New Appointments and Expansion of the Armenian Studies Program at U.C. Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (Source: The Daily Cal)

On the occasion of Santoukht Mikaelian’s retirement from her position as Lecturer in Armenian Language at the University of California, Berkeley, the Armenian Studies Program (ASP) takes the opportunity to thank her for her many years of service and dedication.

In cooperation with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, we have carried out a long search to find a new instructor. We are delighted to announce that Dr. Hasmig Seropian will be joining our program in Fall 2015 as Lecturer in Armenian Language. Dr. Seropian will be teaching two courses at Berkeley in the Fall: Introductory Armenian (1A) and Continuing Armenian (101A). In Spring 2016, she will teach the second set of courses in these sequences, Introductory Armenian (1B) and Continuing Armenian (101B).

Dr. Seropian, who was born in Aleppo, holds a M.A. in Education from the American University of Beirut and a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught Armenian over the years both at Berkeley and Stanford University. She has also done extensive research in Armenian and has a draft grammar of spoken Western Armenian. Dr. Seropian was the principal developer of a computer-based one-year college-level course in Armenian at Stanford. Currently, she is very interested in complementing the human interaction in the classroom with online instruction that pulls together the various sources of content for both Eastern and Western Armenian.

In Spring 2016, Dr. Myrna Douzjian will join the program as the Varnum Paul Visiting Lecturer. She will teach two courses in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: “Survey of 20th Century Western and Eastern Armenian Literature”