Course Descriptions

A survey of major works of ancient Greek and Roman literature in translation, with emphasis on the structural and thematic features of epic, lyrics, and dramatic poetry.

Selected critical works of European romanticism; the foundational figures of modern criticism (Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Saussure). The rise of structuralism, and the emergence of critical methodologies based in identity politics, from feminism to theories of race and ethnicity.

A study of contemporary Anglo-American texts written during the last two decades of the 20th century and the 21st century as challenges to the conventional understanding of genres and in interactions with current critical theories.

**Departmental Electives should be taken from AL, CL, DRA, EL and ENGL coded courses.

**Departmental Electives should be taken from AL, CL, DRA, EL, and ENGL coded courses.

Extensive reading and discussion of modern drama, beginning with Ibsen and including the chief British and European dramatists of our day.

A chronological survey of English literature from the seventeenth century to the present, with consideration of works, authors, forms, conventions, ideas and movements in a historical setting.

A study of the major texts of the English Renaissance from More to Milton with special attention to the development of lyric poetry.

In-depth analysis of a few of Shakespeare’s great plays, emphasizing both the poetic and dramatic aspects of his art. Consideration of the historical context and of the varieties of critical interpretation.

Analysis of the examples of modern and contemporary novels from English and world literatures, mostly from the 1900s, with a particular focus on the theory of the novel.

Analysis of modern and contemporary poetry in English, starting with W.B.Yeats, comprising mainly English and American but including European poets as well. Close examination of the poems in terms of their form and content within their intellectual and cultural contexts, employing diverse methods of literary criticism.

An introduction to forms of literature and literary and stylistic analysis of texts. Examination of examples of poetry, short story and drama with reference to a wide range of critical principles and interpretative tools.

History Elective Course

Courses from Humanities and Social Sciences Departments such as Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, History as well as FA courses.

Courses from Humanities and Social Sciences Departments such as Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, History as well as FA courses.

A general survey of Turkish history from about the mid-19th century until World War II with a particular focus on the early Republican era. A comparative and analytical account of Westernization and Ottoman reform attempts, the struggle for constitution, the economic and social transformations, diplomacy and foreign policy, World War I, the rise of Turkish nationalism, the National Struggle, Kemalist social, economic and cultural reforms in the 1920s and 1930s with special emphasis on the Kemalist principles.

An introductory course to the study of language focusing on the properties of natural languages and aiming to familiarize the student with linguistic terminology and the concepts underlying these terms.

The evolution of modern philosophy from Descartes up to the present.

Science Elective Course

Language theories, the birth of languages and language-culture relationship. The classification of languages, with special emphasis on the Ural-Altaic language family, to which the Turkish language belongs. The study of four major areas of linguistics: phonetics, morphology, syntax and semantics. The phonetic structure of Turkish; word and sentence structure. Analysis of selected poems, essays and works of fiction.

Unrestricted Elective