ŞEHİR İngilizce Broşür 2014

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VISION

• We aim to become one of the most prestigious universities in Turkey and in our region

• As a world-renowned institution for higher learning and research

MISSION

Our mission is to seek, to understand and to share.

We wish

• to seek for the good, the true and the beautiful,

• to understand the human being, the society and the nature,

• to share the knowledge gained from this search and comprehension with humanity.

OUR VALUES

• Self confidence

• Freedom

• Originality

• Responsibility

• Productivity

• Participation

• Universality

ABOUT İSTANBUL ŞEHİR UNIVERSITYİstanbul Şehir University has been established by the Foundation for Arts and Sciences a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of civilizational, cultural and humanistic studies which is involved in organizing seminars, workshops, symposia, publishing books and periodicals, and fostering international exchange in these areas since 1986.

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Campuses 4

Academic Staff 6

Research at ŞEHİR 11

Education 12

School of Languages 15

International 17

Utilities 21

Library 23

Student Life 24

Scholarships and Tuition Fees 27

College of Humanities and Social Sciences 29

Political Science and International Relations 31

Sociology 33

Psychology 35

History 37

Turkish Language and Literature 39

Philosophy 41

School of Law 43

Law 45

School of Islamic Studies 49

Islamic Studies 51

College of Communications 55

Cinema and Television 57

School of Management and Administrative Sciences 59

Management 61

International Trade and Management 63

College of Engineering and Natural Sciences 65

Computer Science and Engineering 67

Electrical and Electronics Engineering 69

Industrial Engineering 71

Graduate Programs 72

The Board of Trustees 76

Rector’s Message 79

CONTENTS

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ALTUNİZADE CAMPUSESThere are three campuses in Altunizade, East, West and South. Altunizade Campuses are at the center of the main transportation artery, at walking distance to bus and metrobus stations and at the Anatolian Side exit of Bosphorus Bridge. Thanks to their architectural characteristics, campuses provide a wide environment of study for its students facilitates organization of socio-cultural activities and provides an education nested with city life.

South CampusEast CampusWest Campus

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DRAGOS CAMPUSLearning not only calls for motivation, but also inspiration. We build the new campus of İstanbul Şehir University in a distinguished neighborhood called Dragos that will allow the students work and live in a tranquil and motivational green space.

The Dragos Campus has a land area accommodating a convention center, a dormitory, exhibition areas, open and indoor spaces for social recreational and athletic activities all of which are easily accessible by several thousands of students every day. Dragos is a cheerful campus, on the shore of the Marmara Sea, with a view of the Princess Islands. It is equal in size to 60 football stadiums. In addition to the beauty of its location, it is also known for its easy access to the city center. On the crossroads between land and sea transportation, with its proximity to Sabiha Gökçen Airport, Dragos is located at the center of all transportation routes.

The Dragos Campus has a university area easily accessible to more than five thousand university students per day. Around this square, the convention center, exhibition areas, spaces for open-air events, social life spaces with artisanal production and training centers are located.

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CES Program Title Name University where Ph.D is earned

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Political Science and International Relations

Prof. Ümit Cizre Ankara University 1987

Prof. Burhanettin Duran Bilkent University 2001

Prof. Berdal Aral University of Glasgow, Scotland 1994

Assist. Prof. Vügar İmanbeyli Marmara University 2007

Assist. Prof. Talha Köse George Mason University 2009

Assist. Prof. Hasan Kösebalaban Utah University 2006

Assist. Prof. Ahmet Okumuş Sabancı University 2010

Inst. Muzaffer Şenel Marmara University on going

Sociology Prof. Mesut Yeğen University of Essex 1994

Prof. Ferhat Kentel Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-Paris 1989

Prof. Şerif Mardin Stanford University 1958

Assoc. Prof. Nurullah Ardıç University of California, Los Angeles 2009

Assist. Prof. Eda Ünlü Yücesoy Utrecht University 2006

Assist. Prof. Mehmet Fatih Aysan University of Western Ontario 2011

Assist. Prof. Alim Arlı İstanbul University 2009

Psychology Prof. Medaim Yanık İstanbul University 2000

Assist. Prof. Ceren Acartürk Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 2009

Assist. Prof. Sami Abuhamdeh The University of Chicago 2008

Assist. Prof. Elif Çelebi University of Missouri-Columbia 2008

Assist. Prof. İbrahim Şenay The University of Chicago 2006

History Prof. Cengiz Kallek Marmara University 1994

Prof. Coşkun Çakır İstanbul University 1999

Prof. Kemal Karpat New York University 1957

Mehmet Genç - -

Assoc. Prof. Abdulhamit Kırmızı Boğaziçi University 2005

Assist. Prof. Yunus Uğur Boğaziçi University 2014

Assist. Prof. Günhan Börekçi Ohio State University 2010

Assist. Prof. Kahraman Şakul Georgetown University 2009

Inst. Ayşe Başaran Boğaziçi University on going

Inst.Dr. Nicole Kançal Ferrari* İstanbul University 2004

Turkish Language and Literature

Prof. Hatice Aynur İstanbul University 1993

Assoc. Prof. Özlem Deniz Yılmaz* St. Petersburg State University 2004

Assist. Prof. Berat Açıl Boğaziçi University 2010

Assist. Prof. Fatih Altuğ Boğaziçi University 2007

Assist. Prof. Didem Z. Havlioğlu University of Washington 2008

Assist. Prof. Mehmet Fatih Uslu Bilkent University 2011

Philosophy Assist. Prof. İshak Arslan Marmara University 2007

Assist. Prof. Sinem Elkatip Hatipoğlu City University of New York 2009

Assist. Prof. Mehmet Akif Kayapınar SUNY Binghamton University 2010

Assist. Prof. Paul Scade Exeter University 2007

Inst. Erdal Yılmaz Galatasaray University, Université-Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne

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RA Sinan Oruç - -

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Law Prof. Macit Kenanoğlu Marmara University, Ankara University 2001, 2002

Prof. Nihat Bulut Marmara University 1998

Prof. Mahmut Koca İstanbul University 1998

Prof. Tekin Memiş İstanbul University 1998

Prof. Ergun Özbudun Ankara University 1962

Prof. Serap Yazıcı Ankara University 1995

Prof. Mustafa Alper Gümüş Marmara University 2000

Prof. Yusuf Çalışkan Washington University 2002

Assoc. Prof. Nur Zeliha Kaman Marmara University 2002

Assoc. Prof. Ali Yeşilırmak Queen Mary College, University of London 2004

Assist. Prof. Ömer Çınar Marmara University 2009

Assist. Prof. Halil Rahman Başaran Vienna University 2010

Assist. Prof. Mustafa Yaylalı LUISS Guido Carli University 2011

Inst. Sunara Samsudeen - -

RA Ömer Faruk Petek - -

RA Pınar Yazıcı - -

RA Şerife Gündoğan - -

RA Muhammed Ali Aydın - -

RA Enes Güran - -

RA Özge Bozkurt - -

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Islamic Studies Prof. Mehmet Ali Büyükkara Edinburgh University 1997

Prof. Engin Akarlı Princeton University 1976

Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Boynukalın Marmara University 1999

Assoc. Prof. Halit Özkan Marmara University 2006

Assoc. Prof. Sami Erdem Marmara University 2003

Assist. Prof. Abdurrahman Atçıl The University of Chicago 2010

Assist. Prof. Eyyüp Said Kaya Marmara University 2001

Assist. Prof. Hızır Murat Köse Warwick University 1999

Assist. Prof. Özgür Kavak Marmara University 2009

Inst. Abdul Rahman Harash Umm Darman University 2012

Inst. Ensar Karslı* - -

RA Salih Günaydın Marmara University on going

RA Sefure Özokur - -

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Cinema and Television

Prof. Peyami Çelikcan Dokuz Eylül University 1994

Prof. Mahmut Mutman University of California, Santa Cruz 1992

Prof. Nezih Erdoğan Anadolu University 1989

Assoc. Prof. Fahrettin Altun İstanbul University 2006

Assist. Prof. Aslı Telli Aydemir European Graduate School 2005

Assist. Prof. Ebru Kayaalp Rice University 2010

Assist. Prof. Canan Balan University of St Andrews 2010

Lecturer Kaz Rahman - -

Inst. Derviş Zaim* - -

Inst. Feyza Akınerdem* - -

Inst. Abdulkerim Tever* - -

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Management Prof. Cem Behar Universite de Paris 1972

Affiliated Prof. Hüseyin Leblebici University of Illinois 1975

Assoc. Prof. Melih Bulu Boğaziçi University 2003

Assoc. Prof. Özlem Sandıkcı Türkdoğan Pennslyvania State University, USA 1999

Assoc. Prof. Abdülmecit Karataş* Boğaziçi University 2002

Assoc.Prof. Mehmet Saraç* Boğaziçi University 2004

Assist. Prof. Erkan Erdemir Anadolu University 2007

Assist. Prof. Mustafa Özel Marmara University 1999

Assist. Prof. Ali Coşkun* The State University of Texas at Dallas 2009

Inst. Ali Göksu Norwich Law School 2009

Inst. Erkan Akdemir* - -

Inst. Şelale Birgen* - -

International Trade and Management

Prof. Nihat Erdoğmuş Sakarya University 1998

Prof. Aslıhan Nasır* Boğaziçi University 2004

Assoc. Prof. Abdülmecit Karataş* Boğaziçi University 2002

Assist. Prof. Gökçen Arkalı Olcay The University of Texas at Dallas 2009

Assist. Prof. Muhammed Abdullah Şahin University of Connecticut 2011

Assist. Prof. Enes Eryarsoy University of Florida 2005

Assist. Prof. Ali Coşkun* The State University of Texas at Dallas 2009

Inst.Dr. Candan Karlıtekin The State University of New York 1988

Inst.Dr. Ahmet Gürsoy* Kocaeli University 2011

Inst. Yüce Zerey - -

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Computer Science and Engineering

Prof. Shervin Shirmohammadi University of Ottowa 2000

Assist. Prof. Ahmet Bulut University of California, Santa Barbara 2005

Assist. Prof. Ali Çakmak Case Western Reserve University 2008

Assist. Prof. Mehmet Serkan Apaydın Stanford University 2004

Assist. Prof. Tarık Arıcı Georgia Institute of Technology 2009

Assist. Prof. Onur Güzey University of California, Santa Barbara 2008

Assist. Prof. Barış Arslan University of California, San Diego 2013

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Prof. Ahmet Ademoğlu Boğaziçi University 1995

Assoc. Prof. Özdal Boyraz University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2001

Assoc. Prof. Ali Ersin Acar* University of Geneva 1998

Assist. Prof. Mehmet Tamer Özgün Columbia University 2005

Assist. Prof. Melikhan Tanyeri University of California 2006

Assist. Prof. Kemal Özdemir Syracuse University 2005

Assist. Prof. Hakan Doğan University of California, Berkeley 2005

Assist. Prof. İsmail Demirkan University of California, San Diego 2006

Industrial Engineering

Prof. Tahsin Erkan Türe University of California, Berkeley 1982

Prof. Muammer Koç Ohio State University 1999

Prof. Ayşe Soysal* University of Michigan 1976

Prof. Mehmet Naci İnci* Heriot-Watt University 1993

Prof. Gülen Aktaş* İstanbul University 1983

Assoc. Prof. Kaşif Teker Case Western Reserve University 2001

Assoc. Prof. Amir Azaron Tarbiat Modarres University 2000

Assoc. Prof. Vural Aksakallı Johns Hopkins University 2007

Assist. Prof. Bahadır Tunaboylu University of California, San Diego 1997

Assist. Prof. Hatice Tekiner Moğulkoç Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2010

Assist. Prof. Murat Küçükvar University of Central Florida 2013

Assist. Prof. Mehmet Fırat İlker* University of Massachusetts 2004

Inst. Adnan Dovan* - -

* Part Time Faculty

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RESEARCH AT ŞEHİRTECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OFFICE

ŞEHİR Technology Transfer Office provides our students with an environment which enables them to develop their project writing and management skills, reveal their characteristics of entrepreneurship, become acquainted with the business circle and have experience in start-up experience.

Operating on the idea that is implemented and evaluated through project, invention, patent and innovative ventures, ŞEHİR Technology Transfer Office assists our students as follows:

• Planning and writing projects, applying to TÜBİTAK and the like support programs?,

• Enabling free attendance of students to seminars on entrepreneurship given by experienced leaders in the business world,

• Organizing innovative idea and project competitions and enabling students to implement their ideas,

• Organizing trainings on business models and plans generation, and investor pitch preparations at the ŞEHİR Incubation Center,

• Accommodating student pre-incubation structures or start-ups while introducing student ideas, projects and start-ups to investors for support and investment at ŞEHİR Incubation Center,

• Arranging internships at an environment where students test their entrepreneurship in numerous incubation companies,

• Providing opportunities to students to prepare their undergraduate and graduate theses within the context of industrial thesis program implemented with various companies and institutions collaborating with Technology Transfer Office.

RESEARCH CENTERS

Center for Urban StudiesWe go deep down the city in economy, culture and social structuring. We transfer what we learn from ŞEHİR through research and analyses into the future of the city.

Center for Modern Turkish StudiesThere is a lot to learn from the last two centuries of Turkey in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities. Thanks to highly qualified academic research focusing on this period, we draw road maps for Turkey of the future.

Research Laboratories • Data Science Lab

• Neurotechnology Research and Application Laboratory

• Materials and Mechanical Testing Lab

• Physics Laboratory

• Electronics Lab

• Computer Lab

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ACADEMIC ADVISINGAt İstanbul Şehir University each student has an academic advisor. The advisors have one-to-one relationships with the students and give them guidance. Throughout their university life, advisors respond to students’ academic needs and their questions about their career expectations, by offering solutions.

DOUBLE MAJOR AND MINOR PROGRAMS

The double major program gives our students the opportunity to obtain diplomas from two departments. In the minor program, it is possible to obtain a certificate, which supports the main field of study with a less intensive course load.

THE CORE CURRICULUM

Plunging into the deep topics of the department selected in the first year at the university? Or clearing one’s mind after an intensive exam period, discovering an interdisciplinary education which will give students a holistic outlook on life beyond conventional academic compartmentalization, such as hard and soft or natural and social sciences? İstanbul Şehir University gives the answer to this question with its core curriculum program.

• Exploring Istanbul• Critical Thinking• Mathematical Reasoning• Understanding Society and

Culture• Understanding Politics and

Economy• World Civilizations and Global

Encounters• Understanding Science and

Technology• Understanding Nature and

Knowledge• Understanding Science and

Environment• Formations of Modern Turkey• Critical Reading and Writing in

Turkish• Textual Analysis; Effective

Communication and Academic Writing

• Turkish for International Students

As part of its unique spirit, İstanbul Şehir University provides its students with a motivating environment for being a competent engineer who is familiar with the major turning points in human history and recites poetry or a sociologist who doesn’t escape the poetry of mathematics.

EXPLORING İSTANBULYunus Uğur, Alim Arlı, Salih Pulcu, Fatih Altuğ, Eda Ünlü Yücesoy

This is the course for urban culture in general and Istanbul in particular. The main titles are world cities, individuals, places, arts, crafts, daily lives, and urban history. In addition to in-class discussions, the course includes guided tours and thematic presentations through which it is aimed at first, focusing on different life styles, cultures, structures, functions, and historical traditions in Istanbul and second, developing abilities of students for visual literacy and taking pictures.

CRITICAL THINKINGSinem Elkatip Hatipoğlu

This core course is designed to provide the basic skills and tools needed for thinking critically, analyzing information effectively, drawing valid conclusions, and presenting them persuasively. Topics include the relationship between language and thought, a basic introduction to symbolic logic, the structure and components of argumentation, fallacious reasoning, uncertainty and randomness, deductive and inductive reasoning, causality, decision making, and ethics and fair-mindedness.

