COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

PREP English Grammar I 404

PREP English Grammar II 404

The course aims to cover grammar topics in English at an upper-intermediate to advanced level through exercises of various sorts.

PREP Reading I 404

PREP Reading II 404

The course reinforces academic reading skills through reading selections on a variety of topics. For example, skimming, scanning, finding the main idea, inferring information, guessing vocabulary from context, paraphrasing, summarizing, etc.

PREP Composition I 404

PREP Composition II 404

The course aims to develop students basic composition skills and to brush up on sentence structures. For example, English sentence structures, providing in depth practice in manipulating simple, compound, and complex sentences.

PREP Oral Composition I 404

PREP Oral Composition II 404

This is a basic speaking course. The course lays emphasis on to be understood when speaking,using consistent standart English grammatical forms, sounds,intonation, and pitch. Moreover, students should be able to recognize appropriate ways of speaking that vary based on purpose. General objectives of the course are;being able to participate and initiate social conversations by using strategies (asking questions, challenging statements, offering examples, etc.), prepare and deliver presentations that follow a process of organization.

PREP Listening I 404

PREP Listening II 404

This course aims to develop students’ listening fluency skills of English at the intermediate to advanced level. Another aim of this course is to familiarize the learner with the major rhetorical patterns of formal, spoken English.

PREP Vocabulary Building I 404

PREP Vocabulary Building II 404

The course aims to develop students’ vocabulary at an upper-intermediate to advanced level. Special emphasis is laid on Greek and Latin roots and affixes. Vocabulary is enhanced on a topic based process.

PREP Aca. Study Skills I 202

PREP Aca. Study Skills II 202

The two-part course is designed to help students acquire the essential study skills and habits in order to cope with the demands of an effective academic study. The first part of the course deals with the very basics of academic study, concentration and motivation, preparing study schedules, classroom participation, note taking from multiple sources, preparing classroom presentations and other assignments through an analysis of previous study habits and individual differences in study styles. The second part of the course aims at teaching students how to prepare themselves for different types of examinations, to use the dictionary and library effectively, to learn the strategies for an active and effective reading such as annotating, mapping, outlining, summarizing and paraphrasing. To make the students aware of the value and importance of critical thinking in academic study; distinguishing between opinions and facts and acquiring the ability to realize the point of view of anything that is read are emphasized through various practices and assignments.

1st YEAR

IDB 101 Advanced Grammar I 305

IDB 102 Advanced Grammar II 305

The course is intended for advanced students who have mastered English grammar. The main goal here is to revise problem spots in English grammar, increase students ability in transforming given sentences into new forms through paraphrasing and prepare them for exams.

IDB 103 Reading I 305

IDB 104 Reading II 305

Developing students skills in reading unfamiliar, authentic texts accurately and efficiently: providing them with awareness of the relations between vocabulary, structure, and meaning.

IDB 105 Composition I 305

IDB 106 Composition II 305

This course covers two semesters and mainly aims at improving skills in free writing, writing paraphrase and summaries and puts special emphasis on paragraph writing; the student will be able to: to use stragedies of paraphrasing,summarizing,outlining, understand and use the writing process (prewriting, writing, revising), improve skills in using methods of development (description, process ,classification,cause and effect, comparison and contrast, persuasion) through paragraph writing, understand the role of audience perception when writing and to use appropriate tone and voice based on purpose, audience, and subject matter, integrate these skills to the writing they are doing for the other courses. Students demonstrate knowledge of the course content through writing assigments, class activities, and the final portfolio.

IDB 107 Oral Composition I 205

IDB 108 Oral Composition II 205

IDB 107/108 is an advanced speaking course given in two parts in the first (speaking I) and the second semesters(speaking II) of the B.A. program. The course lays emphasis on using consistent standart English grammatical forms,sounds, intonation,and pitch.Moreover,students should be able to recognize appropriate ways of speaking that vary based on purpose.General objectives of the course are;being able to participate and initiate social conversations by using stragedies(asking questions,challenging statements,offering examples,etc.), prepare and deliver presentations that follow a process of organization and use a variety of sources,use figurative language and idiomatic expressions, retell stories in detail.

