Program Overview

Program Overview

The African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures program offers a comprehensive undergraduate program that includes a major and minors.

Undergraduate Program

• The program provides students with a deep understanding of the languages, literatures, and cultures of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
• It includes courses on the history of censorship and banned books, as well as the cultural and political contexts of countries like the USA, Niger, Egypt, India, and China.
• The program fulfills Core Curriculum goals AHo and CCD-1.

Course Descriptions

• 01:013:206 Banned Books: This course explores the global history of censorship and discusses how individual texts fit into that larger history.
  • It focuses on 20th and 21st-century works of fiction, graphic novels, poetry, essays, and films that have been censored or banned for reasons of political dissidence, obscenity, and blasphemy.
  • Sample texts include works by Miriam Tlali, Son’allah Ibrahim, Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasreen, Ahmad Naji, Khaled Hosseini, and Azar Nafisi.

Program Structure

• The program includes a range of courses, such as:
  • Major
  • Minors
  • Course Schedule
  • Course Descriptions
  • Advising
  • Languages
  • FAQ

Faculty and Resources

• The program is led by a department chair and an undergraduate director.
• It offers resources for students and instructors, including academic advising and support services.