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ALIS 211-212 - Intermediate Colloquial Arabic
Concentrates on increasing student’s vocabulary and command of syntax, with a higher level of fluency. Enables students to communicate with native speakers in a wide variety of social situations. Each course meets five or seven hours per week.
(2-4 cr. each)
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ALIS 221-222 - Intermediate Writing
Develops students’ ability to meet short practical writing needs. Trains students to summarize informative and narrative passages, gradually introducing more complex structures. Each course meets three or five hours per week .
(1-3 cr. each)
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ALIS 231-232 - Intermediate Printed Media
Exposes students to a wider range of topics selected from the Arabic press. Emphasizes vocabulary and idiom acquisition, and begins to develop students’ ability to read for speed. Each course meets three or five hours per week.
(1-3 cr. each)
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ALIS 233-234 - Intermediate Aural Media
Further develops students’ listening skills while expanding their vocabulary, especially in the areas of politics and economics. Increases their ability to comprehend details. Each course meets three or five hours per week.
(1-3 cr. each)
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ALIS 241-242 - Intermediate Translation
Translation of close reading and analysis of Arabic texts covering a wide range of topics. The course employs translation into English as a means to enhance students' knowledge of Arabic vocabulary, idiomatic expressions and complex structures. Translation from English into Arabic is used to train students to produce coherent and correct Arabic texts. Issues and techniques related to the practice of translation are dealt with, but the primary focus is on Arabic language learning
(1 cr. each)
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ALIS 252 - Readings in Modern Arabic Literature
Selections from a variety of prose writings. Course meets three hours per week.
(1 cr.)
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ALIS 271-272 - Readings in the Qur’an
Introduces a wide selection of verses, thoroughly addressing grammatical and syntactical issues. Trains students to recite with great precision. Each course meets three or five hours per week.
(1-3 cr. each)
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ALIS 301-302 - Advanced Modern Standard Arabic
Through the reading and analysis of selected texts, the course exposes students to a wide range of vocabulary, idiom, and style, while reviewing the major topics of grammar. Each course meets 7 or 10 hours in summer.
(2-3 cr. each)
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ALIS 311-312 - Advanced Colloquial Arabic
Develops students’ ability to express themselves more precisely and fluently. Uses authentic material, whether recorded or written, to encourage discussion. Each course meets five or seven hours per week.
(2-3 cr. each)
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ALIS 321-322 - Advanced Writing
Equips students to write at greater length using a variety of techniques, including description, comparison, contrast, argumentation, etc. Refines students’ ability to write cohesive summaries. Each course meets three or five hours per week.
(1-3 cr. each)
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ALIS 331-332 - Advanced Printed Media
Introduces more complex and analytical articles and editorials from the Arabic press. Further develops students’ ability to skim. Each course meets three or five hours per week.
(1-3 cr. each)
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ALIS 333-334 - Advanced Aural Media
Trains students to take notes while listening to broadcasts. Expands their range of vocabulary and develops their ability to listen to lengthier passages. Each course meets three or five hours per week.
(1-3 cr. each)
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ALIS 341-342 - Advanced Translation
Focus in this course is more on problems and issues of translation. Students are expected to produce coherent, culturally sensitive texts in both languages. Graded authentic texts are used.
(1 cr. each)
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ALIS 352 - Readings in Modern Arabic Literature
Selections from a variety of prose writings: short stories, novels, plays, and poetry by writers from different Arab countries. Course meets three hours per week.
(1 cr.)
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ALNG 101-102 -103 - Elementary Arabic
Develops the fundamentals of modern standard Arabic through reading, writing, and oral drill within a framework of the essentials of syntax, morphology, and a working vocabulary. Three-semester sequence. Each course meets five hours per week. Registration requires the permission of ALNG Director.
When Offered
Offered in fall, winter, spring and summer.
Notes
Noncredit for Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(3 cr. each per semester)
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ALNG 109-110 - Introduction to Colloquial Arabic
Study, by means of phonetic transcription, or the Arabic alphabet, of the basic inflectional and syntactical patterns of Egyptian colloquial Arabic. Two- semester sequence. Each course meets five hours per week. Registration requires permission of the ALNG Director.
When Offered
Offered in fall, winter, spring and summer.
