R1B. Composition in Connection with Reading Ancient Near Eastern Literature. (4; 4) Expository writing is based on the analysis of selected masterpieces of the ancient Near East in translation, such as the Bible, Code of Hammurabi, Epic of Gilgamesh, etc. R1A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R1B satisfies the second half.
Instructor: A. Khudonazar; MW 11-12:30, 271 Barrows
15. Introduction to Near Eastern Art and Archaeology. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. The ancient Near East (present-day Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and Turkey) is considered the cradle of civilization. Here in Mesopotamia and its neighboring regions, the first cities arose, writing was invented, armies forged the earliest empires, and complex religious beliefs were expressed in art and architecture. This course surveys the major archaeological sites and monuments from the earliest settlements to the conquest of the Near East by Alexander the Great in 330 BCE.
Instructor: M. Feldman; MWF 11-12, 106 Moffitt
Discussion Section: S. Langin-Hooper, M 2-3, M 3-4, 271 Barrows
24. Freshman Seminar. (1) Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. One hour of seminar per week. Sections 1-2 to be graded on a letter-grade basis. Sections 3-4 to be graded on a passed/not passed basis. The Berkeley Seminar program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Instructor: C. Redmount; Tu 1-2, 252 Barrows
Instructor: M. Siddiq; Tu 10-11, 115 Barrows
C104. Babylonian Religion. (3) Three hours of lecture per week. A survey of Babylonian religious beliefs and practices based on indigenous texts and monuments. Also listed as Religious Studies C104.
Instructor: N. Veldhuis; TuTh 2-3:30, 179 Dwinelle
126. Silk Road Art and Archaeology. (3) Three hours of lecture per week. The course will outline art and archaeology of the Silk Roads from the 5th century BCE to the 10th century CE. A number of specific sites located along the Silk Roads will be selected and explored in depth, as examples, which reveal the manifold cultural currents along the trade routes. Special attention will be paid to the eclecticism in Silk Road cultures brought about by the movement of peoples and merchandise which facilitated the spread and fusion along these trading routes of various ideas, cultural forms, art styles, and religious concepts. The social and political underpinnings of this eclecticism will be examined.
Instructor: S. Mehendale; TuTh 3:30-51-2, 179 Dwinelle
C135. Jewish Civilization I: The Biblical Period. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. This is the first course in a four-course sequence in the history of Jewish culture and civilization. It covers the biblical period and the period up to the destruction of the second temple. This course will explore the current state of our knowledge, including the legacy of ancient Near Eastern myth and religion, the history of Israelite religion, the literary features of biblical narrative, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Also listed as Undergrad Interdisciplinary Studies C152 and Religious Studies C132.
Instructors: R. Hendel and B. Alter; TuTh 11-12:30, 100 Wheeler
139. Modern Jewish Literatures. "Multiculturalism in Modern Jewish Literatures." (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: Upper division standing or consent of instructor. Trends and genres in modern Jewish literatures—translated from Hebrew and Yiddish, with selected texts translated from other Jewish languages like Ladino and Judeo-Arabic. Focus will be on developments in Jewish literary traditions since the enlightenment in the context of tensions between occidental and oriental formations of Jewish culture.
Instructor: C. Kronfeld; W 3-6, 219 Dwinelle
Discussion Sections: S. Levin; Th 11-12, 271 Barrows; Th 12-1, 271 Barrows
146B. Islam. (3; 3) Three hours of lecture per week. A comprehensive and detailed introduction to the sources, doctrines, practices, and institutions of Islam, together with their historical development and elaboration in a select number of ethnic and geographic environments and an overview of Islam in the world today.
Instructor: H. Algar; TuTh 11-12:30, 56 Barrows
155. Wonder and the Fantastic: The Thousand and One Nights in World Literary Imagination. (3) Three hours of lecture per week. After studying the tales themselves and examining their structure and how they fit into the genre of folk literature, we will investigate how the Nights was transmitted, translated, and received in Europe, as a window on 19th-century gender and racial attitudes, especially Western views of the "oriental" other. How the Nights was creatively manipulated by Western writers will be studied, as will the influence of these tales on modern Arabic literature itself. Several examples of how the Nights have been represented in Western films will be considered. All works will be read in English translation.
Instructor: M. Larkin, TuTh 2-3:30, 100 Wheeler
190A. Special Topics in Fields of Near Eastern Studies. "Explorers, Archaeologists, and Tourists: Intellectual Adventures in Near Eastern Archaeology." (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Topics explore themes and problems in the various fields of Near Eastern studies. They often reflect the research interests of the instructor and supplement regular curricular offerings. Specific descriptions of current offerings in this series are available through the department.
Instructor: B. Porter; TuTh 9:30-11, 125 Dwinelle
220B. Seminar in Near Eastern Art. (2; 4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of seminar per week. Graduate seminar on specific aspects of the arts of Western and Central Asia. May be taken for two units on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Four units to be graded on a letter-grade basis.
