Department of Armenian Language and Literature
The Department of Armenian Language and Literature is one of the educational units of the University and operates within the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication.
The Department was established in 1999 as the Department of Armenian Studies and was later renamed the Department of Armenian Language and Literature. At different times, the Department was headed by Candidates of Philological Sciences, Associate Professors G. Madoyan and J. Barnasyan, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor A. Yeghiazaryan, and Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor A. Pashayan. Since 2024, the Head of the Department has been Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor G. Gevorgyan.
The Department also offers Armenian language courses for students who do not speak Armenian or have limited proficiency in the language.
The aim of the Department is to develop students’ communicative skills, strengthen their ability to construct professional speech in accordance with the norms of literary Armenian, to monitor and refine their speech, and to eliminate dialectal and colloquial expressions. As a result, students acquire clear, expressive, and well-structured speech, which is essential not only for professional activities but also for competent and cultured communication.
The main research areas of the Department include contemporary theoretical and practical issues of Armenian Studies, comparative typology, linguoculturology, and methodology of teaching the Armenian language.
Great importance is attached to the integration of research activities with the educational process. The Department regularly organizes academic conferences devoted to current issues of Armenian linguistics and the teaching of Armenian, as well as intra-departmental and inter-departmental scientific and methodological seminars, round tables, and scholarly discussions.
The Department maintains academic cooperation with Armenian Studies departments and centers of foreign universities, including:
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University of California
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Research Center of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Paris)
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Moscow State Linguistic University
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University of Cambridge
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University of the Republic (Uruguay)