New Inter Faculty Course: Fantasy, Reality, Science, and Society | Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

SABANCI UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Faculty of Management

Fall Semestre 2014

A New InterFaculty (IF) Course:

IF200: Fantasy, Reality, Science, and Society

Thursdays 16:40 - 19:30 Room: FMAN 1099

First class: Thursday 18 September

1. Water: Its Physics, Nanophysics, Chemistry, and Geopolitics, 18,25 September

Sondan Durukanoğlu Feyiz

2. Gender and Cultural Rights, Richness in Diversity, 2,16 October

Leyla Neyzi

3. Jules Verne, Literature, Fantasy, Reality, 23,30 October

Halil Berktay

4. Economy, Politics, and Regional Associations/Dissociations, 6 November

Kemal Derviş

5. Economy, Finance, and Your Future Well-Being, 13 November

Özgür Demirtaş

6. Quantum Computing and Time Travel, 20,27 November

Zafer Gedik

7. Barriers in Istanbul Facing Specially Challenged Persons, 4,11 December

Zeynep Yelçe

8. Phase Changes, Scale Invariance, Universality, Brain and Memories, 18,25 December

Nihat Berker

Each unit takes 2 consecutive Thursdays 16:40 – 19:30 in FMAN 1099. (Units 4 and 5 each take 1 Thursday and have one combined Quiz on 13 November)

Quiz at the end of each unit. Must pass 5 units out of 7 to receive passing (letter) grade. The letter grade will be determined from the average of all 7 quiz grades.

Enrolment quota: 200 students

Coordinator: Nihat Berker nihatberker@sabanciuniv.edu 216-483-9011