Middle Eastern Studies
Middle Eastern Studies An Interdivisional Concentration at Bard provides a historical introduction to the region’s major political, social, and cultural themes, and obtain one year of language proficiency in Arabic or Hebrew. At Moderation, usually held concurrently with the primary program, students must submit papers on past experience and projected work, as well as an academic paper about the Middle East written in one of their core or elective MES classes. At least one member of the Moderation board should be a faculty member affiliated with MES.
Overview
The Middle Eastern Studies (MES) concentration promotes the intellectual exploration and analytic study of the historical and contemporary Middle East, from North Africa to Afghanistan, and from central Asia to Yemen. This geographical conception of the Middle Stone Row, originally built in the late 1800s, houses East has its roots in the 19th century, when British strategic dormitories, faculty offices and classrooms. forces considered how to manage the decline of the Ottoman Empire in Turkish- and Arabspeaking regions and maintain influence in the Qajar Empire After Moderation students in Iran. Over the past two cenmust enroll in four other electuries, the term has been used tives to broaden understandto identify a vast region of diing of the region and its study, verse cultures, languages, his- The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts is one of which should be a 300tories, religions, and instituhome to the school’s Dance and Theater programs. level seminar that requires a tions. The main objective of substantial paper on some MES is to meet the academic topic pertaining to the Middle and professional needs of stuEast; and successfully comdents interested in the histoplete a Senior Project that adries, societies, and politics of dresses aspects of the contemthe region. Topics might inporary Middle East and incorclude refugee affairs, human porates themes that students rights, oil-industry politics, the have learned during their rise of religious identity, and the The 69,000-square foot Reem-Kayden Center for Science MES course work. While the and Computation opened in 2007. Arab-Israeli conflict. Students two-semester Senior Project is moderate into a primary divibased in a primary program, the Senior Project sional program along with MES. Electives incorpoboard must include at least one faculty member rate disciplines such as anthropology, art history, affiliated with MES. literature, history, political studies, religious studies, and sociology.
Courses
Requirements
Core courses include: Arabic 101-102, Elementary Arabic; Hebrew 101-102, Beginning Hebrew; Religion 160, Narrating the Modern Middle East.
Students concentrating in MES must meet the following requirements before Moderation: enroll in Narrating the Modern Middle East, a core course that Website: http://middleeastern.bard.edu
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Overview
The Middle Eastern Studies (MES) concentration promotes the intellectual exploration and analytic study of the historical and contemporary Middle East, from North Africa to Afghanistan, and from central Asia to Yemen. This geographical conception of the Middle Stone Row, originally built in the late 1800s, houses East has its roots in the 19th century, when British strategic dormitories, faculty offices and classrooms. forces considered how to manage the decline of the Ottoman Empire in Turkish- and Arabspeaking regions and maintain influence in the Qajar Empire After Moderation students in Iran. Over the past two cenmust enroll in four other electuries, the term has been used tives to broaden understandto identify a vast region of diing of the region and its study, verse cultures, languages, his- The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts is one of which should be a 300tories, religions, and instituhome to the school’s Dance and Theater programs. level seminar that requires a tions. The main objective of substantial paper on some MES is to meet the academic topic pertaining to the Middle and professional needs of stuEast; and successfully comdents interested in the histoplete a Senior Project that adries, societies, and politics of dresses aspects of the contemthe region. Topics might inporary Middle East and incorclude refugee affairs, human porates themes that students rights, oil-industry politics, the have learned during their rise of religious identity, and the The 69,000-square foot Reem-Kayden Center for Science MES course work. While the and Computation opened in 2007. Arab-Israeli conflict. Students two-semester Senior Project is moderate into a primary divibased in a primary program, the Senior Project sional program along with MES. Electives incorpoboard must include at least one faculty member rate disciplines such as anthropology, art history, affiliated with MES. literature, history, political studies, religious studies, and sociology.
Courses
Requirements
Core courses include: Arabic 101-102, Elementary Arabic; Hebrew 101-102, Beginning Hebrew; Religion 160, Narrating the Modern Middle East.
Students concentrating in MES must meet the following requirements before Moderation: enroll in Narrating the Modern Middle East, a core course that Website: http://middleeastern.bard.edu
Visit Bard Athletics & Recreation online @ www.bardathletics.com
