Ottoman Turkish is the language of the empire's archives, chronicles, and literature for roughly six centuries, written in a modified Perso-Arabic script and layered with Arabic and Persian grammar atop a Turkish core — this course gets you reading it. You'll spend the semester learning the alphabet, working through how vowels, suffixes, and izafet constructions behave in each of the three source languages, and gradually moving from isolated words to short printed texts, with progress checked through a quiz, midterm, and reading practice. For any historian planning to work with pre-1928 sources, this is the gateway: HIST 401 builds the script-level literacy that paleography II and serious archival research assume you already have.
→ STARS müfredatı (resmi syllabus)
İlk dosyayı sen atarsan — not, slayt, geçmiş sınav, çözüm, cheat-sheet, ne varsa — defter ekibi öğrenci paylaşımlarından bu dersin notlarını yazar. Drive linki / PDF / ZIP, hepsi olur.
| Dönem | Course CPA | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-2026 Fall | 3.54 | 1 sec · 27 öğr |
| 2024-2025 Fall | 3.75 | 1 sec · 23 öğr |
| 2023-2024 Fall | 3.14 | 1 sec · 14 öğr |
| 2022-2023 Fall | 3.71 | 1 sec · 9 öğr |
| 2021-2022 Fall | 3.34 | 1 sec · 5 öğr |
| 2020-2021 Fall | 3.92 | 1 sec · 9 öğr |
| 2019-2020 Fall | 3.94 | 1 sec · 5 öğr |
| 2018-2019 Fall | 3.72 | 1 sec · 7 öğr |
| 2016-2017 Fall | 3.60 | 1 sec · 10 öğr |
| 2015-2016 Fall | 3.52 | 1 sec · 10 öğr |
Aggregate course GPA — Bilkent STARS'tan public data. Hoca-bazlı per-section detayı için STARS evaluation report →. Öğrenci anket cevapları KVKK kapsamında defter'de tutulmaz.
Course Learning Outcomes: Course Learning Outcome Assessment Read basic Ottoman texts in their original script. Homework Final:Essay/written Quiz Achieve a basic understanding of Ottoman grammar and vocabulary using reading materials in the form of printed text Homework Acquire the necessary knowledge regarding different periods of Ottoman language and its evolution Homework Midterm:Essay/written