IRANIAN/PERSIAN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND LINGUISTICS

Iranian/Persian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics: A program that focuses on the languages used in ancient, medieval, and modern Iran and its border regions. Includes instruction in modern Farsi/Persian; Avestan/Old Persian; related modern languages such as Pashto, Kurdish, Baluchi, Dari, Tadzhik, Ossetian, and others; related extinct languages such as Median, Parthian, Bactrian, Sogdian, and Khwarezmian; and applications of modern Farsi and other languages to applications in business, science/technology, and other settings.