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FINC 543/5312 - Financial Institutions and Markets (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202 .
Description
This course will analyze the role of financial markets and financial institutions in allocating capital. The major focus will be on debt contracts and securities and on innovations in the bond and money markets. The functions of commercial banks, investment banks, and other financial intermediaries will be covered. Aspects of the regulation of these institutions will also be examined.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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FINC 512/5313 - Options and Derivatives (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 , FINC 5202 and FINC 5203 .
Description
This course covers a list of advanced topics in derivative securities. It assumes that students have taken an introductory course in derivatives as well as an introduction to fixed-income markets. The first part of the course develops numerical techniques which are used to implement pricing methodologies. The techniques are applied to exotic options and real options. The second part of the course develops term structure models and options based on fixed income securities.
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FINC 516/5314 - Real Estate Finance (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202
Description
The course introduces main elements of real estate Finance. It begins with a comprehensive introduction of mortgage from the perspective of capital market investors. The mortgage basics are then used in investment analysis of income producing properties. The public debt and equity are introduced in the third part of this course.
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FINC 518/5315 - Islamic Finance (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202
Description
Islamic Finance is one of the fastest growing and most innovative financial disciplines in the international financial markets. It is growing at a rate of 15-20 % each year. It is one of the least understood both by the western financial community and indeed by those in Islamic communities. This course offers a clear and understandable examination of this dynamic area of finance. It will help participants to fully understand the fundamental principles underlying modern Islamic finance, as well as modern practices prevailing in this industry.
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FINC 513/5331 - Fixed Income Securities (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202
Description
This is a course on fixed-income securities and related derivatives. It covers basic analytical tools in fixed-income markets. Topics include relative pricing of fixed-income securities, forward rates, yield-to-maturity, yield-curve trading strategies and immunization techniques. It also discusses term structure models, fixed-income securities with embedded options, and derivatives with fixed-income underlying securities. Instruments to be discussed are forward rate agreements, bond and interest rate futures, interest rate swaps, fixed-income options, mortgage-backed securities, and credit derivatives. The course emphasizes analytical techniques, rather than institutional details.
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FINC 545/5333 - Private Equity and Venture Capital (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
, , , , , , and .
Description
The course focuses on private equity and venture capital cycles. Emphasis is placed on the valuation concepts and their application to privately held companies. Case studies are an integral part of the course.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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FINC 544/5351 - Advanced Corporate Finance (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202 .
Description
This is an advanced corporate finance course with an emphasis on debt and equity management, security issuance, and distribution policy. Topics include descriptions of types of debt and equity, tradeoffs in the choice of an optimal capital structure; the role of capital structure in competitive strategy; the design of capital structure and securities to control information problems and limit conflicts of interest between different classes of security holders; procedures and costs of issuing securities including initial public offerings, and the determinants of optimal payout policy. The course is intended for those with career objectives in financial management, the corporate finance aspects of investment banking, or general management.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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FINC 517/5352 - Financial Modeling (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202
Description
This is a hands on course that introduces financial concepts through analytic frameworks and financial models that can be used to identify and solve financial management issues. The course guides students through various intermediate methods and techniques of financial modeling in Microsoft Excel emphasizing the use of (1) Excel Solver for Optimization, (2) Monte Carlo Simulation and (3) Excel’s Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language.
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FINC 514/5353 - Financial Risk Analysis (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202 .
Description
This course deals with the ways in which risks are quantified and managed by financial institutions. Among the topics covered are the nature of financial institutions and their regulation, market risk, credit risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, and the credit crisis of 2007.
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FINC 570/5370 - Selected Topics in Financial Management (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202 .
Description
It considers selected topics of current relevance in Financial Management.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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FINC 575/5375 - Independent Study in Financial Management (1-3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Consent of FINC unit head and chair.
Description
Guided readings, research, and discussions on specific selected topic in Financial Management.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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FINC 590/5402 - Research Methodology (3 cr.)
