MENA Studies Minor

The Middle East and North Africa Studies Minor

The Minor in Middle East and North Africa Studies is open to all Morgan students regardless of their majors. The MENA minor helps to prepare students and provide them with tools needed to meet the multifaceted challenges of the global twenty-first century through familiarization with the culture, history, and issues within the diverse region of the Middle East and North Africa.

The minor would be of interest to students who wish to pursue a broad range of careers including: diplomacy, politics, economic development, architecture, urban planning, linguistics, and others, as well as to those planning to attend graduate school. 

Students pursuing a minor in Middle East and North African Studies must take MENA100, MENA400, and complete 12 credit requirements (to add up to 18 credits total) to be chosen from the below list, and the credits must be chosen from no fewer than three disciplines.

• Arabic
  • ARAB 101 - Elementary Arabic I
  • ARAB 102 - Elementary Arabic II
  • ARAB 203 - Intermediate Arabic I
  • ARAB 204 - Intermediate Arabic II
  • ARAB 206 - Intensive Intermediate Arabic
• Architecture
  • ARCH 418 - Special Topics in Architecture and Environmental Design I
• Economics
  • ECON 323 - Economics of Developing Nations
• French
  • FREN 101 - Elementary French I
  • FREN 102 - Elementary French II
  • FREN 105 - Intensive Elementary French
  • FREN 203 - Intermediate French I
  • FREN 204 - Intermediate French II
  • FREN 206 - Intensive Intermediate French
• History, Geography, and Museum Studies
  • GEOG 210 - Geography of the Middle East
  • HIST 130 - Topics in World History (SB)
  • HIST 384 - Women, Gender and Society in Middle-East History
  • HIST 385 - History of the Islamic World
  • HIST 386 - History of the Modern Middle East
  • HIST 394 - The World's "Hot Spots": Historical Sources of Contemporary Problems
  • HIST 428 - Colloquium in United States History I
• International Studies
  • INST 409 - Independent Study in International Studies (with approval)
• Political Science
  • POSC 380 - The Middle East in Transition
• Religious Studies
  • RELG 301 - Introduction to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
  • RELG 323 - Judaism
  • RELG 326 - Islam
  • RELG 327 - Islam and Race in the U.S.
• Spanish
  • SPAN 450 - Special Topics in Spanish (with approval)

Required Courses:

• MENA 100 - Introduction to Middle East and North Africa Studies
• MENA 400 - Middle East and North Africa Studies Capstone