Current course offerings on SIS
Note: You must receive prior approval from an advisor before a course may count towards a degree program.
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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 3259- (3) Advanced Arabic for Business
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 4230 - (3) Love, War, and Diaspora in Hoda Barakat's Writing
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
ARTR 3490 - (3) Arab Cinemas
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
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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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Women, Gender, and Sexuality
WGS 3020 - (3) Gender in Muslim Lives
WGS 3120 - (3) Women and Islam
WGS 3140 - (3) Border Crossings: Women, Islam and Literature in the MIddle East and North Africa