Notes
Noncredit for students from Arab countries and Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(3 cr. each per semester)
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ALNG 111-112 - Accelerated Elementary Modern Standard Arabic
ALNG 111 covers material of ALNG 101 and ALNG 102, while ALNG 112 covers the materials of ALNG 103 and ALNG 201. Two-semester sequence. Each course meets ten hours per week. Registration requires permission of the ALNG Director.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Noncredit for Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(6 cr.each per semester)
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ALNG 199 - Selected Topics
Study of selected topics for elementary students. The course meets five hours per week. Registration requires the permission of ALNG Director.
When Offered
Offered fall, spring, summer and winter.
Notes
May be repeated for credit if content changes.
Noncredit for Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(3 cr. per semester)
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ALNG 201-202-203 - Intermediate Arabic
Three-semester sequence. Each course meets five hours per week. Registration requires permission of the ALNG Director. Increases the command of grammatical and syntactical structure of modern standard Arabic through reading materials; develops reading and writing skills and comprehension. Critical examination of social and cultural dimensions of reading materials.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: ALNG 103 or placement examination.
When Offered
Offered in fall, spring, summer and winter.
Notes
Noncredit for Thanawiyya Amma holders
(3 cr. each per semester)
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ALNG 204-205 - Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic
Increase the command of grammatical and syntactical structure of modern standard Arabic through reading materials; develops reading and writing skills and comprehension. Critical examination of social and cultural dimensions of reading materials. Two-semester sequence. Each course meets five hours per week. Registration requires permission of the ALNG Director.
Prerequisites
ALNG 203 or placement examination.
When Offered
Offered in fall, winter, spring and summer.
Notes
Noncredit for Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(3 cr. each per semester)
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ALNG 210 - Intermediate Egyptian Colloquial Arabic
Concentrates on developing the students’ listening and speaking skills in daily life situations through activities and situations and presentations as well as introducing the cultural connotations. The course meets five hours per week. Registration requires permission of the ALNG Director.
Prerequisites
ALNG 110
When Offered
Offered in fall, winter, spring and summer.
Notes
Non credit for students from the Arab countries and Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(3 cr. per semester)
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ALNG 211-212 - Accelerated Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic
Increases the command of grammatical and syntactical structure of modern standard Arabic through reading materials; develops reading and writing skills and comprehension. Critical examination of social and cultural dimensions of reading materials. ALNG 211 covers material of ALNG 202 and ALNG 203, while ALNG 212 covers the materials of ALNG 204 and ALNG 205. Two-semester sequence. Registration requires permission of the ALNG Director. Each course meets ten hours per week.
Prerequisites
ALNG 201 or placement examination.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Noncredit for Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(6 cr. each per semester)
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ALNG 299 - Selected Topics
Study of selected topics for intermediate students. The course meets five hours per week. Registration requires permission of the ALNG Director.
Hours
The course meets 5 hours per week.
When Offered
Offered in fall, winter, spring and summer.
Notes
May be repeated for credit if content changes.
Noncredit for Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(3 cr. per semester)
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ALNG 301-302 - Advanced Modern Standard Arabic I
Further develops reading, writing, listening and speaking of Modern Standard Arabic. Prepares advanced non-native speakers for upper-division or
graduate-level work in the Arabic language. Two-semester sequence. Each course meets five hours per week. Registration requires permission of the ALNG Director.
Prerequisites
ALNG 205
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring
Notes
Noncredit for Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(3 cr. each per semester)
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ALNG 303-304 - Advanced Modern Standard Arabic II
Further develops reading, writing, listening and speaking of Modern Standard Arabic. Prepares advanced non-native speakers for upper-division or
graduate-level work in the Arabic language. Two-semester sequence. Each course meets five hours per week. Registration requires permission of the ALNG Director.
Prerequisites
ALNG 302 or ALNG 311.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Noncredit for Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(3 cr. each per semester)
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ALNG 305 - Independent Study
Independent study in various aspects of MSA may be assigned to special groups in different majors. Students study the Arabic language related to their fields of study, such as politics, economics, literature. The course meets five hours per week. Registration requires permission of the ALNG Director.
Prerequisites
Any 200 level Arabic language course.
When Offered
Offered upon request.
Notes
Non-credit for Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(3 cr. per semester)
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ALNG 306 - Advanced Arabic of the News Media
Introduces more complex and analytical articles and editorials from the Arabic press and trains students to take notes while listening to broadcasts. Expands students’ range of vocabulary and develops their ability to listen to lengthier passages. The course meets three hours per week. Registration requires permission of the ALNG Director.
