Middle East Studies

OFFICE: 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Muir College
Web site: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/history/MiddleEastStud.html

Faculty

Guillermo Algaze, Professor, Anthropology
Suzanne Brenner, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Arthur Droge, Professor, Literature
David Noel Freedman, Professor, History
Richard Friedman, Professor, Literature
David Goodblatt, Professor, History
Hasan Kayali, Associate Professor, History
Sanford E. Lakoff, Professor, Political Science
Thomas Levy, Professor, Anthropology
Timothy McDaniel, Professor, Sociology
Michael E. Meeker, Professor, Anthropology
William H. Propp, Professor, History
Gershon Shafir, Professor, Sociology
Melford E. Spiro, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
Winifred Woodhull, Associate Professor, Literature
Oumelbanine Zhiri, Professor, Literature

The Minor

The minor in Middle East studies is an interdisciplinary program aimed at a comparative study of the Middle East (including North Africa).

The program consists of seven courses, of which at least five must be upper-division courses. Three courses have to deal with the Middle East since the emergence of Islam, as listed here under “Core Courses.” The remaining courses may be chosen from either the Core Courses or the Supporting Courses; and they may be courses dealing with the ancient, medieval, or modern Middle East or a three-quarter sequence of a Middle Eastern language (in which case only four of the seven courses need to be upper-division). Ordinarily, all seven courses must be taken for a letter grade.

The courses which make up the minor must be approved by the student’s college and by the Middle East Studies Program.

Approved courses taken at other universities or through participation in the Education Abroad Program can be included as part of the minor by petition.

Courses

Core Courses

ANRG 100. Law and Religion in Israel

ANRG 162. Peoples of the Middle East

ANPR 199. Independent Study (Middle East Anthropology)

HINE 108. The Middle East before Islam

HINE 114. History of the Islamic Middle East

HINE 116. The Middle East in the Age of European Empires

HINE 118. The Middle East in the Twentieth Century

HINE 166. Nationalism in the Middle East

HINE 186. Special Topics in Middle Eastern History

HINE 199. Independent Study (Middle East History)

LTNE 150. Arabic Literature in Translation

LTWL 142. Islam: The Origins and Spread of a World Religion

LTWL 160. Women in Literature: Arabic Women in Literature & Society

Poli. Sci. 121. Middle East Politics

Soc./D 158. Islam in the Modern World

Soc./D 188F. Modern Jewish Societies and Israeli Society

Soc./E 199. Independent Study (Middle East Sociology)

TWS 25. Third-World Literatures

Supporting Courses

ANLD 3. World Prehistory

ANRG 115. Foundations/Social Complex/Near East

ANRG 116. Archaeology of Society in Syro-Palestine

ANRG 182. Ethnography of Island Southeast Asia

Judaic Studies 1. Beginning Hebrew

Judaic Studies 2. Intermediate Hebrew

Judaic Studies 3. Intermediate Hebrew Continued

Judaic Studies 101. Introduction to Hebrew Texts

Judaic Studies 102. Intermediate Hebrew Texts

Judaic Studies 103. Advanced Hebrew Texts

HINE 100. The Ancient Near East and Israel

HINE 102. The Jews in Their Homeland in Antiquity

HINE 104. The Bible and the Ancient Near East

HINE 106. The Bible and the Near East: The Writings

HINE 160. Special Topics in the Bible and Ancient Near East

HINE 170. Special Topics in Jewish History

HINE 181. Problems in the Study of Hebrew Manuscripts

HINE 199. Independent Study (Judaic Studies)

HITO 100. Ancient Religions

HITO 104. Jews and Judaism in the Ancient Medieval World

LTNE 102. Bible: The Prophetic Books

LTNE 106. Bible: Topics in Biblical Narrative

LTWL 143. Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective

Poli SCI 138D. Politics in the Balkans

Soc./D 189. Special Topics in Comparative-Historical Sociology (Middle East Topics)