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In-depth study of the history of ancient Mesopotamia in 2nd millennium BCE. Focus on the reign of Hammurabi in the Old Babylonian period and the diplomatic exchange seen between the different polities of the Late Bronze Age. Overview of the political, social, and cultural history of Mesopotamia during period of tangled military and diplomatic interactions and intense exchanges that create unique cultural expressions. Examination of more personal perspectives of individuals throughout this period of history through engaging with primary source texts in translation. Concurrently scheduled with course C106B. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>AN N EA M208 - Topics in Ancient Iranian History</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Laura Fabian</span> <p> (Same as History M210 and Iranian M210.) Seminar, three hours. Varying topics on Elamite, Achaemenid, Arsacid, and Sasanian history. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>AN N EA 210 - Late Egyptian</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Kathlyn Cooney</span> <p> Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 121A, 121B, 121C. Late Egyptian grammar and reading of both hieroglyphic and hieratic texts. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>AN N EA 220 - Seminar: Ancient Egypt</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Kathlyn Cooney</span> <p> Seminar, three hours. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>AN N EA 596 - Directed Individual Study</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Solange Ashby</span><span class="instructor">Carol Bakhos</span><span class="instructor">Catherine Bonesho</span><span class="instructor">Aaron Burke</span><span class="instructor">Kathlyn Cooney</span><span class="instructor">Laura Fabian</span><span class="instructor">Gina Konstantopoulos</span><span class="instructor">William Schniedewind</span><span class="instructor">M Shayegan</span><span class="instructor">Suzanne Slyomovics</span><span class="instructor">Anthony Yates</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>AN N EA 597 - Examination Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Solange Ashby</span><span class="instructor">Carol Bakhos</span><span class="instructor">Catherine Bonesho</span><span class="instructor">Aaron Burke</span><span class="instructor">Kathlyn Cooney</span><span class="instructor">Laura Fabian</span><span class="instructor">Gina Konstantopoulos</span><span class="instructor">William Schniedewind</span><span class="instructor">M Shayegan</span><span class="instructor">Suzanne Slyomovics</span><span class="instructor">Anthony Yates</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>AN N EA 599 - PhD Dissertation Research and Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Solange Ashby</span><span class="instructor">Carol Bakhos</span><span class="instructor">Catherine Bonesho</span><span class="instructor">Aaron Burke</span><span class="instructor">Kathlyn Cooney</span><span class="instructor">Laura Fabian</span><span class="instructor">Gina Konstantopoulos</span><span class="instructor">William Schniedewind</span><span class="instructor">M Shayegan</span><span class="instructor">Suzanne Slyomovics</span><span class="instructor">Anthony Yates</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  </ul> <ul class="course-list"> <li> <h3>ARABIC C206 - Qur'an</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Asma Sayeed</span> <p> Lecture, three hours. Introduction to Qur'an, its early history, and form and function as scripture in Muslim history, civilization, and culture. Focus also on Qur'anic interpretation, its relationship to Islamic law, and Qur'an in contemporary discourses such as human rights, feminism, and contemporary reform movements. Primary sources include excerpts from Qur'an, Qur'anic interpretation, and selected writings of Muslim thinkers and reformists. Strong focus on analytical and writing skills through in-class assignments and discussion. Concurrently scheduled with course CM106. Letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>ARABIC 250 - Seminar: Premodern Arabic Literature</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Michael Cooperson</span> <p> Seminar, three hours. Readings in Arabic texts from variety of periods and genres, along with appropriate secondary literature. Topics include pre-Islamic poetry and oratory, Qur'an, Umayyad and Abbasid poetry and literary prose, Hadith and Fiqh, historiography, biography, geography, medicine, mathematics, theology, asceticism, and mysticism. May be repeated for maximum of 24 units. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>ARABIC 596 - Directed Individual Study</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Michael Cooperson</span><span class="instructor">Nouri Gana</span><span class="instructor">Asma Sayeed</span><span class="instructor">Suzanne Slyomovics</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>ARABIC 597 - Examination Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Michael Cooperson</span><span class="instructor">Nouri Gana</span><span class="instructor">Asma Sayeed</span><span class="instructor">Suzanne Slyomovics</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>ARABIC 599 - PhD Dissertation Research and Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Michael Cooperson</span><span class="instructor">Nouri Gana</span><span class="instructor">Asma Sayeed</span><span class="instructor">Suzanne Slyomovics</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  </ul> <ul class="course-list"> <li> <h3>ARMENIA 596 - Directed Individual Study</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Peter Cowe</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>ARMENIA 597 - Examination Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Peter Cowe</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>ARMENIA 599 - PhD Dissertation Research and Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Peter Cowe</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>ARMENIA 230A - Elementary Classical Armenian</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Peter Cowe</span> <p> Lecture, three hours. Course 230A is requisite to 230B, which is requisite to 230C. Introduction to grammar of classical literary language (5th to mid-19th century) and guided readings in narrative prose texts. Letter grading. </p> </li>  </ul> <ul class="course-list"> <li> <h3>HEBREW 235 - Hebrew Literature of Second Temple Period</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Catherine Bonesho</span> <p> Seminar, three hours. Designed for students who have basic language skills and capacities necessary for reading Biblical Hebrew or Rabbinic Hebrew. Reading, analysis, and interpretation of Hebrew literature composed during Second Temple period. Relevant sources include Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah, Ecclesiastes, Ben Sira, Daniel, Dead Sea Scrolls, and other documents from Judean desert, and various aprocrypha and pseudepigrapha. Special attention to historical development of Hebrew language and literature in relation to both earlier biblical sources, styles, grammar, and syntax and to subsequent Rabbinic writings. Course builds following skills: reading unpointed texts, mastering distinctive elements of vocabulary, idiom, and syntax of Second Temple Hebrew, and analyzing relationships between biblical and postbiblical sources. