History Department, which began training during 2009-2010 academic year with 40 students, offers Undergraduate, Graduate and Distance Learning Programs. Currently there are 2 Professor, 6 Assistant Professor and 4 Research Assistants working for our department and the number of academic staff is increasing rapidly.
The aim of our department is to train historians who are able to bridge the gap between past and present, who can integrate national values with contemporary ones, who have historical awareness and ability to handle the issues with scientific methods.
Our students, who attend courses on different topics and periods, are trained with the responsibility of being a historian. Our academic staff carry out researches not only to train the students for utmost perfection but also to shed light on the obscure details of World and Turkish History. In the branches of History of Antiquity, History of Middle Ages, Modern History, Contemporary History, History of Turkish Republic, Turkish History, there are ongoing academic researches; and in the academic meetings and discussions, the issues of history are dealt with scientific methods.
Alumni of History Department can work at Institutes of Turkology, Middle Asian; Middle Eastern and Turkish Researches at several universities in addition to becoming researchers and specialists of their field. Our alumni can be employed as specialists in public and private sector including Prime Ministry General Directorate of State Archives and General Directorate of Foundations. Also our alumni, who can work at private courses, have the opportunity to work as teachers at primary and secondary schools.