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Welcome to Near Eastern Languages and Civilization

The Chair of NELC is Professor Scott Noegel. Please click on the welcome message to learn more about the vitality and vision of NELC at UW. Please also feel free to read our departmental Fact Sheet, and to visit our newsletter, the NELC Update.

Department Highlight
 We are very pleased to announce that according to the 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity rankings, as compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education, NELC was ranked third in the nation (just behind Harvard and the University of Arizona, but ahead of UC-Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Brandeis, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, and New York University)! For a link to the article, please click here.

Student Highlight

Katie Nutsch is a senior, double majoring in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Cellular & Molecular Biology. She has studied abroad in France and traveled throughout Europe. Last summer, she received a NELC Cultural Immersion Travel Award, and Jewish Studies Program Israel Travel Grant, allowing her to study Hebrew in Jerusalem and travel throughout Egypt. She has also received a Mary Gates Undergraduate Research scholarship. This year, she continues her study in biblical Hebrew as well as in the Ugaritic (Canaanite) language.

Faculty Highlight

Professor Hussein Elkhafaifi is the Director of NELC’s Arabic Program and an expert in language learning pedagogy. Some of his published works include “Professional Standards for Arabic Teachers,” “The Effect of Prelistening Activities on Listening Comprehension in Arabic Learners,” and “Arabic Language Planning in the Age of Globalization.” He has spoken widely at a number of conferences and other events and has steered our Arabic program into becoming one of the strongest in the nation.

Event Highlight

On 16 January 2008, in an informal talk entitled, "Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize and the World of Turkish Literature a Conversation with Walter G. Andrews," Professor Selim S. Kuru interviewed Professor Walter G. Andrews at the Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library. For an mp3 recording of this event, please follow the link below:

Trouble getting into NELC classes?

If you were not able to register for courses offered in NELC because they were full please, fill out the Over Capacity NELC Course Survey. By filling out this form, you provide us with important information that we need in order to locate additional teaching resources.

 

 

 

 

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