ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY GRADUATE EDUCATION PROGRAM

Our graduate education program, which consists of master's and doctoral stages, aims to enable students to acquire the basic equipment required by the general scientific and academic discipline as well as the history discipline, to select and limit scientific research topics and to provide students with the necessary skills to present the determined subject in accordance with scientific criteria. It is aimed to ensure that the academic studies to be carried out follow international studies by showing their historical and current connections.  In addition, our program provides training for researchers who aim to conduct academic studies to specialize in certain subjects concerning various phases of Turkish, World and Civilization history.

Ph.D. Program

Students who meet the requirements in the relevant sections of Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University graduate education regulations and have a master's degree can enroll in the doctoral program. The normal duration of the program is 8 semesters, the maximum study duration is 12 semesters. In order for students to successfully complete the Ph.D. program; Must successfully complete eight elective courses, one SBE 500 Coded Seminar course and SBE 1000 Coded Scientific Research Methods and Science Ethics courses within a maximum of 4 semesters. The student who completes the course load in question is obliged to prepare and successfully defend a Doctoral Thesis within the framework of the Specialized Topics course. Students coming to our department from outside the field are required to take four courses from our department's Master's program under the name of Scientific Preparation, which are listed below. The student who is successful in these courses can continue his education in the Doctoral Program.

Our department offers Master's courses in the following branches of science in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.

  • Ancient History
  • General Turkish History
  • Medieval History
  • Modern History
  • History of Ottoman Institutions and Civilization
  • History of the Republic of Turkey

 

Graduate Advisor:

Mustafa Kemal SAĞLAM

mustafakemalsaglam@aybu.edu.tr 

 

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Ph.D. PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PREPARATION PROGRAM COURSE LIST

1

TAR 500

Method and Metodology of History Research

E

2

TAR 501

Historiography-I

E

3

TAR 502

Historiography-II

E

4

TAR 505

Pre-Islamic Central Asian Turkish Cultural History I

E

5

TAR 506

Pre-Islamic Central Asian Turkish Cultural History II

E

6

TAR 510

Sources for Ottoman History II

E

7

TAR 514

Islam and the Turks

E

8

TAR 517

Sources for Ottoman History I

E

9

TAR 519

Ottoman Archival Documents and Texts I

E

10

TAR 520

Ottoman Archival Documents and Texts II

E

11

TAR 521

Ottoman History I (From Establishment Until 1699)

E

12

TAR 522

Ottoman History II (1699- 1918)

E

13

TAR 523

Ottoman Socio-Economic History I (1300-1600)

E

14

TAR 524

Ottoman Socio-Economic History II (1600-1800)

E

15

TAR 537

Modern Turkey’s Political Developments I (1908-1946)

E

16

TAR 538

Political Developments in Contemporary II (1946-1980)

E

17

TAR 541

Sources of History of Turkey in the Republican Era

E

18

TAR 546

Text Analysis of History of the Republican Era

E

19

TAR 581

Classical Period Islamic History

E

20

TAR 583

Turkish Independence War

E

 

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