VID380.2 Digital Video Processing

VID380.2 Digital Video Processing

Digital non-linear video editing. Students will capture, compress, edit, and manipulate video images using a personal computer. Assembly techniques include media management, editing tools, titles, and motion control; transitions and filters, and special effects are also explored. (VCD 3117)

TRK180.2 Beginning Turkish II

Continuing proficiency-based course which develops communicative abilities in speaking, listening, reading and writing in culturally authentic contexts. Activities are conducted in Turkish. Prereq: TRK 101 or admission by placement testing. (TLL 1001/1006)

TRK180.1 Beginning Turkish I

Proficiency-based course which prepares students to understand, speak, read, and write in culturally authentic contexts. Activities are conducted in Turkish. No prior experience or admission by placement testing. (TLL 1000/TLL1005)

SOC480.2 Medical Sociology

The course will attempt to take a broader perspective than the straightforward sociological analysis of medical institutions. It will examine how the health and disease are socially constructed and managed. It will focus on social factors that determine the rates of disease, access to health care, types of health care, and overall social organization of medicine. It will finally apply the built framework to the analysis of the past and current situation with health and wellness in Turkey. (SOC 4015/SOC 4054)

SOC458 Contemporary Issues in Turkey (Fall, Spring)

SU Center course required for undergraduate students. Turkey is a country with a rich history and a host of seeming contradictions. We explore the tensions and opportunities in this complex political and social landscape by examining key issues in contemporary Turkey and in its regional and global relations. After a brief review of its Ottoman past, we turn to the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923 and Turkey’s ongoing political dynamics: Turkish democratization, the role of the military and challenges to democratic consolidation, including persistent tensions between social/political Islam and secularism. We also discuss Turkish nationalism and the Kurdish question, as well as other issues related to gender, ethnic/religious minorities and human rights. In the last part of the course, we turn to foreign policy and transnational relations (and specifically the refugee crisis), examining Turkey’s historical and contemporary role and importance in the region, including its long-standing relationships with the United States and the European Union, its role in NATO, and its increasingly fraught relations with Russia and its Middle Eastern neighbors (Syria, Israel, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia). In grappling with these issues and their complexities, we aim to move beyond common stereotypes about Turkey and towards a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of this crucial country. Cross-listed with IRP/PSC 458/MES 400.1/PAI 658, with additional work required for graduate students.

SOC380.9 Sociology of Gender and the Family

Reviews competing explanations and major theories of gender stratification. In second part of course, on the basis of the conceptual understanding developed in the first section, historical development of marriage and family will be examined with an emphasis on the social forces shaping the contemporary family, the relationship between family and social change, and power relationships within the family. (SOC 3031/3005)

SOC380.7 Military Sociology

Course includes a theoretical and empirical approach to civil-military relations in selected countries. Relates sociology to security studies. (SOC3054/SOC3004)

SOC380.5 Changes in Contemporary Turkish Society II

Course is designed to develop a sociological description and analysis of social and cultural changes in contemporary Turkish society in a global context. Aims to enable students to understand the structure of modern Turkey, to apply sociological thinking to current social trends in Turkey and engage in independent analysis and research.

SOC380.3 Sociology of Work and Organization

In this course the nature of work is examined with emphasis given to the roles of both women and men as productive and reproductive laborers. We will examine the links between social processes, institutions of employment, and their domestic as well social contexts. Our main focus will be on domestic labor, emotional labor, the relationship between gender, organization, bureaucracy, sexual harassment, gender-based segregation and stratification, work commitment and work-family policy will. (SOC 3020/SOC 3060)