The Middle Eastern Studies concentration is designed for students interested principally in the history, art and architecture, culture, politics and economics 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) subject that also counts toward the HASS Distribution Requirement. You may include more than one only if the additional subject will NOT count as a HASS Distribution subject in your degree audit.
HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS
4.613 Civic Architecture in Islamic History {4.611}, HASS-A
4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures, HASS-A, HASS-D
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo {4.618}, HASS-A
4.616 Selected Topics on Culture and Architecture (G) (when applicable-minimum of 9 units)
4.617 Issues in Islamic Urbanism (G)
4.621 Orientalism and Representation (G)
4.S65 Special Subject: Islamic and Non-Western Architecture (G) (when applicable-minimum of 9 units)
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HISTORICAL STUDIES
3.993 Archaeology of the Middle East, HASS-S
17.405 Seminar on Politics and Conflicts in the Middle East {17.406}, HASS-S
21H.160 Islam, the Middle East, and the West, HASS-H, HASS-D
21H.161 The Middle East in the Twentieth Century, HASS-H, CI-H
21H.365 Cultural Pluralism in Modern Middle East, HASS-H
WGS.220 Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa, HASS-H
WGS.221 Women in the Developing World, HASS-S
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.
Students that have taken the following subjects that are no longer offered can count these subjects toward their concentration:
14.57 Issues in the Economics of the Middle East
17.545 Political Change in South Asia
21A.453 Anthropology of the Middle East
21A.458J The Harem and the Veil: Images and Representations of Gender in the Middle East
21H.262 Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
21H.621 Nation, Faith, and Gender in the Modern Middle East
[ ] Jointly listed subjects
{ } Meets with
(G) Graduate subjects which are open to qualified undergraduates, with the permission of the instructor
Additional information can be obtained from the Concentration Advisor:
Professor Philip S. Khoury, 10-280, X3-0887
Or from the History Office, E51-255, x3-4965
Massachusetts Institute of Technology