Department of History
Institute of Social Sciences

General Description

Foundation

Master’s Degree Programme, Department of History, Fall Term of the Academic Year 2012

Degrees Offered

Thesis Master’s Degree in History

Cycle

Second Cycle / EQF 7 (Master’s Degree)

Admission and Registration Requirements

To apply for the Thesis Master’s Degree Programme, candidates must hold a bachelor’s diploma, and submit their copy of the ALES (Academic Staff and Postgraduate Education Admission Exam) score, which must be at least 55 of the required weight (verbal or quantitative or equally weighted) by the Programme. The exam is centrally held by ÖSYM (Centre for Assessment, Selection, and Placement).

Recognition of Prior Learning

In accordance with Article 10 of the Regulation on Beykent University’s Postgraduate Education and Training, students are admitted to the programmes at Institutes through horizontal transfer provided that they meet the requirements for horizontal transfer, which are determined by the Academic Board upon the Institute Administrative Board’s decision, and the Head of the Department’s opinion. Students submit a letter of application by means of which they request to be exempt from certain courses within the same postgraduate programme of Beykent University as the courses of the postgraduate programme of another university they had enrolled in before. Their application including the course contents and transcripts will be Head of the Department, and the Board will decide which courses the students took will be awarded credits for the courses they must take within the Programme they have recently enrolled. The courses students took at the university they attended may be recognised as the elective or compulsory courses with the Institute Administrative Board’s approval.

Competence Requirements and Rules

3 years, 2 terms in each year, 15 weeks in each term, 120 ECTS in total.

Programme Description

The Programme aims to enable students to:

  • Carry out research in History, and cultivate them into scientists in the field of History.
  • Specialise in their thesis topic
  • Publish original and research papers.

Career Opportunities

Students can:

  • Work at universities and advance in their academic career.
  • Work in State Archives, Libraries, or as specialists in institutions.
  • Work as specialist teachers within the Ministry of National Education

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

  • Access the primary resources in History.
  • Re-evaluate the History based on contemporary methods.
  • Benefit from other disciplines to write History.
  • Evaluate the historical events in the History of Turkey and the World by comparison.
  • Rewrite the contradictive events in the light of new findings.
  • Acquire knowledge to translate and analyse the historical resources written in other languages.
  • Prepare academic papers and reports.

Come up with new ideas about the history of societies, cities, regions, and dynasties, using the technique of comparison.