Description
This course offers an overview of different research methods and processes in the area of finance. The course outcome will be the completion and presentation of a comprehensive research proposal for a research study.
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GWST 501/5101 - Approaches to Gender and Women’s Studies in the Middle East/ North Africa (3 cr.)
Description
This course immerses students in the literary, historical, and theoretical debates within the academic field of Middle East Gender and Women’s Studies. Interdisciplinary approaches as well as varieties of theoretical positions are exposed and discussed critically. Acknowledging the entanglements of regions, scholarly debates and politically struggles, this course locates the Middle East/ North Africa region within its worldly context. Must be taken in the second semester.
Cross-listed
ECLT 5256
When Offered
Offered in spring.
Repeatable
May be taken more than once if content changes.
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GWST 502/5102 - Justice: Histories and Theories (3 cr.)
Description
This course introduces students to justice as a problem in contemporary cultural, legal and philosophical debates. The course explores the different domains through which justice becomes a universal language of rights, and the resultant compartmentalization of human experiences along parameters in which culture is presumed to be non-existent, rendering different forms of justice, such as gender justice, appendixes to the already known. The course will engage with questions of distribution of justice - economic, social, political, historical - in the contemporary world with special focus on locating theories of justice in the practice thereof. It is conceived as laying the intellectual foundation for the GWST gender and justice graduate concentration, for graduate work in IHRL and other related fields.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered every fall.
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GWST 503/5103 - Histories and Theories of Gender and Development (3 cr.)
Description
The aim of this foundation seminar is to introduce students to the historical, theoretical and empirical perspectives and experiences that inform current programs and polices in the filed of gender and development. The course is divided into four sub-modules each of which will present key concepts in the analysis of social relations between men and women in the context of development thinking. Each module will present these theoretical perspectives with reference to concrete empirical applications.
When Offered
Offered every fall.
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GWST 504/5104 - Gender and Migration (3 cr.)
Description
This seminar provides an in depth engagement with the growing sub-field of Gender and Migration. Themes covered include: international gendered labor markets, migration to and from the Middle East, domestic labor, trafficking, displacement through conflict and development, remittances, and human rights. This is a joint course offered by the Center for Migration Studies and Refugee Studies and the Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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GWST 506/5106 - Reading Capital (3 cr.)
Description
This course offers a reading in the genealogies of capital in order to critically engage emergent political, economic and social forms. The course examines the nexus between events, structure, agency; Marxist conceptions of the making of histories; the variety of Marxian frameworks delineating the relation between socio-economic and political rights.
Cross-listed
same as SOC/ANTH 5295
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GWST 507/5107 - Critical Geographies: Reading the Global South (3 cr.)
Description
This seminar explores the spatial and its social, political and gendered effects with a particular focus on dispossession. It introduces students to critical work about space in the social sciences aimed towards social transformation.
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GWST 508/5108 - Women and Human Rights (3 cr.)
Description
This seminar explores the historical development of the notion of the human from the 1950’s to the present. It introduces students to women’s struggles for incorporation into human rights discourses, the consolidation of dominant regulatory processes, and their contemporary critical feminist engagements.
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GWST 000/5109 - Theorizing the Urban (3 cr.)
Description
This seminar engages debates in contemporary neoliberal urbanism with a particular focus on the global south. With more than half of the world’s population now residing in cities, the assemblages of the social laboratory are firmly grounded in the urban. The seminar explores the ongoing reconfigurations in the social laboratory: the production of gendered (raced and classed) subjectivities, housing, land, networks and livelihoods in the everyday life of diverse urban configurations.
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GWST 570/5170 - Special Topics in Gender and Women’s Studies (3 cr.)
Description
Alternating selected topics.
Repeatable
May be taken more than once if content changes.
