About the Programme
Key Learning Outcomes
- PO1Analyzing the emergence and development of sociology as a science.
- PO2Recognizing distinctive schools of thought and theoreticians in the world and in Turkey in line with the multi-layered and multidimensional nature of social reality.
- PO3Comparing and discussing the basic concepts whose definitions vary according to the presuppositions of different theoretical approaches within the multi-paradigm structure of sociology.
- PO4Critically discussing the classical, contemporary and current theoretical and methodological approaches in sociology.
- PO5Analyzing sociological research methods with different features, especially quantitative and qualitative research methods, applying the basic stages of the research and interpreting the data supported findings.
- PO6Discussing social problems, differences and uncertainties in daily life from an intersectional and relational point of view.
- PO7Analyzing the problem-oriented areas of sociology such as women, environment, immigration, health, crime as well as basic social institutions such as family, religion, and education.
- PO8Establishing interdisciplinary relations with social sciences such as social psychology, psychology, logic, social anthropology, literature, politics, philosophy, education, economics, history, law, as well as with natural sciences, and arts such as music, painting and cinema.
- PO9Conducting social responsibility projects and producing social policy proposals besides academic studies as a requirement of ensuring the integrity of sociological theory and practice.
- PO10Recognizing the professional/occupational aspect of sociology and discussing employment areas and problems.
- PO11Analyzing the social transformations that occur in parallel with technological innovations and resolving the theoretical and applied contributions expected from sociology.
- PO12Being able to express oneself in English at an international level by having knowledge of a foreign language.