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Courses of Study 2009-2010


Near Eastern Studies


Arabic
NES 1201–1202Elementary Arabic I and II (also ASRC 1104/1105)
NES 1203–2200Intermediate Arabic I and II (also ASRC 1106/2101)
NES 2203Elementary Arabic for Native Speakers -- Not Offered This Year
NES 2204Introduction to Quranic Arabic (also ASRC 2106, RELST 2204) (LA-AS)
NES 3201–3202Advanced Intermediate Arabic I and II (also ASRC 3100–3101) @
NES 3203–3204Current Events in Arabic Media @ (CA-AS)
NES 4203Readings in Arabic Poetry (LA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 4206Structure of the Arabic Language (also LING 4416) @ (KCM-AS)
NES 4211Readings in Arabic Literature # @ (LA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
Greek
NES 1340–1341Elementary Modern Greek I and II (GREEK 1141–1142)
NES 1342–2324Intermediate Modern Greek I and II (GREEK 1143–2144)
Hebrew
NES 1101–1102Elementary Modern Hebrew I and II (also JWST 1101–1102)
NES 1103Elementary Modern Hebrew III (also JWST 1103)
NES 1104Beginners Intensive Hebrew (also JWST 1104)
NES 1105Hebrew Summer Follow-Up (also JWST 1105)
NES 2100Intermediate Modern Hebrew: Special Topics in Hebrew (also JWST 2100) @
NES 3101Advanced Intermediate Modern Hebrew I: Aspects of Israeli Society (also JWST 3101) @
NES 3102Advanced Intermediate Modern Hebrew II: Aspects of Israeli Culture (also JWST 3102)
NES 3103Love, Wine, Death, and In Between (also JWST 3103) @ # (CA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 3105Intensive Conversational Hebrew (also JWST 3105)
NES 4102Biblical Hebrew Prose—Genesis (also JWST/RELST 4102) @ # (LA-AS)
Hieroglyphic Egyptian
NES 3450–3451Hieroglyphic Egyptian I and II
Hindi–Urdu
NES 1312Introduction to Urdu Script (also URDU 1125)
NES 2201–2202Intermediate Written Urdu I and II (also URDU 2201–2202)
Intensive Arabic Program (IAP)
NES 3206Intensive Arabic Program (IAP)
NES 3207Current Events in Arabic Media (IAP)
NES 3213Introduction to Jordanian Society (IAP)
NES 4204Arabic Grammar (IAP)
Persian
NES 1320–1321Elementary Persian I and II
NES 1322–2322Intermediate Persian I and II
Topics Courses
NES 2525Islam in America (also AMST/RELST 2525) (CA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 2537Ninth-Century Baghdad and Its “Bad Boys and Girls” @ *
NES 2611Prophecy in Ancient Israel (also JWST/RELST 2611)
NES 2620Modern European Jewish History 1789–1948 (also HIST 2910, JWST 2920)
NES 2629Introduction to New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (also CLASS 2613, JWST/RELST 2629) @ # (HA-AS)
NES 2651Holy War, Crusade, and Jihad (also COML 2310, HIST 2691, JWST 2651) # @ (HA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 2655Introduction to Islamic Civilization (also HIST 2530, RELST 2655) @ # (HA-AS)
NES 2661Ancient Ships and Seafaring—Introduction to Nautical Archaeology (also ARKEO/JWST 2661) @ # (HA-AS)
NES 2668Ancient Egyptian Civilization (also ARKEO/JWST 2668, HIST 2880) @ # (HA-AS)
NES 2674History of the Modern Middle East: 19th–20th Centuries (also HIST/JWST 2674, GOVT 2747) @ (HA-AS)
NES 2699History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1922 (also HIST 2699)
NES 2724Introduction to Hebrew Bible (also JWST/RELST 2724) (LA-AS)
NES 2728Introduction to Modern Middle Eastern Literature (also COML 2728)
NES 2754Introduction to Near Eastern Civilization: The Literature of Princes, Prophets, and Poets (also COML 2754) @ # (LA-AS)
NES 2793Middle Eastern Cinema (also COML/FILM 2930, JWST 2793, VISST 2193) @ (LA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 3212Qur’an and Commentary (also RELST 3212) @ # (LA-AS)
NES 3524/6524Israelite Prophecy (also JWST/RELST 3524) @ # (LA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 3551Law, Society, and Culture in the Middle East (also HIST 3651/6651, NES 6551) @ # (CA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 3588Biblical Archaeology (also JWST/RELST 3588)
NES 3600History of the Holocaust (also HIST/JWST 3700) (HA-AS)
NES 3619Near Eastern Christianities, 50–650 ce (also HIST/JWST/RELST 3619) @ # (HA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 3629Introduction to New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (also CLASS/JWST/RELST 3629)
NES 3633Christianization of the Roman World (also CLASS/HIST/RELST 3625) @ # (HA-AS)
