Best Near and Middle Eastern Studies graduate certificate programs - Updated 2019

The PhD cluster and certificate in Middle East and North African Studies (MENA) offer rigorous, interdisciplinary approaches to the study and understanding of the world region stretching roughly from Morocco in the West to Iran and Central Asia in the East, the Mediterranean in the North and into Saharan Africa and the Sudan in the South. The cluster and certificate curricula keep in continued and productive tension the idea that MENA is a coherent world region as well as the history and politics of the area studies designation. The MENA Program leads students in an inquiry into the cultural, political, and economic conditions of globalization, including media, migration, digital cultures, cultural production, law, and religion secularism, as they inflect the region and its relationships both internally and externally. See MENA Cluster and Certificate Requirements for specific courses and procedures needed to complete Near and Middle Eastern Studies program. Prospective PhD students interested in participating in this cluster and or obtaining a certificate should indicate their interest when they ir respective graduate programs.

The Program of Study form has to be signed by the student’s advisor and by Professor Mehrzad Boroujerdi ( 2 Eggers Hall) who is the Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program. The Program of Study will be held by Ms. Amy Marsden until all the requirements for the certificate (twelve credits) are complete. Ms. Marsden will submit this form to the Graduate Certification Office (107 Steele Hall) in a timely manner before the student’s expected graduation date so that the documents and information can be gathered as the graduation date approaches.

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