PHÄ°LOSOPHY
Third Cycle Programmes
(Doctorate Degree/Doctor of Fine Arts)

D.1. General Information about Program

The Department of Philosophy was founded in 1969. It covers a wide range of fields in the history of philosophy and offers programmes in undergraduate and graduate levels. There are elective courses for students from other departments, especially for students from the Department of Sociology and of Psychology who want to pursue a career as a high-school teacher. The language of education is Turkish. Besides, the department has Erasmus and Farabi agreements with several universities. In addition, the department offers minor degree programs in various fields provided that the student meets the criteria.

Since 2007, the Department of Philosophy organizes symposiums concerning distinguished philosophers in every semester, and it has Bilge Karasu Library with approximately 4000 books on literature and philosophy.

D.2 Qualification Awarded

Doctorate

D.3. Level of Qualification

QF-EHEA: 3
EQF-LLL: 8

D.4. Provisions for Registration

1. Candidates must have Master's Degree from any programme

2. Candidates must receive minimum 60 standard score in one of the verbal or equally-weighted scores from Academic Staff and Graduate Education Entrance Examination (ALES) which has been done by Evaluation, Selection and Placement Centre (ÖSYM) or international exams such as GRE and GMAT whose equivalence are approved by the Hacettepe University Senate.

3. Candidates must receive minimum 70 score from Foreign Language Exam (YDS, YÖKDİL) or from one of the international or national exams whose equivalence and validity are approved by ÖSYM.

4. If it is required candidates are supposed to take Scientific Preparation courses which are determined by Department.

5. International students' applications are accepted in line within Hacettepe University Graduate Programme and Exam Regulation" in Official Gazette (29 November 2016, No:29900).

Candidates who meet the above application requirements are taken to the program entrance exam. Candidates who get the minimum score determined by the department in the written and/or interview examination are considered successful. The ranking of successful candidates is made by the overall success grade. 

For the other requirements that are not mentioned, see Hacettepe University's Regulations on Graduate Education and Examination.

D.5. Qualification Requirements and Regulations

In order to graduate from the department, students have to take the must and elective courses with total amount of 240 ECTS.

In order to graduate from the programme, Hacettepe University's Regulations on Graduate Education and Examination are must be applied.

http://www.sosyalbilimler.hacettepe.edu.tr/hulisansustuogrvesinavyonetmelik.pdf (In Turkish only)

D.6. Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning

The recognition of the courses which belong to students' prior learning is organized through Hacettepe University graduate education regulations.

http://www.sosyalbilimler.hacettepe.edu.tr/hulisansustuogrvesinavyonetmelik.pdf (In Turkish only).

Exchange students must take into account that their courses are recognized only if there is a similar course in their home university and providing that the instructor and the head of the department approve the recognition.

D.7. Goals and Objectives

The purpose of the program is to train professionals who can make prestigious researches, work in academic and research institutes in national and international area, and provide positive contributions to science and humanity by its education and researches that provide to be borne in upon of necessity of philosophical knowledge in directing both personal and social life and research in various fields of knowledge.

D.12. Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

Our graduates find position in university departments of philosophy, in private and public educational institutions, in related units of various ministries, in media including TRT, and in the units of education, culture, human relations, planning and assessment of various private and public corporations.

D.13. Access to Further Studies

D.14. Profile of the Programme

Programme consists of lectures and Ph.D. Thesis in total 240 ECTS*. It is mostly an academic programme, the first three semester students must have take the must and compulsory courses, which are consist of 90 ECTS. After getting success on these courses, students take the Preparation to Doctoral Proficiency which is 30 ECTS. Students which are succeed in proficiency exam, prepares the Ph.D. Thesis with their advisors for two years (120 ECTS). After defending the Ph.D. Thesis successfully, the students have the Ph.D. degree in Philosophy.

* 1 ECTS corresponds to 30 workload.

D.15. Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Assessment methods and gradings vary for every course and determined by the instructor in accordance with Hacettepe University graduate education regulations. You can find information for every course in the “Course Package”s prepared by instructors.

For Hacettepe University regulations see:

http://www.sosyalbilimler.hacettepe.edu.tr/hulisansustuogrvesinavyonetmelik.pdf (In Turkish only)

D.16. Graduation Requirements

In order to graduate from the department, students have to take (totally 240 ECTS) the must and elective courses with total amount of 120 ECTS and must write a Ph.D. Thesis (120 ECTS) and defend it. 

In order to graduate from the programme, Hacettepe University Regulations on Graduate Education and Examination are must be applied. 

http://www.sosyalbilimler.hacettepe.edu.tr/hulisansustuogrvesinavyonetmelik.pdf (in Turkish only)

D.17. Education Type

1. Full Time Education

D.18. Programme Director

Prof. Dr. A. Kurtuluş Dinçer

Head of Department of Philosophy

E-mail: kurtulus@hacettepe.edu.tr

Tel: +90 312 297 83 00

Fax: +90

Address: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Felsefe Anabilim Dalı Beytepe Yerleşkesi Çankaya Ankara

Web Address: http://www.felsefe.hacettepe.edu.tr/english