Instructor: M. Feldman; F 1-4, 252 Barrows
296. Topics in Egyptian Art and Archaeology. (2; 4) Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Three hours of seminar per week. Two units to be graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Four units to be graded on a letter-graded basis. Prerequisites: 102A-102B or 106A-106B or consent of instructor. Changing topics involving ancient Egyptian art and archaeology. Focus may be regional, chronological, methodological, and/or thematic.
Instructor: C. Redmount; Th 2-5, 252 Barrows
298. Seminar. (1-4) Course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Special topics in Near Eastern Studies. Topics vary and are announced at the beginning of each semester.
Instructor: C. Kronfeld; M 3-6, 125 Dwinelle
ARABIC COURSES
1B. Elementary Arabic. (5; 5) Five hours of recitation per week. Prerequisites: 1A is a prerequisite to IB. This course emphasizes the functional usage of Arabic in the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Authentic audio, video, and reading materials are presented from the beginning, and students are encouraged to be creative with the language in and out of class.
Instructor: J. Hayes; MTWTF 8-9, 252 Barrows
Instructor:
S. Shiri; MTWTF 10-11, 129 Barrows
Instructor: M.El-Sherif; MTWTF 11-12, 252 Barrows.
Instructor: K. Abu-Zeid; MTWTF 12-1, 252 Barrows
Instructor: Staff; MTWTF 3-4, 111 Kroeber
20B. Intermediate Arabic. (5; 5) Five hours of recitation per week. Prerequisites: IB or equivalent; 20A is a prerequisite to 20B. This course is proficiency oriented. Authentic reading in modern standard and classical Arabic and the understanding and application of grammatical and stylistic rules are emphasized. Students deliver oral presentations and write academic papers in Arabic.
Instructor: H. Bazian; MTWTF 10-11, 271 Barrows
Instructor: S. Shiri; MW 11-12 289 Dwinelle, TuTh 11-12:30 223 Wheeler
Instructor: M.El-Sherif; MTWTF 1-2, 271 Barrows
108. Islamic Religious and Philosophical Texts in Arabic. (3) Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 20B or equivalent. Readings in the basic texts of Islam (Qur'an, Huran, Hadith, Sira, commentary) and in theological, mystical, and philosophical texts.
Instructor: J. Hayes; TuTh 3:30-5, 8A Barrows
111B. Survey of Arabic Literature (in Arabic). (3; 3) Course may be repeated for credit Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 100A. This course is designed primarily for majors and prospective majors in Arabic studies. The Post-Abbasid and Modern Periods: A literary-historical survey of Arabic literature from the middle of the thirteenth century to the present.
Instructor: M. Siddiq; TuTh 11-12:30, 275 Barrows
220. Seminar in Classical Arabic Literature. (3) Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: 20B or its equivalent and consent of instructor. A close reading and careful literary analysis of significant authors and specific topics in Classical Arabic prose or poetry or both.
Instructor: M. Larkin; Th 11-2, 8A Barrows
298. Seminar. (1-4) Course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Special topics in Arabic. Topics vary and are announced at the beginning of each semester.
Instructor: M. Siddiq; TuTh 2-3:30, 275 Barrows
CUNEIFORM COURSES
101B. Selected Readings in Akkadian. (3; 3) Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 100A-100B. Reading of selected texts, including law codes, letters, myths, and epics. Sequence begins in fall. Offered alternate years.
Instructor: L. Pearce; TuTh 9:30-11, 12 Barrows
103B. Selected Readings in Sumerian. (3; 3) Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 102 A-102B. Reading of texts selected for clarity of script, simplicity of vocabulary, and historical and cultural significance.
Instructor: N. Veldhuis; TuTh 12:30-2, 12 Barrows
EGYPTIAN COURSES
100B. Elementary Egyptian. (5; 5) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Introduction to Middle Egyptian grammar and texts.
Instructor: B. Richter; TuTh 12:30-2, 258 Dwinelle; Discission Section: M 2-3, 140 Barrows
202B. Egyptian Texts. (3; 3) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Concurrent or previous enrollment in 201A-201B or consent of instructor. Philological analysis of texts of a single genre and period.
Instructor:
D. Larkin; TuTh 3:30-5, 18 Barrows
HEBREW COURSES
1B. Elementary Hebrew. (5; 5) Five hours of recitation and one hour of laboratory per week.
Instructor:
C. Boyarin; MTWTF 10-11, 111 Kroeber
20B. Intermediate Hebrew. (5; 5) Five hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 1A-1B.
Instructor:
R. Adler; MW 10-11 & TuTh 9:30-11, 275 Barrows
100B. Advanced Hebrew. (3; 3) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 20A-20B or equivalent. Advanced Hebrew, especially designed for those going on to the study of modern Hebrew literature. Vocabulary building, grammar review, and literary analysis of a sampling of modern texts.
