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Middle East Studies

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CAESAR Programs Advising
Institute of Arts and Humanities
Ridge Walk Academic Complex, Arts and Humanities Building, Room 655
caesar@ucsd.edu
http://caesar.ucsd.edu/middle-east/index.html

All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.

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 (minimum twenty-eight units).
  • At least five courses (twenty units) must be upper division.
  • There is no language requirement. Students may choose to take a three-quarter (minimum twelve units) sequence of a Middle Eastern language (in which case only four of the seven courses need to be upper division).
  • All seven courses must be taken for a letter grade.
  • The courses that 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 2024–25, please contact the department for more information.

ANAR 141. Prehistory of the Holy Land

ANSC 133. Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

ANTH 199. Independent Study (Middle East Anthropology)

CGS 167A/ETHN 167A. Decolonial Muslim Feminism

COMM 158. Representations of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

ECON 165. Middle East Economics

ETHN 166/LTEN 179. Arab/Muslim American Identity and Culture

ETHN 167. Muslim Identity in America

ETHN 167A/CGS 167A. Decolonial Muslim Feminisms

GSS 25. Middle East: History, Culture, and Politics

HIEU 117. Greece and the Balkans

HINE 100. The Hebrew Bible History

HINE 108. The Middle East before Islam

HINE 109. History of the Ottoman Empire

HINE 112A/AL. Great Stories from the Hebrew Bible

HINE 112B/BL. Great Poems from the Hebrew Bible

HINE 113. Ancient Near East Mythology

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 119. United States Mid-East Policy Post-WWII

HINE 120. The Middle East in the New Century

HINE 126. Iranian Revolution in Historical Perspective

HINE 127. History of Modern Turkey

HINE 128. History of the Middle East: The Early Medieval Period, 500–1000

HINE 129. History of the Middle East: The Late Medieval Period, 1000–1500

HINE 137. History of Two Peoples in Palestine/Israel

HINE 144. Topics in Middle Eastern History

HINE 145. Islam and Science: The History of Science in the Middle East (600–1950)

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

HINE 162. Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible

HINE 166. Nationalism in the Middle East

HINE 170. Special Topics in Jewish History

HINE 186. Special Topics in Middle Eastern History

HINE 199. Independent Study in Near Eastern History

HITO 105. Jewish Modernity from 1648 to 1948

JWSP 1. Beginning Hebrew

JWSP 2. Intermediate Hebrew

JWSP 3. Intermediate Hebrew Continued

JWSP 101. Introduction to Hebrew Texts

JWSP 102. Intermediate Hebrew Texts

JWSP 103. Advanced Hebrew Texts

JWSP 104. Practicum in Advanced Hebrew

LIAB 1A. Arabic Conversation

LIAB 1AX. Analysis of Arabic

LIAB 1B. Arabic Conversation

LIAB 1BX. Analysis of Arabic

LIAB 1C. Arabic Conversation

LIAB 1CX. Analysis of Arabic

LIAB 1D. Arabic Conversation

LIAB 1DX. Analysis of Arabic

LIAB 1E. Intermediate Arabic Conversation and Analysis

LIAB 1F. Intermediate Arabic Conversation and Analysis

LIAB 1G. Advanced Arabic

LIHL 116F. Arabic for Arabic Speakers

LIHL 116W. Arabic for Arabic Speakers

LIHL 116P. Arabic for Arabic Speakers

LIHL 136. Advanced Arabic for Arabic Speakers

LIHL 117F. Persian for Persian Speakers

LIHL 117W. Persian for Persian Speakers

LIHL 117P. Persian for Persian Speakers

LIHL 137F. Advanced Persian for Persian Speakers

LIHL 137W. Advanced Persian for Persian Speakers

LIHL 137P. Advanced Persian for Persian Speakers

LTEN 179/ETHN 166. Topics: Arab/Muslim American Identity and Culture

LTEN 182. Diaspora, Race, and Iranian American Literature

LTWL 134. Cinema and Islam

LTWL 143. Arab Literatures and Cultures

LTWL 157. Iranian Film

LTWL 159. Digital Middle East: Culture, Politics, and Religion

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

POLI 121. Government and Politics of the Middle East

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

SOCI 158. Islam in the Modern World

SOCI 188F. Modern Jewish Societies and Israeli Society

SOCI 188I. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

SOCI 199. Independent Study (Middle East Sociology)