Armenian is taught in alternating years, with one level taught one year and the next level taught in the following year. Submit Site Search Search. MES Alumni Profiles. Recent PhD Alumni. Announcing the Center for Armenian Studies.
News and Events News. Tweet Email. Note: Students also have the opportunity to study Arabic in various Arabic Language Study Programs, many of which are overseas. All periods of Armenian language, literature, history and culture are taught in this program in the broader Middle East and former Soviet contexts. Courses in Western Armenian, literature, history and culture are taught regularly and Classical and Eastern Armenian in alternate years.
Independent study courses are offered to ensure complete coverage when established courses are not taught, and individual courses are tailored to fit the needs and interests of students. Professional and research interests of the faculty include: Armenian language, literature, history and historiography, intellectual history, nationalism and identity, anthropology, diaspora studies, and translation. This program trains students to become teachers and scholars of Christianity in late antiquity roughly the period from to C.
In addition to cultivating their historical knowledge about the period and their ability to analyze multiple kids of sources, students develop skills in the important primary languages for research in the period: Greek and Latin are regularly offered at all levels by the Classical Studies department, while Coptic and Syriac are offered in rotation by Middle East Studies. Students are also encouraged to make use of the multiple professionalization and teaching workshops and seminars offered by the Rackham Graduate School and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.
The modern Hebrew program educates students in modern Hebrew language and literature, and also in earlier periods of literature, including Aramaic texts. Professional and research interests of the faculty in Hebrew include literary history and criticism, linguistics, translation, language and technology, the teaching of Hebrew as a foreign language, and several aspects of culture.
The program prepares students for academic, government, and business careers as well as employment in Jewish community activities. A flyer detailing requirements for the program is available in the departmental office. For more information, visit the Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies website. In the last quarter of a century, we have trained two generations of distinguished Iranists in the fields of history, literature, linguistics and religion who now teach at universities throughout North America and Europe.
This program offers a strong philological training that allows students to master the idiomatic nuances and rhetorical strategies of texts and their cultural and social histories. Classical, Middle and Eastern Armenian are taught as individual tutorials primarily for research purposes. Establishing a good command of MWA would enable the student to comprehend and complement the study of Classical, Middle and Modern Eastern Armenian and thereby to open the gates to the beautiful world of Armenian in the midst of neighboring traditions.
The Armenian experience has been and still is an organic part of Middle East civilizations, old and new. MWA is taught regularly on a two-year cycle basis and a third year of study can be pursued in tutorials.
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