Armenians are one of the oldest peoples in the history of civilization. There are ancient cultural traditions and customs of the Armenian people in the Anatolian geography and the Caucasus, which is one of their old settlements. Armenian language and alphabet show thousands of years-old history and present day of this community. In addition to the Armenian language spoken in this region, culture, history, social anthropology, history of literature, philosophy and religions fall into the fields of Armenology. Moreover, there was a great influence of the Turkish language on the Armenian language, and many words were transferred to Armenian language. The effective role of Turkish among the sources of the Armenian language also has an important place among the subjects that need to be investigated.

 

Established in 2010 under the Erciyes University Faculty of Letters, Department of Eastern Languages and Literatures, the Armenian Language and Culture Department is the first department founded in our country at the undergraduate level. It started education in the 2010-2011 academic year with a total of 6 students, with 2 students in the beginning, then 4 people with additional quota. The first graduates were in the 2013-2014 academic year. The other graduates were in the 2016-2017 academic year olarak düzeltelim.

In order to graduate from our program, 240 credits must be completed. These credits are gained by successfully completing courses some of which are compulsory and some of which are elective.

In our undergraduate program, courses are offered on a semester basis. Each Academic Year has two semesters, Fall and Spring. The usual process for a term is course registration + 14-week course period + final exam period. The dates are announced in the Academic Calendar.

 

Students must attend 70% of the courses. At the end of the semester, absent students are reported to the Dean's Office and they are marked as absent in the system. In case of absence, the student loses the right to take the final exams. On OBISIS, your attendance status for each course is shown as follows: G (attendance required), D (absent – failed due to absenteeism), and M (exempt from attendance).

 

 

There are compulsory and elective courses as course types. Compulsory courses are the courses that the student must complete in order to graduate.

Elective courses are offered in specific packages. The course is completed with the credit specified in the elective course package in the relevant year and term in the education plan. The package credits must be completed, not the course taken in the package.

 

Each semester, students choose the courses they need to take within the time period specified in the academic calendar through OBISIS and send them to their advisors for approval. The OBISIS program shows the required courses in blue, the successful courses in green, and the failed courses in red. The student chooses the courses that are required to be taken in the relevant year according to specific priorities. It is a priority to first take or re-take a course that one has failed before.The student, who is enrolled in the courses in his/her semester, can choose a course from the upper grades if appropriate. It is necessary to pay attention to the warnings and directions of the advisors in such cases.

 

The students are informed about the elective courses offered during the semester by the advisors during the course registration period. Among these courses, students choose courses according to their interests and needs.

 

Among the failed elective courses, there may be the ones that are not opened during the course registration week of the following year. In this case, the system shows you the course table that can be taken instead. It is important to take courses from the relevant package and year in this table instead of the failed course. If you are unsure, do not hesitate to ask your advisor.

Do not forget that your advisors may send you messages during the course registration and add/drop weeks and that there may be errors in your course registration or changes may be required; therefore, do not forget to check the relevant messages at regular intervals. Keep in mind that changes may still be required after your course registration has been approved.

 

 

Your advisors are the people who will guide you about your education life. They guide and advise you about the courses you take. They are the people you should contact for the problems you may encounter outside of course registration. They also provide the communication between the head of the department and the students.

 

Each of the instructors working in our faculty arranges consultation hours for the students on a specific day and time of the week. These hours are for taking opinions on any subject or to share your problems, apart from consultancy. Consultation hours are stated in the programs or course syllabuses on the office doors. Do not hesitate to ask questions via e-mail if necessary.