Persian
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PERSIAN 1A Elementary Modern Persian 5 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Prerequisite for Persian 1B, or consent of instructor.
Introduction to Persian language, covering basics of the language skills in all aspects of reading, writing, listening comprehension, and speaking with emphasis on culture and communicative methods.
PERSIAN 1B Elementary Modern Persian 5 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1A, or consent of instructor.
Introduction to Persian language, covering basics of the language skills in all aspects of reading, writing, listening comprehension, and speaking with emphasis on culture and communicative methods.
PERSIAN 10 Intensive Elementary Persian 10 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 20 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
This course is equivalent to a full year of elementary Persian. It will train students in the four language skills: speaking, comprehension, reading, and writing. Emphasis will be placed on the functional usage of the language.
Students will receive no credit for 10 after taking 1A-1B.
PERSIAN 11A Reading and Composition for Persian Speaking Students 5 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Recitation per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Rudimentary knowledge of spoken Persian and consent of instructor.
Designed for heritage students who possess oral skills (speaking/comprehension, though limited) but need to improve their writing and reading abilities, and expand their knowledge of Persian grammar and syntax. Completion of 11A-11B will prepare the student to take PERSIAN 20A, Intermediate Persian.
PERSIAN 11B Reading and Composition for Persian-Speaking Students 5 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Recitation per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Persian 11A or the consent of the instructor.
Designed for heritage students who possess oral skills (speaking/comprehension, though limited) but need to improve their writing and reading abilities, and expand their knowledge of Persian grammar and syntax. Completion of 11A-11B will prepare the student to take PERSIAN 20A, Intermediate Persian.
PERSIAN 20 Intensive Intermediate Persian 10 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 20 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Persian 1A-1B or Persian 10 or equivalent.
A year or more of advanced level Persian with emphasis on advanced grammar and vocabulary build up. Newspaper clippings, film reviews and cultural awareness through introduction of literature will be covered.
PERSIAN 20A Intermediate Modern Persian 5 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of recitation per week.
Prerequisites: Persian 1A-1B or Persian 11A-11B or consent of instructor.
The sequence begins in the fall. This course emphasizes reading of simple literary texts, expository writing and composition, formal conversation, grammar, and syntax. It involves intensive vocabulary building in preparation for advanced reading and comprehension of standard literary texts.
PERSIAN 20B Intermediate Modern Persian 5 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of recitation per week.
Prerequisites: Persian 20A or the consent of the instructor.
The sequence begins in the fall. This course emphasizes reading of simple literary texts, expository writing and composition, formal conversation, grammar, and syntax. It involves intensive vocabulary building in preparation for advanced reading and comprehension of standard literary texts.
PERSIAN 50 Persian Reading and Composition 10 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 20 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of spoken Persian and consent of instructor.
This course is designed to promote advanced literacy skills in students with different levels of spoken Persian but little or no reading and writing skills in the language. This course will prepare students to take advanced literature courses in the Persian language.
Students will receive no credit for 50 after taking 106A-106B.
PERSIAN 100A Advanced Persian 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week. 6 hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Persian 20A-20B or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Emphasis on intensive vocabulary building, comprehensive grammar review, reading and analysis of short literary texts of various genres from classical and modern periods, and reading newspaper clips and other original sources in Persian media.
PERSIAN 100B Advanced Persian 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week. 6 hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Persian 100A or the consent of the instructor.
Emphasis on intensive vocabulary building, comprehensive grammar review, reading and analysis of short literary texts of various genres from classical and modern periods, and reading newspaper clips and other original sources in Persian media.
PERSIAN 101A Readings in Persian Literature 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Persian 100A-100B or consent of instructor.
Readings in both prose and poetry, drawn chiefly from classical and modern Persian literature, designed to increase reading skills and vocabulary and to provide a transition to the study of more challenging literary texts.
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 101B Readings in Persian Literature 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Persian 101A or the consent of the instructor.
Readings in both prose and poetry, drawn chiefly from classical and modern Persian literature, designed to increase reading skills and vocabulary and to provide a transition to the study of more challenging literary texts.
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 102A Readings in Classical Persian Prose 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101A or 101B or consent of instructor.
Systematic study of representative selections from all periods of classical Persian literature, with attention to the historical and intellectual context.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 103A Classical Persian Poetry 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101A or 101B or consent of instructor.
Systematic study of poems belonging to all genres of classical Persian poetry, with consideration of questions of prosody, rhetoric, and style.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 103B Classical Persian Poetry 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101A or 101B or consent of instructor.
Systematic study of poems belonging to all genres of classical Persian poetry, with consideration of questions of prosody, rhetoric, and style.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 104A Contemporary Persian Literature 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101A or 101B or consent of instructor.
This course will deal with significant works of Persian prose and poetry from the beginning of the 19th century down to the present. Complete works or extracts from them will be read in the original as a preliminary to their analysis in terms of literary and stylistic development, as well as the changing role of literature in society. The works of the 19th century and the period of the Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911).
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 105 Modern Analytical Prose in Persian 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101A-101B or consent of instructor.
This course deals with modern/contemporary critical theory, literary history, aesthetics and philosophy, and various theories of literary and cultural criticism in Persian. It concentrates on selected modern analytical, discursive, and expository texts in Persian. The course explores, from an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective, how different movements, genres, and rhetorical aspects of modern/contemporary literature and culture have been perceived, historically contextualized, and critically positioned within the larger intellectual and scholarly domain in Persian. All texts will be read in the original Persian.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 120 Intensive Intermediate Persian 10 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 20 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Persian 1A-1B or Persian 10 or equivalent.
A year or more of advanced level Persian with emphasis on advanced grammar and vocabulary build up. Newspaper clippings, film reviews and cultural awareness through introduction of literature will be covered.
Formerly known as 20.
PERSIAN H195 Senior Honors 2 - 4 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Limited to senior honors candidates.
Directed study centered upon preparation of an honors thesis.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 4 units.
PERSIAN 198 Directed Group Study for Upper Division Students 1 - 4 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks.
Instruction in areas not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
Enrollment is restricted by regulations shown in the .
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 200A Readings in Persian Literary Texts 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Twelve units of upper division course work in Persian or consent of instructor.
Advanced topics in Persian literature from various periods of Persian culture and literary history.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 200B Readings in Persian Literary Texts 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Twelve units of upper division coursework in Persian or consent of instructor.
Advanced topics in Persian literature from various periods of Persian culture and literary history.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 202A Persian Sufi Writings 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Readings in all genres of Sufi expression, prose and poetry, with concentration on major figures.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 202B Persian Sufi Writings 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Readings in all genres of Sufi expression, prose and poetry, with concentration on major figures.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 298 Seminar 1 - 4 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Special topics in Persian. Topics vary and are announced at the beginning of each semester.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PERSIAN 301A Teaching Persian in College 3 Units
Department: Persian
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 2 hours of discussion per week plus occasional classroom demonstration as needed. 1.5 hours of lecture per week plus participation in demonstration classes and colloquia.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Lectures on the methodology of teaching Persian as a foreign language at the college level. Lectures on constructive analysis of English and Persian, classroom strategies, and the development of instructional materials. Required of all new graduate student instructors in Persian.
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