POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (ENGLISH)

Political Science and International Relations is a field of social sciences that examines any form of political relations. It investigates the issues that emerge as an outcome of human coexistence in political orders by using concepts like power, system, state, government, and others. It analyses and compares who gets what why and how in the field politics. It tries to uncover actors’ behavioral patterns and find out regularities among these. 

Opportunities Provided to Students

• Opportunity to learn foreign language (Free)
• Opportunity to do a Minor (During normal education and an additional year with scholarship)
• Opportunity to do a Double Major (During normal education and an additional year with scholarship)
• Opportunity of foreign education through international exchange programs (1 or 2 semester)
• Opportunity to continue with MA programs after graduation

Career Opportunities

Graduates of the Department of Political Science and International Relations are employed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, strategic research centers, national and international public and private organizations. Graduate candidates obtain the formation suitable for starting a career in multinational companies, the European Commission, the media, as well as in private companies. In addition, they also have the opportunity to have an academic career in universities, research centers and similar institutions.

The most frequently used Instructional Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.

• Expression
• Question-Answer
• Discussion
• Exercise and Practice
• Presentation
• Guided Practice
• Role Playing
• Group Study
• Simulation
• Brain Storming
• Six Hat
• Case Study
• Experiment - Test / Lab/ Workshop / Field Practice
• Self study
• Problem Solving
• Project Based Learning (Including Field Work)

The most frequently used Evaluation Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.

• Testing (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
• Oral Exam
• Homework
• Project / Design
• Portfolio
• Performance Assignment ( Lab / Workshop / Field Work / Seminar / Presentation / Completion Study / Thesis

Political Science and International Relations Department  is a Bachelor's Degree Programme with 240 ECTS Credits meets the minimum level (cycle) requirements, in terms of ECTS Credits and level descriptors, of the first cycle degree qualifications of the Overarching Framework of European Qualifications Framework of HE(QF-EHEA) as well as the 6th levels of qualifications of the both the Turkish Qualifications Framework for HE (TYYÇ, NQF-HETR) and the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF-LLL)in terms of the later.

Students, upon successfully completing this study programme is awarded the qualification of BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT

Admission of national students to the Political Science and International Relations Department  programme is allowed through the nationally centralised "Student Selection Examination" (ÖSS) conducted by the "Student Selection and Placement Centre" (ÖSYM). For further information please visit "Undergraduate Admissions" and Registration Procedures" of the (ÖSYM).

Within the limits of the students exhange programs our university has signed, foreign students can be admitted to the programme upon an evaluation of their applications. For further and detailed information please visit the "General Admission Requirements and Registration Procedures" of our institution.

The degree is awarded to students who successfully completes a minimum of 240 ECTS from the course units of the programme with a grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.00 out of 4.00.

Procedures to recognise prior learning (RPL), including non-formal and informal learning, is in an early stage of development in Turkey and there is no a comprehensive and enabling legislative framework at the national level in place yet. However, within the institutional autonomy respected there are some implementations at the institutional level for allocating credits towards exemption from some programme requirements on the basis of RPL. This is particularly a widespread exercise implemented in cases that students, having a certain level of knowledge, skills and competencies in relation to fields such as foreign languages and computer use, prior to admission to the university, are subjected to an examination and if they are found successful to a certain degree required by the programme they have been admitted to, they are exempted from the relevant course units of the course programme. RPL is also practiced for students who wish to transfer their studies to the equal or an upper levels at an another institution including those from abroad in the same or similar fields. In such cases, students, having received some course units in a previous programme they had studied and having been successful, may be exempted from the same or similar course units of the programmes they are admitted to upon the approval the adaptation committees of the programmes.

Such procedures of recognition are also used comprehensively in practice at our university. The general arrangements for the recognition ofsuch implementations are outlined in the relevant section of our Education and Examination Regulations, Rules & Regulations for Graduate Programmes and that of Regulations for Lateral Transfer of Students.

Graduates of the Political Science and International Relations Department are employed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in national and international public and private institutions. Holders of an MA diplome are enrolled in multinational companies, the European Commission, and themedia. They can also start a career in private companies. They have also an opportunity to work in universities, research centers and similar institutions within the framework of an academic carreer.

The students graduating from this program may apply to second cycle programs.