The Department of Languages and Literatures is an integral educational and academic unit within Khazar University. Its main responsibilities include teaching Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani and World literature in relevant majors and providing comprehensive education to undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students in these subjects. Additionally, the Department offers instruction in various foreign languages such as German, French, and Chinese as a second language. Apart from teaching, the Department also engages in methodical and academic research as well as pedagogical activities. It actively contributes to the development of educational resources by creating textbooks, programs, and other teaching materials.
The Department places great importance on actively participating in the university social life, organizing literature discussions, poetry evenings and recitation competitions as part of its core activities.
Teaching Azerbaijani language and literature bachelor program details
The purpose of the bachelor’s degree in “Teaching Azerbaijani language and literature” is to prepare high-level, professional teachers, to perform theoretical and practical teaching about all stages and periods, sections and fields of Azerbaijani language and literature (including world literature) to students. Students mastering the program will be able to prepare evaluation methods and tools after learning the system, structure and concrete historical development stages of language, implementation of pedagogical and psychological activities, how to determine the correct teaching methodology and evaluation procedures in teaching, how to be able to choose new methods and modes of language and literature, how to apply them efficiently and qualitatively, how to measure training results and by learning the principles of developing appropriate, reliable assessment tools.
Duration of study: 4 years (256 ECTS)
Semester dates
Fall semester: September 15 – December 30
Spring semester: February 10 – May 31
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Curriculum
Social sciences: 36 ECTS
Specialization subjects: 138 ECTS
- Pedagogy-1 (Introduction to Education)
- Pedagogy-2 (Curriculum and evaluation strategies)
- Psychology (Educational psychology)
- General Linguistics
- Modern Azerbaijani language-1 (Phonetics)
- Modern Azerbaijani language-2 (Lexicology)
- Modern Azerbaijani language-3 (Morphology)
- Modern Azerbaijani language-4 (Syntax)
- Teaching method of Azerbaijani language
- Theory of Literature
- Literary history of Azerbaijan-1 (Oral folk literature)
- Literary history of Azerbaijan-2 (Ancient and Middle Ages)
- Literary history of Azerbaijan-3 (II half of the 17th - 19th centuries)
- Literary history of Azerbaijan-4 (second half of the 19th century - beginning of the 20th century)
- Literary history of Azerbaijan-5 (1920-1960s)
- Literary history of Azerbaijan-6 (Newest period)
- World literature-1 (Antiquity)
- World literature-2 (Renaissance period)
- World literature-3 (XIX – XX centuries)
- Literature teaching methodology
- Expressive reading (Reading strategy)
- Basics of civil defense and medical knowledge
- ICT in education
Elective subjects: 66 ECTS
Students, in consultation with their advisors, have the opportunity to choose elective courses from a variety of disciplines that suit their interests.
Pedagogical internship: 24 ECTS
- Passive practice
- Active practice
Philology (the Azerbaijani language and literature) bachelor program overview
The purpose of the department at the bachelor level of the "Philology (the Azerbaijani language and literature)" of the Faculty "Humanities, Education and Social Sciences" is to teach students the grammatical structure and units of the modern Azerbaijani language, as well as to provide knowledge about linguistics and the history of the language, to learn about the history of Azerbaijani literature (including World literature) in chronological order, to teach the life and legacy of writers and poets who lived in different periods, and to provide preliminary theoretical information. Students who master the program acquire the following knowledge and skills:
Duration of study: 4 years (256 ECTS)
Semester dates
Fall semester: September 15 – December 30
Spring semester: February 10 – May 31
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Curriculum
Social sciences: 42 ECTS
Specialization subjects: 120 ECTS
- General Linguistics
- Theory of Literature
- Language history (the language of ancient Turkish written monuments)
- Logic and critical thinking
- Modern Azerbaijani language-1 (Phonetics)
- Modern Azerbaijani language-2 (Lexicology)
- Modern Azerbaijani language-3 (Morphology)
- Modern Azerbaijani language-4 (Syntax)
- History of Azerbaijani literature-1 (Oral folk literature)
- History of Azerbaijani literature-2 (Ancient and Middle Ages)
- History of Azerbaijani literature-3 (II half of the 17th - 19th centuries)
- History of Azerbaijani literature-4 (second half of the 19th century - beginning of the 20th century)
- History of Azerbaijani literature-5 (1920-1960s)
- History of Azerbaijani literature-6 (Newest period)
- World literature-1 (Antique period)
- World literature-2 (Renaissance period)
- World literature-3 (XIX – XX centuries)
- Psychology (Educational psychology)
- Style and rhetoric (Art of rhetorics and style)
- Modern information and communication technologies and information security (Introduction to Computer Science)
- Basics of civil defense and medical knowledge
Elective subjects: 90 ECTS
Students, in consultation with their advisors, have the opportunity to choose elective courses from a variety of disciplines that suit their interests.