Prerequisites
ALNG 206
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Non-credit for Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(3 cr. per semester)
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ALNG 311-312 - Accelerated Advanced Modern Standard Arabic
The courses aim at preparing advanced, non-native speaking students for upper-division or graduate-level work in the Arabic language. ALNG 311 covers material of ALNG 301 and ALNG 302, while ALNG 312 covers the materials of ALNG 303 and ALNG 304. Two-semester sequence. Each course meets ten hours per week. Registration requires permission of the ALNG Director.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Non-credit for Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(6 cr. each per semester)
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ALNG 399 - Selected Topics
Study of selected topics for advanced students. The course meets five hours per week. Registration requires the permission of ALNG Director.
When Offered
Offered in fall, winter, spring and summer.
Notes
May be repeated for credit if content changes. Noncredit for Thanawiyya Amma holders.
(3 cr. per semester)
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ALNG 413-414 - Arabic Syntax (Nahw)
Examination of the basic features of Arabic syntax (nahw) with particular reference to the treatment of the subject by Arab grammarians. Reference is also made to the system of terminology adopted for the study of Arabic syntax by Western scholars. The language of instruction is Arabic.
Cross-listed
Same as ARIC 413-414.
When Offered
413Offered in fall, 414Offered in spring.
(3 cr. per semester)
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ALNG 415 - Arabic Morphology (Sarf) and Prosody (‘Arud)
Examination of the basic features of Arabic morphology (sarf) and prosody (‘arud) with particular reference to the treatment of the subjects by Arab grammarians. Reference is also made to the system of terminology adopted for the subject by Western scholars.
Cross-listed
Same as ARIC 415.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
Notes
The language of instruction is Arabic.
(3 cr.)
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ALNG 425 - Linguistics of Arabic
Development of the linguistic structure of Arabic and the Arabic of the early Islamic era as described by the early Arab philologists.
Cross-listed
Same as ARIC 425.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
(3 cr.)
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ALNG 426 - The Phonetics of Arabic
Phonetics of classical Arabic as it is spoken in Egypt; reference to the phonetics of both Egyptian colloquial Arabic and the Arabic of the early Islamic era as described by the early Arab phoneticians.
Cross-listed
Same as ARIC 426.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
(3 cr.)
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ALWT 221 - From Reading to Writing: Intermediate Level:
Students scoring less than 70 in the Arabic Writing Placement exam can take this course. This course combines reading and writing skills in various disciplines such as Political Science, Anthropology, Economics, History, Arts, etc. Special attention is given to basic structures, fixing common mistakes, rhetorical devices, clichés, collocations, and vocabulary building.
When Offered
Offered in the fall and spring.
3 credits
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ALWT 321 - From Reading to Writing: High Intermediate Level:
Students scoring from 70-84 in the Arabic Writing Placement exam can take this course. This course combines reading and writing skills in various disciplines such as Political Science, Anthropology, Economics, History, Arts, etc. Special attention is given to basic structures, fixing common mistakes, rhetorical devices, clichés, collocations, and vocabulary building.
When Offered
Offered in the fall and spring.
Notes
The level of material taught is higher than those taught in ALWT 221 but following the same guidelines.
3 credits
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ALWT 420 - From Reading to Writing: Advanced Level:
This course combines reading and writing skills in various disciplines such as Political Science, Anthropology, Economics, History, Arts, etc. It develops further the reading and writing skills. Special attention is given to complex structures, fixing common mistakes, rhetorical devices, clichés, collocations, and vocabulary building.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Score 85 or more in the Arabic Writing Placement Exam or have taken either 221 or 321.
When Offered
Offered in the fall and spring.
3 credits
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ALWT 421 - Professional Media Writing:
The course bridges the communication gap between language course work and information- transfer needs of media. The course trains the student to write major forms of media writing, including correspondence, memoranda, reports and the like.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Score 85 or more in the Arabic Writing Placement Exam or have taken either 221 or 321.
When Offered
Offered in the fall.
3 credits
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ALWT 422 - Professional Business Writing:
The course bridges the communication gap between language course work and information- transfer needs of business. The course trains the student to write major forms of business writing, including correspondence, memoranda, reports and the like.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Score 85 or more in the Arabic Writing Placement Exam or have taken either 221 or 321.
When Offered
Offered in the fall and spring.
