Minor Requirements

The minor consists of a total of nine courses and students must complete courses from at least three different departments as part of the non-language course requirements for the minor. Minor requirements include:

ONE Year of Foreign Language Instruction

• Minimum of three-quarters of language instruction in Arabic, Hebrew, or Persian

ONE Lower-Division Introductory Course

At least one specified lower-division introductory survey course from the following list:

• HIS 41 The Making of the Modern Middle East
• HIS 50 When Pharaohs Reigned: The History of Ancient Egypt
• HIS 51 Pyramids of Earth: Religion and Symbol in the Ancient World
• HIS 58 From Pirates to Refugees: The History of the Modern Mediterranean
• HIS 74A Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History, 1500-2000
• LIT 81D The Prophet and the Qur’an

FIVE Upper-Division Electives

Students will complete a minimum of 25 credits–or five upper-division courses drawn from the Departments of History, Politics, Anthropology, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies, Literature, Languages, and Applied Linguistics, the History of Art and Visual Culture, and Film and Digital Media whose primary focus is the history, politics, artistic production, and/or cultures of the Middle East and/or North Africa.

Students can select from a list of pre-approved courses from at least three different departments as part of the non-language course requirements for the minor.

For the full list of elective offerings, please visit the MENAS Catalog page.

Please visit the CMENA webpage for more information on the research, programs, and activities, and affiliated faculty.