Middle East Studies Concentration
Language and Focus Area Courses
Updated: March 10, 2010
LANGUAGE COURSES
Arabic
ARAB 0100 First-year Arabic (fall)
ARAB 0200 First-year Arabic (spring)
ARAB 0300 Second-year Arabic (fall)
ARAB 0400 Second-year Arabic (spring)
ARAB 0500 Third-year Arabic (fall)
ARAB 0600 Third-year Arabic (spring)
ARAB 0700 Fourth-year Arabic (fall)
ARAB 0800 Fourth-year Arabic (spring)
ARAB 1990 (IS) Critical Issues of Arabic Language & Culture
Hindi-Urdu
HNDI 0100 Beginning Hindi-Urdu (fall)
HNDI 0200 Beginning Hindi-Urdu (spring)
HNDI 0300 Intermediate Hindi-Urdu (fall)
HNDI 0400 Intermediate Hindi-Urdu (spring)
HNDI 1080 Advanced Hindi-Urdu
Hebrew
JUDS 0110-0120 Elementary Hebrew (fall)
JUDS 0120 Elementary Hebrew (spring)
JUDS 0130 Intermediate Hebrew
JUDS 0140 Intermediate Hebrew
JUDS 0150 Writing and Speaking Hebrew
Persian/Farsi:
PRSN0100 Basic Persian (Fall)
PRSN0200 Basic Persian (Spring)
PRSN0300 Intermediate Persian Language and Culture (Fall)
PRSN0400 Intermediate Persian Language and Culture (Spring)
PRSN 0600 Advanced Persian Language
Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies
AWAS0200 Introduction to Akkadian
AWAS0210 Intermediate Akkadian
AWAS2310A Ancient Scientific Texts: Akkadian
AWAS2600 Topics in Cuneiform Studies (pending approval)
EGYT1310 An Introduction to Middle Egyptian I (Fall)
EGYT1320 An Introduction to Middle Egyptian II (Spring)
EGYT1330 Selection From Middle Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts
EGYT1340 Selections From Middle Egyptian Hieratic Texts
EGYT2210 Introduction to Coptic
EGYT2410 Introduction to Late Egyptian
EGYT2610 Introduction to Demotic
EGYT2810 Introduction to Old Egyptian
COURSES TO FULFILL THE REQUIRED COURSE ON A RELIGIOUS TRADITION OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Christianity
RELS 0110 Christianity
RELS 0410 Christianity in Late Antiquity
Islam
RELS 0150 Islam: From Mohamed to 9/11 and Beyond
Judaism
JUDS 0010 Judaism: Text and Context (cross-listed as RELS 0105)
JUDS 0530: Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible
Alternative courses to fulfill the requirement must be approved by the concentration director.
FOCUS AREA COURSES
Focus Area A: Religions and Cultures
Anthropology
ANTH 1151 Ethnographies of the Muslim Middle East
ANTH 1250 Film and Anthropology: Identity and Images of Indian Societies
Archaeology and the Ancient World
ARCH 0150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 0351/AWAS 0800 Introduction to the Ancient Near East
ARCH 0440 Archaeologies of the Ancient "Middle East"
ARCH 0445 Archaeology of the Bible
ARCH 0600 Intro To Islamic Archaeology
ARCH 0650 Islamic Civilizations
ARCH 1200F City and the Festival: Cult Practices and Architectural Production in the Ancient Near East (History of Art and Architecture 1200)
ARCH 1200G Arabia and the Arabs: The Making of an Ethnos
ARCH 1200H Islamic Landscapes: Cities, Frontiers, and Monuments
ARCH 1200I Material Worlds: Art and Agency in the Near East and Africa
ARCH 1436 The Archeology of Jerusalem (register for JUDS 1390)
ARCH 1437 The Archaeology of Palestine (register for JUDS 1400)
ARCH 1600 Archaeologies of the Near East
ARCH 1630 Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare
ARCH 1635 The Great Heresy: Egypt in the Armarna Age
ARCH 1810 Under the Tower of Babel: Archaeology, Politics, and Identity in the Modern Middle East
ARCH 2010C Architecture, Body, and Performance in the Ancient Near Eastern World