3 credits
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ALWT 423 - Professional Diplomatic Writing:
The course bridges the communication gap between language course work and information- transfer needs of diplomacy. The course trains the student to write major forms of diplomatic writing, including correspondence, memoranda, reports and the like.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Score 85 or more in the Arabic Writing Placement Exam or have taken either 221 or 321.
When Offered
Offered in the fall and spring.
3 credits
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ALWT 462 - Professional Translation in Business:
This course is designed to meet the pressing need for high level translation in all work places. Attention is given to points of contrast, idiomatic usage, semantic fields of corresponding vocabulary in both English and Arabic in business administration and economics.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite ALWT 420 or consent of instructor.
When Offered
Offered in the fall and spring.
3 credits
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ALWT 463 - Diplomatic Professional Translation:
This course is designed to meet the pressing need for high level translation in all work places. Attention is given to points of contrast, idiomatic usage, and semantic fields of corresponding vocabulary in both English and Arabic in the field of diplomacy and political science.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite ALWT 420 or consent of instructor.
When Offered
Offered in the fall and spring.
3 credits
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ALWT 521 - Professional T.V. Script Writing:
This course is a continuation of ALWT421. This course train students to write T.V. scripts. It makes them practice interviewing and commenting in Modern Standard Arabic helps them to acquire further knowledge of the various TV language characteristics; go deeper into the issue of culture?bound language in relation to the level of language, and develop a command of a number of techniques for Arabic TV reporting.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: ALWT 421or consent of instructor.
When Offered
Offered in the spring.
3 credits
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AMST 199 - Selected Topics for Core Curriculum
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all students, irrespective of major.
(3 cr.)
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AMST 299 - Selected Topics for Core Curriculum
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all students, irrespective of major.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: RHET 101
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 199 - Selected Topic for Core Curriculum
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all first-year students as part of the Primary Level Core.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 202 - Cultural Anthropology
Cultural anthropology is an exploration of human diversity and what we have in common. It is a journey of questioning, understanding, and respecting the rich and complex tapestry of human practices, beliefs, and expressions we call “culture.” In this course we will encounter a wide variety of practices and beliefs, including our own, and we will examine how these are related to global power relations; also, we will explore how anthropologists, with their own particular ideological and theoretical perspectives, attempt to understand these matters.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 210 - Arab Society
Cross-listed
Same as SOC 210.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Repeatable
Description and analysis of social and cultural characteristics and problems of contemporary Arab Society, taking into consideration the specific historical, economic, and ideological forces that shape it. The social basis for Arab unity and identity. Introduction to basic concepts and principles for understanding social phenomena.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 240 - Introduction to Community Development
Introduces the students to the different concepts and approaches to community development as well as to community organizing. Utilizes a critically reflective framework as part of the curriculum to overcome the potential division between theory and practice. Identifies the key issues that the students are likely to confront in community development and organizing work.
Cross-listed
Same as PSYC/SOC 240.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 299 - Selected Topic for Core Curriculum
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all students, irrespective of major.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: ECLT 101.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 302 - Kin and Family in a Global World
Transformation of family and kin structures and relations in present-day globalization. Impacts of urbanization, international migration, consumerism, economic and other factors on families and kin groups. Why and how people legitimize their kin relationships in the eyes of their community, their state, and their religion, and how different family structures are tied to naturalizing certain forms of power. Comparative perspectives from the Middle East and other world areas.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: ANTH 202.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 303 - Social Movements
Basic processes by which societies initiate, consolidate, transform, and change their basic institutions and social structures. Anatomy of reform and revolutionary social movements, especially those affecting Arab and Third World societies.
Cross-listed
Same as SOC 303
When Offered
Offered in spring
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 309 - History of Social Theory
The nature and function of social theory and its development especially since the Enlightenment. Emphasis on the cumulative insights and ideas which have contributed to modern social theory. The essential aspects of the philosophy of social science, especially epistemological problems in the sciences of sociology and anthropology.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences and junior or senior standing, or consent of instructor.
Cross-listed
Same as SOC 309
When Offered
Offered in fall.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 310 - Contemporary Sociological Theory
The main trends, basic problems, and unresolved issues of post-war sociological thought. Essential aspects of the logic of scientific inquiry; contemporary theories as model building in sociology including new functionalism, critical theory, structuralism and poststructuralism.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: ANTH/ SOC 309 or consent of instructor.
