HSRB 502 / CELL CULTURE
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Times: 0:00:00-0:00:00

Theoretical and practical aspects of working in a cell culture laboratory. Maintenance of a cell culture laboratory; problems and solutions.

HSRB 507 / EMBRYOGENESIS
Term: Fall 2015Units 2Times: 0:00:00-0:00:00

Fertilization of an oocyte (female germ cell) by a sperm (male germ cell) and development of an embryo from zygote. Formation of the human body.

HSRB 512 / EMBRYOLOGY AND ANDROLOGY LABORATORIES: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS
Term: Fall 2015Units 4Times: 0:00:00-0:00:00

This course mainly aims to build up a perspective of a proper IVF lab, particularly embryology and andrology labs, and will include the following topics; i) how to set up an IVF lab, ii) maintaining stability and quality control in the lab, iii) basic principles of work-flow in an embryology lab, iv) basic principles of work-flow in an andrology lab, v) accreditation of an IVF-lab and international aspects, vi) overview of the applications in an IVF lab, vii) legal aspects in the IVF-lab.

HSRB 590 / SEMINAR
Term: Fall 2015Units 0Times: 0:00:00-0:00:00

This course is non-credit and aims to increase the scientific interaction between students and improve their presentation skills with the participation of students from all interdisciplinary programs. The Seminar course which is consisting of presentation of the studies and researches in front of the community within the framework of the techniques determined with the guidance of the advisor, and question and answer part are graded each semester.

HUMS 101 / MODERN HISTORY
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: TUES THURSTimes: 16:00:00-17:15:00

Chief themes and events in modern history, roughly since 1848. Industrialization, the American Civil War, start of true globalization. The spread of westernization, the rivalries of the Great Powers, World War I. The spread of Americanization, the rise of Communism, the Russian Revolution; the peace-treaties of the period 1919, 1923 (Versailles to Lausanne).

HUMS 102 / ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATIONS
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: TUES THURSTimes: 11:30:00-12:45:00

Fundamental questions about the emergence of the earliest civilizations. Origins of modern humans, the earliest evidence for art and symbolic thinking, the development of agriculture, sedentism and social inequalities as well as the formation of the earliest states. Comparative perspective of the often parallel ways through which these major developments took place across different regions in the Old World and in the Americas.

HUMS 102 / ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATIONS
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: TUES THURSTimes: 14:30:00-15:45:00

Fundamental questions about the emergence of the earliest civilizations. Origins of modern humans, the earliest evidence for art and symbolic thinking, the development of agriculture, sedentism and social inequalities as well as the formation of the earliest states. Comparative perspective of the often parallel ways through which these major developments took place across different regions in the Old World and in the Americas.

HUMS 107 / HEGEMONY, POWER AND THE PEOPLE
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 14:30:00-15:45:00

Understanding the ways modern nation-state system influence the common people. Examining the world history between the 18th century and the early 21th century. Inquiry on the modern nation-state through the rising hegemonic states and changes in international balance of power. Focusing on societies of a wide geographical range, from Latin America to Europe; from China and South East Asia to Africa and understanding how `the masses? are affected from changes in hegemonic power(s) and challenges posed to the modern nation-state system. Learning to account for different methodologies, such as qualitative process tracing of newspaper articles and quantitative descriptive analysis of country and individual level data.

HUMS 108 / IDENTITY, POWER AND CULTURE
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 8:30:00-9:45:00

Focusing on how power structures and different cultural encounters including trade, religious conversion, conquest, migration, colonization and warfare influence the way people see themselves and `the others? from the 18th century to the beginning of 21st century. Understanding how individuals conceive and experience their identities along nation, class, race, ethnicity, gender in the broader context of different geographic regions across the globe. Recourse to a variety of historical sources from photos to cartoons.

HUMS 108 / IDENTITY, POWER AND CULTURE
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 14:30:00-15:45:00

Focusing on how power structures and different cultural encounters including trade, religious conversion, conquest, migration, colonization and warfare influence the way people see themselves and `the others? from the 18th century to the beginning of 21st century. Understanding how individuals conceive and experience their identities along nation, class, race, ethnicity, gender in the broader context of different geographic regions across the globe. Recourse to a variety of historical sources from photos to cartoons.

HUMS 108 / IDENTITY, POWER AND CULTURE
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 13:00:00-14:15:00

Focusing on how power structures and different cultural encounters including trade, religious conversion, conquest, migration, colonization and warfare influence the way people see themselves and `the others? from the 18th century to the beginning of 21st century. Understanding how individuals conceive and experience their identities along nation, class, race, ethnicity, gender in the broader context of different geographic regions across the globe. Recourse to a variety of historical sources from photos to cartoons.

HUMS 108 / IDENTITY, POWER AND CULTURE
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 10:00:00-11:15:00

Focusing on how power structures and different cultural encounters including trade, religious conversion, conquest, migration, colonization and warfare influence the way people see themselves and `the others? from the 18th century to the beginning of 21st century. Understanding how individuals conceive and experience their identities along nation, class, race, ethnicity, gender in the broader context of different geographic regions across the globe. Recourse to a variety of historical sources from photos to cartoons.

HUMS 108 / IDENTITY, POWER AND CULTURE
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 11:30:00-12:45:00

Focusing on how power structures and different cultural encounters including trade, religious conversion, conquest, migration, colonization and warfare influence the way people see themselves and `the others? from the 18th century to the beginning of 21st century. Understanding how individuals conceive and experience their identities along nation, class, race, ethnicity, gender in the broader context of different geographic regions across the globe. Recourse to a variety of historical sources from photos to cartoons.

