WiSe 24/25: Interdisciplinary and/or Inter-Institutional master's degree programs

• Reading the Middle East

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  Learning objectives:

  Students understand the significance of global key concepts and central terms and how they relate to thinking about the ... read more

  Learning objectives:

  Students understand the significance of global key concepts and central terms and how they relate to thinking about the Near and Middle East and ascriptions of identity. They are familiar with the scholarly significance of texts and debates that shape the discourse of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East and learn how to classify them in historical terms as well as from today’s perspective, considering their origins and the changing contexts in which they are used. They have in-depth knowledge of texts that constitute the Near and Middle East from a transregional perspective. They are thereby enabled to classify transdisciplinary methodological and theoretical approaches, especially in comparative cultural studies, and to apply them to their research against the background of current research debates and present the results appropriately, both in writing and orally.

  Content:

  The module discusses key texts, central concepts and fields of researching the Near and Middle East (e.g. Orientalism, world/global literatures, Islam in Europe, postcolonialism, nationalism) in their historical development and from a transregional and cross-disciplinary perspective. Besides, the module explores the historical and transdisciplinary dynamics of terms and concepts, how they circulate, and how their meaning transforms in changing contexts.

  Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required

  Elective course / 2 SWS / yes

  Elective course / 2 SWS / yes

  Module assessment

  Presentation with follow-up discussion (approx. 20 minutes)

  Language

  English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)

  Total workload

  450 hours (15 credit points)

  duration / Frequency

  One or two semesters / Every semester close
  • 14402 Advanced Seminar
    Gender in the Middle East (Dina Wahba)
    Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-16)
    Location: 2.2059 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    

• Reading the Middle East through Its Languages

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  Learning objectives:

  Students have a thorough understanding of basic questions about the relationship between text and knowledge; they can ... read more

  Learning objectives:

  Students have a thorough understanding of basic questions about the relationship between text and knowledge; they can analyze the significance of original language texts within the context of the Near and Middle East as a pluricultural, multifaith, and multilingual region. They are confident to reflect on theories and models critically and build a conceptual toolkit to decipher the rhetoric of different texts and genres. Students have the skills they need to reach conclusions about the heuristics of different texts and genres on their own and by using controlled methods; they can present their findings orally and in writing appropriately.

  Content:

  The module develops interdisciplinary terms and concepts from the fields of cultural studies and humanities by means of various forms of original language sources (oral and written) from Arabic, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic, Jewish, Islamic, or Christian culture and literature. Building on this, students examine and discuss methods of text and source analysis used to organize, contextualize, and interpret primary sources; they then apply those methods to selected examples (works by different authors and from different literary genres, periods, movements, etc.).

  Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required

  Elective course / 2 SWS / yes

  Elective course / 2 SWS / yes

  Module assessment

  Presentation with follow-up discussion (approx. 20 minutes)

  Language

  English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)

  Total workload

  450 hours (15 credit points)

  duration / Frequency

  One or two semesters / Every semester close
  • 14125 Reading Course
    The Works of Emile Habibi (Readings) (Refqa Abu-Remaileh)
    Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-16)
    Location: 0.3099B Seminarraum (Zugang von der L-Strasse) (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    
  • 14222-ISME Reading Course
    Imagining the Past and Designing the Future in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf (Birgit Krawietz)
    Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-15)
    Location: K 25/11 weitere Hinweise zur Austattung unter: www.raum.geschkult.fu-berlin.de
    
  • 14361 Methods Tutorial
    (MÜ) Introduction to Ugaritic (Grace Jeongyeon Park)
    Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-16)
    Location: 1.2052 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    
  • 14404 Wahlveranstaltung
    Reading and Analyzing Ottoman Sources (Talha Murat)
    Schedule: Fr 10:00-14:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2025-01-10)
    Location: 2.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    
  • 14458 Reading Course
    Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed in New Garb (Lukas Mühlethaler)
    Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-15)
    Location: K 23/27 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 14114 Language Course
    Pre-Islamic and Umayyad Literature (Montserrat Rabadan Carrascosa)
    Schedule: Mo 10:00-12:00, Mi 10:00-12:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2024-10-14)
    Location: 1.2052 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    
  • 14115 Language Course
    Practical grammar of the Arabic language (Montserrat Rabadan Carrascosa)
    Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00, Mi 12:00-14:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2024-10-14)
    Location: 1.2052 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    
  • 14123 Reading Course
    The Film Languages of Elia Suleiman (Readings) (Refqa Abu-Remaileh)
    Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-17)
    Location: 0.3099B Seminarraum (Zugang von der L-Strasse) (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    
  • 14220-ISME Reading Course
    Sources to the Premodern Arabic Secretaries (Ingrid Austveg Evans)
    Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-17)
    Location: 1.2051 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    
  • 14227-ISME Practice seminar
    The Formation of National Identities: Arabic Sources (Florian Zemmin)
    Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2024-10-14)
    Location: 0.3099B Seminarraum (SILBERLAUBE, Zugang von der L-Strasse, Richtung Campusbibliothek)
    
  • 14368 Reading Course
    (Lk Introduction to Syriac epigraphy (Yousef Kouriyhe)
    Schedule: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-18)
    Location: 1.2001 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    

• Studying the Middle East

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  Learning objectives:

  Students are aware of the complexity of the Near and Middle East as a field of research, region, and area of cultural ... read more

  Learning objectives:

  Students are aware of the complexity of the Near and Middle East as a field of research, region, and area of cultural production regarding its diversity in terms of languages, religions, and cultures. They gain insights into the fields of study and expertise represented by the disciplines involved in the master’s program Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East with attention to the complex nature of history, societies, cultures of text and cultures of knowledge, languages, and literature. They are familiar with the diversity and interrelatedness of scholarly approaches within Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East, which in turn allows them to assess the corresponding secondary literature critically. They are conscious of intercultural and epistemological challenges involved in dealing with the history, society, culture, literature, and language of the Near and Middle East. This awareness lets them answer complex questions and present the results of their research and analyses coherently and comprehensibly either in writing or orally.

