Applicable for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Minor Requirements

This language-based minor allows students to choose from an array of courses in different departments and fields in order to fulfill its requirements.

There are two basic options:

Option A: Two units in the study of the Mediterranean world, three units of foreign language study (in a single language), and a capstone course. (6 units minimum.)

Option B: Three units from the Mediterranean Semester applied toward the minor, two additional foreign language units, and a capstone course. (6 units minimum.)

In both options, at least two units must be at the 300-level. Languages include French, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

Mediterranean Studies Courses include:

Topics courses where appropriate

First-Year Experience courses which address the Mediterranean

Upper-level courses in the Classics, Spanish, French and Italian Departments.

Art: AH207-Greece and Rome; AH208-Byzantine Art; AH209-Late Antiquity;

AH210- Islamic Art; AH221-Art of the Renaissance

Classics: CL125-Ancient Multicultures; CL216/HY 216 Roman History I; CL226/HY227-Roman History II; CL250-Athenian Democracy

English: EN223-The Bible as Literature

History: HY131-Civilization in the Middle East; HY262 Islamic Empires and their Discontents; HY275-The Renaissance and the Reformation; HY344-Modern France and Italy

Philosophy: PH101-Greek Philosophy; PH244-History of Social and Political Philosophy-Classical Visions

Political Science: PS234-Freedom and Empire; PS313-The Middle East and North Africa; PS314-International Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

Religion: RE140-Islam, RE120-Judaism, RE130-Christianity

Students should check with the advisors of the minor for other courses which qualify for inclusion in the minor.