| ARBI 102-01 |
Elementary Arabic
Instructor: Mohammad Abu Shuleh
Course Description:
Continued introduction to MSA with more advanced development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills through a greater degree of interaction in the classroom.
Prerequisite: 101.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MTWRF
DENNY 315 |
| ARBI 202-01 |
Intermediate Arabic
Instructor: Mohammad Abu Shuleh
Course Description:
Continued development of conversation and composition skills using current political and social events, stories, essays, and other materials as the topics for discussion and writing assignments.
Prerequisite: 201. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
DENNY 315 |
| ARBI 360-01 |
Arts of the Islamic World
Instructor: Mohammad Abu Shuleh
Course Description:
This course aims to present the genres of art of the Islamic world, including architecture, calligraphy, and decoration. During the course we will read and watch selected articles and reports to learn about the major aesthetic, cultural, social, and political themes related to the arts of the Islamic world. The readings and audiovisual materials will introduce students to a large number of new vocabulary words, as well as new grammatical rules, sentence structures, and phrases, thereby improving the linguistic level of each students. The course overall will emphasize the four main linguistic skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking through in-class activities and written and oral assignments.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 315 |
| Courses Offered in HEBR |
| HEBR 102-01 |
Elementary Modern Hebrew
Instructor: Neil Diamant
Course Description:
Introduction to the modern Hebrew language. Alphabet, phonics and grammatical structures. Emphasizes development of reading comprehension, composition and conversational skills.Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MTWRF
EASTC 108 |
| HEBR 202-01 |
Advanced Modern Hebrew
Instructor: Esti BenDavid
Course Description:
Expansion of language proficiency through intensified study of cultural and literary texts, including poetry, prose, essays, newspapers, films, and songs. Extensive discussion of issues related to contemporary Israel. Emphasis on the development of reading, writing and conversation skills.
Prerequisite: 201 or the equivalent.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 203 |
| Courses Offered in MEST |
| MEST 122-01 |
Middle East since 1750
Instructor: David Commins
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 122-01. Bureaucratic-military reforms of the 19th century in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, European imperialism, regional nationalisms, contemporary autocratic regimes, and the politicization of religion.This course is cross-listed as HIST 122.
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 203 |
| MEST 200-01 |
From Abraham to Al-Qaeda: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from their Origins to the Present
Instructor: Peter Schadler
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 219-01 and RELG 111-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Sicily Mosaic.
This course will survey relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims, from their origins up to the present day, with heavy attention to the premodern period, and to those areas under the political control of Muslims. We will, however, also consider the relations between these three in the modern period, and how the beliefs of these three groups have coincided and collided to generate specific tensions between them.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
EASTC 411 |
| MEST 200-02 |
U.S. - Middle East Relations
Instructor: David Commins
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 219-02 and INST 290-04. This course examines the history of US-Middle East relations from the Barbary Wars to the present. Topics will include American travel and missionary activity in "the Holy Land" during the 1800s; the American role in post-World War I diplomacy affecting the Middle East; rivalry with the Soviet Union; Arab-Israeli diplomacy; petroleum policy; anti-American terrorism; and military interventions.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 204 |
| MEST 200-03 |
History of Saudi Arabia
Instructor: David Commins
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 219-03. The course follows the rise and fall of Saudi power to the present day, with particular attention to the Wahhabi religious movement, strategic and economic ties to Western powers, social transformation, cultural tensions, and political opposition to the monarchy.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 204 |
| MEST 234-01 |
Middle Eastern American Communities
Instructor: Erik Love
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SOCI 234-01. This interdisciplinary course considers the history of Middle Eastern American communities, and the related development of "Islamophobia." We survey the history of the diverse immigrant communities that trace their heritage to a vast region of the world, the variously defined "Middle East." In the 1990s, Islamophobia emerged as a controversial concept after decades of discussion around Orientalism and anti-Arab racism. Today, some see Islamophobia as a catch-all concept for discrediting necessary anti-terrorism measures like profiling, surveillance, and wiretaps. Others see Islamophobia as fitting into a pattern of racialized scapegoating, where people experience violence and discrimination. Topics for discussion include ethnic group and identity formation, the "war on terror," connections between domestic and international US policy, and civil rights advocacy.This course is cross-listed as SOCI 234. Offered every two years.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 203 |