Middle Eastern Studies Courses

Anthropology

• ANTH025 SC - Anthropology of the Middle East
• ANTH087 SC - Contemporary Issues: Gender and Islam
• ANTH152 PO - Ethnic Nationalism
• ANTH156 PO - Comparative Muslim Societies in Asia
• ANTH171 SC - Seminar in Sexuality and Religion
• ANTH185P SC - Topics in Anthropology

Arabic

• ARBC001 CM - Introductory Arabic
• ARBC002 CM - Continuing Introductory Arabic
• ARBC033 CM - Intermediate Arabic
• ARBC044 CM - Continuing Intermediate Arabic
• ARBC130 CM - Modern Arabic Prose and Poetry
• ARBC148 CM - Special Topics: Arabic Lit/Cult

Art History

• ARHI001A PO - Introduction to the History of Art: Prehistory to c. 1400
• ARHI120 PO - Introduction to Islamic Art
• ARHI121 PO - Islamic Painting: Landscape, Body, Power
• ARHI166 PO - The Crusades: A Cross-Cultural History
• ARHI186D PO - Cairo and Istanbul: Urban Space, Memory, Protest

Dance

• DANC135 PO - Traditions of World Dance

French

• FREN132 CM - North African Lit after Independ
• FREN133 CM - Africa in France: The French of African Ancestry through Text and Film

History

• HIST011 PO - Medieval Mediterranean
• HIST040 AF - History of Africa to 1800
• HIST041 AF - Africa in World Politics, 1884 to 2000.
• HIST042 PO - Worlds of Islam
• HIST043 PO - The Middle East in Modern Times
• HIST055 CM - Middle East: Muhammad-Mongols
• HIST101A PO - Indian Ocean World
• HIST047 PO - Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
• HIST113 PO - Medieval Spain and the Idea of ‘Convivencia’
• HIST101CVPO - Earliest Christian Views of Islam
• HIST124 PO - The United States in the Middle East
• HIST101ABPO - Empire and Colonialism in the Middle East and South Asia
• HIST101ACPO - Environmental Histories of the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
• HIST140 AF - Women and Slavery: In Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the Arab and Atlantic Worlds
• HIST147 PO - Mughal India
• HIST049 PO - Iran and the World

International/Intercultural Studies

• IIS128 PZ - The War on Terror

Media Studies

Middle Eastern Studies

• MES191 PO - Middle Eastern Studies Thesis

Persian

• ID199P1PO - Independent Study: Persian 1
• ID199P2PO - Independent Study: Persian 2
• ID199P3PO - Independent Study: Persian 3
• ID199P4PO - Independent Study: Persian 4

Philosophy

• PHIL084 PZ - Islamic Philosophy
• PHIL155 PZ - Islam vs. Islam

Politics

• GOVT060 CM - Intro to Comparative Government
• GOVT136C CM - International Relations of South Asia: Security, Economics, and Culture
• GOVT146A CM - Middle Eastern Politics I (1918-1967)
• POLI005 PO - Introduction to Comparative Politics
• POLI007 PO - United States Foreign Policy
• POLI008 PO - Introduction to International Relations
• POLI113 SC - People and Power in the Modern Middle East
• POLI114 SC - Islam and Politics in the Middle East: Rulers, Reforms, and Radicals
• POLI174 PO - The U.S. and Iraq
• POLI162 PO - Comparative Politics of Africa
• POLI167 JT - The Arab Spring and the Remaking of the Middle East

Religious Studies

• RLST020 PO - Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: Text and Interpretation
• RLST021 CM - Jewish Civilization
• RLST060 SC - Feminist Interpretations of the Bible
• RLST061 SC - New Testament and Christian Origins
• RLST090 SC - Early Christian Bodies
• RLST091 SC - Heretics, Deviants and “Others” in Early Christianity
• RLST092 SC - Varieties of Early Christianity
• RLST093 SC - Early Christianity and Theory
• RLST121 SC - The Pauline Tradition
• RLST129 CM - Ancient Jewish Experience
• RLST135 CM - Jerusalem: The Holy City
• RLST139 PO - Benjamin, Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida: Contemporary Continental Jewish Philosophy
• RLST157 PO - Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust
• RLST158 PO - Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
• RLST160 SC - Feminist Interpretations of the Gospels
• RLST162 PO - Modern Jewish Philosophy
• RLST163 CM - Women and Gender in Jewish Tradition
• RLST164 PO - Engendering and Experience: Women in Islamic Traditions
• RLST166A PO - The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment
• RLST166B CM - Religion, Politics and Global Violence
• RLST189Z PO - The Origins and Influences of the Zoroastrian Tradition

Russian Literature and Translation

• RUST175 PO - Russia: Empire and Identity

Sociology

• SOC 095 PZ - Contemporary Central Asia

Swahili

• ID199S1PO - Independent Study: Swahili 1
• ID199S2PO - Independent Study: Swahili 2