Undergraduate and Graduate Courses

Language Center: African and Middle Eastern Languages

  • AMELANG 120A,B,C. Beginning Arabic (Barhoum, Salti)
  • AMELANG 121A,B,C. Intermediate Arabic (Salti)
  • AMELANG 122A,B,C. Advanced Arabic (Salti)
  • AMELANG 106A,B,C. Beginning Swahili. (Muaka)
  • AMELANG 107A,B,C. Intermediate Swahil (Muaka)
  • AMELANG 108A,B,C. Advanced Swahili(Muaka)
  • AMELANG 161. The Contemporary Arab World and Culture through Literature (Barhoum)
  • AMELANG 162. Arab Women Writers and Issues (Barhoum)
  • AMELANG 163. The Arab World through Travel Literature (Barhoum)
  • AMELANG 297. Directed Reading (Staff)
  • AMELANG 395. Graduate Studies in African and Middle Eastern Languages (Staff)

    Special Languages
  • SPECLANG 126A,B,C. Beginning Turkish (Kuey)
  • SPECLANG 127A. Intermediate Turkish (Staff)
  • SPECLANG 146A,B,C. Beginning Persian (Mohammadi)
  • SPECLANG 156A,B,C. Beginning Indonesian (Staff)
  • SPECLANG 159A,B,C. Beginning Punjabi (Dhillon)
  • SPECLANG 160A,B,C. Intermediate Punjabi (Dhillon)
  • SPECLANG 192A. Beginning Kazakh (Staff)

    Comparative Literature
  • COMPLIT 251. Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Iranian Literature (Milani)
  • COMPLIT 373D. Shakespeare, Islam, and Others. (Parker)
  • COMPLIT 375. Intellectuals, Literature, and Politics in France and in the Francophone World. (Same as FRENLIT 375.) (Boyi)

    Cultural & Social Anthropology
  • CASA 137E/237E. Excavation at Catalhoyuk, Turkey. (Hodder)
  • CASA 83. Gender in South Asian Communities at Home and Abroad (Mankekar)
  • CASA 171. Mythology, Folklore, and Oral Literature of Central Asia (Kunanbaeva)
  • CASA 152. Archaeology: World Cultural Heritage (Hodder)
  • CASA 164. Ritual Musics of the World. (Same as MUSIC 164) (Diehl)
  • CASA 135X. Pilgrimage and Sacred Landscapes. (Diehl)
  • CASA 173/273. Nomads of Eurasia. (Kunanbaeva)
CASA 178/278. Archaeology of the Middle East (Hodder)
  • CASA 179/279. Anthropology of the Middle East (Delaney)
  • CASA 157/257. Fundamentalism and Modernity (Delaney)

    Economics
  • ECON 117. Economic History and Modernization of the Islamic Middle East. From the rise of Islam to the present (2005-Timur Kuran, Visiting Professor, USC)

    French—General, & French Literature
  • FRENLIT 375. Intellectuals, Literature, and Politics in France and in the Francophone World. (Same as COMPLIT 375.) (Boyi)

    History
  • HISTORY IHUM 5A&B Worlds of Islam: Global History and Muslim Societies (Beinin, Crews, Hanretta, Rodrigue, Satiya)
  • HISTORY 107. Crescent or Cross? Christianity and Islam in the Medieval Mediterranean (Miller)
  • HISTORY 140V. Franco-Arab Encounters. (Beinin)
  • HISTORY 146A. Religion and the State in Pre-modern Africa (Hanretta)
  • HISTORY 187. Palestine, Zionism, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Beinin)
  • HISTORY 187B. The Middle East in the 20th Century (Beinin)
  • HISTORY 210. Poverty and Charity in Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam (Miller)
  • HISTORY 220A/320. Violence, Islam, and the State in Central Asia (Crews)
  • HISTORY 248B/348B. Islam in Africa. (Hanretta)
  • HISTORY 285C. Jews and Muslims (Rodrigue)
  • HISTORY 286A. The New Global Economy, Oil, and Islamic Movements in the Middle East (Beinin)
  • HISTORY 287S/487. Research Seminar on the Modern Middle East. (Beinin)
  • HISTORY 489. Ottoman/Turkish History (Rodrigue)

    International Relations
  • INTNLREL 166. Russia and Islam. (Same as International Policy Studies 266.) (Dunlop)

    Political Science
  • POLISCI 114T. Major Issues in International Conflict Management (Stedman)
  • POLISCI 218. U.S. Relations in Iran (Milani)
  • POLISCI 245R. Politics in Modern Iran (Milani)
  • POLISCI 245S. Islam and the West (Milani)

    Religious Studies
  • RELIGST 27. Introduction to Islam (Staff )
  • RELIGST 107/207. Hindus and Muslims in South Asia (Hess)
  • RELIGST 120 Reading the Quran (McLarney)
  • RELIGST 121. Peoples of the Book: Prophecy and Martyrdom in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Gregg)
  • RELIGST 164. Ritual Music of the World—(Same as CASA 164) (Diehl)
  • RELIGST 235. Pilgrimage and Sacred Landscapes—(Same as CASA 135X) (Diehl)