Mission

 

Our mission is to achieve high academic success and to raise well-rounded individuals who are well versed in English Language and Literature and Western culture with a contemporary educational approach. The Program Educational Objectives envisaged for our department graduates to achieve their professional expectations and their careers in the near future are as follows:

• To provide students with the necessary knowledge and equipment about English language, culture, history and literature.
• To train students as philologists who have a critical perspective, have developed analytical skills, can communicate effectively, are creative, are aware of their responsibilities and have professional ethics awareness.
• To ensure that students are raised as individuals who can communicate across cultures and interpret these cultures through English literature.
• To raise individuals who can combine the values ​​of our country and society with the values ​​of the West, who can internalize and express these values ​​correctly and effectively.
• In addition to enabling students to use English at an advanced level, we also aim to provide them with the ability to teach this language.
• To ensure that students grow up as individuals who can adapt to the requirements of the age and use information technologies effectively.
• To provide students with the opportunity to become individuals who can conduct research in their fields and evaluate these studies from an impartial and scientific perspective.
  In addition, our department has undertaken the duty of providing education, conducting research, providing services and producing solutions at international standards, by interacting with society and prioritizing people.

Vision

The vision of the Department of English Language and Literature is to be a well-equipped department that operates at an international level and leaves its mark on the future. Our vision is also to train contemporary philologists who are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to serve in all areas of English Philology, who have internalized ethical values, who are aware of the realities of the world and who have adopted the importance of lifelong learning. The Undergraduate Program, designed in a total of 8 semesters in 4 years, aims to provide students with advanced language skills, literary concepts, literary history, literary and critical theories, basic knowledge of the field 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 guides by producing knowledge, art, technology and services on a universal scale.

 

SDU Western Languages ​​and Literature has adopted the following as its basic principles;

To internalize merit fairly,
To ensure that all thoughts can live freely respectfully,
To support creativity by encouraging freedom,
To develop empathy skills and make you experience the excitement of the first day,
To increase efficiency and effectiveness by internalizing quality,
To aim for perfection by believing in yourself,
To avoid extremes by being self-controlled.

You can access our department's "Authorities, Duties and Responsibilities" page here.

Our department adopts the quality and research policy of being an institution that is compatible with its mission and vision, in line with the Quality Management System Standards, with an innovative and constantly open understanding; that educates qualified individuals with professional knowledge-skills and self-confidence, that prioritizes service to society, that enables academic and administrative units to work in coordination and with high performance, that is fair and transparent in administrative processes, that values ​​stakeholder opinions, that is open to national and international collaborations, and that values ​​technological and scientific standards in education-training and research.

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You can access the SDU Quality Assurance System Decision Tree Model here.

Yiğit AYGÜR 

2024-2025 Social Contribution Activities Report is found here.

2023-2024 Social Contribution Activities Report is found here.

2023-2024 Department Self-Assessment Report is found here.

2024-2025 Department R&D Report is found here.

2024-2025 English Language and Lliterature Department R&D Report is found here.

2023-2024 Department R&D Report is found here.

2024-2025 Education Self-Assessment Report is found here.

2023-2024 Education Self-Assessment Report is found here.

Work on the Department Activity Report is ongoing. It will be shared here after the work is completed.

Work on the Department Cross Peer Review Report is ongoing. It will be shared here after it is completed.

The preparation process of the surveys to be applied in our department is ongoing. Survey reports will be shared after the surveys are applied.

Find the Western Langauges and Literature 2024-2025 orientation program here.