Course
Code
SBK 101
Course Name
Credit
Introduction to Law
(3+0+0) 3
Fundamentals of law pertaining to its meaning, resources, norms and its raison d'etre, the rules of law,
law-justice relations, resources of law, hierarchy of law norms, human rights, the rule of law,
comparison of different law systems, differences between private law and public law.
SBK 102
Introduction to Constitutional Law
(3+0+0) 3
The concept of constitutional law, source of constitutional law, substantial constitution, formal
constitution, hierarchy of norms, making and amending constitutions, constitutional supremacy,
decree law, resolutions, powers of the state and separation of powers, and government systems.
SBK 103
Introduction to Political Science
(3+0+0) 3
Basic issues and concepts of political science, main theories and prominent figures of political science,
sovereignty, legitimacy, political regimes, political parties, political institutions and political behavior,
political participation, state and bureaucracy.
SBK 105
Introduction to Public Administration
(3+0+0) 3
Issues and problems in the field of public administration, primary concepts and theories of public
administration, state mechanism, bureaucracy and state relations, administrative methods and elements
of administration.
SBK 106
Turkish Public Administration
(3+0+0) 3
In this course students will gain elementary knowledge about the structure of Turkish public
administration, its elements and administrative method. Source of Turkish public administration, its
relationship with politics and its main problems are included within course curriculum.
SBK 107
Introduction to Sociology
(3+0+0) 3
Sociological method, individual as the sociological unit of analysis, groups, organizations and society,
structures of power and inequality, ethnicity, aging and gender, government and political power. social
institutions: work and family; media and religion, social change, globalization.
SBK 109
Readings in Public Administration
(3+0+0) 3
Current focus points of the public administration different issues of the field, problems that are faced
within different applications of public administration in various countries and how these issues are
problematized scientifically.
SBK 110
Readings in Political Science
(3+0+0) 3
Contemporary topics of political science and debate points through works in various sub-fields,
English literature of the political science on the issues that are part of today’s political debates.
SBK 111
Introduction to Social Sciences
(3+0+0) 3
Scientific methods, scientific paradigms, social science, problems of social science, methods of social
science, unit of analysis, theories of social science, relationship of social sciences with natural
sciences.
SBK 201
History of Political Thought I
(3+0+0) 3
Students will learn the early part of history of political thought from antiquity to pre-modern era.
Students examine prominent thinkers of political thought in this period and their works, and will have
the opportunity to observe how main units and methods of analysis of political science are transformed
through time.
SBK 202
History of Political Thought II
(3+0+0) 3
Examination of Ancient Greek, Roman, and medieval political thinkers, the analysis of their major
contributions to the development of modern political theory, the essence and nature of concepts and
themes related to political theories.
SBK 203
Social Structure of Turkey
(3+0+0) 3
Different groups and structures that constitutes the Turkish society, differentiation points of these
groups and structures, individuality within Turkish society, transformation of Turkish society.
SBK 204
Local Governments
(3+0+0) 3
Basic issues and concepts of local governments, approaches of local government, current problems of
local governments, gentrification, municipality, governance at local level, civil society and local
government relations.
SBK 205
Turkish Constitutional Law
(3+0+0) 3
Constitutional movements in Ottoman Empire, 1876 and 1921 Constitutions, preparations of 1924
Constitutions and its content, preparations of 1961 Constitution and the basic philosophy of it,
preparation of 1982 Constitution and the basic philosophy behind it.
SBK 206
Introduction to Administrative Law
(3+0+0) 3
Theories and constitutional principles, administrative organization, centralization and decentralization,
organization of central administration, organization of local administrations, public servants,
disciplinary and penal process, public goods.
SBK 208
Political Sociology
(3+0+0) 3
Social formation of the modern state. Power and authority. Social movements and politics.
Globalization. Transformation of social relations. Technology and Society. The impact of social
movements and trends outside of formal institutions on politics; power in small groups. Major social
trends and their implications.
SBK 212
History of Turkish Politics
(3+0+0) 3
Examination of the state tradition in Turkey; understanding the interaction of state, politics, and
society; secularism, civil-military relations, problems of democracy; transition to multiparty politics
and its problems; parliamentary system and political parties; political participation, interest groups and
civil society.
SBK 301
Comparative Politics
(3+0+0) 3
Comparative systems paradigms. Revolutions and State formation. Liberal Democracy Versus
Democracy. Totalitarian and authoritarian Systems. Bases and institutionalization of “Legitimacy”.
Comparing the countries. Parliamentarism and Presidential Systems.
SBK 302
History of Turkish Administration
(3+0+0) 3
Administration Mentality the in the History. Effects od Islamic Civilization. Administration in Seljuk
Empire. Institutions and Government od Ottoman Empire. “Millet” System and Social Structure.
