“Azerbaijani Studies” Educational Program consists exclusively of narrow specialized courses, through which students will acquire the necessary knowledge and practical skills to become in-demand and competitive specialists in the labor market. The educational program includes general, compulsory professional, and elective courses. The content of the compulsory and elective professional courses relates to the analysis of contemporary regional issues, problems of Azerbaijan studies, political science, linguistics, and cultural studies. Within the framework of the educational program, teaching is carried out by the best specialists in the field, who also collaborate with leading international educational institutions.
The duration of the educational program is 2 years.
The tuition fee for the program is 750,000 (seven hundred fifty thousand) Armenian drams per year.
The admission exam is conducted orally.
Admission Exam
Question List
State formations and demographics of Eastern Transcaucasia until the 19th century
The Russian conquest and modernization process of Transcaucasia
The geopolitical significance of Transcaucasia and regional geopolitical competition in the 19th-20th centuries
The formation of identity and its politicization among the Turkic-speaking Muslim population of Transcaucasia
Armenian-Tatar clashes and the beginning of party activity among Turkic-speaking Muslims
World War I, the Russian Revolution, and Transcaucasia
Formation of the Azerbaijan People’s Republic in 1918
The role of the Ottoman Empire in the formation of the Azerbaijan People’s Republic
Development of the Azerbaijan People’s Republic in 1918-1920
Territorial claims of the Azerbaijan People’s Republic against Armenia: Artsakh, Nakhchivan, Syunik
Collapse of the Azerbaijan People’s Republic and formation of the Azerbaijan Soviet Republic
Formation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region and Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic within the Azerbaijan SSR
Development of the Azerbaijan Soviet Republic in 1921-1945
Development of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1945-1988: rise of nationalism, socio-cultural changes, features of Heydar Aliyev’s policies
The Karabakh Movement and the anti-Armenian policy of the Azerbaijan SSR
Collapse of the USSR and the declaration of the Republic of Azerbaijan
The First Karabakh War and the internal political crisis in Azerbaijan
The Republic of Azerbaijan during Heydar Aliyev’s presidency
The Republic of Azerbaijan during Ilham Aliyev’s presidency
Main features of the state system and political system of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Main socio-cultural development features of the Republic of Azerbaijan
The role of Turkey in the state-building of Azerbaijan
Features of Azerbaijan’s foreign policy
The Third Karabakh War and Azerbaijan’s regional ambitions
Anti-Armenian sentiment in Azerbaijan
Typological features of the Azerbaijani language
Phonetic features of Azerbaijani
Pronouns in Azerbaijani
Numerals in Azerbaijani
Conjunctions in Azerbaijani
Postpositions in Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani vowel system
Tenses in the indicative mood in Azerbaijani
Imperative mood in Azerbaijani
Subjunctive mood in Azerbaijani
Optative mood in Azerbaijani
Participles expressing time in Azerbaijani
Gender of verbs in Azerbaijani
Forms of noun cases
Verbs dıq and acaq (future tense forms)
Literature
Movsisyan L., Azerbaijani Language Textbook, Yerevan, 2012.
Abdullayeva G., Müasir Azərbaycan dili, Second Part, Baku, 2013.
Altstadt Audrey L., Frustrated Democracy in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan, Columbia University, 2017.
“Azerbaijani” and beyond, Perspectives on the Construction of National Identity, Seiten Erscheinungsjahr, 2017.
Cornell, Svante E., Azerbaijan since Independence, Routledge, 2010.
Hacıyeva M., Əbdülhəsənli T., Azərbaycan dili, Baku, 2011.
Suny R., The Revenge of the Past, Stanford University Press, 1993.
Tohidi N., Soviet in public, Azeri in private: Gender, Islam, and nationality in Soviet and post-Soviet Azerbaijan, Women’s Studies International Forum, 1996.
Xəlilov B., Müasir Azərbaycan dili, Second edition, Baku, 2013.
Zülfüqarlı S., Azərbaycan dili, Baku, 2009.
Исмайлова Л. Г., Насилов Д. М., Азербайджанский язык для стран СНГ, Moscow, ISAA, 2007.
Худазаров Т. М., Самоучитель азербайджанского языка, Baku, 2006.
Contact Information
Dean: Ph.D., Professor Ruben Melkonyan
Dean’s Office: (+374 60) 710 573, (+374 60) 710 574 (inner lines: 55-73, 55-74)
Email: orient@ysu.am
