The BUSEL John Clarkson Student Reading Center is a free, open-access library of materials in English for all Bilkent University students and faculty. You are welcome to borrow materials for your reading pleasure. You can use the reading rooms as a study space or take the books home with you.
Please donate English-language materials to share with your fellow Bilkenters.
Location: Foyers of GB21/22 and GB 24/25, Tutorial Rooms and G Building Corridor near GB24/2.
Bilkent Cintematics aims to bring Bilkent’s film lovers together and create a community through screening and post-screening discussion of the chosen movies. The society is run by a committee of students and FAE instructors, but the films and discussion topics are chosen by students. If you are interested in coming to the screenings or joining the society, please contact us.
The course will be conducted jointly with the Faculty Academic English Program (FAE). The FAE component provides students the opportunity to develop and learn to apply the skills needed to design, write, present, and defend an extended, collaborative, transdisciplinary research project in the social sciences. Emphasis is on analyzing published materials that demonstrate the conventions of the different stages of an extended research project, developing skills of self- and peer-editing, and mastering advanced formatting techniques.
This course is designed for engineering students and aims to develop technical and professional communication skills. Students will be expected to become competent in the process of writing technical reports, developing projects and presenting these tasks. The tasks performed, as part of the course will mirror the tasks students will be expected to do in their faculty courses and prospective professional lives.
Drawing on students’ accumulated awareness of the elements of literary genres, ENG 312 aims to help students gain a deeper practical and theoretical understanding of their own values and practice as writers. Students explore and practice the elements and techniques of fiction, including description, character, dialog, plot, setting, narration, style, and theme, and develop their writing skills in English, with special emphasis on the descriptive and figurative capabilities of the language. Taught through a combination of short lecture, student-led discussion, workshops, and tutorials, the course encourages students to explore and develop a personal creative process, and guides them through overlapping stages of pre-writing, writing and revision to produce a submission-ready piece of short fiction. Students are assessed both on the effectiveness of their final product and on the quality of their ongoing engagement with its inspiration and development in creative dialogue with their with peers and instructor.