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A new specialty – Chess - will be introduced at Armenian State Pedagogical University from the academic year 2017-18.
In addition to submitting the score of the school graduation examination in Mathematics (written) or Armenian Language (written), applicants must also take a unified state examination in Armenian Language and Literature (written) or Mathematics (written).
Chess has been taught at the Faculty of Primary Educatison as a separate subject since the academic year 2012-13.
As a result of cooperation between the ASPU and Chess Academy of Armenia, the University had the first generation of chess teachers who successfully began teaching chess to pupils from the 2nd to 4th grades both in Yerevan and all regions of the country.
Upon completing training, chess teachers were granted the right to teach the subject: some of them do not have the relevant education, while others are graduates of the relevant department of Yerevan State Institute of Physical Culture but need a teaching degree.
To solve the problem and to educate and prepare a literate generation of chess teachers, the ASPU offers a four-year Bachelor's degree programme.
Talking to aspu.am, Samvel Misakyan, a lecturer at the Chair of Chess and Sports, said when introducing the new subject and developing the curriculum they took into consideration the experience and list of subjects at Armenian and Russian universities. “We have a well-developed and saturated curriculum which brings together the successful experience of leading universities,” he stressed.
Samvel Misakyan thinks it would be better if the graduates received qualification of form masters/chess teachers [in primary schools] as form masters have the required knowledge and skills to work with that age group. At the same time, he says that the University’s leadership has done everything to make sure that future specialists [in chess] are taught by leading professors of the University.