Instructor:
R. Adler; Tu 2-5, 252 Barrows
104B. Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture. (3; 3) Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and consent of instructor. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 100A-100B or equivalent. A close reading of selected works of modern Hebrew fiction, poetry, and drama in their cultural and historical contexts. Topics vary from year to year and include literature and politics, eros and gender, memory and nationalism, Middle-Eastern and European aspects of Israeli literature and culture.
Instructor: R. Adler; M 2-5, 252 Barrows
107B. Biblical Hebrew Texts. (3; 3) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 20A-20B or 106A-106B. The tools and procedure of biblical exegesis applied to simple narrative texts.
Instructor:
C. Boyarin; TuTh 11-12:30, 8B Barrows
204B. Advanced Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture. (3; 3) Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Two semesters of 104A-104B or 105A, or equivalent. Critical approaches to the history and textual practices of modern Hebrew poetry and fiction. Alternating focus between period, genre, and author, seminar topics include stylistic developments in Hebrew poetry and fiction from the Enlightenment to the present, modernism, and modernity, the creation of the modern Hebrew novel, women writers and the Hebrew canon, and single-author seminars.
Instructor:
C. Kronfeld; M 2-5, 275 Barrows
298. Seminar. From Sectarianism to Heresy in Second Temple Judaism. (1-4) Course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Special topics in Hebrew. Topics vary and are announced at the beginning of each semester.
Instructors:
R. Hendel & H. Zellentin; Tu 2-5, 8B Barrows
PERSIAN & IRANIAN COURSES
1B. Elementary Modern Persian. (5; 5) Five hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite for Persian IB is Persian 1A, or consent of instructor.
Instructor:
S. Alavi; MTWTF 9-10, 252 Barrows
11B. Reading and Composition for Persian Speaking Students. (5; 5) Five hours of recitation per week. Prerequisites: Rudimentary knowledge of spoken Persian and consent of instructor. Designed for students with rudimentary knowledge of the Persian language: students who have oral skills (speaking/comprehension, though limited), but lack writing and reading abilities, and grammatical and syntactic knowledge. Completion of 11A-11B will prepare the student to take Persian 100A, Intermediate Persian.
Instructor:
J. Pirnazar; MTWTF 9-10, 271 Barrows
100B. Intermediate Modern Persian. (5; 5) Five hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Persian 1A-1B or consent of instructor. Sequence begins Fall.
Instructor:
J. Pirnazar; MTWTF 10-11, 252 Barrows
101B. Selected Readings in Modern Persian Literature. (3; 3) Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Persian 100A-100B or consent of instructor. Readings in both prose and poetry, drawn chiefly from Persian literature, designed to increase reading skills and vocabulary and to provide a transition to the study of more challenging texts.
Instructor:
J. Pirnazar; TuTh 12:30-2, 104 Barrows
103B. Classical Persian Poetry. (3; 3) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Persian 101A or 10IB or consent of instructor. Systematic study of poems belonging to all genres of classical Persian poetry, with consideration of questions of prosody, rhetoric and style.
Instructor:
W. Ahmadi; TuTh 9:30-11, 115 Kroeber
105. Modern Analytical Prose in Persian. (3) This course deals with modern/contemporary critical theory, literary history, aesthetics and philosophy, and various theories of literary and cultural criticism in Persian. It concentrates on selected modern analytical, discursive, and expository texts in Persian. The course explores, from an inter and multi-disciplinary perspective, how different movements, genres, and rhetorical aspects of modern/contemporary literature and culture have been perceived, historically conceptualized, and critically positioned within the larger intellectual and scholarly domain in Persian. All texts will be read in the original Persian.
Instructor:
W. Ahmadi; TuTh 3:30-5, 275 Barrows
200B. Advanced Persian. (3; 3) Course may be repeated for credit Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Twelve units of upper division coursework in Persian or consent of instructor. Advanced topics in Persian literature from various periods of Persian culture and literary history.
Instructor:
H. Algar; TuTh 2-3:30, 271 Barrows
SEMITICS COURSES
205B. Ugaritic. (3; 3) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 101A-101B or 100A-100B or equivalent. Ugarit language and literature with stress on comparative morphology and lexicography. Sequence begins Fall.
Instructor:
J. Hayes; M 3-6, 8B Barrows
TURKISH COURSES
1B. Elementary Modern Turkish. (5; 5) Five hours of lecture per week. Sequence begins Fall.
Instructor:
A. Algar; MTWTF 10-11, 8A Barrows
100B. Intermediate Modern Turkish. (5; 5) Five hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 1A-1B or equivalent. Sequence begins Fall.
Instructor:
A. Algar; MTWTF 11-12, 290 Barrows
101B. Readings in Modern Turkish. (3; 3) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 100A-100B or consent of instructor. Selected topics from modern Turkish literary works.
Instructor:
A. Algar; MW 3-4:30, 8A Barrows