近东语言和文化系提供阿拉伯语的文学硕士和博士学位，并支持其他语言，如希伯来语，土耳其语，波斯语，库尔德语和古埃及（象形文字），并提供完整的研究生课程计划，这些课程通常包括以下领域：阿拉伯语言，语言学和应用语言学，埃及学，伊斯兰研究，近东文化和文明，近东历史和政治，近东文学，近东宗教。至少90学分的研究生工作时间（包括获得硕士学位的学分）以及论文。这些学生的课程必须获得博士学位的批准。顾问和研究生院院长。
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures offers MA and PhD degrees in Arabic, and supports additional languages such as Hebrew, Turkish, Persian, Kurdish and Ancient (Hieroglyphic) Egyptian and offers a full program of graduate courses falling generally within the following areas: Arabic language, linguistics, and applied linguistics, Egyptology, Islamic Studies, Near Eastern Cultures and Civilizations, Near Eastern History and Politics, Near Eastern Literatures, Near Eastern Religions. A minimum of 90 credit hours of graduate work (including credits earned for the M.A.), plus dissertation. The students' courses must be approved by the Ph.D. advisor and the Direc­tor of Graduate Studies.