F. IRANIAN

201B – IRANIAN PHILOSOPHY

Instructor:  Professor Martin Schwartz
TT, 3:30-5, 190 Barrows hall, 3 units, CC#63203
Textbooks:  Course Reader

Three hours of class per week. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Background in German and French recommended. Texts from the Venidad and the Yashts; Achaemenid inscriptions. May be repeated for credit.

G. PERSIAN

1B, SECTION 1 – ELEMENTARY MODERN PERSIAN

Instructor:  Lecturer Jaleh Pirnazar
MTWTF, 9-10, 252 Barrows Hall, 5 units, CC#62903
Textbooks: TBA

The course will address a beginner in the language and will cover all four aspects of language teaching pedagogy: reading, writing, speaking and listening comprehension skills.

1A, SECTION 2 – ELEMENTARY MODERN PERSIAN

Instructor: Koorosh Angali
MTWTF, 10-11, 223 Wheeler, 5 units, CC#62906
Textbooks: TBA.

The course will address a beginner in the language and will cover all four aspects of language teaching pedagogy: reading, writing, speaking and listening comprehension skills.

100B – INTERMEDIATE MODERN PERSIAN

Instructor: Lecturer Jaleh Pirnazar
MTWTF, 10-11, 271 Wheeler Hall, 5 units, CC#62909
Textbooks: TBA

A year of more 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.

101B – SELECT READINGS IN PERSIAN LITERATURE

Instructor: Lecturer Jaleh Pirnazar
TT, 12:30-2, 203 Wheeler Hall, 5 units, CC#62912
Textbooks: TBA

Three hours of class per week. Prerequisite: Persion 100A-100B or equivalent. Readings in both prose and poetry, drawn chiefly from modern Persian literature, designed to increase reading skills and vocabulary and to provide a transition to the study of more difficult texts. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.

102B– READINGS IN CLASSICAL PERSIAN PROSE

Instructor:  Professor Shahwali Ahmadi
TT, 3:30-5, 144 Barrows, 3 units, CC#62915
Textbooks:  TBA

Three hours of class per week. Prerequisite: Persian 101A-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.  May be repeated for credit

200B – ADVANCED PERSIAN

Instructor:  Professor Shahwali Ahmadi
TT, 9:30-11, 103 Barrows Hall, 3 units, cc#62930
Textbooks:  TBA

Three hours of class per week.  Prerequisite:  12 units of upper division work.  Different sections offering a variety of texts from all periods of the literature.  May be repeated for credit.

202B – PERSIAN SUFI WRITINGS

Instructor:  Professor Hamid Algar
TT, 2-3:30, 140 Barrows Hall, 3 units, cc#62933
Textbooks:  TBA

Three hours of class per week. Readings in all genres of Sufi expression, prose and poetry, with concentration on major figures. May be repeated for credit.