Shushan Karapetian

Connector, Educator/Teacher, Explorer, Global soul, World traveler

Shushan Karapetian holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures as well as a graduate certificate in TESFL. She has over ten years of experience teaching Armenian as a foreign and heritage language in different contexts. Over the past four years she has been teaching English for UCLA Summer Sessions. Shushan is also very involved with the Center for World Languages and the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA, where she directs the Summer High School Heritage Language Program.