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Subject |
Related Preparation |
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Historical Perspective: An Introduction to the Middle East, Foreign Involvement in the Middle East in the early 19th century, I. World War, Interwar Period |
Academic Articles and related books |
2) |
Historical Perspective: An Introduction to the Middle East, Foreign Involvement in the
Middle East in the early 19th century, I. World War, Interwar Period |
Academic Articles and related books |
3) |
Second World War and the consequences, the impact of the war on the Jewish public and the region, increasing sympathy towards the Jewish public and Zionism and twice Promised Land |
Academic Articles and related books |
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The establishment of the Israeli state, The Origin of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, beginning of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947 Partition, 1948 War, 1956 Suez Crisis and the
increasing US Pressure on the region |
Academic Articles and related books |
5) |
Nasser Era, Six Day War, Arab Union and the shift of balance of power between the Arab States, Israel-US Partnership |
Academic Articles and related books |
6) |
The Rise of PLO and Arafat, Death of Nasser and Anwar Sadat Era, the Yom Kippur War and Superpower Involvement, the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Process |
Academic Articles and related books |
7) |
The Oil Embargo, Kissinger’s Shuttle Diplomacy, Camp David Accords, Iran, Lebanon, Hamas |
Academic Articles and related books |
8) |
The Oil Embargo, Kissinger’s Shuttle Diplomacy, Camp David Accords, Iran, Lebanon, Hamas |
Academic Articles and related books |
9) |
Iraq, The Gulf War, US and the Gulf, Madrid and Oslo Accords, 2000 Camp David, September 11 Attacks |
Academic Articles and related books |
10) |
Iraq, The Gulf War, US and the Gulf, Madrid and Oslo Accords, 2000 Camp David, September 11 Attacks |
Academic Articles and related books |
11) |
Foreign Policies of the Middle East States, US Post-September 11 Policies, 2003 Iraq War |
Academic Articles and related books |
12) |
US Democracy Promotion – Interventions |
Academic Articles and related books |
13) |
Arab Spring and It’s Implications |
Academic Articles and related books |
14) |
Overview |
Academic Articles and related books |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
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To learn and compare major sociology perspectives, both classical and contemporary, and apply all of them to analysis of social conditions. |
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2) |
To be able to identify the basic methodological approaches in building sociological and anthropological knowledge at local and global levels |
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To be able to use theoretical and applied knowledge acquired in the fields of statistics in social sciences. |
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To have a basic knowledge of other disciplines (including psychology, history, political science, communication studies and literature) that can contribute to sociology and to be able to make use of this knowledge in analyzing sociological processes |
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To have a knowledge and practice of scientific and ethical principles in collecting, interpreting and publishing sociological data also develop ability how to share this data with experts and lay people, using effective communication skills |
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To develop competence in analyzing and publishing sociological knowledge by using computer software for quantitative and qualitative analysis; and develop an attitute for learning new techniques in these fields. |
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To identify and to have a knowledge of the theories related to urban and rural sociology and demography, and political sociology, sociology of gender, sociology of body, visual sociology, sociology of work, sociology of religion, sociology of knowledge and sociology of crime. |
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To have knowledge of how sociology is positioned as a scientific discipline from a philosophical and historical perspective |
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To have the awareness of social issues in Turkish society, to develop critical perspective in analysing these issues and to have a knowledge of the works of Turkish sociologists and to be able to transfer this knowledge |
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10) |
To have the awareness of social issues and global societal processes and to apply sociological analysis to development and social responsibility projects |
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To have the ability to define a research question, design a research project and complete a written report for various fields of sociology, either as an individual or as a team member. |
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12) |
To be able to transfer the knowledge gained in the areas of sociology to the level of secondary school. |
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