Middle East Studies Concentration
Pre-requisite – Complete 2 courses:
- ARAB 121 - Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II
- ARAB 122 - Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II
- ARAB 221 - Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic I
- ARAB 222 - Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic II
- MEST/ARAB 331 - Advanced Arabic Composition and Grammar
- MEST/ARAB 332 - Formal Spoken Arabic
I. Required:
II. Complete 2 courses:
- 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 2 courses from List A (in addition to the Prerequisite), B, C, D, E, or F:
- List A: Arabic
- 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
- List B: French
- FREN 211 – Intermediate French I
- FREN 212 – Intermediate French II
- FREN 217 – Honors: Intermediate French I
- FREN 218 – Honors: Intermediate French II
- FREN 333 – Intermediate Composition and Grammar
- FREN 334 – Intermediate Conversation and Phonetics
- FREN 345 – French for Business
- FREN 353 – Introduction to Literary Analysis in French
- List C: Hebrew (modern)
- List D: Hebrew (biblical)
- REST 221 – Intermediate Biblical Hebrew I
- REST 222 – Intermediate Biblical Hebrew II
- List E: Persian
- List F: Spanish
- SPAN 211 – Intermediate Spanish
- SPAN 212 – Intermediate Spanish
- SPAN 217 – Honors: Intermediate Spanish
- SPAN 218 – Honors: Intermediate Spanish
- SPAN 305 – Conversation and Aural Comprehension
- SPAN 323 – Upper-level Grammar and Composition
- SPAN 330 – Textual Analysis
IV. Select 5 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 and the Islamic World, 1050-1500
- MEST/HIME 370 - Modern 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