İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Lisans Diploması

• The student has basic up-to-date theoretical and applied knowledge in English literature and culture.
• The student has basic up-to-date theoretical and applied knowledge in literary genres, literary terms and concepts, and literature in general.
• The student is equipped with theory and praxis to explain and analyse the characteristics of the genres of English literature and their representative texts with reference to historical, social, cultural, economic, political and ecological backgrounds .
• The student has advanced knowledge of English language, its systematic structure, function, and its spoken and written forms.
• The student has critical, creative, and analytical thinking skills.
• The student is able to collect information and data individually and/or in groups about English language, literature and culture through up-to-date information technologies and research methods and techniques, and shares these in national and international educational and other professional environments.
• The student analyses literary and cultural texts using related theories and an interdisciplinary approach.
• The student has up-to-date theoretical and applied knowledge and ability required for the translation of texts from English into Turkish and from Turkish into English.
• The student does research independently using critical, creative and analytical skills, solves problems, and effectively expresses the outcomes in national and international professional and social environments.
• The student has up-to-date knowledge and skills required for teaching English language, literature and culture in national and international environments.
• The student develops an unbiased, respectful and open attitude to his/her own culture and other cultures by studying English literature, history and society, and by attending curricular and extracurricular activities.
• The student develops an unbiased, respectful and open attitude towards different languages, races, sexes, religions, and social classes.

Department of English Language and Literature Undergraduate Programme consists of 8 semesters. Each semester is designed to have a 30-ECTS course load, which makes a total of 240 ECTS for the entire programme. Moreover, as another graduation requirement, the students must pass the common compulsory courses of the university that are indicated in the programme (courses with the codes AİT, TUR and ENF). All undergraduate courses are one-semester courses, and they are offered only in particular semesters. In principle, the courses with uneven number codes are offered in autumn semester, while those with even number codes are offered in spring semester. There are no courses with pre-requisites in the undergraduate programme; however, it is highly recommended that the students enrol for the successive courses in their order. The departmental undergraduate courses are theoretical; however, through in-class activities and home assignments, the application of the knowledge acquired in the courses is intensively supported. In general, the first and the second year compulsory courses are designed in order to enable the student to acquire the very basic knowledge and skills in relation to the field of study, while the third and the fourth year courses are designed to study the genres, periods, the representative authors and works of English literature in the light of the acquired knowledge and skills. The departmental elective courses, on the other hand, are designed to address the needs of those students who incline to other fields, such as “Translation,” “British Cultural Studies,” and “American Culture and Literature.”

Students are required to hold a valid high school diploma issued by the Republic of Turkey Ministry of National Education, or other international diplomas authorised by the Ministry of National Education to register for the Undergraduate Programme. Students should succeed in the Language 1 test of the National Student Selection and Placement Test. Entry requirements for the international students: International Students should comply with the requirements of the Regulations of Admission for the International Students of the Turkish Higher Educational Council, and the Criteria for Admitting International Students announced by Hacettepe University per academic year.

The graduates of English Language and Literature with teaching certificates may become English teachers or lecturers in many state and private schools and universities. Graduates are also able to find jobs which require cultural and literary knowledge, such as those in tourism, ministries, banks, state and private media institutions. They can also work as translators, writers and/or editors. In addition to the positions in secondary schools and academic institutions, they may work at various state and private companies, and international offices and the European Union departments of the ministries.

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