Uluslararası İlişkiler Lisans Diploması

• Having skills and professional expertise in the field of international relations theories, political history and international law.
• Being able to manage the disciplines of juridical sciences, sociology, history, economics etc. with the necessity of the international relations discipline by having theretical knowledge and competence.
• Obtaining professional qualification to work at state institutions and organizations, private sector and non-governmental organizations in the field of professions that district governorship, administrative jurisdiction magistracy, diplomacy, inspectorship and expert assistantship with the advantage of accumulation of interdisciplinary knowledge.
• Having adequate information about the regional and global institutions and organizations which dominate interntional relations.
• Being able to comprehend the status of Turkey and other actors in international system with the help of academic, historical and factual perspectives.
• Having information about the Middle East, Russia- Caucasus, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa regions with regards to their history, economics, sociology and strategy by analyzing international system with regional perspective Being able to make interpretation on the progresses of international relations with respect to international law.
• Having knowledge of the political history of XIX. and XX. century to make interpretations on contemporary international relations system.
• Being able to apply the theories of international relations, to make analyses, to develop hypotheses and to promote solution offers in the individual, state and system levels of analyses.
• Being conscious of professional, humane and scientific ethical manners and also the principals related to these manners.
• Being able to reach the resources and to have foreign language proficiency on the level to follow the developments related to international relations discipline and the literature.
• Using basic computer programmes and information technologies efficiently by adhering to the principal of continuous learning.
• Being able to find solutions and having capability of preparing documents such as projects, drafts, programmes and reports for national, regional and global problems with being coherent to group actions, open-minded, having capability to take initiatives and analytical thinking

This program also provides training in English. The pre-requisite for students to be successful from a course is attending at least %70 of all classes. Students meeting attendance criterion have to get at least 60 points out 100 from 1 mid-term and 1 final exams. Moreover, students can also be evaluated through assignments, presentations and quizzes whose score weights are determined by the lecturer. There are two conditions for qualification: 1) To be successful from all the courses within the program and to score at least 2.00 GPA from the total 4.00 GPA by completing 240 ECTS credits. 2) Starting from the second year, for each semester to select 3 compulsory courses and 2 elective courses from related semesters departmental elective courses or from faculty elective courses pool.

To score enough points from the Higher Education Exam done by the Higher Education Council and being placed to the program.

Our graduates have the opportunity to work -at government agencies and institutions such as Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Central Bank and Capital Market Boards of Turkey, -at universities and higher education institutions as academicians, -at national and international civil society organisations and international governmental organisations such as the United Nations, NATO and ILO, -at nearly all fields of private sector such as news media, banking, project oriented firms, politics and human resources.

Qualification is continuous