Undergraduate Information Pack

Faculty of Science and Literature / Geography

Foundation


Nevşehir University Science and Literature Faculty was founded on 17 May 2007, on law number 5662. Geography department within the Faculty of Science and Literature of Nevşehir University was founded in 2015.

The Sufficiency Required


The students completing each of the 240 ECTS equevalent lessons successfully and achieving a grade point average of at least 2.0 on 4.0 total are given their bachelor degree diplomas in the field of Geography.

The students completing each of the 240 ECTS equevalent lessons successfully and achieving a grade point average of at least 2.0 on 4.0 total are given their bachelor degree

diplomas in the field of Geography.

Sufficiency Level


Bechelor Degree

Conditions of Admittance and Enrollment

In our country, it is obligatory to be successful at the OSS exam. Admittance to the undergraduate degree is dependent only on the grade achieved on this exam. Students send their preference forms to the Measuring, Selection and Placement Center (OSYM) after they line up the department preferences in accordance with the grades they receive as a result of the exam. OSYM is an institution connected with YÖK. OSYM receive all the applications, group them in terms of grade types and order the grades from the highest to the lowest and list all the programs eligible and places students in a department they have preferred in their lists. Foreign students are also admitted as a result of Foreign Student Exam (YÖS) at a limited quota. The documents necessary are;

1- High school or an equivalent school’s diploma

2- The document showing the result of the exam carried out by OSYM.

The Recognition of the Previous Education


The process of the recognition of previous education in Turkish higher education institutions is yet at the stage of beginning. Due to this fact, the recognition of previous education has not begun in any of the departments at Nevşehir University yet. Nevertheless, exemption exams are coordinated at the beginning of each term for lessons like English and Computer placed within the plans of education programs. The students regarded to provide the expected outcomes out of these lessons have the chance to sit for these exams. The successful students as a result of the exams are exempt from the related lessons.

The process of the recognition of previous education in Turkish higher education institutions is yet at the stage of beginning. Due to this fact, the recognition of previous

education has not begun in any of the departments at Nevşehir University yet. Nevertheless, exemption exams are coordinated at the beginning of each term for lessons like

English and Computer placed within the plans of education programs. The students regarded to provide the expected outcomes out of these lessons have the chance to sit for these exams. The successful students as a result of the exams are exempt from the related lessons.

In order to receive the bachelor’s degree in geography, the students are supposed to have taken all the compulsory lessons and the optional lessons in the program (equivalent to a total of 240 ECTS) and achieve at least 2.0 grade point average over the total of 4.0.

Program Profile


Our department aims to raise experts having recieved a basic education in their scopes and to prepare them for post graduate program.

The Employment Profile of the Graduates

When our students graduate, they will be able to be teachers at MEB or private schools. If they get a sufficient grade from KPSS, they can also work at various public institutions as officers, or they might be policemen/women.

Transition to Post-graduate Programs

Exams, Assessment and Evaluation

Candidates having successfully completed their undergraduate program cam be educated at post graduate programs if they receive a valid grade on ALES exam and have an adequate knowledge of English.
Each student must enroll for lessons at the beginning of every term. Students are suppposed to have attended at least 70% of the lessons and 80% of the practices to be able to sit for final exams. Students are exposed to at least one mid-term and one final exam for each lesson. The contribution of the mid-term exam (as the grade of the mid-term exam, the grade for a homework etc. is accountable for evaluation) is 40% while that of the final exam is 60%. All the exams are graded over 100 points. There is an obligation to get at least 45 points on final exams. The students having received one of the following letter marks (AA), (BA), (BB), (CB) and (CC) are regarded as if they have passed those lessons. (DC) and (DD) are marks for conditional success, which means that if a student is to be successful at a lesson out of which he/she has received one of (DC) or (DD), s(he) is to have a grade point average of at least 2.0.

Candidates having successfully completed their undergraduate program cam be educated at post graduate programs if they receive a valid grade on ALES exam and have an adequate knowledge of English.

Each student must enroll for lessons at the beginning of every term. Students are suppposed to have attended at least 70% of the lessons and 80% of the practices to be able to

sit for final exams. Students are exposed to at least one mid-term and one final exam for each lesson. The contribution of the mid-term exam (as the grade of the mid-term exam,

the grade for a homework etc. is accountable for evaluation) is 40% while that of the final exam is 60%. All the exams are graded over 100 points. There is an obligation to get at

least 45 points on final exams. The students having received one of the following letter marks (AA), (BA), (BB), (CB) and (CC) are regarded as if they have passed those lessons.

(DC) and (DD) are marks for conditional success, which means that if a student is to be successful at a lesson out of which he/she has received one of (DC) or (DD), s(he) is to have a grade point average of at least 2.0.

Conditions for Graduation


So as to complete the program with success, passing all the lessons in the program and achieving a grade point average of 2.0 over 4.0 and successfully completing the thesis are required.

The Mode of Operation


Full Time

Department Opportunities


In our department, teaching activities continue with 3 associate professors. In our department, the lessons are implemented in 45- student capacity classes equipped with a projection device.