University of Virginia
Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
Degree Programs

Degree Programs - Undergraduate

DEGREE PROGRAM COURSE LISTINGS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

List of possible courses to be taken for credit in the Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures degree programs. Consult SIS for current course offerings.

Note: You must receive prior approval from an advisor before a course may count towards a degree program.

History
Politics
Religious Studies
Studies in Women and Gender

Anthropology

ANTH 2470 - (3)
Reflections of Exile: Jewish Languages and Communities

ANTH 3470 - (3)
Language and Culture in the Middle East

ANTH 3665 - (3)
Trade Diasporas: Exchanges and Connections across Asia

ANTH 3840 - (3)
Archaeology of the Middle East

ANTH 5620 - (3)
The Middle East in Ethnographic Perspective

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Architectural History

ARH 3205 - (3)
Rome, Istanbul, Venice

ARH 3207 - (3)
Arts and Architecture of the Islamic World

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Art History

ARTH 2051 - (3)
Art of the Ancient Near East and Prehistoric Europe

ARTH 2052 - (3)
Egyptian Art

ARTH 2151 - (3)
Early Christian and Byzantine Art

ARTH 2961 - (3)
Arts of the Islamic World

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Economics

ECON 3630 - (3)
Economics of the Middle East

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History

HIAF 3011 - (3)
North African History from Carthage to the Algerian Revolution

HIEU 2101 - (3)
Jewish History I: The Ancient and Medieval Experience

HIEU 2102 - (3)
Modern Jewish History

HIME 1501 - (3)
Introductory Seminar in Middle East History

HIME 1559 - (3)
New Course in Middle Eastern History

HIME 2001 - (4)
History of the Middle East and North Africa, ca. 570-ca. 1500

HIME 2002 - (4)
History of the Middle East and North Africa, ca. 1500-Present

HIME 2012 - (3)
Palestine 1948

HIME 2559 - (3)
New Course in Middle Eastern History

HIME 3191 - (3)
Christianity and Islam

HIME 3559 - (3)
New Course in Middle Eastern History

HIME 4501 - (4)
Seminar in Middle East and North Africa History

HIME 4511 - (4)
Colloquium in Middle East History

HIME 4559 - (3)
New Course in Middle Eastern History

HIME 4591 - (3)
Topics in Middle Eastern History

HIME 4993 - (1-3)
Independent Study in Middle Eastern History

HIME 5002 - (3)
Seeking Justice in the Middle East

HIME 5021 - (3)
Revolution, Islam, and Gender in the Middle East

HIME 5052 - (3)
World War I in the Middle East

HIME 5559 - (3)
New Course in Middle Eastern History

HIUS 3191 - (3)
American Jewish History

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Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures

ARAB 1010, 1020 - (4)
Elementary Arabic

ARAB 1016, 1026 - (4)
Intensive Introductory Arabic

ARAB 2010, 2020 - (4)
Intermediate Arabic

ARAB 2016, 2026 - (4)
Intensive Intermediate Arabic

ARAB 2250 - (3)
Conversational Arabic

ARAB 2260 - (3)
Conversational Arabic

ARAB 3010, 3020 - (3)
Advanced Arabic I - II

ARAB 3230 - (3)
Arabic Conversation and Composition

ARAB 3240 - (3)
Advanced Arabic Conversation and Composition

ARAB 3330 - (3)
Arabic of the Quran and Hadith I

ARAB 3340 - (3)
Arabic of the Quran and Hadith II

ARAB 3672 - (3)
Advanced Arabic Grammar

ARAB 3810 - (3)
Modern Arabic Fiction

ARAB 4010, 4020- (3)
Advanced Arabic III - IV

ARAB 4120 - (3)
Introduction to Arabic Drama

ARAB 4559 - (3)
New Course in Arabic

ARAB 4993 - (1-3)
Independent Study in Arabic

ARAB 5830 - (3)
Topics in Arabic Prose

ARAB 5840 - (3)
Topics in Arabic Prose

ARAB 5850 - (3)
Media Arabic

ARAB 5860 - (3)
Nineteenth Century Arabic Prose

ARAB 5870 - (3)
Media Arabic II

ARTR 2500 - (3)
Taboo and the Arabic Novel

ARTR 3290 - (3)
Modern Arabic Literature in Translation

ARTR 3350 - (3)
Introduction to Arab Women's Literature

ARTR 3390 - (3)
Love, Alienation, and Poltics in Contemporary Arabic Novel

HEBR 1010, 1020 - (4)
Introduction to Modern Hebrew I - II

HEBR 1410, 1420 - (3)
Elementary Classical Hebrew I - II

HEBR 2010, 2020 - (4)
Intermediate Modern Hebrew

HEBR 2410, 2420 - (3)
Intermediate Classical Hebrew I - II

HEBR 3010, 3020 - (3)
Advanced Modern Hebrew I - II

HEBR 4993 - (1-3)
Independent Study in Hebrew I - II

HETR 2300 - (3)
Introduction to Israeli Literature in Translation

HETR 3559 - (3)
New Course in Hebrew Translation

PERS 1010, 1020 - (4)
Elementary Persian

PERS 2010, 2020 - (4)
Intermediate Persian

PERS 3010 - (3)
Readings in Modern Persian Poetry

PERS 3020 - (3)
Readings in Modern Persian Prose Fiction

PERS 3230 - (3)
Introduction to Classical Persian Literature

PERS 3240 - (3)
Introduction to Modern Persian Literature

PERS 3559 - (3)
New Course in Persian

PERS 4240 - (3)
Advanced Readings in Sufi Texts

PERS 4993 - (1-3)
Independent Study in Persian

PETR 3210 - (3)
Persian Literature in Translation

PETR 3220 - (3)
Twentieth-Century Persian Literature in Translation

Politics

PLCP 3410 (3)
Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

PLCP 4180 - (3)
Politics of the Holocaust

PLCP 4410 - (3)
Nation Building in Iraq

PLCP 5410 - (3)
Islam and Democracy in the Middle East

PLIR 3650 - (3)
International Relations in the Middle East

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Religious Studies

RELA 3900 - (3)
Islam in Africa

RELC 2050 - (3)
History of Christianity I

RELC 3090 - (3)
Israelite Prophecy

RELC 3360 - (3)
Judaism and Christianity

RELG 2475 - (3)
God in Abrahamic Traditions

RELG 3080 - (3)
Israeli Fiction in Translation

RELI 2070 - (3)
Classical Islam

RELI 2080 - (3)
Islam in the Modern Age

RELI 2559 - (3)
New Course in Islam

RELI 3110 - (3)
Muhammad and the Qur'an

RELI 3120 - (3)
Sufism: Islamic Mysticism

RELI 3559 - (3)
New Course in Islam

RELI 3670 - (3)
Religion and Politics in Islam

RELI 3900 - (3)
Islam in Africa

RELI 4559 - (3)
New Course in Islam

RELI 5380 - (3)
Islamic Biomedical Ethics

RELI 5410 - (3)
Islamic Theology: The Shi'ite Creed

RELI 5420 - (3)
War and Peace in Islam: A Comparative Ethics Approach

RELI 5540 - (3)
Seminar in Islamic Theology

RELI 5559 - (3)
New Course in Islam

RELJ 1410, 1420 - (3)
Elementary Classical Hebrew I - II

RELJ 2030 - (3)
The Judaic Tradition

RELJ 2056 - (3)
Classical Sources in the Jewish Tradition

RELJ 2061 - (3)
Judaism, Modernity, and Secularization

RELJ 2230 - (3)
Jewish Spiritual Journeys

RELJ 2240 - (3)
Jewish Ritual

RELJ 2300 - (3)
Introduction to Israeli Literature in Translation

RELJ 2350 - (3)
Jewish Ethics

RELJ 2410, 2420 - (3)
Intermediate Classical Hebrew I - II

RELJ 2521 - (3)
Special Topics in Judaism

RELJ 2559 - (3)
New Course in Judaism

RELJ 3030 - (3)
Historical Jesus

RELJ 3052 - (3)
Responses to the Holocaust

RELJ 3070 - (3)
Beliefs and Ethics after the Holocaust

RELJ 3085 - (3)
The Passover Haggadah

RELJ 3090 - (3)
Israelite Prophecy

RELJ 3100 - (3)
Medieval Jewish Theology

RELJ 3220 - (3)
Judaism and Zionism

RELJ 3300 - (3)
The Jewish Mystical Tradition

RELJ 3310 - (3)
Jewish Law

RELJ 3320 - (3)
Judaism: Medicine and Healing

RELJ 3330 - (3)
Women and Judaism: Tradition and Change

RELJ 3340 - (3)
Jewish Medical Ethics

RELJ 3350 - (3)
Jewish Social Ethics

RELJ 3360 - (3)
Judaism and Christianity

RELJ 3370 - (3)
Modern Movements in Judaism

RELJ 3390 - (3)
Jewish Feminism

RELJ 3430 - (3)
Women in Judaism

RELJ 3830 - (3)
Talmud

RELJ 3910 - (3)
Women and the Bible

RELJ 4459 - (3)
New Course in Judaism

RELJ 4591 - (3)
Topics in Modern Jewish History

RELJ 5050 - (3)
Judaism in Antiquity

RELJ 5220 - (3)
Literary Approaches to Rabbinic Literature

RELJ 5230 - (3)
Modern Jewish Thought: From Phenomenology to Scripture

RELJ 5280 - (3)
Seminan In Israelite Religion

RELJ 5290 - (3)
Seminan in Hebrew Bible

RELJ 5300 - (3)
Early Christianity and Classical Judaism

RELJ 5559 - (3)
New Course in Judaism

RELJ 5940 - (3)
Judaism and Kantian Philosphy

RELJ 5950 - (3)
Midrashic Imagination

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Studies in Women and Gender

SWAG 3020 - (3)
Gender in Muslim Lives

SWAG 3120 - (3)
Women and Islam

SWAG 3140 - (3)
Border Crossings: Women, Islam and Literature in the MIddle East and North Africa

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