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| Course Requirements | | | | | | |
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| General Education Requirements | 48 |
| Of the 51 units required by the university, 3 units may be satisfied by specified major and support requirements. Consult major advisor for details. |
| American Institutions | (6) |
| Of the 6 units required by the university, all may be satisfied within general education requirements as specified in the schedule of classes. |
| Physical Education | 2 |
| Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement | (3) |
| At SJSU, students must pass both the SJSU Writing Skills Test (WST) and a 100W course. For additional information on the WST, please see http://testing.sjsu.edu/wst. Exceptions to the GWAR may be found at http://info.sjsu.edu/gwar.html. |
| Preparation for the Major | 3 |
| MDES 145 Middle Eastern Traditions | V | | 3 |
| One year of college level foreign language or equivalent related to chosen specialty area | 0-10 |
| Requirement of the Major | 40 |
| Core Courses | 10 |
| HUM 085 Introduction to Liberal Education | | | 1 |
| HUM 101 Human Life: Let's think about it | | | 3 |
| HUM 160 Seminar in Special Topics | | | 3 |
| HUM 190 Senior Seminar in Humanities | | | 3 |
| Comparative Courses | 12 |
| Complete four courses from: |
| AMS 129 How the World sees the United States | | | 3 |
| AMS 159 Nature and World Cultures | V | | 3 |
| CA 173 Thinking About Contemporary World Arts | V | | 3 |
| HUM 119A Interdisciplinary Studies of Antiquity | | | 3 |
| HUM 128 Perspectives on the Twentieth Century: The West in a Global Context | V | | 3 |
| RELS 124 Literature and Religious Experience | | | 3 |
| RELS 130 Psychology and Religious Experience | | | 3 |
| RELS 131 Gender, Sexuality, and Religion | | | 3 |
| Major Electives | 18 |
| Two courses from each of the following areas: |
| Humanities | 0 |
| ENGL 122 Topics in Comparative World Literature | | | 3 |
| RELS 070A Western Religions | C2 | | 3 |
| RELS 108 Jewish Mysticism, Magic and Folklore | | | 3 |
| RELS 112 Topics in the Bible | | | 3 |
| RELS 153 Jewish Cultures | | | 3 |
| RELS 157 Islamic Cultures | | | 3 |
| The Arts | 0 |
| ARTH 152 Visual Culture and Jewish Identity | | | 3 |
| ARTH 183A Art of Egypt and Mesopotamia | | | 3 |
| ARTH 183B Art of Islam-Early Islam to the Seljuks | | | 3 |
| ARTH 183C Art of Islam 13th-19th Century | | | 3 |
| Social Science | 0 |
| HIST 106 History of the Holy Land | | | 3 |
| HIST 115 Ancient Near East | | | 3 |
| HIST 118 Byzantine World to 1453 | | | 3 |
| HIST 154 Global Jewish History | | | 3 |
| POLS 144 Middle Eastern Politics | | | 3 |
| RELS 156 Islam, Politics and the West | | | 3 |
| WOMS 189 Islamic Perspectives on Gender | | | 3 |
| University Electives | 17-30 |
| A minor is strongly recommended | |
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| Total Units: | 120 |
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