SOCIAL SCIENCES
What Are The Social Sciences?
Why Is It Important?
Best Practices
What Are The Social Sciences?
At middle school level, Social Sciences Department has a teaching approach that creates content by integrating basic knowledge in history and geography, and in fields we accept as social sciences (such as sociology, psychology, social psychology, philosophy, economics and law) into the curriculum. In most of the curricular and extracurricular activities, differentiated works that raise social awareness and enable students to make reasoning and question ideas are conducted. Middle School Social Sciences department aims to raise conscious and active students who can make sense of the organic connection between the individual and society, and integrate their achievements about social sciences into their daily life.
In high school, the Department of Social Sciences consists of Macro and Micro Economics, Psychology, Leadership and Management, Strategic Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Daily Life Sociology, Comparative Government and Politics, The Reality of Fiction as well as History, Geography, Philosophy, Sociology, Religious Culture and Ethics courses which are frequently preferred by students. In all of the curricular and extracurricular activities, the aim is to help students acquire knowledge in political, social and economic fields on the one hand, and on the other hand, help them become individuals who are principled in social life, adopt honesty, open to communication, know and protect their rights as citizens, committed to the principles of equality, freedom and democracy, are peaceful, respectful, protect nature and ecological system, and realize the necessities of social life.
Why Is It Important?
The lessons and topics within Social Sciences courses aim to give students the capacity to understand how societies exist, perceive and think about the world from past to present, and make comparisons with today’s world. Thus, students are expected to develop an awareness, from individual existence towards social existence, and to transform this awareness into life practices.
The specialization branches starting from the 9th grade aim that they learn the decisive conditions for the changes of political, economic and social life in different fields of Social Sciences, and how human beings have experienced an evolution process in the social and intellectual field from past to present. These basic achievements also help them recognize the world order in which they live as young people. Students’ learnings in Social Sciences courses are effective in their transformation into self-confident individuals who have values related to social life, their environment and nature, and can protect these values while becoming a member of social life.