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Jan 28, 2025
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2017-2018 University Catalog archived
Middle East and South Asian Studies (MESA)
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Middle East and South Asia Studies (MESA)
Middle East and South Asia Studies is an interdisciplinary program which offers a minor that spans several disciplines, including art, economics, language, literature, politics, and religion.
Program Head: Timothy Lubin
Core Faculty
First date is the year in which the faculty member began regular faculty service at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.
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Courses listed below meet the requirements of at least one of the Middle East and South Asia studies minors, but other courses across the curriculum that include an appropriate proportion of material may be substituted with the approval of the program’s advisory committee. In such cases, students may petition the committee to allow other relevant courses.
Middle East and South Asia Studies Courses
Middle East and South Asia studies courses are as follows:
- ARAB 111 - First-Year Arabic I
- ARAB 112 - First-Year Arabic II
- ARAB 161 - Second-Year Arabic I
- ARAB 162 - Second-Year Arabic II
- ARAB 211 - Third-Year Arabic I
- ARAB 212 - Third-Year Arabic II
- ARTH 140 - Asian Art
- ARTH 141 - Buddhist Art of South and Central Asia
- ARTH 242 - Arts of India
- ARTH 243 - Imaging Tibet
- ARTH 245 - Ancient Cultures, New Markets: Modern and Contemporary Asian Art
- ARTH 246 - Questions of Ownership: Looting, Curating, and Destroying Cultural Heritage Objects
- ARTH 342 - Love, Loyalty, and Lordship: Court Art of India, 1500s to1800s
- ARTH 343 - Art and Material Culture of Tibet
- ECON 246 - Caste at the Intersection of Economy, Religion, and Law
- HIST 170 - History of Islamic Civilization I: Origins to 1500
- HIST 171 - History of Islamic Civilization II: 1500 to the Present
- LIT 273 - Modern Jewish Literature in Translation
- MESA 195 - Gateway to Middle East and South Asia Studies
- MESA 393 - Capstone in Middle East and South Asia Studies
- POL 384 - Seminar on Middle Eastern Politics
- REL 101 - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
- REL 102 - New Testament
- REL 106 - Judaism: Tradition and Modernity
- REL 130 - Us, Them, and God: Religion, Identity, and Interaction in the Middle East and South Asia
- REL 131 - Buddhism
- REL 132 - God and Goddess in Hinduism
- REL 216 - Sainthood in Four Traditions
- REL 222 - Law and Religion
- REL 231 - Yogis, Monks, and Mystics in India
- REL 246 - Caste at the Intersection of Economy, Religion, and Law
- REL 250 - Early Christian Thought: Orthodoxy and Heresy
- REL 273 - Modern Jewish Literature in Translation
- REL 283 - Sufism: Islamic Mysticism
- REL 284 - Gender, Sexuality, and Islam
- REL 333 - Meditation and Self-Knowledge
- REL 335 - Hindu Law in Theory and Practice
- REL 350 - Seminar in Biblical Studies
- REL 381 - Islamic Law in Society
- REL 273 - Modern Jewish Literature in Translation
- SKT 101 - Elementary Sanskrit I
- SKT 102 - Elementary Sanskrit II
- SKT 201 - Intermediate Sanskrit I
- SKT 202 - Intermediate Sanskrit II
- SKT 301 - Advanced Readings in Sanskrit
And when appropriate (with a MESA-related topic),
Interdisciplinary Minor
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