UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

EDS 123 Student Personnel Services in Practice (3-0)3
Historical perspectives of student personnel services, traditional and current activities in school, the school counselor's roles and functions, guidance outside the public secondary school settings, nonstandardized and standardized techniques for human assessment, counseling with individuals and groups, career guidance and placement and evaluation of guidance programs.
 

EDS 226 Educating Exceptional Children and Youth (3-0)3
Concept of exceptionality, different exceptionality groups, mental deviations, learning disabilities, hearing impairment, visual impairment, communication disorders, behavior disorders, physical and health impairments, parental training and counseling and technological advances in special education.
 

EDS 234 Study and Thinking Skills (3-0)3
Development and application of basic and advanced study and thinking skills to be successful in school setting. Study skills: self management, reading, note-taking, locating information, writing and preparing for exam, communication and group work. Thinking skills: memorizing, information processing, questioning problem solving, critical thinking and decision making. Helping students with these skills at different levels of schooling.

EDS 253 Psychology of Adolescence (3-0)3
A detailed account of various theories of adolescent development emphasizing physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes in adolescence. Adolescents and their families, adolescents in schools and at work. Guidance services for adolescents.

EDS 255 Educational Philosophy (3-0)3
Introduction to fundamentals of philosophy, such as ontology, epistemology, methodology, and axiology. Extensive discussions of various philosophical theories and their implications for and applications to the field of education. Explanation of the philosophical nature of educational processes, such as planning, implementation and evaluation.

EDS 301 Organizational Behavior (3-0)3
Information about the field of Organizational Behavior, organizational perspectives, the character of the work group organizational climate, organizational leadership, decision making, motivation, job satisfaction, morale, types of conflict and conflict resolution, maintaining the adaptability of employee, organizational effectiveness, organizational change, basic communication skills, discussion on the students projects.

EDS 306 Gender and Education (3-0)3
An introduction to the gender issues as related to the process of informal and formal education. Discussion of the genetical and social bases of gender differentiation in the process of schooling. Gender inequalities throughout various levels of educational attainments. Gender-based intellectual, motivation, aspiration and expectation differences.

EDS 310 Comparative Education (3-0)3
An investigation of educational processes and practices in other societies. Area studies will be carried out and selected topics, issues and problems will be examined. Comparisons will be made with the Turkish education.

EDS 313 Theories of Counseling (3-0)3
Introduction and overview of the counseling theories in terms of the emphasis placed upon the cognitive, affective and behavioral domains. Basic philosophy, key concepts, goals of counseling, relationship between counselor and client, clients and counselors work and techniques of various approaches in counseling are compared.
 

EDS 314 Methods and Techniques of Counseling (3-0)3
Some perspectives on effective helping. Characteristics of effective helpers. Various methods and skills used in individual counseling such as attending and observing, asking questions, encouraging paraphrasing and summarizing, reflecting feelings, selecting and structuring skills to meet clients' needs, confrontation, focusing, influencing and information giving at different stages of counseling are.
 

EDS 327 Issues and Trends in the Teaching Profession (3-0)3
Teaching as a profession, in-service and pre-service training of teachers in Turkey and abroad. Changing qualities and characteristics of teachers' problems, organizations and ethics of the teaching profession

EDS 330 Measurement and Evaluation in Education (3-0)3
The role of evaluation in teaching, relating evaluation to instructional objectives. Constructing tests, validity, reliability and other characteristics of tests. Marking and reporting.

EDS 332 Group Dynamics (3-0)3
Introduction to basic concepts in group dynamics: primary and secondary groups. Role theory, in-groups and out-groups, interaction.

EDS 337 Assessment Techniques in Affective Domain (3-0)3
Miscellaneous measurement techniques in affective domain. Problems of attitude, interest and personality measurements. Characteristics of checklists, rating scales and inventories. Test item writing and item analysis techniques.

EDS 340 History of Turkish Education (3-0)3
Historical foundations of Turkish Education with emphasis on recent Ottoman and early Republican periods. The analysis of traditional and modern elements of Turkish Education within a historical context. A comparison and contrast of the Islamic Nationalist and Westernist lines in Turkish education. A brief sketch of pedagogical developments in Turkish primary, secondary and higher education.

EDS 350 Marriage and Family Counseling (3-0)3
A conceptual analysis of disfunctionality in marriage and family relationships; a survey of different theoretical approaches to marriage and family relationships including individual, dyadic, and family systems approaches; assessment of and intervention in marriage and family relationships; research on intervention in marriage and family relationships.

EDS 363 Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance (3-0)3
Basic elements of testing. Methods and techniques used for the measurement and evaluation of student behavior in various domains.

EDS 364 Appraisal of Students (3-0)3
Use of non-test and test techniques in student personnel services. Specifically, the discussion and administration of observational techniques, group assessment techniques, interest inventories, and personality tests.

EDS 385 Rehabilitation Counseling (3-0)3
The concepts of rehabilitation. Aims of rehabilitation services for people with exceptionalities. Different approaches in rehabilitation counseling and their applications. Issues in rehabilitation counseling, different rehabilitation models for exceptional people.

EDS 400 Field Practice in School Guidance Services (1-4)3
Field Practice in School Guidance Services. In this practicum course, students attend the secondary school's guidance services where they are expected to observe and practice guidance activities based on the needs of a particular school, every student administers a test or non test guidance technique, writes observation reports about the schools and carries out a research project.
 

EDS 401 Vocational Guidance (3-0)3
Survey and critical analysis of theory and research on vocational choice and adjustment. Definition and correlates of vocational aspirations, preferences, choices, motivation, success and satisfaction. Developmental trends in career decision making and career patterns.
 

EDS 410 Field Practice in Individual Counseling (1-4)3
In this practicum course, students attend to the secondary schools or prep-schools and conduct interviews with students. Each session of these interviews is tape-recorded and transcribed. Theoretical discussions and providing feedback are also essential elements of the course.
 

EDS 415 Behavior Disorders (3-0)3
Misconceptions about abnormal behavior, criteria for abnormality, the problem of classification, main approaches to behavior disorders, the basic nature of neurosis (the neurotic nucleus and paradox, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, affective disorders, sexual dysfunction and variants).
 

EDS 432 Educational Administration (3-0)3
An organizational perspective to schools such as school as a social system, schools and their external environment, bureaucratic and professional dimensions of schools as well as motivation, leadership, decision making and communication in school organizations.

EDS 438 Group Counseling (2-4)4
A survey of different theoretical approaches to group counseling. Group leadership. Early and later stages in the development of a counseling group. Application of different techniques used in group counseling.

EDS 450 Educational Statistics I (3-0)3
An introductory course in statistics, including measures of central tendency, frequency distributions, measures of variability, correlation, regression analysis.

EDS 451 Managing Interpersonal Conflicts (3-0)3
Introducing conflict. Wine lose and win-win approaches to conflict. Skills for conflict resolution: empathy, appropriate assertiveness, co-operative power, managing emotions, mapping the conflict designing options, negotiation, and mediation.

EDS 460 Guidance and Counseling in Primary Education (3-0)3
Guidance and counseling needs of children in elementary education. Child counseling. Play media in counseling. Group counseling procedures with children. Consultation with parents and teachers.