Undergraduate and Graduate Courses on the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies

AUTUMN 2009
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African and Middle Eastern Languages
AMELANG 1A: Beginning Arabic, First Quarter (Aweiss, S.; Obeid, K.)
AMELANG 11A: Intermediate Arabic, First Quarter (Salti, R.)
AMELANG 21A: Advanced Arabic, First Quarter (Aweiss, S.)
AMELANG 23A: Reading Arabic, First Quarter (Barhoum, K.)
AMELANG 31: The Contemporary Arab World and Culture through Literature (Barhoum, K.)
AMELANG 106A: Beginning Swahili, First Quarter
AMELANG 107A: Intermediate Swahili, First Quarter
AMELANG 127: Land and Literature (Shemtov, V.)
AMELANG 128A: Beginning Hebrew, First Quarter (Greif, E.; Shemtov, V.)
AMELANG 129A: Intermediate Hebrew, First Quarter ( Porat, G.)
AMELANG 144A: Beginning Persian, First Quarter (Fahimi, S.)
AMELANG 184A: Beginning Turkish, First Quarter (Ozisik, N.)
AMELANG 185A: Intermediate Turkish, First Quarter (Ozisik, N.)
AMELANG 297: Directed Reading in African and Middle Eastern Languages
AMELANG 395: Graduate Studies in African and Middle Eastern Languages

Comparative Literature
COMPLIT 222: Time-Travel Literature (Cooperson, M)
COMPLIT 248:Afghanistan: Literature and History(Shamel, S)

Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity
CSRE 183/ AMSTUD 183: Border Crossings and American Identities (Duffey, C.)

History
HISTORY 14N: The Crusades (Buc, P.)
HISTORY 84Q: The American Empire in the Middle East since the Cold War: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine (Beinin, J.)
HISTORY 182C: From Prophet to Empire: The Making of the Muslim Middle East, 600-1500
HISTORY 96/196: Modern South Asia (Kumar, A.)
HISTORY 217B/317B: Land of Three Religions: Medieval Spain (Miller, K.)
HISTORY 281/381: Economic and Social History of the Modern Middle East (Beinin, J.)

International Policy Studies
IPS 264: Behind the Headlines: An Introduction to Contemporary South Asia (Manuel, Anja L.)

International Relations
INTNLREL 120: Terrorism and Security in Israel: Law and Politics

Overseas Studies
OSPGEN 43: Turkey at the Crossroads of Energy, Sustainability, and Geography (Kovscek, A.)

Political Science
POLISCI 23SC: American Foreign Policy and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century (Stedman, S.)
POLISCI 43N: Oil, Regime Change, and Conflict (Karl, T.)
POLISCI 118P/218: U.S. Relations in Iran (Milani, A.)

Program in Writing &Rhetoric
PWR 1AO: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Visual Rhetoric across the Globe: Capturing Culture in Images (O'Brien, A.)

Religious Studies
RELIGST 16N: The Story of Human Virtues (Sadeghi, B.)
RELIGST 102: Modern Islam (Nanji, A.)
RELIGST 201/301: Classical Islamic Law (Sadeghi, B.)
RELIGST 222B/322B: Sufism Seminar (Bashir, S.)

Sociology
SOC 143/243: Society and Culture in Israel (Lev-On, A.)

Special Language Program
SPECIAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM:
SPECLANG 104A: Beginning Albanian, First Quarter
SPECLANG 107A: Beginning Bulgarian, First Quarter
SPECLANG 192A: Beginning Kazakh, First Quarter (Kunanbaeva, A.)
SPECLANG 193A: Intermediate Kazakh, First Quarter (Kunanbaeva, A.)
SPECLANG 238A: Beginning Uzbek, First Quarter (Kunanbaeva, A.)