Master Turkish Studies (675 [2] - Version 2020)

Groups of compulsory modules I-II (62 ECTS)

GCM I: History, Culture and Politics of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey (52 ECTS)

M1 CM: Archives, Sources and Research Approaches in Ottoman Studies (10 ECTS)

• 141003 UE Archives, Ottoman Sources, and Media (reading texts included)
• 141160 VU M1 - VU Contemporary Research and Methods in Ottoman Studies

M2 CM: Transformation in the Ottoman Empire: From Empire to Nation (16 ECTS)

M3 CM: Archives, Sources and Research Approaches in Turkish Studies (10 ECTS)

M4 CM: Turkey in a Global World: The Republic of Turkey in Transition (16 ECTS)

• 141165 SE Politics and Society
• 141666 SE M4 - SE Culture and Cultural Policy

GCM II: Language, Literature, Society (10 ECTS)

M5a Alternative CM: Ottoman Literature (10 ECTS)

• 141416 SE Ottoman Literatures (reading texts included)
• 141667 VO M5a VO Ottoman Literary History

M5b Alternative CM: Modern Turkish Literature and Society (10 ECTS)

Groups of elective modules I-III (30 ECTS)

GEM I: Regional and Thematic Focus

M5.1a Ottoman Literature (10 ECTS)

M5.1b Modern Turkish Literature and Society (10 ECTS)

M6 Advanced Turkish: Languages for Specific Purposes and Everyday Use (10 ECTS)

• 141012 UE Advanced Turkish: Technical Language and Language Practice Written Expression - Fortsetzung vom 2024S

M7 Reading Primary Sources: Ottoman / Turkish (10 ECTS)

M8 Individual Specialisation (10 ECTS)

• 141027 UE Individual immersion: New publications on Central Asia
• 160136 PS 60 years of the Austrian-Turkish labor recruitment agreement - interdisciplinary perspectives

M9 Central Asia (10 ECTS)

M10 Digital Humanities for Orientalist Scholars (10 ECTS)

• 141009 UE [ en ] Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies

M11 International Contextualisation (30 ECTS)

GEM II: Interdisciplinarity Transottomanica

M12 History of South-Eastern Europe, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Alevi Theological Studies, Islamic Art History (10 ECTS)

• 090025 VO Overview of the Historical Geography of the Eastern Mediterranean in Byzantine Times - (4th-15th Centuries)
• 090027 VO [ de en ] Modern Greek History II: 1821-1923
• 090028 VO [ en ] Oriental Hellenism - The Greek(-orthodox) presence in Ottoman Constantinople, modern Istanbul and Asia Minor
• 090082 VO [ en ] Modern Greece: from expansion to consolidation (late 19th - 20th c.)
• 090084 UE Byzantine and post-Byzantine epigrammatic poetry - also as Reading Byzantine Texts
• 090093 PS [ en ] Cyprus: from colonialism to independence (19th - 20th c.)

GEM III: Interdisciplinarity History, DH, Comparative Literature

• 160136 PS 60 years of the Austrian-Turkish labor recruitment agreement - interdisciplinary perspectives

M13 Digital Humanities, Comparative Literature, Contemporary History, History of Science, Global History, History of South-Eastern Europe, Gender History, Media History, Public History (10 ECTS)

• 090025 VO Overview of the Historical Geography of the Eastern Mediterranean in Byzantine Times - (4th-15th Centuries)
• 090027 VO [ de en ] Modern Greek History II: 1821-1923
• 090028 VO [ en ] Oriental Hellenism - The Greek(-orthodox) presence in Ottoman Constantinople, modern Istanbul and Asia Minor
• 090082 VO [ en ] Modern Greece: from expansion to consolidation (late 19th - 20th c.)
• 090084 UE Byzantine and post-Byzantine epigrammatic poetry - also as Reading Byzantine Texts
• 090093 PS [ en ] Cyprus: from colonialism to independence (19th - 20th c.)
• 160136 PS 60 years of the Austrian-Turkish labor recruitment agreement - interdisciplinary perspectives

CM: Master’s Module

M14 CM Master’s Thesis Coaching (4 ECTS)