Dr. Hassan Hussain teaches students enrolled in eight hours of Farsi in an intensive, combined session of two 1000-level courses. Spring 2017 semester marks the first time UNG has offered Farsi courses and currently is the 11th language offered at UNG.

This spring the University of North Georgia (UNG) started teaching Farsi, an addition that raises the number of foreign languages currently offered at UNG to 11, with a 12th to start soon.

This semester, 15 students are enrolled in eight hours of Farsi in an intensive, combined session of two 1000-level courses; elementary coursework will be offered again in fall 2017 along with 2000-level coursework.

 

 

 

 

The Farsi courses are taught by Dr. Hassan Hussain, who also teaches Arabic courses at UNG and is a native speaker of Farsi.

“The two languages come from completely different language groups,” Hussain said. “However, Arabic and Persian are linked by geographic proximity and hundreds of years of shared history.”

UNG has much to gain from teaching both languages, Hussain said.