Institute of Social Sciences

TDE-503 Sources of Classical Turkish Literature

This course will introduce and examine the primary source works that can be utilized in Classical Turkish literature studies.

TDE-507 Sources and Text Studies in Turkish Language

Learning about historical Turkish dialects and their primary sources, and studying works written in these areas. 

TDE-535 Poetry in Classical Turkish Literature-I

This course covers the definition, types, and historical development of the qasida, a form of poetry in Divan literature, and the commentary on selected qasida texts.

TDE-509 Seminar (Thesis-Based)

This involves research methods and techniques, preparation phase, data collection, data organization, report writing, rules to follow in report writing, interpretation methods, types of technical observation, and language usage.

TDE-511 Seminar (Non-Thesis)

The course content is similar to the Thesis-Based Seminar, encompassing research methods and techniques, preparation phase, data collection, data organization, report writing, and other related topics.

TDE-512 Term Project

This course also involves research methods and techniques, preparation phase, data collection, organization of data, report writing, and adhering to specific rules in report writing, interpretation methods, and technical observation types.

TDE-513 Modern Turkish Literature

This course aims to read, evaluate, understand, examine, and analyze distinguished prose and poetry texts in Modern Turkish Literature from the Tanzimat period to the present, identifying similarities and differences with classical literature.

OSD-555 Disaster Management

This course examines disaster management, its systems and structures, disaster management models, intervention practices, and examples.

TDE-538 Old Anatolian Turkish

The course aims to teach the grammatical features of Old Anatolian Turkish from the 13th-14th centuries through period texts.

TDE-577 Ancient Cultural Traces in Turkish Folk Culture

Similar to the first semester course, it explores beliefs and practices in Turkish culture, focusing on agriculture, clothing, adornment, iron, horses, rees, animals, folk medicine, and folk calendars, tracing ancient cultural elements in Turkish folk culture.

TDE-587 Scientific Research and Publication Ethics

The course covers research, methods, and techniques in scientific studies, types of research, methods of accessing scientific knowledge, developing, planning, and conducting scientific work, relational and comparative studies, methods and techniques used in Turkish Language and Literature studies, data analysis methods, principles in data presentation, publication ethics, ethical violations, and issues.

TDE-550 Turkish Folk Literature

The course evaluates scientific studies on Turkish folk literature and focuses on the methods used. It examines works in the poetic and prose realms of folk literature from technical and methodological perspectives.

TDE-576 Comparative Literature

The course takes a historical, linguistic, cultural, and critical look at world literature, discussing the current state of Turkish literature, introducing leading authors and works of Western literature, focusing on comparative literature science, theory and methods, literary genres, translated texts, and interactions between literatures.

TDE-597 Thesis

The course aims to provide students with knowledge about the use of resources and thesis writing procedures.

TDE-598 Thesis

This course teaches students how to use research techniques and methods related to their field of expertise and how to conduct research using the appropriate and correct techniques for their studies.