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In the following pages H, S, W, NW, II in parentheses indicate that the course has been pre-approved to meet campus general education requirements in humanities, social sciences, western cultural studies, non-western cultural studies and comp II, respectively.  For the latest info consult http://www.provost.uiuc.edu/gened/.  College definitions of humanities and social sciences are less restrictive, see http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/Advising/ss-hum.htm/.  Courses that do not have any of these abbreviations would have to be approved in order to count towards campus requirements.

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES:

Language: (maximum of 12 semester hours)

# of semester hours

ARAB

201/202

Elementary Standard Arabic I/II

5 (H)

 

210/211

Colloquial Arabic I/II

4 (H)

 

403/404

Intermediate Standard Arabic I/II

5 (H)

 

405/406

Advanced Standard Arabic I/II

3 (H)

HEBR

201/202

Elementary Modern Hebrew I/II

5 (H)

 

205

Introduction to Classical Hebrew I

4 (H)

 

403/404

Intermediate Modern Hebrew I/II

5 (H)

 

405/406

Advanced Modern Hebrew I/II

3 (H)

PERS

201/202

Elementary Persian I/II

5 (H)

 

403/404

Intermediate Persian I/II

5 (H)

Other: (Minimum of 9 semester hours including one 300-level course and one course from the Political Science/Economics list)

ANTH

107

Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

3 (H)

 

260

World Ethnography

3 (S)

HEBR 

407/408

Topics Modern Hebrew Lang & Lit I/II

3

HIST

135

History and Civilization of the Islamic Middle East

3 (NW)

 

302

Religious and Messianic Movements (same as RLST 368)

3

MUS

416

Anthropology of Music

3

 

417

Area Studies in Ethnomusicology (same as ANTH 417)

3

PERS

205/206

Intro to Persian Culture and Literature I/II (same as CWL 203/204)

3

RELST

106

Archaeology and the Bible

3 (II, H)

 

120

A History of Judaisms (same as HIST 168)

3 (II, H)

 

130

Jewish Customs and Ceremonies

3

 

201

Hebrew Bible in English

3 (H)

  213 Intro to Islam 3 (II, H, NW)
 

242

The Holocaust: Religious Responses

3

 

260

Mystics and Saints in Islam

3 (H, NW)

 

283

Jewish Sacred Literature

3 (H)

  403 Women in Muslim Societies (same as ANTH 403, GLBL 403, GWS 403 & HIST 434) 3
  408 Islam and Modern Society 3
 

496

Special Topics in the History of Judaism

3

YDSH 420 Jewish Life - Writing (same as CWL 421, HIST 436, RLST 420 & SLAV 420) 3

Approved Political Science/Economics Courses:

 

ACE

451

Economics of International Development

3

 

455

International Trade in Food and Agriculture

3

ECON

420

International Economics

3

 

421

Contemporary Issues in the International Economy

3

 

450

Development Economics

3

HIST

435 Middle East 1566-1914 3
 

437

The Middle East in the Twentieth Century

3

 

439

The Ottoman Empire

3

POL S

241

Comparative Politics in Developing Countries

3 (NW, S)

 

280

Introduction to International Relations

3 (S)

 

347

Governments and Politics in the Middle East (same as ASST 347)

3

 

381

International Conflict

3 (II)

 

382

Politics of the Global Economy

3

 

383

International Organization

3 (II)

 

384

Government and Politics of the Global Society

3

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