Courses

This course aims to improve students' ability to write, summarize, simplify, document and develop arguments on various topics. Different types of writings are sampled and students are introduced to the writing techniques of each genre. In addition, students are expected to deliver oral presentations and participate in class discussions to improve their speaking skills in English.

This course aims to develop students' ability to understand and analyze literary works. Important examples from the two main genres, novel and short story, are read and examined with an emphasis on the characteristics of the genre. Examples are chosen from different periods and different genres of novels and stories.

This course aims to develop students' ability to understand and analyze literary works. Important examples from the two basic genres, poetry and theater, are read and studied with an emphasis on the characteristics of the genres. Examples are selected from different periods and different poetry and theater plays.

A chronological review of English Literature from the Old English Period to the Restoration. 

A chronological review of English literature from the 17th century to the present.

The course aims to provide students with an in-depth study of British history and culture, providing an introduction to British history, culture, political and social fabric through articles, lectures and films.

This course is designed to help students develop their ability to reason, analyze and use logical arguments. Students will learn how to better interpret and evaluate the material they read, and to understand and evaluate perspectives that differ from their own in the classroom, at work, and in everyday life.

This course is about translation theories and methods. Students will learn the basic theories and approaches of translation and will be able to apply these theories and approaches in the translation of various texts in English and Turkish.

This course aims to introduce students to the basic methods and techniques of research writing while also providing a workshop environment to complete an ongoing project. The course will focus on topics such as developing a thesis statement, writing a prospectus, finding source material (books, articles, internet resources, etc.), creating arguments, writing and revising a rough draft, and documentation of resources in MLA (or in some cases APA) format.

The aim of this course is to examine the stages and development of American literature from the 17th century colonial period to the 20th century, and to watch and learn how it became a distinctive national literature while it was an extension of English literature.

This course deals with the examination of the literary genres and texts of Classical Greek and Roman civilizations, which have great influence on Western literature, including English Literature, within the framework of the social, aesthetic and political background of their respective periods.

This course examines the birth and development of English theater within the framework of the historical, social and political background of the period from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, on the main dramatic movements, trends and innovations in various theater texts in technical and thematic terms

In this course, students read some of the main literary works of the Middle Ages in England with a primary focus on historical and social backgrounds and narrative techniques.

In this course, it aims to give students the basic structural, phonetic, syntactic, semantic and usage features, concepts and approaches of the English language in detail with examples from English literary and cultural texts and social uses.

The aim of this course is to introduce the titans, gods, goddesses and heroes of ancient Greek and Roman mythology to students through literary texts and visual arts, as well as examining the role that mythology played in the formation of past societies and civilizations.

The course focuses on Romantic Era poetry, with special emphasis on selected works by poets such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron.

This course aims to examine the major works of modern and contemporary European and British drama within the framework of the social and political background. In this course, students read plays by modern and contemporary playwrights such as Strindberg, Chekhov, Ibsen, Shaw, Pirandello, Beckett, O'Neill, Miller, Tennessee Williams and analyze them in their cultural and historical context.

The aim of this course is to introduce the form and content features of the nineteenth century novel and poetry, to investigate and examine the effects of the nineteenth century historical and cultural background on the English novel and poetry tradition.

In this course, the literary works of the English Renaissance are examined in the context of both intellectual and aesthetic movements of the age and their relations with the Reformation. It also focuses on the influence of Italian and Provençal writers. More, Marlowe, Wyatt, Sidney, and Spenser are among the authors whose works are discussed.

This course aims to introduce students to the basic concepts and themes of postmodernism and contemporary media culture. Through discussion of seminal texts, key ideas, and critical events in the 20th century, students will address the dominant socio-cultural and literary practices, often referred to as Postmodernism.

The main literary theories of the period starting from Plato to the beginning of the 20th century and the literary texts that shape the criticism are discussed.

Major literary theories from the beginning of the 20th century to the present and the literary texts that shape the criticism are examined by way of example works.

In this course, the works of modern and contemporary English novelists are examined in a historical and cultural context, and they are analyzed thematically.

This course includes a detailed examination of the concepts of comedy, tragedy and historical plays of Shakespeare.

