German Language Teaching program of the Foreign Languages Teaching Department was established in 1982 within the body of Bursa Uludağ University Faculty of Education within the scope of new restructuring. Our German Language Teaching PhD program has started in 2020 as a part of the Institute of Educational Sciences and continues its education on our University´s Görükle campus. The program was evolved and developed according to the global standards and needs of the era. With its outstanding faculty members, our program aims at helping its students, who wants to be academic researchers, or develop themselves to gain a scientific understanding, occupational knowledge, skills, and qualifications.

This program is contingent upon 240 ECTS credits, third level degree system in higher education in the field of German language teaching. On condition that the program is completed successfully, one possesses a PhD degree in German Language Teaching.

Third Cycle

Candidates who wish to apply for a PhD program must: 1) Have a master´s degree in related fields (German Laguage Teaching, German Language & Literature and German Translation and Interpreting), 2) Receiving the required points of 55 from the Selection Examination for Academic and Graduate Studies (ALES) 3) A documentation of their foreign language level, which is identified as 80, Foreign Language Proficiency Examination (YDS) or other valid language exams.

The provisions in “Regulation on Transfer among Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, and Subspecialty and the Principals of Credit Transfer among Institutions in Higher Education Institutions” are applied.

In order to obtain a PhD degree in German Language Teaching, students should: They need to take the relevant number of credits and courses determined by the Graduate School of Educational Sciences, to be successful in these courses, to be successful in the proficiency exam to prepare a thesis, to document their foreign language proficiency and to be successful by preparing a doctoral thesis and defending it before the jury.

The aim of the German Language Teaching PhD graduate program of the Foreign Languages Education Department is to train qualified science persons, who are creative and can conduct research on the grounds of human rights and ethical values; have internalized the principles of the modern information society; can produce and implement knowledge related to the field of German Language Teaching; develop themselves continuously and follow scientific innovations of their day and age; can conduct basic and applied authentic scientific research in the fields of linguistics, literature and methodology; possess analytical and critical thinking skills; and have developed interactional skills at the international level.
With its outstanding academic staff and physical infrastructure, our program can carry out various functions such as conducting scientific, authentic, theoretical and/or applied research related to German Language Teaching; preparing students who would like to continue their occupation in an academic environment as science persons in the field of linguistics, literature, and methodology; fulfilling its responsibility for the community within global standards.