Cross-listed
Same as SOC 310.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 311 - Contemporary Anthropological Theory
.Introduces major theories and theorists in the recent history of anthropology and provides a broad vision of the development of the discipline and of contemporary anthropological thought. The course also covers the development of the ethnographic method, important paradigms such as structural-functionalism, and recent critical theory.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: ANTH/SOC 309 or consent of instructor.
When Offered
Offered in spring
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 312 - Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Basic structure of contemporary societies and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, with special emphasis on the Arab population. Problems of ecology, economics, social organization, law and politics, religion and patterns of social change.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 320 - States, Capital and Rural Lives
Analysis of dynamics of expanding state and capital relations into rural and pastoral communities, with special focus on property and labor relations, the social organization of production and exchange, politics and power relations, and the organization and practice of everyday life. The course draws on comparative ethnographic case studies from around the world.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 321 - The Urban Experience
This course will explore a variety of approaches for the study of life in cities, providing students with tools to think critically about the meaning of urban life in the new century. Are cities the vibrant, vital centers of all that is exciting, new and provocative in modern life or are they the decaying, decadent and dangerous remnants of an industrial age whose time has past? How do we link the lives of corporate elites and pop icons with crack dealers and shanty town dwellers? How do we place migration, world capital flows, transnational media, and global consumption in our studies of city life?
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 6 hours of Social Sciences and sophomore standing.
Cross-listed
Same as SOC 321.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 332 - Social Constructions of Difference: Race, Ethnicity, and Class
The course will first introduce students to the vast theoretical literature on the concepts of race, ethnicity and class from sociology and anthropology. Second, the course will expect students to shift focus away from looking at different cultures to analyzing cultural productions of difference. In the course we will be concerned with how racial, ethnic and class identities are shaped by diverse hegemonic systems, modes of resistance, and the structuring of social relations in different societies.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 6 hours of Social Sciences and sophomore standing.
Cross-listed
Same as SOC 332.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 340 - Participatory Action Research in Community Settings
This course will introduce students to the appropriate research methodologies when dealing with community organizing and development, particularly the participatory action research approach to community development.
Prerequisites
ANTH/PSYC/SOC 240.
Cross-listed
Same as PSYC/SOC 340.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 341 - Anthropology and Film
The history and practice of film in anthropology; film as ethnography; comparison of films and analytical ethnographies.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: ANTH 202.
Cross-listed
Same as FILM 341.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 352 - Language in Culture
The role played by language in humankind’s symbolic relation to the world. Emphasis on linguistic analysis, ethnosemantics, sociolinguistics, expressive speech and language and socialization as these elucidate patterns of cognitive orientation.
Cross-listed
Same as LING 352.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 360 - Gender, Power and Social Change
An introduction to the study of gender ideologies, including a cross-cultural comparison of how genders are constructed to create different norms of masculine, feminine, and other categories linked to various forms of sexuality. Focus on analyzing how inequalities are maintained and contested over time through gendered discourses and practices at home, at work, and at local, national and international levels. Special emphasis on the uses of gender in justifying and challenging development agendas in the Global South.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: ANTH 202 or consent of instructor.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 370 - Environmental Issues in Egypt
The technical aspects of environmental issues in Egypt are examined taking into account the cultural, social, and political dimensions upsetting the balance of the environment. Major issues such as water scarcity, global warming, desertification, urban pollution, tourism, and demographic pressures are presented and analyzed.
Cross-listed
Same as SOC 370.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 372 - Applied Anthropology
Cultural dynamics involved in social and economic change with special reference to Egypt and the Middle East. Community development, cooperatives, population studies, resettlement, health and education are some of the problems that may be discussed. Case studies and fieldwork.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 380 - Fieldwork Methods
Logic and philosophy of qualitative methodology in anthropology and other social sciences. The process of research design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of results and final write-up is elaborated with specific reference to research conducted in Egypt, the wider Arab and Middle Eastern worlds and elsewhere. Discussion of the politics and ethics of fieldwork, including protection of the rights of human participants in research projects.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: ANTH 202 and 6 credit hours of social sciences.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 382 - Peoples and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa
Basic structure of contemporary societies and cultures of sub-Saharan Africa with special emphasis on problems of ecology, economics, social organization, law and politics, religion, and patterns of social change.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
(3cr.)
