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Honours course choices 2012/2013

Please see below for a full list of all courses being offered in the upcoming academic year with links to relevant DRPS page which contains information about the course and when it will run. Please make sure you look at the correct delivery year (2012/2013).

 

You should check which courses you are required to do on the Degree Regulations and Programmes of Studies pages (DRPS)
http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/

 

It is your own responsibility to make sure you do not have any clashes in your timetable.

 

If you are doing an Individual Subject Combination you should check the template that was agreed with your director of studies and the two departments involved. If you are unsure about this please consult your director of studies.

 

If you have any course choices to make then you should complete the course choice form - available to download on the right - with your course choices and e-mail it to imes@ed.ac.uk. Failure to return your course choices by 17 May 2012 could result in you not being allocated a place in your first choice of course. You do not need to list courses on this form which are compulsory for your degree such as, Persian 4, Persian oral, Arabic 4 and Arabic oral.

 
  • Fourth year language courses

Arabic 4

Arabic oral

Persian 4

Persian oral

Click here for further information about fourth year language courses available in 2012-2013

Persian language based courses*

Persian Literature

Click here for further information about Persian Literature

 
Arabic language based courses*
Semester 1

Classical Arabic Literature

Elements of Islam

Semester 2

 

Modern Arabic Literature

Click here for further information about Arabic language based courses available in 2012-2013

 

IMES options**
Semester 1

Cinema and Society in the Middle East

Jihad in Muslim Politics and Society

Modern Persian Literature and ‘Modern’ Iran

Muslims in Britain: Migration, Faith and Identity

The First Muslim Empire: the Islamic World before ‘Sunnism’ and ‘Shi‘ism’

Politics of the Middle East (run by the Politics department)


Semester 2:

 

Christian-Muslim Relations: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Iran from the Safavids to the Islamic Republic: The Rise of a Middle Eastern Nation-State

Of Wine, Love and Loss: Reading Iran through Classical Persian Literature

Method and Theory in the Study of Early Islam

Islam in Modern Societies

Click here for information about IMES options available in 2012-2013


 

Middle Eastern Studies - current student information

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
The University of Edinburgh
19 George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD

Tel: 0131 650 4182
Fax: 0131 650 6804
imes@ed.ac.uk