Towards to Central Administration in Ottoman Empire. Tanzimat and Islahat Reforms.
SBK 303
Human Resources Management in Public Administration
(3+0+0) 3
Managing the human resources of the organization, manpower, planning, selection and training of
personnel evaluation and rewarding, career development programs. Performance in Public
Management. Motivation in Human Resources. Contemporary issues in public management.
SBK 304
Administrative Law
(3+0+0) 3
Evolution of Administrative Court. Components of the Administrative Court. Organisational Structure
and Procedures. Judging methods in administrational courts.
SBK 305
Urbanization and Environmental Management
(3+0+0) 3
Definition of Urbanisation. Basic Approach in Urbanisation. Urbanisation in Turkey. Kentleşme
kavramı. Türkiye’de kentleşme. Kentleşme teorileri. Urban and Zone Planning. Urbanisation and
Security. Housing Policy. Squatting and its consequences. Urban management. Metropolitan
administration. Environmental issues and management.
SBK 307
Research Methods
(3+0+0) 3
Introduction to theory-oriented research in political science. Research problems, research designs,
qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques, data processing, data analysis. Interpretation of
social science data with special emphasis on quantitative methods, and report writing on the basis of
data analysis and findings.
SBK 309
Basic Rights and Freedoms
(3+0+0) 3
Theoretical and philosophical background of human rights; human rights in state-society-individual
relations; the concept of citizenship. International organizations; European Convention on Human
Rights; European Court of Human Rights. Individual rights and freedoms; rights of women, children,
minorities and asylum seekers; liberal, feminist, socialist, multi-culturalist doctrines in human rights.
Historical development of human rights in Turkey
SBK 310
City Planning and Zoning Law
(3+0+0) 3
Definitions of Urban planning. Theories of Urban planning. Process and Components of Urban
planning. Implementation. Expropriation. Zone Planning. Squatting. Natural Disasters and Urban
Management.
SBK 311
State and Bureaucracy
(3+0+0) 3
The nature of the state. The absolutist, constitutionalist, ethical, class and the pluralist theories of the
State Legislative and executive branches of government. Government and bureaucracy. Turkish
judicial system and bureaucracy. Marxist and Weberian approaches to Bureaucracy. New issues in
bureaucracy. Supervision of bureaucracy.
SBK 312
Civil Society
(3+0+0) 3
Non governmental organisations. Evolution of the civil society. Civil society in western and nonwestern societies. Civil society in islamic countries. Role of NGO’s in politics and decision making.
SBK 313
History of Turkish-Islamic Thought
(3+0+0) 3
Definition of Turkish-İslamic thought. Representatives of Turkish thought. Defining islamic thought.
Islamization of Turkish people. Turkish-Islamic schools. Concept of the state and society. Sufism and
society. Thoughts in Seljuk and Ottoman era. Transformation to the Republic era and after.
SBK 315
Political Parties and Election Systems in Turkey
(3+0+0) 3
Typologies and functions of political parties; electoral systems; political participation. structure of
political power; government-opposition relations. Analysis of the relationship between politics and
interest competition; types of election systems. lobbying activities. Economic face of politics; class
structures; relations of interest groups within politics.
SBK 316
Media and Politics
(3+0+0) 3
Politics and political science in the age of the internet. The impact of the media on poltical parties and
political participation. Political representation in media. Media as a source of information, medium of
communication and public sphere. The role of the internet in provision of public services. Internet as a
site for censorship, monitoring and control.
SBK 317
Urban Sociology
(3+0+0) 3
Contemporary, comparative, and historical approaches of urbanisation and urban planning. Changing
nature of community. Social inequality, political power, socio-spatial change. Technological change,
and the relationship between the built environment and human behavior.
SBK 318
Comparative Political Systems
(3+0+0) 3
Comparative systems paradigms. Revolutions and State formation. Liberal Democracy Versus
Democracy. Totalitarian and authoritarian Systems. Bases and institutionalization of “Legitimacy”.
Comparing the countries. Parliamentarism and Presidential Systems.
SBK 320
Religion and Politics
(3+0+0) 3
Historical development of secularization theory, different experiences of secularism, relationship
between religion and politics, state’s involvement in religion, discussions on religion and public
sphere.
SBK 321
Democratic Theory and Democratization
(3+0+0) 3
Definitions and justifications of democracy, the problem of democratic citizenship, legislative
representation, instrumentalist conceptions of democratic theory, the authority of democracy,
democratic consent theories of authority, limits to the authority of democracy.
