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This certificate provides students with the tools to interpret, analyze, and assess contemporary politics and society in the Middle East. The certificate focuses on the politics, society, and history of the peoples of North Africa, Southwestern Asia, Asia Minor, and the Arabian Peninsula, related borderlands and island groups, and including emigrant and immigrant groups. The certificate addresses the causes and consequences of conflict in the region, the impact of external interventions, including colonialism, and the drivers of political and social change. Having successfully completed the certificate students will be able to: 1) apply theories of cultural and social change to describe how culture and religion affects politics in the Middle East; 2) assess how external involvement have shaped the region鈥檚 domestic and international politics; 3) analyze issues on comparative political theory pertaining to the methods of political representation, the status of women, minorities, and role of religion in Islamic polities; and 4) explain different approaches to conflict resolution as pertains to various political, economic, ethnic, and geopolitical struggles in the Middle East.