Complete Schedule for Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages and Cultures - Spring 2021
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Arabic |
ARAB 1020 | Elementary Arabic |
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10266 | 001 | Lecture (4 Units) | Open  | 16 / 20 | Bilal Maanaki | MoTuWeThFr 10:00am - 10:50am | Web-Based Course |
10267 | 002 | Lecture (4 Units) | Closed | 21 / 20 | Suad Mohamed | MoTuWeThFr 11:00am - 11:50am | Web-Based Course |
10268 | 003 | Lecture (4 Units) | Open  | 18 / 20 | Bilal Maanaki | MoTuWeThFr 12:00pm - 12:50pm | Web-Based Course |
ARAB 2020 | Intermediate Arabic |
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10802 | 001 | Lecture (4 Units) | Open  | 15 / 16 | Bilal Humeidan | MoTuWeThFr 11:00am - 11:50am | Web-Based Course |
10270 | 002 | Lecture (4 Units) | Open  | 12 / 20 | Suad Mohamed | MoTuWeThFr 12:00pm - 12:50pm | Web-Based Course |
10269 | 003 | Lecture (4 Units) | Closed  | 22 / 22 | Bilal Maanaki | MoTuWeThFr 1:00pm - 1:50pm | Web-Based Course |
ARAB 3019 | Language House Conversation |
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11815 | 001 | Lecture (1 Units) | Open  | 0 / 20 | Suad Mohamed | TBA | TBA |
ARAB 3020 | Advanced Arabic II |
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10271 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open | 9 / 10 | Bilal Humeidan | TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am | Web-Based Course |
10803 | 002 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open | 6 / 10 | Suad Mohamed | MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Web-Based Course |
ARAB 3672 | Review of Arabic Grammar |
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11680 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 7 / 12 (7 / 12) | Mohammed Sawaie | MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Web-Based Course |
ARAB 4020 | Advanced Arabic IV |
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12976 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 2 / 12 (2 / 12) | Mohammed Sawaie | MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Web-Based Course |
ARAB 4245 | Readings in Classical Arabic Prose |
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20231 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 5 / 15 (5 / 15) | Nizar Hermes | Th 6:00pm - 8:30pm | Web-Based Course |
ARAB 5245 | Readings in Classical Arabic Prose |
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20232 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Permission | 0 / 15 (5 / 15) | Nizar Hermes | Th 6:00pm - 8:30pm | Web-Based Course |
ARAB 5420 | Advanced Arabic IV |
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20749 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open | 0 / 12 (2 / 12) | Mohammed Sawaie | MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Web-Based Course |
ARAB 6672 | Review of Arabic Grammar |
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13182 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 0 / 12 (7 / 12) | Mohammed Sawaie | MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Web-Based Course |
Hebrew |
HEBR 1020 | Introduction to Modern Hebrew II |
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10462 | 001 | Lecture (4 Units) | Open  | 16 / 18 | Zvi Gilboa | MoTuWeThFr 10:00am - 10:50am | Web-Based Course |
HEBR 1420 | Elementary Biblical Hebrew II |
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11775 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 1 / 18 (5 / 18) | Gregory Goering | MoWeFr 10:00am - 10:50am | Contact Department |
HEBR 2020 | Intermediate Modern Hebrew |
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10463 | 001 | Lecture (4 Units) | Open  | 8 / 15 | Zvi Gilboa | MoTuWeTh 11:00am - 11:50am | Web-Based Course |
HEBR 2420 | Intermediate Biblical Hebrew II |
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11776 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 3 / 14 (8 / 14) | Gregory Goering | MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Contact Department |
HEBR 4993 | Independent Study in Hebrew |
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10804 | 001 | SEM (1 - 3 Units) | Permission  | 1 / 4 | Zvi Gilboa | TBA | TBA |
HEBR 8993 | Independent Study in Hebrew |
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11980 | 001 | IND (1 - 3 Units) | Permission  | 0 / 1 | Zvi Gilboa | TBA | TBA |
Hindi |
HIND 1020 | Elementary Hindi-Urdu |
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10466 | 001 | Lecture (4 Units) | Open  | 7 / 18 | Abdul Nasir | MoTuWeThFr 10:00am - 10:50am | Web-Based Course |
13006 | 002 | Lecture (4 Units) | Open | 8 / 15 | Griffith Chaussee | MoTuWeThFr 12:00pm - 12:50pm | Web-Based Course |
HIND 2020 | Intermediate Hindi |
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10467 | 001 | Lecture (4 Units) | Open  | 11 / 15 | Abdul Nasir | MoTuWeThFr 11:00am - 11:50am | Web-Based Course |
HIND 3020 | Advanced Hindi II |
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10468 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 1 / 12 | Abdul Nasir | MoWeFr 12:00pm - 12:50pm | Web-Based Course |
HIND 4993 | Independent Study in Hindi |
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21439 | 001 | IND (1 - 3 Units) | Closed | 1 / 1 | Abdul Nasir | TBA | TBA |
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures |
MESA 3380 | A Thousand and One Nights at the Cinema |
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20213 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Closed  | 30 / 30 | Samhita Sunya | MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Web-Based Course |
MESA 3381 | Spies in Action: Cine-Media Worlds of Espionage |
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20217 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 26 / 30 | Samhita Sunya | TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am | Web-Based Course |
