Abstract

This study aims to identify field elective courses, their areas and academic terms that are offered by German Language Education undergraduate programs (2006/2007 CoHE) in Turkey. As elective courses appeal to the field and they are distinctive, the present study particularly focuses on them. Content analysis method was used in the study. The population of the study involved the course pools of German Language Education undergraduate programs which are active and offered by 14 universities in Turkey. The sample consisted of in-field elective courses in the course pools of these programs. Data used in the study were obtained from the universities' web-pages. The courses, which will be analyzed, are classified into 11 field categories. These are Grammar, Country Knowledge (German History and / or Culture), Computer Assisted Foreign Language, Translation, Literature (Philosophy), Professional German (Tourism, Business German), Performing Arts (Cinema, Theatre, Drama), Four Basic Language Skills (Reading, Writing, Listening, Comprehension), Linguistics, Media-Communication and Other Categories (Activities for German Learning and Teaching, Assessment and Evaluation). SPSS 23.0 was used for data analysis. The study consists of two parts: theory and practice. In the first part of the study, historical development of education faculties in Turkey will be discussed. Subsequently, information towards German Language Education will be presented. In this part, the content of field elective courses and their change over time will be mentioned. In the second part of the study, the data are visually listed on the basis of the universities. In the conclusion part, the data obtained are interpreted and suggestions are put forward.