2013 Language Institute: Dushanbe, Tajikistan

 

Note: Information below refers to the 2013 CLS Institutes and is subject to change.

Institute at a Glance: Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Language
Beginning
Advanced Beginning
Intermediate
Advanced
Persian

Program Dates

Hosting Institution
June 9 - August 8, 2013 American Councils for International Education

  • Advanced Beginning: Minimum requirement: completion of one year of college-level Persian, or its equivalent, prior to the start of the program.
  • Intermediate: Minimum requirement: completion of two years of college-level Persian, or its equivalent, prior to the start of the program.
  • Advanced: Minimum requirement: completion of three years of college-level Persian, or its equivalent, prior to the start of the program.
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Student Activities

In 2011, participant Hannah Highfill organized an excursion for the CLS group to visit the Mowlana Sufi shrine in Dushanbe. Hannah gave a presentation to the group on the history and nature of Sufism and the importance of Yaqub Charkhi, the saint interred at the shrine. At the end of the program, students also presented skits and traditional Tajik songs to each other, as seen in this video. The CLS Persian institute was recently profiled in the CLS Program newsletter.

Students also presented skits and traditional Tajik songs to each other, as seen in this video.

The CLS Persian institute was recently profiled in the CLS Program newsletter.

Alumni Highlights

CLS participant Wendy DeSouza (2007), completed her PhD in Iranian history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is now a professor of Islamic and Middle East History at California State University, Sacramento.

2010 CLS participant Bryan Prior worked as an analyst for BAE Systems where he supported the US Army in its efforts in Afghanistan. He used his language skills to help colleagues with their Farsi before they deployed to Afghanistan and developed a set of questions in Dari for those going to Dari-speaking areas of Afghanistan. His language skills from CLS also helped him secure a position with the Defense Intelligence Agency working on Iran. As an analyst at this new position, he will have the ability to use his language skills to interpret news feeds and untranslated intelligence. Read more about Bryan’s experiences.

Samuel Thorpe, 2007 CLS Persian participant, is completing the last year of his PhD program in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His focus is on Hebrew and Persian literature. In 2010-2011, he received the CLIR/Mellon Dissertation Research Fellowship for archival work in Israel and India.