The lessons consists of the fields of Classical Turkish Literature, Modern Turkish Literature, Turkish Folk Literature, New Turkish Language and Old Turkic Language.
To graduate from doctorate programme, students must take 33 credits, as 11 lessons and a seminar. Each lesson is 3 credits and all the lessons are theoritical. All the lessons are elective. To reach dissertation stage and get the lessons at this level, the candidates must be successful at the lessons which they take at first, second and third semestres.
The courses last three semestres. Students who complete the courses successfully evaluated by a written and oral proficiency exam on Turkish Language and Literature field. The students have eight semestres for completing the courses and passing profiency exam. Students who are successfully complete these stages must prepare a doctoral thesis and defense his thesis. After thesis defense, studenst found successful by the thesis jury have a right to graduate.