Pedagogical internship: 12 ECTS
Azerbaijani literature master program overviewThe master’s program in “Azerbaijani literature” at Khazar University Department of Languages and Literatures is designed to provide master’s students with a deep understanding of various areas and issues in literary studies. It aims to equip students with the necessary tools and techniques for philological analysis as well as a broad understanding of contemporary literary concepts. Additionally, the program aims to foster the ability to comprehensively analyze and comprehend the modern literary landscape.The master’s degree program in Azerbaijani literature offers a combination of mandatory and elective courses to cater to students’ interests and goals.
Duration of study: 2 years (120 ECTS) Semester datesFall semester: September 15 – December 30Spring semester: February 10 – May 31 CurriculumSection of profession (specialization) subjects: 72 ECTS§ Azerbaijani literature in the environment of Eastern languages§ Modern literary aesthetic trends§ Modern Azerbaijani prose§ Emigration literary studies§ History and methodology of literary criticism§ Poetics§ Modern literary process§ South Azerbaijani literature§ Research methods in literary studies§ Postmodernism in literature§ Sufi literature§ Modern Turkish literature Section of elective subjects: 24 ECTS§ Literature and aesthetics§ Folklore and written literature§ Modern Azerbaijani poetry§ Renaissance and medieval Western European literature§ Azerbaijani-Russian literary relations§ Modernism in Azerbaijani literature § Azerbaijani memoirs literature§ Modern Azerbaijani drama§ Literature of Turkic peoples§ Literature of Eastern peoples (Chinese, Japanese, etc.)Research work: 24 ECTS
Preparation and defense of the master's thesis
Azerbaijani language master program overviewThe main objective of the master’s program in Azerbaijani language, offered by the Department of Languages and Literatures at Khazar University, is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the various aspects and complexities of the Azerbaijani language. The program aims to enhance their theoretical knowledge, expose them to the scholarly and theoretical concepts of different schools of modern linguistics, and develop their analytical and practical skills. The master’s degree program in Azerbaijani language encompasses both mandatory and elective courses to cater to students’ specific interests and goals.
Duration of study: 2 years (120 ECTS) Semester datesFall semester: September 15 – December 30Spring semester: February 10 – May 31 CurriculumSection of profession (specialization) subjects: 72 ECTS§ History and methodology of Azerbaijani linguistics§ Structural linguistics§ Morphological analysis§ Turkic languages of the Oghuz group§ Lexicology and semasiology of the Azerbaijani language§ Basics of Azerbaijani terminology§ Phonetics and phonology§ Text syntax§ Sociolinguistics§ Historical dialectology§ Research methods in the humanities§ Stylistic possibilities of phraseology Section of elective subjects: 24 ECTS§ The language of the Azerbaijani press at the beginning of the 20th century ("Molla Nasreddin" və "Fuyuzat”)§ The language of ancient Turkic written monuments
§ Orthoepy and orthography of the Azerbaijani language
§ The language of “Book of Dede Korkut”§ Onomastics etc.Research work: 24 ECTS
Preparation and defense of the master's thesis
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