Graduates of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Middle Eastern Studies are specialists on the history and culture of the Middle East. They have a good practical knowledge of Arabic at B1 level, a grounding in the history and current geo-political situation of the region and the major approaches to its study, and the ability to work with secondary literature.

Graduates of the B.A. programme have a good grasp of the principal theories of religion, have a basic knowledge of the main religious traditions, and have a profound grounding in one of them. They have learnt to classify, process and critically analyse mainly textual sources. They speak one major foreign language and read texts in another one.