Summer courses

Arya international University offers 4 week extensive courses of Persian language and Literature (20 days, 3 classes per day, i.e. 6 academic hours, 40 minutes each) with supplementary introduction to Iranian Studies (1 class per day, i.e. 2 academic hours) (when needed lectures on specific issues can also be organized).
1. The language courses are conducted at two levels:
Intermediate:
a) Introducing modern trends in Persian Grammar (60 hours)
b) Reading specific text materials from classical, modern, and contemporary Persian literature, Iranian newspapers
c) Comprehension with Q & A
d) Re-telling the materials
Advanced:
a) Developing writing skills by summarizing the materials(60 hours)
b) Developing oral skills by conducting dialogues
c) Using audio-video materials for becoming familiar with modern Iranian realities
2. 4 Introductory courses of Iranian Studies (course duration - one week, 10 hours)
a) Introduction to Iranian Philology
b) Introduction to Iranian Ethnology
c) Introduction to Iranian Dialectology I (Old and Middle Periods)
d) Introduction to Iranian Dialectology II (Modern Period)
Special Lecture Topics:
1. The Daylamite Problem
2. Postulates of Kurdology
3. The Azari Problem
4. The Yezidi Problem
5. The Problem of Gypsies
6. The Zaza Problem
7. The Problem of State and Tribes in Iran
8. Iranian Ethnic Groups in the Caucasus
9. Syncretic Religious Systems and Complex Identities
10. Extreme Shi’a Sects
11. Religious and Warrior Fraternities (futuwwa) in Mediaeval Iran
12. Folk Beliefs Among the New Iranian Peoples
13. Iranian Art of Qajar Period
14. The Problem of Periodization of Parthian
15. The Problem of Dardi Languages
16. History of Iranian Studies in Armenia
17. Political and Social Organization in Baluchistan
18. The Problem of Aryan Migrations
19. Styles of Classical Persian Literature
20. Judeo-Persica
There are also similar programmes on Armenian and Kurdish languages.