| LIT 212 Analyzing Text and Context |
3 Credits |
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Whatever our profession or interests, we are surrounded
by texts in our daily lives: newspapers, advertising,
instruction manuals and novels, to name only a few.
This course introduces the interpretive strategies
necessary to be critical readers of the texts we
encounter. While the emphasis will be primarily on the
written word and the methods of literary criticism, the
course may also take up other cultural "texts," in a
larger sense, ranging from film and video to fashion and
opera. In all cases, the production, reception and use of
texts in specific cultural contexts will be given close
attention.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2023-2024 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2022-2023 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2021-2022 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2017-2018 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2016-2017 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2015-2016 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2014-2015 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2011-2012 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2010-2011 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2009-2010 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2008-2009 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2007-2008 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2006-2007 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2003-2004 |
Analyzing Text and Context |
3 |
| Spring 2002-2003 |
Is There a Text in this Classroom? Analyzing Text and Contex |
3 |
| Spring 2001-2002 |
Is There a Text in this Classroom? Analyzing Text and Contex |
3 |
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| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 252 Topics in World Literature |
3 Credits |
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This course introduces students to various topics
in world literature, as well
as to methods of understanding and analyzing
the texts within their specific
historical and cultural contexts. The specific
works read in this course will
change from year to year.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2003-2004 |
Topics in World Literature |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 290 Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 Credits |
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This course will be a critical survey of the rise of
fiction in Turkish literature. It is generally accepted
that the novel and short story writing in Turkish literature
started with the imitation of Western models during
the 19th century modernization process. This course will
analyze the development of Turkish fiction between
1870-1920 with the problematization of this accepted
evaluation. We will scrutinize the interaction of
Ottoman-Turkish fiction with the traditional genres as well
as the Western impact, the role of translation and
adaptation, the conflict between different approaches to
fiction and the impact of the historical context through the
reading of literary and theoretical texts. The course
will be in Turkish.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Summer 2010-2011 |
Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Summer 2009-2010 |
Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2005-2006 |
Fiction in Ottoman-Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2004-2005 |
Fiction in Ottoman-Turkish Literature |
3 |
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| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 320 Popular Literature |
3 Credits |
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This course examines various forms of 19th and
20th century literature that fall outside the
rubric of the literary canon. It aims to provide an
understanding of what constitutes popular literature
and its place in contemporary culture. It focuses on one
or more popular genres such as
adventure fiction, children's literature, horror, detective
fiction, romance, and science fiction, offering
an introduction to such topics as literary value,
readership, generic conventions, narrative
techniques, and adaptation.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2010-2011 |
Popular Literature |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 324 Postcolonial Theory and Literatures |
3 Credits |
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Starting from the premise that there is no such
thing as a "pure" culture, we will nonetheless try to
understand what it means to belong to a particular
culture. Questions of identity are frequently at the
heart of good literature, and the group of works
which has been classified as "postcolonial" is no
exception. As we read a selection of works from
the colonial and postcolonial worlds, we will
explore the writers' and our own answers to key
questions of identity. What does it mean to
"belong" to a culture, nation, ethnicity, community
or family? What kinds of identity are possible in
contexts where a colonizing power has undermined
traditional affiliations? We will read short stories
and novels, as well as works of theory relevant to
the other course readings.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2008-2009 |
Postcolonial Theory and Literatures |
3 |
| Spring 2007-2008 |
Postcolonial Theory and Literatures |
3 |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
Postcolonial Theory and Literatures |
3 |
| Fall 2002-2003 |
Postcolonial Theory and Literatures |
3 |
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| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 354 Literature and Immigration |
3 Credits |
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Immigration has received much attention in the last century,
usually as a "problem" or a "question" for the host country.
The general term immigration is often used to talk about
political exiles, economic refugees and internal migrants,
as well as those who fit the classic picture of an
individual
or family moving permanently to a new home country.
