This course aims at students' understanding
of modern Turkish texts, namely short stories,
poems, articles, essays, and theses written from
1910s up to the present. Building on the
language skills acquired in intermediate level
Turkish grammar courses, the course will help
students improve their reading and writing skills in
Turkish. Readings will cover topics in
modern Turkish language, history, literature, society,
and politics, and will support students'
actual research in Turkish Studies or
related fields. Assignments will include:
reading of the daily course material; translations
from and into Turkish; response papers and
essays written in Turkish; work on
vocabulary concentration and work on
colloquial, idiomatic, and technical phrases.
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