Near Eastern Studies (NES)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.
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Classes
NES 1101
Course Description
Intended for beginners. Provides a thorough grounding in reading, writing, grammar, oral comprehension, and speaking. Students who complete the course are able to function in basic situations ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 1101
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF White Hall B14
Instructors
Shoer, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 1101
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF White Hall B14
Instructors
Shoer, S
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For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
NES 1103
Course Description
Sequel to NES 1101-NES 1102. Continued development of reading, writing, grammar, oral comprehension, and speaking skills. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 1103
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWR White Hall B14
Instructors
Shoer, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 1103
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWR White Hall B14
Instructors
Shoer, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
NES 1201
Course Description
Provides a thorough grounding in all language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It starts with spoken Arabic and gradually integrates Modern Standard Arabic in the form of listening and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 1201
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF White Hall 114
Instructors
Collinson, M
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Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 1201
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MTWRF Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Weatherspoon, M
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Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 1201
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MTWRF Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Weatherspoon, M
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Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 1201
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MTWRF White Hall B02
Instructors
Collinson, M
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NES 1203
Course Description
Sequel to NES 1201-NES 1202. Continued development of the four language skills through extensive use of graded materials on a wide variety of topics. Increased attention is given to developing native-like ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTW Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Collinson, M
- R Uris Hall 394
Instructors
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Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 1203
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MTWR Morrill Hall 111
Instructors
Weatherspoon, M
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Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 1203
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWR White Hall B04
Instructors
Younes, M
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NES 1320
Course Description
The course is intended for beginners who have no proficiency in the target language. Students develop all four skills - speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Additional materials from authentic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- MTWRF White Hall B04
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Gocheleishvili, I
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NES 1322
Course Description
The course is designed with strong integration of modern colloquial Persian. Only colloquial is used for all speaking and listening activities, while reading and writing tasks are performed in formal ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWR White Hall B02
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Gocheleishvili, I
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NES 1330
Course Description
Intended for students with no experience in Turkish. The goal is to provide a thorough grounding in the Turkish language with an emphasis on communication. Small class size provides intensive practice ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF White Hall B02
Instructors
Haider, M
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NES 1451
Course Description
For over two thousand years, from the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2100 BCE) into the Roman era, Egyptian monuments were inscribed with hieroglyphs of the Middle Egyptian writing system. In this second of three ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 1451
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 417
Instructors
Monroe, C
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NES 1920
Course Description
This class will explore the ways that people in the late ancient world of the Near East were "religious," focusing especially upon the ways in which monotheistic religious communities and identities were ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Bursi, A
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NES 1963
Course Description
A casual reading of the Hebrew Scriptures might lead one to believe that the normative religion of the Israelites was that spelled out in the Torah and Prophets. However, a more critical appraisal of ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall B14
Instructors
Zorn, J
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NES 1969
Course Description
Women's active involvement in the protests of the "Arab Spring" contrasted with popular Western assumptions about the role of women in Arab societies. This class aims to investigate forms of rebellion ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Starr, D
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NES 2201
Course Description
This course is designed to develop competence in Urdu reading and writing for students with a first-year knowledge of Hindi and knowledge of Urdu script. May be taken concurrently with Intermediate ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: URDU 2225
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 128
Instructors
Rizvi, N
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Prerequisite: HINDI 1102 and URDU 1125 or permission of instructor. After pre-enrollment please contact Naaz Rizvi (nfr8) to enroll.
