MISSION AND VISION
The Department of German Language and Literature,
contains a four-year undergraduate education and training after the German preparatory class.The goal of foundation of foreign language department in Turkey is, to introduce Turkish language and culture and to know other countries. The foreign language is a tool for this introduction, intercultural international communication.
CONDITIONS AND NECESSITY
- Turk-German relations throughout history
- The understanding of one language one person, two language two people
- Turk-German relations during the first world war
- The German academicians in Turkey in republican period and their scientific, social and judicial contrubitions
- Intercultural interactions in various fields
- Today, more than four millions turkish citizens live in the German spoken countries like Germany, Switzerland and Austria with the 1961 Ankara Pact.
- The companies and businesses, that are opened in partnership with Turkish and German in Turkey and Europe
- The Erasmus student exchange program
- The importance of Turkish education system and Universities to research, science analytic and intellectual thought, improving world
- Keepig pace with the international breakthroughs like Europe Union, Erasmus Program, The Bologna Process and participation in the rapid developments
According to data from May 2008:
*Germany is Turkey’s biggest trading partner.
*Trade volume between two countries is 22 billion Euro.
- The number of German companies investing in Turkey is about 5 thousand.
- Approximately, 3 million Turks live in Germany.
- The number of Germans, who has settled in Turkey, is 70 thousand
- The number of tourists, who came from Germany last year,was more than 4 million.
- The number of Turk businessmen in Germany is about 60 thousand.
THE PURPOSES
- reading comprehension, discussion, interpretation, translation in a foreign language
- understanding the world culture and communication between people, cultures, sciences through the foreign language and literature
- introduction our own culture and scientific studies to the world through German language and enrichment the worldview
- to exeminate, research and interprate German Language and Literature,which has come from the 8th century to the present, as theoretical and practical with texts and works
- to discuss, criticize, interprate topics with auditory, visual and communicative methods in a social and historical context
- to take advantage of ideas and opinions of the famous thinker, philosopher, linguist and literary to increase general culture
- to enrich knowledge with courses like Semiotics, Intercultural Literature, Comparative Literature in addition to main courses.
- to support the program with the practices like extracurricular research, analysis, library studies, attendance to meeting, discussion, oral and written translation, domestic and overseas applications
- to provide to succesful students education opportunities abroad
- to do interlanguages, -literatures, and –cultural scientific research
THE TARGET OF DEPARTMENT
- to have knowledge of German Language and Literature and general culture
- to acquire teaching skills in the foreign language German with its all cultural properties as auditory, visual and communicative
- to acquire translation skills between Turkish-German, German-Turkish and English
- to express their thoughts and feelings, discuss, defend cultural rights and to be able to comment freely through their knowledge of language and general culture
- to gain the ability to take part in the fields of publishing house, radio, television, ministries, international public and private organizations, foreign languages
- to work in industry research, technology of communication, mass media, libraries and archival and documentary research
- to make translations in the fields like notary, court, law, literature and social sciences
- to have the knowledge and skills to work in international companies
- to deepen their knowledge through scientific research methods, to develop their knowledge, abilities and skills through their own unique thoughts
