Bowdoin Offers New Minors in 欧洲杯竞猜网址官网 和 Middle Eastern Studies

欧洲杯竞猜网址官网

Bowdoin has been offering 欧洲杯竞猜网址官网 classes since 2008, said Morrison, but until now they have never counted for anything beyond credit or a student's distribution requirement. “The 欧洲杯竞猜网址官网 minor will entail two years of language instruction—that’s four classes, with the option to add a fifth,” he explained. With the hiring this past year of two instructors—lecturer in 欧洲杯竞猜网址官网 Batool Khattab 和 安德鲁·W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in 欧洲杯竞猜网址官网 Pamela Klasova—the College is now well placed to offer more language classes, Morrison noted.

On top of the linguistic component, the 欧洲杯竞猜网址官网 minor will require one more class in another discipline that’s related to the 欧洲杯竞猜网址官网 world. This class will most likely be taught in English 和 can be chosen from a variety of academic options, including government, 历史, 宗教, 社会学, cinema studies, Africana studies, 和 Francophone studies. “欧洲杯竞猜网址官网 is a tough language to learn,” said Morrison, a scholar of Islam 和 Judaism, “but it’s an extremely valuable thing to study, 和 it’s great that Bowdoin is strengthening its commitment to the subject." 

Middle Eastern 和 North African Studies (MENA)

There is also a language requirement for this new minor, said Morrison, but greater emphasis is placed on the study of the region, which spans from Morocco in the west to Iran in the east. “MENA students must take one year, or two classes, of any Middle Eastern language. The easiest one for Bowdoin students is, of course, 欧洲杯竞猜网址官网, because we offer classes on campus, but students spending a year abroad in somewhere like Israel or Turkey would be perfectly entitled to take language classes there.”

Three non-language classes are also required for MENA, 和, as in the 欧洲杯竞猜网址官网 non-language option, they can be chosen from a wealth of associated subjects. Morrison cited the strength of several Bowdoin faculty members in a number of areas, including Assistant Professor of Government Barbara Elias, 安德鲁·W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History Idriss Jebari, Assistant Professor of Sociology Oyman Basaran, 和 Assistant Professor of Romance Languages 和 Literatures Meryem Belkaid. 

“It’s not just about Islam 和 politics,” said Morrison. “The Middle East is in the news all the time, but it’s also an extremely significant area of human civilization from even before the common era—think of those Assyrian reliefs 和 other artifacts on display at the Bowdoin Museum of Art!”

Since July 1, 2019, minors in 欧洲杯竞猜网址官网 和 Middle Eastern 和 North African studies are being formally offered by Bowdoin.