General concepts about the course, collapse of the Ottoman Empire, leading to National Struggle, congresses, Sevres Treaty, wars, opening of Turkish Great National Assembly, Mudanya Armistice, Lausanne Treaty discussions.

Abolishment of sultanate and declaration of Republic, strategy and importance of Turkish Revolution, financial, social, legal, educational and cultural renovation, experiments for multi- party system, Turkish foreign policy during Atatürk?s term, basic principles of Atatürkism.

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To create awareness among students about "career"; to help students to make a personal career planning by gaining awareness of their interests, personal characteristics and values and by getting to know different sectors.

This course focuses on the basic principles of acting and the ability to use them effortlessly and naturally on stage. Defining and comprehending the acting principles, obtaining these principles in practice, using the authentic individuality honestly and realistically on stage, employing improvisations to have these elements to be used naturally and flowingly are aimed.

The aim of this course is to improve the physical and imaginative basic instruments and the onstage skills of the actor. On the basis of Western realistic acting method, it focuses the actor to establish realistic relationships with the world of the play and the stage partner practicing individual and partnered etudes.

In this course, the voice of the actor, which is one of the basic instruments of the actor, is trained for the art of acting and getting it under complete self- control is practiced. Considering the basic diction as the step before the sound turns into speech, this course paves the way from basic voice training to speech and building the voice of the character.

The aim of this course is to develop the diction skills of the actor in respect to the phonetics and phonological values of Turkish. The student acquires the skill to write and read using phonetics alphabet and practices rewriting the pieces given from sounds to words then words to sentences in an inductive method and practices acting them.

This course focuses on the improvement of the actor candidate?s intuition, attention, self-discovery, observational skills and multi-tasking skills. It is aimed for the actor to realize the creative elements, ability to create in partnership, preparation for the ensemble work and the ability to invent self in improvisational action.

: Within the extent of this course, the fundamental dynamics of putting together an unplanned scene in respect to the natural occurring and the rhythm of the scene are practiced by the actor candidate. Having gained experience in improvising, the skills of establishing the givens of the scene, such as place, time, conflict and status to create improvisational scenes mutually with a partner are obtained by the actor.

It aims to get the actor to identify his/her own body as a means of expression. By improving the physical awareness, the meanings and possibilities of the bodily movements are discovered. Using these possibilities, physical movement and expressions are integrated with other elements of the expression such as voice and diction and are enriched.

This course aims to prepare the bodies of the first year students for creative expression. It constitutes the foundation of actor?s physical presence through individual etudes built upon the movement knowledge of time and space. Group exercises are performed to develop physical connections and movement skills.

The concept "text" today is quite wide comparing the past. It has not only been indicated the written one like in the conventional approach, but also everything that is built a meaning from itself. In this course, considering contemporary approaches, various texts will be chosen from different disciplines; the ability of text analysis for theatre students by comparative readings will be developed.

: In this course, according to which criteria a theatre play should be read and examined is studied. Classical theatre plays? basic elements such as dramatic structure, character, time and place are comparatively examined. Giving a general perspective on the basics elements of dramatic structure to students who newly meet theatre texts is the aim.

The aim of this course is to introduce the dynamics of theater to the student at the first stage. The student comprehends the ethical principles and basic moral necessities, in a broader sense of the theater arts and specifically of the art of acting. The students observe the ethical and moral necessities in the acting training and the theater arts.

This course is designed to improve student?s technical and practical knowledge on stage. Students are expected to assist in third and forth year Rehearsal and Performance classes. They will serve as backstage support group. Thus they will find an opportunity to experience the practical part of the theater studies.

This course aims to get the acting student to learn about Stanislavski method and to exercise its basic practices. Through these experiences and gains, the student acquires the basic necessities for the process of building a character. By working on short pieces and scenes, the natural and fluent usage of these gains are practiced on stage.

This course, building on the accumulations of psychological realism and physical expression oriented techniques, focuses on Shakespeare plays which are considered the most important texts of the theater. Both monologues and two and more person scenes are studied on the basis of teachings of the First Folio. It is a course in which the Western acting style in the tradition of Public theater is studied.

