Programme Options
List A. List of Persian-language courses
- Persian language I
- Persian language II
- Persian language III
- Classical Persian Poetry
- Modern Persian Poetry
- Classical Persian prose texts
- Modern Persian prose literature
- Independent study project in Persian studies (ISP)
Persian courses for students on other degrees ("floater units")
List B. Approved options in the NME department:
- Introduction to Arabic culture
- Old Persian
- Middle Persian
- Avestan
- Sogdian
- Bactrian
- Khotanese
- Elementary written Turkish
- Arabic 100
- Arabic 200
- Arabic 300
- Elementary Western Armenian
- Elementary modern Hebrew
- Elementary Georgian
- Introduction to Sufism
Please note that some of the courses listed above will be subject to pre-requisites.
List C. Other Persian and Middle East-related courses
These are taught by the Departments of History, Study of Religions, Art and Archaeology, Music, Law, Politics and International Studies, and Economics. At present the list of such courses is as follows:
- Introduction to the history of the Near and Middle East
- The making of the modern Middle East
- Iran: Qajars to the Islamic republic
- Cities of paradise and empire: Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal politics, 1453-1797
- Zoroastrianism in the ancient and modern worlds
- Introduction to Islam
- Shi'a Islam: Religious authority and community identity
- Introduction to the art and archaeology of the Near and Middle East (half unit)
- Islamic architecture
- Islamic painting
- The sources of Islamic art and architecture
- The decorative arts of Islam
- Art and material culture of the Islamic world: 7th to 14th centuries
- Mosaics, manuscripts and wall-paintings in Islamic art
- Music of the Middle East and North Africa
- Islamic law
- Government and politics of the Middle East
- Economic development of the modern Middle East
N.B. Permission to take any optional course is at the discretion of the course convenor and the undergraduate tutor.
