Welcome to Istanbul Medeniyet University Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Our faculty includes Departments of Western Languages and Literatures, History of Science, Information and Document Management, Linguistics, Eastern Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, Psychology, Art History, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Sociology, History, Turkish Language and Literature.
Turkish Language and Literature, History and Philosophy Departments were opened in 2012; Sociology and Information and Document Management Departments were opened in 2016; Psychology and History (100% English) Departments were opened in 2017; History of Science and Art History Departments started education in 2018. In the 2019-2020 academic year, Spanish Language and Literature undergraduate program was opened in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures.
With its undergraduate and graduate programs and experienced teaching staff, our faculty is one of the most popular faculties of our university as well as being one of the outstanding institutions of our country in its field; since our faculty offers an qualified education with its experienced academic staff, each of whom graduated from domestic and foreign universities, which are well-known in their field. The main goal of our faculty in education is to prepare our students for sustainable careers, while at the same time ensuring the development of our students as intellectual individuals with high social responsibility, open-mindedness, observing ethical values, and aware of the importance of science and diversity.
The curriculum of our faculty encourages interdisciplinary interaction with the awareness that the most important tool of in-depth education is to take into account the interdisciplinary nature of social sciences and to master classical and modern languages. The range of compulsory and elective courses of our departments, which have the mission of contributing to the building of a knowledge bridge between the past and the future, has been shaped within this framework. Moving from the fact that the most important pillar of this knowledge bridge is the mastery of classical and modern languages and writings, our faculty aims to enable our students to learn a classical and a modern language at the undergraduate level and within this scope, it offers courses in languages that provide access to classical texts such as Ottoman Paleography, Arabic, Persian, Latin, Greek, Syriac and elective courses in English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and from 2021-2022 onwards German.
In addition to transmitting universal knowledge to students, our faculty members make valuable contributions to the enrichment of universal knowledge with their publications and seminars they organize. The seminar programs, which are regularly prepared by our faculty's departments and to which the participation of our students are encouraged as well, turn into a platform where valuable academicians of our country meet as well as the scientific knowledge produced by our own members. Thus, we bring our students together with the leading representatives of social sciences.
Since Istanbul Medeniyet University Faculty of Arts and Humanities is located at the center of the city and its transportation networks, I have no doubt that.our students will be able to take advantage of the cultural, historical and social texture of Istanbul, which has a very rich history and diversity as the capital of empires from the neolithic era to the present, and they will have a very valuable student life that they will always remember .
I wish our students wholehearted success throughout their undergraduate studies and in their future lives.