Copies of the Readings have been distributed to the teachers who are responsible
for giving bound copies to the students.
Requirements for getting 7,5 ECTS for
successful participation at the IP are the followings.
The IP is a five-week
course including fifteen-days preparation, ten days work in Istanbul and ten-days
for writing a paper on a given subject. The preparatory work starts in January.
By March 4 the students’ papers
must be submitted.
During the fifteen days of preparation the students read the articles
included in the Readings. On the basis of the articles in
the Readings, each student formulates one question for discussion
on each topic, i.e. Early history of the European Turks, Typology of Turkish,
Turkic in the Black Sea area, Turkish varieties in Anatolia
and the Balkan, Turkic in the Caucasian area, Crimean Tatar, Turkish in
Western and Northern Europe, Turkic languages and cultures in the Mediterranean,
Peripheral European Turkic languages and cultures, Turkic in the Volga
area, Modernization of Turkish literature. These questions have to be
submitted to me <eva.csato@lingfil.uu.se> latest
by 25 January.
During the IP in Istanbul the students participate each day in the whole
program and contribute actively to the discussions and exercises.
During the course they choose a topic for their paper in agreement with
one of the teachers. This teacher should not be the teacher of the home
university. The paper will be 5-8 pages long including introduction, topic
to discuss, earlier approaches, discussion, results, summary and references.
The papers will be evaluated by the chosen teacher who reports to the
teacher at the home university. The ECTS grading scale will be applied.
Students will get their credits registered at the home university.
