The History Department was established in 1998. No students were admitted to the department in its first year. In the 1999-2000 academic year, education began with 41 students. The second education program was launched in the 2009-2010 academic year and was discontinued starting from the 2014-2015 academic year. The second-shift History program will graduate its final class in June 2017. The History Department has 6 professors, 2 associate professors, 3 assistant professors, 1 research assistant, and 3 research associates. The department offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral education. The department, which consists of the sub-disciplines of General Turkish History, Ancient History, Medieval History, Modern History, Contemporary History, and History of the Republic of Turkey, has approximately 500 undergraduate and 130 graduate (master's and doctoral) students. The aim of the education provided in the department is to train individuals who are knowledgeable about the latest research methods and related procedures followed in historical research, who have the ability to read, understand, and interpret primary sources used in these studies, and who have developed the ability to take a comparative approach and analyze issues using data obtained from different disciplines. The department library contains research and reference works that our students can benefit from. Our students benefit from the Farabi Erasmus Mevlana Student Exchange Programs during their undergraduate and graduate studies. Our department has an Erasmus Agreement with the University of Foggia in Italy, and applications of this kind are accepted.
Program Coordinators
Mevlana Program Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özlem GENÇ
Farabi Program Prof. Dr. Rıza KARAGÖZ
Erasmus Program Assoc. Prof. Dr. Okay PEKŞEN
Graduates can be employed as historian expert archivists in public institutions, as well as have the opportunity to continue their careers in an academic environment. Our graduates can work as History Teachers in the Ministry of National Education and private institutions if they have a pedagogical training certificate or have completed their non-thesis higher education.