This course will look at literary works by writers who have
been classified as "immigrants" to the country from which
they write. While the course will take into account the
linguistic, political and cultural issues these authors
consider, it will also consider how the writers themselves
have embraced or rejected the designation of "immigrant" and
what is at stake in such a decision.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2005-2006 |
Literature and Immigration |
3 |
| Fall 2003-2004 |
Literature and Immigration |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 359 Literature, Ideology and Resistance |
3 Credits |
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This course focuses on some of the major literary figures
responsible for innovating literature's
political role in society and redefining the
responsibility of artists and critics in the
twentieth century. The euphoria created by
the struggles against colonization and racial and
class oppression in various parts of the world
led artists to reevaluate the political possibilities of
literature. The study of a group of writers at the
nexus of these struggles will incorporate a critical
dialogue on cultural studies. Accordingly,
the course puts the emphasis on the theoretical
debates on how culture, ideology, 'race',
ethnicity and class have been defined and/or
represented. An important learning outcome
is to equip the student with the conceptual tools to
analyze a variety of literary texts with
respect to politics, ideology and resistance
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2022-2023 |
Literature, Ideology and Resistance |
3 |
| Fall 2019-2020 |
Literature, Ideology and Resistance |
3 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Literature, Ideology and Resistance |
3 |
| Spring 2003-2004 |
Poetry, Ideology and Resistance |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 370 Imagining the City |
3 Credits |
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This course explores the city as a theme in such
literary genres as the novel, drama,
autobiography, and poetry, as well as film.
From the ancient polis as a political unit to the
twenty-first century metropolis, the city has
emerged in literature as the antithesis to
state of nature, the birthplace of modernity, the
stage for social change and conflict, the locus
of transition from empire to nation-state, and the meeting
point of "the East" and "the West."
With its inclusions, exclusions, periphery, subcultures,
underground, public and private spheres, and
fragmentations, the city is a symbolic system exploited
widely in literature. The course may include such
literary representations of the city as Balzac or
Baudelaire's Paris, Joyce's Dublin, and Mahfouz's
Cairo, as well as contemporary, utopian
or dystopian works in world literature.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2009-2010 |
Imagining the City |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 371 Creative Writing |
3 Credits |
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This course entails an intensive study of
writing techniques. The approach involves
discussion, dissection and imitation. Each lecture
will begin with the discussion of submitted
texts by class members. The second part will involve
the close scrutiny of a published text, paying
special attention to matters of style and structure,
word choice, mannerism, dialogue, social
context, theory, autobiography, intertextuality; hence,
dissection. Each week's assignment will be to
produce an "imitation" of the text studied.
These texts will be chosen to illustrate a variety of
approaches to writing, and to raise some of the
basic questions of writing.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2008-2009 |
Creative Writing |
3 |
| Fall 2007-2008 |
Creative Writing |
3 |
| Fall 2005-2006 |
Creative Writing |
3 |
| Fall 2003-2004 |
Creative Writing |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 394 Modern Turkish Literature |
3 Credits |
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What are the repercussions of social and political movements
in Turkish literature? How is the cultural dynamism of
Turkey represented on the literary plane? This course will
explore modern Turkey and its literature through the works
of writers such as Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Oğuz Atay, Adalet
Ağaoğlu and Orhan Pamuk. The course will attempt to define
what we mean by "Turkish national literature" by analyzing
representations of gender, religion, cultural and national
identity not only in works written in Turkish but also those
written in a language other than Turkish (predominantly
English) and published outside the borders of Turkey (Selma
Ekrem, Halide Edib.)
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
Modern Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2018-2019 |
Modern Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Modern Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2010-2011 |
Modern Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2008-2009 |
Modern Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Spring 2006-2007 |
Modern Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2005-2006 |
Modern Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2002-2003 |
Modern Turkish Literature |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 430 Auto/biography |
3 Credits |
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This course will be an introduction to different
types of self-narrative, ranging from autobiographies,
biographies, auto-ethnographies, self-documentaries
to autofiction. The course will emphasize the study of
narrative structures in autobiography. Different
autobiographical texts will be studied in their historical,
social and political contexts, while we explore the
impact such works have had on literary and intellectual
history. In the contextof autobiographical writing,
in the tensile relationship between self and society, we
will analyze issues related to gender, sexuality,
race, class, and religion. Possible readings include St.
