Aims and Objectives

To give the students general knowledge of the Public Law and its basic notions; to analyze the general principles of Turkish Constitutional Law.

Course Contents

·         The definition, sources and branches of law

·         Public law – Private law distinction

·         Political power and the sovereign problem

·         The state and its elements; forms of the state; the government systems

·         The notion and types of constitution

·         The general principles of Turkish Constitutional Law

·         Legislative and executive powers; the relations between them

·         The judicial review of legislative acts

Assessment Methods

Midterm examination (40%) and final examination (60%)

Text Book / Recommended Reading

• Kemal Gözler, Anayasa Hukukuna Giriş

Aims and Objectives

Administrative law concerns the regulation of the relations between persons and associations to the executive force and its technical aspect, the administration.

Course Contents

·         The Turkish administrative structure (central and local administration)

·         Administrative procedures and agreements

·         Functions of the administration (public service and security)

·         Law of administrative personnel

·         Administrative property and its ways of acquisition

·         Financial responsibility of the administration

·         Legal control over administration (administrative law suits and procedure)

Assessment Methods

Midterm examination (40%) and final examination (60%)

Text Book / Recommended Reading

• Metin Günday, İdare Hukuku

Aims and Objectives

To give the students general knowledge of Turkish private law and its branches named Law of Persons, Family Law and Property Law.

Course Contents

• Introduction to law
• Law of Persons
• Family Law
• The general principles of Property Law

Assessment Methods

Midterm examination (40%) and final examination (60%)

Text Book / Recommended Reading

• Turhan Esener, Hukuk Başlangıcı
• Necip Bilge, Hukuk Başlangıcı
• Hüseyin Hatemi, Medeni Hukuka Giriş
• Turgut Akıntürk, Medeni Hukuk

Aims and Objectives

To teach and to improve Turkish style of keyboard (F keyboard). The course is completely practical except for a little basic information where required.

Course Contents

·         The characteristics of F keyboard writing

·         The systematic and practical studies aimed at improving writing skills of students in F keyboard

·         Practicing on examples of real legal documents

Assessment Methods

Midterm examination (40%) and final examination (60%)

Text Book / Recommended Reading

• Muzaffer Okutan, Daktilografi

Aims and Objectives

The aim of this course is to make students familiar with basic accounting concepts and applications. By the end of the course, students are expected to identify the role of the accounting function in an enterprise, to use the concepts of the accrual basis of accounting and to use accounting techniques for service and merchandising businesses.

Course Contents

·         Introduction to financial accounting: Accounting information and user groups, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Understanding business transactions

·         The accounting equation. The business transaction of a service firm. The financial statement of a service firm.

·         Accounting cycle: Definition of the account and ledger. Rules of debit and credit

·         General journal and recording in a journal. Summarizing business transactions, trial balance

·         Adjusting and correcting the accounts. Closing the accounts. Preparing the balance sheet and income statement

·         Accounting analysis in the merchandising firm. Acquiring assets from stockholders, creditors or earning process

·         Investing the resources: buying merchandise, transportation charges, purchases returns and allowances

·         Using the resources: using money-type resource, merchandise, prepaid expenses, plant and equipment

·         Selling the product: sales, return and allowances, collection of accounts receivable

·         Returning assets to stockholders and creditors: dividend debt payments. Posting and summarizing process

·         Adjustments: prepaid expenses, depreciation and plant and equipment, expenses on credit, accrued revenues, unearned revenues

·         Closing the accounts. Preparing the financial statements: income statement, statement of retained earnings, balance sheet.

Assessment Methods

Midterm examination (%40) and final examination (%60)

Text Book / Recommended Reading

• Ümit Ataman, Genel Muhasebe

Aims and Objectives

To give the students the general knowledge of computer and improve computer skills of students.

Course Contents  

• Basic concepts
• The properties and principles of hardware
• Introduction to the operating systems
• To give the knowledge of how to use Windows

Assessment Methods

Midterm examination (40%) and final examination (60%)

Text Book / Recommended Reading

• Course’s notes

Aims and Objectives

To give the general knowledge of the aims, the subject, the methodology of justice psychology as a branch of Criminal Law 

Course Contents

• The importance of psychological situations of the persons, who are in the activity performed during trials.
• Psychology of defendant, convicts, judge and witness.
• Psychological information needed in Criminal law for explaining some of its topics, like animus, suspension, conditional release.
• The classification of convicts

Assessment Methods

Midterm examination (40%) and final examination (60%)

Text Book / Recommended Reading

• Faruk Erem, Adalet Psikolojisi
• Füsun Sokullu-Akıncı, Adalet Psikolojisi Ders Notları

Aims and Objectives

Law as a social and normative science depends heavily on the use of language. A healthy, flawless Turkish is necessary for understanding, interpreting and applying legal texts in accordance with justice and truth. Thus, Turkish language is important for all law and related classes.

Course Contents

·         The meaning of language

·         The classification of languages and the place of Turkish language in this classification

·         The relation between language and culture

·         Written language – spoken language distinction

·         The historical development of Turkish language; the purifying movements in history of Turkish language

·         The structure and properties of Turkish language

Assessment Methods

Midterm examination (40%) and final examination (60%)

Text Book / Recommended Reading

• Muharrem Ergin, Üniversiteler İçin Türk Dili
• Zeynep Korkmaz – Hamza Zülfikar, Üniversiteler için Türk Dili ve Kompozisyon Bilgileri

Aims and Objectives

During the first semester the historical background and the results of “Turkish Independence War” are examined.

Course Contents

• The characteristics and the results of First World War
• The Montrose Armistice and the thesis concerning the future of Ottoman Empire
• The local congress powers
• The national congress powers (Sivas Congress and afterwards)
• The overcoming of power problem
• The war democracy
• The Lozan Peace Pact
• The dynamics of great transformation
• The role of leader in “Independence and Establishment” 

Assessment Methods

Midterm examination (40%) and final examination (60%)

Text Book / Recommended Reading

• Bülent Tanör, Kuruluş /Kurtuluş

Aims and Objectives

To give the general knowledge of world art history and especially the historical development and forms of Anatolian art.

Course Contents

• Pre-Historic and especially the Hittite art
• Ancient Greek and Roman periods
• Byzantium art
• Early Islamic art
• The Seljuk period architecture
• Classical and later Ottoman art; the palaces of Ottoman
• Traditional Turkish arts
• History of European art
• Contemporary art