ARCH 2300 The Rise (and Demise) of the State of the Near East
ARCH 2400 Archeologies of Place
Classics
CLAS 1750L Sexual Desire in the Pre-modern Mediterranean
Comparative Literature
COLT 0510H Introduction to 20th Century Arabic Prose Literature
COLT 1410G Balkan Cinema
COLT 1812D Prehistories of the Global Literature and Modernity across East and West
COLT 1812E Imagining the Eastern Mediterranean in Literature and Film
COLT 1812F Violence and Representation
COLT 1812G Thematizing Sex and Gender in Writings from the Middle East
COLT 2520E Dialectics of Word and Image
Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies
AWAS 0300 Babylon: Myth and Reality (pending approval). First year seminar
AWAS0800 Introduction to the Ancient Near East
AWAS 1500 Ancient Babylonian Magic and Medicine (pending approval)
AWAS1600 Astronomy Before the Telescope
AWAS1650 Time in the Ancient World
AWAS1700 Astronomy, Divination and Politics in the Ancient World
AWAS1750 Divination in Ancient Mesopotamia
AWAS2310B Assyriology I
AWAS2310C Assyriology II
AWAS2700 Special Topics in Ancient Sciences
EGYT1200 Archaeology of Ancient Egypt I
EGYT1210 Archaeology of Ancient Egypt II
EGYT1410 Ancient Egyptian Literature
EGYT1420 Ancient Egyptian Religion and Magic
EGYT1430 History of Egypt I: The History and Society of Ancient Egypt
EGYT1440 History of Egypt II: The New Kingdom
EGYT1470 Egypt After the Pharaohs: Archaeology and Society in the Coptic and Early Islamic Periods (pending approval). First year seminar
EGYT1490 Calendars & Chronology in Ancient Egypt and the Ancient World
EGY1500 Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture
EGYT1510 Ancient Egyptian Art II
EGYT1910 Senior Seminar I
EGYT1920 Senior Seminar II
EGYT2510 Social Life in Ancient Egypt
French Studies
FREN 1900B Figures de l'Etranger dans la Litterature Française
History
HIST 1020 Living Together: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Iberia
HIST 1440 Islamic History, 1400-1800
HIST1971L History of Islamic Law: Theory and Practice
HIST 1971Z Memoirs and Memory: The Individual Experience of Modern Jewish Life
HIST 1972F Muslims and Jews
HIST 1972V Modernity, Jews, and Urban Identity in Central Europe, 1867-1938
History of Art and Architecture
HIAA 0490 Urban Modernity and the Middle East
HIAA 1890F From Worlds in Miniature to Miniature Worlds: Theming and Virtuality
HIAA 0410 - Islamic Art and Architecture
HIAA 1410A - Topics in Islamic Art: Islamic Art and Architecture on the Indian Subcontinent
HIAA 1430B - First Two Hundred Years under Islamic Rule: Creation of a New Visual Expression, 7-9th centuries CE
Judaic Studies
JUDS 0010 Judaism: Text and Context
JUDS 0019 Death and Afterlife in the Biblical Tradition
JUDS 0080 Jewish Art and Architecture from Antiquity to Modernity
JUDS 0260 The Bible as Literature
JUDS 0300 Israeli Literature in Hebrew
JUDS 0320 Israelite Religion
JUDS 0410 Talmud
JUDS 0470 The Hebrew Bible and the History of Ancient Israel
JUDS 0530 Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible
JUDS 0980G Global Culture: Religion, Migration and Diaspora
JUDS 0980W The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Contested Narratives
JUDS 1390 The Archeology of Jerusalem
JUDS 1400 The Archaeology of Palestine
JUDS 1440 Ancient Synagogues, Churches, and Mosques in Palestine
JUDS 1450 The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
JUDS 1530 Exilic Responses to Crisis: Biblical Literature of the Sixth Century B.C.E.