IDB 109 Introduction to Lit. I 205

IDB 110 Introduction to Lit. II 205

Basics of literary study; fundamental concepts of literature and their use in the analysis of literary texts, literary genres and their development; major periods in the development of English literature; primary qualities of a literary texts and its distinguishing characteristics; readings from representative texts.

IDB 113 Basics of Language I 305

This course provides an introduction to the basic concepts of language and linguistics. It gives an overall view of language, communication, and linguistics. The topics it covers includes, what is language. communication across species, language acquisition, non-verbal communication and principles governing communication in general. The course content is organized around fundamental readings

IDB 114 Basics of Language II 305

Following the previous course, the second part introduces the basics of linguistics. By the end of the course students will learn about the major theoretical works in linguistics, language and language families, language disorders and other related topics. They also gain insights into the social and cultural dimensions of language and language use in variety of settings, communication between different cultures, sexes, and different social groups. Again, course content is introduced and discussed by the use of selected texts.

2nd YEAR

IDB 201 Composition III 205

IDB 202 Composition IV 205

This is an advanced writing course which covers two semesters as composition III and composition IV. It is the continuation of IDB 105/106.The course mainly focuses on rhetorical patterns and their application in essays, resume writing and business letters. The student will be able to: identify various elements of discourse in writing such as speaker, purpose,audience ,form; create a clear thesis and support using the rhetorical devices,; use supporting techniques and order effectively; write coherent and unified essays by using methods of development effectively; write pieces related to career development; write job applications and resumes that are purposeful; integrate these skills to the writing they are doing for the other courses. Students demonstrate knowledge of the course content through writing assigments, class activities, and the final portfolio.

IDB 203 Phonetics 305

Introduction to articulatory phonetics, the human sound producing mechanism, the vocal tract and organs of speech, active and passive articulators; description of human speech sounds, classification of speech sounds and their features; consonants and vowels, the natural classes and the universal catalogue of human speech sounds. Brief review of acoustic and auditory phonetics.

IDB 204 Phonology 305

The organization of speech sounds in English and Turkish, phonemes and allophones, the morphotactics of languages, emerging patterns and constraints on co-occurrence of speech sounds; phonolgical rules and derivations, the feature systems; suprasegmentals, stress, pitch, and intonation, syllable structure in English and Turkish.

IDB 213 Morphology I 205

The study of the internal structure of word, the notion of word and its place in grammar, morpheme, morph and word form; lexeme as a theoretical construct; internal order of morphemes in a word, morphotactics, possible and illicit structures; morphological types and morphological universals; constraints on word formation, morphological processes and minor processes of word formation.

IDB 214 Morphology II 205

The structure of word formation rules, the organization of the lexicon, approaches to lexicon and lexical rules; productivity and blocking in word formation; phonological issues in word formation, the lexicalist hypothesis and level ordering in English and in Turkish; morphology- syntax interface, grammatical role changing and morphology.

IDB 215 Basics of Linguistics 305

An introduction to linguistics, levels of analysis and subfields of linguistics; defining language and human communication; form and function of language; analyzing sound-meaning patterning and structural organization of language; fundamental concepts of linguistic analysis, phonemes and morphemes, their distributional properties; sentences and their constituents; meaning and sense, sense relations and their types; language in a wider context.

IDB 216 Field Study 305

Study of the data from variety of languages, gathering data representative of different linguistic backgrounds; eliciting data and drawing conclusions on particular occurrences; finding informants, reviewing field techniques and application of linguistics backgrounds on different contexts on language use.

