Middle Eastern Studies Courses

Anthropology

• ANTH 025 SC - Anthropology of the Middle East
• ANTH 130 PO - Sexual Politics of the Modern Middle East
• ANTH 152 PO - Ethnic Nationalism
• ANTH 156 PO - Comparative Muslim Societies in Asia

Art History

Arabic

• ARBC 001 CM - Introductory Arabic
• ARBC 002 CM - Continuing Introductory Arabic
• ARBC 033 CM - Intermediate Arabic
• ARBC 044 CM - Continuing Intermediate Arabic
• ARBC 130 CM - Modern Arabic Prose and Poetry

Dance

• DANC 135 PO - Traditions of World Dance
• DANC 150E PO - Cultural Styles: Middle East

French

• FREN 133 CM - Beur: Immigration/Citizenship/Maghreb

History

• HIST 011 PO - Medieval Mediterranean
• HIST 041 AF - History of Africa from 1800
• HIST 042 PO - Worlds of Islam
• HIST 043 PO - Middle East and North Africa Since 1500
• HIST 055 CM - Middle East: Muhammad-Mongols
• HIST 110AKPO - Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
• HIST 100AIPO - Indian Ocean World
• HIST 100WCPO - Earliest Christian Views of Islam
• HIST 100WRPO - Medieval Spain
• HIST 124 PO - The U.S. in the Middle East
• HIST 140 PO - Empire and Colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa
• HIST 141 PO - Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa

International/Intercultural Studies

• IIS 128 PZ - The War on Terror

Philosophy

• PHIL 084 PZ - Islamic Philosophy
• PHIL 155 PZ - Islam vs. Islam

Politics

• GOVT 151 CM - The U.S., Israel and the Arabs
• POLI 005 PO - Introduction to Comparative Politics
• POLI 007 PO - United States Foreign Policy
• POLI 008 PO - Introduction to International Relations
• POLI 162 PO - Comparative Politics of Africa
• POLI 178 PO - Political Economy of Development

Religious Studies

• RLST 020 PO - Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: Text and Interpretation
• RLST 021 CM - Jewish Civilization
• RLST 060 SC - Feminist Interpretations of the Bible
• RLST 061 SC - New Testament and Christian Origins
• RLST 090 SC - Early Christian Bodies
• RLST 091 SC - Heretics, Deviants and “Others” in Early Christianity
• RLST 092 SC - Varieties of Early Christianity
• RLST 093 SC - Early Christianity and Theory
• RLST 120 CM - The Life of Jesus
• RLST 121 SC - The Pauline Tradition
• RLST 128 PO - The Religion of Islam
• RLST 129 CM - Formative Judaism
• RLST 131 CM - Synagogue and Church
• RLST 133 PO - Modern Judaism
• RLST 135 CM - Jerusalem: The Holy City
• RLST 139 PO - Benjamin, Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida: Contemporary Continental Jewish Philosophy
• RLST 148 PO - Sufism
• RLST 149 PO - Islamic Thought
• RLST 154 PO - Life, Love and Suffering in Biblical Wisdom and the Modern World
• RLST 157 PO - Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust
• RLST 158 PO - Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
• RLST 160 SC - Interpreting Jesus: Global and Gendered Perspectives
• RLST 162 PO - Modern Jewish Philosophy
• RLST 163 CM - Women and Gender in Jewish Tradition
• RLST 164 PO - Engendering and Experience: Women in Islamic Traditions
• RLST 166A PO - The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment
• RLST 166B CM - Religion, Politics and Global Violence
• RLST 178 PO - The Modern Jewish Experience

Russian Literature and Translation

• RUST 175 PO - Empire and Ethnicity: The Case of Modern Russia

Sociology

• SOC 095 PZ - Contemporary Central Asia