Assoc. Prof. Gizem Akyol and Dr. Yakup Türkdil, faculty members of the Department of Common Courses, met with students on Friday, December 19, 2025, prior to the final exams as part of the “Turkish Course Gatherings,” where they evaluated the semester and answered students’ questions.
The work titled “Critique of the Power of Judgement” edited by Assoc. Prof. Selda Salman, Head of our Department of Common Courses, has been published. This work, which is among the fundamental writings of Immanuel Kant, one of the most important philosophers in the history of philosophy, has served as a key reference point since its publication for many thinkers working in the fields of aesthetics, epistemology, and theory of judgement, and even political philosophy.
As part of the “Formation of Modern Türkiye” course, one of the Non-Departmental Elective Courses from the Department of Common Courses, instructed by the Deputy Head of the Department, Lecturer Ceren Çilek, our students visited the exhibition titled “The Construction of a New City: Ankara 1923-1933” at Müzegazhane on Sunday, October 12.
The Department of Common Courses organized an “Orientation Program” on Thursday, September 25, at 14.00 in the Akıngüç Auditorium and Art Center for the compulsory common courses, “Turkish” and “Atatürk’s Principles and History of Turkish Revolution”. During the orientation program, faculty members Assoc. Prof. Gizem Akyol, Assist. Prof. Yakup Türkdil, Lecturer Dr.
Our Department of General Courses Chair, Assoc. Prof. Selda Salman Sakızlı, delivered a lecture titled "Imaginary Past and Today's Aesthetics" at the 9th International Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics held in Çanakkale between September 17-20.
Lecturer Dr. Yakup Türkdil, Istanbul Kültür University Department of Turkish Language academician, participated in “Teaching Turkish in Türkiye and in the World: Applications, Developments, Recommendations Workshop,” held in Bursa on September 26-29, 2022, by Ministry of Education Turkish and Language Education Research and Development Center of the Board of Education in cooperation with Turkish Language Association (TDK,) Turkish Maarif Foundation, Yunus Emre Institute, and Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB.)
One important award in literature, the Sait Faik Story Award, has been presented by the Darüşşafaka Society since 1964.
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Interesting studies were conducted at the University of Buffalo in the USA and the University of Liverpool in the UK. In these studies, the works of important literary figures, such as Shakespeare and T. S. Eliot, were read by participants and their brain patterns were monitored at the same time. According to the results, the parts of the brain that we do not normally use in our daily lives are activated when we read a literary text. This means that our brain feeds on texts based on the imagination.