  Content:

  The module offers in-depth, interdisciplinary insights into the Near and Middle East as a field of research, as a region and as a space of cultural production. A variety of phenomena including language, cultural history, religion, and traditions of knowledge are up for discussion, especially regarding paradigms with historical implications, such as identity, gender, cultures of memory, nationalism, modernization, exile; this includes research trends as well as the possibility to focus on historical periods or geographical regions. Students get practice conducting academic work as they encounter varying issues, research debates, and research literature, as well as by using tools specific to the study of the Near and Middle East. Using methods from the humanities and cultural studies, they work on an interdisciplinary topic with a focus on one or more selected regions in the Near and Middle East. This work includes several written assignments designed to help them compose an academic paper.

  Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required

  Lecture / 2 SWS / yes

  Methodology course / 2 SWS / yes

  Module assessment

  Written assignment (approx. 5000 words); the module assessment is graded on a pass/fail basis only.

  Language

  English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)

  Total workload

  450 hours (15 credit points)

  duration / Frequency

  One semester / Every winter semester close
  • 14400 Lecture
    Interdisciplinary Explorations of the Middle East in Berlin (Lukas Mühlethaler; Victoria Mummelthei)
    Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-21)
    Location: 2.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    
  • 14401 Methods Tutorial
    From Campus to Cafés: Writing the Middle East for Your Daily Read (Victoria Mummelthei)
    Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-15)
    Location: 2.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    

• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Middle East

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  Learning objectives:

  Students gain advanced skills need to conduct independent research in Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East from ... read more

  Learning objectives:

  Students gain advanced skills need to conduct independent research in Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East from a global perspective. They can position themselves and situate complex issues from the fields of cultures, literatures, languages, history, and societies of the Near and Middle East in current debates, especially regarding the comparative analysis of processes and problems that cut across different regions. They are skilled to apply interdisciplinary methods to answer complex questions of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East in writing and orally. They have broad, detailed, and up-to-date knowledge as well as a critical understanding of one or more subject areas in the transregional field of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East.

  Content:

  The module provides students with sound specialist knowledge of central topics in Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East from a global perspective. The module focuses on the comparative analysis of historical, social, and cultural formations regarding issues that have global relevance, such as gender, human rights, imperialism, nationalism, identity, language, and literature. Students are instructed to compare the effects of such processes in a differentiated manner regarding the Near and Middle East. They practice analyzing problems on their own from a cross-disciplinary and transregional perspective and apply interdisciplinary theories and methods.

  Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required

  Advanced seminar / 2 SWS / yes

  Methodology course / 2 SWS / yes

  Module assessment

  Term paper (approx. 5000 words)

  Language

  English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)

  Total workload

  450 hours (15 credit points)

  duration / Frequency

  One or two semesters / Every semester close
  • 10145206 Seminar-style instruction
    Political Economy of EU-Arab relations (S1) (Theocharis Grigoriadis, Alexander Niedermeier)
    Schedule: Fr 12:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-25)
    Location: 328 Hörsaal (Boltzmannstr. 16-20)
    
  • 14402 Advanced Seminar
    Gender in the Middle East (Dina Wahba)
    Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-16)
    Location: 2.2059 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
    
  • 14403 Advanced Seminar
    The Middle East in German Museums (Julia Hauser)
    Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-22)
    Location: L 113 Seminarzentrum (ohne Fenster) (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26)
    

• Communicating Research in Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East

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  Learning objectives:

  Students can plan and carry out research endeavors independently and present them comprehensibly. They are enabled to ... read more

  Learning objectives:

  Students can plan and carry out research endeavors independently and present them comprehensibly. They are enabled to reflect on their research question and substantiate their approach, selection of methods and, if applicable, their choice of sources in the setting of scholarly discussions. They learn how to present the benefits of their theoretical and methodological approaches convincingly by contrasting them with other relevant approaches and explaining the advantages in relation to their thesis project.

  Content:

  Both before and during the master’s thesis, students participate in a colloquium, where they discuss their concepts and open questions with fellow students and instructors. They present their topics, theoretical and methodological approaches to their thesis and initial results.

  Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required

  Colloquium/ 2 SWS / yes

  Module assessment

  Poster presentation (approx. 10 minutes); the module assessment is graded on a pass/fail basis only.

  Language

  English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)

  Total workload

  150 hours (5 credit points)

  duration / Frequency

  One or two semesters / Every semester close
  • 14407 Colloquium
    (C) Communicating Research in ISME (Lukas Mühlethaler, Victoria Mummelthei)
    Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-22)
    Location: online