Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Current public catalogue; retrieved 2026-11-05

143 courses

MELC 101Gateway to the Middle East and the Horn of Africa
MELC 196Introductory Studies in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
MELC 199Study Abroad
MELC 201Introduction to the Ancient Near East
MELC 202Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: Old Testament
MELC 203Introduction to the Archaeology of Western Anatolia: Crossroads of the Ancient World
MELC 207Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Iran
MELC 208Introduction To Ancient Near Eastern Archeology
MELC 209Introduction To Ancient Egyptian Archaeology
MELC 211Introduction to Myths of the Ancient Middle East
MELC 216The Ethiopic Bible and Ethiopic Literature: The First 1500 Years
MELC 229Introduction to Islamic Cultures and Thought
MELC 230Introduction to Muslim Beliefs and Practices
MELC 231Introduction to the Quran
MELC 232Introduction to the Modern Middle East
MELC 233Israeli Culture and Society
MELC 234Introduction to Shi'i Islam
MELC 243Iran and Persianate Worlds
MELC 244Voices of the Iranian Revolution
MELC 257Introduction to Central Asian Turkic Literature in Translation
MELC 258Introduction to Kyrgyz Writer Chingiz Aitmatov
MELC 259Introduction to the Writers and Intellectuals of Central Asia under Soviet Colonialism
MELC 261Turkic Peoples of Central Asia
MELC 262Central Asian Country Profiles: Introduction to Kazakhstan
MELC 264Central Asian Country Profiles: Introduction to Uzbekistan
MELC 265Introduction to Central Asian Turkic Literature in Translation
MELC 266The Modern Middle East and Central Asia
MELC 267Folktales Along the Silk Road
MELC 268Silk Road and Globalization
MELC 269Music Cultures of the Silk Road
MELC 270Diversity and Global Turks
MELC 271Cultural History of Turkey: From Empire to Nation
MELC 285Religion, Violence, and Peace: Patterns Across Time and Tradition
MELC 286Themes in Middle Eastern Literature
MELC 287The Middle East in Song
MELC 288Introduction to the Horn of Africa
MELC 296Special Studies in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
MELC 301Art of the Ancient Near East
MELC 302Religions of the Ancient World
MELC 305The Biblical Prophets
MELC 307From Israelites to Jews: the First Six Centuries BCE
MELC 308Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East
MELC 309Death and Afterlife in the Ancient World
MELC 310Jewish Literature: Foundations and Re-imaginings
MELC 311The Archaeology of Biblical Israel
MELC 312Looting and Loss: Middle Eastern Archaeology
MELC 313Ancient Technologies of the Near East
MELC 314The Archeology of Early Islam
MELC 316Israeli Identities
MELC 317Jewish Life in Literature and Film
MELC 318Literature and the Holocaust
MELC 320Jewish Poetry
MELC 321Israel in Film
MELC 325Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation
MELC 328Bioethics: Secular and Jewish Perspectives
MELC 329Classical Arabic Literature in Translation
MELC 330Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Modern Arabic Novel
MELC 331Thousand and One Nights
MELC 332Arab American Writers
MELC 333Prophecy in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
MELC 334Culture of the Arab World
MELC 335Language Conflict and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa
MELC 336Jews and Arabs
MELC 337Egyptian Cinema: Glamour on the Nile
MELC 338Islam in Africa
MELC 340Translation Studies: Gulliver's Travels Among Muslims and Jews
MELC 343Classical Persian Literature in Translation
MELC 344Modern Persian Literature in Translation
MELC 345Persian Literature in Translation
MELC 350Archaeology of Ancient Near Eastern Warfare and Empire
MELC 352Wisdom Literature in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
MELC 357Cultures of Central Eurasia
MELC 358Islam and Muslims in China
MELC 359Language and Ethnicity
MELC 360Oral Literature of the Turkic Peoples of Central Asia: The Heroic Epos
MELC 365Medieval African Literature: The Ethiopian Virgin Mary
MELC 366Religion in the Horn of Africa: Ethiopic Judaism and Christianity
MELC 371Love and Empire: Cultural History of the Ottoman Empire through Literature
MELC 372Modern Turkish Literature in Translation
MELC 385Modern Middle Eastern Literature in Translation