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Program for Graduate Studies
Degree of Master of Arts in Near Eastern Studies The Program in Near Eastern Studies enables a very limited number of students to take a two-year multidisciplinary course of study under the guidance of the director of the program leading to the degree of master of arts in Near Eastern studies. Students take 1. appropriate language training and 2. course work emphasizing the modern history, politics, economy, and social structures of the Near East, which for purposes of this program is defined to include the entire Arab world, as well as Iran, Israel, and Turkey. They present a thesis by May 1 of the second year and take a comprehensive examination. The curriculum is adjustable to the individual needs of students who are considering careers in diplomacy, business, the media, or international public and private agencies as related to the Near East. Doctoral Study The Program in Near Eastern Studies enables students to add to their doctoral training in a discipline a coordinated course of study in the languages, contemporary institutions, and modern history of the Near East. Students interested in this course of study enter one of the following departments, in accordance with their chief interest: anthropology, economics, history, Near Eastern studies, politics, or sociology. Students from other departments who have an interest in Near Eastern studies may enter the program by special arrangement with the director. Their work is guided by their own departmental adviser and the director of the Program in Near Eastern Studies. The program awards fellowships through the aforementioned cooperating departments. Students follow the course of study in their department, with certain exceptions. Students in economics, politics, sociology, or anthropology normally take 1. a Near East seminar in their department, 2. a Near East seminar in at least one of the other departments just mentioned, and 3. a relevant history seminar in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Students in Near Eastern studies normally take Near East seminars in at least two other departments. These seminars are described in the various departmental announcements. The Program in Near Eastern Studies also facilitates doctoral courses of study that bridge customary disciplinary or subject boundaries, e.g., European and Near Eastern history, international relations with emphasis on the Near East plus another world area, economic development and comparative politics, or the comparative study of colonialism and empires. The general examination is conducted by the departments in consultation with the director of the program. The doctoral dissertation is written on a Near Eastern subject. It is the goal of the program that all its students who write dissertations for which field work in the Near East would be useful shall have a year of such experience. Courses at New York University A cooperative arrangement between the Near Eastern studies programs at Princeton University and at New York University permits a graduate student in good standing in either university to take courses at the other provided they have the approval in each case of 1. the program director, and, 2. the instructor concerned. |
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