 The Center also serves the general public by providing free educational resources and organizing professional development programs for local educators.The Center administers a two-year terminal master's degree through either the Division of Humanities or the Division of Social Science, wherein a student may structure his or her own course of study in such areas as contemporary Middle Eastern studies, Middle Eastern history, Islamic studies, Islamic art and archaeology, and Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, or Turkic languages (Anatolian Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh), and their accompanying literatures.With over fifty first- and second-year students across two academic tracks, the MA program is one of the largest of its kind in the United States.