Middle East Studies Minor

I. Required:

• MEST/REST 225 - Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, Islam

II. Complete 1 course:

• MEST/HIME 366 – History of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 600-1050
• MEST/HIME 369 -  History of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 1050-1500
• MEST/HIME 370 - Modern Middle East

III. Complete 4 additional courses housed in at least two different departments:

• MEST/ARAB 331 - Advanced Arabic Composition and Grammar
• MEST/ARAB 332 - Formal Spoken Arabic
• MEST/ARAB 431 – Media Arabic
• MEST/ARAB 432 – Introduction to Arabic Literature
• MEST/ARTH 425 – Early Christian and Byzantine Art to 1350
• CLAS/REST 345 – Greek and Roman Religion
• CLAS/ANTH 436 – Cities and Sanctuaries of the Greek and Roman World
• ENGL 389 - Literature of the English Bible
• HIEU/CLAS 304 – History of the Roman Empire
• HIEU/CLAS 305 – History of the Late Roman Empire
• HIEU/CLAS 306 – History of Hellenistic Greece
• HIEU 395 - The Crusades and Medieval Christian-Muslim Relations
• HIME 350 – Early Muslim-Christian Relations
• MEST/HIME 366 – History of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 600-1050
• MEST/HIME 369 -  History of the Middle East
• MEST/HIME 370 - History of the Middle East
• HIME 382 - Archaeology of the Biblical World
• HIME 383 – Early Jewish History
• HIME 384 – Studies in Middle East History
• HIME 400 - History and Archaeology of Mesopotamia
• HIME 484 - Studies in Middle East History
• HIME 486 - Studies in the Ancient Near East
• MEST/POLS 463 - Contemporary Middle East Politics
• REST 311 – Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
• REST 312 – Introduction to Early Judaism
• REST/HIEU 321 - New Testament and Early Christian Origins
• REST/HIEU 322 - Christianity in Late Antiquity
• REST 332 – Introduction to Islam
• REST 339 - Islam in the Modern World
• REST 336 – Literatures of Islam
• REST 381 - Introduction to Judaism
• REST 385 - Contemporary Jewish Thinkers
• REST 386 - Voices of the Holocaust
• REST 405 - Modern Jewish Thought
• REST 413 - Seminar in Early Judaism
• REST 423 - Seminar in Early Christianity
• REST 436 – Seminar in Islamic Studies