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GWST 580/5180 - Independent Study and Readings (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Approval of IGWS Graduate Advisory Committee.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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GWST 505/5205 - Gender and Feminist Research Methodologies (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
This course provides an introduction to gender and feminist approaches to dominant theories of knowledge and research methodologies in the social sciences.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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GWST 000/5298 - Thesis Writing Seminar (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
GWST 5205
Description
This course serves as an intermediary phase between the research proposal and the Master’s thesis. It is designed to help students transition from fieldwork and data collection to data analysis and writing.
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GWST 599/5299 - Research Guidance and Thesis (no cr.)
Description
Consultation for students in problems related to their thesis.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
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DSGN 213/2113 - Introduction to Visual Cultures (3 cr.)
Description
This lecture course provides a primer in visual literacy across media, introducing students to key terms and methods for critically reading the visual world including iconology, formal analysis, art history, ideological analysis, and semiotics. Students gain fluency in understanding how images work in cultural context to communicate meaning, to express a sense of self, to convey pleasure, to sell things, and to distribute power. Questions of the effect of specific visual technologies are also engaged, particularly their impact on perception and conduct. Examples are drawn from fine art, advertising, film, popular culture, and new media.
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DSGN 215/2115 - History of Graphic Design (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
This course introduces students to the conceptual and critical aspects of graphic design through the discourse of history and theory of visual communication. It addresses how international graphic design went hand in hand with social, political and technological developments around it. It is a chronological survey of graphic design through slide lectures and research.
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DSGN 200/2200 - Analogue and Digital Practices (3 cr.)
Description
This introductory studio course introduces students to techniques of visual research as a basis for creative work in various media forms. Students undertake a continuous visual research project as the basis for the course. By means of class lectures and exercises, sketchbook practices, technical workshops, take home assignments, and group critiques designed to activate the research process, they develop their skills in the expressive use of analogue and digital media for the realization of art, design, or film projects.
Cross-listed
Same as
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
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DSGN 201/2201 - Design Principles & Practices (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and
Description
This course encourages students to apply previously acquired knowledge of fundamental principles of graphic design to effectively communicate concepts in visual representation that range from two dimensional images, to three dimensional objects and site specific installations.
Through research, class exercises and critique, technical workshop and design projects, students will learn to develop work plans and explore with cross-disciplinary expressions, production techniques and materials in order to achieve communication goals.
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DSGN 202/2202 - Logo and Visual Identity Design (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
DSGN 2201 , DSGN 2115 , DSGN 2210 and
Description
This course will prepare students to design logos and establish visual identities within the guidelines of brands, across a variety of media and applications.
The course offers real client-designer experience. Students will have the chance to work with clients on real briefs and will learn to exercise and develop their visual problem solving and time management skills to meet clients’ expectations and deadlines. They will learn to handle the pressure of overlapping assignments.
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DSGN 210/2210 - Typography I (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and
Description
This course is an introduction to and experimentation with different aspects of Latin and Arabic typography. It addresses letterforms and their legibility, visual organization, classification and text applications. Projects will explore the fundamentals of Latin and Arabic typography in terms of history, theory and practice.
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DSGN 240/2240 - Color (3 cr.)
Description
A series of experiences devoted to the development of the perception of color and its use as a tool for the graphic designer. The physics of color, colored light, colored pigments and the color wheel. The study of Johannes Litten’s color theory and Labert Munsell’s color solid, the psychology of color and application of its relations to different design fields. There will be an emphasis on using gouache paint and matching paint colors with digital color and printing as well as exploring digital color on the computer.
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DSGN 245/2245 - Illustration (3 cr.)
Description
Students explore the different media of illustration for different end products in this studio course.
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DSGN 250/2250 - Digital Practice I (3 cr.)
Description
Introduction to the basic operation of computers for designers and developing their skills on desktop programs like Illustrator and Photoshop.
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DSGN 315/3115 - History of Graphic Design in the Arab world (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Exploring a relatively new field in the region, this course will explore the history of graphic design in the Arab world by looking at the rise of different newspapers, magazines and packaging design from the turn of the century until today.
