In this course the student will examine paradigms used for nursing research, analysis of research in areas of interest to nursing, critical appraisal of research methods and data to discuss evidence to be used in practice, determine a research topic, and conduct research.

The course aims to give the student the skills and knowledge to assess women's physical and psycho-social problems and provide care with a holistic approach, provide follow-up at home for maintenance of health care, provide counselling in protection of promotion of women?s health, and to be able identify problem areas in women?s health to conduct research.

In this course the student will discuss the effects of the nature of knowledge underlying epistemological and ontological assumptions, laws, culture and gender roles on the old, current and future theories of women?s health nursing based on scientific research. In this course the students are expected to develop their own points of view in line with the theory.

The dissertation involves specialty level synthesis of the student?s knowledge and proficiency in defining the problem, methodological design, literature review, data collection and evaluation, statistical analysis of the data, submission of systematic progress reports and presentation of the completed study conducted in adherence to scientific ethical principles.

Main objective of this course is to teach the role of the endocrine system in controlling all systems of the body, with coordination with the nervous system. The similarities and the differences between the nervous and the endocrine systems with regard to the control of homeostasis will be analyzed. This class will focus on glandular secretions, the major endocrine glands and hormone-producing tissues and how their hormones govern body activities, metabolism and energy balance, control growth and development, and regulate operation of reproductive systems. This class aims to give an essential basic knowledge of endocrine physiology. On completion of this course the students will be aware of the effect of each hormone on its targeted tissue. The students will be able to explain negative and positive feedback mechanisms of hormones.

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.

The definition of ART. How to set up an IVF lab. The workflow and manipulations in ART. The evaluation of success in ART-evaluation of fertilization, embryo quality, early embryogenesis and implantation. The problems that affect success of ART. The evaluation and management of problems related to ART.

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.

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).

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.

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.

The history, archaeology, art and architecture of societies and civilizations of the Mediterranean region from the prehistory until the 15th century AD. Focusing on the examination, discussion and analysis of the art, architecture, history and religion of various civilizations in Anatolia, Near East, the Levant, Northern Africa, Greece and western Mediterranean countries. Some basic questions such as exchange, continuity and discontinuity, trade, migration, traditions and innovations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Explores the relationship between people and things. Examines a wide variety of approaches to the world of objects, artifacts and material goods using several disciplines and perspectives, including archaeology, philosophy, materialist and cognitive approaches, consumption studies, phenomenology, social constructivism, actor-network-theory. Explores the relationship between people and things. Examines a wide variety of approaches to the world of objects, artifacts and material goods using several disciplines and perspectives, including archaeology, philosophy, materialist and cognitive approaches, consumption studies, phenomenology, social constructivism, actor-network-theory.

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.

The roots of the crusading movement in Western Christian society; the ways in which the crusades brought three world cultures (Western Europe, Byzantium and the Islamic Near East) into contact and confrontation; the type of cultural interaction that took place and the impact of the crusades in the societies of the Eastern Mediterranean.

This course will examine the multi-layered history of Istanbul, focusing primarily on the built environment. In a chronological fashion, the course will explore changes and continuities in the urban space in relation to the city's political, social and economic history, from the Byzantine imperial capital to its transformation into an Ottoman city, and from an Ottoman into a modern city in the Late Ottoman and Republican periods. Within the chronological framework, the course will give a thematic overview over fortifications, imperial palaces, mosques, churches, synagogues, modest neighborhoods, commercial centers, and spaces for civic ritual and entertainment.

Investigating the evolution and the defining features of Turkish nationalism from the demise of the Ottoman Empire until today. Providing students with a better understanding of how different scholars conceptualize nationalism as a force shaping and reshaping the state and societies in the 19th and 20th centuries. Included topics: ideological consolidation of Turkish nationalism, the other, and the relationship of Islam and Turkish nationalism.