This course is designed to enhance and strengthen the student’s functional use of Persian-Farsi at Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Level 3 (Professional Working Proficiency) by stressing active language production and accuracy to cultivate the capability to excel at more than passive language analysis tasks. The emphasis of this course is on speaking, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, and writing. Speaking and writing are used to reinforce acquisition of lexical and grammatical skills. This course uses authentic language material covering various key topics (military, security, economy, politics, science, technology and culture).