Persian (PER) College of Letters & Science

PER 001 — Elementary Persian (5 units)

Course Description: Introduction to listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Persian and to Persian culture.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 5 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).

PER 002 — Elementary Persian (5 units)

Course Description: Continuation of PER 001. Introduction to listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Persian and to Persian culture.

Prerequisite(s): PER 001; or consent of instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 5 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).

PER 003 — Elementary Persian (5 units)

Course Description: Continuation of PER 002. Introduction to listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Persian and to Persian culture.

Prerequisite(s): PER 002; or consent of instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 5 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).

PER 021 — Intermediate Persian (4 units)

Course Description: Integrated presentation of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills as well as cultural topics in intermediate Persian.

Prerequisite(s): PER 003; or the equivalent.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 4 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).

PER 022 — Intermediate Persian (4 units)

Course Description: Integrated presentation of listening, speaking, reading and writing as well as cultural topics in Intermediate Persian.

Prerequisite(s): PER 021; or the equivalent.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 4 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).

PER 023 — Intermediate Persian (4 units)

Course Description: Integrated presentation of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills as well as cultural topics in Intermediate Persian.

Prerequisite(s): PER 022; or equivalent knowledge of Persian.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 4 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).

PER 097T — Tutoring in Persian (1-5 units)

Course Description: Tutoring in undergraduate courses, including leadership in small voluntary discussion groups affiliated with departmental courses.

Prerequisite(s): PER 023 B or better; consent of Program Director required.

  • Learning Activities: Tutoring 3-15 hour(s).
  • Repeat Credit: May be repeated.
  • Grade Mode: P/NP only.

PER 098 — Directed Group Study (1-5 units)

Course Description: Directed group study.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Variable 1-5 hour(s).
  • Repeat Credit: May be repeated.
  • Grade Mode: Pass/No Pass only.

PER 099 — Special Study for Undergraduates (1-5 units)

Course Description: Special study.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Variable 1-5 hour(s).
  • Repeat Credit: May be repeated.
  • Grade Mode: Pass/No Pass only.

PER 101 — Advanced Persian: Topics in Modern Persian Culture 1900-Present (4 units)

Course Description: Integrated work on reading, listening, discussion and writing about modern Persian cultural production using fiction and poetry as well as cinema and theory.

Prerequisite(s): PER 023; or consent of instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 3 hour(s), Term Paper.
  • Repeat Credit: May be repeated 1 time(s) when content differs.
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).

PER 103 — Advanced Persian: Topics in Medieval Persian Culture 900-1500 (4 units)

Course Description: Integrated work on reading, listening, discussion, writing about medieval Persian culture with a focus on lyric and narrative poetry and representative selections of literary prose, rhetoric, biography, history, religious and philosophical discourse.

Prerequisite(s): PER 023; or consent of instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 3 hour(s), Term Paper.
  • Repeat Credit: May be repeated 1 time(s) when content differs.
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); Oral Skills (OL); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).

PER 121 — Advanced Persian (4 units)

This version has ended; see updated course, below.
Course Description: Review, refinement, and development of skills learned in intermediate Persian through work with texts, video, and audio on cultural and social issues. Integrated approach to reading, writing, listening, speaking Persian.

Prerequisite(s): PER 023; or consent of instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 3 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).
  • PER 121 — Media (4 units)
  • Course Description: Advanced Persian and Persian culture through modern print and digital media. Perspectives on cultural and social issues with an emphasis on recent events.
  • Prerequisite(s): PER 023; or consent of instructor.
  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 3 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH) or Social Sciences (SS); World Cultures (WC).
  • This course version is effective from, and including: Winter Quarter 2025.

PER 122 — Advanced Persian (4 units)

This version has ended; see updated course, below.
Course Description: Continuation of PER 121. Further development of advanced skills in reading, listening, writing, and speaking modern Persian through work with texts, video, and audio on cultural and social issues.

Prerequisite(s): PER 121; or consent of instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 3 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).
  • PER 122 — Poetry (4 units)
  • Course Description: Advanced Persian and Persian culture through the work of classical and modern poets such as Ferdowsi, Rumi, Hafez, Nima Yushij, Forugh Farrokhzad, and Ahmad Shamlu. Concepts of the self, society, and world view of major poets with films and TV for social context.
  • Prerequisite(s): PER 023; or consent of instructor.
  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 3 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH) or Social Sciences (SS); World Cultures (WC).
  • This course version is effective from, and including: Winter Quarter 2025.

PER 123 — Advanced Persian (4 units)

This version has ended; see updated course, below.
Course Description: Continuation of PER 122. Further development of advanced skills in reading, listening, writing, and speaking modern Persian through work with texts, video, and audio on cultural and social issues.

Prerequisite(s): PER 122; or consent of instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 3 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).
  • PER 123 — Prose Writers (4 units)
  • Course Description: Advanced Persian and Persian culture through short stories and essays by modern Persian writers such as Bozorg Alavi, Ali Shariati, Simin Daneshvar, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Moniro Ravanipour, and Goli Taraghi.
  • Prerequisite(s): PER 023; or consent of instructor.
  • Learning Activities: Lecture/Discussion 3 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: Letter.
  • General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).
  • This course version is effective from, and including: Winter Quarter 2025.

PER 197T — Tutoring in Persian (1-5 units)

Course Description: Tutoring in undergraduate courses, including leadership in small voluntary discussion groups affiliated with departmental courses.

Prerequisite(s): PER 023 B or better; consent of Program Director required.

  • Learning Activities: Tutorial 3-15 hour(s).
  • Grade Mode: P/NP only.

PER 297 — Directed Independent Study (1-5 units)

Course Description: Directed graduate independent study on a topic culminating in a term paper. Independent Study may only be arranged with consent of the instructor when graduate seminars are unavailable. Topic varies by instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Variable 1-5 hour(s),
  • Grade Mode: S/U only.

PER 396 — Teaching Assistant Training Practicum (1-4 units)

Course Description: Teaching practicum.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

  • Learning Activities: Variable 1-4 hour(s).
  • Enrollment Restriction(s): Restricted to graduate students.
  • Repeat Credit: May be repeated 18 time(s).
  • Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only.