PERS at University of Pennsylvania

A suggested order for the 18 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

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 0200Elementary Persian IIopens 8 courses (1.5 directly)
• PERS 0300Intermediate Persian Iopens 6 courses (1.5 directly)
• PERS 0400Intermediate Persian IIopens 4 courses (1 directly)
• PERS 0600Persian for Heritage Speakers IIopens 4 courses (1 directly)
• PERS 5200Elementary Persian IIopens 4 courses (0.5 directly)
• PERS 5300Intermediate Persian Iopens 3 courses (0.5 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 18 PERS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 25 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.

• 6 courses deep, ending at PERS 2100

  1. PERS 0100Elementary Persian I
  2. PERS 0200Elementary Persian II
  3. PERS 0300Intermediate Persian I
  4. PERS 0400Intermediate Persian II
  5. PERS 2000Advanced Readings in Persian I
  6. PERS 2100Advanced Readings in Persian II

• 2 courses deep, ending at PERS 0600

  1. PERS 0390Persian for Heritage Speakers I
  2. PERS 0600Persian for Heritage Speakers II

• 2 courses deep, ending at PERS 5650

  1. PERS 5550Introduction to Kurdish
  2. PERS 5650Elementary Kurdish Part 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 Penn campus feed.