This course is designed to assist students in understanding the career planning and management process in order to make informed occupational and educational decisions. Students will enhance their understanding of self, including interests, personality and values; learn how to integrate self-knowledge into career, occupational and educational decisions; set goals and devise strategies to achieve these goals.

To develop the ability to focus for an aim and struggle to reach that aim; to establish and develop logical,fictional and critical thinking abilities; to establish and develop imagination and innovative thinking abilities,and to develop decision making skills among many options; to establish the culture of accepting the results after a wrong decision; to establish the responsibility of independent,self-decision making and executing that decision; to develop skills to project ,forecast and foresee the results after a taken decision; to increase self-motivation; to develop the best decision making abilities and to establish and develop optimization culture; to internalize winning and losing concepts and to explore in which conditions winning situations occur and which conditions cause losses; to develop thinking,searching,exploring and decision making abilities; to teach to be patient , to increase planning and analysis capabilities; to reveal and develop this potential.

The main objective of this course is to improve the ability to approach a specific goal, to set a goal, and to develop the ability to struggle to achieve the goal in the field of Chess. To gain logical, imaginary , critical thinking skills and decision-making skills. To endure the results of a given decision. to make decisions on their own and to give them the responsibility to implement this decision. To be able to predict the outcome of decisions, and to gain ability to predict results. To increase intrinsic motivation. improve the best decision making ability. to improve the optimization skills. To learn the concepts of winning and losing. To be able to inquire under which conditions you can be successful, and for what reason you will lose. To develop critical thinking, analyzing and decision making skills. Deeply concentration skills and to be patient are other important skills should be developed. To increase planning ability and analysis ability. To raise the potentials about a possible chess skill. Unlike the beginner level, the following topics will be processed in the middle level: General Culture Information about Chess, Double Attack strategies, Introduction to Pin, Discovered attacks, Removing Defenses and Deflection, Beam (x-ray) Theme and Back Rank Weakness, Open line, Intermediate Movement, Blockage and Zugzwang, Mixed Test for Tactical Concepts, checkmate in two moves, Development of Central pieces and Security of the King, Planning Initiatives, Location and Function of pieces, Variant Calculation and Future Thinking Exercises, Thematic Match Analysis

An introductory course to bridge playing. Basic concepts and principles of bridge along with the hand evaluations, opening bids, responses to opening bids, rebids, and various declaration conventions. Planning declarer?s play, defending against declarer, and card signaling.

An introductory course to bridge playing. Basic concepts and principles of bridge along with the hand evaluations, opening bids, responses to opening bids, rebids, and various declaration conventions. Planning declarer?s play, defending against declarer, and card signaling.

Standing in water exercises for people who do not have a basic swimming level and are afraid of water. Different position kicking and practice; breathing exercises in water; diving exercises with correct technique; progression in streamline body position and in-water arm exercises; freestyle kicking exercises; backstroke kicking exercises in water; breathing and arm timing beginner level applications in freestyle and backstroke technique; demonstration of jumping technique steps; the effects of correct breathing technique on the ability to stand comfortably in water and gain basic swimming technique skills.

Standing in water exercises for people who do not have a basic swimming level and are afraid of water. Different position kicking and practice; breathing exercises in water; diving exercises with correct technique; progression in streamline body position and in-water arm exercises; freestyle kicking exercises; backstroke kicking exercises in water; breathing and arm timing beginner level applications in freestyle and backstroke technique; demonstration of jumping technique steps; the effects of correct breathing technique on the ability to stand comfortably in water and gain basic swimming technique skills.

This course is offered for the students who are already reached a certain level of cultural experience, where they can improve their artistic character and will be assisted to comprehend the techniques and composure structure of art. Since the students will learn plenty of painting techniques and eventually grow their aesthetics, they will be able to present their artistic abilities. One can present painting series and become a collector, join art fairs or make a revolutionary change in art itself.

This course is offered for the students who are already reached a certain level of cultural experience, where they can improve their artistic character and will be assisted to comprehend the techniques and composure structure of art. Since the students will learn plenty of painting techniques and eventually grow their aesthetics, they will be able to present their artistic abilities. One can present painting series and become a collector, join art fairs or make a revolutionary change in art itself.

This course is offered for the students who are already reached a certain level of cultural experience, where they can improve their artistic character and will be assisted to comprehend the techniques and composure structure of art. Since the students will learn plenty of painting techniques and eventually grow their aesthetics, they will be able to present their artistic abilities. One can present painting series and become a collector, join art fairs or make a revolutionary change in art itself.

This course is offered for the students who are already reached a certain level of cultural experience, where they can improve their artistic character and will be assisted to comprehend the techniques and composure structure of art. Since the students will learn plenty of painting techniques and eventually grow their aesthetics, they will be able to present their artistic abilities. One can present painting series and become a collector, join art fairs or make a revolutionary change in art itself.

The ability to transfer creativity to visuality is the art culture structure that will develop on the philosophy of art that forms the basis of plastic arts through memory. At the same time, the students question their own work and create aesthetic awareness. In addition to developing multidimensional thinking, perceiving and designing knowledge and skills required to produce an original work, students will also have the ability to embody interdisciplinary interaction and sensory perception.

Rehearsal and performance of standard and contemporary music repertoire for small jazz ensemble. Harmonic analysis of jazz tunes from different periods and genres; jazz history; interactive playing; improvisation; development of stylistic competency and techniques for music performance using tunes from different periods of jazz since 1920s.

Computer basics, operating systems, internet basics, internet concepts, digital communication, web browsers, email basics, email providers, spreadsheets, workbooks and worksheets, analyze and visualize data, word processing, pages layout, presentation.

Computer basics, operating systems, internet basics, internet concepts, digital communication, web browsers, email basics, email providers, spreadsheets, workbooks and worksheets, analyze and visualize data, word processing, pages layout, presentation.

An introduction to picturebook design and research. Evaluating the educational, cultural, social and economic impact of children's books and interactive electronic storybooks. Overview of projects in relation to language development. Understanding how picturebooks work. Analysis of multilingual, multicultural, experimental, creative, postmodern books.

Student projects focusing on conceptualization, planning and execution of a production cycle in a medium that student chooses to work on (e.g. television, video, documentary, web, animation, video gaming, advertising).

Survey of different theoretical and methodological approaches to design research and practice. Definitions of design and design activity; the designer’s role in the 21st century, designerly ways of doing and knowing, theory construction in design. Three types of design research: research for, in and through design.

Topics will be announced when offered.

Topics will be announced when offered.

Re-reading in Design This course introduces and practises the Re-reading Method in Design. In this respect, students learn each week the following design issues : overview of methods in design, specifying parameters to select and examine the objects, selection of objects, object analysis, reinterpretation, discussions on the challenges .

A series of presentations by faculty, outside speakers and students.

Seminars where faculty, outside speakers and Ph.D. students present their academic research.

This two day course describes fundamental principles of evidence based medicine in an interactive manner. Critical appraisal of research articles is carried out.