- Knows the knowledge of history, geography, sociology and citizenship and uses them in social studies education.
- Describes, models and solves the education problems in social studies education.
- Solves and designs the process described in the aim of social studies education.
- Gives detailed education by determining the effects of education problems in terms of global and social frame especially on health, security and ecological topics
- Analyses the data in social studies education, practices special teaching methods, gains sociological perspectives and comments on social events.
- Knows that the cultural values. Oversees the application.
- Uses the modern techniques and calculation tools necessary for educational application.
- Makes teamwork within discipline and interdisciplinary for educational application
- Acts independently, uses initiative and exhibits creative behavior.
- Gains the behavior of life long learning.
- Gains oral and written communication skills.
- Gains understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
- Determines national and international modern problems and shows sensitive behaviors to these problems.
- Describes quality issues and uses them in conditions related to the field.
- Oversees the health and safety measures related to the profession.
- Adopted the philosophy of total quality in organizations, the owner of consciousness and knowledge about environmental protection standards.

Social Studies Education
About
Disciplines
Requirements
Entry Requirements
The undergraduate students in this program must be successful in all of the courses with a minimum achievement grade of DC, must have completed at least 240 ECTS credits and have scored a minimum CGPA of 2.00/4.00. At the same time, the students must complete their compulsory internship within the designated period of time and within the scope of necessary qualifications.
Fee Information
How to Apply
Candidates should have at least the lowest required scores to make an application to undergraduate programs at Yıldız Technical University. Placement is done by the exam scores, thus, you may have a better chance with a higher exam score. Indeed, your chances of admission vary considerable, based on which department you want to get in. Some departments are more competitive. We suggest you to check the lowest placement scores of the departments you would like to apply.
Candidates who have a minimum exam score recognized by Yıldız Technical University can apply for departments they would like to study between (30 July - 09 August 2020). Candidates who have more than one scores can apply any one of them with which they want to apply. Department application will be made online.
There are different quotas or quota ratios for YTUYÖS exam scores and SAT scores. Different diploma scores will be converted to 100 points scoring system and will be considered as YTUYÖS exam score, thus the candidates applying with different diploma scores should apply to the quotas assigned for YTUYÖS.
Applications to departments should be made carefully, because the students can not change their department preferences once they submit their application. Candidates should list the departments they would like to get in from 1 – 8. Candidates should apply at least one and at most eight departments. Candidate placements are considered according to the exam results and preferences.
If candidates are placed one of their departmental choices, they cannot apply for second placements even if they do not register to the department they are admitted. Thus, students should apply the departments they would like to study. Second placements are only open for the students who applied for admission, but who are not admitted to the any departments in the first circle.
In Department Application Process;
Candidates who took YTÜYÖS exam, can make their department applications with their candidate number.
Candidates who did not take YTÜYÖS exam, can make their department applications after filling up a form about their credentials. Candidate number (a 11 digit number) will be sent to candidates’ e-mails written in form. These candidates should also send the below-mentioned documents (a .jpg format) together with the online form:
1)Exam Result: The translation of the exam score/ diploma into Turkish certified by translation office and by notarized by notarial office. Documents which are in English are accepted and does not need to be translated into Turkish language. Only the page that indicates the exam/ diploma score should be send (.jpg format- one page)
2)Passport: Identity page of your Passport .jpg formatted as a one page.
Applications which are not completed during application period, will be not be considered for assessments. In other words, if candidates’ information and uploaded documents are not submitted during application period, application will be considered as invalid.
In addition, the uploaded documents which cannot be read and understood clearly, which are false, deceptive, incomplete and/or false are not accepted. In that situation, candidates’ applications will not be considered for assessment.
Social Studies Education

Yildiz Technical University
Turkey, Istanbul
