Current Courses

Current Courses

For complete descriptions of the below courses and for course descriptions and offerings, please see the NELC chapter of the 2007-2008 FAS Courses of Instruction*.

**Please find additional courses of interest listed below individual subfields

Harvard University Division of Continuing Education (Extension School and Summer School): A number of NELC faculty members offer courses through the Division of Continuing Education.

Fall 2008 NELC Course Offerings
Akkadian• Ancient Near East • Arabic • Aramaic • Armenian • Armenian Studies • Classical Hebrew Early Iranian Civilizations • Ethiopic • Hebrew • Iranian • Islamic Civilizations • Jewish Studies • Modern Hebrew • Near Eastern Civilizations • Persian • Semitic Philology • Sumerian • Turkish • Yiddish

Course Number	Title	Instructor	Term	Meeting Times	Location	HDS Course Number (if applicable)
Akkadian A	Elementary Akkadian	Benjamin Studevent-Hickman	Full	MWF 10	Semitic Museum 304
Akkadian 120	Intermediate Akkadian	Benjamin Studevent-Hickman	Full	T Th 11	Widener G
Akkadian 153	Old Akkadian	Piotr Steinkeller	Fall	TBA	Widener G
Akkadian 154a	Peripheral Akkadian	Piotr Steinkeller	Fall	TBA	Widener G
Ancient Near East 115	Archaeology of the Levant (Syria-Palestine)	Lawrence Stager	Fall	F 1-3	Peabody Museum Putnam Lab 59-D
Ancient Near East 120	Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures	Michael Coogan	Fall	F 9-11 + weekly section TBA	Andover Hall, Sperry Room	1101
Ancient Near East 137	The Hebrew Prophets	Paul Hanson	Fall	T Th 8:30-10	Andover 102	1151
Ancient Near East 210	Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Seminar	Richard Saley	Fall	T 3-6	Divinity Hall 104	1819
Ancient Near East 215r	Problems in the Archaeology of Bronze and Iron Age Levant: Seminar	Lawrence Stager	Fall	F 3-5	TBA
Ancient Near East 225	The Greek Bible in History and Theology: Seminar	D. Andrew Teeter	Fall	F 9-11	Divinity Hall 213	1301
Ancient Near East 230	Biblical Theology:Seminar	Paul Hanson	Fall	Tu 11-1	Divinity Hall 104	1817/2476
Arabic A	Elementary Arabic	William E. Granara and staff	Full	M through F at 9,10, 11 or 12	M-F 9: Sever 104 M-F 9: Sever 110 M-F 9: Sever 201 M-F 9: Sever 211 M-F 10: Sever 104 M-F 10: Sever 201 M-F 10: Sever 211 M-F11 Sever 211 M-F 12 Sever 211	4350
Arabic Ba (formerly Arabic 120a & 120b)	Intermediate Arabic I	William E. Granara and staff	Fall	M-F 10, 11, or 12	M-F 10: Sever 101 M-F 11: Sever 101 M-F 11 Sever 104 M-F 12: Sever 101
Arabic 130a	Upper Level Classical Arabic I	William E. Granara	Fall	T Th 11:30-1	TBA	HDS 4354
Arabic 131a	Upper Level Classical Arabic II	Carl Sharif El-Tobgui	Fall	M-F 11 M-F 12	CGIS Knafel K-108	HDS 4364
Arabic 133	Upper Level Modern Spoken Standard Arabic	Sayed Abdallah Elsisi	Fall	MW 3-5	Sever 211
Arabic 160r	Readings in Arabic Historians, Geographers, and Biographers	Roy Mottahedeh	Fall	TBA	TBA
Arabic 162	Introduction to the Modern Arab World	William E. Granara	Full	MW 10 + additional hour TBA	Northwest B108
Arabic 240r	Classical Arabic Philology	Wolfhart Heinrichs	Fall	Tu 2-4	Semitic Museum 201
Arabic 241ar	Modern Arabic Literature and Culture	Khaled Al-Masri	Fall	Tu 2-4	Robinson 307
Arabic 245r	Classical Arabic Literature: Seminar	Wolfhart Heinrichs	Fall	W 2-4	Semitic Museum 202
Arabic 248r	Medieval Arabic Writings on Literary Theory and Criticism: Seminar	Wolfhart Heinrichs	Fall	TBA	TBA
Armenian 130	Advanced Classical Armenian	James R. Russell	Fall	W 5:30-7:30	Semitic Museum 306
Classical Hebrew A	Elementary Classical Hebrew	John Ellison	Full	MWF 10	CGIS South S050	HDS 4010
Classical Hebrew 120a	Intermediate Classical Hebrew I	Jo Ann Hackett and assistant	Fall	MWF 9	CGIS South S050	HDS 4020
Classical Hebrew 130ar	Rapid Reading Classical Hebrew I	Jo Ann Hackett and assistant	Fall	Th 1-3	Semitic Museum 201	HDS 1625/4030
Classical Hebrew 138	Historical Grammar of Biblical Hebrew	John Huehnergard	Fall	T Th 11	Semitic Museum 304
Hebrew 148 (formerly Hebrew 240)	Rabbinic Stories and Rabbinic Thought: Seminar	Jonathan Schofer	Fall	T Th 10-11:30	Divinity Hall 213	3795
