Beginning Modern Standard Arabic. Basic conversation in formal Arabic. Development of basic reading and writing skills.

Development of ability to communicate in Modern Standard Arabic, orally and in writing. Not open for credit to students who have had three or more years of Arabic in high school.

Lower to upper intermediate level in Modern Standard Arabic. Development of ability to communicate orally and in writing. Taught in English and Arabic.

Development of ability to communicate in Modern Standard Arabic. Lower to upper intermediate skills in speaking and writing. Taught in English and Arabic.

Representative works from the cultures of the Arab world. Pre-Islamic poets to later writers and thinkers. Relation of literary and artistic forms to their historical contexts. Taught in English. CA 1. CA 4-INT.

Introduction to modern Arabic culture from Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign to modern Islamism. Survey of institutions, philosophy, and social customs seen through the medium of literature. Taught in English. CA 1. CA 4-INT.

Effective communication in Levantine colloquial Arabic. Introduction to words, expressions and grammatical structures used frequently in everyday life. Taught in Levantine Arabic and English.

Folk tales and advice to princes and rulers of the Muslim World: Arabic, Persian and Moghul texts read in translation, such as The Thousand and One Nights, the Qabusname, and Jahangirname. Comparisons with European frame-tales and advice literature (Chaucer, Boccaccio, Machiavelli). Manuals for rulership from India to Andalusia. Ethics, conduct, and political philosophy in folk literature and elite prose. Taught in English. CA 1. CA 4-INT.

Topics include advanced Arabic texts by writers from around the Arab world, covering a range of political, social, religious, and literary themes and that represent a range of genres, styles, and periods. Taught in Arabic.

Modern standard Arabic of the media: television, press and internet. Taught entirely in Arabic.

In-depth development of speaking and writing skills.

Special topics taken in a foreign study program. May count toward the major with consent of the advisor.

Prerequisites and recommended preparation vary.

Survey of Classical Arabic Literature from pre-Islamic Arabia to the Late Middle Ages, from the Fertile Crescent to the Iberian Peninsula. Recent scholarship and theory in the field of Arabic literature. Taught in English (Arabic readings optional). CA 1.

Travel accounts by medieval and modern Arab writers. Transcultural encounters: the Volga Vikings, Norman Sicily, al-Andalus, China, Africa and France. Development of advanced reading and translation skills. Review of grammar and syntax through textual analysis.

Selected Arabic poems from pre-Islamic times to the Middle Ages, from Iraq to the Iberian Peninsula. Modes, genres, periods and authors of the Arabic Classical poetic canon. Arabic poetic terminology, criticism and theory. Development of advanced reading, writing and translation skills. Taught in English and Arabic.

Discussion of the Arab Spring's social and political dimensions, including its origins, events, and outcomes. Study of political, journalistic, social, literary, and artistic texts. Development of advanced Arabic skills. Taught in Arabic.

Survey of fundamental texts in modern and contemporary Arabic Literature. Textual criticism in Arabic. Development of advanced oral and written skills in Modern Standard Arabic. Taught in Arabic.

The cultural heritage of Muslim Spain through literature, music, philosophy, medicine, art, and architecture. Christian, Jewish and Muslim interactions in medieval Europe. Religious and ethnic coexistence in medieval Iberia. Taught in English. CA 1. CA 4-INT.

Film in the Arab World. Historical, social, religious and political phenomena that shape contemporary cultural discourse, analyzed through film screenings and readings. Gender, radicalization, war and displacement; key historical events such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Lebanese civil war, decolonization, and Islam in the 21st century. Taught in English. CA 1. CA 4-INT.

Representations of Muslims in medieval textbooks, 18th- and 19th-century Western travel accounts. Their influence on stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in Western cinema and media from early Hollywood films to the present. Taught in English.