Interdisciplinary Minor in Middle East Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
(revised March 2004)
Requirements:
The student should have a Georgia State University cumulative grade point average or a projected grade point overage of 2.0.
15 semester hours are required for the minor (see course list below).
No more than 9 semester hours may be taken in any one department or school and courses cannot be from the student’s major area. Nine hours must be at the 3000-4000 level. A minimum grade of C is required in all courses.
At least 50 percent of the minor must be completed after the semester in which the BIS Faculty Advisory Council approves the minor program plan.
Students may choose from the following courses:
AH 4010 Art of Ancient Egypt and Nubia
AH 4011 Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt I: 4000 - 1600 BC
AH 4012 Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt II: 1600 BC – 31 BC
AH 4020 Art and Architecture of the Ancient Near East
AH 4900 Special Topics in Art History (when appropriate) recent topics have included: Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Iconography and Symbolism in Ancient Funerary Art, Art of Persia and Mughal India , Islamic Art 1, Islamic Art 2, and Ancient Egyptian Portraiture, Orientalism
ARBC 1001 Beginning Arabic 1
ARBC 1002 Beginning Arabic 2
ARBC 2001 Intermediate Arabic 1
ARBC 2002 Intermediate Arabic 2
ARBC 3001 Advanced Arabic 1
ARBC 3002 Advanced Arabic 2
ARBC 3501 Arabic Literature in Translation 1
ARBC 3502 Arabic Literature in Translation 2
ENG 3100 Introduction to Jewish Studies
ENG 4200 Pro-Seminar in Jewish Studies
GEOG 4408 Geography of the Middle East
HIST 4245 Worlds of Eastern Christianity
HIST 4780 The Middle East, 600 – 1800 (4)
HIST 4790 The Middle East since 1800 (4)
POLS 4260 Politics of the Middle East and North Africa (3)
POLS 4950 Model Arab League
RELS 3520 Sufism and Islamic Mysticism
RELS 3400 Introduction to Judaism
RELS 3500 Introduction to Islam
RELS 4280 Religious Dimensions of the Holocaust
RELS 4450 Judaism in the Modern World
RELS 4480 Islamic Fundamentalism in the Modern World
RELS 4570 Special Topics in Islam
SOCI 3228 The Holocaust
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Contacts
Middle East Institute
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4089
Atlanta, GA 30302-4089
Director
Dona J. Stewart, Ph. D.
Room 2006, 34 Peachtree
404/413-6140
djstewart@gsu.edu
Outreach Director
Alta Schwartz
Room 2017, 34 Peachtree
404/413-6146
aschwartz@gsu.edu
Business Manager
Letitia Williams
2010, 34 Peachtree
404/413-6145
daslaw@langate.gsu.edu
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Atlanta, GA 30302
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