Hebrew 160	The Origins and Development of the Classical Jewish Liturgy	Bernard Septimus	Fall	M 1-3	TBA
Hebrew 200r	Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar	Lawrence Stager & other faculty	Fall	Th 3-5	Semitic Museum 201
Hebrew 211r	Literature of Israel: Seminar	Paul Hanson	Fall	T 11-1	Divinity Hall 104	1821
Hebrew 235	The Binding of Isaac ( Aqedah ): Seminar	Jon D. Levenson	Fall	W 1-3	Andover 103	HDS 1808
Iranian A	Old Persian	P. Oktor Skjaervo	Full	TBA	TBA
Iranian Ca	Middle Persian I	P. Oktor Skjaervo	Fall	TBA	TBA
Early Iranian Civilizations 104	Beyond Good and Evil: A Thematic Introduction to Zoroastrianism	Yuhan Vevaina	Fall	F 1-3	Semitic Museum 201
Iranian 208r	Eastern Middle Iranian II: Advanced Sogdian	P. Oktor Skjaervo	Full	TBA	Semitic Museum Room TBA
Islamic Civilizations 205a	The Satanic Verses Problem in History I	M. Shahab Ahmed	Fall	M 2-5	consult Religion ext. 5-5781
Islamic Civilizations 241r	Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam	Ali S. Asani	Fall, repeated Fall	TBA	consult Religion ext. 5-5781
Jewish Studies 55	Jews, Judaism and Jewishness	Rachel Greenblatt	Fall	MWF 10	Emerson 104
Jewish Studies 135	Jewish-Arab Encounters: The Classical Age	Bernard Septimus	Fall	Th 1-3	TBA
Jewish Studies 140	Deconstruction and Questions of Jewish Identity: Seminar	Avi Matalon	Fall	Th 2-4	TBA
Jewish Studies 145	Agnon's Art of the Jewish Novel	Avi Matalon	Fall	T Th 12-1
Jewish Studies 146 (formerly Jewish Studies 215)	Does Glikl Stand Alone? Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Autobiographical Writing	Rachel Greenblatt	Fall	Th 1-3	Semitic Museum 304
Jewish Studies 206	The Law at Qumran and the Law of the Mishnah	Shaye J.D. Cohen	Fall	M 1-3	Semitic Museum 201
Modern Hebrew B	Elementary Modern Hebrew	Irit Aharony	Full	Sections I & II: M. through F. at 9	Section I: Sever 204 Section II: Sever 205	4015
Modern Hebrew 120a	Intermediate Modern Hebrew II	Irit Aharony and Anna Grinfeld	Fall	M through F at 10	Sever 205	4040
Modern Hebrew 125a	Advanced Modern Hebrew I: "All About Boys and Girls"	Anna Grinfeld	Fall	M W 1-2:30	Sever 104	4042
Modern Hebrew 130r	Seminar in Advanced Modern Hebrew: A Cultural History of Israel	Irit Aharony	Fall	T Th 1-2:30	Sever 307
Modern Hebrew 136ar	Hebrew for Academic Reading: Seminar	Anna Grinfeld	Fall term; repeated Fall term	T Th 1:30-3	Sever 212
Near Eastern Civilizations 91r	Supervised Reading and Research	Jay Harris and department members	Fall term; repeated Fall term	TBA	TBA
Near Eastern Civilizations 98r	Group Tutorial - Sophomore Year	Jay M. Harris	Fall	M 2-4	TBA
Near Eastern Civilizations 99r	Tutorial - Senior Year	Jay Harris and department members	Full	TBA	TBA
Near Eastern Civilizations 200ba	Middle Eastern Studies Research Project:Seminar	Susan Kahn	Fall	W 1-3	contact CMES 5-4055
Persian A	Elementary Persian	Dalia Yasharpour	Full	MWF 10	Semitic Museum 201
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Persian 120ba	Intermediate Persian II	Dalia Yasharpour	Fall	MWF 11	Semitic Museum 201
Persian 140ar	Advanced Persian	Dalia Yasharpour	Fall	MW 2-3:30	Semitic Museum 304
Semitic Philology 152	Introduction to Ugaritic	Jo Ann Hackett	Fall	Tu 1-3	Semitic Museum 304
Sumerian A	Elementary Sumerian	Piotr Steinkeller	Full	TBA	TBA
Turkish A	Elementary Modern Turkish		Full	M-F 9	Emerson 106
Turkish 120a	Intermediate Modern Turkish I		Fall	MTuThF 10	Emerson 106
Turkish 121a	Elementary Uzbek I	William E. Granara and assistant	Fall	TBA	TBA
Turkish 125a	Intermediate Uzbek I	William E. Granara and assistant	Fall	TBA	TBA
Turkish 130a	Advanced Turkish I		Fall	T 1-4
Turkish 135	Readings in Modern Turkish Academic Prose		Fall	Th 1-3	TBA
Turkish 140b	Introduction to Ottoman Turkish I		Fall	T 1-3, Th 2
Turkish 241	Advanced Ottoman		Fall	F 1-4
Yiddish A	Elementary Yiddish	Yuri Vedenyapin	Full	MWF 10	Sever 111
Yiddish Ba	Intermediate Yiddish I	Yuri Vedenyapin	Fall	MWF 11	Sever 111
Yiddish Ca	Advanced Yiddish I	Yuri Vedenyapin	Fall	MW 3-4:30	Sever 105
Yiddish 120	Modern Yiddish Classics	Ruth Wisse	Fall	Th 3-5	Emerson 307

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