Middle East Studies

OFFICE: 3008 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Muir College
http://historyweb.ucsd.edu/MiddleEastStud.html

Faculty

Guillermo Algaze, Professor, Anthropology

Eli Berman, Associate Professor, Economics

Suzanne Brenner, Associate Professor, Anthropology

David Goodblatt, Professor, History

Hasan Kayali, Associate Professor, History

Sanford A. Lakoff, Professor Emeritus, Political Science

Thomas Levy, Professor, Anthropology

Timothy McDaniel, Professor, Sociology

Michael E. Meeker, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology

Esra Özyürek, Associate Professor, Anthropology

William H. Propp, Professor, History

Michael Provence, Program Director, Middle East Studies, Associate Professor, History

Babak Rahimi, Assistant Professor, Literature

James Rauch, Professor, Economics

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

For course descriptions not found in the UC San Diego General Catalog, 2009–10, please contact the department for more information.

Core Courses

ANTH 199. Independent Study (Middle East Anthropology)

ANSC 133. Peoples and Culture of the Middle East

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)

HITO 105. Jews and Judaism in the Modern World

LTWL 141. Islam and Modernity

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

POLI. 121. Middle East Politics

POLI. 138D. Special Topics/Comparative Polities: The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Soc./D 122. Jerusalem: Sacred and Profane

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

ANAR 140. Foundations/Social Complex/Near East

ANAR 141. Prehistory of the Holy Land

ANTH 3. World Prehistory

JUDA 1. Beginning Hebrew

JUDA 2. Intermediate Hebrew

JUDA 3. Intermediate Hebrew Continued

JUDA 101. Introduction to Hebrew Texts

JUDA 102. Intermediate Hebrew Texts

JUDA 103. Advanced Hebrew Texts

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 the Ancient Near East

HINE 170. Special Topics in Jewish History

LIAB 1A. Beginning Arabic

LIAB 1B. Beginning Arabic

LIAB 1C. Elementary Arabic

LIAB 1D. Elementary Arabic

LIHL 116. Arabic for Arabic Speakers