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Semester 1 (Fall semester) |
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Common Core Course Besides the “Theory and Methods” course students are strongly advised to attend the Thesis Writing Seminar, which is obligatory in the second year only. |
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| Theory and Methods in Area Studies | 10 | ||
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Specialisation courses Students choose two or more specialisation courses up to a minimum of 20 EC from the list. |
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Semester 2 (Spring semester) |
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Common Core Course: students choose one of the two following courses: Students may opt to take both courses. One of them will then be counted as a specialisation course. Besides the CCC of their choice students are strongly advised to attend the Thesis Writing Seminar, which is obligatory in the second year only. |
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| Arts and Culture in Area Studies: Culture and Conquest: the impact of the Mongols and their descendants | 10 | ||
| State and Society: Orientalism, Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism | 10 | ||
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Specialisation courses Students choose two or more specialisation courses up to a minimum of 20 EC from the list. |
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After the completion of their first year students may opt to spend the summer or a complete semester (semester 3) to study abroad at one of the institutions affiliated with the programme or to do fieldwork. Students who want to go abroad need to contact a potential supervisor of their project early in the second semester (of the first year) to write a sound proposal. This proposal needs to be submitted to the Board of Examiners for approval at least two months before the student leaves (preferably before the end of the second semester).
Students who are staying in Leiden are obliged to take the Thesis Writing Seminar and choose two (or more) courses from the list of specialisation courses.
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Semester 1 (Fall semester) |
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Common Core Course |
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| Thesis Writing Seminar (Area Studies, Asian Studies and Middle Eastern Studies (research)) | 10 | ||
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Specialisation courses Students choose two or more specialisation courses up to a minimum of 20 EC from the list. |
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Semester 2 (Spring semester) |
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Common Core Courses |
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| Research MA Thesis (Area Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Studies) | 30 | ||
| Thesis Writing Seminar (Area Studies, Asian Studies and Middle Eastern Studies (research)) | 10 | ||
The courses listed are, in principle, open to all students admitted to the MA Middle Eastern Studies (research). However, some of them may have additional entry requirements such as, for example, a particular level of language sufficiency. Please, see the course descriptions for further details.