General Guidelines

All minors must be declared before the first day of classes in your Expected Graduation Term (EGT). For summer graduates, minors must be declared prior to the first day of Summer Session A.
All upper-division courses must be taken for a letter grade.
A minimum of three of the upper-division courses taken to fulfill the minor requirements must be completed at UC Berkeley.
A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 is required in the upper-division courses to fulfill the minor requirements.
Courses used to fulfill the minor requirements may be applied toward the Seven-Course Breadth requirement, for Letters & Science students.
No more than one upper division course may be used to simultaneously fulfill requirements for a student's major and minor programs.
All minor requirements must be completed prior to the last day of finals during the semester in which the student plans to graduate. If students cannot finish all courses required for the minor by that time, they should see a College of Letters & Science adviser.
All minor requirements must be completed within the unit ceiling. (For further information regarding the unit ceiling, please see the College Requirements tab.)

Minor Requirements

Code	Title	Units
		Course List
Upper-Division Requirements (5 Courses)		15-20
Select five courses from the list below or relevant courses from other departments. Students may also take up to 2 courses in an ancient or modern language of the Middle East. All courses must be approved by a faculty major adviser.
MELC 18	Introduction to Ancient Egypt [4] 1
MELC 101	Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt [4]
MELC 102	Egyptomania [4]
MELC 103	Religion of Ancient Egypt [3]
MELC 104	Babylonian Religion [3]
MELC 105	Ancient Mesopotamian Literature [3]
MELC 108	Ancient Astronomy [4]
MELC 109	Mesopotamian History: Stories of Ancient People and Places [4]
MELC 110	Digital Humanities and Egyptology [4]
MELC 111	Disease, Health and Pandemics in Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Middle East, and the Classical World [4]
MELC 112	Survey of Ancient Egyptian History [4]
MELC 113	Gilgamesh: King, Hero, and God [4]
MELC 114	Beyond Wikipedia: The Ancient Middle East [3]
MELC 115	Early Egypt: From Village to Pyramid [4]
MELC 116	Ancient Egypt: Power, Glory and Empire in the Second Millennium [4]
MELC 117	Course Not Available [4]
MELC 118	Writing Systems of the World [4]
MELC 119	Explorers, Archaeologists, and Tourists in the Middle East [4]
MELC C120A	The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia: 3500-1000 BCE [4]
MELC C120B	The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia: 1000-330 BCE [4]
MELC C121	Topics in Islamic Art [4]
MELC 122	Iranian Archaeology [4]
MELC 123	Archaeology of Mesopotamia [4]
MELC 124	Archaeology of the Levant [4]
MELC 126	Silk Road Art and Archaeology [3]
MELC 125	Art and Archaeology of Middle Eastern Christianity [4]
MELC 127	Art and Archaeology of Ancient Syria [4]
MELC 128	Art and Archaeology of Ancient Turkey [4]
MELC 129	Arts of Iran and Central Asia [4]
MELC C129	Minoan and Mycenaean Art [4]
MELC 130	History of Ancient Israel [4]
MELC 131	Aspects of Biblical Religion [4]
MELC 132	Biblical Poetry [4]
MELC 134	Topics in History and Cultures of Israel [4]
MELC 135	Literature and History in the Hebrew Bible [4]
MELC 136	History and Historiography in the Hebrew Bible [3]
MELC 137	Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought [4]
MELC 138	The Hero in the Bible and the Ancient Middle East [3]
MELC 139	Modern Jewish Literatures [4]
MELC 140	Topics in Islamic Thought and Institutions [3]
MELC 141	Modern and Contemporary Islamic Thought [3]
MELC 142	Shi'ite Islam [3]
MELC 144	Sufism: The Mysticism of Islam [3]
MELC 146	Islam [4]
MELC 147	The Rise of Islamic Civilization [4]
MELC 148	Emergence of the Modern Middle East [4]
MELC 149	The Modern Middle East from WWI to the Present [4]
MELC 150A	Arabic Literature in Translation [3]
MELC 150B	Arabic Literature in Translation [3]
MELC 151	Middle Eastern Women Writers [4]
MELC 152	Cultural Encounters in Modern Arabic Literature [3]
MELC 153	Synagogues, Cathedrals, and Mosques: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain [4]
MELC 154	Narratives of Identity in Israeli and Palestinian Fiction [4]
MELC 155	The Thousand and One Nights in World Literary Imagination [3]
MELC 156	Sociolinguistics of the Middle East [4]
MELC 157	Reel Arabs: Film and Fiction in the Middle East [4]
MELC 158AC	Middle East: Post-Colonialism, Migration, and Diaspora [4]
MELC 159	Middle East, Empire, and Orientalism [4]
MELC 160	Religions of Ancient Iran [3]
MELC 161	Topics in Persian Art and Culture [4]
MELC 162	History of Persian Literature [4]
MELC 163	Persian Literature in Translation [4]
MELC 165	Film and Fiction of Iran [4]
MELC 170	Islamic History and Historiography (600-1050) [3]
MELC 173	Topics in the History of Central Asia and the Turks [3]
MELC 174	Law and Society in the Early Modern Middle East [3]
MELC 171	Turkish Literature in Translation [3]
MELC 175	History and Culture of Afghanistan [3]
MELC 180	The Quran and Its Interpretation [4]
MELC 187	The Assyrians and Other Religious Groups in the Middle East [4]
MELC C188	Magic, Religion, and Science: The Ancient and Medieval Worlds [4]
MELC 190A	Special Topics in Fields of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures: Ancient Middle Eastern Studies [4]
MELC 190B	Special Topics in Fields of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures: Egyptian Studies [4]
MELC 190C	Special Topics in Fields of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures: Jewish Studies [4]
MELC 190D	Special Topics in Fields of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures: Islamic Studies [4]
MELC 190E	Special Topics in Fields of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures: Arabic [4]
MELC 190H	Special Topics in Fields of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures: Hebrew [4]
MELC 190I	Special Topics in Fields of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures: Iranian/Persian [4]
MELC 192A	Undergrad Seminar: Problems and Research in Middle Eastern Studies: Ancient Middle Eastern Studies [2,4]
MELC 192E	Undergrad Seminar: Problems and Research in Middle Eastern Studies: Arabic [2,4]
MELC 193	Middle Eastern Archaeological Field School [6]
MELC 198	Directed Group Study for Upper Division Students [1-4]
MELC 199	Supervised Independent Study and Research [1-4]

Total Units		15-20

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