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DSGN 317/3117 - History of Advertising in the Arab World (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
A course on the history of advertising in the Arab world that studies visual communication in the region from the rise of the printing press to the introduction of multinational brands.
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DSGN 318/3118 - History of Arabic Calligraphy (3 cr.)
Description
A Slide-lecture based course that will introduce students to the history of Arabic calligraphy from the early Quran scripts, through highlights of the creative output of different Islamic dynasties until the introduction of the printing press. It will discuss the aesthetics of the calligraphic Arabic word and different stages of development of the script on paper and different media.
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DSGN 303/3203 - Publication Design (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
DSGN 2201 DSGN 2115 DSGN 3220 DSGN 2250
Description
The course focuses on the different formats that a printed word can appear in on different items like magazines, newspapers, books and web/digital publishing. Students are given briefs that push for exploration of the thinking process (Content, Message, Organization) the reading process (Typography and Layout of publications), and building process (Structure and Integration).
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DSGN 304/3204 - Packaging Design (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
DSGN 2201 DSGN 2115 and
Description
Understanding shelf-life and presence, this studio course is based on designing and understanding communication graphics for packaged products. Students experiment with structures of products and the application of type, color, and image on different media like paper, plastic, nylon etc. Projects may be based on real market client briefs and/or experimental ideas.
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DSGN 305/3205 - Retail Design (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
DSGN 2201 , DSGN 2115 , DSGN 2210 and
Description
This course is concerned with the design and user experience of a retail space. It can contain several branches of design like architecture, interior design, industrial design, advertising and graphic design.
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DSGN 313/3213 - Interactive Design (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
DSGN 3250
Description
The course tends to extend students experience in web and interactive design through focusing on User Interface (UI) design, User Experience (UX), and basic web coding using HTML and CSS. The course teaches you how to start an interactive design project to build websites and mobile applications and follow a professional design process to create a user-friendly UI design. This course focuses on the design aesthetics and user experience through a number of steps including user experience research, prototyping, and UI design. The course aims to introduce web and mobile technologies and how it reflects on the design process.
When Offered
Offered in Fall and Spring.
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DSGN 320/3220 - Typography II (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
This course continues exploring the world of typography through the study of essential typographic elements and principles while discussing typographic functions and critical theoretical issues.
It will introduce students to advanced typesetting for diverse media and content with correct kerning, special characters, ligatures, and other typographical details in a print and digital layout. Studies will include typographic matching between Arabic and Latin typography.
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DSGN 330/3230 - Typography III (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
This course will cover the elements of Arabic typefaces and Arabic type design, their aesthetics, and functional strengths. The students will learn how to design Arabic typefaces and communicate an idea by using Arabic type.
Also, students will learn the essential components of multilingual typography as used in text and as a continuation of Typography I & II. Students will continue to learn the historical background of typography based on writing systems and will learn to anchor it into their own culture.
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DSGN 335/3235 - Animation (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
This course is a basic animation course where students will be introduced to different animation techniques, principles and concepts. Students will learn traditional animation, stop-motion animation, and Digital Animation with Adobe After effects.
They will learn how to create a professional workflow by using Xsheet, keyframes, in between, passing positions, timeline and digital compositing.
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DSGN 350/3250 - Digital Practices II (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Introduction to the advanced operation of computers for designers and developing their skills on design programs using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. (Advanced level).
When Offered
Fall and Spring
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DSGN 360/3260 - Photography for Designers (3 cr.)
Description
How to write a photography brief, what is a product shot, how to cast the right model for your concept, food styling and photography, and working with different photographers. How and when to work with photo banks. Students will learn how to work as designers with different specialized photographers and understand the different needs of each photo assignment.
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DSGN 365/3265 - Advertising and Branding (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and .
Description
A theory and practice course on the world of art direction for advertising. Students will be exposed to classic advertising concepts like total branding and new ones like CRM and activation. The course is studio based and might include real market briefs or experimental ones.
