Course List
islamic civilization and societies
For a current list of courses: Agora Course Schedule
Fine Arts
- FA 174 Islamic Art and Civilization
- FA 176 Jerusalem through the Ages
- FA 203 Great Cities of the Islamic Lands
- FA 213 Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture
- FA 214 The Art of the Silk Road
- FA 234 Mosques, Minarets and Madresas
- FA 235 The Arts of Persia: Peacocks, Pavilions, and Paradise
- FA 276 Islamic Art
- FA 280 Masterpieces of Islamic Art
- FA 350 The Art of the Object/Islamic Art
- FA 409 The Art of the Islamic Book
- FA 410 Orientalism
- FA 412 / 01 Cairo: City of 1001 Lights
- FM 314 Cinema of the Greater Middle East
History
- HS 207 / FA174 / TH174 Islamic Civilization in the Middle East
- HS 208 Middle East in the Twentieth Century
- HS 300.22 Study and Writing of History: Arabian Nights
- HS / TH 315 Islam in South Asia
- HS 326 History of Modern Iran
- HS 339 Byzantium and Islam
- HS 343 Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
- HS 344 History and Historiography of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- HS 575 Terror and the American Century
Philosophy
- PL 407 Medieval Philosophy
Political Science
- PO 403 Rise and Rule of Islamic States
- PO 414 Politics and Society in Central Eurasia
- PO 444 Intellectual and Politics in the Middle East
- PO 449 Domestic Politics in Postwar Europe
- PO 450 Seminar: France and the Muslim World
- PO 475 Politics and Oil in the Gulf
- PO 502 U.S-Iran Relations
- PO 516 American Foreign Policy
- PO 518 Liberalism, Nation Building, and American Foreign Policy
- PO 638 Islamic Political Philosophy
- PO 806 Political Cultures of the Middle East
- PO 812 State-Church Relations in Modern Europe
- PO 813 Islam in Europe
Romance Languages and Literatures
- RL 299 Harmony and Dissonance: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Medieval Spain
- RL 360 Literature and Culture Francophones
- RL 611 Epocas I: Medieval Spain, Crossroads of the World
Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures
- SL 017 / 018 Elementary Arabic I and II
- SL 089 / 90 Intermediate Arabic I and II
- SL 037 / 2 Modern Hebrew I and II
- SL 091 Biblical History
- SL 097 Independent Language Study: Turkish (Fall)
- SL 099 Independent Language Study: Dari (Fall)
- SL 103 Turkish Language Workshop
- SL 110 Spoken Arabic Language Workshop (Spring)
- SL 138 Independent Language Study: Tajik (Fall)
- SL 147 / SC148 Language, Memory and Identity in the Middle East
- SL 148 Modern Middle Eastern and Arabic Literature
- SL 150 States and Minorities in the Middle East
- SL 171/172 Third-Year Arabic I and II
- SL 181 Persian for Scholars I (Spring)
- SL 232 Literature of the other Europe in Translation
- SL 249 Women of Eastern Europe at War and For Peace
- SL 250 Conversion, Islam, and Politics in the Balkans
- SL 251 / 252 Advanced Arabic
- SL 000 Fourth Year Arabic
- SL 272 War and Peace in Yugoslavia
- SL / SC 280 Society and National Identity in the Balkans
- SL 283 / TH 383 / CL 268 The Christian East: Orientale Lumen
- SL 286 / EN 252 Exile and Literature
- SL 291 Near East Civilization
- SL 314 Old Persian and Avestan
- SL 328 Classical Armenian
- SL 359 The Structure of Biblican Hebrew
- SL 381 Newspaper Arabic (Spring)
Sociology
- SC 150 States and Minorities in the Middle East
Theology
- TH 116 Medieval Religious Thought
- TH 161 / 162 Religious Quest: Islam and Christianity
- TH 325 Lebanon: Focal Point of Conflict
- TH 351 Faith Elements in Conflicts: The Role of Theological Positions in Fomenting or Resolution of Conflict
- TH 352 Israelis and Palestinians: Two Peoples, Three Faiths
- TH 445 Mystical Poetry in the Islamic Humanities
- TH 448 Prophetic Tradition and Inspiration: Exploring the Hadith
- TH 509 Pathways to God: Spectrum of Islamic Theologies in Context
- TH 531 Toward and Abrahamic Family Reunion: Issues of Religion and Identity
- TH 554 Encountering the Qur'an: Contexts and Approaches
- TH 577 Introduction to Islamic Philosophical Traditions
- TH 000 Sainthood and the Rememberance of God: Litrugy, Devotional Life, Music and Spiritual Practice in the Islamic Humanities