Our Mission and Vision

Mission

Our mission is to cultivate well-rounded individuals who are proficient in English Language and Literature and Western culture, achieving both high academic success and a contemporary understanding of education. The program's teaching objectives, designed to meet the professional expectations and future career goals of our graduates, are as follows:

  1. To provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills in English language, culture, history, and literature.
  2. To train students as philologists with a critical perspective, developed analytical skills, effective communication abilities, creativity, awareness of their responsibilities, and a strong sense of professional ethics.
  3. To enable students to develop into individuals who can communicate and interpret intercultural concepts through English literature.
  4. To cultivate individuals who can combine the values ​​of our country and society with Western values, assimilate these values ​​correctly and effectively, and express them.
  5. To enable students to use English at an advanced level, as well as to equip them with the ability to teach the language.
  6. To ensure that students develop into individuals who can adapt to the demands of the age and effectively use information technologies.
  7. To contribute to society by training students who can conduct research in their fields and evaluate this research from an unbiased and scientific perspective.

Furthermore, our department is committed to providing education, conducting research, offering services, and producing solutions at international standards, prioritizing people and interacting with society.

 

Vision

The vision of the English Language and Literature Department is to be a well-equipped department operating at an international level, leaving a mark on the future. Our vision also includes training contemporary philologists equipped with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to serve in all areas of English Philology, who have internalized ethical values, are aware of global realities, and embrace the importance of lifelong learning. The Bachelor's Program, designed for 8 semesters over 4 years, aims to provide students with advanced language skills, literary concepts, literary history, literary and critical theories, fundamental knowledge of culture, and professional competence in the fields of language, literature, criticism, and cultural studies.

Our department also aims to be a department that inspires and directs by producing knowledge, art, technology, and services on a universal scale.

 

The department has adopted the following as its fundamental principles:

  • Internalizing meritocracy fairly,
  • Ensuring that all thoughts can be freely expressed with respect,
  • Supporting creativity by promoting freedom,
  • Reviving the initial enthusiasm by developing empathy,
  • Increasing productivity and efficiency by internalizing quality,
  • Aiming for perfection by believing in oneself,
  • Avoiding extremes by exercising self-control.

The new mission and vision of our department were reviewed and found appropriate at the meeting held with the Department Advisory Board on October 21, 2024, and in the survey conducted on October 28, 2024.