Advanced Turkish B is designed for students who can read and write Turkish using tenses both direct and indirect speech. The course will further cover reading passages and poems from pre-Republican period men of letters. In other words there will be writings and poems of a number of authors from the pre-Ottoman and Ottoman periods of Turkish Literature such as Epic Literature, Oral Literature, Tanzimat (Reforms) Period Literature, and Dawn of the New Age Literature. There will be selections from Kasgarli Mahmud, Dokuz Oguz-On Uygur (Children Born from Tree) Epic, Yusuf Has Hacib, Baki, Nedim, Abdulhak Sinasi and Ahmet Hasim. The course will include comprehension and literary analysis of the reading passages and poems selected. The course will also cover study of Turkish Grammar analyzing and studying in detail Determinative word groups, Proposition word groups, and Compound Phrase. The students will be required to attend the Language laboratory one hour a week reading newspapers, listening and watching news, films and music in Turkish on which they will write a short report. Such material and dialogues will also be introduced in class as the time permits.

Attendance/class participation (10%), assignments (20%), 2,000 word essay (20%) and final examination (including oral component) 50%.

Four hours of lectures per week (may include language laboratory sessions). Students will be required to spend one additional hour in the language laboratory doing self study.

TURK6505 Advanced Turkish A

Selections from pre-Republican Period writers and poets compiled by the lecturer.

Nihad Sami Banarlı, 2001. Resimli Türk Edebiyat Tarihi, vol. 2, İstanbul: Milli Eğitim Basımevi.
G.L. Lewis,2000. Turkish Grammar, Oxford: University Press, 2nd edition.
Tahsin Banguoğlu, 1990. Türkçenin Grameri, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi.