Students


Chief of Student Affairs

Davut ÖZKÖK

+90 (212) 440 00 00/ 12096

davut.ozkok@istanbul.edu.tr


Officer of the Department of Political Science And International Relations

Sevgi Doğru

+90 (212) 440 00 00/ 11511

sevgi.dogru@istanbul.edu.tr


Student Affairs' e-Mail:

iktisat.ogrenci@istanbul.edu.tr


UNDERGRADUATE

 • New 30% English curriculum applied in the academic year of 2017-2018 is attached. As of 2019-2020 Academic year, new curriculum is applied in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades. 

• Only one of the Physical Education and Fine Arts courses, which are compulsory optional courses in the 1st and 2nd semesters, will be taken. One elective course will be taken from the Elective Courses group. 

(* Foreign Students can take “Compulsory” Turkish Language I and Atatürk's Principles and History of Turkish Revolution I courses if they want. In this case, 3 elective courses will be taken from the Elective courses group.) 

• The old curriculum, which continues to be implemented for the 4th grade of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, is attached. 


Click for the 2019-2020 Academic Year Spring Semester Undergraduate curriculum. 


MASTERS

Click for 2019-2020 Academic Year Spring Semester Graduate Program. 


PhD

Click for the 2019-2020 Academic Year Spring Semester Ph.D. course schedule.

Erasmus + Student Exchange Program



Our department is part of the Erasmus student and staff mobility program that is active within our University and Faculty. As part of the Erasmus + Program, which is organized every year through the Bilateral Treaties, we exchange students and staff with various universities in Europe. Our department, which has mainly made student exchanges so far, has sent students to more than five universities in Europe at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels and has accepted students in the same way. Applications starting at the beginning of the Spring semester of each academic year determine the students to be sent. All of our students can take the exam according to the language conditions in the treaties, and they are evaluated together with their weighted grade averages. A total of 2 people are sent to each university annually. Regardless of which language the exam held by the university and regardless of the score received, Erasmus + does not show the desired language levels and cannot be used as a document. The language exam of the university is a prerequisite for placement. Universities that have bilateral agreements can ask students for international language documents that they deem appropriate to prove these levels.



The universities that our department has agreements with and the desired languages ​​are as follows:



Braga Do Minho University, Portugal - Department of International Relations and Public Administration (B2 English required)


Rome LA sapienza, Italy - Facolta di scienze politiche- Comunicazione e Sociologia (Requires B2 in English and B1 in Italian. Students are required to take the university-made exam from Italian as they will study Italian at the undergraduate level.)


University of Gent, Belgium - Political Science



(B2 English is required.)



Berlin Humboldt University, Germany



(German B2 is requested. - Students must take the exam made by the institution from this language)



University of Turku, Finland - Department of Political Science



(B2 English is required.)



University of Anglo American Prague, Czech Republic, Department of Political Science and civics (IR)



(B2 English is required.)



Unit coordinator: Dr. Gizem Bilgin Aytac



For more detailed information, see: http://erasmus.istanbul.edu.tr/





FARABİ



Shortly called “Farabi Exchange Program”, Student and Faculty Member Exchange Program between Higher Education Institutions is a student and faculty exchange program between university and higher technology institutes at the level of associate, undergraduate, graduate and doctorate education.



Farabi Exchange Program aims for students or faculty members to continue their education and training activities in a higher education institution outside their own institutions for one or two semesters.


For more detailed information, see: http://farabi.istanbul.edu.tr/



Unit coordinator: Assoc. Dr. Muharrem Hilmi Özev



MEVLANA



Mevlana Exchange Program is a program that aims to exchange students and lecturers between higher education institutions providing education at home and higher education institutions teaching abroad. Students who want to participate in the exchange program should attend at least one maximum of two semesters for education; faculty members can use the program to teach in higher education institutions around the world for a minimum of 1 week and a maximum of 3 months. Similarly, students from all regions of the world also come within the scope of higher education institutions and faculty can participate in educational activities program in Turkey.



For more detailed information, see: http://mevlana.istanbul.edu.tr/



The Department of Political Science and International Relations cares about students gaining professional experience and supports their participation in voluntary internship practice. 

Although there is no compulsory internship practice in our department, our students who want to improve themselves can complete their internship in the institutions they find, 
provided that their field is related to our departments and faculty; insurance reports and premium payments are provided by Istanbul University. 
Our students have the opportunity to find internships in many different fields such as public institutions, non-governmental organizations, media sector, various departments of private companies such as import-export, human resources, and banks. Internships can be done in the summer term. It can also be done during the academic year as long as the student can attend the classes regularly. 

The basic steps that the student who wants to do internship are as follows:
-Finding a volunteer internship is the student's own obligation.
-The student who makes an internship agreement with an institution must sign and stamp the “Internship Form” (3), download it from here or obtain it from the faculty's responsible administrative officer, to the relevant unit of the institution where student will do internship.
-The student performing this process should come to the internship coordinator of the department together with the "Internship Form", along with the SSI Notification Form (2), Address Information Form (1), Declaration and Commitment (1), and should also get the approval of the coordinator.
-After receiving the signature of the internship coordinator, the student must deliver the documents to the responsible administrative officer of the faculty.
-After the internship has ended, the student is obliged to give a document indicating that the student has done the internship to the relevant officer.
-This process of the student must be completed at least 10 days before the internship starts. Forms are not accepted as photocopies. All of them are expected to be delivered with wet signature.
-Our students can also access the internship opportunities offered by the Istanbul University Career Development Center by clicking on http://kariyer.istanbul.edu.tr/.