Distance learning diploma in Armenian
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Master LLCER Eurasia - International Master of Armenian Studies
- Duration: 2 years
- Bimodal teaching
- Timetable: 12h30 weekly classes for the first 3 semesters + personal work + internship and internship report for the final semester
- Credits: 120 ECTS
- Admission to 1st year Master's program on candidatures.inalco.fr : from Monday February 26, 2024 to Sunday March 24, 2024 (limited number of places)
- Admission to Master 2nd year (for applicants from outside Inalco) on candidatures.inalco.fr: from Monday February 26, 2024 to Sunday March 24, 2024 (limited number of places)
- Start of courses: September 2024
- Training coordinator: Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos (master.international@etudes-armeniennes.org)
Presentation
Presentation
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.
Target audience
Target audience
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.
Program
Program
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)
Teaching methods
Teaching methods
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 methods
Assessment methods
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.