MATHEMATICAL REASONINGM. Ali Çalışkan (part-time)

A review of fundamental concepts and tools of mathematics to develop the students’ understanding and skills of basic mathematical ideas, tools and techniques. Students will learn

An Inspiring Academic Life

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mathematical reasoning, to relate mathematical tools and concepts with their everyday life, thus using mathematics effectively to make better decisions throughout their lives. They will develop basic modeling skills with examples from nature, engineering, economics, music and arts. Active tutorials will provide them with hands-on practice for solving problems. A review of fundamental algebra will help them work comfortably with symbols and expressions. Simple team projects will encourage them to do research on a given topic, summarize findings and present them to an audience in a compact and attractive way. Regular class attendance with weekly preparation is needed.

UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY AND CULTURE Ferhat Kentel

This course, through familiarizing students with the basic concepts, themes and research agendas in the field of sociology, will introduce the participants to the understanding of the complexity of societies and cultures with the aim of developing a sociological imagination in the minds of the participants. It will try to make students involve in multiple ways of looking at the “familiar” world, societies, histories, and self but also to give them a sensibility towards the “unfamiliar” world of “others”. They will gain awareness of the major domains of individual and social life, and some major institutions including the self, everyday life, class and poverty, identities, racism, gender, city and modernity. The subjacent idea is that, in order to comprehend the changing world, one has to be able to use the tools of sociological analysis which are in constant transformation; and also one

has to develop a critical and creative approach in the face of continuities and discontinuities of social and cultural lives.

UNDERSTANDING POLITICS AND ECONOMYMustafa Özel

This course offers a systematic discussion of politics, economics, and management in a social context. First, the nature of states, ideologies, constitutions, and major political institutions, with special attention to global political interaction, will be stressed. Secondly, in a simplified form, micro/macro economic theory will be explained. Then, the basic principles of managing organizations will be discussed.

WORLD CIVILIZATIONS AND GLOBAL ENCOUNTERSGünhan Börekçi

World Civilizations and Global Encounters is a two-semester compulsory university course providing a cross-cultural overview of world history from ancient to modern times. The course proceeds chronologically, but has the objective of exploring crucial themes of human activity from a global perspective. The diversity of human civilizations will be traced in terms of their historical, cultural, political and economic formation with a special emphasis on their interactions, similarities and differences. The ultimate aim of the course is to reflect on the concept of historical change and its connotations for the present day.

UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Tarik M. Quadir (part-time)

This course is designed as an introduction to the basic principles and concepts of physical and

information sciences, and the comprehension of scientific information and the understanding of issues of science and technology in contemporary society. The course is suitable for students with backgrounds in both natural/physical and social sciences. It allows students in physical and information sciences to think more critically about the impact and consequences of their work on society. It allows students from social sciences to develop a critical understanding of the role of science and technology in the world. The basic goal of this interdisciplinary course is to cross some of the assumed and traditional boundaries drawn between physical and social sciences. The purpose of the course is the study of how scientific and technological innovations affect social, political and cultural values, and how these in turn affect science and technology. Goals of the course include understanding the relationship between society and scientific and technological innovation, and the directions and risks of science and technology. The issues of ethics and how it relates to science and technology practices will also be discussed through several case studies. Examples will span a variety of areas from computer science to biomedicine, from neuroscience to physics, genetic modification and mathematics.

UNDERSTANDING NATURE AND KNOWLEDGETarik M. Quadir (part-time)

In this course, we study the history of natural philosophy from Ancient Period to the 19th century to understand the common philosophical/cosmological background on which the natural, behavioral and social sciences reside, to study the metaphysical

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foundations of the scientific/scholarly knowledge, to trace the temporal and regional as well as permanent aspects of scientific/scholarly thought and to build up a holistic view towards nature, knowledge and science.

UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTTarik M. Quadir (part-time)

This course explores the state of the current environmental/ecological crisis, the proposed solutions to the crisis, and the way nature of science we practice is related to state of the natural world around us. After a summary of the different aspects of the crisis, the course discusses the most direct causes behind the crisis and the nature of the mainstream environmentalism. Next, the course explores the deepest causes of the crisis which help to explain why mainstream environmentalism has largely failed to turn the tide of environmental degradation in the last 40 years. Finally, how do the alternative approaches, including religious environmentalism, might have more comprehensive answers to the crisis?

FORMATIONS OF MODERN TURKEY Coşkun Çakır, Burhanettin Duran, Kasım Kopuz

This course will aim to understand the political, social, economic and cultural roots and processes of modern Turkey from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. All aspects of Ottoman modernization and the path leading to the Republic from the experiences of Tanzimat Reforms and Constitutionalism will be evaluated in relation to the then contemporary developments in the world. In addition to the dynamics and factors that shaped modern

Turkey, this course will focus on the continuities and ruptures between Ottoman Turkey and Republican Turkey.

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING IN TURKISH Akın Tek, Erkan Irmak, Bahadır Sürelli, Deniz Aktan Küçük, Yalçın Armağan, İlhan Süzgün

The aim of this course is to describe what ‘text’ signifies, discuss the basic features of oral, printed and electronic text forms and analyze these forms with examples from daily life. The course is designed to discuss how the idea of text acquires variety in cultural life. Firstly, the focus will be on the production, circulation and reception processes of the text. Afterwards, the textual styles produced by oral culture, written culture and printed culture will be addressed in continuity with the conditions of their historical genesis. The basic features of oral culture and literary forms based on orality will be described, after which the traces of oral culture in daily life will be discussed. With the aim of demonstrating how writing and reading practices have been affected by the advent of the printing press, the main features of textual forms before printing will be presented and the printing press’s transformation of these features will be showed. After the evaluation of the role of the printing press in the formation of the modern notion of literature, the features specific to each form of printed text with a low level of fiction, such as newspaper articles, columns, articles and essays will be discussed with examples. In this course based on in-class discussion, after the main concepts are presented, the students are expected to discuss different textual forms and afterwards write essays, which analyze different aspects of these forms. Thus the students will have a firsthand experience of the production, circulation

and reception practices of the text.

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AND ACADEMIC WRITINGDeniz Ezgi Avcı Vile, Aylin Yurdacan, Rakesh Jobanputra, Burcu Gürkan, Linda Williams, Hardy Griffin, Casey Kessenich

This course aims to endow students with the skills and tools necessary for the ability to analyze texts critically and objectively and to engage in effective written and oral communication. Students will read, analyze, discuss, and respond to texts of diverse genres, subject matter, tones and styles. They will learn and develop a variety of skills necessary throughout their education, such as summarizing, paraphrasing, argumentation and description. The course will deal with scientific and artistic, academic and creative, literary and factual, formal and informal styles of reading and writing. Through this course, students will gain the necessary communicative and analytical skills that will aid them not only throughout their education but also in their future careers.

TURKISH FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS Emine H. Doğan, Şebnem Graf, Zeynep Şahinler (part-time)

Turkish for International Students is a communicative job-based language course and has been designed for students who do not speak Turkish. It has the quality of entrance to Turkish daily life culture in modern Turkey. During the course students will acquire funamental language skills as grammar, listening, writing and speaking and will complete assignments given to them in certain places and situations. In this course where the only administrator is the instructor, students are expected an active learning.

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SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES

LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTIONThe major instruction language at ŞEHİR is English. However, students are offered several core and elective courses to develop their skills in comprehensive reading, writing and speaking in Turkish.

ENGLISH PREPARATORY PROGRAM

The School of Languages English Preparatory Program aims to provide all our students with the English oral and written communication skills, the reading and listening skills with which to conduct their academic work. In the English Preparatory Program, the students will see that learning English is not limited to filling out empty spaces with the right grammar or memorizing the Turkish equivalents of English words. Our aim is to enable them to engage in active communication using the language In the program where the modular system is implemented, beginning with the first level, the students will be asked to make presentations, prepare video projects, participate in group discussion, and write academic texts using the library

resources. In addition to these, to make the English language part of our lives, we prepare English poetry readings, musical and theatrical events. Half of the English Preparatory School team consists of instructors who are native speakers of English. These instructors will also take part in many clubs, such as theater, English debate and photography, and help the students learn the language while they are doing the things they love.

In the English Preparatory Program which benefits from all the possibilities of information technologies, the students will be educated in classes where smart boards are actively used, and do their work and trace their progress via the LMS (Learning Management System).

At İstanbul Şehir University, the English Proficiency Test is IELTS, one of the most valid international English assessment tests worldwide. We administer the Academic Module of IELTS to all our students who successfully complete the English Preparatory Program.

In the English Preparatory Program which will develop the students’ skills in conducting personal and group work, evaluating their individual talents, critical thinking, active listening and studying, we will be in touch with you not only in class but also outside of class. We will have an enjoyable learning period with cultural and artistic events, concerts and trips in İstanbul.

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INTERNATIONALINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OFFICE

İstanbul Şehir University is a leading university, making Turkey a center for attraction in the field of education both in its region and in the World. Within this context, ŞEHİR gives priority to internationalization through academic cooperation and exchange programs with universities abroad as well as through admission of international degree students. The University has taken important steps to create a multi-cultural campus environment.

The International Relations Office (IRO) is the central coordinating unit for all international affairs at ŞEHİR. It mainly aims to attract the best students from all over the world for degree programs. Moreover, it establishes international partnerships in order to increase the student and staff mobility.

IRO’s range of activities and responsibility areas can be shown as:

INTERNATIONAL DEGREE STUDENTS

International degree students from over 60 different countries already comprise about 20% of the entire student body and this percentage is expected to increase each year in accordance with the strategic plan of the university.

IRO is the first port of call for prospective international degree students at ŞEHİR. It coordinates the admission process of the international students and provides them the necessary guidance and assistance throughout their stay at ŞEHİR.

Valuing cultural diversity on the campus, ŞEHİR provides a safe and convenient learning environment for international students and offers them a friendly and cosmopolitan experience.

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE AND COOPERATION PROGRAMS

ŞEHİR aims to encourage both the students and staff to participate in international multilateral projects, mobility programs, conferences and seminars as they contribute to the improvement of the management skills, as well as personal and professional development through broader exposure to different cultures, teaching and learning experiences.IRO coordinates international student, faculty, and staff mobility with partner universities worldwide, within Europe predominantly through Erasmus Program; outside of Europe through ŞEHİR exchange programs.Here is the list of all international partners ŞEHİR already has cooperation agreements with:

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

• Global Problem - Solving Consortium (İstanbul Şehir University (Turkey), University of Brasilia (Brazil), University of Delhi (India), National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia), Tsinghua University (China), Yonsei University (South Korea), Kenyatta University (Kenya), George Mason University (USA)Georgia State University (USA)

• INCEIF (Malaysia)

• George Mason University (USA)

• China University of Political Science and Law (China)

• University of Sheffield (England)

• The City University (Somalia)

ŞEHİR INTERNATIONAL

RELATIONS OFFICE

International Cooperation Unit

Internships Abroad Unit

International Student Recruitment Unit

Exchange Programs Unit

Faculty Cooperation and Intercultural Curriculum

Development Unit

International Summer Programs Unit

International Projects Unit (including Social Responsibility Projects)

International Promotion and Marketing Unit

International Student Support Unit

Strategic Research and Publications Unit

Internalization in Higher Education Training Unit

International Visitor /Protocol Unit

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ERASMUS BILATERAL AGREEMENTS

• Central European University (Hungary)

• University of Aegean (Greece)

• University of Bamberg (Germany)

• University of Beira Interior (Portugal)

• University of Bologna (Italy)

• University of Bonn (Germany)

• University of Castilla - La Mancha (Spain)

• Cologne Business School (Germany)

• University of Crete (Greece)

• Dennis Gabor College (Hungary)

• University of Edinburgh (UK)

• University of Genoa (Italy)

• University of Ghent (Belgium)

• University of Groningen (Netherlands)

• Hochschule Bremen (Germany)

• Hochschule Zittau / Gorlitz (Germany)

• Karlshochschule International University (Germany)

• Keele University (UK)

• University of Leuven (Belgium)

• University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

• Metropolitan University Prague (Czech Republic)

• Mid-Sweden University (Sweden)

• Opole University of Technology (Poland)

• University of Palermo (Italy)

• Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Greece)

• University of Pavia (Italy)

• University of Picardie Jules Verne (France)

• Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)

• University of Sheffield (UK)

• University of Silesia (Poland)

• Stockholms University (Sweden)

• University of Tübingen (Germany)

• Umea University (Sweden)

• Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)

• University of Wroclaw (Poland)

• University Of Zaragoza (Spain)

ERASMUS INTENSIVE LANGUAGE COURSE (EILC)

ŞEHİR organizes the Erasmus Intensive Turkish Course (EILC) biannually, at the beginning of fall and spring semesters. The aim of ŞEHİR EILC is to increase the quality of mobility within Erasmus, as well as the volume of incoming

Erasmus mobility. EILC students are an integral part of ŞEHİR internationalization project.

EILC ŞEHİR is a communicative task-based language course, designed for students with no Turkish language background. It is the introduction to Turkish language and daily culture in modern day Turkey. Throughout the course, students learn the basic language skills, besides different aspects of Turkish social, political and economic life through Turkey Talks series given by prominent faculty members of the University on a wide range of lecture topics and current developments.

ŞEHİR EILC has an interactive and ICT based approach. All of our classrooms are equipped with Internet and sound systems. In our smart classrooms, we try to keep communication open in meaningful and enjoyable ways.

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PROJECTS• “Widen your view in Turkey: Take better

care of each other!”: ŞEHİR established a cooperation link with Vitalis College within the framework of Wereld Proeftuinen initiative which was launched in 2010 by the Dutch Ministry of Education and the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture & Food for realization of “ the project.

• “Global Exchange Meeting”: ŞEHİR students were encouraged to participate “Global Exchange Meeting” which was organized by L’Ecole Nationale de Commerce et de Geestion of El Jadida (ENCG-J) in Morocco. The main purpose of this meeting was to build friendship and develop pacific relationships between the five continents students’.

• “Energy City- Fostering Scientific Curiosity through Strengthening Teachers’ and Students’ Understandings of Energy and Inquiry”: The project was organized in August 2013 in collaboration with the Qatar Foundation and Engineering Faculty of İstanbul Şehir University.

• “Projects under LLP Erasmus and Erasmus+ Programs”: ŞEHİR organized “New Media Literacy and Empowerment for Democracy” workshop for adult learners in September 2012. New projects will be initiated under Erasmus+ Program.

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USA

Afghanistan

Mongolia

Yemen

BahrainIndia

Maldive Islands

Seychelles

Mauritius

Iraq

Russia

Iran

Egypt

Jordan

SudanChad

Libya

Israel

United Arab Emirates

Saudi Arabia

Kazakhstan

EritreaSomalia

Djibouti

Ethiopia

Rwanda

Burundi

Kenya

Malawi

Mozambique

Swaziland

Tanzania

Uganda

Botswana

Namibia

Ivory Coast

Congo

Togo

Benin

Central Africa

Burkina FasoMali

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Lesotho

Cameroon

Angola

Brazil

Liberia

Ghana

Bangladesh

Indonesia

Sri Lanka

China

Nepal

Bhutan

Laos

Taiwan

Japan

Philippines

Australia

Pakistan

Cambodia

Vietnam

Malaysia

Thailand

Papua New Guinea

Denmark

Germany

Kosovo

Macedonia

Azerbaijan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Uzbekistan

Turkmenistan

Georgia

Syria

Ukraine

Romania

Moldova

Estonia

Palestine

AlbaniaPortugal

Lebanon

Canada

Sweden

Algeria

Niger

Gambia

Senegal

St. Lucia

Haiti

Sierra Leone

Nigeria

Mauritania

Guinea

MoroccoTunusia

Austria

Hungary

Serbia

France

LatviaLithuania

ItalyMontenegro

BosniaHerzegovina

Poland

The Netherlands

Belgium

United Kingdom

Bulgaria

ComoroIslads

SpainGreece

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Honduras

The country of students who apply

The country of students who are enrolled

ŞEHİR INTERNATIONAL STUDENT DIVERSITY2010 - 2013

Gabon

Guinea-Bissau

IrelandSlovenia

Jamaica

Slovakia

Colombia

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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOLŞEHİR organizes summer school programs in cooperation with George Mason University in the USA and with other partner institutions from all over the world in order to strengthen bilateral relations and areas of international collaboration.

