Department of History is part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. History remains one of the most consistently popular subjects among undergraduate students and Department offers an extensive range of classes covering from the Antiquity through the present and including studies of mainland Europe, Ancient Greece and Rome, Ancient Turkish History, Ottoman Empire, and other areas of the developing world. There is a large and lively group of undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Department. Courses in both undergraduate and graduate levels are available to students. In the undergraduate level, the degree offered is B.Sc. in History and in the graduate level are M.Sc. and Ph.D. by instruction and by research.