Course Description
This course will focus on close readings of academic, philosophical, and critical texts in Persian on topics from the social sciences and humanities. We will concentrate on reading critically—what is a given author’s argument and how does s/he develop the argument over the course of the text? How do the author’s methodologies, assumptions, and contexts shape the argument and to what effect? The first eight seminars will cover readings on a range of topics selected by the instructor. Students will select and present on readings for the final two seminars based on their work for their MA theses.
Syllabus
All readings will be provided as PDFs in Canvas.