Augustine's Confessions, J. J. Rousseau's Confessions,
Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,
Halide Edib Adıvar's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal,
RolandBarthes's Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes,
Brenda Maddox's Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce
(Or: Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom), Latife Tekin's
Gece Dersleri, and Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: Hatıralar
ve Şehir
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Auto/biography |
3 |
| Fall 2010-2011 |
Auto/biography |
3 |
| Fall 2009-2010 |
Auto/biography |
3 |
| Fall 2006-2007 |
Auto/biography |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 434 Literary Theory |
3 Credits |
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This course is designed as a critical survey of
modern literary theory from the middle of the
twentieth century to today. It includes both
primary and secondary readings on New Criticism,
Structuralism and Semiotics, Post-Structuralism,
Psychoanalysis, Marxist and Cultural Criticism,
Feminism, and Post-Colonialism. Discussion will
include applications of these approaches to literary
texts as well as the evaluation of their
methodological assumptions, consistency, and
fruitfulness. Students will also be asked to read a
few literary texts, using them as test cases to
compare and evaluate different approaches in
concrete terms. The aim of this course is not only
to enhance the students' ability to read critically
and to think theoretically, but also to provide an
understanding of the importance of contemporary
literary theory for the analysis of culture in general
and the influence of literary theories on fields such
as anthropology, cultural studies, history,
psychology, and even law.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2017-2018 |
Literary Theory |
3 |
| Fall 2014-2015 |
Literary Theory (LIT334) |
3 |
| Fall 2012-2013 |
Literary Theory (LIT334) |
3 |
| Spring 2004-2005 |
Literary Theory (LIT334) |
3 |
| Spring 2002-2003 |
Literary Theory (LIT334) |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 440 Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 Credits |
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The course focuses on the critical evaluation of
the impact of psychoanalytic discourses on
literature and literary studies and vice versa.
Basic concepts of psychoanalytic theory and
criticism will be covered with reference to the writings
of Freud and Lacan, as well as to the later interventions
by such theorists as Derrida, Zizek, Deleuze and Guattari.
Students will be encouraged to develop their skills in the
textual analysis of a range of literary and psychoanalytic
works, considering them as distinct ways of talking about
desire, fantasy, memory, madness, and the unconscious.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2023-2024 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
| Fall 2021-2022 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
| Fall 2020-2021 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
| Spring 2017-2018 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
| Spring 2014-2015 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
| Spring 2011-2012 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
| Fall 2010-2011 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
| Fall 2008-2009 |
Literature and Psychoanalysis |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 445 Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 Credits |
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This course explores the ways in which literature
reflects, influences, creates, and reveals cultural
beliefs about gender roles, identities, and sexuality
by analyzing short stories, novels, poems, and
plays from a diversity of eras and national traditions.
Literary texts are studied in the light of major
works of feminist and queer literary theories and
histories of sexuality. The ways in which
gender intersects with other cultural issues such as
race, nationhood, globalization, and class
is also addressed in the context of specific literary texts.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2022-2023 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 |
| Spring 2021-2022 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2017-2018 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2016-2017 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature (LIT345) |
3 |
| Spring 2014-2015 |
Gender and Sexuality in Literature (LIT345) |
3 |
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| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 452 Seminar in World Literature |
3 Credits |
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In-depth readings of selected texts, representative
of various periods and genres (ranging from
ancient Greek epic and drama through early modern,
modern and contemporary texts), combining close
textual analysis of a set of original works with the study
of multiple layers of interpretation
as attempted by the existing secondary literature.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
Seminar in World Literature |
3 |
| Spring 2001-2002 |
Explorations in World Literature |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LIT 492 Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 Credits |
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This course introduces students to major works of
literature that have influenced Turkish history and
culture and continue to have an impact on our understanding
of contemporary Turkey. Course materials combine
such literary works with theoretical and historical
writings on Turkey, focusing on topics such as nationalism,
gender, theories of third world narratives and
aesthetics in a non-western context, canon-formation
and the construction of a national canon, minority
literatures, and prison literature. Compared to a
introductory survey course on Turkish Literature (such as
LIT 394), LIT 492 encourages in-depth analyses of fewer
literary works. The authors to be covered include
(but are not limited to) Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Oğuz Atay,
Orhan Pamuk, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Latife Tekin, Elif Şafak,
Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Mehmet Uzun, and Mıgırdıç Margosyan.
The language of instruction is Turkish. For the possibility
of being taken simultaneously by graduate students, and of
fulfilling the research seminar requirements in
History in particular, see LIT 692.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2017-2018 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2011-2012 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Spring 2009-2010 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Fall 2006-2007 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
| Spring 2003-2004 |
Advanced Topics in Turkish Literature |
3 |
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| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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