This course is not designed simply to convey information to you. We will read printed texts together in the classroom. You will have to participate actively in the readings and discussions of weekly assignments. The selection of texts varied between historical texts and literary pieces, which will provide you with enough skills to read other materials written in the Ottoman script.

This course has three goals:

• To read scholarly and literary printed texts in the Ottoman language.
• To transcribe Ottoman printed texts into Latinized alphabet with diacriticals
• To examine primary and secondary historical and literary texts to understand the nature of the language used in the 19th and 20th centuries

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• learn reading Ottoman printed texts from the 19th and 20th centuries
• read complex texts with the help of dictionaries
• transcribe Ottoman texts written in the old script.