Virtual Trip to Turkey

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VIRTUAL Beyond Harems and Belly Dancers:
Turkish Culture

This virtual course, Turkish 2241DL (three credits), will be held during May 2021. Students will learn about Turkish culture through brief forays into history, geography, language, literature, visual and performing arts, food, sports, fashion, media, religion, politics and society. These forays will provide opportunities for deeper explorations of issues of contemporary relevance and central importance to the study of Turkey, including the legacy of the Ottoman Empire, Islam and secularism, the East/West divide, nationalism, the politics of translation, the role of the arts in society and social movements, minority and human rights, identity politics and more. Activities include discussions and group activities, as well as online communication and collaboration with Turkish peers at a university in Istanbul.

Upon successful completion of this course all participants will be awarded the AFS Global Competence Certificate at no cost. This is a unique program that develops essential & lifelong global “power skills”: collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, cross-cultural communication, open-mindedness & flexibility. More information in this certificate and its benefits can be found at globalup.com.

Watch a recorded information session to learn more: Information session for Summer 2021 here!

Please note: the $50 administrative fee mentioned in this information session has been eliminated for May 2021.

Locations

This is a virtual course with frequent interactions with Turkish peers in Istanbul.

Instructor

Dr. Danielle Schoon
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
schoon.2@osu.edu

Ohio State Program Contact

L ouise Yahiaoui
Would you like to schedule an appointment? Click here to request one.
yahiaoui.2@osu.edu

Register on the Education Abroad website.

OSU is distinguished by its curriculum on the history and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, late antique and Byzantine studies, literary studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, archaeology, sociolinguistics, and cultural anthropology, housed in several, closely collaborating departments: Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC), Classics, History, Comparative Studies, Anthropology, and Linguistics. While quite a few U.S. universities teach Arabic and Hebrew, there are only about thirteen universities nationwide with departments such as NELC, focused on the whole Middle East. We offer concentrations of expertise in Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, Syriac, other Semitic languages, and modern Uzbek, subjects offered in only a small number of other programs. OSU has one of the country’s top graduate programs in Ottoman History. OSU’s strengths in Islamic Studies, Jewish literary traditions, linguistics, comparative Semitics, Hebrew Bible, Late Antique and Medieval Near East, modern Arabic and Hebrew literature, cultural and linguistic anthropology of Central Asia and South Asia, distinguish it among peer institutions. OSU's Library offers one of the most competitive collections in the country with respect to Middle East Studies, Islamic Studies, and Jewish Studies. Please check out the Middle East research guide curated by the Middle East and Islamic Studies Service at the Library.

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VIRTUAL Beyond Harems and Belly Dancers: Turkish Culture

VIRTUAL Beyond Harems and Belly Dancers:
Turkish Culture