MESA 4999 | Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Senior Thesis II |
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12752 | 001 | SEM (6 Units) | Open  | 0 / 5 | Samhita Sunya | TBA | TBA |
14579 | 002 | SEM (6 Units) | Open  | 0 / 5 | Zvi Gilboa | TBA | TBA |
MESA 8993 | Independent Study II |
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14398 | 001 | IND (1 - 3 Units) | Open  | 0 / 5 | Robert Hueckstedt | TBA | Web-Based Course |
MESA 8995 | MA Research Seminar |
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11554 | 001 | SEM (3 Units) | Open  | 1 / 5 | Robert Hueckstedt | Fr 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Web-Based Course |
MESA 8999 | Non-Topical Research, MA |
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21419 | 001 | IND (1 - 12 Units) | Open | 1 / 5 | Robert Hueckstedt | TBA | TBA |
Middle Eastern Studies |
MEST 2270 | Culture and Society of the Contemporary Arab Middle East |
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20228 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Closed  | 25 / 25 | Tessa Farmer | TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Web-Based Course |
MEST 2450 | Languages of Nationhood: Sociolinguistics in Israel |
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20219 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 10 / 30 | Daniel Lefkowitz | MoWeFr 11:00am - 11:50am | Web-Based Course |
MEST 3490 | Dangerous in Danger: Refuge and Otherness in Times of Crisis |
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20230 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 29 / 30 | Zvi Gilboa | MoWe 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Web-Based Course |
Persian |
PERS 1020 | Elementary Persian |
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10580 | 001 | Lecture (4 Units) | Open | 16 / 20 | Mahshad Mohit | MoTuWeThFr 10:00am - 10:50am | Web-Based Course |
PERS 2020 | Intermediate Persian |
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10581 | 001 | Lecture (4 Units) | Open  | 12 / 15 | Mahshad Mohit | MoTuWeThFr 12:00pm - 12:50pm | Web-Based Course |
PERS 3020 | Advanced Persian |
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12372 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 1 / 10 | Mahshad Mohit | MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Web-Based Course |
PERS 3559 | New Course in Persian |
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| Modern Persian Literature II |
| Modern Persian Literature II |
19209 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 3 / 18 (4 / 18) | Pardis Minuchehr | Tu 4:00pm - 6:30pm | Web-Based Course |
PERS 4993 | Independent Study in Persian |
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21440 | 001 | IND (1 - 3 Units) | Permission | 1 / 3 | Mahshad Mohit | TBA | TBA |
PERS 5559 | New Course in Persian |
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| Modern Persian Literature |
| Modern Persian Literature II |
20474 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open | 1 / 18 (4 / 18) | Pardis Minuchehr | Tu 4:00pm - 6:30pm | Web-Based Course |
Persian in Translation |
PETR 3559 | New Course in Persian Translation |
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| Rumi's Reception: Persian Mystical Poetry |
| Rumi's Reception: Persian Mystical Poetry (Taught in English) |
19210 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 16 / 25 (18 / 25) | Pardis Minuchehr | Mo 4:00pm - 6:30pm | Web-Based Course |
PETR 5559 | New Course in Persian Translation |
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| Rumi's Reception: Persian Mystical Poetry |
| Rumi (Graduate Level Course Taught in English) |
20475 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open | 2 / 25 (18 / 25) | Pardis Minuchehr | Mo 4:00pm - 6:30pm | Web-Based Course |
Sanskrit |
SANS 1020 | Elementary Sanskrit II |
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10725 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 1 / 10 | Robert Hueckstedt | MoWeFr 1:00pm - 1:50pm | Web-Based Course |
SANS 3022 | The Bhagavadgita |
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19274 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open  | 3 / 10 | Robert Hueckstedt | MoWeFr 11:00am - 11:50am | Web-Based Course |
SANS 8993 | Independent Study in Sanskrit |
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10982 | 001 | IND (1 - 3 Units) | Permission  | 4 / 7 | Robert Hueckstedt | TBA | TBA |
South Asian Studies |
SAST 3300 | The Pleasures of Bollywood: Melodrama, Realism, Mythos |
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19211 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open, WL (3 / 199)  | 29 / 30 | Geeta Patel | We 3:30pm - 6:00pm | Web-Based Course |
SAST 4991 | South Asian Studies Capstone Seminar |
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13064 | 001 | SEM (3 Units) | Open  | 2 / 6 | Mehr Farooqi | Tu 3:30pm - 6:00pm | New Cabell Hall 364 |
SAST 4993 | Independent Study |
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21382 | 001 | IND (1 - 3 Units) | Permission | 1 / 1 | Geeta Patel | TBA | TBA |
South Asian Literature in Translation |
SATR 3000 | Women Writing in India & Pakistan: 1947-Present |
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12404 | 001 | SEM (3 Units) | Open  | 27 / 30 | Mehr Farooqi | Mo 6:00pm - 8:30pm | Web-Based Course |
Urdu |
URDU 2020 | Intermediate Urdu |
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12699 | 001 | Lecture (4 Units) | Open  | 5 / 12 | Griffith Chaussee | MoTuWeThFr 1:00pm - 1:50pm | Web-Based Course |
URDU 3020 | Advanced Urdu II |
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10780 | 001 | Lecture (3 Units) | Open | 3 / 7 | Griffith Chaussee | TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am | Web-Based Course |
URDU 4993 | Independent Study in Urdu |
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14430 | 001 | IND (1 - 3 Units) | Open | 0 / 1 | Griffith Chaussee | TBA | TBA |