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Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies
(ACABS)

Course Guide

100 Peoples of the Middle East
101 Elementary Classical Hebrew I
102 Elementary Classical Hebrew II
121 Introduction to the Tanakh/Old Testament
122 Introduction to the New Testament
181 Introduction to the History of the Ancient Near East
192 First Year Seminar in ACABS
200 Introduction to World Religions: Near East
201 Intermediate Classical Hebrew I
202 Intermediate Classical Hebrew II
221 Jesus and the Gospels
261 Ancient Egypt: Religion and Culture
266 Before the Bible: The Phoenicians
270 Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
277 Land of Israel/Palestine through the Ages
281 Ancient Egypt and its World
283 The Beginnings of Christianity
291 Topics in ACABS
292 Seminar in ACABS
307 The Synoptic Gospels: Matthew, Mark, and Luke
308 The Acts of the Apostles
321 History and Religion of Ancient Israel
322 History and Religion of Ancient Judaism
323 History of Christian Thought: The First Six Centuries
382 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology
393 The Religion of Zoroaster
395 ACABS: Directed Undergraduate Readings
411 Introduction to Akkadian I
412 Akkadian Texts
413 Ancient Mesopotamia: History and Culture
414 Mythology and Literature of Mesopotamia
415 Elementary Hittite
421 Christianity and Hellenistic Civilizations
424 The Gnostic Religion
425 Near Eastern Studies Capstone Seminar (effective Winter 2007)
428 The Gospel of John in Greek
429 The Letters of Paul in Greek
470 Reading the Rabbis
483 Aramaic I
484 Aramaic II
485 Introduction to Middle Egyptian I
486 Introduction to Middle Egyptian II
487 Gender and Society in Ancient Egypt
488 The Archaeology of Ancient Mesopotamia
491 Topics in ACABS
498 Senior Honors Thesis
511 Introduction to Sumerian
512 Sumerian Texts
513 Ancient Mesopotamia: History and Culture
542 Literature of the Hebrew Bible
543 Bible In Jewish Tradition
544 Tannaitic Literature
581 Ugaritic I
582 Ugaritic II
585 Advanced Middle Egyptian
587 Seminar in Ancient Egyptian History and Culture: Selected Topics
591 Topics in ACABS
592 Seminar in ACABS
593 Mini Course - Topics in ACABS
601 Advanced Readings in Classical Hebrew
602 Advanced Readings in Classical Hebrew
610 Akkadian Literary Texts
611 Akkadian Documents
612 Akkadian Readings
613 Sumerian Literary Texts
614 Sumerian Documents
615 Sumerian Readings
618 Hittite Readings
621 Proseminar in Ancient Near Eastern History
681 Ancient Egyptian History
682 Middle Egyptian Readings I
683 Middle Egyptian Readings II
686 Seminar in Egyptian Archaeology
720 Ancient Israel/Hebrew Bible Seminar: Methods and Theory
721 Ancient Israel/Hebrew Bible Seminar: Selected Texts
722 Ancient Israel/Hebrew Bible Seminar: Topics in History
723 Ancient Israel/Hebrew Bible Seminar: Topics in Religion
798 Directed Graduate Readings
811 Northwest Semitic Inscriptions
812 Phoenician & Punic Inscriptions
821 Seminar in Ancient Near Eastern History
860 Ethnicity and Culture in Greco-Roman Egypt
990 Dissertation Research Pre-Candidate
993 Graduate Student Instructor Workshop
995 Dissertation Research

Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies
(AAPTIS)

