BA Persian

The four-year single subject Persian degree programme at SOAS not only offers the students the opportunity to study the Persian language in-depth and intensively but also to focus on the literature and culture of a vast geographic area extending beyond the borders of modern Iran and into Central Asia and the Caucuses. SOAS is one of only a handful of British universities that offers the comprehensive study of modern and classical Persian language and literature at full degree level. Furthermore, the introduction of the year abroad in Iran will enable the students to become fluent in the formal and learned as well as the modern Persian vernacular, and to become linguistically equipped for a deeper study of the subject when they return to SOAS. The presence of expertise in Iranian studies related disciplines at almost every other academic department at SOAS, as well as a vibrant an active Centre for Iranian Studies further enhances this programme