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NES 2203
Course Description
This course is designed for students who can speak and understand a spoken Arabic dialect (Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, etc.) but have little or no knowledge of written Arabic, known as Classical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2105
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Lincoln Hall 117
Instructors
Chami, Y
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NES 2615
Course Description
The word "empire" today evokes modern, capitalist, European, even American experiments in expansion and domination. But empires have been part of the political repertoire for millennia, which means some ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 2015, ARKEO 2015
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Khatchadourian, L
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NES 2634
Course Description
This course examines the cultural and historical interaction of Muslims and Jews from the emergence of Islam in the seventh century through the classical age of Islam down to the turn of the thirteenth ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2634, COML 2634, JWST 2634, RELST 2634
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 106
Instructors
Brann, R
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NES 2644
Course Description
In this course, students will survey the development of Judaism from its roots in ancient Mesopotamia to modernity. Rather than thinking of Judaism as static and easily definable, we will explore a history ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 2644, RELST 2644
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW White Hall 106
Instructors
Grossberg, D
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NES 2674
Course Description
This course examines major trends in the evolution of the Middle East in the modern era. Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries and ending with the "Arab Spring," we will consider Middle East history ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASRC 2674, GOVT 2747, HIST 2674, JWST 2674
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Malott Hall 253
Instructors
Kinney, D
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall B14
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall B14
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F White Hall 104
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
Staff
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- F Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Staff
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NES 2687
Course Description
Centrally located between two continents; the Middle East is drawn by nature to many environmental challenges that are re-lated to its unequal distribution of natural resources associated with its geological ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 2681, GOVT 2583, JWST 2687
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Ababneh, L
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NES 2777
Course Description
This course offers an overview of Rabbinic Literature from the first century BCE through the eight century of the Common Era. Each class will combine broad historical background with the close reading ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2631, JWST 2777, RELST 2777
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall 110
Instructors
Septimus, Z
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NES 3101
Course Description
Successful completion of NES 3101 fulfills Option 1 language requirement. Advanced study of the Hebrew Language both orally and through the analysis of mostly unedited texts of social, political, and cultural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 3101
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW White Hall 114
Instructors
Scharf, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
NES 3108
Course Description
This course is intended to continue the development of all aspects of the language. Emphasis, however, will be placed on speaking skills and understanding by using text material relevant to Israeli contemporary ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 3108
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall 114
Instructors
Scharf, N
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Additional Information
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For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
NES 3201
Course Description
Introduces students to authentic, unedited Arabic language materials ranging from poems, short stories, and plays to newspaper articles dealing with social, political, and cultural issues. Emphasis is ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3100
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWR White Hall B02
Instructors
Chami, Y
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NES 3637
Course Description
This course traces the historical development of Christianity from its roots in 1st century Palestinian Judaism to the emergence of Islam in the early 7th century, with special emphasis on the period prior ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3637, JWST 3637, MEDVL 3637, NES 6637, RELST 3637
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
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NES 3723
Course Description
The medieval Arabic cycle of stories known as The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights is a classic of world literature. In the first part of the course we will read the Nights and discuss both ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3723, COML 6723, NES 6723
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 110
Instructors
Toorawa, S
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NES 3767
Course Description
In the media we read about conflict in Iraq between Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds; strife between Muslims and Copts in Egypt; rebellion in Syria against the ruling Alawite minority; and violence between Israelis ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3766, JWST 3767, SOC 3760
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 110
Instructors
Starr, D
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NES 3927
Course Description
Since the establishment of the State of Israel and the First Arab-Israeli War in 1948, Israeli-Lebanese relations have known periods of stability and conflict. The course will explain the changing relationship ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3927
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Baker Laboratory 335
Instructors
Barak, O
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NES 4200
Course Description
The course is an introductory survey to different genres in Modern Arabic Literature (Poetry and prose). It aims at improving the four language skills at an advanced level, as well as appreciating Arabic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Lincoln Hall 117
Instructors
Chami, Y
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NES 4210
Course Description
