Middle Eastern Studies

The Middle Eastern Studies concentration is designed for students interested principally in the art and architecture, culture, economics, history, and politics of the Arab world, Iran, Israel, and Turkey.

Concentration requirements: Four subjects from the list below with no more than two subjects from a single area.  A HASS Concentration may include only ONE (1) HASS-D that counts toward the HASS-D Requirement.  You may include more than one only if the additional HASS-D class will NOT count as a HASS-D in your degree audit.

Humanities and the Arts
4.613 Civic Architecture in Islamic History
4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures HASS-D
4.616 Cultural Signification in Architecture (G)
4.617 Issues in Islamic Urbanism (G)
4.621 Orientalism and Representation (G)
4.629 Special Problems in Islamic and Nonwestern Architecture (G) (when applicable-minimum of 9 units)

Social Sciences
3.993 Archaeology of the Middle East
17.405 Seminar on Politics and Conflicts in the Middle East
21H.601 Islam, the Middle East, and the West HASS-D
21H.615 The Middle East in the Twentieth Century CI-H
21H.621 Nation, Faith, and Gender in the Modern Middle East
21H.631 Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Language
With the permission of the Concentration Advisor, students may take one or two introductory, intermediate, or advanced subjects in one of the following languages offered by Harvard University or Wellesley College:  Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish.

Note: Graduate subjects are open to qualified undergraduates, with permission of the instructor.

Students that have taken the following subjects that are no longer offered can count these subjects toward their concentration:
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo
14.57 Issues in the Economics of the Middle East
17.545 Political Change in South Asia (G)
21A.453 Anthropology of the Middle East
21A.458J The Harem and the Veil: Images and Representations of Gender in the Middle East [SP.450J]

Additional information can be obtained from the Concentration Advisor or from the History Office, E51-285, x3-4965.