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Curriculum
Throughout your time in the Middle Eastern Studies program, you will take courses focusing on the history, politics, society, culture and languages of the Middle Eastern region.
- Describe modern history and political development of the Middle Eastern region.
- Acquire and demonstrate basic knowledge of one of the four languages widely used in the region—Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish.
- Recognize key peoples, geography, social, intellectual and religious facets of the Middle Eastern region.
- Use cultural knowledge to analyze cultural differences.
- Use a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches from the humanities, social sciences and related professions in the study of the Middle Eastern region.
- Travel Narratives and Pilgrimages
- Popular Culture in the Middle East
- The Human and Divine in Christian and Muslim Philosophy
- Politics of the Middle East
- Feminisms, Sexualities and Human Rights in Middle Eastern Societies
Extracurricular Opportunities
Study abroad opportunity
Study Abroad in the Middle East
Middle Eastern studies majors most often go abroad to Syracuse University’s World Partner program AMIDEAST (Amman, Jordan, and Rabat, Morocco). For a shorter-term option, summer programs of interest include Religion, Law and Human Rights in a Comparative Perspective (Strasbourg, France), and Revolutions, War and the Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).
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