Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings

• 04 - Social and behavioural sciences and law
• 05. - Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies
• 05.01 - Area studies

05.0108 - Near and Middle Eastern studies

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the history, society, politics, culture, and economics of one or more 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.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • Arab studies
  • Middle Eastern studies
  • modern Middle Eastern studies
  • Near and Middle Eastern civilizations
  • Near and Middle Eastern studies
  • Near Eastern studies

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • African studies(05.0101)
  • Asian studies(05.0103)
  • Islamic studies(38.0205)
  • Jewish studies(38.0206)
  • Middle East history(54.0199)