HUMS 112 / LIFE AND DEATH IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 10:00:00-11:15:00

Introduction to the history and archaeology of Ancient Egypt, between 3000 BCE and the 7th century CE. Focuses on daily life in Egypt and the world of the Ancient Egyptian gods and life-after-death. Examines the development of Ancient Egyptian art and architecture against the background of political, socio-economic and religious developments. Attention to the place of Ancient Egypt within the larger framework of the Mediterranean and the contacts and interchanges with contemporaneous civilisations.

HUMS 117 / RATIONALITY & IRRATIONALITY
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: TUES THURSTimes: 10:00:00-11:15:00

An inquiry concerning the idea with which Western philosophy begins: we are rational animals. An investigation of what kind of power rationality is and in what respects it sets humans apart from non-rational creatures. An examination of the commonplace instances of irrationality such as weakness of the will, wishful thinking, and self-deception in order to explain the possibility of irrationality in the lives of beings which are by nature rational.

HUMS 118 / HUMAN IMAGE THROUGH THE AGES
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 8:30:00-9:45:00

Various approaches and methods to explore human representations and how they function within particular societies. Forms and meanings of human image in the world of Late Antiquity, their transformations from Pagan to Christianity and their development throughout the Middle Ages, up to the beginning of Modernity and the Renaissance. Investigation of human image and its making not only as an artistic process but as anthropological, philosophical, religious and cultural phenomena that help us understand better the evolution of ancient societies, their particular conceptions of the body, the individuals, the authority, the death, the afterlife, the divine and the sacred.

HUMS 118 / HUMAN IMAGE THROUGH THE AGES
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 10:00:00-11:15:00

Various approaches and methods to explore human representations and how they function within particular societies. Forms and meanings of human image in the world of Late Antiquity, their transformations from Pagan to Christianity and their development throughout the Middle Ages, up to the beginning of Modernity and the Renaissance. Investigation of human image and its making not only as an artistic process but as anthropological, philosophical, religious and cultural phenomena that help us understand better the evolution of ancient societies, their particular conceptions of the body, the individuals, the authority, the death, the afterlife, the divine and the sacred.

HUMS 125 / EMPIRES OF THE STEPPES: ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF EURASIAN EMPIRES
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 16:00:00-17:15:00

Examines the material culture of nomadic empires that emerged from the Eurasian steppe from antiquity to the early modern era. Thought of as bow-wielding warriors on horseback, tribal groups such as the Scythians, Huns, Turks, Mongols and Timurids encountered and came to rule many cities from ancient Greece to China. Studies the art and architecture of steppe cultures and assesses the dynamics between nomadic and settled civilizations.

HUMS 129 / CRITICAL THINKING
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Days: TUES THURSTimes: 11:30:00-12:45:00

An introduction of the distinction between an argument and merely a set of sentences. An examination of the distinction between good cases and bad cases of reasoning. In depth study of some of the basic distinctions between different types of reasoning.

IEOM 550 / SELECTED TOPIC
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Times: 0:00:00-0:00:00

IICR 301 / ENFEKSİYON, İNFLAMASYON, HÜCRESEL YANITLAR
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Times: 0:00:00-0:00:00

Tıbbi mikrobiyolojide temel kavramlar, farmakoloji ve patolojiye giriş. Tıbbi önemi olan bakteriyel, viral, parazitik ve fungal patojenlerin biyolojisi, enfeksiyonların epidemiyolojisi, patojenlerin hastalık yapma özellikleri ve yaptıkları hastalıklar, enfeksiyonlardan korunma yolları, zedelenmeye ve enfeksiyonlara karşı hücrenin verdiği yanıtlar, akut ve kronik iltihap, doku iyileşmesi, hemodinamik bozukluklar ve hemostaz konularını içerir. Ayrıca ilaçlara karşı organizma cevabını etkileyen faktörler ve ilaç metabolizmaları, emilim, dağılım, biyotransformasyon, atılım ve ilaç etki süreleri konuları da işlenecektir.

IMED 402 / INTERNAL MEDICINE
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Times: 0:00:00-0:00:00

Communication with the patient and the caregivers, essential history taking and physical examination practices, requesting goal-directed laboratory tests and interpretation of all patient-related information accurately. Common and important medical diseases, signs and symptoms of diseases, laboratory methods and imaging modalities. Acute, chronic diseases and their management.

IMED 402 / INTERNAL MEDICINE
Term: Fall 2015Units 3Times: 0:00:00-0:00:00

Communication with the patient and the caregivers, essential history taking and physical examination practices, requesting goal-directed laboratory tests and interpretation of all patient-related information accurately. Common and important medical diseases, signs and symptoms of diseases, laboratory methods and imaging modalities. Acute, chronic diseases and their management.

IMED 600 / INTERNAL MEDICINE
Term: Fall 2015Units 5Times: 0:00:00-0:00:00

Effective communication with the patients and their relatives, taking medical history and performing physical examination, improving physical examination skills, evaluation of signs and symptoms of the diseases, selection of the most appropriate laboratory or diagnostic tests, a reasonable analysis of patient data, and reporting patient information. To have critical knowledge about the diagnosis and management of common, foremost acute/chronic medical illnesses. Ability to select and interpret laboratory tests and imaging modalities and rational drug therapies. (8 weeks; compulsory on-call nights and weekends)