The “Iranian Historiography” Master’s programme consists exclusively of specialized professional courses through which students will acquire the necessary knowledge and practical skills to become competitive and in-demand professionals in the job market.
The curriculum includes general, compulsory professional and elective courses.
The content of the professional compulsory and elective courses addresses contemporary regional issues as well as key topics in Iranian studies, political science, linguistics, and cultural studies.
Leading experts in the field who also cooperate with international educational institutions teach courses.
- Programme duration: 2 years
- Annual tuition fee: 750,000 AMD
- Entrance examination format: Oral
ENTRANCE EXAM QUESTIONNAIRE
- The place of Iranian languages within the Indo-European language family
- The concept of the Iranian language family
- Chronological division of Iranian languages
- Dialectal classification of Iranian languages
- Old Iranian period (languages and monuments)
- Middle Iranian period (languages and monuments)
- New Iranian period (languages and monuments)
- Western Iranian languages
- Eastern Iranian languages
- Iran during the Sasanian period
- Rudaki – the founder of Persian poetry
- Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh – the epic of Iranian peoples
- Fakhr al-Din Gorgani’s Vis and Ramin and the genre of Persian romance
- The poetry of Omar Khayyam
- The work Arda Viraf Namag
- Nizami Ganjavi’s Khamsa
- The poetry of Saadi – Gulistan and Bustan
- The lyricism of Hafez
- Nasir Khusraw
- The works of Jalal al-Din Rumi
- Persian novels at the beginning of the 20th century
- Prose of Sadegh Hedayat
- Jami’s poem cycle Haft Awrang
- The Enlightenment movement and the new genres of Persian literature
- The penetration of foreign capital into Iran – the process of semi-colonization
- The 1953 (August 19 / Mordad 28) coup d'état – causes and consequences
- The Anglo-Russian agreements of 1907 and 1915 and their objectives
- The fall of the Qajar dynasty and the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty – class nature of Reza Shah’s monarchy
- Iran in the context of Great Powers’ policies in the Near and Middle East – goals and methods in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- The Anglo-Iranian agreement of August 9, 1919
- Baha’ism as an ideology – its class nature
- Reza Shah’s nationalism and its manifestations
- Main causes for the failure of the 1905–1911 revolution
- Ascension of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – his economic and political concepts (Positive Nationalism)
- Trends toward Anglo-Russian rapprochement in Iran in the early 20th century and the underlying causes
- The Parthian Empire
- The 1978–1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and the proclamation of the Republic
- The 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq war and its impact on regional developments
- Iran’s nuclear programme and recent developments
- Contemporary Middle East policy of The Islamic Republic of Iran
Literature List
- Վ. Բայբուրդյան, Իրանի պատմություն, Ե., 2006, 782 էջ
- Մերձավոր և Միջին Արևելքի երկրներ և ժողովուրդներ, ԳԱԱ, Հոդվածների ժողովածու, հ. 1–30
- Արևելագիտության հարցեր, ԵՊՀ, Հոդվածների ժողովածու, հ. 1–11
- Գ. Իսկանդարյան, Իրանա-ամերիկյան հարաբերությունները 1942–1960 թթ., Երևան, 2011, 237 էջ
- Գ. Մ. Նալբանյան, Պարսից լեզվի քերականություն, Երևան, 1997
- Алиев С.М., История Ирана XX век, Москва, 2004
- Abrahamian E., A History of Modern Iran, Cambridge, 2008
- Axworthy M., Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic, Oxford, 2013
- Fakhreddin Azimi, The Quest for Democracy in Iran, Harvard University Press, 2008
- Fereshteh Davaran, Continuity in Iranian Identity: Resilience of a Cultural Heritage, Routledge, 2010
- Henry Sokolski, Patrick Clawson, Checking Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions, 2004
- Shireen T. Hunter, Iran’s Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era, Santa Barbara, 2010
- Raḥmāniān D., Irān beyn-e do kūdatā, Tehrān, 2012
- Рубинчик Ю.А., Грамматика современного персидского языка, Москва, 2001
- Yadollah S., Āmuzesh-e zabān fārsi (ĀZFĀ), Tehrān, 1993
- Anvari H., Givi H.A., Dastur-e zabān-e fārsi, vol. 1–2, Tehrān, 1995
- Xodāparasti F., Farhang-e jāme’, vāžegān-e motarādef o motazād-e zabān-e fārsi, Shiraz, 1997
- Hoseini S., Raveš tadris-e zabān-e fārsi be fārsi-āmuzān-e xāreji, Tehrān, 2006
- Razi’i S., Fārsi-e neveštāri-goftāri, Tehrān, 2008
- Šari’at M., Dastur-e zabān-e fārsi, Tehrān, 2013
- Sahrāyi R., Soltāni M., Irānšenāsi, Tehrān, 2016
- Zoyā Pirzād, Se ketāb, Tehrān, 2005
- Goli-ye Tarraghi, Jā-ye digar, Tehrān, 2010
Contact Information
Dean: Ph.D., Professor Ruben Melkonyan
Faculty Office:
Phone: (+374 60) 710 573, (+374 60) 710 574 (inner lines: 55-73, 55-74)
Email: orient@ysu.am
