Analysis of the international labour conventions and recommendations; adoption of international labour standards; regular supervisory system; complaint procedure as to the infringement of freedom of association; impact of the supervisory system, and review of the ILO Constitution.

Main structure of joint stock companies, concept of management, classification and differentiation of board of directors and other management bodies, duties of the managers, transfer of management competences.

Topics will be announced when offered.

Influence of interpretive scholarship in the field of fundamental rights; Savigny’s methodology; reflections of Alexy’s, Dworkin’s and Müller’s scholarships in the case law and their critics; horizontal effects of fundamental rights (“the third effect”); limits of limitations with specific emphasis on the principle of proportionality, the essence of fundamental rights, weighing and balancing, and explicit core guarantees; inherent limits; limitation of civic and political rights; limits of social and economic rights; examining comparative constitutional and international case law on fundamental rights from perspective of interpretive techniques.

Positivism and international law, natural law approaches to international law, legal realism and the international legal process school, interpretivism and international law, critical legal studies and international law, third world approaches to international law, realist critique of international law, democracy critique of international law, the feminist critique of international law.

Globalization and social standards, social security as a human right, social protection, legal character of minimum standards of social security, genesis of ILO Convention No. 102, scope and content of international social security standards, flexibility clauses, supervision of international social security standards by ILO and Council of Europe.

Research methods from perspective of legal disciplines and interdisciplinary approach; drafting techniques for PhD thesis; case notes; composing essays, research and publication ethics and citation methods; methodological problems in law.

Introduction to the major theoretical approaches for the study of literature. Survey of basic theoretical concepts for analyzing and interpreting a broad range of literary and cultural texts.

Thematically-based survey of literature and culture from 1800 to today. Primary focus on literary texts approached from an interdisciplinary perspective.

A survey of the major writers, themes, and movements of pre-1800 English Literature. A series of critically-informed close readings of texts that place works within their social, historical, and cultural contexts.

A critical examination of modern Turkish literature beginning with the foundation of the Republic. Study of prominent authors of different genres including novel, poetry and short story.

Survey of the major writers, themes, and movements of American Literature. Critically-informed close readings of texts that place works within their social, historical, and cultural contexts.

FRIENDSHIP-Study of literary and philosophical texts on friendship from different centuries and cultures. Examination of themes such as the history of friendship, the impact of friendships on gender relations, and friendships on social media. Credits: 3

Reading- and writing-intensive study of major topics and figures in the history of critical theory. We will question some commonly held assumptions about the acts of reading and writing and call attention to changing conceptions of textual representation and interpretation. Particular course emphases, texts, and topics will vary from semester to semester. While open to all students who meet the prerequisite requirements, this course is mandatory for students pursuing the Honors Program in Comparative Literature.

Topics will be announced when offered.

Electrical properties of materials, band theory of solids, electrical conductivity, metals, semiconductors, and dielectrics; magnetic phenomena, ferromagnetism and diamagnetism, superconductors; optical properties of materials, refractive index, dispersion, absorption and emission of light, nonlinear optical properties, Mechanical Properties of solids, Deformation and strengthening mechanisms of materials.

An examination of the laws of thermodynamics, application of thermodynamics to the properties of gases, liquids and solids, solutions, phase and chemical equilibria. Kinetic theory of gases, introduction to statistical thermodynamics. The rates of chemical reactions, rate laws, molecular motion in gases, and liquids, diffusion. Molecular interactions.

Intermolecular forces which govern self-organization of biological and synthetic nanostructures. Thermodynamic aspects of strong (covalent and coulomb interactions) and weak forces (dipolar, hydrogen bonding). Self-assembling systems: micelles, bilayers, and biological membranes. Computer simulations for ôhands-onö experience with nanostructures.

Chemical transformations and reactions at surfaces. Metal and oxide surfaces; introduction of experimental techniques for surface characterization; dynamics, thermodynamics, and kinetics of processes at gas/solid interface; liquid-solid interactions; fundamentals of heterogenous catalysis; surface growth and epitaxy.

A series of lectures given by faculty or outside speakers. Participating students must also make presentations during the semester.

Linear algebra and matrix theory; mathematics of finance; counting and the fundamentals of probability theory; game theory.

Linear algebra and matrix theory; mathematics of finance; counting and the fundamentals of probability theory; game theory.

Linear algebra and matrix theory; mathematics of finance; counting and the fundamentals of probability theory; game theory.