FAE is organised into five units, each of which work with students from different faculties in the university. All units provide ENG 101 and 102 courses (or their equivalents) to first-year students and a vairety of other courses designed to meet the particular needs of students in their faculties. In addition, FAE runs Bilwrite, a writing centre catering to students throughout Bilkent University.
This unit is responsible for delivering English language support programs to the departments of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics and Physics. The unit offers freshman, sophomore and senior courses to students in these departments with particular emphasis on academic and technical writing.
This unit is responsible for delivering English language support programs to the departments of Political Science and Public Administration, International Relations and Economics. In addition, at present the unit also offers courses to the department of Archaeology and the Faculty of Education.
The unit offers freshman, sophomore and graduate courses to students in these departments. In particular, the unit has been instrumental in pioneering a paired second year course which provides support to a required "Introduction to Philosophy" course in the FEASS faculty. In this course, students read original, canonical philosophy texts in their faculty course and receive support with reading the texts and analysing the texts in essays as part of the FAE course.
This unit is responsible for delivering English language support programs to the departments of English Language and Literature, American Culture and Literature, Philosophy, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Interior Architecture and Design, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design and Communication and Design.
The unit offers freshman, sophomore and elective courses to students in these departments with particular emphasis on academic reading and writing, presentation skills and advanced grammar.
This FAE unit is responsible for delivering English language support programs to the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, School of Tourism and Hotel Management, and the Vocational Schools of Computer Technology, Office Management, and Tourism and Hotel Services. Each year this unit offers approximately 14 different language courses to over 1000 students.
The courses offered beyond freshman year lay particular emphasis on skills and language necessary in the tourism and business administration fields.
The unit also organizes preparation courses at least once in an academic year for students wishing to apply for post-graduate studies through exams such as the GRE and the GMAT.
As part of BUSEL, FAE, BilWrite operates as a writing centre for Bilkent University. It was established to provide additional assistance to faculty students in all aspects of English language and academic skills development, with particular reference to their departmental courses.
To fulfil this aim, BilWrite offers