PER3010 – Persian E
Course description
Course content
Critical readings on modern and contemporary Persian (Iranian) society. This course focuses on Persian-language articles, book chapters, and websites from the humanities and social sciences that touch upon prominent themes and subjects from 20th-21st century Iran. Students will read, analyze, and translate texts on topics such as society, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology. The course introduces questions relevant to Middle Eastern Studies and prepares students for further studies in the Persian language and Iranian society.
Learning outcome
After taking the course you are expected to be able to:
- Translate Persian prose clearly and precisely.
- Analyze and discuss given topics about modern and contemporary Iran in academic English writing and orally in Persian.
- Integrate major theories and methods from the social sciences and humanities to illuminate these above themes from the Middle East.
- Intertextuality as it relates to Persian text.
Admission to the course
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.
This course is only open for programme students at the BA-program Midtøsten-studier med persisk.
Formal prerequisite knowledge
PER2010 – Persisk D or equivalent.
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with PER2120.
Teaching
In total 4 hours teaching a week over 12 weeks. The course requires active participation in class and to be well prepared for each seminar.
Compulsory activities
- Attendance to at least 20 of 24 seminars
- During the semester, students must submit and be approved for 5 compulsory assignments.
- At least three oral presentations (an increase in presentation number will depend largely on class size).
The professor will provide feedback throughout the term to assignments.
Approved obligatory activities are only valid for one semester.
Absence from compulsory activities
It is important that you familiarize yourself with the rules regarding absence from compulsory activities, to prevent being excluded from teaching and losing your eligibility to take the exam.
Access to teaching
A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.
Examination
The final exam is a portfolio of the compulsory assignments, which will be improved versions of what you have submitted throughout the semester. In order to take the final exam in the course, you must have passed the compulsory teaching activities.
Language of examination
With the exception of the assignments that must be answered in Persian, the exam answers are normally written in English or Norwegian.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
The course offers a resit examination for students who fail the original exam.
Students who submit a blank exam or withdraw during the exam are not entitled to a resit examination unless they have a doctor’s certificate dated the same day as the exam.
The resit examination is held at the same time as the postponed exam, which is for students who are ill, or have valid absence from the original exam.
The postponed exam and resit exam will only be arranged once.
N.B. You are not entitled to a resit exam if you do not show up to the original exam.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.