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The aim of this study is to study the fields and methods of study of the master's and doctoral theses conducted between 2012-2019 in the German Language Education, German Language Literature and Translation Graduate Departments of the universities in Turkey. The data used in the study was obtained through the YÖK thesis database. In the study, the document examination model was used. The data is analyzed with the SPSS24 program. The work consists of two sections. The theory section includes the input, purpose, method, example evolution and so on questions to study. In the second part of the work, the application part is included. In this section, a total of 190 sub-graduate theses, including 141 master's and 49 doctoral theses, were studied in the German Language Education, German Language and Literature and Interpretation departments in Turkey. The theses were qualitatively evaluated according to the year, the subject, the form of study and the distribution of the universities between them as the type of doctorate and master's degree. According to the results obtained, it was found that most of the studies in German language consisted of master's theses. This is obvious to be assessed from different perspectives. In general, it is believed that the number of students who receive a master’s degree is much higher than the number of doctoral students. The fact that doctoral programs are no doubt less numerically than the institutions that provide graduate education has also been effective in the formation of these rates. From another point of view, the duration of the doctoral training is longer than the graduate training and the difficulty is another result that we face. Another result from the study is that the postgraduate studies in the "German Language and Literature" sections are behind the "German Language Education" and "Mutter-Translation" sections as a number. We must not forget that the history of the German Teaching and Interpreting departments is more recent than the German Language and Literature departments. At this point, the study of the subjects of graduate studies shows that it is the most studied field of "Literature". The same results in this direction show themselves in the research methods. The majority of the reviewed studies consist of visual studies (76.8 percent). The German Language Literature department belongs to the Hacettepe University with the most studies throughout Turkey (24.8 percent). In the field of German Language Education, it is ranked first with 'Gazi University' (19,2%). The master’s work in the translation department is behind the two departments. In the year-by-year distribution of the studies, the year 2013 (19,5%) and the number of graduate studies in the 'German Language' programmes reached the top of the year. At the end of the study, it was suggested that more applied theses should be included in the German language programs, student centralization and interdisciplinary cooperation should be more studied in the theses.

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