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DSGN 000/3270 - Selected Topics in Design (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
consent of instructor
Description
In-depth examination of specific topics in Design determined by the special interests and expertise of the faculty.
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DSGN 400/4200 - Design field practices (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Completion of all Major Courses.
Description
This course exposes students to different design communities around the world. It is field research based. It will introduce students to new and emerging design practices and methodologies while building their international design network by connecting them to design events, professionals and students in different countries.
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DSGN 410/4210 - Portfolio (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Completion of all major courses.
Description
This course helps students create and promote their image in the market through discussions on career pathways. It will prepare students for the professional world guiding them on how to design a digital and printed portfolio, a resume and a personal corporate identity.
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DSGN 420/4220 - Production for Designers (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
DSGN 2201 DSGN 2115 DSGN 2210 DSGN 2250
Description
Design production is explored in all its phases and aspects in this course. From preparing files for different design products to color separation and advanced techniques in printing. Students will be exposed to different highlights in the history of printing and will be acquainted with printing terminology, and the visual and tactile aspects of paper, printing and binding.
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DSGN 469/4269 - Senior Project Thesis (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Completion of all major courses.
Description
An independent research with a topic approved by the department. Students are requested to work independently and submit a comprehensive paper on their chosen topic.
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DSGN 470/4270 - Senior Project Practice (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Independent design project as a continuation of researched topics approved previously by the department. Visiting critics will be invited to review as assess the final project.
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HIST 199/1099 - Selected Topics for Core Curriculum (3 cr.)
Description
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all first-year students.
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HIST 110/1101 - World Cultures (3 cr.)
Description
An examination of the development and diffusion of culture throughout the world from the great ancient civilizations to the present. The focus will be on making connections across time and space and developing a deeper understanding of the human community in all its aspects: political, social, economic, cultural and environmental.
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HIST 111/1102 - Big History for Freshmen (3 cr.)
Description
A study of the earth, the universe and human civilizations that tries to understand how human beings are connected to their environments and the billions of years of historical evolution that preceded their appearance on the planet. Beginning with big bang cosmology and continuing all the way through to the future, it is an attempt to put everything - and everyone - into perspective.
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HIST 122/1103 - Words That Made History: Great Speeches of the 20th Century (3 cr.)
Description
Readings and recordings of historic speeches. Studies the lives of the speakers, the contexts in which the speeches were delivered, the rhetoric of the speeches, and the impact the speeches had, both on events and on the English language.
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HIST 123/1201 - Family History in the Modern Middle East (3 cr.)
Description
Focuses on research and fieldwork. Acquaints students with interview techniques and methods in oral and family history. By integrating their own family stories into various conceptual and chronological frameworks, students will discover how history relates to them.
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HIST 209/2019 - Introduction to American Studies (3 cr.)
Description
This interdisciplinary course is designed to introduce students to key events and texts in the history and culture of the United States. Using films, literature and historical texts, the course will examine American culture within a historical context.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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HIST 299/2096 - Selected Topics for the Core Curriculum in Global Studies (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all students, irrespective of major.
Notes
May be repeated for credit when content changes.
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HIST 299/2097 - Selected Topics for the Core Curriculum in Arab World Studies (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all students, irrespective of major.
Notes
May be repeated for credit when content changes.
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HIST 299/2099 - Selected Topics for the Core Curriculum in Humanities (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all students, irrespective of major.
Notes
May be repeated for credit when content changes.
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HIST 207/2104 - World History (3 cr.)
Description
The development of human society from 11,000 BCE to the present. Using archaeology, anthropology, ethno-biology and traditional history, this course examines the civilizations of Polynesia, China, India, Africa, Meso-America, South America, the United States, Europe and the Middle East in order to explain why some societies today are politically, economically and technologically more powerful than others.
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HIST 211/2202 - History In The Making (3 cr.)
