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Instruction in the Department of Near Eastern Studies is concerned with the languages, literatures, and civilizations of the ancient, medieval, and modern Near East. The Department offers specialized training in Archaeology, Art History, Assyriology, Egyptology, Hittitology, Iranian Studies, Judaic and Islamic Studies, Comparative Semitics, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic and Persian. For students from other disciplines, the Department offers a wide variety of courses to supplement such related fields as classics, linguistics, history, political science, comparative literature, anthropology, and art history.

Many of the Department's courses are restricted to a small number of students, thus affording an opportunity for close contact with the instructing staff. Apart from providing instruction in the languages and literatures, the lecture courses offer a comprehensive body of information on past and present Near Eastern civilizations.

The Department is one of several participating in the Graduate Program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. The Department also participates with the Graduate Theological Union in the Joint Doctoral Program in Near Eastern Religions and in the Joint Doctoral Program in Jewish Studies.

Department of Near Eastern Studies Catalogue 2007-08