completion of Master Thesis, students will have gained academic discipline.
Students can benefit from specialization library, Cumhuriyet archive, and thesis archive at extracurricular activities. In the programme there is no foreign language course.

Key Learning Outcomes

1   Being able to educate individuals who understand philosophy of the founder of Republic, Ataturk and internalize this.
2   Being able to interpret Turkish Revolution in terms of general revolution theories.
3   Being able to understand changes from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic in political, social, economic and cultural fields.
4   Being able to develop solution proposals intended for political, social, economic and cultural problems.
5   Being able to educate individuals who are opened to democratic participation and have citizenship awareness and responsibility.
6   Being able to educate individuals as transferring thoughts actively and expressing thoughts with writing by taking code of academic ethics into account.
7   Republic of the Ottoman Empire political , social , to understand the changes taking place in economic and cultural fields
8   Turkish modernization to be able to compare with Western modernization
9   Political , social, economic , cultural issues and develop solution proposals
10   As with social science training ; social , political, cultural and economic development to bring reviews
11   Social sciences as having the basic logic ; To be able to front the vision about the social and political goings on
12   Democratic participation is open to the citizenship and to train people who have a responsibility

Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

Students, who graduate from doctorate programme, can work in diverse universities as academicians, in Ministry of Education, Turkish Military Forces, Turkish History Association, in other public institutions related sections, in private sections history, education and archive parts.
The related masters degree enables the holder to exercise the profession.

Access to Further Studies

Alumni who complete master programme can carry out their professions in public sector and private sector. These degree owners may apply to third cycle (doctorate degree) programs.

Course Structure Diagram with Credits

Department Instruction Plan consists of 10 compulsory and 8 elective courses. There is a total of 8 elective courses included in the department elective courses pool; 4 courses in fall and 4 courses in the spring semester. In addition to this, it consists of concentration area, seminar and thesis study. The proportion of compulsory courses is 60 % and elective courses is 40 % in the instruction program.
T: Theoretical P: Practice L: Laboratory
B: Spring Semester G: Fall Semester H: Full Year
1 .Semester:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type of Course T P L ECTS
G 1 ATA 5019 HISTORY OF THE TURKISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4
G 2 ATA 5045 OTTOMAN PALEOGRAPHY I COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5
G 3 ATA 5039 TECHNIQUES OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5
G 0 - ELECTIVE COURSE ELECTIVE - - - 16
TOTAL:   30
 
1 .Semester Elective:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type of Course T P L ECTS
G 1 ATA 5027 CONSTITUTIONAL MOVEMENTS IN TURKEY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4
G 2 ATA 5029 HISTORY OF TURKISH EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4
G 3 ATA 5043 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN TURKEY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4
G 4 ATA 5035 TURKISH HISTORIOGRAPHY OF REPUBLICAN ERA ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4
G 5 ATA 5041 TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY I ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4
G 6 ATA 5031 HISTORY OF TURKISH MODERNIZATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4
 
2 .Semester:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type of Course T P L ECTS
B 1 ATA 5096 SEMINAR COMPULSORY 0 2 0 2
B 2 ATA 5098 AREA OF EXPERTISE COMPULSORY 2 0 0 2
B 3 ATA 5044 PRINCIPAL RESOURCES OF REPUBLICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3
B 4 ATA 5042 POLITICAL LIFE IN REPUBLICAN ERA COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3
B 5 ATA 5038 OTTOMAN PALEOGRAPHY II COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4
B 0 - ELECTIVE COURSE ELECTIVE - - - 16
TOTAL:   30
 
2 .Semester Elective:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type of Course T P L ECTS
B 1 ATA 5046 TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY II ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4
B 2 ATA 5040 FISCAL RESOURSES OF TURKISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4
B 3 ATA 5054 CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS IN WORLD HISTORIOGRAPHY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4
B 4 ATA 5050 CONTEMPORARY INDUSTRY IN REPUBLICAN ERA ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4
B 5 ATA 5052 DAILY LIFE IN TURKEY (20TH CENTURY) ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4
B 6 ATA 5048 INDEPENDENCE WAR IN TURKISH LITERATURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4
 
3.Semester:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type of Course T P L ECTS
G 1 ATA 5099 THESIS STUDY COMPULSORY 0 0 0 30
TOTAL:   30
 
4.Semester:
Semester No Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type of Course T P L ECTS
B 1 ATA 5099 THESIS STUDY COMPULSORY 0 0 0 30
TOTAL:   30
 

Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Annually our education programme is given to students in two semester and in each semester a midterm exam and final exam are done, different homework are given to students, and finally success measurement and evaluation are done in this direction. 40% of midterm exam and 60% of final exam are considered in the assessment and the student must gain 75 points out of 100.

Graduation Requirements

Second Cycle (Masters Degree) Program with thesis is comprised of at least 14 courses, not being less than 42 national credits, a seminar and specialization courses and thesis studies, in total 120 ECTS credits. To consider the student as successful in the related courses, his/her grade for this course must be at least 75 points out of 100. For graduation the student must advocate his/her thesis in front of jury which consists of three permanent members and must be successful at the end.

Mode of Study (Full-Time, Part-Time, E-Learning )

Full-time

Programme Director or Equivalent

Director of Institute: Prof.Dr.Bülent Çukurova,
(Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarih Enstitüsü /Buca- İzmir.) Tel:0 232 3017920/21 bülent.cukurova@deu.edu.tr
Coordinator of AKTS/DS: Yrd. Doç. Dr. Mehmet Emin ELMACI
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarih Enstitüsü /Buca- İzmir Tel:0 232 301 79 41 emin.elmaci@deu.edu.tr