Turkey’s first undergraduate Kurdish Language and Literature Department is to open at Alparslan University in the eastern province of Muş. The university will also offer an elective class on Alevism during the spring term pending approval from the Higher Education Board, or YÖK.
The university decided to open the department during a meeting late last month and will start accepting students in 2014, Doğan news agency, or DHA, reported Thursday.
“The Kurdish Language and Literature Department was an issue on our agenda. YÖK approved the project we had presented and gave permission for the foundation of the department. This way Kurdish will be a known language,” said Alparslan University Rector Nihat İnanç.
Mardin Artuklu University’s Living Languages Institute already offers a graduate program with master’s and Ph.D. degrees on Kurdish language and culture, but İnanç said their program at Alparslan University would be a four-year undergraduate program.
Also, in an effort to enlarge the scope of their university, the rector also said they would offer an elective course on Alevism.
“We made the decision to teach about Alevism at our September meeting last year. With the approval of YÖK, Alevism will be given as an elective during our university’s spring term this year,” İnanç said.
The university also has plans to cooperate with universities from northern Iraq, Iran and France on Kurdish language and literature. “We will have meetings with universities from northern Iraq and Iran. There is also a department in France. We might get in touch with them.”
Noting that Kurdish is a language spoken by a large population in the Middle East and Turkey, İnanç said it would be beneficial to discuss this language’s characteristics and literature at an academic level.
The university decided to open the department during a meeting late last month and will start accepting students in 2014, Doğan news agency, or DHA, reported Thursday.
“The Kurdish Language and Literature Department was an issue on our agenda. YÖK approved the project we had presented and gave permission for the foundation of the department. This way Kurdish will be a known language,” said Alparslan University Rector Nihat İnanç.
Mardin Artuklu University’s Living Languages Institute already offers a graduate program with master’s and Ph.D. degrees on Kurdish language and culture, but İnanç said their program at Alparslan University would be a four-year undergraduate program.
Also, in an effort to enlarge the scope of their university, the rector also said they would offer an elective course on Alevism.
“We made the decision to teach about Alevism at our September meeting last year. With the approval of YÖK, Alevism will be given as an elective during our university’s spring term this year,” İnanç said.
The university also has plans to cooperate with universities from northern Iraq, Iran and France on Kurdish language and literature. “We will have meetings with universities from northern Iraq and Iran. There is also a department in France. We might get in touch with them.”
Noting that Kurdish is a language spoken by a large population in the Middle East and Turkey, İnanç said it would be beneficial to discuss this language’s characteristics and literature at an academic level.
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