McMicken College of Arts & Sciences
Middle Eastern Studies
Coursework
The Certificate in Middle Eastern Studies requires 36 credit hours of coursework with the following distribution.
(1) Elementary Language Component (15 Credit Hours)
This requirement may be completed by means of a placement test, or evaluation of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills by an appropriate language faculty member, or by taking the following sequence of courses in either Arabic or Hebrew:
101. Elementary Literary Arabic (5)
102. Elementary Literary Arabic (5)
103. Elementary Literary Arabic (5)
101. Elementary Hebrew (5)
102. Elementary Hebrew (5)
103. Elementary Hebrew (5)
Alternatively, students may take Turkish or Persian in self-paced, semi-intensive or intensive summer and/or full-year programs at any of the many reputable American, European, and overseas institutions.
(2) Introductory Course (3 Credit Hours)
MES 245: Introduction to the Middle East
(3) Allied Courses (18 Credit Hours)
Allied coursework should be coherently selected from the representative sample of courses listed below, in accordance with the interests of the student and in consultation with the faculty advisor. Courses must be selected from no less than four groups (i.e. Groups 1 to 8 below), and drawn from at least three separate departments and programs that offer the courses listed below (i.e. ARAB, FREN, HIST, JUDC, POL, REL, ANTH, GEOG, GEOL, ECON).
Group 1: History
15 HIST 170: Middle East/North Africa History 660-1258
15 HIST 171: Middle East/North Africa History 1258-1850
15 HIST 172: Middle East/North Africa History 1850- Present
15 HIST 570: War and Peace In the Middle East
15 HIST 400: Junior Topics Seminar [counts when taught by Prof.Frierson on topics dealing with the Middle East]
15 JUDC 127: History of Jewish Civilization I
15 JUDC 128: History of Jewish Civilization II
15 JUDC 129: History of Jewish Civilization III
15 JUDC 3XX: Biblical History
Group 2: Political Institutions
15 POL 271/571: Government and Politics of the Middle East I
15 POL 272/572: Government and Politics of the Middle East II: Arab-Israeli Conflict
15 JUDC 326: Jewish Nationalism
Group 3: Culture and Geography
15 ARAB 310: Culture of Contemporary Arab Society
15 ARAB 311: Arab-American Culture
15 JUDC 330: Jews and Islam
15 JUDC 327: Modern Israel
15 JUDC 341: The Sephardic Diaspora: 1492-2000
15 JUDC 325: Jerusalem
15 GEOG 231: Geography of the Middle East
Group 4: Literature
15 ARAB 320: Modern Arabic Literature
15 ARAB 321: Classical Arabic Literature
15 ARAB 322: Arab Women Novelists
15 FREN 396: Tradition, Struggle for Independence and Gender Roles in
North Africa
15 JUDC 337: Israeli Literature in Translation
15 JUDC 353: Gender in Judaism
15 JUDC 324: War in Israeli Literature
Group 5: Religion and Thought
15 JUDC 135: Introduction to Judaism
15 HIST/ARAB/REL 135: Introduction to Islam
15 HIST/ARAB/REL 135: Introduction to Eastern Christianity
15 JUDC 394: Modern Jewish Thought
15 RELG 260: History and Thought of Islam
Group 6: Language
15 ARAB 201-202-203: Intermediate Literary Arabic
15 ARAB 301-302-303: Advanced Intermediate Literary Arabic
15 JUDC 201-202-203: Intermediate Hebrew
15 JUDC 331-332-333: Advanced Hebrew
Group 7: Media and Film
15 JUDC 372: Israeli Cinema
15 HIST 571: Media in and about the Middle East
15 HIST 572: Film and the Middle East
Group 8: Other Allied Courses
15 ANTH 320: Balkan Peoples
15 ANTH 322: Peoples of Siberia, Central Asia and Turkey
15 GEOG 105: Intro to Human Geography: Patterns of Politics and Culture
15 GEOG 126: Geography of Asia
15 GEOG 335: Geography of Religion
15 ANTH 515: Water Management
15 GEOG 353: GeoPolitics
15 GEOL 601: Environmental Geology of Aquifer Systems
15 GEOL 602: Groundwater Modeling
15 GEOL 603: Geochemistry of Natural Waters
15 ECON 575: Economic Development
15 ECON 593: Economics of Natural Resources and Sustainability
15 POL 365/665: Women and Politics in the Third World |
