About Program
The American Culture and Literature program at Ankara University focuses on cultural, social and intellectual life of the United States of America. Our program offers courses in American literature as well as literary theory and criticism, and translation. Our courses analyze the culture, history, politics, and literatures of the peoples of the United States. They help our students develop the ability to analyze literary texts in detail and provide critical thinking skills, a critical approach to society and culture, and to the American past and present through the lens of several disciplines.
Goals
The medium of instruction in the department, except for translation courses, is in English. Students who are admitted to our department are required to sit for the English Proficiency Exam prepared by the School of Foreign Languages at the beginning of the academic year. Students who fail the exam undergo a one-year preparatory program to improve their command of English. In the last year of the program, our students are required to submit a senior thesis on a particular topic in American literature and culture within the frame of various critical, theoretical, and methodological discourses. Also our third and fourth year students are eligible to enroll in the “English Language Teaching Certificate” program offered by Ankara University. The successful completion of this program qualifies them to teach English at public and private schools.
Summary of Program Outcomes
Identify American culture and literature and the historical, social, economic, political, philosophical and scientific developments in which this literature and culture shaped from the beginning to the present day.Evaluate the literal works trough their specifications, samples and transformations. Describe history, stage and distrinctive formal and stylistic features of American literature.