On December 15^th,2018, YSU Ijevan branch hosted a literary and musical event dedicated to the New Year and Christmas holidays (in English) organized by the Department of the English Language and Literature (at the initiative of acting head of the Department, PhD, Associate Professor K. Harutyunyan and Assistant of the Department ,PhD, A. Karapetyan).

The 1st year students of the specialty “Foreign language and literature”, fourth- year students of “French language and literature” participated in the New Year event.

During the event, the New Year and Christmas traditions, customs, symbols, holiday clothes, cuisine of a number of countries (Great Britain, USA, France, Italy, China) were presented.

The participants presented Christmas stories, songs, fairy tales and poems.

The students performed songs not only in English, but also French and even Chinese. During the event, students exchanged New Year individual wishes.

At the end of the event, the students played a Christmas game, “Secret Santa”, during which they exchanged gifts.

 New Year is the beginning of new decisions and goals, and all students have decided to be more motivated and hard-working to become good professionals.

All the photos of the event are available in the gallery.

 On December 14th, 2018, 2nd and 3rd year students of  the Faculty of Humanities, “Armenian Language and Literature” specialty, at the initiative of acting Head of the Department of Armenian Language and Literature V. Avagyan visited the primary school of Lusadzor village. The school director Armen Sardaryan and teachers warmly welcomed the guests.

The purpose of the visit was to organize an event dedicated to the founder of the village and the history of the great tribes of the village, the Yeghanyan, Sardaryan and Ayvazyan.

Shushan in her report, presented one of the influential people of the village, Elizbar Sardaryan, the students presented her poems and her famous poem “33 did not come back”.

The reports were interrupted by recitation and songs.

The school students also performed a recitation.

Guests and representatives of the above-mentioned tribes also made a performance.

The acting Head of the Department of Armenian Language and Literature, Associate Professor, PhD, V. Avagyan and vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Associate Professor, PhD, V. Aghababyan made the final speech.

In response, the school director and guests thanked them, organizing a small reception.

Due to such meetings, the school-university bilateral cooperation is expanding and deepening.