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>HEBREW 596 - Directed Individual Study</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Carol Bakhos</span><span class="instructor">Catherine Bonesho</span><span class="instructor">William Schniedewind</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>HEBREW 597 - Examination Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Carol Bakhos</span><span class="instructor">Catherine Bonesho</span><span class="instructor">William Schniedewind</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>HEBREW 599 - PhD Dissertation Research and Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Carol Bakhos</span><span class="instructor">Catherine Bonesho</span><span class="instructor">William Schniedewind</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  </ul> <ul class="course-list"> <li> <h3>IRANIAN M210 - Topics in Ancient Iranian History</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Laura Fabian</span> <p> (Same as Ancient Near East M208 and History M210.) Seminar, three hours. Varying topics on Elamite, Achaemenid, Arsacid, and Sasanian history. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>IRANIAN 220B - Classical Persian Texts</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> No assigned instructor</br> <li> <h3>IRANIAN M230A - Old Iranian</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">M Shayegan</span> <p> (Same as Indo-European Studies M230A.) Lecture, four hours. Studies in grammars and texts of Old Persian and Avestan. Comparative considerations. May not be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>IRANIAN 231A - Advanced Middle Iranian</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">M Shayegan</span> <p> Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 161C. Course 231A is requisite to 231B, which is requisite to 231C. Further studies in grammars and texts of Middle Iranian languages (e.g., Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Khotanese, Bactrian). May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>IRANIAN 596 - Directed Individual Study</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Laura Fabian</span><span class="instructor">M Shayegan</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>IRANIAN 597 - Examination Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Laura Fabian</span><span class="instructor">M Shayegan</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>IRANIAN 599 - PhD Dissertation Research and Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Laura Fabian</span><span class="instructor">M Shayegan</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  </ul> <ul class="course-list"> <li> <h3>ISLM ST 200 - Introduction to Islamic Studies</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Asma Sayeed</span> <p> Seminar, three hours. Introduction to various disciplines and methods employed in study of Islamic histories, cultures, and societies, with special emphasis on methodologies and current theories and how they may be used and combined by Islamic studies students. Content varies each year. Letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>ISLM ST 596 - Directed Individual Study</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Khaled Abou El Fadl</span><span class="instructor">Asma Sayeed</span><span class="instructor">Luke Yarbrough</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>ISLM ST 597 - Examination Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Khaled Abou El Fadl</span><span class="instructor">Asma Sayeed</span><span class="instructor">Luke Yarbrough</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>ISLM ST 598 - MA Thesis Research and Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Khaled Abou El Fadl</span><span class="instructor">Asma Sayeed</span><span class="instructor">Luke Yarbrough</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>ISLM ST 599 - PhD Dissertation Research and Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Khaled Abou El Fadl</span><span class="instructor">Asma Sayeed</span><span class="instructor">Luke Yarbrough</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  </ul> <ul class="course-list"> <li> <h3>NR EAST 596 - Directed Individual Study</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Carol Bakhos</span><span class="instructor">William Schniedewind</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>NR EAST 597 - Examination Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Carol Bakhos</span><span class="instructor">William Schniedewind</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>NR EAST 599 - PhD Dissertation Research and Preparation</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Carol Bakhos</span><span class="instructor">William Schniedewind</span> <p> Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading. </p> </li>  </ul> <ul class="course-list"> <li> <h3>SEMITIC 230 - Seminar: Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">William Schniedewind</span> <p> Seminar, two hours. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  <li> <h3>SEMITIC 240 - Seminar: Akkadian Language</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Gina Konstantopoulos</span> <p> Seminar, two hours. Readings of texts from various dialects of Akkadian; selected problems in linguistic analysis of Akkadian dialects. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading. </p> </li>  </ul> <ul class="course-list"> <li> <h3>TURKIC 210A - Readings in Ottoman I</h3> <strong>Instructor(s): </strong> <span class="instructor">Zeynep Durmus</span> <p> Lecture, three hours. Examination of printed texts in Ottoman from 19th and 20th centuries to improve student competence to read, transliterate, and translate Ottoman texts. Readings include selections from newspapers, almanacs, travel books, and literary and historical texts. 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