Department of Sociology

About Department

           The Department of Sociology was founded in 1992, but has not started accepting students until 2000. In the 2000-2001 academic year, the department started its undergraduate program with 30 students. The instruction language of department is Turkish and the length of the study is four years. As a part of the ERASMUS program, the courses are given in English to the students who come to our department. A number of students from different countries including Romania, Lithuania and Italy took lectures as part of ERASMUS Student Exchange Program. MEVLANA and FARABI student exchange programs of the department also continue actively. The department graduates an average of 75 undergraduate students each year.

In addition to undergraduate education, the department also offers postgraduate education; sociology master's degree, sociology master's without thesis degree and a doctorate degree. Sociology Department Master's program started its educational activities in the 2004-2005 academic year. The doctorate program started in 2008-2009 academic year and was co-operated with Sociology department of Pamukkale University until 2015-2016 academic year. As of 2015-2016 academic year, the doctorate program continues education activities independently. The Second Education. Sociology Master's without Thesis Degree started its activities in the 2015-2016 academic year with the principle of lifelong learning. The department graduates an average of 19 graduate students each year. There are 3 departments in total, namely Institutional Sociology, Applied Sociology and General Sociology and Methodology. The number of faculty members in the department is 14, including 6 Professors, 2 Associate Professors, 4 Assistant Professors, 1 Research Assistants Dr. and 1 Research Assistants.