Thesis (KAM699) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Thesis KAM699 0 0 0 0 150
Pre-requisite Course(s)
Finishing course load, KAM 690 and KAM697
Course Language Turkish
Course Type N/A
Course Level Ph.D.
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Discussion, Question and Answer.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Prof. Dr. Funda Gençoğlu
  • Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuğba Gürçel Akdemir
  • Asst. Prof. Dr. Korhan Mühürcüoğlu
  • Asst. Prof. Dr. Asuman Özgür Keysan
  • Asst. Prof. Dr. Eda Bektaş
  • Asst. Prof. Dr. Aslı Yiğit
Course Assistants
Course Objectives In consultation with a Ph.D. advisor and in accordance with the feedbacks of the Dissertation Monitoring Committee, writing a comprehensive and original research thesis on a topic in the general field of Political Science. Publishing at least one article in a national or international academic journal.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Develop the competence of designing and processing a scientific project.
  • Develop the conceptual and practical skills necessary to collect and analyze original data using scientific methods.
  • Produce original knowledge in the field of Political Science and defend it by developing effective communication skills.
Course Content Ph.D. Thesis.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Meeting with the advisor
2 Meeting with advisor to finalize thesis topic, research question, analytical methodology, and data requirements
3 Meeting with advisor to finalize thesis topic, analytical methodology, data requirements
4 Literature review
5 Literature review
6 Literature review
7 Literature review
8 Meeting with the Dissertation Monitoring Committee about literature review
9 Methodology and dataset analysis
10 Methodology and dataset analysis
11 Methodology and dataset analysis
12 Metodoloji and dataset analysis
13 Meeting with the Dissertation Monitoring Committee about data analysis
14 Presentation and discussion of thesis findings
15 Presentation and discussion of thesis findings

Sources

Course Book 1. Kaynaklar, tez danışmanı ve doktora adayı tarafından tez konusuna göre belirlenir.

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury - -
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 100
Toplam 1 100
Percentage of Semester Work
Percentage of Final Work 100
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses
Major Area Courses X
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Improving knowledge and understanding of the disciplines political science and public administration so as to enable the Ph. D. candidates to produce new knowledge on these disciplines. X
2 Improving knowledge and understanding in the parallel disciplines of sociology, anthropology, history etc. to create a multi-disciplinary perspective of the field of study. X
3 Introducing and improving knowledge and skills of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods so as to create a capacity to utilize them in researches in the field of political science and public administration. X
4 Enabling the Ph. D. candidates to utilize their thoretical, methodological, and multi-disciplinary knowledge so as to critically understand the discussions in those fields, and to understand the gaps in the literature concerned. X
5 Improving academic writing skills so as to enable the Ph. D. candidates to write their dissertations or research papers in a suitable manner. X

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 40 1 40
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 40 70 2800
Presentation/Seminar Prepration 6 60 360
Project
Report
Homework Assignments 6 60 360
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 6 25 150
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 60 60
Total Workload 3770