Graduates

These students are admitted through the Entrance Exam and will be directed into five fields Miniature, Pottery, Glasswork, Woodwork and Metalwork. Besides getting theoretical and research abilities, all the students can experience lots of specialized workshops depending on their chosen fields. Not only has the faculty employed the best traditional and academic masters simultaneously, it also provides different specific visits in order to acquaint the students with professional and traditional workshops. In such fields the faculty works as an art polytechnic.
Academic programs and endeavors are designed in a way that they can guarantee the graduates’ future job possibilities and will facilitate the path of their future artworks. Since 2010 the academic politics have been based on “Artwork-Centered Training”. The goal of such programs is upgrading the students’ practical abilities in the domains of theorization, designing and production of crafts which are based on Islamic traditional attitudes. Thus, the students of this faculty are expected to present their theoretical studies and researches in the forms of artworks. In other words while presenting their dissertations, it’s necessary for them to explain about the process of idea formation, designing steps and performance methods.

PHD
This faculty is the only department in Iran which administers the Ph.D program in Islamic Art. The Ph.D studies in this department are limited to eight domains, four of which are the same ones as B.A and M.A levels: Miniature, pottery, metal works and wood works. In addition the faculty also admits the Ph.D students in four other domains which are Pictorial Arts in Islamic world, Islamic Calligraphy, Aesthetics of Islamic Art and History of Islamic Art. Table 2 shows the syllabus of each orientation.

- Suggested domains and Subjects for Specific Courses

Row	Field of Study	Examples of Course titles*	Number of Units			Number of Hours
Row	Field of Study	Examples of Course titles*	Theory	Practice	Workshop	Theory Hours	Practice Hours	Workshop Hours
1	Islamic Art History	Formation & Emersion of Islamic Arts	2			32
		Evolution & Changes in Islamic Arts Methods	2			32
		Islamic Art Chronology	2			32
		Mutual Influences of Islamic Arts & Other Civilisations	2			32
2	Pottery	Analytical History of Pottery Technology in Islamic Countries	2			32
		Pottery Modern Technologies	2			32
		Pottery Situation in Islamic Architecture	2			32
		Evolution and Changes in Pottery Methods	2			32
3	Iranian Painting	Analytical History of Book Layout	2			32
		Literature and Painting in Iran	2			32
		Islamic Iranian Painting Aesthetics	2			32
		Iranian Contemporary Painting	2			32
4	Metalwork	Analytic history of Metalwork Technology in Islamic Countries	2			32
		Modern Technologies in Metal works	2			32
		Decoration and Function in Metalwork	2			32
		Evolution & Changes in Metalwork Methods	2			32
5	Wooden Arts	Analytical History of Wooden Arts in Islamic Countries	2			32
		Modern Technologies in Wooden Arts	2			32
		Evolution and Changes in Wooden Arts	2			32
		Decoration and Function in Wooden Arts	2			32
6	Islamic Art Aesthetics	Beauty According To Quran	2			32
		Beauty According to Islamic Philosophers and Mystics	2			32
		Beauty According to Philosophy	2			32
		Beauty in Islamic Literature and Culture	2			32
7	Islamic Calligraphy	Process of Changes and Evolution in Calligraphy	2			32
		Islamic Calligraphy Aesthetics	2			32
		Form and Spirit in Islamic Calligraphy	2			32
		Spiritual Practices in Calligraphy	2			32
8	Pictorial Arts in Islamic World	Picture and Islamic Basic Texts	2			32
		Picture in Contemporary Islamic world		2		32
		Pictorial Functions in Islamic World		2		32
		Picture Situation in Monotheistic Religions		2		32