The Rehabilitation and Employment Unit, in cooperation with the Syriac Language Department at the College of Languages, has organized a symposium entitled (The feasibility of studying the Syriac language and other Semitic languages for employment in the Ministries of Education, Culture, Tourism and Antiquities) in the presence of a number of professors of department, in addition to students of the fourth and third grads. The symposium aimed to study how students of the Syriac Language Department benefit from their specialization in the study of Semitic languages in order to be qualified to work in one of Iraqi state departments, especially in the ministries of education, culture, tourism and antiquities because of their close link to the academic outputs of the department since the ministry of education includes many schools in which the Syriac language is taught to students of primary, intermediate and secondary schools, which provides an aspect of job opportunities that only outstanding students enjoy.
For the ministry of culture, tourism and antiquities, it is one of the ministries that have a close link to the teaching outputs of this department, since each of the joints of that ministry includes job opportunities to work in the Iraqi media network, which includes a Syriac channel related to different fields of tourism and antiquities, especially since Iraq enjoys many archaeological sites having in turn the most prominent monuments written in Akkadian or Aramaic Semitic languages. The symposium also included a reference to the most prominent inscriptions and manuscripts discovered in Iraqi archaeological sites that were written in one of the Semitic languages, while the second axis included clarifying the recruitment mechanism and opening the horizon of cooperation with the related ministries for the purpose of accommodating students graduating from the department as well as for opening horizons for cooperation with academic institutions to benefit from youth energies and engaging them in future research.