"Generations that know their past can shape the future."Our first aim in history courses is to make our students willing to live secular, democratic, national and contemporary values by making them understand the place of Atatürk's principles and reforms in the political, social, cultural and economic development of the Republic of Turkey. In this direction, our goals are,
• to foster a sense of partnership in our students that connects them with past generations and their contemporaries,
• to provide our students with the opportunity to get to know and understand the world better by providing them with a certain knowledge and new research methods,
• to give our students a sense of time, that is, to make them comprehend the short-term understanding of time that bears the stamp of events and generations, medium-term in which economic and social changes occur, and long-term time in which civilizations are formed,
• to comprehend how national identity is formed by determining the place of national history within the network of relations between great civilizations,
• to gain the awareness that the existence of the nation can only be maintained by preserving this identity, that change or modernization means the continuity of the formation of continuing to receive, not changing the nature, and that the ideal of "reaching the level of contemporary civilization and surpassing it" can only be realized within this understanding.