Department of Sociology

Hello, I'm Dilara Alim. I'm the last grade student at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Department of Sociology. Our department is in A block, in the Esenboğa Campus. It is a department examining the human and society. In our department generally we have various courses such as; Educational Sociology, Economy, Introduction to Sociology, History of Sociology, Research Techniques. We take our courses such as; SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), Statistics in computer labs. We can use our labs so as to do the social analyses in a better and more successful way by compounding the math and social sciences. There is compulsory internship or thesis writing in our department; we can choose one of them. I thought doing internship would be better. I am doing internship in Migration Policies Application and Research Center which is a part of the university. As I am also an international student, I think that it is a very good opportunity for me. Since the sociology is a very large field, I am on the opinion of that I think that I can work in the academy after graduation by doing master’s and PhD. Besides, we can work in the Migration Policies Applied and Research Center, ministries, and fields of comparing different cultures. I studied in the numeric section in my country and I had the chance to study Pharmacy but I had thought that it would be better for me to study abroad in order to develop myself. I preferred the department) of sociology to develop myself and my perspective towards other societies because it examines human and society, examines and researches human-human relations, human- society relations. The capital cities of the countries attract my attention more as an international student. Living in Ankara is very advantageous in terms of conferences and activities. So, I had dreamed studying in Ankara. Besides, since the academicians at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University are successful in their professions, I preferred this university. The relations between the academicians and students are very strong. The foreign students may have worries in terms of communication but they can always contact academicians. The tutors also always help the students. I'm very pleased in terms of interaction. I think this is very important for a good university life and Sociology. If I go back to my country, I think that I will find many job opportunities because even though the importance of Sociology is quite apparent, the number of its graduates are low. If I stay in Turkey, I'm planning to do M.A. degree in Sociology and be an expert on my field. If I trust and believe in myself in the future, I may wish to continue my academic life by doing a PhD. I advise the students who want to choose Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University that they should consider that the academicians of the department are very successful. They had better not forget that they will have no problems in communication, they can develop themselves and be successful. I wish success to the students who would like to prefer Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University the Department of Sociology in advance.