University of California Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts in Near Eastern Civilizations
The Bachelor of Arts in Near Eastern Civilizations in History is offered by University of California Berkeley.
The Near Eastern Studies Department at the University of California Berkeley (UCB), founded in 1894, is one of the oldest and most distinguished in the country.
The department offers both general instruction and specialized training in archaeology, art history, Assyriology, Egyptology, Iranian studies, Judaic and Islamic studies, comparative semitics, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish.
The Department of Near Eastern Studies offers a major in Near Eastern Civilizations. Students in this major choose one of two emphases:
- Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
- Islamic Civilizations
The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Near Eastern Civilizations has students exploring the civilizations of the Near and Middle East through critical analysis of its cultural, literary, artistic, historic, and archaeological evidence.
It takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide both a theoretical and a research-based study of societies from prehistoric to modern times.