Courses
Smith College reserves the right to make changes to all announcements and course listings online, including changes in its course offerings, instructors, requirements for the majors and minors, and degree requirements.
The Five College Center for the Study of World Languages offers a mentored language program in Turkish, Persian, Pashto, and high intermediate/advanced Arabic. Courses are for self–motivated students and combine individual study and conversation sessions.
Courses related to Middle East studies offered at Smith within the past three years include:
Middle East Studies
- MES 400 Special Studies (see course catalogue for current topics)
Language
- JUD 100y Elementary Modern Hebrew
- JUD 200 Intermediate Modern Hebrew
- JUD 400 Special Studies (students interested in advanced Hebrew language should contact Ilona Ben-Moshe)
- ARA 100y Elementary Arabic
- ARA 298/299 Intermediate Arabic
Social Sciences
- ECO 214 The EU, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East
- GOV 224 Islam and Politics in the Middle East
- GOV 229 Government and Politics of Israel
- GOV 248 The Arab-Israeli Dispute
- GOV 323 Warring for Heaven and Earth: Muslim and Jewish Fundamentalism
- GOV 347 North Africa in the International System
History and Religious Thought
- JUD 225 Jewish Civilization
- JUD 285 Jews and Islamic Civilization
- HST 207 Islamic Civilization to the 11th Century
- HST 208 The Shaping of the Modern Middle East
- HST 209 Aspects of Middle Eastern History
- FYS 110 The Holy Land
- REL 245 The Islamic Tradition
- REL 246 Islamic Thought and the Challenge of Modernity
- REL 345 Islamic Thought
Literature and the Arts
- CLT 275 Israeli Literature
- ARH 228 Islamic Art and Architecture
- SPN 332 The Middle Ages Today
- THE 220 Homelands: Mythmaking, Representation and Debate in Israeli Drama
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FYS186 Israel: Texts and Contexts
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JUD 400 Special Studies (students interested in designing a special studies in modern Israeli literature, film, or culture should contact Professor Cammy)