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ANTH 384 - Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
Basic structure of contemporary societies and cultures of Latin America with special emphasis on problems of ecology, economics, social organization, law and politics, religion, and patterns of social change.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 386 - Peoples and Cultures of Asia
Basic structure of contemporary societies and cultures of South, South-East, and East Asia with special emphasis on problems of ecology, economics, social organization, law and politics, religion and patterns of social change.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 390 - Selected People and Culture Areas
Areas to be chosen according to specific interest and faculty expertise. Examples of possible areas are: peoples and cultures of the ancient world, of the Mediterranean, and of the United States.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
Repeatable
May be taken for credit more than once if content changes.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 400 - Selected Topics in Anthropology
.Topics to be chosen according to specific interest, such as: agrarian transformation, desert development, sex roles, cognitive anthropology, anthropology and education; nationalism, colonialism and postcolonialism; tourism in social science; and anthropology of the city.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences, and junior or senior standing.
When Offered
Offered occasionally
Repeatable
May be taken for credit more than once if content changes.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 402 - Independent Study
In exceptional circumstances some senior majors with departmental approval may arrange to study beyond the regular course offerings.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: a minimum B average, consent of the instructor, and approval by the unit head and the department chair.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Repeatable
May be repeated for credit more than once if content changes.
(1-3 cr.)
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ANTH 407 - Psychological Anthropology
Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to the study of the reciprocal relations of culture and personality; special focus on themes of identity, socialization and the emergence of self in various cultural settings.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 6 hours of anthropology, 6 hours of psychology, and junior or senior standing.
Cross-listed
Same as PSYC 407.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 422 - Religion in a Global World
Comparative study of religion in culture and society. The course will explore a variety of theories and controversies in the anthropological understanding of religion. Emphasis is on how religion may restrict but also empower believers, inform their social identities, and intersect with political and economic practices and institutions in a globalizing world.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences and junior or senior standing.
Cross-listed
Same as SOC 422.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
(3cr.)
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ANTH 425 - Women, Islam and the State
An anthropological perspective on the politics of gender in Muslim societies, with an emphasis on the Middle East. The relationship between religion and society, especially the cultural construction of gender hierarchies within the discourses of Islam and the realities of Muslim women’s lives. The articulation of the impact of modern states on gender hierarchies.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 6 hours of anthropology and/or sociology or consent of the instructor.
When Offered
Offered annually.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 440-441 - Practicum in Community Development
Two semester, nine month field experience in an approved international development agency, local NGO or other professional setting approved by faculty supervisor. Supervised by a professional and faculty supervisor.
Prerequisites
ANTH/PSYC/SOC 240 and 340.
Cross-listed
Same as SOC/PSYC 440-441.
When Offered
Offered in fall (440) and spring (441).
(6 cr.)
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ANTH 445 - Selected Topics in Coptic Studies
This course allows instructors to offer a topic in Coptic Studies. The topic will be chosen from year to year in coordination with the departments concerned and the dean of the School of HUSS, and according to the individual interests and areas of expertise of the instructors. Topics chosen may include various aspects of Coptic art and history, monasticism, folklore, or other subjects..
Cross-listed
Same as ARIC, EGPT, HIST, SOC 445.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
Repeatable
The course may be taken more than once if the topic changes
Notes
Students in these majors may petition preferably before registration to have the course included in their major requirements.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 450 - Third World Development
Contemporary theories of development as they apply to and illuminate the problems of development in underdeveloped countries. The approach will be interdisciplinary.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences and junior or senior standing.
Cross-listed
Same as SOC 450.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 455 - Seminar in African Studies
Through the examination of a contemporary topic in African Studies, this interdisciplinary seminar examines epistemological and methodological issues in African Studies such as transformation, resistance, power, technology, and women and development. Original sources will be used to examine the theoretical assumptions, data and methods underlying the literature. Prior course work in African Studies is recommended.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Junior or Senior standing and consent of the instructor.
Cross-listed
Same as SOC/POLS 455.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 460 - Development Studies Seminar
Interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of development as a process and as a historical phenomenon. Critical evaluation of economic, political, social and cultural technological and managerial factors that structure developmental change.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 12 hours of social science.
