Undergraduate Course: Advanced Persian (IMES10081)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	Advanced Persian aims to enable students to have mastery of all aspects of higher Persian and develop further reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Students' command of the Persian Language is developed through a wide range of materials, that is, by study of different Persian texts, both prose and poetry, with use of films and other media as well. This course consists of work in translating English texts into Persian, and vice versa, and practicing oral and aural skills at advanced level.
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Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Full Year
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 100, Summative Assessment Hours 3, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 93 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 45 %, Coursework 10 %, Practical Exam 45 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	T2 x mid-semester tests (10% [i.e. 5% each]) December diet exam, 1.5 hours (15%) Listening assessment (May) (15%) May exam, 3 hours (30%) Oral exam (30%)
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Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)	Advanced Persian		3:00
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)			1:30

Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course students will have gained an advanced knowledge of the four language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening in Persian. Students will be able understand and analyse written and aural materials of various types. The students will be able to translate and analyse different Persian media literature and to produce written Persian in summary form and to appreciate Modern Persian as a form of communication and a form of literature and Classical Persian literature. Learning is based around discussion and translation of texts in modern Persian and English and writing essays in Persian. The teaching materials are taken from a variety of Persian and English sources on subjects relating to a general theme or some more specifically related to Iran and Iranian history and culture, politics, society and lifestyle. Each week the students will be presented with new discussion topics unraveling themes mentioned above.