Approved ME/SA and Affiliated Program Upper Division Electives
This list includes new pre-approved upper electives not yet listed in the catalog. Please contact ME/SA Advisor Mishaal Weatherford for questions about how courses will apply to your major and minor requirements.
- Middle East Course List
- AHI 155 The Islamic City (4 units)
AHI 156 Arts of the Islamic Book (4 units)
AHI 176A Art of the Middle Ages: Early Christian & Byzantine Art (4 units)
AHI 190J Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Islamic (4 units)
ANT 142 Peoples of the Middle East (4 units)
ANT 130BN Migration & the Politics of Place & Identity (4 units)
ARB 101A Readings in Arabic: 600-1850 (4 units)
ARB 121 Advanced Arabic (4 units)
ARB 122 Advanced Arabic (4 units)
ARB 123 Advanced Arabic (4 units)
ARB 140 A Story for a Life: The Arabian Nights (4 units)
ARB 141 Readings in Modern Arabic Literature (4 units)
CLA 111 Forms of Knowledge in the Ancient World (4 units)
COM 147 Modern Jewish Writers (4 units)
COM 148 Mystical Literatures of South Asia & the Middle East (4 units)
COM 155 Classical Literatures of the Islamic World 600-1900 (4 units)
COM 166 Literatures of the Modern Middle East (4 units)
COM 172 A Story for a Life: The Arabian Nights (4 units)
COM 175 Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (4 units)
CTS 146A Modern Iranian Cinema (4 units)
GSW 185 Women & Islamic Discourses (4 units)
HIS 102R Undergraduate Proseminar in History: Muslim Societies (4 units)
HIS 112A Topics in Pre-Modern Jewish History (4 units)
HIS 112B Topics in Modern Jewish History (4 units)
HIS 112C History of Jews in the Muslim World (4 units)
HIS 113 History of Modern Palestine/Israel (4 units)
HIS 114 Histories of 20th Century Partition (4 units)
HIS 115F History of Modern North Africa, 1800 to the Present (4 units)
HIS 190A Middle Eastern History I: The Rise of Islam, 600-1000 (4 units)
HIS 190B Middle Eastern History II: The Age of the Crusades, 1001-1400 (4 units)
HIS 190C Middle Eastern History III: The Ottomans, 1401-1730 (4 units)
HIS 190D Middle Eastern History IV: Safavids Iran, 1300-1720 (4 units)
HIS 193A History of the Modern Middle East, 1750-1914 (4 units)
HIS 193B History of the Modern Middle East, From 1914 (4 units)
HIS 193C The Middle East Environment: Historical Change & Current Challenges (4 units)
HIS 193D History of Modern Iran, From 1850 to Present (4 units)
HMR 136 Human Rights in the Middle East (4 units)
JST 101 Topics in Jewish Thought (4 units)
JST 110 Selected Topics in Jewish Literature (4 units)
JST 111 Israeli Writing Since 1960 (4 units)
JST 116 Readings in Jewish Writing & Thought in German Culture (4 units)
JST 120 Cinema & the American Jewish Experience (4 units)
JST 121 Oral History & Jewish Life (4 units)
MSA 111A Great Cities of Arab Middle East & South Asia (4 units)
MSA 121A Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (4 units)
MSA 121C A Story for a Life: The Arabian Nights (4 units)
MSA 122A Themes in the Arabic Novel (4 units)
MSA 131A Modern Iranian Cinema (4 units)
MSA 131C Religion & Media in Arab World (4 units)
MSA 150 Women & Islamic Discourses (4 units)
MSA 151A Iranian Society & Culture (4 units)
MSA 181A Topics in Iranian and Persianate Studies (4 units)
MSA 181C Topics in Arab Studies (4 units)
MSA 181D Topics in Middle Eastern Studies (4 units)
MSA 182A Undergraduate Seminar in Iranian & Persianate Studies (4 units)
MSA 182C Undergraduate Seminar in Arab Studies (4 units)
MSA 182D Undergraduate Seminar in Middle Eastern Studies (4 units)
MUS 129B Musics of Africa, Middle East, Indian Subcontinent (4 units)
PER 101 Advanced Persian: Topics in Modern Persian Culture 1900-Present (4 units)
PER 103 Advanced Persian: Topics in Medieval Persian Culture 900-1500 (4 units)
PER 121 Media (4 units)
PER 122 Poetry (4 units)
PER 123 Prose Writers (4 units)
PHI 145 Christian, Islamic, & Jewish Philosophers of the Middle Ages (4 units)
POL 135 International Politics of the Middle East (4 units)
POL 136 The Arab-Israeli Conflict (4 units)
POL 145B Politics in Israel (4 units)
