"Social Work" Thesis Master's Program is a program affiliated with Tarsus University Graduate Education Institute. Students were admitted to our Master's Program for the first time in the 2023-2024 Fall Semester. The main purpose of the program is; To train professional staff who will work with an approach that embraces national and universal values ​​by giving priority to the needs of the country, ensure social improvement and social organization, and demonstrate the power of social institutions and social policies.
The program aims to ensure that its students produce scientific knowledge through research and publications, integrate and interpret this knowledge, and serve the society with this knowledge. For this reason, in addition to the compulsory courses related to Social Work, the program includes elective courses that students can choose according to their own preferences.
The program includes working with disadvantaged individuals and groups of society such as children, youth, women, elderly, disabled, poor and criminals, as well as working with groups such as families and society; It includes learning processes for understanding the causes of psycho-social and socio-economic phenomena and events that affect individuals and groups in society, and for application/intervention related to achieving the desired changes at the individual, family, group, community and society levels by using scientific knowledge.
Students enrolled in the program, which has an interdisciplinary nature, will receive a Science Specialist diploma in the field of Social Work, which will provide employment and promotion opportunities in the profession, after a four-term education period. Graduates of these programs are the most important resource that not only meets the country's need for social workers but also trains the lecturers needed by newly opened social work programs. Graduates can also be employed as experts in public, private institutions and non-governmental organizations.
In the Social Work Master's Program, courses are taught by 1 Associate Professor and 3 Drs, each of whom is an expert in their field. It is given by the faculty member.