Program Objectives
TO-1. Ability to use theoretical and applied knowledge in the general and specialty areas of psychology in the process of problem-solving.
TO-2. Ability to design, implement, analyze, and interpret research,
TO-3. Developed professional ethics awareness,
TO-4. Acquired social sensitivity and responsibility awareness,
TO-5. Training students with self-management skills.
Establishment Since İstanbul Kültür University Psychology Programme has been founded in 2007, it keeps on growing with it's internationally proficient staff and who will study in different issues of psychology.
Qualification Awarded Undergraduate Qualification.
Language of Instruction İstanbul Kültür University Psychology Programme's language of instruction is Turkish.
Mode of Education Full-time.
Admission and Registration Requirements90 students who take a central placement examination carried out by ÖSYM can apply to Psychology Department. Candidates are placed by ÖSYM according to their LYS scores, elections and department's circumstances and quotas. Registrations of students are applied by University's Students Head of Department.
Double Major–Minor Programs Psychology programme has minor programme fellowship with Departments of Communication Design, Business Administration and Molecular Biology and Genetic and also Psychology programme has double major fellowship with Departments of Communication Design.
InternshipPsychology Programme students are carrying out their compulsory or optional internships to learn and experience the areas of psychology according to their own interests and future expactations under the supervising of internship coordinator. To enlarge our internship pool, we are going through with partners in many different areas considering our students needs and proposals.
Graduation Requirements
Students who fulfill all the requirements of the Psychology Department and have at least 242 ECTS credits with a GPA of 2.00 or higher are considered to have met the graduation requirements. In addition to the compulsory 178 credits, students must also take and pass at least 60 credits from the Elective Course Pool and at least 4 credits from the Non-Elective Course Pool. Additionally, completing a mandatory internship of 40 business days is required. The mandatory internship consists of two stages, each lasting 20 days with 4 ECTS credits each. Students can start the internship from the 5th semester onwards. The internship totals 8 ECTS credits. There are many elective courses available to help students explore their areas of interest. Furthermore, with the Senior Project courses in the 4th year, students' thesis writing skills are developed, aiming to give them a head start in postgraduate education.
International Cooperationsİstanbul Kültür University Psychology Department has collaboration with 3 universities within ERASMUS framework. These are; Leipzig University in Germany:
www.zv.uni-leipzig.de/ and
www.unitbv.ro/ University of Catholique de Lille and University of Berlin.
Protocol interviews continue with Case Western Research University in America within academical collaboration. There is also a collaboration with Leipzig University, "Institute of Applied Social Sciences" and intercultural field researches are going on in Austria.
Occupational Profiles Of Graduates Students graduated from psychology departments have chances to work in various areas as "psychologist" such as indicated below;
-government hospitals
-Clinics
-Rehabilitation Centers
-Nursery Schools
-Social Services
-Family Courts
-Human Resources Departmens
-Dialysis Clinics
-Nursing Homes
Access to Further Studies Students graduated successfully from İstanbul Kültür University Psychology Department, can apply to any master and phd programmes in different universities.
Departmental Facilities
Course diversity for different sub-branches of psychology, lectures for practice as well as practical lessons, supervision support by relevant lecturers for the internship areas, opportunity to take part in scientific and social activities, ability to interact with experts working on the field in various scientific activities, preparation of scientific research and academic writing possibility of preparing a finishing project...
Program Activities Since it was founded in 2007, Psychology Department has been organizing "Educational Psychology Symposium". In year 2011 4. EPS had been organized. Also every year, with participation of distinguished people, "Psikoloji Sohbetleri" is being organizing.
In year 2009, Women in Management Symposium had been organized.
In year 2012 International Hyperactivity Congress is thought to be organized in our university.
In framework of İETT Project, regular educations are given to drivers about communication, stress and anger management. Also, a research about reasons of burn-out syndrome in drivers is in progress.
According to needs of teachers and directors of Kültür Schools, several seminars are being organizing.
Contact Information
Head of Department: Assistant Prof. Dr. Melis Seray Özden m.ozden@iku.edu.tr extension: 4548
Assistant Head of Department: Assistant Prof. Dr. Derya Deniz d.deniz@iku.edu.tr extension: 4622
Prof. Dr. Tülay Bozkurt t.bozkurt@iku.edu.tr extension: 4369
Assosiated Prof. Dr. Zeynep Oktuğ z.oktuğ@iku.edu.tr extension: 4346
Assistant Prof. Dr. Serra İçellioğlu s.icellioglu@iku.edu.tr extension: 4337
Resarch Assistant Ece Naz Ermiş e.ermis@iku.edu.tr extension: 4785
Resarch Assistant Seda Kantarcı s.kantarci@iku.edu.tr extension:4787
Resarch Assistant Nida Ateş n.ates@iku.edu.tr extension:4699
Resarch Assistant Tolga Ergiyen t.ergiyen@iku.edu.tr extension: 4802
Resarch Assistant E. Doğa Kozak e.kozak@iku.edu.tr extension: 4812
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