Course Guide

100 Peoples of the Middle East
101 Elementary Modern Standard Arabic I
102 Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II
103 Intensive Elementary Mod. Standard Arabic I & II
111 Classical Arabic I
112 Classical Arabic II
141 Elementary Persian I
142 Elementary Persian II
151 Elementary Turkish I
152 Elementary Turkish II
       Turkish Studies Web Site
157 Elementary Kazak I
158 Elementary Kazak II
171 Western Armenian I
172 Western Armenian II
173 Intensive 1st year Western Armenian
181 Eastern Armenian I
182 Eastern Armenian II
183 Intensive 1st year Eastern Armenian
192 First Year Seminar in AAPTIS
200 Introduction to World Religions: Near East
201 Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic I
202 Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic II
203 Arabic for Communication I
204 Arabic for Communication II
205 Intensive Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic I & II
215 Colloquial Egyptian Arabic I
216 Colloquial Egyptian Arabic II
217 Colloquial Levantine Arabic I
218 Colloquial Levantine Arabic II
241 Intermediate Persian I
242 Intermediate Persian II
243 Intensive 2nd Year Persian
251 Intermediate Turkish I
252 Intermediate Turkish II
       Turkish Studies Web Site
255 Intensive 2nd Year Turkish
261 The Civilization of Medieval Islam
262 Introduction to Islam
269 Introduction to Turkish Civilizations
271 Intermediate Western Armenian I
272 Intermediate Western Armenian II
273 Intensive 2nd year Western Armenian
274 Armenia: Culture and Ethnicity
277 Land of Israel/Palestine through the Ages
280 Works of William Saroyan
281 Intermediate Eastern Armenian I
282 Intermediate Eastern Armenian II
285 Introduction to the Art and Architecture of the Islamic World
289 From Genghis Khan to the Taliban: Modern Central Asia
291 Topics in AAPTIS
296 Great Books of the Middle East
331 Introduction to Arab Culture: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Issues
332 Introduction to Persian Culture and Language
335 African-American Religion between Christianity and Islam
339 Turkey: Language, Culture, Society Between East & West
351 Advanced Turkish I
352 Advanced Turkish II
       Turkish Studies Web Site
361 Jihad in History
364 Middle East Studies
365 The Prophet Muhammad in Islam
371 Advanced Western Armenian I
372 Advanced Western Armenian II
380 Persian Literature in Translation
381 Introduction to Arab Literature in Translation
383 The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Middle East Literature
393 The Religion of Zoroaster
395 AAPTIS: Directed Undergraduate Readings
403 Advanced Intensive Modern Standard Arabic I
404 Advanced Intensive Modern Standard Arabic II
409 Business Arabic I
410 Business Arabic II
411 Classical Arabic Grammar
412 Intensive Advanced Business Arabic I and II (8)
419 Intensive Colloquial Egyptian Arabic I and II (6)
420 Intensive Colloquial Levantine Arabic I and II (6)
425 Near Eastern Studies Capstone Seminar (effective Winter 2007)
432 Arabic Phonology and Morphophonology
433 Arabic Syntax and Semantics
434 Arabic Historical Linguistics and Dialectology
440 Literature of the Turks
451 Introduction Ottoman Turkish I
452 Introduction Ottoman Turkish II
459 Ottoman Turkish Culture
461 The First Millennium of the Islamic Near East
462 The Rise of Islam
463 The Near East in the Period of the Crusades 945-1258
464 Perso-Islamic Civilization in the Eastern Caliphate and India
465 Islamic Mysticism
467 Shi'ism: The History of Messianism and the Pursuit of Justice in Islam
468 Islamic Law
469 Islamic Intellectual History
470 The Islamic West: al-Andalus and the Maghrib, 600-1500
471 Advanced Western Armenian I
472 Advanced Western Armenian II
473 An Introduction to Classical and Medieval Armenian Literature
474 An Introduction to Modern Armenian Literature
475 Rumi and the Great Persian Mystical Poets
476 The Church of Armenia: Profile of a National Institution
478 Introduction to Classical Armenian I
479 Introduction to Classical Armenian II
480 Intensive Introduction to Classical Armenian
484 Armenian-American Writers
486 Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
487 Modern Middle East History
488 History of Arabic Literature in English
491 Topics in AAPTIS
492 Shaping the Globe: Geography and Cartography in the Premodern
       Middle East & Europe
493 Comparative Perspectives of the Middle East and North Africa
495 Gender and Politics in Early Islam
496 Gender and Representation in Modern Middle East
498 Senior Honors Thesis
501 Advanced Arabic Conversation and Composition
502 Advanced Arabic Readings in Special Subjects
504 Communication Media
511 Classical Arabic I
512 Classical Arabic II
515 Colloquial Egyptian Arabic I
516 Colloquial Egyptian Arabic II
517 Colloquial Levantine Arabic I
518 Colloquial Levantine Arabic II
531 Reading Modern Arab Authors in Arabic
532 Arabic Linguistics
540 Persian and Iranian Languages
541 Classical Persian Texts
544 Modern Persian Fiction
551 Readings in Ottoman Turkish
553 Modern Turkish Readings
556 Modern Turkish Prose Literature
557 Modern Turkish Poetry
561 Modern Arabic Fiction I
563 Modern Arabic Non-Fiction
565 Qur'anic Studies
567 Readings in Classical Islamic Texts
568 Ancient Arabic Poetry
569 Modern Arabic Poetry
580 Islamic Architecture: Continuity and Innovation
581 Classical Arabic III
582 Classical Arabic IV
583 Medieval Arabic Historical, Biographical and Geographical Texts
584 Persianate History through Political and Cultural Texts
585 Modern Egypt and North Africa since 1500
586 Avestan
587 Studies in Pahlavi and Middle Persian
591 Topics in AAPTIS
592 Seminar in AAPTIS
593 Mini Course - Topics in AAPTIS
630 Seminar in Arabic Linguistics
644 Studies in Iranian Civilization during the Middle Ages
660 Seminar on Problems and Methods of Research on the Medieval Near East
661 Studies in the Modern Middle East
662 Medieval Arabic Historiography
663 Persianate Historiography from Medieval to Early Modern Times
665 Modern Arabic Literature in Arabic
761 Seminar in Islamic History and Civilization
798 Directed Graduate Readings
837 Applied Linguistics & the Teaching of Arabic
844 Seminar in Medieval Persian
850 Seminar in Turkish Studies
861 Seminar in Medieval Islamic Literature
862 Selected Readings in Arabic
863 Seminar in Modern Arabic Literature
990 Dissertation Research Pre-Candidate
993 Graduate Student Instructor Workshop
995 Dissertation Research

Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies
(HJCS)

Course Guide

100 Peoples of the Middle East
101 Elementary Modern Hebrew I
102 Elementary Modern Hebrew II
192 First Year Seminar in HJCS
200 Introduction to World Religions: Near East
201 Intermediate Modern Hebrew I
202 Intermediate Modern Hebrew II
270 Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
277 Land of Israel/Palestine through the Ages
281 Jews in the Modern World: Texts, Images, Ideas
291 Topics in HJCS
292 Seminar in HJCS
296 Perspectives of the Holocaust
301 Advanced Hebrew I
302 Advanced Hebrew II
305 Israeli Theater and Film
335 Tokyo-Tel Aviv: City, Nation, and Identity in Israel and Japan
373 Israeli Culture and Society
381 Introduction to Israeli Literature and Culture
395 Directed Undergraduate Readings
401 Hebrew of the Communication Media I
402 Hebrew of the Communications Media II
425 Near Eastern Studies Capstone Seminar (effective Winter 2007)
470 Reading the Rabbis
471 Reading Hebrew Literature
472 Introduction to Modern Hebrew Literature II
477 Modern Jewish Thought
478 Jewish Mysticism
489 The Cycle of the Jewish Year
491 Topics in HJCS
495 Directed Undergraduate Readings
498 Senior Honors Thesis
543 Bible In Jewish Tradition
544 Tannaitic Literature
545 Medieval Jewish Literature
570 Reading the Rabbis
571 Israeli Literature I
572 Israeli Literature II
577 Seminar: Topics in the Study of Judaism
591 Topics in HJCS
592 Seminar in HJCS
593 Mini Course - Topics in HJCS
798 Directed Graduate Readings
990 Dissertation Research Pre-Candidate
993 Graduate Student Instructor Workshop
995 Dissertation Research