Description
This course offers introductory history topics, each taught in a separate section. Topics focus on major historical events or movements and will be traced through contemporary literary or visual documentary records and representations of those closely involved. Topics will also examine the way interpretation of such materials may alter over time. Topics will change according to instructor and students should consult current course schedules.
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HIST 246/2203 - Survey of Arab History (3 cr.)
Description
This course presents the history of the Arabic-speaking Middle East from pre-Islamic times to the modern era, with emphasis on the principal political, economic, social, religious, and cultural developments and their relevance to the contemporary Middle East. The course introduces students to historical methodology and different interpretive approaches. It attempts to foster a critical attitude toward sources and provides a context in which students can apply skills and concepts acquired in other.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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HIST 247/2204 - The Making of the Modern Arab World (3 cr.)
Description
A historical tour of how we got where we are today. The course starts with the late pre-modern Arab world and Ottoman empire, and moves through various forms of threat, influence, change, and modernization to the present. Events in the Arab world are examined in their wider, global context.
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HIST 250/2301 - Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (3 cr.)
Description
This course will examine the history of sub-Saharan Africa from the eve of the European colonization to the present day. In combining a thematic and chronological approach students will discover the complex history of various people and regions in Africa during this period. Topics range from the imperial scramble to colonize Africa to the integration of African societies into the colonial and global economy; from Western perceptions of Africa and Africans to the social, political and economical impacts of colonial policies; and from Africans’ struggles for freedom during decolonization to Africa’s post independence experience.
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HIST 203/2401 - Western Civilization from Antiquity to Medieval Europe (3 cr.)
Description
An introduction to the history of western society from ancient Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages with emphasis on the ideas and institutions that led to the growth and expansion of European civilization.
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HIST 204/2402 - Europe from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (1337-1789) (3 cr.)
Description
This course explores the history of Europe from the start of the Hundred Years War to the French Revolution. It examines the major developments of European politics, society and culture as it moved from the late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period (including the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment) to the beginning of the Age of Revolution.
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HIST 205/2403 - Europe in the Age of Revolution and Reform (1789-1914) (3 cr.)
Description
This Course explores Europe’s so-called “Long 19th century” from the French Revolution to World War I including many of the phenomena that came to define the century such as capitalism, nationalism, socialism, feminism and imperialism.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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HIST 206/2404 - Europe in International Politics in the Twentieth Century (3 cr.)
Description
This Course explores major development in European and international socio-economic politics from the end of the 1800s to the present day. It introduces the key events and trends of this tumultuous century including wars, revolutions, and ideological movements.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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HIST 201/2501 - History of American Civilization to the Nineteenth Century (3 cr.)
Description
A survey of American cultural roots from the period of exploration through the foundation of a federal American republic, social and industrial challenges, the question of slavery, and the crisis of civil war.
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HIST 202/2502 - History of Modern American Civilization (3 cr.)
Description
A survey of events leading to the creation of a distinct American culture as the United States meets the challenges of moral crisis, the industrial revolution, and world leadership from the nineteenth century to the present.
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HIST 210/2602 - Religions of the World (3 cr.)
Description
An introduction to the academic study of religion. By looking at the history, beliefs, practices, institutions and cultural expressions of a number of different religions, students will broaden their understanding of religions other than their own, and of the diversity of the human religious experience. Students will learn to appreciate the variety of religions in the world, and the similarities and differences between them.
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HIST 212/2604 - The Quest for the Historical Jesus (3 cr.)
Description
Investigates the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth within the context of Second Temple Judaism and Greco-Roman culture. Considers a range of pre-modern and modern interpretations of Jesus and the emergence of Christianity.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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HIST 243/2901 - History I: Pre-Dynastic Through Middle Kingdom Egypt (3 cr.)
Description
The history of Pharaonic Egypt from predynastic times to the end of the Middle Kingdom will be covered. Literary sources will be augmented by archeological evidence
When Offered
Offered in fall.
