Graduate

M.A. Requirements
The MA program requires nine upper-division courses, of which six must be graduate courses. Arabic 130 (Introduction to Pre-Modern Arabic) and either Islamic Studies 200 (Introduction to Islamic Studies) or Islamic Studies 201 (Arabo-Islamic Sciences) are also required.

Additional courses that may be taken in fulfillment of these requirements include: 

  • Upper Division Courses:
    • Anthropology M166Q (Culture Area of Maghrib (North Africa))
    • Anthropology M248 (Anthropology and History of the Mediterranean)
    • Arabic 103A/B/C (Advanced Arabic)
    • Arabic M106 (Qur’an)
    • Arabic M110 (Thousand and One Nights)
    • Arabic 111A/B/C (Elementary Spoken Egyptian Arabic)
    • 112A/B/C (Advanced Spoken Egyptian Arabic)
    • Arabic 115 (Studies in Arabic Dialectology)
    • Arabic 117: Levantine Arabic
    • Arabic 119 (Maltese)
    • Arabic 120 (Islamic Texts)
    • Arabic M123 (Oral Literature and Performance)
    • Arabic 130 (Introduction to Pre-Modern Arabic)
    • Arabic 140 (Readings in Modern Standard Arabic)
    • Arabic C141 (Modern Arabic Literature)
    • Arabic 142 (Arabic Media)
    • Arabic/Com Lit M148 (Contemporary Arab Film and Song)
    • Arabic 150 (Classical Arabic Literature in English)
    • Arabic M151 (Modern Arabic Literature in English)
    • Arabic M155 (Al-Andalus: Literature of Islamic Spain)
    • Arabic M171 (Culture Area of Maghrib (North Africa)
    • Arabic 177 (Variable Topics in Arabic)
    • Arabic 178 (Sociolinguistics of Arabic)
    • Arabic 180 (Linguistic Analysis of Arabic)
    • Arabic 181 (Translating Arabic)
    • Art History 119A (Western Islamic Art)
    • Art History 119B (Eastern Islamic Art)
    • Art History C120 (Topics in Islamic Art)
    • Global Studies 160: Israel-Palestine
    • Islamic Studies/Religion M107 (Islam in West)
    • Islamic Studies M111 (Introduction to Islamic Archaeology)
    • Comparative Literature 100 (Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory)
    • History 105A (Survey of Middle East, 500 to Present: 500 to 1300), 105B (Survey of Middle East, 500 to Present: 1300 to 1700), 105C (Survey of Middle East, 500 to Present: 1700 to Present)
    • History 111A (Topics in Middle Eastern History: Premodern), 111B (Topics in Middle Eastern History: Early Modern), 111C (Topics in Middle Eastern History: Modern)
    • History 187K (Islamic Mysticism: An Introduction to Sufism)
    • International Development Studies 191 (Development and Social Change in the Modern Middle East and North Africa)
    • Islamic Studies M112 (Archaeology and Art of Christian and Islamic Egypt)
    • Islamic Studies M115 (Islam and Other Religions)
    • Islamic Studies 151 (Islamic Thought)
    • Political Science 132A (International Relations of Middle East)
  • Graduate Courses:
    • Arabic M206 (Quran)
    • Arabic 220 (Islamic Texts)
    • Arabic 250 (Classical Arabic Literature)
    • Arabic 251 (Modern Arabic Literature)
    • Art History 220B (Topics in Islamic Art)
    • History 200J (Advanced Historiography)
    • Hist 200P (Islamic Mysticism: An Introduction to Sufism)
    • History C201N (Topics in History: Africa; sometimes taught as a Hist C191J-C200N)
    • History 214 (Topics in World History, depending on topic)
    • Islamic Studies C207 (Islam in West)
    • Islamic Studies C215 (Islam and Other Religions)
    • Islamic Studies C251 (Islamic Thought)
  • Proposed Courses (The following courses have been proposed, and if approved, would also count toward the M.A. degree in Arabic):
    • Arabic: Oral Literature From the Arab World
    • Arabic: The Literature of Islamic Spain
    • Comparative Literature: Modern Arab Literatures and Cultures
    • Comparative Literature: The Literatures and Cultures of the Maghreb