Mission
The Khazar University Azerbaijani language and Literature Department prepares highly qualified specialists systematically learning language and literature and engaged in scientific research in the field of Azerbaijani Language and Literature.
Research plays a paramount role in complementing teaching in linguistics and literature at the Department. The Department faculty and graduate students are engaged in a number of research studies in the most essential fields of Azerbaijani Studies.
The survey courses Azerbaijani Language and Azerbaijani Literature are obligatory for all undergraduate students, regardless of their major field of study. Moreover, interaction-oriented teaching in Azerbaijani Language is tailored towards the specific needs of students for whom Azerbaijani is their mother tongue as well as those for whom it is a foreign language.
One of the major focuses of the Department is compiling textbooks on Azerbaijani language and literature, the lack in which has become especially critical after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The old-fashioned textbooks can hardly satisfy the present day requirements; therefore, coping with this and other difficulties lead the Department to focus on both programs and textbooks in these fields.
The Khazar University Azerbaijani Language and Literature Department covers study of the Azerbaijani literature from the time of its emergence through the periods of its development in chronological order. In this context, the lives and works of individual writers and poets who lived in different periods are studied, their literary activities are explored, the national and global issues on which they focused are analyzed, the literary influences of one writer/poet on others are determined, and their creative activities are systemized in line with the historical period in which they lived.
The language part of the program mainly focuses on the extensive study of the grammatical structures of the modern Azerbaijani language. Linguistic matters, history of the literary language, and teaching methods are also covered on a comparative basis.
The department aims at improving the student’s sensitivity and taste in the general sense of “World Literature”. The “World Literature” part of the program has been designed taking into account historical periods and geographical locations: the literature of Ancient and Medieval times, Near East, Far East, and Europe are studied; beginning with the 19th century, works from European, American, Russian, Near Eastern, and Far Eastern literatures are studied and analyzed in a comparative framework.
It also aims to cover issues related to literary critics.