Notes
Field trips to archeological sites in the Cairo area are an obligatory aspect of the course.
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HIST 244/2902 - History II: Middle Kingdom Through New Kingdom Egypt (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
or consent of the instructor.
Description
The course will focus on the history of Pharaonic Egypt from the Middle Kingdom to the decline of the New Kingdom and will examine the texts, monuments and artifacts that underline our understanding of this era.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
Notes
Field trips to the Cairo Museum and other relevant sites are a required part of the course.
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HIST 320/3105 - Big History (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
The course will not be open to students who have already taken .
Description
A study of the earth, the universe and human civilizations that tries to understand how human beings are connected to their environments and the billions of years of historical evolution that preceded their appearance on the planet. Beginning with big bang cosmology and continuing all the way through to the future, it is an attempt to put everything - and everyone - into perspective.
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HIST 319/3205 - Islamic Spain and North Africa (711-1492 A.D.) (3 cr.)
Description
This course is an introduction to the political, economic, social, and cultural history of Muslim Spain and North Africa. Its emphasis is on explaining how interactions among different ethnic groups (Arabs, Berbers, and Iberian natives) and different confessional communities (Jews, Christians, and Muslims) created social situations that made the Western Muslim lands unique in Islamic history.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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HIST 330/3206 - Urban Landscapes in the Modern Middle East/North Africa (3 cr.)
Description
This course presents diverse histories of cities in the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from the impact of French and British colonialism to Arab nationalism. It introduces students to central themes in modern urban history with emphasis on the city and the production of modern lives, rural migration and the transformation of the city, women and men in the city, and urban crisis and social movements.
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HIST 331/3207 - History of Palestine/Israel (3 cr.)
Description
This survey course covers the history of modern Palestine and Israel. It is based on a comparative approach that allows students to engage with primary materials, secondary historical texts, literary narratives, and cinematic representations. This course provides students with the historical and theoretical tools to learn about and engage formations of nation and history in Palestine/Israel.
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HIST 333/3208 - Zionism and Modern Judaism (3 cr.)
Description
The Zionist ideology and movement in its own terms, and in the context of modern Judaism. The course places Zionism in its historical and religious contexts, and examines its varieties. The Zionist movement is followed from its origins to the establishment of Israel. Related aspects of Israeli politics are then examined, with especial reference to ideological and religious debates.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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HIST 343/3210 - Birth of Muslim Community and Rise of the Arab Caliphates (3 cr.)
Description
The rise of Islam and Arab expansion, the classical period of Islamic civilization during its first centuries to the period of Abbasid political disintegration.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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HIST 344/3211 - Caliphs and Sultans in the Age of Crusades and Mongols (3 cr.)
Description
The later Abbasid caliphate, the rise of Shi’ism and the Fatimids, Sunni consolidation under the Seljuks and Ayyubids, external threats to dar al-Islam; the rise of Mamluks .
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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HIST 345/3212 - Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids and Mughols (3 cr.)
Description
The decline of the Mamluks; the Timurids in Persia; the age of gunpowder: the Safavid Ottoman, and Moghul empires and their decline.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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HIST 355/3213 - State and Society in the Middle East, 1699-1914 (3 cr.)
Description
The Ottoman Empire and Iran: continuities and transformations. Imperial administration and relations with Europe. Challenges to the premodern order: regional and global economies; social and cultural trends
Cross-listed
Same as .
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HIST 356/3214 - State and Society in the Middle East, 1906-present (3 cr.)
Description
Beginning with the Young Turk and Iran’s Constitutional revolutions, this course follows the fate of Middle Eastern societies and states during the twentieth century, with a special focus on colonialism and nationalism; independence movements and decolonization; the Arab-Israeli conflict; society, politics, and culture.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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HIST 000/3215 - Zawiyas, Harems, Coffee shops, Everyday Life in the Pre-Modern Mideast (3 cr.)
