The ACI Turkish Language and Literature Department believes a strong native-tongue education program is necessary in creating an effective bilingual school atmosphere. The department’s goal is to raise individuals who thoroughly know and experience their own cultural values while being able to interact successfully within a multi-cultural environment.

The Department, being aware of the main topic in literature being “people and life”, aims to “develop an effective tie” between art of literature and students’ lives, and have their students take active roles, while they read, discuss, observe, listen and examine, in the classroom.

The topics are studied in a classroom environment where students unite “their lives” with “those outside theirs”. The students are requested to interpret life and arts, and use the knowledge they have acquired while they interpret.

The Department believes that the basic skill of “acquiring knowledge-interpreting knowledge-relating it to ones own life” is not only essential for success throughout the university experience, but critical to success later in life, both personally and professionally.

The department encourages active student participation in elective courses and club activities. Such applied learning occurs in the arts, language, and literature with the purpose of developing students who are able to effectively speak and write in their own native tongue. Teachers strive to raise future writers and poets in the Creative Writing Club. The Drama Club gives future actors the opportunity to learn trade of acting and perform on stage and in front of audiences.

The Culture Club supports those students who are both dynamic speakers and respectful of national cultural values. Culture Club participants are socially conscious individuals who will actively participate in cultural or societal organizations later in life.