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A. INFORMATION ON INSTITUTION
1. Contact Information
Prof. Deniz Ülke Kaynak / Dean
Asst. Prof. Nihan Kalkandeler Özdin / Vice Dean
Asst. Prof. Zeynep Gümüş Demir / Vice Dean
Burcu Ceylan / Faculty Secretary
Ayberk Paçacı / Editorial Department and Archive Specialist
Address: Altunizade Mah. Mahir İz Cad. No: 23 34674 Üsküdar İstanbul Türkiye
Phone: +90 216 400 22 22 Fax: +90 216 474 12 56
2. Historical Development
Objectives, Mission, Vision
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has started its education and training activities in the 2012-2013 academic year by being designed to reach the analytical information which is getting more complex every day in global and social level as a result of technological, social, political and economic transformations.
Vision of our faculty is to produce science by contributing to works in national and international fields by basing on scientificness, contemporary and critical approach, and humanitarian and ethical values. Our faculty provides a scientific application environment with application opportunities (university-hospital cooperation) for our students besides theoretical scientific studies. Mission of our faculty is to raise individuals who have analytical perspective, questioning and problem-solving skills and multidisciplinary perspective; who pay regard to social values, who can evaluate daily events with the light of science, and who adopt creative thinking and innovative approaches.
Fundamental values that our faculty adopts are respect to humanitarian values; commitment to universal-national law and values; being open to change and innovation; being sensitive to environment; aiming for high standards; egalitarian; liberalism and pluralism/participation; awareness on social benefits and responsibilities; critical, rational, scientific ethics and credibility; collecting information, producing, protecting, improvement, transferring, sharing understanding; transparency and accountability, academic pioneer in Türkiye and internalization; satisfaction of all shareholders and continuous development.
3. Education-Training Units
There are undergraduate, double major and minor programs within the eight (8) departments in our faculty.
Departments
Philosophy
English Translation and Interpreting
Psychology (English)
Psychology (Turkish)
Political Science and International Relations (English)
Political Science and International Relations (Turkish)
Sociology
History
Academic Staff
Our current Academic Staff information is published on the Faculty web site.
https://uskudar.edu.tr/itbf/en/academic-staff
Administrative Personnel
Number of Administrative Personnel: 2 (Faculty Secretary, Editorial Department and Archive Assistant)
Boards and Committees
Faculty Governing Board
https://uskudar.edu.tr/itbf/en/governing-board
Faculty Board
https://uskudar.edu.tr/itbf/en/faculty-board
Faculty Committees
Quality Commission
Education Commission
Faculty Online Education Commission
Internship and Applied Education Commission
Assessment and Evaluation Commission
Course Schedule Commission
Exam Schedule Commission
International Student Commission
Unit for Students with Disability
Discipline Commission
Commission for Activities and Events
Academic Studies and Procedures Commission
Corporate Communication Committee
Graduation Committee
Web Committee
Erasmus Coordination
Bologna Coordination
https://uskudar.edu.tr/itbf/en/committee
4. Units that Research Activities are Carried out
R&D activities are carried out through articles, manifesto, projects, copyrighted works, and thesis in our faculty. Directorate of R&D and Innovation Politics (ARGEYEP) (https://uskudar.edu.tr/tto/) has started to carry out works on planning and improvement on social sciences despite of the fact that its focuses cover areas within the scope of Health and Engineering fields due to the fact that our university is the first thematic university in Türkiye.
5. Works on Improvement
Our faculty carries out an improvement process which determines areas and topics for improvement according to units, plans improvement, realizes the planned applications and takes necessary measures by monitoring these applications constantly through also evaluation of shareholders in the meetings where internal organizations consisting of Faculty Administration, Faculty Board, Heads of Departments and Commissions attends. Main stages of our improvement process are carried out in accordance with principles and applications below.
Shareholder Participation
Our internal shareholders are as follows: presidency, units within the presidency, faculties, academic and administrative personnel, student representative, boards and committees. Our external shareholders are as follows: our graduates, official and private profession organizations, media, employers and other university members. The methods and works we put into practice with our Internal and External Shareholders are as follows; determining mission and objectives of the faculty, realization of these objectives and mission, monitoring the adequacy of the applications, joint activities or activity support in improvement processes and methods of assessment-evaluation or face-to-face exchange of ideas.
Internal Evaluation Process and Material Evidence
It monitors quality and internal evaluation processes to see whether mission, objective and strategies of the faculty are reached as a result of joint commissions within our faculty. Central surveys prepared by Assessment and Evaluation Commission are material evidence of our control mechanism with reports and decisions of periodical commission meetings. Moreover, Assessment and Evaluation Survey for Student Satisfaction on Education Content and Management are carried out based on Departments. The mentioned surveys are planned to be applied twice a year (Fall and Spring).
Faculty Members University Evaluation Surveys and shareholder cooperation correspondences are other material evidence of our control mechanism’s internal evaluation process.
Accessibility- Visibility
All information, application and activities related to our faculty can be followed on our Web site, which are updated regularly. See: https://uskudar.edu.tr/itbf/en There is a Web Committee within our Faculty with this regard. Our Web committee updates our Web page regularly. See: https://uskudar.edu.tr/itbf/en/committee . The accessibility for our students and other shareholders are provided via Student Information System See: https://obs.uskudar.edu.tr/ Student Mailing System, STIX application and central systems within Laws and Regulations See: https://uskudar.edu.tr/tr/mevzuat-yonetmelikler