This course aims to prepare students for practical tasks in the workplace after graduation. This includes developing their ability to complete a complete project.

This course is designed to meet the needs of students preparing to learn a second language. It will provide an introduction to the fundamentals of a second language in four different skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) and culture.

The course aims to develop students' theoretical and practical knowledge of teaching for second language acquisition and academic credit or personal development. With more classroom practice and extra-curricular activities, it will further develop students' four academic skills.

This course deals with detective fiction as a genre and examines it in its historical, social, intellectual and cultural contexts. Also in this course, the works of prominent American, English, Scandinavian and Turkish crime writers are analyzed in detail.

This course examines the important movements in American Literature from the early 20th century to the present and the novels, stories and poems within these movements.

This course aims to introduce the characteristics, historical development and issues of the fantasy fiction genre and to examine examples of the genre with psychoanalytic literary theories.

The course aims to track the history of comedy (on the fictional page, the screen, and the stage) Starting with the first Greek humorists, Aristophanes and Plautus, we will traverse genres, periods and cultures to reflect on various types of humor: satire, farce, slapstick and parody.

This course examines the genre characteristics, basic concepts and theories of the Anglo- American and European short story tradition with sample texts from the 19th century to the present.

This course examines how trauma theory can help us express important literary and historical responses to disasters and crises. Trauma theory has gained international prominence over the past decade as a field of study that draws attention to personal and public failures to witness catastrophic events and examines what these failures can tell us about language and history.

Introduction to Cultural Studies is a course designed to suit students interested in popular culture and everyday interests. The course will focus on key thinkers in Cultural Studies as well as the ways identities are constructed and sustained through interaction with everyday practices and material culture. The course content includes topics such as fashion, taste, race, gender, film, music, and environment.

The course focuses on the interaction of film and literary texts and the qualities of each. It examines what happens when different literary texts such as novels, stories and plays are made into films.

The course is based on an individual research study, including literature studies. An individual study plan will be jointly created and written by the student and the advisor, serving as the project description. At the end of the practical work, students are expected to write a research report.

The aim of this course is to provide students with opportunities to improve their pre-intermediate knowledge of vocabulary and contextual grammar in a second foreign language.

The aim of this course is to help students gain a sufficient command of a second foreign language by providing them with intermediate level knowledge and practical skills.

This course introduces new developments in studies of metaphor over the past decade and the impact of metaphor on our understanding of language, culture, and mind.

This course will focus on representations of children in literature through selected works.

This course is designed as a general introduction to postcolonial literature and theory. In addition to studying the novels that are of particular importance to debates in postcolonialism, some of the most influential theorists of postcolonialism will be covered. Through readings, lectures and classroom discussions, students will increase their knowledge of postcolonial English literature and its relation to modern English culture. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to explain important terms and concepts.

The course examines the Metaphysical poets, Cavalier poets and selected works of Milton and discusses them within the cultural and historical framework of the period.

This course will focus on the extraordinary voices of Irish writers from 1900 to the present. Through selected readings students will explore the transformation of the Irish identity in the 20th century.

This course will examine how people with disabilities of all kinds – physically, emotionally, socially and mentally – are depicted in texts. Images of disability in literature will be put into historical perspective through short stories, poems, memoirs, essays and plays.

The course introduces children’s literature critically and theoretically and explores its role in early childhood classrooms from a global perspective. This course examines the development of children's literature through a variety of genres such as nursery rhymes, picture books, literary folk tales, modern fantasy, realistic fiction, oral folk and fairy tales through the classical and contemporary novel.

This course focuses on the dominant movements and important poets of the 20th century. Poets to be studied include Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, MacDiarmid, Auden, MacNeice, Larkin, Hughes, and Heaney.

This course is a study of literature written by women from certain historical periods, cultural groups, or certain genres. Women writers have influenced and shaped thought all over the world, but this has not always been recognized or appreciated until recently. This course is an instructive review of the literary contributions of women writers in all literary genres from around the world, in both the Eastern and Western tradition, from the historical period to modern times.

The course includes an overview of the study of comparative literature as a discipline. The course introduces students to important issues in Western and non-Western literature studies and their relationship to culture and society.