PERS 3010 - Third Year Persian - Language & Culture

The course focuses on developing advanced level of language and cultural proficiency in the Persian language enabling students to communicate in various target language contexts. The course aims at further developing students’ language skills through a more advanced acquisition of vocabulary, grammar, and cultural knowledge that will reinforce the knowledge and understanding of diverse life experiences and facilitate fluent, appropriate, and culturally nuanced language interpretation and use. Students will read and analyze prose and poetry segments from both the modern and classical traditions of Persian literature. The class sessions will be in Persian, with occasional use of English for explanation of difficult points of grammar or analysis.