Arab and Islamic Studies Undergraduate Modules 2023-24

The module details in this section are only applicable to students who will be studying them between September 2023 and August 2024.

If you wish to look at details of a module you studied in an earlier academic year please see undergraduate modules for other academic years.

If you intend to study one of these modules from September 2024 or later, you may refer to these descriptors as a guide; but please be aware that details they contain – including (but not limited to) reading lists, duration and assessments – may change for your academic year.

Notes

The module list for Level One is currently incomplete; this will be finalised in August 2023
The next compiled module list for the September 2024 - August 2025 academic year will be published here in March 2024 (exact date to be confirmed).

Information for Inbound Exchange Students

Please note that if you are an inbound study abroad student studying in Exeter or Penryn for one semester only you can only choose from modules that are running in either Term 1 or Term 2. You are not able to choose modules that run in Terms '1 and 2' as these modules run for the full year.

Level One

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
ARA1010	Politics and Economy of the Contemporary Middle East	15	2
ARA1013	Elementary Persian	15	1
ARA1015	Arabic for Beginners	30	1 and 2
ARA1018	Introduction to Islam	15	1
ARA1020	Elementary Persian 2	15	2
ARA1021	Introduction to Persian History and Culture	15	2
ARA1030	Introduction to Islamic Archaeology	15	2
ARA1031	Elementary Turkish I	15	1
ARA1032	Elementary Turkish II	15	2
ARA1033A	Elementary Arabic Language I	30	1
ARA1033B	Elementary Arabic Language II	30	2
ARA1036	Histories of the Middle East, 600-1800 C.E.	15	1
ARA1037	The Politics of Development	15	1
ARA1040	Elementary Syriac	30	1 and 2
ARA1041	Religious Communities of the Middle East: Culture, Endangerment and Survival	15	2

Level Two

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
ARA2000	Year Abroad	120	1, 2 and 3
ARA2001	From Holy Text to Sex Manuals in the Medieval Middle East	15	1
ARA2014	Regions and Empires in Islamic Archaeology	15	1
ARA2016	Magic and the Abrahamic Religions	15	2
ARA2028	Islamist Movements: From the Muslim Brothers to the Islamic State	15	1
ARA2118	Gender-Identity and Modernity in the Middle East	15	1
ARA2132	Islamic Law and Society	15	1
ARA2134	Ethnography of the Middle East	15	1
ARA2135	Conflict and Peacemaking Palestine/Israel	15	1
ARA2139	Intermediate Arabic Language II	30	1 and 2
ARA2141	Intermediate Persian	15	1
ARA2146	Islamic Theological Traditions	15	1
ARA2147	Classical Islamic History	15	2
ARA2148	Arabic for Beginners II	30	1 and 2
ARA2150	Muslims in Britain	15	2
ARA2151	Intermediate Persian II	15	2
ARA2161	The Historiography of the Arab-Israeli Conflict	15	2
ARA2162	Political Economy of Development in the Middle East	15	2
ARA2164	Intermediate Turkish I	15	1
ARA2165	Intermediate Turkish II	15	2
ARA2166	Revolution, Reform or Status Quo	15	1
ARA2170	A History of the Modern Middle East, 1900-2014	15	1
ARA2171	A History of the Modern Middle East, 1900-2014	30	1
ARA2174	Year Abroad with Work Placement	120	1 and 2

Level Three

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
ARA3045	War, Violence and Revolution in the Modern Middle East	30	2
ARA3047	Oral History: Principles and Practice	15	1
ARA3103	Advanced Arabic Language	30	1 and 2
ARA3106	Dissertation	30	1 and 2
ARA3108	The Politics of Authoritarian Rule	30	1 and 2
ARA3129	Nationalisms in the Middle East	15	1
ARA3136	The History and Political Development of Iraq	15	2
ARA3140	The Kurds: History and Politics	15	1
ARA3144	Advanced Persian Language I	15	1
ARA3145	Advanced Persian Language II	15	2
ARA3158	Armed Islamist Movements: Jihadism and Beyond	15	1
ARA3160	Intermediate Arabic Language I	30	1 and 2
ARA3162	Britain in the Middle East, 1798-1977	15	2
ARA3163	Politics and Reform in the Gulf	15	1
ARA3165	Advanced Turkish Language I	15	1
ARA3166	Advanced Turkish Language II	15	2
ARA3190	Intermediate Arabic Language	30	1 and 2
ARA3196	Independent Research	30	1, 2 and 3
ARA3197	The Arabian Nights: Perception and Reception	15	2
ARA3198	European and US Democracy Assistance in the Middle East and North Africa	15	2
ARA3200	Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Palestine/Israel	15	2
ARA3201	Culture and Conflict: Literature and Film from Israel/Palestine	15	2

College Modules

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SSI1002	Programming for the Social Sciences	30
SSI1004	Social Problems	15
SSI1005	Introduction to Social Data	15	1
SSI1006	Data Analysis in Social Science 1	15	2
SSI2001	Learning from Work Experience in Social Sciences	15	1 and 2
SSI2004	Research Design in the Social Sciences	15	2
SSI2005	Data Analysis in Social Science 2	15	1
SSI2006	Immigration in Western Societies	15	1
SSI2007	Data Analysis in Social Science 3	15	2
SSI2008	Mapping the Social World: Introduction to Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences	15	2
SSI3002	Immigration in Western Societies	15	1
SSI3003	Data Analysis in Social Science 3	15	2
SSI3017	Learning from Work Experience in the Social Sciences	15	2
SSI3019	Quantitative Dissertation	30	1 and 2
SSI3020	Employment Experience (UK and Abroad)	120	1, 2 and 3
SSI3021	Mapping the Social World: Introduction to Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences	15	2
SSI3999	Year Abroad	120	1 and 2