Middle East and Islamic Studies Designated Emphasis

Subject abbreviation: MEIS College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Muhamad Ali (Religious Studies) Director (951)827-5111; muhamad.ali@ucr.edu

Committee in Charge Muhamad Ali, Director (Religious Studies) Reza Aslan (Creative Writing) Sherine Hafez (Gender and Sexuality Studies) Erith Jaffe-Berg (Theatre, Film and Digital Production) Ruhi Khan (Media and Cultural Studies) Kyle Khellaf (Comp Lit & For Lang) Laila Lalami (Creative Writing) Benjamin Liu (Hispanic Studies) Fatima Quraishi (Art History) Jeff Sacks (Comparative Literature) Fariba Zarinebaf, (History) Daryle Williams, Dean, ex officio

The DE in Middle East and Islamic Studies offers two tracks, one with a requirement for proficiency in a relevant language (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Urdu or another language, with the approval of the chair of the DE), and/or a placement test and a second track without a language requirement.

Students may double count two courses with MEIS content between the DE and the Ph.D. Track One Twelve (12) units plus language proficiency (4-6 quarters)

Three (3) courses (12 units) selected from the list below, at least one of which must be outside of the student’s Ph.D. department, plus the completion of four (4-6) quarters of language study, as described above.

Track Two Sixteen (16) units

Three (4) courses (16 units) selected from the list below, at least one of which must be out- side of the student’s Ph.D. department.

In both tracks, the student is required to take a 2 quarter graduate seminar with the prior approval of faculty member in the relevant discipline. It is understood that the second quarter would be devoted to substantial research and writing.

Applicable Courses Current Graduate Seminars AHS 263, CWPA 256, CWPA 257, HIST 254, HIST 277, HIST 278, RLST 200, RLST 249, RLST 252

Petitionable Graduate Seminars CPLT 215B, CPLT 284, RLST 200A, RLST 201, RLST 202, RLST 203, RLST 204, RLST 205, SPN 251, SPN 279

Current Upper Division Undergraduate Courses AHS 125, AHS 126; ANTH 136/SEAS 136, ANTH 169/GBST 169, ARLC 120, ARLC 151/CPLT 151, ARLC 152/ CPLT 152, ARLC 154/CPLT 154/ PHIL 154, ARLC 155/RLST 157, ARLC 156/CPLT 156/ RLST 156, ARLC 158/CPLT 158/RLST 158, GSST 151, GSST 162, GSST 168, GSST 169, HIST 121, HIST 122, HIST 124, HIST 125, HIST 126, HIST 128, MCS 172, POSC 133, POSC 152, POSC 156, RLST 111, RLST 113, RLST 116, RLST 149, RLST 150, RLST 151, RLST 155/PHIL 155, SPN 193, TFDP 191J