CPAP 100

CPAP is a program to improve computer proficiency. CPAP is not a regular course; it aims to measure, evaluate and develop the skills of the students in Word Processing and Spreadsheet Applications. Students can study from the on-line video lectures provided in the link http://home.ku.edu.tr/~cpap/lecnotes.html Undergraduate students must pass CPAP's proficiency test in order to fulfill the degree requirements. They can register to the scheduled tests by registering to one of the classes of CPAP100 using KUSIS Course Planner. More information is provided in the link http://home.ku.edu.tr/~cpap/..

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SOCI 202

Examines the concept of culture and cultural change. Discusses how social anthropology can aid in understanding diverse cultures. Focuses on several major themes in social anthropology such as family, kinship, gender, race, language, economy, religion, globalization, and health and illness.

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Ön Koşulu: SOCI. 100 or consent of the instructor

SOCI 207

Explores the social side of emotions, including how they are socially shaped, learned, regulated, controlled, and patterned. Critically analyzes debates about the changing role of emotions in social, economic and political life.

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Ön Koşulu: SOCI. 100 or consent of the instructor

SOCI 211

This course examines gender as a major organizing principle in social life. Particularly, it focuses on how gender identities are socially constructed and how gender intersects with ethnicity, nationalism, class, sexuality, age and other dimensions of identity and social inequality. It also investigates the roles of family, education, the media, politics, economics and religion in shaping gender identities and inequalities.

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Ön Koşulu: SOCI. 100 or consent of the instructor

SOCI 301

Advanced design issues related to empirical sociological research are presented. These include conceptualization, hypothesis formulation, study design, sample design, sample size determination, data collection strategies, data analysis, interpretation of statistical findings, and drawing social and policy relevant conclusions. Students conduct their own research projects and present results orally and in written form.

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Ön Koşulu: (SOCI. 100 or SOCI. 101 or SOCI. 102 or SOCI. 103) and SOCI. 201 and MATH. 202

SOCI 201

Research process and basic research concepts; critical framework to examine social science problems and evaluate research; constructing social explanations; concept of causality; measurement, sampling, questionnaire construction; experimental methodology, ethnomethodology, document study; philosophy of social science.

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Ön Koşulu: SOCI. 100 or SOCI.101 or SOCI. 102 or SOCI. 103

SOCI 205

Critically examines a range of social problems facing modern societies from a sociological perspective. The course will highlight the causes and consequences of social problems, how societies respond to them, and the policy implications of the sociological approach. Possible topics include crime, racism, poverty, global inequality, environmental degradation, and war.

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SOCI 210

The period between the destruction of the Janissaries in 1826 and the end of single party rule in Türkiye in 1950. Different theoretical approaches to labor history, artisans’ experience with the Industrial Revolution, the making of an industrial labor force, ethnic and gendered segmentations among workers, state and labor relations, and different labor migration patterns.

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Ön Koşulu: SOCI. 100 or consent of the instructor

SOCI 220

Examines large-scale social transformations shaping the contemporary world, including the rise of the West, colonialism, the emergence of the Third World, the history of the development project and globalization. Explores the causes and consequences of inequalities among countries, as well as gender, class, ethnic and regional inequalities within countries.

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Ön Koşulu: SOCI. 100 or consent of the instructor

SOCI 303

Examines the works of major classical sociological theorists such as Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel. Discusses twentieth-century perspectives that build on classical theory (such as structural functionalism). Also explores the contemporary challenges to classical theory such as feminism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism.

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SOCI 100

Introduces basic concepts, methods and approaches to the study of society. Focuses on social, cultural, and political systems and structures, social conflict and social institutions. Topics include family, education, gender, race and ethnicity, social class, the economy, organizations, social groups, aging and generations.

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SOCI 204

Focuses on the historical transformation of the concept of culture, and various theoretical and conceptual perspectives for studying culture. Analyzes both the social production and reproduction of culture and cultural foundations of stratification.

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Ön Koşulu: SOCI. 100 or consent of the instructor

SOCI 208

Students will develop an understanding of the family as a social institution and as a context in which individuals develop, make choices, and influence each other. The course will introduce the students to how social scientists understand and study the family. Today's most pertinent family issues are discussed such as dating, sex, cross-gender relationships, marriage, divorce, parenting, family violence, and family law.

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Ön Koşulu: SOCI. 100 or SOCI. 101 or SOCI. 102 or SOCI. 103 or PSYC. 100

SOCI 212

Inequalities based on socio-economic class, gender, and ethnicity; historical and contemporary debates in social stratification; approaches in understanding and conceptualizing different forms of stratification. Readings also focus on sites of conflict and resistance; ways different groups in society deal with forms of inequality.

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Ön Koşulu: SOCI 100 or consent of the instructor

SOCI 302

Discusses the development of modern organizations and bureaucracies, and the deviations from the bureaucratic model with a focus on business organizations. Also provides an introduction to the sociology of work. Focuses on labor control, labor process, gender relations and the transformation of the structure of employment in industrial and service sectors.

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Ön Koşulu: SOCI. 100 or consent of the instructor