NES 3661Sumerian Language and Culture I (also ARKEO/JWST 3661/6661, NES 6661) @ # (HA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 3665Ancient Iraq II: 2000–331 bce (also ARKEO/JWST 3665) # (HA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 3666History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (also ARKEO/JWST 3666/6666, NES 6666) @ # (HA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 3670History of Modern Egypt (also HIST 3670)
NES 3677Search for the Historical Muhammad (also HIST/RELST 3677)
NES 3697Israeli–Palestinian Conflict (also GOVT 3977, HIST/SOC 3970, JWST 3697) @ (HA-AS)
NES 3703Cosmopolitan Alexandria (also NES 6703) @ (LA-AS) ® -- Not Offered This Year
NES 3709Modern Arabic Drama @ (LA-AS) ® -- Not Offered This Year
NES 3716Education of Princes: Medieval Advice Literature of Rulership and Counsel (also COML/GOVT 3716) @ # (HA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 3720Women in Ancient Israel (also JWST/RELST 3270) ® (LA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 3723The Arabian Nights: Then and Now (also COML 3723/6723, NES 6723) @ # (LA-AS)
NES 3759Romanesque and Early Gothic Art and Architecture: Europe and the Mediterranean, 900–1150 ad (also ARTH 3300) # (LA-AS)
NES 3799Imagining the Other: Jews and Arabs in Contemporary Literature and Film (also COML/JWST 3799) @ (LA-AS)
NES 3844Islamic Politics (also GOVT 3344) @ (SBA-AS)
NES 3850Middle Eastern Politics (also GOVT 3313) @ (CA-AS)
NES 3914Middle Eastern Music Ensemble (also MUSIC 3614)
NES 4101Modern Hebrew Literature (also JWST 4101) @ (LA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 4211Readings in Arabic Literature (LA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 4501Islam in Africa and Diaspora (also ASRC 4201/6206) (CA-AS)
NES 4511The Multicultural Alhambra (also ARTH 4311, VISST 4621) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 4540Maimonides and Averroes (JWST/RELST 4540, SPAN 4380) @ # (CA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 4550The World of the Phoenicians (also HIST 4552, JWST 4550)
NES 4560Theory and Method in Near Eastern Studies (CA-AS)
NES 4600Religion and Imperial Politics in the Early Modern Middle East (also HIST 4611) @ # (HA-AS)
NES 4605Contesting Identities in Modern Egypt (also HIST 4091) @ (HA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 4639Readings in Arabic Historical Texts (also RELST 4639) @ # (HA-AS)
NES 4642Women in the Modern Middle East (also FGSS 4640, HIST 4642) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 4644Late Bronze Age World of Ugarit (also ARKEO/HIST/JWST 4644/6644, CLASS 4744/7744, NES 6644) ® -- Not Offered This Year
NES 4666Mass Media and Identities in the Modern Middle East (also HIST 4666)
NES 4670Wealth and Power in Early Civilizations (also JWST 4670) @ # (HA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 4672Nationalism(s) and Nation-States in the Arab World -- Not Offered This Year
NES 4727New York, Paris, Baghdad: Poetry of the City (also COML 4600/6870, NES 6727)
NES 4731Topics in Islamic Art: The Almoravids, the Almohads, and the “Sunni Revival” (also ARTH 4331/6331, NES 6731) @ # (HA-AS) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 4738Imagining the Mediterranean (also COML 4960, JWST 4738) @ (LA-AS)
NES 4784Israeli Nation: Self and Literature (also JWST 4784)
NES 4874States and Societies in the Middle East (also GOVT 4374/6474, NES 6874)
NES 4903Methods in the Study of the Ancient Near East (also ARKEO 4903, JWST 4903) ® -- Not Offered This Year
NES 4914Liminality in Maritime Archaeology (also HIST/SHUM 4814)
NES 4916Crossing Oceans of Time (also SHUM 4816, HIST 4816)
NES 4923Secular Disaffections: On Islam and the Politics of Emotion (also COML 4066, RELST/SHUM 4823)
NES 4953Islamism (also GOVT 4665)
NES 4991–4992Independent Study, Undergraduate Level
NES 4998–4999Independent Study, Honors
NES 6112Readings in Medieval Hebrew Poetry and Prose (also JWST 6112) -- Not Offered This Year
NES 6642Topics in Ancient History (also CLASS 7682, HIST 6300, JWST 6642)
NES 6723The Arabian Nights: Then and Now (also COML 3723/6723, NES 3723)
NES 6727New York, Paris, Baghdad: Poetry of the City (also COML 4600/6870, NES 4727)
NES 6874States and Societies in the Middle East (also GOVT 4374/6474, NES 4874)
NES 6991–6992Independent Study: Graduate Level
NES 7633Gender in Late Antiquity (also CLASS/HIST/RELST 7633, FGSS 7630)
NES 7979Water and Culture in the Mediterranean: a Crisis? (also BEE 7540, LAW 7792)
Turkish
NES 1330–1331Elementary Turkish I and II
NES 1332–2332Intermediate Turkish I and II