D.9. Key Learning Outcomes

1. Develops advanced knowledge on Modern Turkey and Republican history by creative thinking and research in depth. Carries out projects, and invents new and original concepts that provide new ideas to the field.

2. Reaches original results by using the expert knowledge and by analyzing and evaluating new and complex ideas, discussions and developments.

3. Knows the basic sources of history of modern Turkey and their language and properties in the expert level. Analyses and evaluates data from these sources by scientific and technical methods, develops new models, methods and applications.

4. Evaluates historical events as short, medium and long-term processes and makes consistent inferences for the future.

5. Provides information about the world and European historiography and places Turkish historiography in the world historiography. Evaluates the content of historical information produced by various ecoles of history at expert level.

6. Designs and implements projects at advanced level to investigate complex historical problems of history of modern Turkey and Republic. For this purpose organises and manages a multidisciplinary team.

7. Analyzes and develops the norms and rules that dominate the relations in the field of humanities in general and history in particular. Invents new methods and rules and disseminates them by various ways.

8. Makes international and national publications about its field.

9. Contributes to the promotion and protection of cultural heritage considering the learned and acquired knowledge and experience in the context of history of modern Turkey and Turkish Republic.

10. Possesses the ability of approaching to various issues of modern Turkish history with methods of contemporary history as well as interdisciplinary methods.

11. Approaches to the refoms and modernising efforts from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic, to the domocratic developments and to various issues of Turkish history from the point of view of history and other multi- disciplinary methods and in a critical way

12. Comments on the developing and changing conditions and current issues in the world and produces alternative ideas.

13. Has the ability of an interdisciplinary approach to the democratic developments and emerging issues of Turkish history as well as of the discipline of history.

14. Explains policies and strategies on the global and regional scale.