Political Science and International Relations

 

Prof.Dr. Cemil OKTAY

Chairperson

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Yeditepe University is part of a world-class city centrally located in a geo-politically strategic region with easy access to Europe, the Middle East and Asia.  The Department of Political Science and International Relations aims to recruit students from the neighboring regions in addition to Turkish nationals, and educate them in the fields of domestic and international politics with skills and abilities to be employed by either public or private sector at home or abroad. Our department also has two graduate programs, one at masters, the other at the PhD level since 2004. Only one fifth of the applicants at the PhD level and one third of the applicants at the masters level have been accepted to the programs, as a measure to increase the quality of the graduate studies. 

The curriculum not only embraces an interdisciplinary approach but also allows room for specialization through elective courses, language classes, and minor and double major programs. The courses are designed beyond the classic lecture format so that students can actively participate in classes through presentations, discussions, projects and so forth. Besides, the curriculum is being reshaped in accordance with the responses we hear from the advisory board of the department, which was established as part of Bologna process and includes some prominent members of public and private sector in Turkey. The board has already begun to play a role of mediator between the department and the general public.

The department offers its students and faculty exchange programs abroad through ERASMUS and other bilateral agreements. This includes the following universities: Universität Osnabrük (Germany), Roskilde University (Denmark), The Hague University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands), Hogeschool Zuyd (Netherlands), Maastricht University (Netherlands), Universytet Wroclawski (Poland), WSNHID School of Humanities and Journalism (Poland), Sapienza (Italy), Université de Strasbourg (France), Salamanca (Spain), Carleton (Canada), State University of North Florida (USA). The number of foreign exchange students regularly studying in the department compelled us to proceed with the Bologna procedures in advance of many other departments and even universities. The ECTS system is fully institutionalized in our department.