Description
Examination of major trends in social and cultural trends, movements, and institutions in the medieval and early modern Middle East. Includes the interpretation of cultural identity, the transmission of knowledge and culture, the construction of social status, and the integration or marginalization of specific social groups in family, social and state structures.
Cross-listed
Same as ARIC 3321
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HIST 000/3216 - Shi’i Muslims in History (3 cr.)
Description
This course focuses on the historical roles of Shi’i Muslims from the seventh century to the present. The aim of the course is to familiarize the student with the major Shi’i discourses as they evolved in specific historical contexts. While emphasis will be on the historical development of Twelver Shi’ism, other important groups such as the Ismai’liyya and the Zaydiyya will also receive due consideration.
Cross-listed
same as ARIC 3337
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HIST 357/3288 - Selected topics in Middle East History (3 cr.)
Description
Focuses on theme or topic in the history of the Middle East. May be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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HIST 350/3302 - Violence, War, and Conflict in Modern Africa (3 cr.)
Description
This course will explore the complexities of violent conflicts on the African continent in the past 125 years. As violence, conflicts and wars seem to be crucial elements of Africa’s modern history; students will for example investigate if this means that Africans are inherently more violent than the rest of the world - or if such an assumption only disguises the complex historical roots of war and conflicts? Moreover, students will also discover that Africans have historically resisted violence and oppression just as often as they have promoted it. Students can expect to engage with a variety of interdisciplinary material and will be introduced to different African regions to get a deeper understanding of contexts of violence in Africa’s past and present. By the end of the course students will be able to critically analyze common narratives about “the violent continent” reproduced by mass media.
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HIST 307/3405 - The Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Reformation (3 cr.)
Description
An investigation of the development of European culture in the High Middle Ages and an examination of the ways in which European society was transformed by the intellectual and religious movements known as the Renaissance and the Reformation.
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HIST 308/3406 - Europe in the Age of Reason (3 cr.)
Description
An examination of the ways in which European intellectual developments during the Enlightenment were connected with socio-political changes in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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HIST 342/3903 - History of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman Era (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and or instructor’s consent.
Description
This course will study the history of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman period and the momentous confrontation between Greek and Egyptian culture between 300 BC and 700 AD. It will also examine the social consequences of the spread of Christianity in Egypt and the rise of Coptic culture.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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HIST 346/3904 - Societies and Cultures of the Ancient Near East (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and , or instructor’s consent
Description
The course constitutes a historical overview of the societies and cultures of Egypt, the Mediterranean World and the Middle East, from the emergence of urban society in Iraq in the fourth millennium BCE to the rise and fall of the great empires of Babylon, Assyria, the Hitties, Archaemenid Persia, Greece and Rome. Special attention will be paid to the position of Ancient Egyptian civilization within the wider context of Ancient Near Eastern History.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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HIST 000/4000 - Honors Thesis (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
HIST 4801 and HIST 4802
Description
The course is part of a three-semester sequence, with the Honors section of HIST 4801 forming the first part of the sequence and HIST 4802 forming the second part. This course provides students enrolled in the department’s Honors Program the opportunity to conduct original historical research, write a scholarly article under faculty supervision, and either submit the article for publication or make a public presentation of it at the annual EURECA conference. Preliminary work on the project will begin in HIST 4802 and will be completed in HIST 4000. Grading is P/F
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HIST 425/4106 - Food in World History (3 cr.)
Description
An inter-disciplinary examination of the role of food in human history beginning with the agricultural revolution and including such topics as the Columbian exchange, industrialization, the rise of the restaurant, food as cultural identity, food policy and the state, fast food, gender roles, health and nutrition, and the emergence of modern attitudes towards food and the body.
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HIST 430/4107 - The Environment in World History (3 cr.)
Description
An examination of the relationship between humans and the environment from the Agricultural Revolution (c. 10,000 BCE) to the present with an emphasis on the Industrial Revolution and the modern world.
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