Week 1: Course Introduction, Syllabus Sharing
Week 2: The Nature and Characteristics of Language; Relationships Between Language and Thought, Language and Culture, Language and Society, Language and Gender
Week 3: Theories on the Origin of Languages, Atatürk’s Language Policy, and the Sun Language Theory
Week 4: The Emergence of Modern Linguistics; Types of Languages
Week 5: Languages of the World and the Position of Turkish Among Them
Week 6: Development of Turkish Written Language and Its Historical Phases; Current Status and Geographic Spread of Turkish
Week 7: Alphabets Used by Turks, the Alphabet Reform, and the Relationship Between Alphabet and Identity
Week 8: Examples from Turkish Vocabulary: Kinship Terms, Colors, Animal and Plant Names, Near-Synonyms and Synonyms
Week 9: Phonological and Morphological Features of Turkish; Stress and Intonation
Week 10: Word Formation and Derivation Methods in Turkish
Week 11: Lexical Borrowing Between Turkish and Other Languages
Week 12: Lexical Loans Between Turkish and Other Languages
Week 13: Turkish Vocabulary: Proverbs and Idioms (with examples)
Week 14: Turkish Vocabulary: Reduplications, Terms, Fixed Expressions