The first summer school took place in İstanbul in 2011 with participation of graduate students of “Conflict Analysis and Resolution” and “Global Studies” departments of George Mason University. The focus was on Turkish foreign policy and identity dynamics. The second was organized in Washington DC within the same year, as a 5 week training program for ŞEHİR students with a focus on US history and culture.

İstanbul Şehir University also took part in the first intensive summer workshop organized by the Global Problem - Solving Consortium in 2013. The “Water Management for Environmental Sustainability” workshop explored water scarcity around the world from local, national and international perspectives.

ŞEHİR is organizing an international summer program in 2014 for students from George Mason University and from current and prospective partner institutions.

İstanbul Şehir University does not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, language and religion.

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UTILITIESLAPTOP COMPUTERSLaptops on the laps

İstanbul Şehir University gives laptop computers to all of its undergraduate degree students. In an educational environment where technology is used extensively, these computers will be the major helpers of the undergraduate students. Their laptop computers will connect the students to the İstanbul Şehir University family and the world at large.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

Information technologies are developing and changing very fast. With the advantage of being a new university, İstanbul Şehir University created its information technologies infrastructure with this change in mind. At İstanbul Şehir University, students receive education at specially designed classrooms and are able to access everywhere from the campus and access the campus from everywhere, in line with the “Smart University” concept.

COPY CENTERİstanbul Şehir University has multifunctional printers accessible to everyone, located in common areas. These printers can print, scan and photocopy. In addition, the printing center at the university offers professional service with expert staff.

ŞEHİR CARDAt İstanbul Şehir University, each student has a contact-free bankcard. This card also serves as the student ID card. With ŞEHİR Card the students may benefit from dining hall, cafeteria, photocopy and library services. As it is also a bankcard, it may also be used for banking outside of the campus.

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LIBRARYA Large gate opening to research

İstanbul Şehir University aims to have the biggest university library in Turkey in the medium-term. ŞEHİR Library that started to render service on October 2010 has more than 190.000 printed and electronic publications in its 3rd year in line with its aim of a “big library”. In this library, which contains written, printed, magnetic and electronic resources within its sources and which grows rapidly, patrons can reach to a wide range of literature in their field.

All publications needed by the patrons are added to the library through purchase, donation or exchange.

Library is planned not only to support academic and scientific studies but also to be at the center of social life at ŞEHİR with its cultural activities.

The ŞEHİR library, as an integral part of academic studies, aims to closely follow the innovations in librarianship and information technologies and provide the students with these innovations as soon as possible.

ŞEHİR students and the staff can have access to all sources in the Library freely from the Campuses or by using the number given in their ŞEHİR cards

and their e-mails via a computer with internet connection from outside the campus borders. Patrons can support their studies while enjoying their leisure time via collection of more than 3 000 movies and audio books.

THE ŞEHİR LIBRARY WITH NUMBERSnumber of libraries 3

work hours per week 7 days / 86.5 hours

number of printed books 96.752

number of audio/video DVDs 3.827

number of printed journals 250

number of printed newspapers 18

number of electronic journals 33.481

number of electronic books 248.000

number of subscribed databases 27

number of open access databases 21

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STUDENT LIFETogether life is beatiful

STUDENT UNIONİstanbul Şehir University Student Union is a democratic organization, which is constituted by students with a view to make contributions for the improvement of İstanbul Şehir University, to solve the problems of students, to convey their proposals to relevant departments in the order of their priority, to strengthen communication between students themselves and among the students and the organizations inside and outside of the University and to represent the University whenever required.

The basic construction of Student Union is determined in a conference that was open to all the students. As a result, in the system which has been designed by our students, Student Union has been proposed to have a transparent and fast operating structure, in which there is an equal representation of all students based on direct democracy and with no hierarchy, for the benefits of the students.

The most important body of Student Union is Student Council, which is formed by all Şehir students until their graduations. The Student Council has regular meetings and elects the temporary and permanent representatives required for the operation of the Union. The members of Student Council are in direct communication with each other in an electronic environment, which has been designed by the University.

The Student Union works to provide participation of students to the administration of the University. It also provides the evaluation of all kinds of opinions in an order and tries to enable the reflection of these opinions on the campus life.

STUDENT CLUBSAs an essential part of academic studies, Student Clubs are integral parts of university life. Students clubs are active and productive environments in which intellectual skills are developed along with the academic studies; and projects and ideas spring to life with an organized socialization while enabling communication.

İstanbul Şehir University Student Clubs has a variety which can provide ŞEHİR Students with an atmosphere that has the required vision and infrastructure ideas for individual attempts, project teams, groups and ideas of ŞEHİR which

aims to gain an international vision while supporting scientific progress with values.

ŞEHİR Music, ŞEHİR Foto Club, Management, Politics, Riding, ITEC (Information Technology and Engineering Club), Drama, Dance, Münazara, Debating, FAAL Students Group, Polithink, Engineering, International Club, Law Students Community, Orienteering Club, Reasonable Steps, Club Cultural, Chess, ŞEHİR Psychology, Minval Student Society, Young Enterpreneurs , Conversation Club, Cine Club, Volunteers Club of Şehir, Organization and Trip Club, Gastronomy, Reasonable Steps and ŞEHİR FM are some of the a wide range of clubs. ŞEHİR Student Clubs realized several qualified activities and events in a very short time since their foundation.

www.sehir.fm

twitter.com/sehir_fm

facebook.com/sehir.fm

GUESTHOUSESThey will feel at home

Our guesthouses designated for male and female students so that they can feel themselves at home are also in striking distance to our university and to the central points of the city.

There are laundry rooms for washing, drying and ironing needs of our students at the guesthouses. Common areas are cleaned every day and the rooms are cleaned by the cleaning personnel according to the schedule. Study rooms are designed as suitably to the studies of our students and; there is incessant and free access to the Internet at the guesthouses.

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FOODFood for gourmet

The dining hall at the Altunizade East, West and South campuses has been planned as a place where students and faculty members will eat the same food and share the same environment. At our dining halls where the priority is to offer healthy food; breakfast, lunch and dinner are offered between seven days a week. While breakfast is open buffet; in the lunch and dinner, there is a multiple choice food stand, a salad bar containing various salads and vegetables, as well as dessert and drink stands. The Company providing the food service possesses the ISO 22000 / HACCP / ISO 9001 / OHSAS 18001 / ISO 14001 / TSE certificates.

The cafeterias, which are located at the campuses, offer bakery products, breakfast, and various kinds of coffee, tea and cold drinks in addition to fast food options. Our cafeterias serve as a meeting point for our students with their indoor and outdoor areas.

HEALTHThey are in safe hands

Health services at İstanbul Şehir University are carried out by the health center where one doctor and one nurse are on duty. All of our students have access to the health center within work hours. The first examination is done by the doctor on duty. The health center of İstanbul Şehir University has all the necessary emergency equipment.

SPORTSClosed Sports Areas

West Campus Fitness Hall South Campus Fitness HallWest Campus Studio for Exercise Group Courses South Campus Spinning StudioSouth Campus Multi-purpose Studio

Open Sports AreasEast Campus Basketball CourtEast Campus Volleyball CourtEast Campus Synthetic Turf Mini Football Field

Exercise Group CoursesABS&GYMBALLAerodynamicCore PilatesFat LoosingHatha YogaYoga PilatesH.A.T.Tae-boPower YogaSpinning

Sports CoursesAikidoWing-tsunTaekwondoFit-boxingTennisSailing

Sports TournamentsŞEHİR Cup Table Tennis TournamentŞEHİR Cup Football TournamentŞEHİR Cup Volleyball TournamentŞEHİR Cup Streetball (3x3) Basketball Tournament

Sports Teamsİstanbul Şehir University Basketball Men’s Teamİstanbul Şehir University Football Team

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SCHOLARSHIPS AND TUITION FEESA high number of unrequited scholarship opportunities

SCHOLARSHIPSİstanbul Şehir University provides for both Turkish students and international students unrequited scholarship opportunity at high rates. No condition of grade average or of succeeding in the course is required for the continuation of the scholarships in the University.

In İstanbul Şehir University, Full Scholarship includes tuition waiver, free accommodation and free dining services.

Students who rank well in the University entrance exam and prefer ŞEHİR benefit from special opportunities as monthly stipend.

The scholarships are completely focused on the success of students in İstanbul Şehir University. Along with the university entrance scholarships, students who are highly satisfactory in their studies are granted academic achievement scholarship.

İstanbul Şehir University which aims to host talented students from different countries is among the universities, which grants scholarships to international students in Turkey at high rates. For detailed information about scholarship opportunities, please visit our website.

TUITION FEES Tuition fee and guesthouse fees in İstanbul Şehir University is determined each year by the Board of Trustees. Considering the prices and cost increases, the fees are determined so as not to be higher than the CPI. İstanbul Şehir University provides the facility of payment in installments for the tuition fees.

CALL CENTERIs there a problem?

The Call Center aims to guarantee the continuity of the resources of our university and promptly offer support to any problem at the university. Students can contact the call center for any problems, including the IT infrastructure in classrooms, dining hall service hours, issues such as ventilation or heating and internet connection speeds.

PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE CENTER

ŞEHİR Psychological Counseling and Guidance Center is ready to support you in all emotional, social and mental problems students may experience in both university adaptation process and as young adults.

Counseling Services are available for free for all of our students. All you need to do is to send an e-mail to [email protected] and get an appointment from the Center for our counseling services within work hours and work days.

Our Clinical Psychologists in the Center will help students through personal psycho-therapy, personal counseling interviews and group activities. All interviews and assessments in ŞEHİR Psychological Counseling and Guidance Center are conducted with the principle of secrecy and impartiality. Thus, students can share their problems, emotions and thoughts with ease and trust.

TRANSPORTATION Access to the Altunizade complex-located at the most central spot of the Anatolian side of Istanbul- is very easy with public transportation. Our campus is within 500 meters walking distance to the Altunizade metrobus stop located at the point where the European and Anatolian sides meet. Lovers of sea transportation who live on the European side can come to Kadıköy or Üsküdar and arrive at our campus with a single bus ride lasting fifteen minutes with the service busses.

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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences has chosen a unique structure in the university system in Turkey and brought together the human and social aspects of our lives.

At the College there are six departments: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology, Psychology, History, Turkish Language and Literature, Philosophy.

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

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Prof. ÜMİT CİZREReceived her B.A degree from London University and Ph.D. from Ankara University. Prof. Cizre taught as the “Ertegün Visiting Professor in Turkish Studies” in Princeton University and held research positions at European University Institute in Florence, Princeton University and Binghamton University SUNY. Her primary research interests cover democracy problems, civil-military relations, democratic governance of security sector, nationalist and right- wing politics in Turkey.

Prof. BURHANETTİN DURANHe is a professor of political science. He studied at Boğaziçi University, and got M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science and Public Administration from Bilkent University. He worked at Bilkent and Sakarya University. He was a visiting scholar at Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University (2010-2011). His research interests include Islamism, Turkish political life, the history of Turkish-Islamic political thought and Turkish foreign policy

Assist.Prof. VÜGAR İMANBEYLİİmanbeyli graduated from İstanbul University with a degree in History, from Boğaziçi University with an MA in History and from Marmara University with a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations. He focuses on politics in Eurasia, Russian foreign policy, Turkish-Russian relations and Eurasian dimension of Turkish foreign policy.

Assist.Prof. TALHA KÖSE(Department Chair)Talha Köse completed his undergraduate studies at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University (2000). He completed his M.A. at the Conflict Analysis and Resolution Program of Sabancı University (2002). He obtained his Ph.D. degree at George Mason University Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. His research areas include Conflict Analysis and Resolution, mediation, reconciliation processes and international conflicts and Alevi identity.

Assist.Prof. HASAN KÖSEBALABANHe obtained his BA degree in Political Science at the International Islamic University, Malaysia, his MA degree in International Relations at the International University of Japan and his Ph.D. degree in Political Science at the University of Utah. He offered courses on Middle East and East. Asian politics, globalization and Turkish politics at various universities, including the University of Utah, Mississippi State University, Michigan State University and Lake Forest College.

Assist.Prof. AHMET OKUMUŞHe completed his undergraduate studies at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University (1999). He obtained his M.A. degree from the Department of International Relations at Fatih University (2001). He is currently finishing his PhD thesis at Sabancı University. Okumuş gives courses such as The Politics of New Aristotelianism, Modern Political Thought, Historical Imagination and International Relations, Humanities and Society.

Inst. MUZAFFER ŞENELHe got BA degree from Near Eastern University, Lefkoşa, TRNC and M.A. from EUI of Marmara University and continuing PhD. at Marmara University. He worked at Kocaeli and Marmara University. He was visiting researcher at Teleki Lázsló Institute; Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and Centre for Islamic Studies at Oxford University. His areas of research are the security-identity-order relationship, Turkish foreign policy, Cyprus, European Union politics and international relations, the Middle East policy of the European Union and neighbor politics.

Prof. BERDAL ARALProf. Berdal Aral received his BA in the International Relations department of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, in 1985. He conducted his postgraduate studies, first, at the University of Kent (England) in 1990. He then took up a PhD programme at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) in 1994. He has written numerous articles on international law, human rights and Turkish foreign policy some of which have appeared in international journals and other publications.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

How well do we know the running of politics, which directly affects our lives? What is the state? How do law and politics shape our lives?

Why do parties exist? Why do we vote? What part do civil society and the media have in politics? To what extent does the economy determine politics? Where do identities stand in the political system? Why are there wars? How are conflicts resolved? Why is international law important? Where is the international system heading? How do global issues affect our daily lives? Is Turkey’s international position changing?

These are some of the questions debated by the discipline of Political Science and International Relations. This discipline examines many issues, from the operation of states and local governments to international issues, from national politics to world politics, from cultural interactions to the political and social outcomes of economic crises.

With its academic staff of large international experience and its dynamic curriculum, the Department of Political Science and International Relations at İstanbul Şehir University invites students to the colorful world of politics and international relations. At our department, students can create their personal course schedule according to their own preferences. For this purpose we have grouped our courses under specific modules: Politics and Diplomacy, Public Administration and Local Governments, Management-Economics, Media and Civil Society. The flexible module system, to be followed with active guidance support, will give students the opportunity to develop themselves freely in areas of their own wish. In addition, by participating in double major and minor programs, students will have the chance to obtain a second diploma/certificate; with our international agreements and the Erasmus Exchange Program, they will spend at least one semester abroad and acquire valuable international experience.

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Prof. MESUT YEĞENHe received B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in sociology from Middle East Technical University and Ph.D. in sociology from Essex University. He taught at the Department of Sociology of Anatolia University and the Department of Sociology of Middle East Technical University. His research and publications have focused on Turkish nationalism, Kurdish question and citizenship in Turkey.

Prof. FERHAT KENTELHe received his BA of Management from Middle-East Technical University (1981), his MA of Political Science and Public Administration from Ankara University (1983) and his PhD of Sociology from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1989). He taught at Marmara University and İstanbul Bilgi University. His research areas include modernity, everyday life, new social movements, religion, Islamic movements and ethnic communities.

Prof. ŞERİF MARDİNOne of the most prominent Turkish social scientists, Şerif Mardin received his PhD from Stanford University in 1958. He has been a guest researcher and professor at many well-known institutions, including Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, California-Berkeley, Oxford, and EHESS. He also acted as the chairman of the Center for Islamic Studies at the American University between 1989 and 1999. In Turkey, he has worked at Ankara, Boğaziçi and Sabancı universities, from which he retired in 2011. He has also contributed greatly to the Turkish social sciences -and to Re-thinking the social in this society- with his many influential books and articles.

