İZMİR LIFE HILTON INTERVIEWS

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Filiz Başkan has commented on the June 12, 2011 elections to the İzmir Life monthly magazine. The interview can be reached from the following link.

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OUR STUDENTS VISITED GETTYSBURG COLLEGE, USA

In an effort to promote scholarly exchange among undergraduate students studying “Contemporary Issues in Turkish Politics” Sıla Boz and Ayşenur Ayça Kahraman, two students from our department, presented papers from the course in Pennsylvania upon invitation by Gettysburg College in the USA. Those present in the audience included the Rector of Gettysburg College, students who take the course in the USA as well as faculty members. Two students from Gettysburg College will come to Izmir University of Economics to present their papers in July 2011, concluding the first time such an exchange between our department and another department in the USA has taken place.

The course “Contemporary Issues in Turkish Politics” at IEU was conducted in partnership with the same course offered at Gettysburg College. After discussing class readings with their lecturer students from IEU then interacted with their counterparts in the USA via Skype once a month to examine and analyze currents events in light of the assigned material. Students were then paired with students in the other university and given four assignments to work on as teammates. Taking the personality of the students into consideration myself and Dr. Yasemin Akbaba, the instructor of the course at Gettysburg College, tried to create the most compatible and effective teams. This experience was a rewarding one for the students involved because it gave them a chance to interact, using new and advanced technology, with other students in another part of the world studying the same material. Not only was it an academically beneficial experience, it also served to contribute to intercultural communication.

  

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