The purpose of this study is to collect and interpret views of prospective teachers on literature courses offered in Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education, English Language Teaching (EL T) department. Hence, this research encompasses experiential knowledge of the participants and the results aim to inform the curriculum development practice situated at ELT departments in Turkey. In order to collect the views of the prospective English language teachers on the literature courses in their curriculum, 15 prospective language teachers were interviewed via structured questions. Apart from the interviews, an opinion survey was also applied to 100 other students to strengthen and further the interpretation of the findings. In this study, it is found that the prospective teachers view literature courses as an important part of their pre-service teacher education while recommending minor changes in the literature curriculum so that these courses become more effective. (Contains 10 tables.)