Assoc.Prof. NURULLAH ARDIÇ (Department Chair)He received his BA and MA from Boğaziçi University (1999 and 2001), and another M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) in Sociology (2005 and2009). His areas of interest include Historical Sociology, Religion and Politics in the Middle East, Ottoman-Turkish Modernization, Social Theory, Globalization, Historical-Comparative Methods, and Discourse Analysis.

Assist.Prof. EDA ÜNLÜ YÜCESOYEda Ünlü-Yücesoy is a faculty member at the Department of Sociology and researcher at the Center for Urban Studies Research. She is an urban planner and social geographer with B. Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Middle East Technical University and Ph.D. from Utrecht University. As a post-doc, she worked at the Graduate Program in Architectural Design at İstanbul Bilgi University.

Assist.Prof. MEHMET FATİH AYSANHe earned his PhD from University of Western Ontario (2011) and taught Sociology in the same university (2010-2012). His sociological interests are rooted at the intersection of sociology of work, demography, and social policy. His study centers on how labour markets and social policies combine to influence welfare of societies. His research is comparative with a focus on Europe, North America, and Middle East.

Assist.Prof. ALİM ARLIAlim Arlı is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. He received his BA and MA from Ankara University (2000 and 2003), and earned his PhD from Istanbul University (2009). He also participated in the foundation of İstanbul Şehir University and taught at Pamukkale University. His research has focused on contemporary social theory, sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu, Turkish Sociology, Urban Sociology and Ethnography and the Sociology of Higher Education.

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SOCIOLOGYDo cities have souls? Why do people get lonelier as cities grow larger? Is the information about our identity limited to what is written on our ID card? We always hear about it, what is this postmodernism? Why do some things become trendy? How was life before the internet and mobile phones? How are the conflicts within society resolved? How do organizations such as companies, states and NGOs operate? How do culture and politics influence one another? Why are some people religious, some nationalist, liberal or socialist? How do religions and ideologies shape our attitudes and values, or even the economy? How do civilizations rise and fall? For students looking for answers to important questions such as these, İstanbul Şehir University Department of Sociology will be the right address.

İstanbul, the location of İstanbul Şehir University, is an extraordinary laboratory for sociologists. The dynamic economy, cultural life and mind- boggling diversity of this city, one of the largest metropolitan areas of the world, are a rare treasure for the sociologists of today (and tomorrow). The Department of Sociology, formed in awareness of this treasure, offers a large variety of knowledge with its educational structure centered on the student. Our department has close relations with the departments of History, Economics, Management, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Philosophy and Literature. Our major goals are helping the students acquire the skill of thinking analytically and profoundly about the society in which they live and preparing the students for a large variety of professions for after graduation.

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Prof. MEDAİM YANIKHe received his MD from İstanbul University School of Medicine. He completed his psychiatry residency at Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine (2000). He was a faculty member and also served as department chair at Harran University Department of Psychiatry (2000-2005). He served as the head of Bakırköy Education and Research Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery (2005-2009). His research interests are cultural psychiatry/psychology, political psychiatry/ psychology, conflict analysis and resolution.

Assist.Prof. SAMİ ABUHAMDEHHe had previously been Visiting Assistant Professor at the American University in Cairo. Sami’s current research focus is intrinsic motivation - the motivation to engage in an activity because you enjoy it, rather than for reasons extrinsic to the activity. His work examines the situational factors that promote intrinsic motivation, as well as the more immediate phenomenological factors that mediate these relationships.

Assist.Prof. ELİF ÇELEBİShe completed her doctorate in counseling psychology at the University of Missouri- Columbia. Her research interests include interrelations among ethnic identity and well being, multicultural and women’s issues, mental health services in medical settings, and vocational psychology. Her clinical interests are in dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, and family therapy.

Assist.Prof. CEREN ACARTÜRK (Department Chair)She received her bachelor degree from Boğaziçi University in 2001. She completed her master in clinical psychology at Middle East Technical University (2002-2004). She studied the Epidemiology of Social Anxiety Disorder during her PhD at Vrije University, Amsterdam (2006-2009). As a post doc at Amsterdam Medical School (Amsterdam University), she prepared the mental health section of the HELIUS Project (Healthy Life in Urban Settings). Her research interests are mood and anxiety disorders, migration/refugees, psychological trauma, cognitive behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).

Assist.Prof. İBRAHİM ŞENAYHe received his PhD in Psychology from University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2006) and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (2006-2008). Later, he joined the Psychology Department at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL as a Visiting Assistant Professor (2008-2010) and the Department of Guidance and Psychological Counseling at Zirve University, Gaziantep, Turkey (2010-2012). He conducts research in the areas of social cognition, goals, motivation and health behavior.

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PSYCHOLOGY“What is schizophrenia? Why do we fall in love? Does watching video games and movies with violent content make children violent? What is the emotional quotient?” These are only some of the questions asked by the science of psychology. Psychology is a diverse discipline, which finds unlimited application in daily life. Cognitive, social, developmental, environmental, and clinical, industrial and organizational, health, forensic psychology and cognitive neuroscience are some of the subfields of psychology which form a very large spectrum.

The Department of Psychology at İstanbul Şehir University has an academic staff where clinical psychology, counseling, psychiatry, social and cognitive psychology are represented; it is a department which is student friendly, works with other social sciences, has a large perspective and provides both a scientific understanding and professional skills. With our curriculum, which has been prepared in a balanced and flexible manner, which reflects the richness of the issues and methodological differences in the discipline of psychology, students will acquire the scientific and practical background in the subfield in which they wish to specialize. All of our courses have been designed to help you work with an active, internal motivation and improve your critical / analytical thinking skills. Students who wish to do an M.A. or Ph.D. will have the chance to work on projects in laboratories with faculty members in the fields of social and clinical psychology and present the results of their research in national and international conferences.

Students will be able to do their internships at municipalities, medical colleges, hospitals, companies and schools according to the cooperations developed with these places. Students will graduate from the Department of Psychology at İstanbul Şehir University with a strong background in the major topics, approaches and practices of psychology, with a capacity to express themselves eloquently in both written and oral format, in both Turkish and English, having completed their course and internship programs in accordance with their future goals.

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Prof. KEMAL KARPATHe received his degree from the Department of Law at İstanbul University in 1947, and completed his post-graduate degree at Washington University in political science, and his doctorate at New York University in Political and Social Sciences (1957).He has acted as director for the Turkish Studies Association and the Turkish Research Institution at the University of Wisconsin. Karpat also served as the coordinator of the Central Asian Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin.

MEHMET GENÇHe graduated from Ankara University, the Faculty of Political Science, Department of Finance and Economics in 1958. He was awarded a doctorate honors diploma in general sociology and methodology from İstanbul University, Faculty of Letters in 1996. An important selection of the articles are included in the work entitled State and Economy in the Ottoman Empire (İstanbul: Ötüken, 2000); this book was awarded the Fikir (Idea) Award by the Union of Turkish Writers in the year it was published.

Prof. COŞKUN ÇAKIRHe graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences at İstanbul University in 1987. He worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Economics (1989) of the same university; after completing a postgraduate degree (1990) and a doctorate (1998) in the economic history program. Between 2004 and 2007 Çakır was in the USA, where he worked as a visiting lecturer at North Carolina and Georgetown universities. His areas of specialization are the socio- economic structure and the history of Turkey.

Prof. CENGİZ KALLEKHe graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Business Management (1982). He completed a postgraduate degree in Islamic law (1989) and a doctorate in economic history (1994) at the Marmara University. From 1994 to 1996 he held posts as assistant associate professor at the International Islamic University in Malaysia, and also from 1997 to 1999 as full professor at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization.

Assoc.Prof. ABDULHAMİT KIRMIZI(Department Chair)Focusing his attention on the last century of Ottoman History, he has carried out research predominantly on biography, bureaucracy, nationalism and narrative. After completing his education at Ankara University (SBF), Hacettepe University and Boğaziçi University, Kırmızı completed post-doctorate studies at University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. Kırmızı has been on the editorial board for the Turkish Studies Review (TALID) since the date of its establishment.

Assist.Prof. GÜNHAN BÖREKÇİAfter graduating from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University (1996), he completed his post-graduate study at the same university (1999). Börekçi obtained his PhD in the History department at Ohio State University (2010). His main fields of interest are early modern Ottoman political, military and social history, and comparative 17th century crises.

Assist.Prof. YUNUS UĞURHe completed his BA degree at Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology in 1999, and received his MA degree in the History Department at the same university. He completed the doctorate program of the same department. He worked at New York Binghamton University in the History Department as a researcher (2003-2004). His area of interest covers urban history, Ottoman urban history, urban topography, social spaces and neighborhoods.

Assist.Prof. KAHRAMAN ŞAKULHe got his BA and MA degree in the Department of History, Boğaziçi University (1994-2001).He completed his doctoral studies in History Department, Georgetown University in 2009. His research interests include the military and technological aspects of Ottoman reforms as well as the transformation of the Ottoman political culture in 1774-1826.

Inst. AYŞE BAŞARANAfter completing her degree studies in Political Science at Davidson College (U.S.A) (2002), Başaran completed her post-graduate degree at Boğaziçi University in the Department of History. She worked as a research assistant in the same department (2003-2006), and was a teaching assistant (2003-2009). Her interests are Ottoman intellectual history, history of science, books and literary culture.

Inst. Dr. NICOLE KANÇAL FERRARINicole Kançal-Ferrari graduated from art history, German Literature and French at Lausanne University (Switzerland). She completed her post-graduate degree in art history at Istanbul University; thesis “The Construction Activities and Tombstones of the Crimean Khans” (Istanbul University, 1997), and her doctorate degree in art history at the same university; thesis “The Khanspalace in Bahçesaray: Layout and Architecture” (Istanbul University, 2004). Her area of interest covers visual and material culture, representation theories, art history writing, Turkish and Islamic art and architecture.

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HISTORYEvery person by nature is partly historian. Every day we investigate our past and rebuild it. Whether we want it or not, history waits on its toes. In our minds constantly busy with time and space coordination, we feel the unavoidable existence of the past. The past never passes; it is as lively as today and tomorrow and lasts longer. History is a way of thinking we cannot escape.

In the last century, history has become as colorful as rainbow; now, that boring course taken in high school is history. Limited approaches, with the history of the rulers, have opened to the history of the ruled. Until the history of everything is written, that is, until eternity, we need history. Yes, every person is a historian by nature; however only the best turn this into a craft and a profession. İstanbul Şehir University Department of History gives its students this opportunity.

The Department of History at İstanbul Şehir University embraces interdisciplinary and comparative approaches. We offer courses in various subfields of Turkish-Ottoman history and world history. We pay attention to the new tendencies in Turkish and world historiography. We greatly value the contact between history and social sciences. We consider it important to have a literary writing style as well as familiarity with the method and resources of history. As much as we search for the universal, we are also full of zeal for the local. Although the methods created in the world at large in historical interpretation provide a framework, which is not to be neglected, we are aware of our responsibility to develop local and distinctive methods of historiography and include them in general historiography. With its powerful academic staff and its distinguished students, İstanbul Şehir University Department of History claims to make a unique contribution to the historiography in Turkey.

To solidify their differences our students will be able to participate in double major and minor programs. Within the framework of international agreements and the Erasmus exchange program they will have the chance to spend at least one semester abroad and acquire international experience.

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Prof. HATİCE AYNUR(Department Chair)Received her B.A. from İstanbul University and her M.A. from Boğaziçi University. Completed her Ph.D. in Ottoman Literature at İstanbul University. Her main areas of research include: Ottoman literature (1300-1850); İstanbul in Ottoman texts; Ottoman epigraphy; Reading and writing culture in Ottoman world; History of printing in Ottoman Empire; Bibliometrics.

Assist.Prof. BERAT AÇILReceived his B.A., M.A, and Ph.D. in Turkish Language and Literature from Boğaziçi University. He is interested in the fields of Ottoman literature, allegory, narratology, literary theory, and book culture in the Ottoman Empire.

Assist.Prof. FATİH ALTUĞReceived his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Turkish Language and Literature from Boğaziçi University. His studies focus on nineteenth century Turkish literature, literature and social change, formation of the literary critical discourse in Turkish, literature and subjectivity.

Assist.Prof. DİDEM HAVLİOĞLUReceived her first B.A. in Arabic Language and Education at Gazi University and second in English Literature at Bilkent University. Earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Washington. She is interested in the fields of Early Modern Ottoman Literature, Women Writers, Women and Gender Studies, Comparative Literature.

Assist.Prof. MEHMET FATİH USLUReceived his B.A. in economics and M.A. in Turkish history from Boğaziçi University. Finished his Ph.D. in Turkish literature at Bilkent University. His research areas include modern Ottoman literature, modern novel and drama, genre theory, culture theory, masculinity studies, modern Armenian literature, and economics and literature.

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TURKISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Turkish Language and Literature takes its breath from a large spectrum, from Fuzulî to Orhan Veli, Ahmet Mithat Efendi to Orhan Pamuk, Mevlana to Ece Ayhan, Mihrî Hatun to Adalet Ağaoğlu, Namık Kemal to Elif Şafak, Şeyh Galip to Gülten Akın, Yaşar Kemal to Murat Uyurkulak, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar to İhsan Oktay Anar, Vartan Paşa to Haldun Taner, Nazım Hikmet to Sezai Karakoç, Necatî to Cemal Süreya. Both with the other literatures of the world and within the diversity of our own literature, the togetherness and diverseness of histories, geographies and civilizations is reflected in words, transformed to words. For those who wish to research the mysteries of this reflection and transformation and look for clues to our existence and identity, Turkish Language and Literature offers a large and creative field.

The Department of Turkish Language and Literature at İstanbul Şehir University aims to offer a perspective which gives an awareness of the rich treasure of Turkish language and literature and tries to understand what language and literature mean both in history and in the conditions of the present. We offer a curriculum which shows not only the importance of discussing literature in its universality, nationality and locality, but also the significance of literature in understanding society, history, philosophy, politics and psychology. In addition, investigating what literature means in the light of other disciplines is also among our primary concerns. Although our department focuses on Turkish language and literature, we have a comparative approach, which pays attention to the experiences of other literatures.

Our aim was to create a formation where, in analyzing the literature of the Ottoman period, Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Jagatai literatures are also treated, where in analyzing the literature of the modern period, along with Western literatures, literatures with alternative modernization experiences such as Iranian, Greek, Japanese, Kurdish, Armenian, Arabic, Indian, Urdu, Latin American literatures are also taken into consideration.

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Assist.Prof. PAUL SCADEHe has graduated from the department of Ancient History of the University of Exeter in 2000. He had his graduate degree from the same university in the field of Ancient Philosophy in 2007. He lectured in Ancient History at the University of Exeter. He was visiting scholar at the department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He made post-doctoral studies in Philosophy at the Central European University. Ancient philosophy and philosophy of politics are among his areas of interest.

Assist.Prof. İSHAK ARSLAN(Department Chair)He has graduated from İstanbul University College of Communications (1997). He had his MA (2000) and PHD (2007) in Marmara University Graduate School of Social Sciences and Department of Religious Studies. His book entitled “Çağdaş Doğa Düşüncesi” published by Küre Yayınları (2011). Philosophy of science, nature, science-religion relation and history of science are among his main areas of interest.

Assist.Prof. SİNEM ELKATİP HATİPOĞLU Following her graduation from Boğaziçi University Chemistry Teaching in 1996, she started to work as Chemistry Teacher. She completed her MA on Medicinal Chemistry in University of Hertfordshire in England in 1999. She started her doctoral studies in the field of Philosophy at Graduate Center, City University of New York; she completed her M.A. in 2007 and her Ph.D. in 2009. Consciousness, self-consciousness, personal identity and free will are among main her areas of study.

Assist.Prof. MEHMET AKİF KAYAPINARHe graduated from Political Science and International Relations in Boğaziçi University. He completed his MA in John Hopkins University International Relations and International Economic Theory and PHD at the Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture program of SUNY Binghamton University. Main areas of interest: Comparative political theory, Turkish politics and historical sociology of international relations.

