Bachelor of Arts in Middle East and Islamic Studies

The major and minor in the Middle East and Islamic Studies offer a broad course of interdisciplinary and theoretically informed study. It is designed to provide a broad understanding of the history, politics, and culture of the Middle East and Muslim societies. The coursework introduces students to the complexity and diversity of the cultural and geographic regions that are represented in the Middle East and Islamic world with focuses on the history, religion, gender and sexuality, literature, art, popular discourses, culture, and politics.
MEIS faculty are currently drawn from the Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature and Languages, Hispanic Studies, History, Media and Cultural Studies, Religious Studies, Theatre, Film, and Digital Production, the History of Art, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Their research and expertise canvass a vast and diverse area from Muslim Spain to Ottoman Greece, and North Africa, in the west, to Central Asia, Indonesia, and South Asia, in the east. Thematically, MEIS faculty examine such issues as social, economic, urban, gender and legal history, Arabic language and literature, identity politics, media in India, theatre and representation, literary studies, state, society, and religion, history of Islamic art, gender and modernity, Islam, colonialism, and modernities, Islamic movements, human rights, transnationality, and pluralism.
MEIS also attends to these themes in relation to language proficiency, broad information literacy, critical analysis, theoretical questions, research, and writing skills, which the study of “regions” or “cultural areas” requires. Do they have historical knowledge, analysis, and reading skills (primary and secondary sources) What are the terms through which, an understanding of a “region” or “area” are articulated How are such domains defined and what are the histories and politics, which have occasioned their formation How does critical attention to these questions give way to new pedagogical and research objects And, finally, how do these new objects come to be newly and differently articulated through the experience and lives of our students and their writing A good number of our survey and upper-division courses allow students to participate in interactive learning by taking part in these debates through oral communication and classroom presentations.

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