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Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Core and Elective Courses

CORE COURSES

Africana Studies

  • 014:390 Islam in the African-American Experience


English

  • 350:338 Topics Literature: Transnational Muslim Fiction
  • 350:389 Topics in Global Literature: War and Representation in the Modern Middle East
  • 350:389 Topics in Global Literature: Reading Middle Eastern Cities


History

  • 510:227 Topics in History: Mediterranean Identities
  • 510:287 History of Islamic Civilization I
  • 510:288 History of Islamic Civilization II
  • 510:337 The History of Iran
  • 510:338 The Ottoman Empire
  • 510:339 The West, Islam, and the Middle East
  • 510:361 The Modern Middle East
  • 510:404 Topics Intellectual History: Zionism since 1948
  • 510:397 Honors Non-American: Muslim, Christians, Jews in Medieval Iberia
  • 510:397 Honors Non-American: Migrations in the Modern Middle East
  • 510:433 Topics in Islamic History: Science, Medicine, Technology


Political Science

  • 790:333 Government and Politics of the Middle East
  • 790:334 International Relations of the Middle East
  • 790:465 Topics in Comparative Politics: Women, Gender & the Middle East
  • 790:466 Topics Global Politics: Global Politics of Islam


Sociology and Anthropology

  • 070:310 Comparative Religion [cross-listed as 920:340 Sociology of Religion]
  • 920:360 Sociology of Contemporary Islam(s)
  • 920:394 Topical Issues in Sociology: Urban Space and Conflict in the Middle East


Spanish and Portuguese

  • 074:101 Elementary Modern Arabic I
  • 074:102 Elementary Modern Arabic II
  • 074:131 Intermediate Modern Arabic I
  • 074:132 Intermediate Modern Arabic II
  • 074:220 Contemporary Arabic Language and Culture I
  • 074:221 Contemporary Arabic Language and Culture II
  • 074:245 Arab Society and Media
  • 074:301 Quranic Arabic I
  • 074:302 Quranic Arabic II
  • 074:311 Arabic Literature in English Translation I
  • 074:312 Arabic Literature in English Translation II
  • 074:353 Independent Study in Arabic I
  • 074:354 Independent Study in Arabic II
  • 074:396 Introduction to Arabic Music


ELECTIVE COURSES

  • 082:291 Representing Gender in the Modern Middle East
  • 082:290 Introduction to Islamic Architecture
  • 082:289 Introduction to Islamic Art and Visual Culture
  • 082:306 Imagining the Orient: 19th Century Art in the Mediterranean
  • 350:352 Survey of World Literature: Elizabethan Drama
  • 510:286 The Ancient Near East
  • 510:365 Islam, Africa and the Contemporary World
  • 510:379 Colonialism and Decolonization
  • 510:407 Topics in Ancient History II: The History of Early Christianity
  • 840:456 Rumi seminar