Inst. ERDAL YILMAZHe graduated from İstanbul University Philosophy Department. He completed his MA in Philosophy at Galatasaray University. He continues his doctoral studies at Galatasaray University and Université-Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne (within a joint doctoral program). Metaphysics, Question of freedom, Political philosophy and Modern philosophy (especially Leibniz, Kant, Hegel philosophies and Heidegger thought) are among his research areas.

RA SİNAN ORUÇHe has graduated from Philosophy Department of Boğaziçi University (2010). Still continues his MA in Philosophy at Galatasaray University. Modernity, Hegel and Heidegger philosophy and colonialism are among his main areas of interest.

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PHILOSOPHYThere was philosophy on earth, when no discipline which is taught at the universities as a “field of science” has not occurred at the scene of existence yet. Therefore, even though we can mention about the beginning of other disciplines, it is quite difficult to say where and when the philosophy began. Philosophy has a simultaneous history with the existence of human beings.

Defining philosophy is as hard as determining its history. How can you define such an embracing discipline? Ancient people would say that philosophy is “the struggle of human beings to reach the reality of the existence at their power”. In fact, we can say that there is nothing excluded in this definition. Is there any other concept as wide as “existence”? From the most tangible to the most abstract, from the most physical to the most metaphysical, everything is “existent” in a way.

Even though Philosophy has lost the quality of being a supreme discipline that embraces all other disciplines for about two centuries, it still maintains its privileged position among the other disciplines. This privileged position arises from the structure of philosophy determining the views of all the disciplines to their area of research which take either social entity or the nature as their research topic and determining their handling methods. When compared to the ancient times, we can say that even though philosophy’s area of interest of has been narrowed, its ambiguity and indefinable structure gained it the opportunity and means to penetrate in all the disciplines.

İstanbul Şehir University Philosophy Department has the mission of enabling the evaluation of philosophy in Turkey as a whole either with its history or with its disciplines and in this vein; it aims to become the address for a qualified education and international standards.

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Prof. MACİT KENANOĞLUHe graduated from Ankara University Law Faculty in 1990 and completed his attorney internship at the Ankara Bar Association in 1991. He has done his LL.M. (1993), and PhD D in Law (2001) at the Marmara University. He also completed his PhD in Political Science (2002). He has lectured at Ataturk, Marmara, Fatih and Uludağ Universities. He has published several articles in various national and international journals.

Prof. NİHAT BULUTHe graduated from Marmara University Law Faculty and started as research assistant at Ataturk University Erzincan Law Faculty. He has completed, his LL.M. and PhD in the Social Sciences Institute in the University of Marmara. He has taught at Cumhuriyet University and Gaziosmanpaşa University the courses on Constitutional and Administrative Law. His research is focused on Statehood and Human Rights.

Prof. MAHMUT KOCAHe has graduated from Marmara University (2000). He has done his LL.M. (1991) and PhD (1998) at the Social Sciences Institute of the same university. His principal publications of the books are “Looting Offences” (Ankara, 2003) and “Turkish Criminal Law-General Principles, 4th ed. (with İlhan Üzülmez) (Ankara, 2011). He also published several articles on criminal law and criminal procedural law.

Prof. ERGUN ÖZBUDUNHe graduated from Ankara University Law Faculty and completed his PhD at the same Faculty on Public Law. He has worked as Professor at Bilkent and Ankara University and as visiting professor in Chicago, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Georgetown Universities. His principal subjects of research include Constitutional Law, Political Science, Political Parties and Parliamentarian Law.

Prof. TEKİN MEMİŞHe graduated from Ankara University in 1990. He has done his LL.M. (1993) and PhD (1998) in İstanbul University Social Science Institute. He has published several books and articles and submitted several presentations at national and international conferences. He has participated in EU screening processes and several projects. He acts as International Chamber of Commerce arbitrator.

Prof. SERAP YAZICIShe graduated from Ankara University Law Faculty in 1984. She completed her LL.M. (1986) and PHD in Public Law (1995) at Ankara University. She worked as a research assistant (1988-1997) at Ankara University, and as a faculty member (1997-2012) at İstanbul Bilgi University. Her main areas of interest are Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and Governmental Systems.

Prof. MUSTAFA ALPER GÜMÜŞMustafa Alper Gümüş finished his undergraduate education at Ankara University Law Faculty in 1992. In 2000, he completed his Ph.D. in private law at Marmara University with his thesis entitled “Türk-İsviçre Borçlar Hukukunda Vekilin Özen Borcu” (Surrogate’s Duty of Care in Turkish and Swiss Law of Obligations). He became associate professor in 2006. He taught at Yeditepe University Law Faculty until February, 2012. He became professor in civil law at Özyeğin University Law Faculty where he worked for a year. He serves as a full time professor at İstanbul Şehir University Law Faculty since April 2013.

Assoc. Prof. NUR ZELİHA KAMANFollowing her graduation from İstanbul University Law Faculty, Nur Kaman started to work as a research assistant in administrative law at Marmara University Law Faculty. She became associate professor in 2012 with his study “Elektrik Piyasası Lisanslarının Tabi Olduğu Hukuki Esaslar” (The Legal Regime Electricity Market Licensing Is Subject to). Her fields of study are: administrative law, administrative procedure law and energy law.

Prof. YUSUF ÇALIŞKANYusuf Çalışkan graduated from Ankara University Law Faculty in 1993. He completed his masters at Case Western University (1998) and his Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis (2002). He served as an associate professor at Kocaeli University Law Faculty (2002-2011) and Maltepe University Law Faculty (2011-2013). His main fields of study are: private international law, international investment law, international commercial law and international arbitration.

Assoc. Prof. ALİ YEŞİLIRMAKHe graduated from Dokuz Eylül University Law Faculty (1990). He has done his LL.M. in the University of Texas (1996) and PhD in the University of London (2004). He has published several books and articles in national and international law journals, and submitted several presentations at national and international conferences. He also serves as visiting lecturer at the Queen Mary College, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, School of International Arbitration.

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LAWThe need for qualified jurists in Turkey has become even more important in our day, due to the rapidly changing developments in social, economic and technological fields and the juridical problems put forward by them. The School of Law, which set off with the concern of producing responses to this need, looked for answers to the question “What kind of a law education?” in interviews conducted with academic jurists prominent in their fields, presidents of the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court, people of significant experience in juridical and administrative autocratic positions.

As a result of the interviews, a program has been prepared which will make a contribution to the establishment of the idea and ideal of law, which will, in addition to its theoretically based structure, in practice also enable the development of qualified jurists needed by the public and private sectors as well as the economic and financial markets. The School of Law, established to create a different educational content facing the problems of the Turkish juridical system and juridical education, aims to help cultivate jurists who have a command of professional knowledge, who are respectful to the notion of law and put forward the honor of the profession.

At the School of Law of İstanbul Şehir University, with internships at juridical and bureaucratic institutions, students will find the opportunity to improve their professional knowledge. In addition, with the curriculum prepared together with other disciplines of social science, they will have the chance to become law theoreticians. At the School of Law of İstanbul Şehir University, in addition to English, students will be able to learn a second foreign language. With the curriculum which is 30% English, students will have a stronger grasp of the law terminology in foreign languages.

Upon completing their education at İstanbul Şehir University School of Law, students can become academics; work as judges, prosecutors and lawyers; work in diplomacy and civilian administration, the private sector and international institutions. İstanbul Şehir University School of Law will bring success to your feet.

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RA MUHAMMED ALİ AYDINHe graduated from Beykoz Doga College in 2004 and Fatih College in 2008. He ranked 2. in Turkish National student selection examination. He graduated from Galatasaray Law School in 2013. Currently; he is pursuing his master’s degree in public law at İstanbul Şehir University and he is research assistant at administrative law. He speaks English and French. His fields of study are: administrative law, administrative procedure law, French semi-presidential system and independent administrative authorities.

RA ÖZGE BOZKURTÖzge Bozkurt graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 2012. She completed the legal internship in Istanbul Bar Association in 2013. Currently, she is attending to Istanbul University Public Law Master’s programme and pursuing her dissertation. She is working as a criminal law research assistant in İstanbul Şehir University School of Law.

RA ÖMER FARUK PETEKBeing awarded full scholarship, Ömer Faruk Petek earned his Bachelor’s degree in 2009 from İstanbul Bilgi University Law Faculty. After completing his legal internship, he was admitted to the İstanbul Bar in 2010. The same year he was accepted to the master’s program in private law at Galatasaray University. He is a research assistant at İstanbul Şehir University since 2011 and currently he is working on his dissertation.

RA PINAR YAZICIPınar Yazıcı graduated from İstanbul Bilgi University Law Faculty with high honors in 2009. Between the years 2009 and 2012, she served as a research assistant in criminal law at İstanbul Bilgi University and for two terms she has worked as a legal expert on sports law cases of several sports federations. In 2012 she joined İstanbul Şehir University Law Faculty as a constitutional law research assistant. She is currently working on her dissertation. She is fluent in English and German.

RA ŞERİFE GÜNDOĞANShe graduated from I.D.Bilkent University Law School in 2012. She was admitted to Istanbul Sehir University Public Law Master’s Program in 2012. She joined the İstanbul Şehir University School of Law as research assistant on general public law in 2013. Currently, she is pursuing her thesis.

RA ENES GÜRANHe graduated from Galatasaray University Law School in 2013. The same year, he was admitted to Public Law Master Program at İstanbul Şehir University. He’s currently working as a philosophy and sociology of law research assistant in İstanbul Şehir University. He speaks English, French and basic Arabic. His research topics are theory of state, legal theory and theory of the Islamic state.

Inst. SUNARA SAMSUDEENSunara Samsudeen, completed her LL.B and LL.M major in public international law from the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and her thesis is on modern forms of slavery and displacement and was called to the Bar as an Attorney-At-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and is a Notary, Company Secretary, Commissioner of Oaths. She has also completed her post graduate studies in peace research at the University of Oslo. Her main areas of studies were, Human rights law, Humanitarian law and International law.

Assist. Prof. MUSTAFA YAYLALIGraduated from European Law School, University of Maastricht (2005). He completed his LL.M. in The European Academy of Legal Theory (KUB and FUSL) (2006). He obtained his Ph.D. in the University of LUISS Guido Carli on Political Theory (2011). His primary areas of research are Legal Philiososphy, Legal Sociology and Political Theory and several particular titles such as theories of communty and law, associationalism, Liberalism/ Libertarianism.

Assist. Prof. HALİL RAHMAN BAŞARANHe achieved his law undergraduate degree at Galatasaray University (2001). He obtained an LL.M. at College of Europe (Belgium, 2003) in the field of European Community Law, and another LL.M. at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK, 2006). He completed his Ph.D. at Vienna University (Austria, 2010). His research areas are Public International Law, European Union Law and International Human Rights Law.

Assist. Prof. ÖMER ÇINARHe has graduated from Marmara University (2000). He has done his LL.M. (2002) and PhD (2009) at the same University. He has worked as Ass.Prof. in İstanbul Ticaret University (2008-2011). He has published several articles on various journals and the book entitled “Unfair Conditions on Consumer Law”.

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Assist.Prof. HIZIR MURAT KÖSEHe received his BA from Marmara University in Theology (1988), his MA from İstanbul University in Sociology and his PhD from Warwick University in Sociology. He taught at Fatih University. His research have focused on Political Sociology, Multiculturalism, Ibn Khaldun’s Political Thought, Ottoman Political Thought, Sociology of Law, Sociology of Work and Organizations.

Prof. ENGİN AKARLIHe holds PhD and MA degrees in Near East History from Princeton University (1976 & ’73); an MA in History from University of Wisconsin, Madison (1972), and a BA in Economics and Business Administration from Robert College (1968). He received fellowships from the Fulbright, Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. Currently, he works on Ottoman legal history.

Prof. MEHMET ALİ BÜYÜKKARAHe completed his BA (1990) and MA (1993) studies at Marmara University in theology, and had his PhD in the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh (1997). He became associate professor (2000), then professor (2006) at the Faculty of Theology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. Beside classical schools of Islamic theology and Islamic denominations, his particular research areas are the relation of politics and religion; contemporary Islamic movements and currents; today’s Salafism; history, thought and present condition of Shiism.

Assoc.Prof. MEHMET BOYNUKALINHe graduated from the School of Islamic law and Law in Al-Azhar University (1992). He completed his MA (1995) and Ph.D. (1999) in the field of Islamic Law in Marmara University. He worked as specialist in commentary of the Holy Qur`an project of the Department of Religious Affairs (2000-2001). He continued his scientific studies in England (2001-2006). His main research areas are formation of early Islamic law literature, discussions of renewal in usul al-fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), contemporary Islamic legal thought and critical edition of manuscripts.

Assoc. Prof. HALİT ÖZKANHe graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Theology (1998). He completed his PhD (2006) at the same university in the field of Hadith. He made research at Cornell University during 2002. He is mainly interested in the formative period of Islamic studies, the development of early hadith literature, and Muvatta, amal Ahl al-Madina and amal al-amsar.

Assoc.Prof. SAMİ ERDEMHe graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Theology (1990). He had his undergraduate (1993) and graduate (2003) degrees in Islamic Law at the same faculty. His main fields of study are Ottoman thought of law following Tanzimat reforms, Ottoman code of civil law (Mecelle), efforts of codification in Ottoman-Turkey and Islamic countries, jurisprudence and fetwa in classical and modern period.

Assist.Prof. ABDURRAHMAN ATÇILHe graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Theology (1999). He had his MA in History at Bilkent University (2002). He completed his doctoral study in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in University of Chicago (2010). His main fields of study are Islamic Law, history and civilization of Islam, reform movements in Islam.

Assist.Prof. EYYÜP SAİD KAYA After graduating (1993) from Faculty of Theology Marmara University (İstanbul); he completed his MA (1996) and PhD (1995) on Islamic Law at the Graduate School of Social Sciences at the same university. He continued his postgraduate studies in Harvard University Law School (2001-2002). Islamic legal theories, pre-modern Islamic renewal movements, history of Hanafi madhhab, social theory and sociology of knowledge are among his academic fields of interest.

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ISLAMIC STUDIESİstanbul Şehir University, School of Islamic Studies aims to equip its students with knowledge and skills that will enable them to have an in-depth understanding of the religion and civilization of Islam, as well as a closer comprehension of today’s world. The School of Islamic Studies, which received its first students in the 2012-2013 academic year, offers a multi directional and multi-optional program that extends from tafseer (exegesis of the Qur’an) to historical sociology of Muslim societies, from hadith (traditions of the Prophet) to modern Islamic thought. The school not only opens doors to the great heritage of Islamic civilization for its students, but also enables them to discover the philosophy and knowledge that are produced in the modern world. On top of offering the current curriculum of Schools of Theology in public universities of Turkey, School of Islamic Studies offers courses that aim to bring its students in contact with the history and classics of Islamic studies.

With its “3 Languages-One School” program The School of Islamic studies uses Arabic, Turkish and English, effectively as medium of communication and teaching of the courses; and students are able to produce their academic works and engage with international academia in these three languages. Students in the Islamic Studies Undergraduate Program have a college life of study within an internationally engaged academic curriculum, student activities, strong faculty members and visions aimed at excellence in Islamic studies. Besides having a degree in Islamic Studies, the students have options to enroll in programs of minor degrees and/or double majors in a field of social sciences.

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RA SEFURE ÖZOKURShe completed her undergraduate studies at the University of London (SOAS) and Bosphorus University. She continues her graduate studies at the Department of History in Bosphorus University. Her primary research interests are urban history, cartography, classical period Ottoman Empire and the social history of the Mediterranean.

ALİ TÜLÜAli Tülü graduated from the Faculty of Theology at Marmara University. He has studied Islamic Law at the same university where he earned his MA. Currently he is working on his dissertation on Arabic Literature. His academic concentration is on Arabic Literature and Teaching and Learning Arabic as a Foreign Language.

