Certificate in Turkish

The NME department offers a short programme of study in Turkish that leads to the award of a certificate. The syllabus consists of four course units. These units are courses that are available on the single-honours BA programme in Turkish. The options available on the Certificate syllabus are typically as follows:

• Elementary written Turkish
• Aspects of Turkish culture
• Literature of the Near and Middle East
• Ottoman Turkish language*
• Twentieth-century Turkish literature I*
• Twentieth-century Turkish literature II*
• Turkish literature of the Tanzimat and late nineteenth century*
• Introduction to Islam (subject to permission from Dept of Study of Religions)
• Elementary written Persian

* courses marked with an asterisk require good prior knowledge of Turkish

All the courses above are valued at 1 course unit each.

Duration

One year (full-time), two or three years (part-time)