Admission: All applicants must submit Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
scores; applicants who are not native English speakers and who are not
graduates of undergraduate institutions where the language of instruction is
English must also submit scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language
(TOEFL) or equivalent. The department strongly recommends that applicants have
already acquired proficiency in Arabic, Persian, or Turkish at the intermediate
level or beyond.
The department accepts applicants for fall admission only.
Course of Study: The Master of Arts degree requires the completion of 32
points of course work, no more than 8 points of which may be transferred from
other graduate schools. All students must take the following courses: Problems
and Methods in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (G77.1687); two courses in
Middle Eastern history; two other Middle East-related courses; one seminar on a
Middle East-related topic; and two language courses at the advanced level or
beyond.
Students
must also either complete a master’s thesis that meets departmental standards
or, with the approval of their adviser, submit two seminar papers, at least one
of which contains substantial original research based on primary sources and
both of which would, in the judgment of the student’s two master’s
thesis/papers readers, have been developed and substantially reworked such that
they are roughly equivalent in caliber to work that might reasonably be
submitted for publication in a scholarly journal in the student’s field. The
master’s thesis or the two papers must be discussed and approved in an oral
defense that will include the two readers and the student.
Requirements
for the Master of Arts degree should be met within two years of matriculation
at New York University. No student who has not yet
received the master’s degree by that time may register for additional course
work without departmental approval, nor may any student who has already
received the M.A. degree continue course work without departmental approval.
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