MAAN ALİHe graduated from Jordan ez-Zerka University Faculty of Islamic Studies 2009. He completed his MA in al-Ulum al-Islamiye University in the field of Interpretation of Quran in 2012. He worked as an instructor in Jordan and during this time, he specialized in teaching Arabic as second language.

MUSTAFA YUSUFHe graduated from the University of Jordan (1989). He completed his MA on interpretation of Quran at the same university. He continued his studies in Palestine, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. He continues his PHD studies on interpretation of Quran at the Sakarya University. His areas of interest are Modern Arabic literature and interpretation of Quran.

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M. RASHID DEYRŞEVIHe graduated from the Faculty of Theology at Omdurman Islamic University (Sudan) (1996 – 2001). He completed his MA in hadith at Lebanon Beyrut Davey Institute in 2007. He continues his PHD studies at the same university.

Inst. ENSAR KARSLIHe graduated from the Faculty of Theology at Dokuz Eylül University. He completed his training to memorize the entire Qur’an by heart, which earned him the title of being Hafiz at the school of Gungoren Sifa Kur’an Kursu, a religious seminary. At the Haseki Religious Higher Education Center, he completed the level 6th of the “Tashih-i Huruf” Course, which is designed to teach the art of Qur’an recitation at the highest level. He currently serves as the official Imam and the preacher of Mustafa Nazmi Ersin Mosque, affiliated with the Kadikoy Office of Mufti.

RA SALİH GÜNAYDINHe graduated from KHKempen University College, Department of Industrial Engineering (2004). He completed his graduate study (MSc) at KULeuven University Faculty of Engineering Science (2006). Currently he is continuing graduate studies at Marmara University Faculty of Theology in the field of Kalam. His academic areas of interest include the formation period of Islamic sciences, cosmology of Kalam, the relation of Kalam and philosophy and the relation of religion and science.

Assist.Prof. ÖZGÜR KAVAKHe finished his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Divinity at Marmara University (2000). After which, he obtained his masters degree at the same university in Islamic Law with his thesis titled “Shah Waliyullah Dıhlevî’s Understanding of Ijtihad” (2002). Continuing in the same field, he presented his doctoral dissertation titled “Rashid Rıda’s Positions concerning Islamic Legal Thought” (2009), which was published later (2011) under the title “Modern Islamic Legal Thought: Rashid Rıda’s Case”. His academic fields of study are Islamic political thought, Islamic modernizm and early Arabic literature.

Inst. ABDUL RAHMAN HARASH He has graduated from Damascus University Arabic Literature (2001) and Al-Azhar University Faculty of Sharia and Law (2002). He completed his MA at Damascus University Arabic Literature (2004) and Umm Durman Islamic Studies Program (2009). He completed his PHD in the same department (2012). His areas of interest are classical period Arabic literature, interpretation of Quran and recitation.

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Prof. PEYAMİ ÇELİKCANHe has received his B.A. degree in Radio, Television and Cinema at Ankara University, his M.A. degree in Communication Arts at University of West Florida and his Ph.D. in Cinema And Television at Dokuz Eylül University. His fields of interest are popular culture and popular music, documentary filmmaking, film and media studies, thematic media.

Prof. MAHMUT MUTMANHe has received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Sociology at the Middle East Technical University and his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz. His fields of interest are critical cultural and literary theory, postcolonial studies, film and media studies, modern Ottoman Turkish history and literature, nationalism and Islam.

Assoc.Prof. FAHRETTİN ALTUNFahrettin Altun received his BA in Sociology from İstanbul University in 1998 and MA in Sociology from Mimar Sinan University in 2000. After earning his Ph.D. entitled “Comparative Analysis of Media Theories of McLuhan and Baudrillard” (İstanbul University, 2006), he joined the Fatih University faculty as assistant professor. He had also had visiting professorship at University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Assist.Prof. ASLI TELLİ AYDEMİRAfter receiving her BA degree in political science and international relations, she studied feature writing and freelance journalism. She focused on social anthropology and critical studies at MA level in Paris 8-St. Denis and on media & communication sciences at PhD level in European Graduate School. Her research areas of interest are social and civic impact of trans and/or polymedia, cybercultures, social media facilitated activism practices, networked society enformatics and cityscapes.

Assist.Prof. EBRU KAYAALPShe received her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at Rice University in 2010. Prior to her appointment at SEHIR University, she worked at NYU and Rice University as a lecturer. She teaches courses on anthropology of globalization and neoliberalism, gender, race and class representations in media, and ethnography of media.

Assist.Prof. CANAN BALANShe received her PhD degree in Film Studies from the University of St Andrews with a dissertation on the early cinema spectatorship in İstanbul. She has published articles on early cinema, shadow play and the cinematic representations of İstanbul. Balan is interested in film culture and history, gender studies and urban culture while she has also written for documentaries.

Inst. DERVİŞ ZAİMDerviş Zaim has studied Business Administration in Boğaziçi University and Cultural Studies (MA) in Warwick University.He shot his first movie “Somersault In A Coffin”(1997), after his Yunus Nadi Novel award winning book “Ares Ares in Wonderland” (1994). His globally prestigious award winning long footage fiction movies “Elephants and Grass”(2003), Waiting For Heaven (2006), Dot (2008), Shadows and Faces (2011), Cycle (2012) and duocument Parallel Trips (2003-Co-Director: Panicos Chrysanthou) followed this nationally and internationally award-winning movie. Derviş Zaim still teaches cinema in various universities.

Prof. NEZİH ERDOĞAN(Department Chair)PhD, 1989, “Seyirci ve Bir Anlamlama Süreci Olarak Sinema/The Spectator and Cinema as a Process of Signification.” He published extensively on Turkish popular cinema, the reception of American cinema in Turkey, censorship, early years of cinema and spectatorship in İstanbul.

Inst. FEYZA AKINERDEMFeyza Akınerdem graduated from Boğaziçi University, department of Sociology in 2002. She received her MA degree in Sociology in 2006, with the thesis titled “Between Desire and Truth: The Narrative Resolution of Modern-Traditional Dichotomy in Asmalı Konak”. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Cultural Policy and Management, at City University London.

Lecturer KAZ RAHMANHe has a BFA in Visual Arts from York University, Toronto, Canada and also studied painting/photography at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, England. He has an MFA in Media Arts (writing/directing) from City College (CUNY), New York City, USA. He has previously taught Fine Arts at numerous Colleges and Universities in Hyderabad, İndia and taught all aspects of Filmmaking for 5 years in the Digital Film and Video Department at The Art İnstitute of Pittsburgh, USA.

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Imagine a world where creativity rules… Where job openings, project calls ask for the third eye and televisual instinct… Where academic and artistic productions require semantic intellect… Where would you go? What would you look for? Which areas would you concentrate on? We invite you to get to know us before taking any further steps.

Let us begin with our natural advantage: Our department is established in İstanbul, the most portrayed hometown of cinema and television in Turkey. Lived experiences and histories of/in İstanbul as well as their representations are an utmost part of our departmental mentality. Thus, we are well aware of the cultural and geographical multiplicity of needs and aim to provide know-how for a local as well as global understanding of visual media. Therefore, the academics in this department agree on resisting and balancing the one-way communication flow from the West to the East.

As the Department of Cinema and Television at İstanbul Şehir University, we see the media from a large perspective, as a social tool and multiple art form, which serves extra-sensory perception. The need for qualified communicators inclines day by day. Familiarity with world cinema, advanced visual and numerical literacy, intellectual depth, technical skills and operational literacy on both national and transnational cinema and TV industries are sophisticated, but pertinent demands awaiting young generations. We strive for facilitating our students as a team of panacea upon graduation from our department; they will be highly seeked as producers, directors, screenwriters, critics, copywriters, curators, researchers, reporters, editors, television programmers, new media specialists and visual communications designers.

We offer a curriculum that is in line with the dynamic and critical character of the media world and that hinges upon the theoretical as well as the practical. The research areas of our academic staff reflect a curriculum of variety without precedent, ranging from anthropology, new media, cultural studies, sociology of modernization to history and aesthetics of cinema and sociology of television. Our doors are open to young minds who seek aesthetic and experimental vision to interact with the new communication paradigm and visual construct, who insist / inquire and examine alternative research and job opportunities of the 21st century.

Inst. ABDULKERİM TEVERAbdulkerim Tever is a filmmaker and a photographer, having graduated from the Bilkent University with a B.A. in International Relations. He received his Master from the School of Visual Arts in 2012, New York. Abdulkerim worked as a director in several film projects and his photographs have been shown in various exhibitions. Currently, he is working for commercials and dealing with his Feature Film involving identity crises in today’s Turkish Society.

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The School of Management and Administrative Sciences has started out with a vision that will cultivate entrepreneurs, founders and professionals who are ready for the conditions of global competition and at the same time sensitive towards humanity and nature. The School consists of two departments, Management and International Trade and Management.

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Assoc.Prof. MELİH BULU(Department Chair)He worked at various sections of the private sector both as a professional and an entrepreneur. Since 2004, he has been the General Coordinator of International Competitiveness Research Institute (URAK), an NGO working on economic competitiveness of cities and countries. He teaches organization theory and strategy related courses. His main areas of interest are city competitiveness, regional development, cluster theory, and organization theory.

Affiliated Prof. HÜSEYİN LEBLEBİCİHüseyin Leblebici is Merle H. and Virginia Downs Boren Professor of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Business Administration. He received his MBA and PhD in organizational behavior from University of Illinois. He teaches courses and conducts research dealing with macro organizational behavior, particularly with organizational design, inter-organizational relations, and organizational forms.

Prof. CEM BEHARProfessor Cem Behar received his B.A., M.A. and Ph. D. degrees in Economics and Demography for the University of Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He has taught in the University of Paris, at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul) the University of Washington (Seattle) and Northwestern University. He has served as Head of the Economics Dept. for long years and also as Vice-Rector (Provost) at Boğaziçi University. His areas of specialization are the Economics of Population and Historical Demography. His secondary interest area is Ottoman/Turkish Classical music, also an area in which he has very widely published.

Assoc.Prof. ABDÜLMECİT KARATAŞAbdülmecit Karataş graduated from Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Management in 1992. He earned MBA degree in Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1996 and Ph.D. degree in Finance from Boğaziçi University in 2002. His academic interests are corporate financial analysis, investments and portfolio management.

Assist.Prof. MUSTAFA ÖZELHe completed his undergraduate studies at the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University in 1980 and his graduate and doctoral studies at the Department of Economics at Marmara University. He is one of the founders of the Foundation for Sciences and Arts and is currently the Chairman of the foundation. He has worked extensively as an executive and consultant in the banking, foreign trade and industrial sectors.

Inst. ŞELALE BİRGENAfter American College for Girls (today’s Robert College), Şelale Birgen graduated from the ‘Linguistics & Literature Department’ of Boğaziçi University, also as a holder of a ‘Teaching Certificate’. Her M.A. has been completed in the ‘Adult Education Dept. of the Educational Faculty’ of the same university. In addition to her job in this faculty, she started teaching ‘Business Communication’ course as a part-time instructor in some private universities such as Kadir Has and Fatih University.

Assist.Prof. ERKAN ERDEMİRErkan Erdemir graduated from the Anadolu University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations in 1996. He received his master’s degree in organization theory from the Osmangazi University in 2000, and his Ph.D. degree in human resource management from the Anadolu University in 2007. He spent a year at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Business as a visiting researcher for his post-doctoral project on neo-institutional theory between 2010 and 2011. Dr. Erdemir’s research and teaching interests focus on organization theory and human resource management.

Inst. ALİ GÖKSUHe focuses on international banking transactions, syndicated loans, development, financing and the operation of energy and infrastructure projects. More specifically, he represents energy companies and project developers, as well as multilateral agencies, commercial banks and equity investors, in connection with upstream oil and gas projects, cross border oil and gas pipelines, wind, hydro, solar and geothermal energy production projects and energy infrastructure projects, construction and operation of nuclear power plants in Turkey.

Assoc.Prof. ÖZLEM SANDIKÇI TÜRKDOĞAN Özlem Sandıkcı Türkdoğan received a BA degree in Business Administration from Boğaziçi University and an MBA degree from Birmingham University, UK. She completed her Ph.D. in Marketing at the Pennsylvania State University, USA in 1999.Her research addresses religion-consumption-markets interaction, modernity-identity-consumption dynamics and branding strategies in emerging markets.

Inst. ERKAN AKDEMIRErkan Akdemir has been assigned the CEO of Avea as of June 2009. Before joining Avea, he worked as the CEO of Cisco Systems Turkey. During his past carreer, he served as The Chairman of Board of Directors of Kablo Net and of Eurasiasat, and he leaded Türk Telekom as The Chairman of Board of Directors from 2002 until the privatization of the company. Other highlights in his career include key leadership positions in State Planning Organization and being a founding board member of Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Turkey. Akdemir has a B.S. degree from Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Hacettepe University and an M.S. degree on Telecommunications from Colorado University in USA.

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MANAGEMENTCan ten organized people be more powerful than a thousand disorganized people? What kind of a team should these ten people be? What duties should every individual in the team take on? What kind of an education should they receive for this? So how will these ten people take decisions together? How will they make it possible for the decision-making process to be fast, correct and acceptable to all the members of the team? Is the element that will maximize their contribution to the team money or benevolence? How will technology be used for this team’s success? How will the productions of the team be shared with the intended market in the best way? How will the team acquire superiority to similar teams in the same field? Students who have asked themselves this question at least once can know that they are good management candidates. Development begins with asking questions. Questions such as these are questions for which the discipline of management is looking for answers. Of course finding where the answers are as important as asking the questions.

At the Department of Management of İstanbul Şehir University, we share the answers to the fundamental questions in the business world. We promise to teach our students the point presently reached by the discipline of management with a global perspective without disregarding our local dynamics.

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Prof. NİHAT ERDOĞMUŞ(Department Chair)He graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Psychology in 1992. He earned MS degree in Organizational Behavior from İstanbul University in 1995 and Ph.D. degree in Management and Organization from Sakarya University in 1998. His academic interests are career planning and development, cognitive mapping, developmental experiences for managers and entrepreneurs, management development, succession planning, dual ladder careers.

Assist.Prof. GÖKÇEN ARKALI OLCAYCompleted undergraduate and graduate educations in Electrical and Electronics Engineering atBilkent University and Southern Illinois University, respectively. She obtained her Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Management Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2009. She worked as an Assistant Professor of Management at Prairie View A&M University in 2009 and 2010. Her research interests lie in the areas of R&D and IT Management and Technology Management.

Assist.Prof. MUHAMMED ABDULLAH ŞAHİNHe earned a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering and an M.A. degree in Management from Boğaziçi University. He returned to the Academia after working as a mechanical engineer in the private sector in Turkey. He earned an M.A. degree in Economics from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. degree in Finance from the University of Connecticut. He is currently working on derivatives pricing, asset pricing and Islamic finance.

Inst.Dr. CANDAN KARLITEKİNHe graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Economics. He then, completed his graduate studies in The State University of New York at Albany culminating to M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He chaired the boards of Development Bank of Turkey and Turkish Airlines. International finance, business administration, corporate law and corporate governance are main areas of his interest.

Inst. YÜCE ZEREYHe obtained his B.A. in Economics from İstanbul Bilgi University and his B.Sc. in Economics from London School of Economics. He completed his graduate studies at the Department of Economics of Marmara University and completed his MBA at İstanbul Bilgi University. He worked at Ülker, Turkish Airlines and Coca-Cola Company in Turkey. His work particularly focuses on Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing and Marketing Trends.

Inst.Dr. AHMET GÜRSOYBorn in 1972, Ahmet Gürsoy received his undergraduate degree in 1992 from Industrial Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University and graduate degrees in 1993 from Integrated Management Systems Department of University of Birmingham and in 2000 from Philosophy Department of San Francisco State University. Gürsoy recieved his doctorate degree in Management and Organization Department of Kocaeli University in 2011.

Gürsoy, currently works at Eczacıbaşı Baxter Hospital Products Company.