JUDS 1980C Problems in Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism
JUDS 1980K Problems in Israelite History
JUDS 1980Q Jews and Muslims
JUDS 1980X Religion in the Dead Sea Scrolls
JUDS 1981D Parting of the Ways: The Separation of Judaism and Christianity
Religious Studies
RELS 0090B Hindu & Christian Modes of Loving Devotion
RELS 0020 Death and Afterlife in Biblical Tradition
RELS0090E Faith and Violence
RELS 0105 Judaism: Text and Context
RELS 0110 Christianity
RELS 0150 Islam: From Mohamed to 9/11 and Beyond
RELS 0320 Israelite Religion
RELS 0400 News Testament and the Beginnings of Christianity
RELS 0410 Christianity in Late Antiquity
RELS 0640 Martyrdom and Jihad in the Islamic Tradition
RELS 1500 Islam and Politics in the Modern World
RELS 1540 Monks, Mystics and Martyrs: Abrahamic Traditions Compared
RELS 1520 Pilgrimage and Sacred Travel in the Lands of Islam
RELS 1530B Methods and Problems in Islam: Heresy and Orthodoxy
RELS1880A The Gift in Antiquity
RELS 2900 Women and Gender in the Islamic Tradition
Focus Area B: Modern Politics and Society
Anthropology
ANTH 1151 Ethnographies of the Muslim Middle East
ANTH 1250 Film and Anthropology: Identity and Images of Indian Societies
Archaeology and the Ancient World
ARCH 1630 Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare
ARCH 1810 Under the Tower of Babel: Archaeology, Politics, and Identity in the Modern Middle East
Comparative Literature
COLT 0510H Introduction to 20th Century Arabic Prose Literature
COLT 1421D Mediterranean Islands
COLT 1812E Imagining the Eastern Mediterranean in Literature and Film
COLT 1812G Thematizing Sex and Gender in Writings from the Middle East
Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies
EGYT 2510 Social Life in Ancient Egypt
History
HIST 1020 Living Together: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Iberia
HIST 1450 History of the Modern Middle East 1800-1918
HIST 1460 History of the Modern Middle East since 1918
HIST 1590 Beyond Hindu, Muslim: Recovering Early South Asia
HIST 1950F From Morocco to China: Frontier Societies, Cultural Brokers. Multiple Identities in Portuguese Empire
HIST 1970O Moving Boundaries: Inequalities, Histories and Making of a Post Colonial South Asia
HIST 1971L History of Islamic Law: Theory and Practice
HIST 1971N Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
HIST 1971P Identity Conflicts in Mid East History, 1900-Present: A Proseminar through Memoirs, Novels and Films
HIST 1972F Muslims and Jews
HIST 1972V Modernity, Jews, and Urban Identity in Central Europe
HIST 1975U Gender, Empire and Nation in the Middle East
HIST 1975V Culture, Politics, and History in the Middle East
History of Art and Architecture
HIAA 0490 Urban Modernity and the Middle East
HIAA 1890F From Worlds in Miniature to Miniature Worlds: Theming and Virtuality
Judaic Studies
JUDS 0300 Israeli Literature in Hebrew
JUDS 0470 The Hebrew Bible and the History of Ancient Israel
JUDS 0650 History of Zionism and the Birth of Israel
JUDS 0870 Israeli Society
JUDS 0980G Global culture: Religion, Migration, and Diaspora
JUDS 0980W The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Contested Narratives
JUDS 1980K Problems in Israelite History
Political Science
POLS 1270 Politics and Economies of the Middle East
POLS 1430 Roots of Radical Islam
POLS 1821X Politics of Social Welfare in the Middle East
Religious Studies
RELS0075 Reel Religion: Representations of Religions in Film
RELS0090E Faith and Violence
RELS 0640 Martyrdom and Jihad in the Islamic Tradition
RELS 1500 Islam and Politics in the Modern World
RELS 2900 Women and Gender in the Islamic Tradition
Focus Area C: Economies and Resources
Anthropology
ANTH 1151 Ethnographies of the Muslim Middle East
Archaeology and the Ancient World
ARCH 0440 Archaeologies of the Ancient "Middle East"
ARCH 0600 Introduction to Islamic Archaeology
ARCH 1200H Islamic Landscapes: Cities, Frontiers, and Monuments
Economics
ECON 1600 Economics of the Middle East
History
HIST 1970O Moving Boundaries: Inequalities, Histories and Making of a Post Colonial South Asia
HIST 1971N Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
HIST 1972F Muslims and Jews
HIST 1972V Modernity, Jews, and Urban Identity in Central Europe
History of Art and Architecture
HIAA 0410 Islamic Art and Architecture
HIAA 1410A Topics in Islamic Art: Islamic Art and Architecture on the Indian Subcontinent
HIAA 1430B - First Two Hundred Years under Islamic Rule: Creation of a New Visual Expression, 7-9th centuries CE
Judaic Studies
JUDS 0080 Jewish Art and Architecture from Antiquity to Modernity
JUDS 1390 The Archeology of Jerusalem
JUDS 1400 The Archaeology of Palestine
JUDS 1440 Ancient Synagogues, Churches, and Mosques in Palestine
JUDS 1450 The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Political Science
POLS 1270 Politics and Economies of the Middle East
POLS 1821X Politics of Social Welfare in the Middle East