IDB 209 Sources of Eng. Lit. I 305

IDB 210 Sources of Eng. Lit. II 305

This course aims at introducing the students the classical sources of English literature. It starts with the reading and study of the representative works of ancient Greek and Roman poets and writes, review of the topics and the way they are treated by individual writes; development of such literary works through different periods; their impact on the contemporary works.

IDB 211 Research Techniques I 205

IDB 212 Research Techniques II 205

Research techniques is an advanced academic writing course designed to help students acquire the essential skills in order to cope with the demands of an effective academic study. In the first semester, the basics of science and scientific study, critical thinking, general writing skills, choosing and narrowing a research topic, doing an effective library and internet search are emphasized. In the second semester, students actively involve in the research process choosing a research topic, doing a through search of the sources available and write an original research paper of their own using the standards of the APA style.

3rd YEAR

IDB 301 Syntax I 305

The knowledge of language, knowledge of grammar and its reflections, grammaticality judgment, intuition, grammaticality, acceptability and acquisition of grammar; the notion constituent structure, basic constituency tests, description of syntactic categories, words and phrases and the hierarchical internal structure of the phrases; cross-categorial generalizations and their adequacy; typology of phrases; study of X-bar structures, the role of the lexicon and the projection principle.

IDB 302 Syntax II 305

The notion of basic word order and movement of sentential constituents; move-alfa and its consequences, movement types and constraints of movement, semantic roles and their distribution; typology of languages, principles and parameters of case marking and structural configurations.

IDB 303 Structure of Turkish I 305

IDB 304 Structure of Turkish II 305

Turkish among other languages of the world; the characteristics of Turkish language family, major structures of Turkish and their linguistic analysis; the sound structure of Turkish, the role of vowel harmony as a guiding principle; dialectical variation of sounds; morphology of Turkish as an agglutinative language; derivational and inflectional classes; basic word order in Turkish; the role of case marking and free word order; semantics of Turkish lexical structures and sentence semantics of propositions in Turkish.

IDB 305 Semantics 305

The study of meaning; introduction to linguistic semantics; sense relations and types of these relations as they occur in English and Turkish; sense and reference; referring expressions and their particular function; sentence semantics, propositions, implicatures, and paraphrases; truth value of a proposition.

IDB 306 Sociolinguistics 305

The role and function of language within society; the notion of linguistic community; language variation across social classes and groups; social differentiation and its reflection of language; linguistic change and reactions to it; different codes in a society, their emergence and function.

IDB 307 Pragmatics I 305

IDB 308 Pragmatics II 305

Introduction to the study of language in use; the nature of human communication and its defining properties; the role of world knowledge and its reflection in human interaction; the study of implicature and maxims of conversation; review of contemporary approaches and theories; the speech event and its components, topic and topic continuity in conversation and discourse.

IDB 309 Historical Linguistics I 205

IDB 310 Historical Linguistics II 205

The notion of change and change in language, emergence of language varieties, causes and effects of change; accumulation of changes and the emerge of dialects and languages; tracing language change through time; sound changes, basic categories and types of sound change; morphological change, change in the lexical structures, grammaticalization of categories; syntactic change, semantic change and major types emerging; languages of the world and language families; the comparative method and its application; tree model vs. wave model; internal reconstruction of languages; larger families and proto-languages of the world.

IDB 311 History of Linguistics I 205

IDB 312 History of Linguistics II 205

The emerge of language studies in the ancient times, ancient Indians and their grammars; the development of language studies from early Greeks; word-class based grammars of the Greeks and its continuation in the Roman tradition; Middle Ages and the speculative grammar; linguistics in the Renaissance, Cartesian thought and Port Royal grammar; 17th century and the search for ideal language; universalist approaches to language; early 19th century and the comparative method; historical linguistics and its method of analysis; aims to gather cross-linguistic data for comparative studies; emergence of modern linguistics in the 20th century, early structuralism in European and American tradition; review of modern approaches to language and recent theories of grammar.