Assoc.Prof. ABDÜLMECİT KARATAŞAbdülmecit Karataş graduated from Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Management in 1992. He earned MBA degree in Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1996 and Ph.D. degree in Finance from Boğaziçi University in 2002. His academic interests are corporate financial analysis, investments and portfolio management.

Assist.Prof. ENES ERYARSOYHe graduated from Istanbul Technical University BS, industrial engineering then he graduated from Florida Universtiy PhD Desicion informantion session. He worked at Florida and Sabancı University.

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND MANAGEMENT

In our day, the phenomenon of globalization increasing with ever-greater acceleration raises the importance of an education of international trade and management. For those who wish to specialize in this field, receiving only management education is not enough. The Department of International Trade and Management at İstanbul Şehir University has been designed with the objective to successfully cultivate international business administrators with a global vision who can keep up with the constantly changing structure of the international business environment.

At the Department of International Trade and management, we aim to cultivate the executive candidates of the future and business administrators who will internalize the fundamental principles and rules of international trade and management not only in Turkey but also in the world at large, who will communicate fluently in more than one foreign language and contribute to our country’s achievement of a good position in the global economy.

At our department in which the language of education is English, together with a second foreign language, students will be able to choose among a large variety of courses from both Management and International Trade departments, including cargo management, electronic trade, international entrepreneurship and intercultural communication. Upon graduation from the Department of International Trade and Management, which has an educational foundation that is both theory and application oriented, students will have the chance to work as specialists and directors in international corporations, public and private sector corporations and businesses, non- governmental organizations, research centers, production and service firms, banks and universities.

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The College of Engineering and Natural Sciences (CENS) brings together two fields, which have been separated in most of the universities in Turkey: engineering and natural sciences. At our College, consisting of the departments of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, the academic programs have been designed according to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABES) and European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS).

In our day, when technological products are designed as a whole, from mobile phones that work like computers to energy- saving circuits and graphic processors, the boundaries between electronic and computer engineering are loosening. Similar to some of the best universities of the United States, such as MIT, Stanford, CalTech and UC Berkeley, İstanbul Şehir University has prepared flexible curricula to bring these two fields together.

In line with ŞEHİR policy, CENS adopts an interdisciplinary approach, and students have the chance to create their own academic programs according to the knowledge basis required by the systems in their imaginations and talents.

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Prof. SHERVIN SHIRMOHAMMADIShervin Shirmohammadi holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He conducts research in Multimedia Systems and Networks, specifically in video systems and networks, gaming systems and networks, and their applications in tele health care. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Professional Member of the ACM.

Assist.Prof. AHMET BULUT(Department Chair)He received his B.Science in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University in 2000, and his PhD in Computer Science from University of California Santa Barbara in 2005. He worked as Research Scientist at Citrix Online on scalable and highly available internet services and as a Senior Research Engineer at Like.com, a Silicon Valley e-commerce startup. His research interests include cloud computing, internet advertising, information and communication technologies for intelligent transportation systems, and sensor networks.

Assist.Prof. ALİ ÇAKMAKAli Cakmak received his B.Sc. degree in 2003 from the Computer Engineering Department at Bilkent University, and his Ph.D. degree in 2008 from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH). After completing his Ph.D., he worked as a post-doctoral research associate for a year in the same department. Before joining SEHIR in 2013, he was a senior member of technical staff at Oracle, Inc. (San Francisco, CA). His research interests include bioinformatics, data mining, data management, databases, and big data.

Assist.Prof. ONUR GÜZEYDr. Güzey received his B.S. in Computer Eng. and Electronics/Communication Eng. from Istanbul Technical University. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Eng. from University of California, Santa Barbara, and received his MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. His previous work experience includes positions at Mentor Graphics, Intel and McKinsey & Co.

Assist.Prof. BARIŞ ARSLANBarış Arslan received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. He has worked in Intel Corp., Marvell Semiconductor and Qualcomm Inc. from 2005 to 2013, driving structural test efforts for state-of-the-art SOCs and most recently the Design-for-Test strategy for the Qualcomm Adreno family of GPUs. His research interest includes integrated circuit test methods, adaptive test cost and quality optimization, hardware security, embedded processor architectures and scalable data mining.

Assist.Prof. MEHMET SERKAN APAYDINGraduated from Bilkent University Electrical Engineering Department and obtained his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His research interests are computational biology, artificial intelligence, robotics and motion planning.

Assist.Prof. TARIK ARICIHe received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering in 2000 from Bilkent University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He worked as a research engineer in the Video Software Group at NVIDIA. His research interests are graph based probabilistic inference, video processing, and computer vision.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Measuring, converting the measurement to data and the data to information, and presenting this information to the benefit of humanity have been possible until now in systems - that seem complicated but are powerful and simple in essence - that computer engineers have an important role in designing. In its aim to have a pioneering role in developing the information technologies of the future, Turkey needs creative and innovative young computer scientists and engineers. Faculty members and researchers of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of İstanbul Şehir University have come together with the awareness of this need.

In our curriculum that shares a lot of common ground with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, our aim is to help the students acquire an integral approach to the problems in the field of engineering. At our department, an international education awaits the students, which will prepare them in the best way to solve the computer engineering problems in the industrial and public domains, and especially to a Ph.D. education on a more advanced level.

At the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of ŞEHİR, founded on intellectual and academic freedom, students will learn to take risks and be open to brave initiatives. The research fields in our department include distributed computing, cryptography, advanced database systems, cloud computing, social media and artificial intelligence. In addition, in the fields of engineering ethics, engineering processes and entrepreneurship, students will gain a foundation that is serious, strong, theoretical and based on practice. They will graduate from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering as computer engineers who can make abstraction and analysis, with a high capacity for design and solution.

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Assist.Prof. HAKAN DOĞANHakan Dogan received his B.S.degree in electrical engineering from University of Southern California (USC), LosAngeles,in 1999, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001 and 2005, respectively. His research interests are in RF/Analog/Mixed Signal circuit design, end-to-end wireless and wireline communication system design.

Assoc.Prof. ÖZDAL BOYRAZHe received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1997 and 2001, respectively. After two years of industrial work experience he joined University of California, Los Angeles as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2003. His research areas include optoelectronic devices, integrated optics, microwave photonics and optical communication systems. He has over 100 journal and conference publications and 4 issued patents.

Assist.Prof. MELİKHAN TANYERİDr. Melikhan Tanyeri received his B.S. degree from Bogazici University in 1999, and his Ph.D. degree from University of California, Davis in 2006. During 2006-2012, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include microfluidics, chemical and biomolecular sensors, and high-resolution imaging.

Assist.Prof. MEHMET TAMER ÖZGÜN(Department Chair)He received the B.Sc. degree from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He worked as Senior RF-mixed signal design and system engineer at Icera Semi U.S Incorporated, Richardson, TX, and Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX, where he is involved in low-power, low-voltage, and ultra- deep-submicron CMOS RF-analog circuits for wireless applications. He authored several IEEE papers, and holds 1 granted patent and 7 pending patents.

Assist.Prof. KEMAL ÖZDEMİRDr. Ozdemir completed his BSc and MSc in electrical engineering at METU, Ankara Turkey in ‘96 and ‘98 in, respectively. He received his PhD from Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA in ‘05 from electrical engineering. His research interests are channel estimation for OFDM based systems, collaborative communication, cloud based traffic monitoring, and RF impairments impact on wireless systems.

Assist.Prof. İSMAİL DEMİRKANIsmail Demirkan received his Ph. D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2006. During his doctorate study, Dr. Demirkan’s area of research was coding and detection for 2-D optical storage systems. His research interests include communication systems, magnetic and optical recording, 10GBaseT, computer networks and signal processing.

Prof. AHMET ADEMOĞLU (Rector)Ahmet Ademoğlu received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering, his M.S. and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Boğaziçi University. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas from 1995 to 1997. His research interests are Neuroimaging, Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics. He serves as the national representative of the “Ideas” Program Committee of European Research Council (ERC), as the national delegate for the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and as a board member in the Fulbright Commission.

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ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

Electrical and Electronics Engineering takes on important roles in the technological advancements that are occurring at a mind-boggling speed in our day. From the invention of electricity to our day, many discoveries have been made by electrical and electronic engineers, which have made life easier. Many of the first discoveries in this field, from computers which can fit our pockets and smart telephones to satellite systems, digital audio and video systems, are productions of electronic engineers.

At the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at İstanbul Şehir University, in cooperation with other branches of engineering and the humanities, students will learn to come up with practical solutions to the problems of our day and be one of the first people in the fields of video processing, communications, optoelectronics and bioinformatics. We have prepared for our students a flexible curriculum in which they can take the basic courses of Computer Science and Engineering beginning with their second year. At our department, students will have the opportunity to learn the latest knowledge and techniques with the newest methods and tools. With our support for theoretical and practical research, students will learn to develop joint projects with the industry, gather, produce and synthesize information and put it to the benefit of the society. With internships they will gain industrial experience; with the exchange programs they will gain international experience in research and education. They will learn to learn on their own and will thus be able to keep their talents and skills up to date in today’s fast-changing world.

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Prof. TAHSİN ERKAN TÜREEducation: BS in Mathematics, METU-Ankara; MA and PhD in Statistics, UC-Berkeley.Worked at: METU (Ankara), Yarmouk Un. (Jordan), Sultan Qaboos Un. (Oman), Bilkent Un.(Ankara), Marmara Un. (İstanbul), International Un. of Sarajevo (Bosnia), TÜBİTAK – TÜSSİDE (Gebze). Research Interests: Statistical design of experiments, process management, quality management, theory of statistics, theory of probability.

Prof. MUAMMER KOÇHe completed his MS in Mechanical Engineering and his Ph.D. in the Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Ohio State University. Dr. Koç conducted research and development in the automotive industry, and worked at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Michigan- Ann Arbor and Virginia Com- monwealth University as a faculty member between 2001 and 2011. His research focuses on sustainable transportation and energy efficiency.

Assoc.Prof. KAŞİF TEKERHe graduated from METU Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. He completed his MA at Ohio State University and his PhD at Case Western Reserve University. He worked in semi-conductor industry in the USA. He served at Universities as Delaware and Frostburg. His areas of interest are: nanotechnology, semiconductor nanowire production, analysis, energy and sensor applications, electronic materials, renewable energy resources.

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Assist.Prof. BAHADIR TUNABOYLUHe received a B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from Middle East Technical University, and a M.S. in ceramic engineering from Alfred University and a Ph.D. in materials science from the University of California, San Diego. He has extensive experience in the semiconductor industry, and held various engineering and management positions. His interests are MEMS technologies, probe and test systems, thin films, microfabrication, renewable energy systems, nanomaterials.

Assoc.Prof. VURAL AKSAKALLI(Department Chair)Holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Middle East Technical University, a master’s degree in industrial engineering and operations research from North Carolina State University and, a second master’s degree and a doctoral degree in applied mathematics and statistics from Johns Hopkins University. His research areas are in stochastic and combinatorial optimization, e-commerce optimization, and applied probability and statistics.

Assist.Prof. HATİCE TEKİNER MOĞULKOÇShe received her BS and MS degrees in Industrial Engineering from Marmara University and Sabancı University, respectively. She obtained her PhD from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is interested in optimization problems in electricity generation/ transmission/distribution networks, multi-objective stochastic optimization problems, system reliability optimization and airline crew pairing problems.

Assist.Prof. MURAT KÜÇÜKVARHe received his Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida in Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, and his M.S. from Ohio University in the department of Civil Engineering. He was funded by the European Union for a semester abroad program in the Environmental Resource Management and Industrial Sustainability at Brandenburg Technology University, Germany. His research focuses on industrial sustainability, economic-social-environmental life cycle assessment, economic input-output analysis, energy and the environment, sustainable manufacturing and supply chain management.

Assoc.Prof. AMİR AZARONAmir Azaron is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Sehir University. He holds two Ph.D. degrees, the first in Industrial Engineering from Tarbiat Modarres University in Iran and the second in Systems Engineering from Hiroshima University in Japan. His research interests are in Multiple Objective Decision Making, Stochastic Networks, Supply Chain Management, Reliability, Production Planning and Project Management.

Inst. ADNAN DOVANAdnan Dovan graduated from Industrial Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University in 1978. He worked in several positions in Is Bank between 1978 and 1991 then he was assigned as Research and Development Department head in the group company Anadolu Hayat. He retired as the Senior Assistant to CEO from Anadolu Hayat in 2001. Dovan worked for TUBITAK institution TUSSIDE for 6 years as Senior Consultant. Since 2007 he is on the board of Darüşşafaka Association. He teached Managerial Economics in Marmara University as adjunct instructor from 1999 to 2007.

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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

It is very easy to find, buy and use any product sitting on a market shelf. However, that product’s presence on an easily accessible shelf, its freshness, quality and correct price entail a complicated and difficult process which must be designed, calculated and analyzed with great care. These processes named system design are developed and directed by industrial engineers. The industrial engineer’s duty begins with finding the raw materials for the product at the right place and time, and continues on to producing the product at the factory with high quality and low cost, pricing it and transporting it all the way to the consumer. The correct publicity for the product and the collecting of customer reviews for the product are also among the duties of the industrial engineer. Process management, which is part of industrial engineering’s areas of interest, is not limited to production or products that can be bought in markets. In all organizations that offer service (hospitals, banks/financial institutions, security institutions, energy distribution, transportation, logistics, various government/municipality offices, etc.), the design, development and management of the processes is necessary.

At the Department of Industrial Engineering, our students will be guided by an academic staff with over 200 scientific publications, over 20 new inventions and awarded research in addition to a rich industry and business world experience. Here, students will learn the subtleties of system analysis and design, production and resource planning, in addition to courses and lab work, with practical field studies students will acquire the capacities for effective communication and teamwork as well as professional knowledge.

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GRADUATE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCESFor detailed information on the graduate programs of the Graduate School of Humanities andSocial Sciences, please e-mail [email protected]

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (MA)

İstanbul Şehir University Political Science and International Relations Master Program aims to contribute to the production of academic knowledge in Political Science, particularly related to political theory, transformation of the international system, Turkish foreign policy, Middle East politics, neighboring regions, and other regional studies. Students will find opportunities to work with a dynamic and strong academic team of national and international educational background and experience.

The purpose of the MA program in Political Science and International Relations is to train its students as first-class researchers who successfully blends practical knowledge with theory, rigorously applies methodology of Social Sciences, and produces a comparative and critical exploration of national, regional and global politics.

The program has both thesis and non-thesis options.

CULTURAL STUDIES (MA)Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the study of culture in all of its aspects. Going beyond the elitist and narrow conventional definition of culture, it defines culture in a broad manner and approaches to it as a heterogeneous and contested construction. Cultural Studies focuses on all kinds of cultural practices and products, including film and media, everyday life, literature, popular culture, various subcultures, religion, ethnicity, postcolonialism, orientalism, globality and locality and new technologies.

MODERN TURKISH STUDIES (MA)The Master’s Program in Modern Turkish Studies (MTS) at İstanbul Şehir University makes use of interdisciplinary perspectives, theories and methodologies supported by a distinguished core faculty with well-known research achievements on Turkey. This results in courses and seminars that offer several academic subjects including democracy problems, religion and politics, civil-military relations, sociology of contemporary Turkish society, conflict resolution, issues in Turkish foreign policy, identity politics, and modern Turkish intellectual thought. The MTS Master’s program of İstanbul Şehir University aims at attracting ambitious and curious students with a goal of developing analytical skills for thinking and discussing critically, and carrying out important research that contributes to the field of Turkish Studies.

Our graduate programs, with their interdisciplinary and dynamic curriculums, aim to produce and share the knowledge of the society, nature and world we live in. An active advising system, which takes into consideration the students’ inclinations, has the goal of developing the students’ critical looking skills and helping them gain intellectual depth. Our graduate programs support the growth of academics who bring together their social and human sensitivity with their research interests.

