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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu, So The archaeology of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley from early agriculture to class formation and the early cities and empires. How did these societies develop and why did they collapse? Earliest epics and contemporary ideologies, including the Bushes in Baghdad, examined in literature and film.
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MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Areas Hu Introduction to the history and cultures of the Middle East, from the rise of Islam to the present, including the Arab world, Iran, Turkey, and Israel. Emphasis on factors important for understanding the Middle East today.
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MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 37) 12/18/2009 F 2.00 Areas Hu Study of three ancient cities buried by volcanic eruptions - Thera in c. 1530 B.C. and Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79 - with emphasis on their architecture, wall paintings, and small finds in cultural and historical context.
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MW 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Exploration of the interaction of religion, history, and literature in the ancient Near East through study of its heroes, including comparison with heroes, heroic narratives, and hero cults in the Bible and from classical Greece.
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TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 26) 12/15/2009 T 2.00 Areas Hu Readings in translation Survey of the literary tradition of the Arabic-Islamic world (West Asia, North Africa, and Muslim Spain), a textual conversation among diverse authors in late antiquity. Prose and poetry from the Qur?an to the
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Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu, So Permission of instructor required Collapse documented in the archaeological and early historical records of the Old and New Worlds, including Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Europe. Analysis of politicoeconomic vulnerabilities, resiliencies, and adaptations in face of abrupt climate change; anthropogenic environmental degradation; resource depletion; ?barbarian? incursions; and class conflict.
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M 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Development of medical thought, disease theory, and surgical technique in ancient Egypt from early pharaonic times to the Greco-Roman period.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu The shaping of society and polity from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258. The origins of Islamic society; conquests and social and political assimilation under the Umayyads and Abbasids; the changing nature of political legitimacy and sovereignty under the caliphate; provincial decentralization and new sources of social and religious power.
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Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Major trends of twentieth-century Arab thought, critically examined through readings in translation from a wide range of thinkers. Issues are analyzed in the context of the historical-colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial background from which they emerged.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required For students who wish to pursue a topic or body of texts not available in the department?s regular curriculum. Approval of the plan of study by both the director of undergraduate studies and a member of the department who agrees to serve as instructor is required. Student and instructor meet regularly throughout the term. The course culminates in either a piece of written work or a final examination.
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W 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Comprehensive survey of subjects treated in Arabic and Islamic studies, with representative readings from each. Methods and techniques of scholarship in the field, with emphasis on acquiring familiarity with bibliographical and other research tools.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Preparation of a research paper of at least thirty pages (sixty pages for a two-term essay) under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. By the end of the second week of classes of the first term, students meet with advisers to discuss the topic, approach, sources, and bibliography of the essay.Â
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NELC 504 01 (13173) M 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009
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NELC 507 01 (11027) /NELC407/MMES407/INRL585 Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 Major trends of twentieth-century Arab thought critically examined through readings in translation from a wide range of thinkers. Issues are analyzed in the context of the historical-colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial background from which they emerged.
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NELC 514 01 (13174) /NELC107/ARCG238/ARCG730/HSAR238 MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 Study of three ancient cities buried by volcanic eruptions - Thera in ca. 1530 B.C. and Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79 - with emphasis on their architecture, wall paintings, and small finds in cultural and historical context.
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NELC 534 01 (13175) /RLST659/HIST531 Fall 2009
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NELC 556 01 (13178) /LITR178/NELC156/HUMS420/MMES201 TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 Survey of salient works from the literary tradition of the Arabic-Islamic world (West Asia, North Africa, and Muslim Spain). Arabic in language, this tradition engages the preceding cultures of Late Antiquity in an unbroken textual conversation, carried on by authors of diverse ethnic provenance and religious affiliation. Readings from both prose and poetry, with attention to the socio-historical and literary backgrounds of the texts, the agendas authors pursued, and the characters they portrayed.
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NELC 588 01 (10276) /ARCG773/ANTH473/ARCG473/EVST473/ANTH773/NELC188 Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 Collapse documented in the archaeological and early historical records of the Old and New Worlds, including Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Europe. Analysis of politico-economic vulnerabilities, resiliencies, and adaptations in the face of abrupt climate change, anthropogenic environmental degradation, resource depletion, "barbarian" incursions, or class conflict.
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NELC 829 01 (13179) Th 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 The development of the Arabic language from the earliest epigraphic evidence through the formation of the classical 'Arabiyya and further, to Middle Arabic and Neo-Arabic. Readings of textual specimens and survey of secondary literature.
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NELC 830 01 (11081) /HIST829 Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 An examination of the shaping of society and polity from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1238. The origins of Islamic society, conquests, and social and political assimilation under the Ummayyads and Abbasids, the changing nature of political legitimacy and sovereignty under the caliphate, provincial decentralization, and new sources of social and religious power.
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NELC 849 01 (13180) HTBA Fall 2009
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NELC 850 01 (13181) /MMES490/NELC490 W 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 Comprehensive survey of the various subjects treated in Arabic and Islamic studies, with representative readings from each. Detailed investigation into the methods and techniques of scholarship in the field, with emphasis on acquiring familiarity with the bibliographical and other research tools.
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NELC 871 01 (13182) /NELC371/HSHM461 M 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 Development of medical thought, disease theory, and surgical technique in ancient Egypt from early pharaonic times until the Graeco-Roman periods. Close reading of texts in translation and secondary literature.
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