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TURK 30501 Ottoman Turkish I

A selection of Turkish printed texts in Arabic script from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is introduced in order of difficulty. Hakan Karateke's unpublished "Ottoman Reader" serves as a text book. The texts are drawn from historical textbooks, official documents, novels, and other genres.

Prerequisites

2 years of Turkish or equivalent

2024-2025 Autumn

TURK 30101 Advanced Modern Turkish I

Advanced Turkish students will develop their language skills in speaking, reading, translating, listening, and writing, while learning about Turkish society and culture at the same time. To address all of these aspects each class is divided into three sections which focuses on a specific skill.

Prerequisites

TURK 20103

2024-2025 Autumn

TURK 20101 Intermediate Turkish I

This sequence features proficiency-based instruction emphasizing speaking and writing skills as well as reading and listening comprehension at the intermediate to advanced levels in modern Turkish. Modern short stories, novel excerpts, academic and journalistic articles form the basis for an introduction to modern Turkish literature. Cultural units consisting of films and web-based materials are also used extensively in this course, which is designed to bring the intermediate speaker to an advanced level of proficiency. Prerequisite(s): TURK 10103, or equivalent with intermediate level proficiency test.

Prerequisites

TURK 10103 or equivalent with intermediate level proficiency test

2024-2025 Autumn

TURK 10502 Introduction to Turkic Languages II

(UZBK,KAZK)

The second quarter of a two-section course in which Elementary Kazakh and Elementary Uzbek will be offered as one class, with the option for students to study one or the other, or both simultaneously.

2024-2025 Winter

TURK 10501 Introduction to Turkic Languages I

(KAZK,UBZK)

The first quarter of a two-section course in which Elementary Kazakh and Elementary Uzbek will be offered as one class, with the option for students to study one or the other, or both simultaneously.

2024-2025 Autumn

TURK 10101 Beginning Modern Turkish I

This sequence features proficiency-based instruction emphasizing grammar in modern Turkish. This sequence consists of reading and listening comprehension, as well as grammar exercises and basic writing in Turkish. Modern stories and contemporary articles are read at the end of the courses.

2024-2025 Autumn

UGAR 20103 Ugaritic III

Continued reading of texts in the Ugaritic language, emphasis on prose texts.

Prerequisites

UGAR 20102

2024-2025 Spring

UGAR 20102 Ugaritic II

Continued reading of texts in the Ugaritic language, emphasis on prose texts.

Prerequisites

UGAR 20101

2024-2025 Winter

UGAR 20101 Ugaritic I

First readings in texts in the Ugaritic language (1250-1185BC).

Prerequisites

Second-year standing and one year of Classical Hebrew

2024-2025 Autumn

NEHC 30893 WWI in the Ottoman Empire

(HIST)

World War I in the Ottoman Empire. This course will examine WWI in in the Ottoman Empire broadly, considering social, economic, and military aspects of the conflict and with attention to the wartime experience for those at the front and on the home front. This is a two-quarter seminar, where the first quarter can be taken independently as a colloquium-style course for credit.

2024-2025 Spring
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