This course, taught entirely in Arabic, will focus on those aspects of Arabic grammar that are relevant for the correct reading and writing of Modern Standard Arabic such as the case and mood system (I'raab), ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWR White Hall B04
Instructors
Younes, M
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NES 4557
Course Description
How and why do landscapes come to inspire the religious imagination? And how do sensory landscapes, more specifically-territories of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell-inform, inflect, and engage the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4677, JWST 4557, MEDVL 4557, RELST 4557
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B06
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
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NES 4620
Course Description
What is the relationship between archaeology and politics? What role has archaeology played in the making of "the East"? And how has material culture been implicated in the discourses that conjure the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4120, ANTHR 6120, ARKEO 4120, ARKEO 6120, CLASS 4760, NES 6620
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R McGraw Hall 125
Instructors
Khatchadourian, L
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NES 4642
Course Description
The primary emphasis of this discussion seminar is the historical development of gendered identities and the fluid manner in which different Middle Eastern communities responded to shifting ideas of sexuality, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 4640, HIST 4642
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Fahmy, Z
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NES 4670
Course Description
Early states emerged when select groups gained control over wealth and power and institutionalized that control. How this was accomplished is a question of political economy that we can approach ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4670, JWST 4670
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Monroe, C
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NES 4707
Course Description
How and where does-indeed, can-one write the story of a diaspora of the Muslim creative and critical imagination? Guided by the critical work of e.g. Hawley, Rushdie, and Subramani, we will read and watch ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4601, ENGL 4798, RELST 4707
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B04
Instructors
Toorawa, S
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NES 4910
Course Description
An autonomous, diasporic Jewish culture flourished in Eastern Europe from the early modern period through the mid-twentieth century and beyond. It is the ancestral culture of the vast majority of American ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4810, ANTHR 7810, JWST 4910, JWST 7910, NES 7910
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Boyarin, J
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NES 4991
Course Description
For undergraduates who wish to obtain research experience or do extensive reading on a special topic. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course. ... view course details
NES 4998
Course Description
Each fall, a small number of highly qualified seniors enter the Near Eastern Studies Honors Program. The Honors Program is open to NES majors who have done superior work and who wish to devote a substantial ... view course details
NES 4999
Course Description
Each fall, a small number of highly qualified seniors enter the Near Eastern Studies Honors Program. The Honors Program is open to NES majors who have done superior work and who wish to devote a substantial ... view course details
NES 6221
Course Description
This seminar presents an introduction to Judeo-Arabic through the study of selected classical texts and the study of its grammar and lexicon. Because Judeo-Arabic combines elements of Hebrew and Arabic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 6221
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
NES 6620
Course Description
What is the relationship between archaeology and politics? What role has archaeology played in the making of "the East"? And how has material culture been implicated in the discourses that conjure the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4120, ANTHR 6120, ARKEO 4120, ARKEO 6120, CLASS 4760, NES 4620
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R McGraw Hall 125
Instructors
Khatchadourian, L
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Additional Information
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NES 6637
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3637, JWST 3637, MEDVL 3637, NES 3637, RELST 3637
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
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Additional Information
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NES 6707
Course Description
Together we explore how contemporary diasporic Muslim, Latin American, European and Asian writers and filmmakers operate with(in) memory, with the impossible longing to belong, with the loss of 'home' ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6724, RELST 6707
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R White Hall B14
Instructors
Toorawa, S
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Additional Information
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NES 6723
Course Description
The medieval Arabic cycle of stories known as The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights is a classic of world literature. In the first part of the course we will read the Nights and discuss both ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3723, COML 6723, NES 3723
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 110
Instructors
Toorawa, S
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Additional Information
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NES 6960
Course Description
New forms of German literature emerged in the wake of transnational labor migration, especially after 1989. Taking leave of a sociological model that interprets this literature as a plea for compassionate ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6960
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Olin Library 403
Instructors
Adelson, L
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NES 6991
Course Description
For graduate students who wish to do intensive reading on a focused topic. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member that has agreed to supervise the course. view course details
NES 7910
Course Description
An autonomous, diasporic Jewish culture flourished in Eastern Europe from the early modern period through the mid-twentieth century and beyond. It is the ancestral culture of the vast majority of American ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4810, ANTHR 7810, JWST 4910, JWST 7910, NES 4910
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Boyarin, J
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Additional Information
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