This course is a continuation of the studies in the Voice: Diction and Articulation. All the work done in the first year; on diction, articulation, phonetics and phonology is transformed into onstage vocal skills in this course. Therefore, the training in this course allows the voice and diction skills to give way to onstage vocal expressions in respect to acting.

This is the final course in the line of voice and speech, in which, building upon the acquired knowledge of phonetics, phonology, diction, articulation and onstage vocal skills, the actor is guided to the creation of an authentic voice of his/her own. Acquiring this skill, the actor gets to specialize on the non-daily voice techniques as well as his/her daily voice.

The aim of this course is to provide the student absorbing the basic dynamics of acting. These basic acting dynamics are handled and improved with the layers of text, stage and bodily narrative. Various text, scene and body-oriented exercises are applied together in order to develop an original narrative on these three basic layers.

This course is a follow-up of the main acting course which the dramatic action, roles and characters are analyzed by using scenes from different play texts. The choices of the actor in order to act believable and breathtakingly scenes are analysed and practiced.

The course aims to get the actor to identify his/her own body as a means of expression. This leads to developing a physical awareness through which the confines and meanings of body movements are experienced. Actor?s expressional skills are improved by working towards overcoming these confines within the context of the goal of the story.

In this course, actor?s training is continued with Eastern theater practices in order to improve the quality of the physical expression. This course consists of the means of physical expressions and acting practices of Japanese, Chinese and Indian Theater along with Turkish Theater presentation practices.

This course surveys theatre from its beginning in Ancient Greek city-states in 5th BC through eighteenth century.
Early histories of western theatre will be explored in the light of social, intellectual and scientific developments of each period by readings, play analysis and investigations.

This course aims to follow the transformation of the western theatre from the eighteenth century to the present day.It investigates the reflection of the culture and society in the drama of each historical period, and focuses on subject matter, playwrights, dramatic structure, acting techniques and approaches, playing spaces, etc

This course aims to improve musical-vocal skills and hearing and rhythm abilities. Having command of basic voice, breath and singing techniques, students begin to gain the fundamental skills of singing. Late in the semester, with improved vocal skills, students start singing monophonic songs with an accompanist.

This course aims to improve the musical and vocal skills of the actor who already possesses the basics of singing. In this course, voice and singing studies are conducted with pieces selected from operets, musicals, and operettas. Parallel to the developing of the singing abilities of the actor, polyphonic songs are exercised with accompanist.

This course aims improving the sense of rhythm and creating a harmony between the rhythm of the body and the stage. Through it?s intended the student identifies and uses his/her bodily narrative tools. Original short texts are created in the future periods of the course.

The course aims to improve the student?s flexibility of joint movement, coordination of the body and the correct bodily posture. With the exercises designed for his purpose, the student?s understanding of movement, rhythm and space is enhanced. The awareness of body and the motion, working a movement within the elements of space, time and energy, body coordination and contact improvisation are the main topics of the course.

The aim of this course is to teach the basic solfege training and to improve the auditory perception level of the student. Thus, the student not only enhances the sense of rhythm, but also reclaims the skill of reading simple notes. During the period of the course, the knowledge learned by singing with piano accompaniment is transferred into practise.

The aim of this course is providing students who will produce theatre for children to perceive the world of the child, to think about the relationship between the children and the art of theatre and the components of children?s theatre, and to acquire their knowledge through practising. Drama studies are included in the course.

In this course, various classical texts selected from world literature will be read on the axis of dramaturgical analysis.

The aim of this course is to introduce students with musical productions. During the course, students stage a section from a musical production by having experience with the audition processes and the rehearsal processes of a musical. The course includes the basic study of how a musicial production staged.

The aim of this course is to present musical theatre productions with the students. During the course, students stage a section from a musical production by having experience with the audition processes and the rehearsal processes of a musical theatre. The course includes the staging and performing a musical production process.

The aim of this course is dealing with the theory of Western acting techniques in its historical theme and practising this with short etudes by the students. In the course; the acting approaches of Konstantin Stanislavski, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht and Jerzy Grotowski who are the most important ecoles of the acting techniques at 20th century are discussed comparatively.

