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The undergraduate minor in Arabic consists of four courses.

Three courses are language courses beyond ARAB 203 (the first semester of Intermediate Arabic).

The other course must be chosen from among the following:
ARAB 150: Introduction to Arab Culture
ARAB 151: Survey of Arabic Literature
ARAB 250: Introduction to the Languages of Morocco
ARAB 253: Contemporary Moroccan Literature
ARAB 321: Visions of Emancipation in Modernist Arab Thought
ARAB 337: Borders and Walls in the Arab World
ARAB 338: Borders and Walls in the Arab World–Experiential
ARAB 350: Women and Leadership in the Arab World
ARAB 407: Readings in Arabic I
ARAB 408: Readings in Arabic II
ARAB 434: Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
ARAB 443: Dissident Voices in Arab Cultures
ARAB 452: Imagining Palestine
ARAB 453: Film, Nation, and Identity in the Arab World
ARAB 462: Global Perspectives on Arab Cultures and Societies
ARAB 681: Readings in Islamicate Literatures (taught in Arabic)
ARTH/ASIA 154: Introduction to Art and Architecture of Islamic Lands (8th-16th c. CE)
ARTH/ASIA 251: Art and Architecture in the Age of the Caliphs (7th-12th Centuries CE)
ARTH 351: Crusader Art
ARTH/ASIA 458: Islamic Architecture and the Environment
ARTH/ASIA 561: Arts of the Islamic Mediterranean
ASIA 64: First-Year Seminar: Arab World Photography
ASIA 70: First-Year Seminar: Narrating the Self: Autobiographies of Arab Intellectuals
ASIA/CMPL 359: Literary Diasporas of the Middle East
ASIA/CMPL 442: Postcolonial Literature of the Middle East
ASIA 357/JWST 357/PWAD 362: The Arab-Jews: Culture, Community, and Coexistence
ASIA/JWST/PWAD 425: Beyond Hostilities: Israeli-Palestinian Exchanges and Partnerships in Film, Literature, and Music
ASIA/PWAD 435: The Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa
ASIA/WGST 329: Middle East Women Writers
ASIA/WGST 471: Gender and Sexuality in Middle Eastern Literature
FREN 617: Framing Identities: Franco-Arab Transvisual Transcultural Contexts
GEOG 59: First-Year Seminar: Space, Identity, and Power in the Middle East
GEOG/ASIA 447: Gender, Space, and Place in the Middle East
GEOG 448: Transnational Geographies of Muslim Societies
HIST/ASIA 138: History of Muslim Societies to 1500
HIST/ASIA 139: History of Muslim Societies since 1500
HIST/ASIA 276: The Modern Middle East
HIST/ASIA 277: The Conflict over Israel/Palestine
HIST/ASIA 536: Revolution in the Modern Middle East
HIST/ASIA 537:: Women in the Middle East
HIST/ASIA 538: The Middle East and the West
RELI/ASIA 180: Introduction to Islamic Civilization
RELI/ASIA 181: Modern Muslim Societies
RELI 185: Women/Gender/Islam
RELI 480: Modern Muslim Literatures
RELI/ASIA 581: Sufism
RELI/ASIA 582: Islam and Islamic Art in South Asia
RELI/ASIA 584: The Qur’an as Literature
SOCI 60: First-Year Seminar: Sociology of the Islamic World
SOCI 419: Sociology of the Islamic World

ARAB 308 does not count toward the minor.

Placement credit (PL) may not be used to meet minor requirements.