Pre-enrollment for Spring 2023 begins November 2 for undergraduate students at Cornell. We offer courses on a range of topics and languages.
Language Classes
Arabic
Introduction to Quranic Arabic
Hebrew
Hieroglyphic Egyptian
Ancient Egyptian II: Introduction to Middle Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Persian
Turkish
Elementary Turkish through TV Series II
Near Eastern studies topics
Required for the major
Theory and Method in Near Eastern Studies
1000-level classes
2000-level classes
Palestine and the Palestinians
Intermediate Urdu Reading and Writing II
History of Minorities in Ottoman West Asia and North Africa
Drinking through the Ages: Intoxicating Beverages in Near Eastern and World History
Judeophobia, Islamophobia, Racism
Medicine, Magic and Science in the Ancient Near East
History of the Modern Middle East
Hieroglyphs to HTML: History of Writing
3000-level classes
History of State and Society in Modern Iran: Through Literature and Film
Race and Slavery, Old and Modern
Humanities Scholars Research Methods
Islam and the Ethnographic Imagination
Jews, Christians, and Others in Late Antiquity
4000-level classes
Labor and Employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Hasidism: History, Community, Thought
6000-level classes
Labor and Employment in the Middle East and North Africa
History of State and Society in Modern Iran: Through Literature and Film
Theory and Method in Near Eastern Studies
Islam and the Ethnographic Imagination
Jews, Christians, and Others in Late Antiquity
7000-level classes
