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Welcome to Islamic World Studies

Islamic World Studies offers a multidisciplinary minor and a new Certificate in CUA's School of Arts & Sciences that group University offerings on the Near East and Islamic world into sub-concentrations to supplement undergraduate majors in the humanities and social sciences. The program draws on the individual expertise of scholars in Modern Languages, Semitics, History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Religious Studies, as well as resources of the J.K. Mullen Library and in the Consortium of Washington Area Universities.

IWS's focus is the Muslim world from the rise of Islam in late antiquity until today, and Muslim societies from the Middle East to South and Southeast Asia and, increasingly, in Europe and the Americas.

 

New IWS Certificate Program in Fall 2012

A "Certificate in Islamic World Studies" has been approved by the Academic Senate and will be available beginning Fall 2012.

Like the European Studies Certificate before it, the IWS Certificate is designed to extend majors in the humanities and social sciences with coordinated courses on the Islamic world from other departments plus a significant level of instruction in Arabic.

The minor will continue to be offered for students who want to assemble one from the University's courses on different parts or aspects of the Muslim world.

Current Courses.

FALL 2012

Classes in or requiring Arabic: 

 
ARAB 101 Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic, (first semester} 
MWF 12:10-1; TTh 9:35-10:50
 
ARAB 102 Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic II (second semester)
MWF 11:10-12; TTh 12:35-1:50
 
ARAB 103 Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic I (requires 101-102 or placement test)
MTWTh 2:10-3:00
 
ARAB 104 Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic II (requires 103 or placement test)
MWF 3:10-4:00, TTh 3:35-4:25
 
SEM 241 Introduction to Classical Arabic I
MWF 10:10-11  Shawqi Talia talia@cua.edu

SEM 545 Arabic Literature I
TTh 9:35-10:50  Shawqi Thalia
(permission of instructor required)
 
SEM 641 Readings in Islamic & Christian Arabic
TTh 12:35-1:50 Prof. Griffith
(permission of instructor required)
 
 
Classes not requiring Arabic (all in English):
 
ANTH 310 Islam in the Modern World
REQUIRED CLASS for the minor
W 3:10-5:40 Prof. Anderson
 

POLI 326 Politics of the Modern Middle East
New course  TTh 12:35-1:50  Feriha Perekli

SEM 247 Arabic Literature in Translation
MWF 12:10-1 pm  Shawqi Talia talia@cua.edu
 

*TRS 398 Introduction to Islam
TTh 2:10-3:25 and TTh 3:35-4:50
Prof. Valkenberg

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*These courses also satisfy a Religion requirement for Arts & Sciences students