Minoring in Persian

The undergraduate minor in Persian consists of four courses. Students may complete the minor with either three language courses and one culture course, or two language courses and two culture courses.

At least two courses are language courses beyond PRSN 203 (the first semester of Intermediate Persian).

At least one course is a culture course from this list:

ARTH/ASIA 251: Art in the Age of the Caliphs
ARTH/ASIA 458: Islamic Architecture and the Environment
ASIA/PWAD 69: First-Year Seminar: Wars and Veterans: Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan
ASIA 122: Introduction to Iranian Culture
ASIA 124: Iranian Post-1979 Cinema
ASIA 126: Introduction to Persian Literature
ASIA/WGST 127: Iranian Women Writers
ASIA/CMPL 256: Love in Classical Persian Poetry
ASIA/CMPL 258: Iranian Prison Literature
ASIA/WGST 329: Middle East Women Writers
ASIA/CMPL 359: Literary Diasporas of the Middle East
ASIA 431: Persian Sufi Literature
ASIA/PWAD 435: The Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa
ASIA/CMPL 442: Postcolonial Literature of the Middle East
ASIA/WGST 471: Gender and Sexuality in Middle Eastern Literature
GEOG/ASIA/WGST 447: Gender, Space, and Place in the Middle East
HIST 74: First-Year Seminar: Emperors, Courts, and Consumption: The Mughals of India
HIST/ASIA 135: History of the Indian Subcontinent to 1750
HIST/ASIA 138: History of Muslim Societies to 1500
HIST/ASIA 139: History of Muslim Societies since 1500
HIST 163: Modern Central Asia
HIST/ASIA 276: The Modern Middle East
HIST/ASIA 536: Revolution in the Modern Middle East
HIST/ASIA/WGST 537: Women in the Middle East
HIST/ASIA 538: The Middle East and the West
RELI/ASIA 180: Introduction to Islamic Civilization
RELI/ASIA 181: Modern Muslim Societies
RELI 480: Modern Muslim Literatures
RELI/ASIA 581: Sufism
RELI/ASIA 582: Islam and Islamic Art in South Asia
RELI/ASIA 583: Religion and Culture in Iran, 1500-Present
SOCI 419: Sociology of the Islamic World

Placement credit (PL) may not be used to meet major requirements.