Academic Unit Presenting the Program | History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Program Director | Head of Department: Assoc. Dr. Hasan DEMIRHAN Bologna Coordinator: Dr. Instructor Member Egemen Çağrı MIZRAK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Program Type | Bachelor's Degree Program | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level of Degree Earned | Undergraduate(Bachelors Degree) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Degree Earned | Upon graduation, the students earn a Bachelor’s Degree and receive the title of “Historian”. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education Type | Tam Zamanlı | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Registration Acceptance Conditions | Those who have successfully completed their secondary education are eligible. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recognition of Prior Learning | The process of recognition of prior education by Turkish higher education institutions is still in its incipient stage. Likewise, the recognition of prior education has neither been started nor implemented by all departments at Namik Kemal University. However, a proficiency exam is held at the beginning of each academic year regarding the compulsory Foreign Language Course which is to be offered in the curriculum of all departments. The students who have embarked on a self-learning period or acquired necessary skills in the course are eligible to enter this exam. Those who have successfully passed the exam are eligible not to take the course. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Degree Requirements and Rules | The students studying in this undergraduate program are required to have a Cumulative Grade Points Average (Cum.GPA) of not less than 2.00/4.00 and have completed all the courses with at least a letter grade of DD/S in the program in order to graduate. The minimum number of ECTS credits required for graduation is 240. It is also mandatory for the students to complete their compulsory internship in a specified duration and quality. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Program Profile | Upon graduation, the Bachelor’s Degree holders can apply for a position in state and private education institutions and research centres at home and abroad or a specialist position in various Government sectors and different kinds of companies in private sector, such as museums, archives, and libraries. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupational Profiles of Graduates | The graduates of our Department have the following employment opportunities: - academic career in the history departments at universities; - teachers of history; - state and institutional archives; - Directorate General of Foundations; - Ministry of Culture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Access To Upper Degree | Upon successful completion of their undergraduate programme of study, the students are encouraged to embark on advanced academic studies on the graduate level (master’s and doctoral) on condition of having received the required score in ALES exam and possessing sufficient knowledge of English or another foreign language. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Exams, Assessment and Grading | Students will take a minimum of one midterm examination. In addition to midterms, they will be assigned projects and homeworks whose deadlines will be specified at the beginning of the semester. At the end of each semester, the students are required to take a final examination. The course content, the requirements (midterm, project, assignment and final examination) and their contribution to the final grade is specified on the website. Student regulations and the final examination dates are determined by the university and final examinations take place as announced. The students are graded according to their midterm, project, assignment and final examination results. The passing grade at Namık Kemal University is 60 out of 100. However, the grade of the final examination or the retake should be a minimum of 50. Exams are evaluated on a scale of 100. The final grade of a course is the sum total of %30 of the midterm grade and %70 of the final or the retake examination grades. However, the calculation of the final grade of a course can be determined and announced at the beginning of the semester by the Faculty/College Council as the sum total of ranging between %30 – %50 of the midterm examination and %50 – %70 of the final examination as long as the addition equals to a scale of 100. As a result of the calculation, if the value after the decimal is less than five, the grade is finalized by lowering it to the decimal value; if more than five, upgrading it to the next decimal value. The regulations can be found on http://oidb.nku.edu.tr/yonetmenlik/2011eos.pdf. Final and retake grades are submitted to the Student Affairs along with the evaluation criteria. The grades are announced on the student information system.
Grades
The grading system to evaluate the student performance is signified by the values in the chart below. For each course students are graded by letters. Letter grades, coefficients and ratios are as follows:
Students are required to retake the courses from which they received DD, FD or FF during the first oncoming semester in which these courses are offered. Successful Students Students who complete their associate or undergraduate degree with a grade point average of 3.00 – 3.49 graduate as honor students; 3.50 and above as high honor students. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Teaching Methods | Teaching methods are determined so as to improve skills, such as teaching-learning strategies, self-discipline, life-long learning, observation, sharing knowledge, presentation, critical thinking, teamwork, effective use of informatics. Moreover, the choice of teaching methods pays heed to supporting students with different skills. The teaching methods used in the program are listed below*:
*One or more of the listed methods can be used depending on the specificity of the course. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Program Outcomes1-Being able to use bibliographical resources, archive inventory, electronic references and other informatics.2-As having the ability of individual and team working, and making independent decisions, be able to express his/her thoughts clearly and concisely in both verbal and written works. 3-By means of modern scientific research methods and techniques, be able to comment the resources and texts in accordance with the criteria of the field and be able to narrate in an appropriate form. 4-Will have the knowledge and ability of using other social sciences methods (literary criticism, history of languages, art history, archaeology, anthropology, law, sociology, philosophy etc.) 5-Being able to update his knowledge of history and to able to understand the relationship between past and present, having knowledge of local, national and world history, historical knowledge and experience, in a comparative perspective. 6-Being able to read historical or original texts in his/her own language and able to summarize, transcript and classify the information 7-Being able to write and express orally him/herself by using terminology, techniques and methods of research accepted in field of history. 8-Adopting the importance of lifelong learning, develop itself by following the developments of scientific and contemporary subjects, and by reasoning gains the ability to act objectively. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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