Education
1975 - 1980: Faculty of Oriental Studies, Yerevan State University
1980 - 1983: Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow Lomonosov State University

Academic degree
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Candidate Theme - "Rhythmical Structure of the Speech in Modern Standard Arabic", 1984, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow Lomonosov State University

Professional experience
Academic career:
1984 - 1990: Yerevan State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies, The Chair of Arabic and Turkish Philology, Lecturer
1990 - 1992: Yerevan State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies, The Chair of Arabic and Turkish Philology, Associate Professor
1992 - 2008: Yerevan State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Head of The Chair of Arabic Studies
2008 - present: Yerevan State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies, The Chair of Arabic Studies, Associate Professor

Academic trainings and research stays:
Oct. 1990 - Aug. 1991, Bourguiba School for Living Languages, Tunisia
Jan. 2001, Cairo University, Egypt, Cairo
Nov. 2010 - Jan. 2011, Bayreuth University, Bayreuth, Germany

Educational management and Bologna reforms:
2006 - 2008: Head of Educational Development Division, Yerevan State University
2008 - present: Member of the National Team of Higher Education Reform Experts (funded by the European Commission through "Tempus" Program)

Workshops and trainings in the field of Bologna reforms:
2006 - 2009: European Forums for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Munich, Rome, Budapest, Copenhagen
February, 2007: The International Visitors Program "University Administration in the U.S.", USA
2008 - 2011: Seminars for Bologna and Higher Education Reform Experts, Cairo, Zagreb, Warsaw, Oslo

Academic courses
Introduction into Arabic Metrics, Theoretical Grammar of Arabic, Methodological Problems of the Contemporary Arabic Studies, The Problem of the Levels of Analysis in the Arabic Linguistic Tradition, Interpreting Models of the Theory of Flexion in Arabic

Scale of professional interests
Methodology of Arabic Linguistic Tradition, Morphology and Morphophonology of Modern Standard Arabic, Peculiarities of organization of Higher Education in the field of Oriental Studies

Participation in grant projects
2006 - 2007: Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation, Armenia, Grant for "Developing Internal Quality Assurance and Assessment System at Yerevan State University"
2007: Tempus JEP project for Distance Learning in Higher Education
2009 - 2010: Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation, Armenia, Grant for "Development of Methodology for Designing Multi-cycle Competence-based Study Programs"
2010 - 2011: Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation, Armenia, Grant for "Development and Implementation of "Social Pedagogy" Program’s Quality Enhancement Mechanisms in Vanadzor State Pedagogical University"

Languages
Armenian, Russian, Arabic, English

Professional membership
Member of the Board of Armenian Adult Education & Lifelong Learning Association
Member of the Scientific Council of AMAQUEN (L’Association Marocaine pour l’Amélioration de la Qualité de l’Enseignement)

samvelk@ysu.am