TheAmerican Culture and Literature Department offers a program leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree. The department offers a wide variety of courses that examines the United States in all its complexity, integrating literature, culture, and history. This interdisciplinary program will not only introduce students to culture and literature of the United States, but will also develop critical and creative thinking skills that will allow them to reflect upon their own culture and its history and literature.

Through its focus on culture and literature, the department offers students the opportunity to consider various issues through different historical, political and cultural perspectives so as to establish analytical and comparative thinking. The core and elective courses offered by the department include: American literature, poetry, American history, drama, mythology, translation, comparative literature, literary criticism, introduction to film studies, popular fiction, American west, gothic novel, and American art. Through a study of major authors, literary works and movements, the program helps students to achieve a mature understanding of themselves and the world, and to learn to read critically and analytically, write clearly and persuasively, reason soundly and express themselves intelligently in English.

Apart from departmental courses, students will be able to take elective courses from the General Education and Co-op programs. These programs are designed to introduce students to a wide variety of subjects that include foreign languages, social sciences and fine arts. This wider distribution of courses will provide students with opportunities to broaden their culture, contribute to a desirable balance of intellectual interests, and prepare them for more specialized studies in the future. In addition, students who wish to pursue a degree in another discipline can apply for double major degrees. Successful students may have the opportunity to continue their education at certain partner universities in the United States, such as Cleveland State. Following their graduation from Bahçeşehir University, students who continue their education at partner universities will be awarded master's degrees.

In the future, we hope that our graduates will enjoy productive careers in the public and private sectors of Turkey and countries abroad, in such fields as business finance, tourism, government, international relations, education, the media, technology, and the arts, to name only a few.

Chairman, Department of American Culture and Literature
Prof. Gönül Uçele