4th YEAR

IDB 401 Contem. Eng. Lit 305

Review of the major works of contemporary English literature; selecting and presenting the works of the contemporary English literature and analysis of these texts; the emergence of modern works within the literary tradition of England; the effects of other literatures on English literature; social and cultural context of modern English literature.

IDB 402 Contem. Amer. Lit 305

Advanced reading and analysis of selected representative texts of the contemporary American literature; foundation of American literature and review of its development in the literary works of the contemporary American writers; locating the works within contemporary American culture.

IDB 403 Textlinguistics 305

Introduction to the study of text; the notions text and discourse; similarities and differences; principles of textual organization and linguistics of textuality; constitutive features of texts; coherence and cohesion in the formation of texts; the text types and their typology; textual interaction and textual communication.

IDB 404 Stylistics 305

Varties of language use and the language of literary; ordinary vs. literary use of language; sound, form and meaning in literature; markers of style and linguistic stylistics; deviations from the ordinary use and poetic license; identification of particular and individual styles.

IDB 405 Applied Linguistics I 305

IDB 406 Applied Linguistics II 305

Applications of theoretical linguistics; linguistics in language teaching, speech therapy; computational and forensic linguistics; implications of linguistics for other fields of application; general theory of applied linguistics and linguistics in relation to other sciences.

IDB 407 Psycholinguistics 305

Introduction to psychology of language; human linguistic processor and its basics; parsing words, sentences and discourse/text; the nature of the knowledge of language, its acquisition, storage and use; word recognition, priming, and approaches to word recognition in psycholinguistics; sentence structure and cognitive aspects of structure and meaning; language disorders and types of linguistic disabilities.

IDB 408 Philosophy of Language 305

Philosophers’ interest in language, the philosophy of language as a method and differences from linguistic philosophy; study of the notions reference, sense, denotation, and connotation; theories of meaning and their relevance to linguistics; sentences as propositions, the truth of the sentences, verification and falsification; language in use and the theory of speech acts; other contemporary topics in philosophy of language.

IDB 411 Graduation Study I 215

IDB 412 Graduation Study II 215

Defining a problem and developing a solution towards that problem; employing linguistic methodology in solving the problem; gathering data and data analysis in accordance with the method of analysis selected; preparing a final report of the individual study.

IDB 409 Elective I (see below) 305

IDB 410 Elective II (see below) 305

Computational Linguistics 305

Computers and language; formalizing the linguistic structure, the human parser vs. machine parser; processing linguistic input in a computer environment; computer applications of language.

Language Universals 305

Study of the language universals; typology of language universals and approaches to universal, absolute and implicational aspects of language universals; categories and their representations in human languages; approaches to classifications, historical and structural dimensions; the universal grammar, notions of principle and parameter.

Lexical Semantics 305

The study of word meaning and its interaction with syntax; the verb classes and their place in grammar, the projection principle and the notion of lexical insertion; transitivity alternations and the role of verb semantics; UTAH, and other principles of lexicon-syntax interface; thematic roles, the notion of hierarchy and the alignment/linking rules; decomposition of predicate meaning; meaning components relevant to syntax and semantics of the predicates.

Language and Culture 305

The study of language in relation to culture; deterministic and relativistic approaches; language and its role in formation and tranmission of cultural categories; anthropological approaches to language; cultural and social indicies and their reflection in language; the universal and culture specific aspects of linguistic categorization.

Linguistic Methodology 305

Methods in linguistics, primitives and axioms; formal and functional approaches in linguistics; the notions of acceptability and grammaticality; data gathering and methods of analysis in linguistics, corpus linguistics and its basic principles; differences and methods and their cross comparision or linguistic data.

Semiotics 305

Introduction to semotic studies; the notion of sign and its place in contemporary linguistic studies; non-linguistic signs and the process of signification; modes of signification and their reflection in language; semiotics as a sub-branch of linguistics or linguistics as sub-branch of semiotics; semiotics of text and discourse; iconicity in language and other topics.