<p>Just wondering if anyone has applied to or plans on applying as iranian studies at ucla?</p>
<p>Please let me know and also ur stats?
Im thinking about majoring as IS, but not sure.</p>
<p>No, but i am a big fan or iranian girls.</p>
<p>Persian power represent.</p>
<p>Have fun if you consider this culture; it’s terrific.</p>
<p>iranian studies isnt what you think it is though…a lot of jewish iranian history mixed in…which is okay, but only if that is your thing.</p>
<p>dasherwinator - r u saying this through personal experience or just knowledge?</p>
<p>I dont mind it, but i would like to to be based broadly and not just the jewish part, but every aspect of it.</p>
<p>is this a new major or something?</p>
<p>naw, it has been around atleast for the last 5-7 years from my research. there are only a handful of schools that offer it, locally it is them and csuf, and then nationally it is harvard, stanford and some east coast university’s</p>
<p>Look up the classes here: [Schedule</a> of Classes Home Page](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/schedulehome.aspx]Schedule”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/schedulehome.aspx)
Seems like half of the iranian history classes offered are jew related, when that really is only like 0.5% of Iranian history. I don’t know why they dedicate classes to Iranian Jews.</p>
<p>i heard something like 78.45% of quoted statistics are made up on the spot. </p>
<p>i don’t mean to point out the obvious, but LA has a HUGE concentration of persian jews.
the demand for that type of study could be a result of that presence.</p>
<p>…LA has a huge amount of Iranians in general, regardless of faith. </p>
<p>And by the way, there is no such thing as a Persian Jew. Persian is an Indo-Aryan ethnicity, which does not apply to Jews. Iranian Jew is the correct term, as they were immigrants to Iran from Assyria/Iraq/Palestine/Arabistan etc. a few thousand years ago. Their nationality is Iranian, but their ethnic origins are definitely not Persian, they are more related to the arabs because they are semites.</p>
<p>Anyways, the point is, Iranian Jewish history is interesting, but I find it strange that there is an entire class is dedicated to such a minor part of the Iranian population. You are actually correct, I did make up that statistic. The real statistic is that the Jews are at the very maximum .43% of the total Iranian population: [Iranian</a> Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews]Iranian”>Iranian Jews - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>you do realize that the title of that wiki page is ‘Persian Jews’, right?</p>
<p>and you’re surprised at there being one entire, as in one single, class about iranian jews? unless that’s the only iranian studies class, i find it strange that you find it strange that there’s an ‘entire’ class …</p>
<p>Well, based on the fact that Iranian history is very vast, very long, and there is much to be learned, of course I find it strange, that there is a class concerning the Jews, which had very, very little to do with major Iranian events other than Esther. I find it strange that you find it strange that I find it strange there is a Iranian Jew class.</p>
<p>hahah</p>
<p>enough with this.
i like you.</p>
<p>lol thanks</p>
<p>I am also a fan of Iranian girls (ie my girlfriend), just to chime in. :)</p>
<p>interesting thread. . i would love to study iranian Studies if it is a well rounded education. </p>
<p>Great that ucla offers it. .</p>