Distance learning diploma in Armenian

This course was created to meet a demand for high-level Armenological diploma courses, accessible online and with no French prerequisites. It makes the skills and experience of a recognized teaching team accessible to a large number of students worldwide. It creates a unique framework enabling confirmed speakers of Western Armenian (a diaspora language) to practice intellectual and professional activity in this language within a class of students from all over the world.

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This course is aimed in particular at professionals or future professionals in the socio-cultural and educational environment of the Armenian diaspora.

Admission requirements (including prerequisites) are specified in the brochure. In particular, a C1 (autonomous) level of competence in Armenian (Eastern or Western) from the European Language Portfolio is required.

Master 1 Semester 7

UE1 - advanced language proficiency > 2 compulsory courses
Advanced Armenian 1
Synthesis of texts in modern Armenian

UE2 - Armenian studies > 5 elective courses
Armenian literature 1
Sociolinguistics and transmission of Western Armenian
Armenian Christianity, society and politics
Post-Ottoman Armenians: exile, cultural heritage and reconstruction
Armenian arts
Challenges in the didactics of Western Armenian

UE3 - tools > one compulsory course
Digital tools and Armenian studies

Master 1 Semester 8

UE1 - advanced language proficiency > 2 compulsory courses
Advanced Armenian
Media language

UE2 - Armenian studies > 5 elective courses
Linguistic grammar of modern Armenian
Challenges of literary translation into Armenian
Anthropology of the Armenian and contemporary world
Armenia-Diaspora, major geopolitical issues
History of Armenian writing and the Armenian book
Active pedagogy in the Western Armenian classroom

UE3 - tools > one to choose from
Internship research and project design
Reflective learning of an unknown language

Master 2 Semester 9

UE1 - advanced language proficiency > 2 compulsory courses
Advanced Armenian 3
Creative writing in Armenian

UE2 - Armenian studies > 5 electives or 4 courses and a personal project
Armenian literature 2
Corpus linguistics
Armenian diaspora: institutions, identity, culture
Armenians facing modernity
Didactics of Armenian: practice
Personal project
Framed observation
Current events in Armenian studies

UE3 - tools > one of choice
Digital humanities for Armenian studies
Digital tools for teaching

Master 2 Semester 10

UE4 - Internship and internship report (subject to prerequisites and agreement of a research supervisor: research dissertation)

The program is delivered in the Armenian language, predominantly Western. It is accessible entirely by distance learning (synchronous and asynchronous), or in hybrid distance+face-to-face mode depending on the course. Course materials, teaching recordings and associated resources are available to students enrolled in each course on Inalco's Moodle platform.

Assessment is mainly by continuous assessment, in the case of final exams a session is scheduled in January (semester 1) and a session at the end of May-beginning of June (semester 2), as well as a make-up session (second chance) at the end of June.