scientific-research interactions between universities and seminaries. graduate education the institute has held ma and phd. academic courses with the aim of educating researchers in humanities since 1989. the three faculties of persian language and literature, general linguistics; and history of iran in the islamic era constituted the first graduate schools of the institute; in 1997 the program of the political sciences was established, and the institute started to accept phd. students in this field as well. graduate programs