ISLAMIC SCIENCES (ARABIC 30%)

The Faculty of Islamic Sciences provides a minimum 4-year undergraduate period of study, after 1-year of compulsory Arabic Language Preparatory Class. Compulsory Arabic Preparatory Education is carried out by expert Turkish and Foreign Arabic language teachers at Halkalı Campus of the University. The experienced academic staff at the Faculty will be enriched and enlarged with new native or foreign teaching staff over time.
The 4-year undergraduate education is provided with 30% Arabic as the medium of instruction in addition to Turkish. Also, we strive to enable our students to learn and improve English as well.  To do so, we also envision sending successful students abroad during breaks for this purpose.
Furthermore, students of the Faculty will have the chance to take elective courses from other departments, as they continue their education in the field of Islamic Sciences.
The faculty is also part of partnership programs and student exchange programs. For further information on this issue, you may refer to the International Office of the university.

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

LEVEL: Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle

Admission of national students to the programme is allowed through the nationally centralised Student Selection Examination (ÖSS) conducted by the Student Selection and Placement Centre (OSYM). For further information please visit General Admission Requirements and Registration Procedures in the menu items of the Information on the Institution and The Student Selection & Placement Centre (OSYM).

Admission of foreign students to the programme can be done upon an evaluation of the application of students directiy to the university. For further and detailed information please visit General Admission Requirements and Registration Procedures in the menu items of the Information on the 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 wide spread 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.

Graduated students of theology faculty are employed Directorate of Religious Affairs, Directorate of National Education and translator offices.
Upon a successful completion of the programme, student may continue with master and doctoral studies in the same or similar scientific areas, which may accept students from the science of Theology.

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