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

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HISTORY (MA, PhD)History, as a discipline, has undergone many changes over the past decades in terms of its approaches, methodology and sources. With this awareness, the Graduate Program in History at İstanbul Şehir University offers a fresh curriculum that adopts a transnational, interdisciplinary and comparative approach for students interested primarily in the histories of the Ottoman Empire, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Balkans.

The goals of the program are to develop new methods in the understanding and interpretation of historical sources, to establish new themes and agendas in historiography in keeping with local needs, and to contribute to orld historiography with local perspectives.

The Graduate Program in History, with faculty members who have publishing and teaching experience on both national and international levels, sets out to contribute to the discipline of history in Turkey, offering research projects and a dynamic curriculum kept up-to-date with the latest developments in the field.

The Graduate Program is designed to be a process that leads the student into an area of specialization. A graduate with a Masters or Doctorate Degree is expected to have mastered historiography and have a good knowledge of history in general, as well as to have acquired the reading skills in at least one modern language (other than English) and another research language, and to be able to write a competent thesis. The primary language of instruction is English.

SOCIOLOGY (MA)ŞEHİR-Sociology’s vision is based on the concept of the global articulation of a local perspective. It aims to creatively combine sound education with cutting-edge research, high academic standards with sensitivity to social issues as well as the global with the local. From this glocal perspective, its mission is two-fold: to offer its students an intellectually-satisfying and interdisciplinary education, and to produce sophisticated knowledge based on rigorous methods and original research. It thus aims to contribute to the accumulation of refined knowledge, instead of repeating what has already been produced. To this end, İstanbul Şehir University MA Program in Sociology offers a free research environment and a rich intellectual atmosphere where free thinking can flourish.

Combining small size with intellectual diversity, MA Program in ŞEHİR-Sociology makes it its priority to offer its students a wide range of

theoretical and methodological perspectives of its faculty, who are committed to student-centered education by working closely with students in small seminar settings and providing them with sound guidance. Areas of faculty interest include political sociology, historical and comparative analysis, everyday life, the sociology of culture and religion, social movements, economic sociology and organizations, social inequality, urban ethnography, ethnicity and nationalism, identity, gender and advanced statistics. The department is also committed to extend the range of scholarly exchange and courses offered each semester by hosting some of the leading sociologists from all over the world.

MA Program in ŞEHİR-Sociology also takes pride in being an integral part of ŞEHİR’s landmark graduate and undergraduate teaching program, one based on interdisciplinarity and diversity. In close collaboration with graduate programs in history, cultural studies, and modern Turkish studies at ŞEHİR, our program is dedicated to help students learn to think analytically about their society and to prepare them for a wide range of careers. Thus, on one hand, we offer a number of common courses with other programs, on the other hand, we encourage our students to take (elective) classes from all three of the above graduate programs. For graduation, the students are required to complete a minimum of 8 courses and 24 graduate credits. They are also required to write an MA thesis of reasonable length.

PUBLIC LAW (LL.M, PhD)*The purpose of İstanbul Şehir University Public Law Graduate Program is to deal with the public law which has an increasing significance in our country as is the case in the World with its national and international dimensions and to increase the accumulation of those who have an interest in this area which is at the focal point of freedoms. This program enables a unique understanding, in-depth knowledge and discussion at topics as operation of state organization, relation of state and individual, state of law and freedoms.

This program, which has been prepared considering the reflections of rapidly changing developments experienced in every area of life, claims to contribute both to universal legal accumulation and to Turkish legal thinking with the orld of the faculty members who are famous with their productivity in their fields and its meticulously chosen students.

Another purpose of Public Law Graduate Program is to give a perspective to its graduates to have a orl to say in the academic level all over the world and to realize the profession of law in the best way.

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Furthermore, this program aims to help students who are not graduates of law, a deep knowledge of law and a solid point of view in law and give a broad perspective while carrying out their professions.

PRIVATE LAW (LL.M, PhD)*The purpose of Private Law Graduate Program is to inform its students of the latest information on private law which is an indispensable instrument in every area of orld life, in especially economic-commercial field and which gains importance at national and international level every other day and to develop know-how of students and to teach them research and examination methods. This program presents a unique opportunity to those who would like to increase their orld sional skills and gain the ability to analyze, judge, interpret and solve the problems of today’s legal problems in the field of private law.

This program, which has been prepared based on the reflections of rapidly changing developments in various fields of life on the field of private law, monitors the novelties in the field of private law within the framework of the principles relating the new contract types which became widespread in the national and international scale, law on consumer protection, international transportation law, intellectual and industrial property law, competition law, market economy law which forms the content of economy law and the national and international commercial law.

This program, which aims to give its graduates a perspective which will have a orl to say in the academic level all over the orld and which will realize the profession of law in the best way, also aims to help students who are not graduates of law gain a wide point of view from which they can benefit while doing their job.

(*) Language of instruction is Turkish

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCESFor detailed information on the graduate programs of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, please e-mail [email protected]

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

İstanbul Şehir University (ŞEHİR) Graduate Program in Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) is for students with an undergraduate degree (UG) in engineering or sciences such as physics and mathematics. Management or economics graduates with good mathematical background may also apply. ISE program aims to enhance national research and new technology development potential. The program will educate engineering and management leaders that will grasp new global technological developments and disseminate these new developments in academic and industrial settings, satisfying industrial demand on specialized work force in engineering area. After graduation, our students will excel in science, math, and engineering fundamentals as core skills and learn how to apply them to industrial problems. They will gain self learning ability to enhance their knowledge and professional development, skills to integrate engineering and business perspectives in design. They will learn to turn decision making processes relevant to real life, and develop a capacity to lead and innovate under the winds of continuous global change.

The ISE program at ŞEHİR offers four MS track options MS in Operations Research; MS in Manufacturing and Product Engineering; MS in Engineering Management and Leadership; and MS in Financial Engineering.

ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

The Electronics and Computer Engineering (ECE) Master’s Program was designed for students with a background in electrical engineering or computer sciences. The experience of the past two decades have shown that complex systems from the small (smart cards, mobile phones) to the large (Internet, networked storage, server farms) can be only designed and developed by teams of electrical engineers and computer scientists, since they consist of hardware and software components that have to interact and cooperate with one another. Such systems are now the driving forces of our daily lives, from medical technology to Internet banking.

The aim of the ECE MS Program at ŞEHİR is to provide our graduates the necessary and sufficient scientific knowledge and technical skills, hardware and software design tools, and methodical approaches in hardware/software co-design. Our graduates will have in-depth knowledge and dexterity in design tools, and will be able to specialize not only in classical areas of electrical engineering and computer science, but also in mathematical, computational, physical, and life sciences.

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CYBERSECURITY ENGINEERING (in Turkish)

MS in Cybersecurity Engineering has been designed as a program which will enable specialization on information systems security. The aim of the program is to learn, analyze and design algorithms and protocols enabling a controlled transmission, storage of and access to information at places where it is important and even vital while its protection is obligatory. Moreover, it is within the work areas of Cybersecurity Engineering to create policies and defense systems enabling resistance against cyber security (network security) attacks and cryptography attacks of institutions. The program launched by İstanbul Şehir University has been developed and is executed in cooperation with TÜBİTAK – BİLGEM, leading institution of our country relating information security.

DATA SCIENCEWith data playing a central role in advancing civilization, it is appropriate to say that “the data has become the new oil”. Data scientists are inquisitive: exploring, asking questions, doing “what if” analysis, questioning existing assumptions and processes. Rather than looking at data from a single source, a data scientist will explore and examine data from multiple disparate sources. The data scientist will sift through all incoming data with the goal of discovering a previously hidden insight, which in turn can provide a competitive advantage or address a pressing business problem.

In order to fully grasp the opportunities present in the current environment awash with data, our niche graduate program for Data Science is right on target. Our institutional partnership with IBM will help us better this new graduate program going forward. Besides systems and tooling support, enhancing class experience with guest lectures from IBM personnel expert in the areas pertinent to course content will make sure that practical implications and real problems to solve will always be thought of and taught up-front in the academia.

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS For detailed information on the graduate programs of the Graduate School of Business, please e-mail [email protected]

EXECUTIVE MBA PROGRAM (in Turkish)

This program aims to help Turkish companies who are gradually becoming more active in the World Economy to have a global vision and found companies which will exist in the world markets, and raise leaders to successfully govern these companies. Those who want to join among the successful executives who think, plan and direct with a global perspective are more than welcome.

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MAHMUT OLTAN SUNGURLUChairman of the Board of Trustees

Mahmut Oltan Sungurlu is a graduate of İstanbul University Faculty of Law. He started his business life as a lawyer in 1963. He was the founding member of Anavatan Party in 1983 and was elected to parliament four times from Gümüşhane. He served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Defense. He served at the Court of Accounts and National Defense Budget Commission. Sungurlu has been the Chairman of İstanbul Şehir University Board of Trustees since its foundation.

ABDULHALİK DAMAR Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Abdulhalik Damar graduated from the Management Department of Boğaziçi University in 1985. He served as project specialist, CEO, Major shareholder and consultant at corporate companies as Albaraka Türk, Yıldız Holding. Damar is also a board Member of the Foundation for Sciences and Arts, the Association of the İstanbul High School, TÜKÇEV and the Boğaziçi Managers Foundation.

Prof. AHMET ADEMOĞLUHe received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering, his M.S. and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Bogazici University. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas from 1995 to 1997. His research interests are Neuroimaging, Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics. He serves as the national representative of the “Ideas” Program Committee of European Research Council (ERC), as the national delegate for the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and as a board member in the Fulbright Commission.

ALİ ÜLKER Born in 1969, Ali Ülker studied at the Bosphorus University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Economics and Business Management Departments. He joined numerous training programs in IMD, INSEAD and Harvard.

He also worked at De Boccard & Yorke Consultancy Company, In-company Kaizen Studies (1992) and IESC Sales System Development and In-company Organization Project (1997).

He began his career in 1985 as an intern in Ülker Foods A.Ş. and worked at different positions within the Company. Acts as the Assistant Chairman of the Yıldız Holding Board of Directors since 2011, Ali Ülker assumes responsibility as the Head of Group for Global Innovation and Quality. Ali ÜLKER is the founding President and member of ASÜD; BEBESAD and the member of TGDF, TÜGİAD and International Cocoa Organization. Ali Ülker’s interests include playing basketball and billiards, fishing, cinema and reading. Married and the father of three children, Ali Ülker speaks English and German.

PROF. FAZIL ÖNDER SÖNMEZFazıl Önder Sönmez received his BA and MA in Mechanical Engineering from Boğaziçi University in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at UCLA in 1995. He joined Boğaziçi University’s Mechanical Engineering Faculty in 1996, where he was promoted to Associate Professorship in 2002 and Professorship in 2009. He has published in prominent journals within the scope of his area of research. He has also supervised many MA and PhD dissertations at Boğaziçi and conducted many scientific and industrial projects.

Dr. FİKRİ GÖKBÖRÜ KANÇALFikri Gökbörü Kançal graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1980, and from Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine at İstanbul University in 1986. He worked as a medical doctor during the years of 1986-1988. He received training in vacuum technology in Switzerland, Germany and Spain between 1989-1990. He is at the head of his own company since 1992. A founder and Board Member of the BİSAV (Foundation for Sciences and Arts), he also served as the Secretary General of the Emel Crimea Foundation and as a Board Member of the Association of Crimean Turks in İstanbul during 1994-2002. Since 2002, he is a distinguished Member of the Association of Crimean Turks in İstanbul. Dr. Kançal speaks French, English, German and Tatar fluently.

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ASSOC. PROF. M. İBRAHİM TURHANAfter his graduation from Galatasaray High School (1987), he completed his studies at the Management Department of Boğaziçi University (1993). He received his MA in “International Banking” and his PHD in “Banking” from Marmara University Institute of Banking and

Insurance. He worked as faculty member at Yeditepe University (2001-2003). He has been the Member of the Turkish Central Bank (TCMB) Bank Council and Monetary Policy Committee (2004-2011). He also worked as TCMB Deputy Governor and Member of the Advisory Board of the Contemporary Turkish Studies Center at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) on behalf of TCMB. He still carries out his duty as Chairman of Borsa İstanbul (BİST).

PROF. CEMAL ŞANLICemal Şanlı graduated from the Faculty of Law at the İstanbul University in 1977 and started to work as assistant at International Private Law of the same University. He received his first PhD from İstanbul University and the second one from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. He was assigned as Associate Professor in 1990, and as Professor in 1996. He is currently the Head of International Private Law Department of İstanbul University. He has published many books and articles in international private law. He has several published books, articles and monography in the field of International Private Law and especially International Arbitration. Beside his academic career, he works as lawyer and carries out duties as Member and Vice Chairman of Turkish Airlines Board of Directors.

ASSOC. PROF. ÖMER BOLATÖmer Bolat graduated from the Department of the International Economic Relations at Marmara University (1984). He received his first MA in European Integration from the European Institute of Amsterdam University. He also completed his MA in international economics and management from the Kiel University World Economy Institute in Germany. He completed his PhD in the European Union Institute of Marmara University (1989). Between 1993 and 2008, he worked as the Secretary General, Vice Chairman, and Chairman at MÜSİAD. He assumed membership of the Board of Directors and the Executive Board of Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK) between 2006 and 2008. Since 2000, he has assumed responsibility as the General Coordinator of Albayrak Holding..

DR. MEHMET KÖSE1977 Graduate of İstanbul Erkek High School, Mehmet Köse completed his study at Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine in 1984. After graduation, he continued his medical carrier as Doctor at Şişli Etfal Hospital and Ülker Group. Later, he assumed responsibility as member of the Board of Directors at Foodstuff Laboratory, Training and Human Resources and Market Activity Staff Company. He is still the Member of Board of Directors at Yıldız Holding. Moreover he carries out works at various non-governmental organizations.

DT. ALİ PULCUAfter his graduation from İstanbul Erkek High School (1979), he completed his study in İstanbul University Faculty of Dentistry (1983). He has been working as a dentist since 1986.

HÜSEYİN AVNİ METİNKALE Hüseyin Avni Metinkale, who graduated from İstanbul Technical University Management Engineering Department in 1985, started his business life as a project manager at Albaraka Türk Participation Bank and served as an executive at Pripack Ambalaj A.Ş. During his business life, he worked as an executive at various levels within Yıldız Holding and still acts as Yıldız Holding General Manager and General Secretary of Holding Boards of Directors. He is the member of Board of Trustees of Safe Food Foundation (Güvenilir Gıdalar Vakfı) and Sabri Ülker Research Institute of Food (Sabri Ülker Gıda Araştırmaları Enstitüsü) and the member of Board of Directors of the Foundation of Patronage School (Hamilik Okulu Vakfı).

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Dear All,

We live in an age that only countries capable of generating knowledge and circulating it through the international system can possibly have an active influence upon our world.

İstanbul Şehir University has started out as an international institution evolving through a vision that generates academic activities extending from regional to global involvements. We aim at contributing to science and scholarship by educating the minds for excellence in teaching, learning and research.

Our distinguished faculty representing a broad scope of interest conduct research to have an impact on our future. Our research centers focus on problems concerning our region and the world at large.

Our aim at ŞEHİR is to educate young individuals at three levels of intellectual capacity. They will be able to approach and address the local issues with indigenous familiarity and concern. They will be sensitive to the problems of the region as inheritors of a shared historical and cultural tradition. They will be able to communicate a global message to the world of humanity.

Our ambition is to see our students evolve as inquisitive, innovative, cultivated and responsible individuals who will act as professionals with a sense of mission to serve the interests of society.

As a young and modern Institution, we are strongly committed to the internationalization of education and research. We place a high premium on international dissemination of local knowledge, as a major source of institutional pride and visibility.

wTherefore, we encourage you to come and join our international cultural sphere in a historical city which represents a unique binding of wisdom of the East and the rationality of the West. Contribute to the multi-cultural environment in ŞEHİR shared by students coming from more than 60 different countries and enjoy the experience of being part of it.

Looking forward to meeting you in ŞEHİR…

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ademoğlu

Rector

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