1A-1B-1C. Elementary Literary Arabic. Lecture, six hours. Basic grammar and syntax.
102A-102B-102C. Intermediate Literary Arabic. Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisites: courses 1A-1B-1C or consent of instructor. Grammar and syntax; readings of excerpts from literary texts; composition.
103A-103B-103C. Advanced Arabic. Prerequisites: courses 102A-102B-102C or consent of instructor. Review of grammar, composition, conversation, and readings from classical and modern literary texts.
111A-111B-111C. Elementary Spoken Egyptian Arabic. Lecture, three hours. Prerequisites: courses 1A-1B-1C or consent of instructor. Basic grammar and syntax of Egyptian colloquial Arabic.
112A-112B-112C. Advanced Spoken Egyptian Arabic. Lecture, three hours. Prerequisites: courses 111A-111B-111C or consent of instructor. Grammar and syntax; excerpts from literary texts using colloquial Arabic.
113A-113B-113C. Elementary Spoken Levantine Arabic. Lecture, three hours. Prerequisites: courses 1A-1B-1C or consent of instructor. General introduction to spoken Arabic of Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. Grammar and syntax, with emphasis on language of everyday conversation.
114A-114B-114C. Spoken Moroccan Arabic. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, one hour. Introduction to spoken Arabic dialect of Morocco. Phonology, morphology, and syntax. Emphasis on developing oral skills.
120. Islamic Texts. Prerequisite: course 103C or consent of instructor. Readings from Qur'an, Tafsir, Hadith, Fiqh. May be repeated for credit.
130. Classical Arabic Texts. Prerequisite: course 103C or consent of instructor. Readings from medieval literary texts, with grammatical and syntactical analysis. May be repeated for credit.
132. Philosophical and Kalam Texts. Lecture, three hours. Prerequisite: course 120 or consent of instructor. Readings in medieval and Kalam texts. May be repeated for credit.
141. Modern Arabic Literature. Prerequisite: course 103C or consent of instructor. Conducted in Arabic. Readings in selected texts representing important trends in Arabic literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. May be repeated for credit.
150. Introduction to Arabic Literature and Culture. (Formerly numbered 150A-150B.) Lecture, three hours. Readings in English; knowledge of Arabic not required. Culture of Arabic-speaking peoples through their literature. Texts range from pre-Islamic poetry to contemporary novels, along with works in history and anthropology, to place these writings in their social context. P/NP or letter grading.
151. Survey of Modern Arabic Literature in English. Lecture, three hours. Readings of selected texts covering basic literary trends from middle of the last century to the present.
180. Linguistic Analysis of Arabic. Prerequisite: course 102C or consent of instructor. Linguistic description of Arabic in both its modern standard and dialect forms. Introduction to linguistic analysis of Arabic phonology, morphology, and syntax and to linguists' approaches to specific problems posed by Arabic grammar and dialectology.
199. Special Studies in Arabic (2 to 8 units). Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
220. Seminar: Islamic Texts. Seminar, three hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Doctrines and hermeneutics of various schools of thought in Islam, with selected readings from major works. May be repeated for a maximum of 24 units.
230. Medieval Literary Texts. Lecture, two hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Readings in Arabic prose and poetry, survey of prosody. May be repeated for a maximum of 24 units.
240. Seminar: Arab Historians and Geographers. Seminar, three hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Selected readings from works of major historians, geographers, and travelers. May be repeated for a maximum of 24 units.
250. Seminar: Arabic Literature. Seminar, two hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Selected topics from Arabic literature. Readings of texts from manuscript. May be repeated for a maximum of 24 units.
251. Seminar: Modern Arabic Literature. Seminar, three hours. Prerequisite: course 141 or consent of instructor. Studies of specific problems and trends in Arabic prose and/or poetry in the 20th century. May be repeated for credit.
596. Directed Individual Study (2 to 8 units). May be repeated for credit.
597. Examination Preparation (2 to 8 units). Prerequisite: consent of department or instructor. S/U grading.
599. Ph.D. Dissertation Research and Preparation (2 to 8 units). Prerequisite: consent of department or instructor. S/U grading.
106A-106B-106C. Survey of the Middle East from 500 to the Present
204A-204B. Seminars: Near and Middle Eastern History