The aim of this course is providing the actor/student to get to know and eliminate his/her sound and articulation defects which he/she can experience on using the correct word(s) through sound improvisations and practises. The components of radio drama are developed in the direction of integrating the voice and speaking with the word and text.

The aim of this course is to study the art of theatre and cinema theoretically through analyzing both works of this arts fields comparatively. By this method, the students learn how to position themselves as an actor/actress on stage and in front of the camera while having the knowledge of differencies between the two arts field?s works.

This course aims to study the 20th century acting techniques stemming from Stanislavski and is also to improve and enrich the actor?s acting skills starting off from the differences among them. In this context, the course is founded on the four basic 20th century acting styles: method actor, holy actor, epic actor and biomechanics.

The aim of this course is to jointly research the acting techniques that has developed after 1980 and to practice them. In this context, the relationship of the place of actor and the performance is studied in postdramatic theatre. The course is the final loop of the awareness and skill of ?learning on learning in acting? intended for the student

This course aims to teach student the correct way of breathing and voice using as a necessity of the theatre performer. The targets of the course are showing the function of human voice by supplying the mental and physical relief of the voice with breathing techniques and singing studies which will be operated by individually in general and sometimes as a team work.

After the student gets the knowledge of human voice as theoretically; applied voice, breathing and diapragm excercises begins in this course. He/she learns how to prepare his/her body and voice as an instrument technically and how to enforce it before every single voice enhancing study.

This course involves the application of all the acquired basic actor training and the knowledge of the field of theatre arts in a play to be performed on stage. It consists of understanding, interpreting, building the characters during the rehearsal process and preparing to perform chosen play.

This course involves the application of all the acquired basic actor training and knowledge of the field of theater arts in a play to be performed on stage. The basic goals of the this course are to experience the chosen play on stage with all the elements of the play, to establish actor-audience connection, to acquire the skills for continuity of a role and performance during the run of the play.

This course aims to enable the actor to acquire the necessary skills to create and act through safe, exciting and believable illusions of violence in a dramatic context. Moreover, it consists of the study of movement, timing and connection elements for stage combat as well as basic acrobatics and unarmed combat.

The aim of this course is to produce a devised theatre show with the students who have understood the elements and implementation methods of devised theatre. In this content, by all members of the course a devised theatre show gets designed and applied with the division of labor, and a devised theatre play be shown to the audience.

The aim of this course is explaining the history and contemporary practices of Reader?s Theatre to the students theoretically and introducing them with this sub-genre of theatre. During the course, training focuses on the practical applications by studying on the texts which produced for Reader?s Theatre.

In this course, Reader?s Theatre plays are practised with the students who are well knowned on the basic dynamics and the written texts of the genre within the norms and possibilities. The reading performances which produced during the course meets with the audience at the end of the term.

The course aims to comprehend the dramaturgy method through texts that point to classical, modern and contemporary dramaturgy. How the items such as character, action, language, dialogue, monologue, space, time, text, acting differ from each other is studied. This course aims at comprehending the place and function of the concept of dramaturgy in theatre theoretically and practically.

In this course, text-dramaturgy practices are carried out collectively. Paralleling the analysis of the text dramaturgically, era, playwright and staging understandings of the plays are examined in comparison with present-day interpretations accompanied by student-presentations.

This course focuses on the conception and evolution of performance arts with reference to the ontology of theatre. Both the experimental initiatives arising from the anti-theatre thought and the performing arts that derives from the plastic arts analyzes with work samples.

The aim of this course is enabling the students to perceive a child?s imaginational world, to consider the art of theatre in a connection with the child and in the relation of children and youth theatre components, and fall their gains upon by practising.

The aim of this course is to acquire the basic knowledge on children and youth theatre and to introduce the principal work samples of this genre to the students. After than the theoretical study moves on the practical studies. The practises takes place in two phases. In the first step, studies are carried out about plotting a children and youth theatre play text, and in the second step, the play(s) that produced during the term are presented to the audience.