RST 102 Christian Origins (4 units)
RST 103 Medieval & Byzantine Christianity (4 units)
RST 125 Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha, & Pseudepigrapha (4 units)
RST 126 The Formation of the Rabbinic Tradition (4 units)
RST 140 Christian Theology (4 units)
RST 144 History of the Bible (4 units)
RST 160 Introduction to Islamic Thought (4 units)
RST 161 Modern Islam (4 units)
RST 161B Modern Islam: Authority & Tradition In Process (4 units)
RST 162 Introduction to Islamic Law (4 units)
RST 163 Social Life of Islam (4 units)
RST 166 Religion & Media in the Arab World (4 units)
SOC 174 American Jewish Identities & Communities (4 units)
WMS 184 Gender in the Arab World (4 units) - South Asia Course List
- AHI 153 Hindu Gods & Hindu Symbols (4 units)
AHI 154 The Hindu Temple (4 units)
AHI 155 The Islamic City (4 units)
AHI 156 Arts of the Islamic Book (4 units)
AHI 157 Buddhist Art (4 units)
AHI 190J Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Islamic (4 units)
AHI 158 Popular Religious Art in India (4 units)
ANT 134 Buddhism in Global Culture (4 units)
ANT 137 Meditation & Culture (4 units)
ANT 145 Performance, Embodiment, & Space in South Asia (4 units)
ANT 147 Modern South Asia Cinema (4 units)
ASA 100 Asian American Communities (4 units)
ASA 112 Asian American Women (4 units)
ASA 114 Asian Diasporas (4 units)
ASA 115 Multiracial Asian Pacific American Issues (4 units)
ASA 116 Asian American Youth (4 units)
ASA 130 Asian American Literature (4 units)
ASA 131 Ethnicity, Culture, & the Self (4 units)
ASA 132 Health Issues Confronting Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders (4 units)
ASA 141 Asian Americans & the Political Culture of Fashion in the U.S. & Asia (4 units)
ASA 150F South Asian American History, Culture, & Politics (4 units)
ASA 189E Topics in Asian American Studies: Comparative Racial Studies (4 units)
COM 148 Mystical Literatures of South Asia & the Middle East (4 units)
COM 155 Classical Literatures of the Islamic World 600-1900 (4 units)
COM 156 The Ramayana (4 units)
COM 162 Writing Love & War in South Asia (4 units)
COM 171 Partition Literature: South Asia (4 units)
COM 173 Sakuntala: The Story of a Ring (4 units)
CTS 146B Modern South Asia Cinema (4 units)
GSW 185 Women & Islamic Discourses (4 units)
HIS 102Q Undergraduate Proseminar in History: India (4 units)
HIS 102R Undergraduate Proseminar in History: Muslim Societies (5 units)
HIS 114 Histories of 20th Century Partition (4 units)
HIS 196A Medieval India (4 units)
HIS 196B Modern India (4 units)
MSA 111A Great Cities of Arab Middle East & South Asia (4 units)
MSA 112 History of South Asian Islam (4 units)
MSA 115B Global South Asian Diaspora (4 units)
MSA 116B Global Punjabi Diaspora (4 units)
MSA 131B Modern South Asia Cinema (4 units)
MSA 150 Women & Islamic Discourses (4 units)
MSA 181B Topics in South Asian Studies (4 units)
MSA 182B Undergraduate Seminar in South Asian Studies (4 units)
MUS 129B Musics of Africa, Middle East, Indian Subcontinent (4 units)
MUS 148 Hindustani Vocal Ensemble (2 units) - can be repeated for credit up to 4 units
PHI 145 Christian, Islamic, & Jewish Philosophers of the Middle Ages (4 units)
RST 136 Topics in Jainism (4 units)
RST 137 Topics in Buddhism (4 units)
RST 139 Topics in Hinduism (4 units)
RST 154 The Hindu Temple (4 units)
RST 155A Bhakti: Indian Devotional Traditions to 1200 CE (4 units)
RST 155B Bhakti: Indian Devotional Traditions, 1200 CE to Present (4 units)
RST 156 Religion & the Performing Arts in India (4 units)
RST 157 Hindu Women & Goddesses (4 units)
RST 158 The Ramayana (4 units)
RST 159 The Mahabharata (4 units)
RST 160 Introduction to Islamic Thought (4 units)
RST 161 Modern Islam (4 units)
RST 161B Modern Islam: Authority & Tradition In Process (4 units)
RST 162 Introduction to Islamic Law (4 units)
RST 163 Social Life of Islam (4 units)
RST 165 Islam in Asia (4 units)
RST 171 Buddhist Art (4 units)
RST 180 Popular Religious Art in India (4 units)
RST 181 Hindu Gods & Hindu Symbols (4 units)
RST 182 Ramayana, Religion & the Arts (4 units)