Cross-listed
Same as ECON/POLS/SOC 460.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 462 - Economic Anthropology
Examination of how anthropology has approached the study of economic practices, ideas and institutions in different cultural contexts. By following the main theoretical paradigms in economic anthropology, the course will address the cultural assumptions and power dynamics in defining what an economy is and how people go about producing, consuming and exchanging goods, commodities, gifts, services, as well as social relationships. Ethnographic case studies will explicate the power relations underlying the pursuit of economic lives, the centrality of gender, class, race, kinship and ethnic relations in shaping production, consumption and exchange, and the ramifications of global markets on peoples’ livelihoods and identities.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences and junior or senior standing.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 492 - Political Anthropology
Contribution of anthropology to the comparative study of politics. Politics in hunting-and-gathering and horticultural societies. Non-Western (“primitive”) states. Peasant-state relations. The politics of social change in developing areas. Emphasis on theoretical perspectives.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 6 hours of anthropology or political science, and junior or senior standing.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
(3 cr.)
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ANTH 495 - Senior Seminar
Emphasis on current methodological trends in anthropology and sociology reflecting the research interests of the faculty and students, and drawing on the experience of the undergraduate career.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: SOC 381 or ANTH 380 and senior standing or consent of the instructor.
Cross-listed
Same as SOC 495.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
Notes
Content may therefore vary from year to year. The student will be required to write a methodologically sound senior paper, preferably based on field research.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 101 - Children’s Literature and Cultural Representations
This course introduces students in simplified form and content to contemporary literary and cultural theories pertinent to reading and analyzing children’s literature. Topics for discussion will include historical constructions of childhood and the socio-historical contexts for the production of children’s literary canon(s). Through readings to familiar classics we will explore how representations in texts for children (both written and visual) have shaped the different ideologies of identity, race, gender, and nation.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 199 - Selected Topic for Core Curriculum
Selected topic in Arab Islamic history for the core curriculum.
(3cr.)
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ARIC 201 - Introduction to Classical Arabic Literature
An introduction to the classical Arabic literary tradition through readings of major texts. Prerequisites: Thanawiya ‘Amma or placement examination.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Taught in Arabic.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 202 - Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
.An introduction to the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through readings of major texts. Prerequisites: Thanawiya ‘Amma or placement examination.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring
Notes
Taught in Arabic.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 203 - Classical Arabic Literature in Translation
An introduction to the classical Arabic literary tradition through readings of major texts.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Taught in English, with assigned texts in English translation.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 204 - Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
An introduction to the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through readings of major texts.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Taught in English, with assigned texts in English translation.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 206 - Art and Architecture of the City of Cairo
The artistic heritage of Fustat - Cairo from 641 A.D. to the present, with emphasis on its urban and architectural development.
When Offered
Offered in the fall and spring.
Notes
Classwork is supplemented by six to eight field trips on Saturday mornings.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 246 - Survey of Arab History
This course presents the history of the Arab-speaking Middle East from pre-Islamic times to the modern era, with emphasis on some of the principal political, economic, social, religious, and cultural developments and their relevance to the contemporary Middle East. The course introduces students to historiographical 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 required-core.
Cross-listed
Same as HIST 246.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 270-271 - Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture
Important works in architecture and decorative arts from the seventh century AD to the Ottoman period; artistic achievements of Muslim Spain, North Africa, Syria, Mesopotamia, Iran, and Turkey. ARIC 270 up to 1200 AD onwards.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite for ARIC 271: ARIC 270, or ARIC 206.
When Offered
Both parts offered each semester.
(3 cr. per semester)
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ARIC 299 - Selected Topic for Core Curriculum
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all students, irrespective of major.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: RHET 101.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 301 - The Classical Tradition I
Literary texts covering the pre-Islamic to the Umayyad period.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
Notes
Taught in Arabic.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 302 - The Classical Tradition II
Literary texts covering the Abbasid period to the eighteenth century.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
Notes
Taught in Arabic
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 303 - Constructions of Modernity I
Literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
When Offered
Offered in the fall.
Notes
Taught in Arabic.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 304 - Constructions of Modernity II
Study of twentieth century literary texts.
When Offered
Offered in the spring.
Notes
Taught in Arabic.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 305 - Arabic Literature and Gender
Investigates the construction of gender, both masculine and feminine, through readings in a variety of Arabic discourses.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
Notes
Taught in Arabic.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 306 - Arabic Literature and Film
Looks at the intersection between literature and film as two modes of representation. Readings of Arabic literary texts, and in class screenings of films.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
Notes
Taught in Arabic.
(3 cr.)
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ARIC 307 - The Writer and the State
Explores the nature of the relationship between writers and authority, in allegiance or in opposition.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
Notes
Taught in Arabic
(3 cr.)
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