The aim of this course is to enable students to meet with experts of different study subjects within the workshops for a minimum two and
maximum four-week periods. In this way, it is ensured that students can experience new research and trends in the field of performing arts/acting.

This course is designed to analyze traditional theatre forms and apply the history and examples of theatrical village plays, religious plays (Ta?ziyeh), and folk theatre which consist of storytellers (Meddah), shadow play (Karagöz-Hacivat) and Ortaoyunu (A type of light comedy). Ottoman festivals and te dramatic performances of these festivals are also discussed.

This course aims to provide an understanding of the development of the Western theatre in Turkey. The course, which is divided into three periods, Tanzimat (Reformations) theater, Meşrutiyet (Constitutional) theater, and Republic theater, aims to develop a notion of theater history with the historical and artistic dates to understand contemporary theater in Turkey.

This course aims to have the students to create and perform their own projects on the basis of their experiences, talent and knowledge acquired throughout their training. Graduation project consists of four stages; 1-Purpose, 2-Preparation 3-Performance 4-Evaluation. In this first course, students are provided guidance by the Graduation Project Course Committee to choose their projects and to complete the dramaturgical studies and the preliminary designs for their projects

This course aims to have the students to create and perform their own projects on the basis of their experiences, talent and knowledge acquired throughout their training of four years. In this latter course, the students are enabled to realize their projects and to perform them in front of an audience. Upon completion of the performance, it is mandated to turn in the file consisting of the four stages of the project (complete along with literary and visual elements regarding the project) to the department.

This is a performance course in the making, in which the students take part, applying all the knowledge and skills acquired during the course of their training, in a stage performance designed by a professional director. In this first course, the students gain professional level experience of the designing and rehearsing processes of a play.

This is a performance course in the making, in which the students take part, applying all the knowledge and skills acquired during the course of their training, in a stage performance designed by a professional director. In this latter course, the students experience the rehearsal process and the performing process of a professional level play in front of an audience.

In this course, tendencies of the contemporary theatre such as the landscape of the text, physicality, performativity, interculturalisim, experimentality, neo-avant-gardeism and their roots are searched.

This course aims to upskill the on-camera acting techniques and improving students? on-camera performances. Konstantin Stanislavski?s acting method is used as the main methodology.

The aim of this course is to provide the students have full knowledge of the basic?s at on-camera acting. By this, the student learns how to represent him/herself on-camera while having the knowledge and experience about the character-building processes. The study goes on with audition shots during the term.

Bu dersin amacı dans tiyatrosu tarihinin ve estetik anlayışının öğrenciler tarafından kavranmasıdır. Çalışmalar ve etüdler hem teorik hem de uygulamalı olarak gerçekleştirilir.

The aim of this course is providing the student to act by using the main elements and principles of acting in a fluent and natural way. To define and compherend different acting techniques, to make a point of honesty as an acting technique, to use the body and unique personality truthfully and realistically on the stage, and to examine the objectives, obstacles, actions and expectations composes the substances of the course.

The aim of this course is to introduce the student with "production". Students stages a part from a play by having the experience on the audition process and the rehearsal process. This course includes the elementary steps and common examples of applications that explains how to put a production into stage.

The aim of this course is to increase the student?s technical and organizational knowledge in performing arts. How a theatre institution work is lectured by varied examples, while performing arts management is handled under the head piece title of arts management. Towards the end of the term, students are asked to prepare a business model which they create their own theatre management method and imaginary institution.

The aim of this course is to share the varying dynamics and mediums of theatre upon the applied examples in the world, and to discuss the possibilities of theatre making in digitalized age with this way. Students develop their own experimental works by using digital media tools under the supervising of the trainer during the term.

In this course, the studies will be made about the understanding, explanation, reading and writing, various features of written explanation will be considered and examined with critical viewpoint. The punctuation marks which are the basis of the written explanation and writing rules will be made evident and the correct use of such rules for efficient and sound expression will be elicited.

In this course, the studies will be made about the understanding, explanation, reading and writing, various features of written explanation will be considered and examined with critical viewpoint. The punctuation marks which are the basis of written explanation and writing rules will be made evident and the correct use of such rules for efficient and sound expression will be elicited.