Why should you study the Middle East?

Current undergraduate students are invited to an information session on the Department of Near Eastern Studies' major, minors, and language programs. Students will have the opportunity to speak with an advisor and ask questions specific to them.

The Department of Near Eastern Studies teaches the diverse histories, religions, languages and literatures that originated in a vast region of the world extending from the Nile to the Oxus Rivers, and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean. Coursework in the department takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to societies, beginning with the emergence of cities and writing in Sumer and Ancient Egypt, to the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and onwards to the Modern Middle East, extending to its transnational and diasporic communities.

The languages taught by the department include Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, and several ancient Near Eastern languages.

Please RSVP at http://lsa.umich.edu/neareast/undergraduates/info-sessions-and-campus-visits.html. Lunch will be provided. We hope to see you there!