This course will focus on the struggle for African American equality in the U.S. during the mid twentieth century. It will examine key civil rights issues, events, strategies, leaders and organizations on both the local and national levels. Using historical documents and documentary film presentations this course will discuss the status of race relations in America over the past fifty years.
Continuation of RAE 140.
This course provides advanced language instruction in Modern Standard Arabic. In addition, course explores aspects of culture in the Arab world.
This course is an overview of Islamic thought from the era of colonialism (1800s) to the present time, with its primary focus being on relations between Islam and the West, and the contemporary issues that Muslims face. The first half of the course will treat the Muslim responses to colonialism and the rise of Islamic revivalism. The second half of the course will deal with recent events in particular countries and debates concerning the Arab Spring, democracy and Islamophobia.
Students who have the proper qualifications may undertake a special problem in reading and research. May be repeated once for a total of six credits.
Variable in content, this course focuses on important texts and issues in Islamic history, religion, literature, and philosophy. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits under different subtitles.
An introduction to the disciplines of knowledge related to the Quran, its major themes, style of presentation, and relevance to contemporary societies and issues.
Independent research in Russian and Eastern Studies on an advanced level for undergraduate and graduate students. Students will be required to establish a written contract with the relevant faculty member describing the tasks to be completed in the course. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits, or a total of six credits of RAE 395 and 495G.
Directed at non-majors, this course introduces students to the diversity of cultural experience in today's world. Goals of the course include gaining an appreciation of the equality of everyone's shared humanity and unique identities both locally and globally; to understand global experiences of cultural diversity through forced or chosen migration; to understand how categories of identity, including racialized, gendered, ethnic, religious, age, class and national identities -- shaped by power -- are social and cultural, and not biological.
This is a survey of the aboriginal Native American cultures of North America and of the impact of four centuries of British, French, Spanish, and Russian contact on Native American societies. Particular emphasis is placed on comparing and contrasting cultural characteristics of Native American groups living in ecologically diverse regions of North America. The course will include consideration of the status of Native Americans in present-day North America.