SBK 322
Civil Law
(3+0+0) 3
Subject of civil law, Turkish and Swiss civil law, legalization movement. Sources of Law. Laws, rules,
regulations, Law enforcement (and plain meaning of the law as opposed to the implementation,
interpretation methods, types of holes in the law, and hole types), Rights holders: persons and legal
entities. The beginning and end of personality, Proof of health and death, presumption of death and
absence, Capacity to acquire rights, Capacity to act and its limitations, the classification of individuals
in terms of capacity to act, Protection of personality and remedies, The concept of a legal entity,
conditions of its acquisition, associations and foundations
SBK 323
(3+0+0) 3
Political Psychology
The sources of public opinion and political behavior through the application of psychological theories
about personality, learning, cognition, emotion, social influence and group dynamics.
SBK 401
Comparative Public Administration
(3+0+0) 3
Survey of significant and controversial issues in public administration, rise and development of the
administrative state in a variety of regional, cultural and political contexts, the challenges of
controlling the “bureaucratization” of the state, and issues related to bureaucratic ethics and morality.
SBK 402
Public Policies
(3+0+0) 3
Main principles of public policy; analysis of public policy making from a multidisciplinary
perspective; policy analysis, urban management. Public policies concerning ageing, health, migration,
urbanization, environmental protection and crime; problems and issues in policy implementation.
Welfare state; new public management.
SBK 403
(3+0+0) 3
Political Ideologies
A general approach to the main schools of thought including liberalism, conservatism, socialism,
anarchism, fascism and feminism, environmentalism and some other contemporary ideologies.
SBK 404
Senior Thesis
(3+0+0) 3
SBK 405
Methods of Contemporary Administration
(3+0+0) 3
Crisis management, time and stress management, conflict resolution, Downsizing and Delayering,
Core competence, Outsourcing, Career Management, Learning Organizations, Network Organizations,
Virtual Organizations, Total Quality Management, Customer Relationship Management, Balanced
Scorecard, 6 Sigma.
SBK 406
Comparative Local Governments
(3+0+0) 3
The historical development of local government in Turkey; the political and legal structure of local
government in Turkey; local government reform agenda in the context of European Union
membership process, experiences of USA, Russia, Germany, France, Britain and Japan
SBK 407
Issues in Contemporary Politics
(3+0+0) 3
Decisive political events in the post-1980 era in Turkey, role of military in Turkish politics, political
and economic liberalization, political actors; CHP, AKP, MHP, HDP.
SBK 408
Issues in Contemporary Public Administration
(3+0+0) 3
The Idea of Public Administration: An Exploratory Comparative Framework, Hierarchical
Governance and Public Administration, Market Self-Regulation Governance and Public
Administration, Network Governance and Public Administration,
SBK 409
Politics and Society in the Middle East
(3+0+0) 3
Historical background of the social and institutional structures and development issues in the Middle
East. Concept and ideologies like Arabism, Islam and Modernization. Contemporary conflicts and
treaties that formed modern delimitation of the region.
SBK 410
Leadership Theories
(3+0+0) 3
Definitions of leadership, leadership in public offices, problems of political leadership in local
governments.
SBK 411
Public Relations in Public Sector
(3+0+0) 3
Birth of public relations, communication and public relations, the use of public relations in public
administration, public relations in the time of crisis.
SBK 412
Ethnicity and Nationalism
(3+0+0) 3
Concepts of identity, ethnicity and nationalism from a comparative perspective, how identity is
defined and how societies use these constructions for, among other things, nation-building, welfare
distribution and economic development, empirical studies from developed and developing countries
across different time periods.
SBK 413
New Trends in Local Governments
(3+0+0) 3
Reforms in local governments, strategic planning, measurement of performance, concept of quality
and its measurement, ethics and local governments, e-municipality, citizen based local government,
accountability in local government.
SBK 416
Criminal Law
(3+0+0) 3
Responsibility principle in criminal law, sources of criminal law, general crime theory, competence to
stand trial, intent and negligence, criminal attempt, complicity.
SBK 418
Political Communication and Participation
(3+0+0) 3
Historical development of political communication, its institutionalization and transformation in
liberal democracies.
SBK 420
Quality in Public Administration
(3+0+0) 3
Concept of Quality in Public Administration, difference between quality management and total quality
management, historical development of total quality management, models of total quality, human
factor and education in total quality management, leadership and total quality management,
applicability of total quality management in public administration, implementation of total quality
management in different countries.
SBK 422
Political Economy
(3+0+0) 3
Relationship between economic processes and political institutions. Analysis of state intervention in
the economic market. Comprehension of globalizing economic processes from the perspectives of the
state and politics; global monetary system. Fundamental approaches in international political
economy; state-market relations; international institutions; national and international policies that
affect international economy. International investment; international money; economic crises and their
effects on politics.