History : Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Arts & Sciences Department of History was founded in 1992 and and started education in 1993-1994 school year.
Qualification Awarded : Bachelor's of History Degree (First Cycle Degree in History) is awarded to graduates who have successfully completed all courses in the curriculum.
Level of Qualification (Short Cycle , First Cycle , Second Cycle, Third Cycle) : First Cycle
Specific Admission Requirements : For the registration applicants must have a high school and an equivalent school diploma and the result certificate showing that the related division has been placed by taking sufficient points from the related field of the Undergraduate Placement Examination (LYS) made by the Centre for Measurement, Selection and Placement.
Foreign students are also admitted to the related programs with the scores of central exam of YÖS (Foreign Student Exam) within the framework of certain quota.
Specific Arrangements For Recognition Of Prior Learning (Formal, Non-Formal and Informal) : Students enrolled in the program and students with horizontal and vertical transitions can be exempted from the courses they have achieved in the higher education institutions they have already studied. Also; An exemption examination is opened at the beginning of each academic year for the proposal of Foreign Language and related boards and courses approved by Senate. Students who score 65 or more on the exemption exam are exempted from these courses.
Horizontal-vertical transition is provided to students according to the quotas announced.
Qualification Requirements and Regulations : The student must have succeeded all his courses in the programme. In this programme, the student is expected to get 240 ECTS credit and his average grade is expected to be at least 2.00 out of 4.00.
Profile of The Programme : The Department of History consists of the following sub-departments: Department of Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Modern History, History of the Republic of Turkey, General Turkish History and History of the Ottoman Institutions and Civilization. The programme aims at educating historians at the level of undergraduate. In addition to the compulsory courses in the training scheme, in order to make the students expert in the disciplines of History and for making them use the helper sciences, there are selective courses as well. As far as teaching is concerned, the main objective of the department is to create for its students the kind of academic and intellectual environment in which they can acquire the best possible professional knowledge in theoretical and empirical issues and experience in historical research. In the case of research, the department aims at making the maximum contribution to the advancement of science, and to the social and economic development of the country.
Occupational Profiles of Graduates With Examples : Graduates of the Department of History can work in the public or private enterprises. They can have pedagogical formation education. In this way, they can work as teachers in public schools or private colleges. Graduates may work as state employees in specific fields (libraries, archives, museums, etc.). In addition to these, they can also be employed in the journalism and tourism sectors.
Access to Further Studies : Graduates, who have successfully completed undergraduate degree, providing at least minimum acceptable ALES (Academic Personnel and Postgraduate Education Entrance Exam) score and have a sufficient command on a foreign language, may apply to graduate programmes in Turkey or abroad.
Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading : Evaluation criteria for each course is determined by the faculty member who is teaching the course and this evaluation criteria is available on the University Course Information Catalogue. The students are required to take at least one midterm and one final exam in the scope of each enrolled course. In addition to these, quizzes, homeworks, presentations, projects etc. are determined by the faculty member to be involved in the evaluation criteria. At the end of the year, the grades of the students are calculated by the combination of midterm and final exam grades, in-year activities and participation in class.
When passing grade is determined, midterm exam is 40% and final exam is 60% effective. All exams are evaluated over 100 points. The note that the student gets when calculating the success grade is converted to the letter grade in the relative system. The student must receive at least CC letter grades to be successful in a course. Students with a GANO score of at least 2.00 (DC) and (DD) are considered to be successful in grades. Students who do not have a failed course, but whose GANO is below 2.00, must first take the courses (DC) and (DD) to get their GANOs above 2.00 in order to graduat.
Graduation Requirements : In order to graduate from the programme, it is required to pass all the courses in the programme (equivalent to total 240 ECTS) and to have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00 over 4.00
Mode of Study (Full-Time, Part-Time, E-Learning ) : Full-time
Address, Programme Director or Equivalent : Prof. Dr. MuzafferTEPEKAYA, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, head of Department of history, Şehit Prof. Dr. İlhan Varank Campus/MANİSA, 0(236)2013400/3400-3405, muzaffer.tepekaya@cbu.edu.tr

Assistant Professorship Emin KIRKIL, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, ECTS / DS Coordinator, Şehit Prof. Dr. İlhan Varank Campus/MANİSA, 0(236)2013413-3413.
Facilities : All of the classrooms are equipped with projection devices. There is a seminar room that belongs to the department. Besides, faculty's the common use areas, two computer labs, social and sports facilities in the campus are available to students. The student are provided with the opportunity to study abroad and at other universities in Turkey thanks to ERASMUS and FARABI programmes.