ECTS - - International Relations Undergraduate Program 2013-2016
Atılım University's Department of International Relations was established in 1997. Since then, it has been constantly in developing in terms of its teaching staff as well as student numbers. Its main target is to equip its students with necessary knowledge and methodology to help them better understand our rapidly changing world and to help then to develop their own points of view. Globalization, the changing nature of the nation-states and regionalization are the hot topics of our dicsipline nowadays. One of the aims of the students of our discipline is to know the past well and to be able to forsee the future of the world order. This can only be done by a generation of students who can analytically solve the problems and express themselves effectively. The language of instruction in this program is English.
Our curriculum has been carefully designed through a detailed analysis of world's leading universities' similar programs and was enriched by the introduction of a number of specialization tracks which are usually only available in very rare circumstances in other parts of the world. Our first year curriculum basically aims to familiarize our students with the general history, economics, law, sociology, political science, psychology topics. This represents an introduction to high-level social sciences literature.
Our Second year curriculum represents the fundamentals of international relations discipline with its comprehensive emphasis on topics like international politics, international organizations, diplomatic history, international relations theory, reserach methods and history of political thought. With the help of the knowledge gathered from these courses, our students are equipped with an in-depth knowledge of the past and contemporary studies of the discipline.
Our third and the fouth years' curricula are based on diversification of students knowledge on foreign policy and international relations by offering them quite a huge number of departmental and non-departmental electives. The core courses of these two years include topics like international law, turkish foreign policy, Middle East, European Union, Russia and Foremer Soviet Union, U.S. Foreign Policy, Balkans, international political economy and human rights. The lective courses offered in these two years at the departmental level include topics like foreign policy analysis, geopolitics, international security, Turco-Greek relationns, diplomatic correspondance, contemporaray trends in world system, comparative politics, China, ethnicity and nationalism, Russian foreign policy, middle east conflicts, etc.