Variant of CIP 2000 - Primary groupings

03 - Humanities

16. - Aboriginal and Foreign Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

This series comprises instructional programs that focus on foreign languages and literatures, the humanistic and scientific study of linguistics, and the provision of professional interpretation and translation services.

16.08 - Iranian/Persian Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

This subseries comprises instructional program class 16.0801.

16.0801 - Iranian/Persian Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the languages used in ancient, medieval, and modern Iran and its border regions. These programs include courses in modern Farsi/Persian; Avestan/Old Persian; related modern languages such as Pashto, Kurdish, Baluchi, Dari, Tadzhik, Ossetian, and others; related extinct languages such as Median, Parthian, Bactrian, Sogdian, and Khwarezmian; and applications of modern Farsi and other languages to applications in business, science/technology, and other settings.

• Example Program Names:

  • Persian
  • Persian literature

• Exclusion

  • Middle Eastern studies(05.0108)
  • Near Eastern studies(05.0108)