Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures - Columbia University in the City of New York

Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University in the City of New York is a Campus Bachelor Language degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. Why should I major in this subject? To study a geographical area that reaches from Turkey to India, from North Africa to Central Asia, and to cover the Middle East and South Asia from antiquity until today requires students to a wide variety of resources: literatures, popular media, archaeological remains, visual and performing arts, social institutions and social diversity, political, religious and scientific treatises, narrative and administrative texts, and more. It also means committing yourself to learning a language, whether Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Hindi/Urdu, and Persian, and being intrigued by the rich trajectories of thinking and exploration that a multi-faceted interdisciplinary approach to academic study can offer you. Majoring in Middle Eastern and Asian languages and cultures also enables you to have the faculty's excitement in intellectual exploration by offering you training in literary and cultural analysis, political theory, comparative study, history, sociology, philosophy, and linguistics . This training provides you with informed access to ancient history and to explosive politics, to imagining the future and experiencing culture at work. What career opportunities follow upon study in this field? Students in the department go on to very different fields such as journalism or law, diplomacy and medicine. You will find that your linguistic and intensive training in critical thinking and cross-cultural contexts has prepared you for such various career trajectories as international affairs, teaching, writing, translating and of course, graduate studies in literature, culture, history, and any of the other fields in the humanities and social sciences. View more details on Columbia University in the City of New York . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Language courses.