HÄ°STORY
Second Cycle Programmes
(Master's Degree)

D.1. General Information about Program

The Department was founded by the Late Professor İ. Ercümend KURAN in 1971.

 Educational activities are carried out through three programmes: the master?s and doctorate launched in 1972-73, and the undergraduate launched in 1976-77.

D.2 Qualification Awarded

Master's Degree

D.3. Level of Qualification

QF-EHEA: 2
EQF-LLL: 7

D.4. Provisions for Registration

1. Applicants who apply to the program must have completed a four-year Bachelor's Degree with an average of at least 2.50 over 4.00 (four).

2. Applicants are required to score at least 55 standard points from one of the verbal or equal weight categories of the Academic Staff and Graduate Education Examination (Akademik Personel ve Lisansüstü Eğitimine Giriş Sınavı, ALES) organized by Measurement, Selection and Placement Center (Ölçme, Seçme ve Yerleştirme Merkezi, ÖSYM). Alternatively, applicants are required to submit an equivalent score, determined by the Hacettepe University Senate, in the internationally recognized GRE and GMAT examinations.

3. Applicants are required to score at least 50 in the Foreign Knowledge in Foreign Language Placement Examination (Yabancı Dil Seviye Tespit Sınavı, YDS). Alternatively, applicants are required to submit an equivalent score from other foreign language examinations, held at the national or international level, whose equivalence is approved by ÖSYM.

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

5. Those conditions, which are not included, are applied in accordance with the related provisions of the Hacettepe University Graduate Education, Instruction and Examination Regulations (Hacettepe Üniversitesi Lisansüst Eğitim, Öğretim ve Sınav Yönetmeliği).

D.5. Qualification Requirements and Regulations

 In order to acquire the master?s degree in the field of History, the student must complete 120 ECTS successfully. And also the student must complete the master thesis successfully.

D.6. Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning

Credits earned from the courses from other programmes may be included in the programme in accordance with the educational regulations, after an assessment of the courses involved regarding their equivalence with their counterparts in the programme in terms of content and credit points.

D.7. Goals and Objectives

From the beginning, the department has adopted an interdisciplinary approach in both teaching and research and as such has set the example for many of the other history departments established in the country. As far as teaching is concerned, the main objective of the department is to create for its students the kind of academic and intellectual environment in which they can acquire the best possible professional knowledge in theoretical and empirical issues and experience in historical research. In the case of research, the department aims at making the maximum contribution to the advancement of science, and to the social and economic development of the country.

D.12. Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

Until 2000s most of the graduates used to become teachers. The rest were empolyed in various other sectors inluding academia. Later on, only those who could obtain teaching certifcate were empolyed in teaching positions. There are also those who works in private schools. Institions such as the state and private archives and the units attached to the Ministry and Culture and Turizm are among the potential empolyers. Latest trend concerning the employment of our graduates involves positions in internal security, military, jounalism and other private sector postions using and/or depending heavly on social science data.

D.13. Access to Further Studies

QF-EHEA: 3
EQF-LLL: 8

D.14. Profile of the Programme

The curriculum for master?s studies comprises four compulsory and a fixed list of elective courses. The students are required to acquire a total of 21 credits with a general average academic score of 2.5 (out of 4) from these courses in the first year of their studies. Those who fail to do so may be granted an extra year to improve their scores. With the approval of the head of their supervisors and the head of Department, the students can take some or all of the elective courses from other departments. In addition, graduates of disciplines/departments other than history may be required to spend one or two terms studying/taking a selected list of undergraduate courses before starting their masters program. Upon completion of their course work, the students are required to produce an original thesis based on genuine research. This is done under the supervision of a member of the Department and the research project requires approval of the Departmental Board. The thesis produced by the student must be defended by himself/herself before a jury whose final decision rests on majority vote.

D.15. Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

For each course, assessment and grading techniques have been defined in the ?Course Plan? within the Information Set prepared by the related lecturer(s). Related items of Hacettepe University's Regulations on Undergraduate Education and Examination are applied for the examinations and grading.

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D.16. Graduation Requirements

 In order to acquire the master?s degree in the field of History, the student must complete 120 ECTS successfully. And also the student must complete the master thesis successfully.

D.17. Education Type

1. Full Time Education

D.18. Programme Director