Dramatic Turkish

1 Credit · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Dramatic Turkish: Learning Turkish through TV Drama. This is a 1-credit course to help students improve their listening and speaking skills by engaging with popular Turkish TV series. Students will watch episodes from a variety of TV shows and learn how to detect different registers in spoken Turkish. They will learn common idioms and practice expressing themselves across different degrees of formality. The classwork includes the reading of news reports and short commentaries in Turkish related to these shows. Students at Intermediate and Advanced levels are encouraged to take this course along with the main sequence Turkish classes. This course counts toward the Turkish minor.