PERS at University of Maryland, College Park

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate PERS coursework.

• PERS 102Elementary Persian IIopens 8 courses (1 directly)
• PERS 201Intermediate Persian Iopens 7 courses (1 directly)
• PERS 202Intermediate Persian IIopens 6 courses (2 directly)
• PERS 106Intensive Elementary Persian IIopens 6 courses (1 directly)
• PERS 205Intensive Intermediate Persian Iopens 5 courses (1 directly)
• PERS 301Advanced Persian Iopens 4 courses (4 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate PERS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 20 PERS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 13 more PERS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in PERS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 7 courses deep, ending at PERS 405

  1. PERS 105Intensive Elementary Persian I
  2. PERS 106Intensive Elementary Persian II
  3. PERS 205Intensive Intermediate Persian I
  4. PERS 206Intensive Intermediate Persian II
  5. PERS 305Intensive Advanced Persian I
  6. PERS 306Intensive Advanced Persian II
  7. PERS 405Media and the Current Issues in Iranian Society

• 6 courses deep, ending at PERS 302

  1. PERS 101Elementary Persian I
  2. PERS 102Elementary Persian II
  3. PERS 201Intermediate Persian I

• 2 courses deep, ending at PERS 104

  1. PERS 103Beginning Persian I
  2. PERS 104Beginning Persian II

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PERS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PERS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

PERS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UMD campus feed.