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CLME GU
5 courses with the subject CLME GU, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CLME GU4221Literary Encounters and Reading across the Wor(l)ds4.00
The focus of this seminar will be exploring the conception of encounters, and contact zones, throughout a selection of Arabic literary works. The course will explore the history of translation in Arabic literary history, the introduction of prose and its development; the Arabic readerly culture; the colonial encounter and its effect on language and form of literature. We will not read encounter as one-way traffc only, but we will also read it as a two-way process. We will read non-Arabic works that were influenced by the texts we are reading and their literary reception in other literary traditions. We will also consider the institution of literary prizes as a form of encounter and analyze the power of celebrity culture on the readership of the contemporary Arabic novel
This course studies the effects and strategies of the cold war on Arab writing, education, arts and translation, and the counter movement in Arab culture to have its own identities. As the cold war functioned and still functions on a global scale, thematic and methodological comparisons are drawn with Latin America, India and Africa
This course studies Sufism as it has emerged, developed, and assumed its presence in Sufi autobiographies and religious and literary writings. The Sufi Path is traced in these writings that include poems like ibn al-Farid’s Poem of the Way. Sufi States and Stations are analyzed to understand this Path that reaches its culmination in an ecstatic sense of Oneness. Sufism is also a social and political phenomenon that unsettles formal theologies and involves Sufis in controversies that often end with their imprisonment and death
The focus of this seminar will be novels by Arab writers. The course will explore the history of the Arabic novel: its rise, development, and evolution. We will read and analyze novels belonging to various periods in Arab history and representing diverse points of views, including gender, identities, and different sub-cultures and sub-genres. We will look into the connections therein between the novel and the historical backdrops of colonialism, decolonization, globalization, war, rights and personal independence from several perspectives and writers across the Arab world. We will also consider the modern Arabic novel’s engagement with the global, glocal, and local as well as its nod to the Arabic literary tradition; its engagement with technology, scientific progress, absurdity, loss, trauma, the human condition, as well as dystopic themes. No knowledge of Arabic is required
CLME GU4764Modern and Medieval Islamic Political Thought4
This course is a comparative examination of modern and medieval Islamic political thoughts. The seminar begins with the roots of Islamic political thoughts in the early Islamic history, as well as Qur'anic revelations and Prophetic Hadith traditions. We will then divide the course into two major components: medieval and modern, with the rise of European colonialism in the late 18th century and early 19th century as the principal catalyst of groundbreaking changes in Islamic political thoughts. Middle Eastern Language Courses Course List Code Title Points Arabic MDES UN1210FIRST YEAR ARABIC I MDES UN1211FIRST YEAR ARABIC II MDES UN2208ARABIC FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS I MDES UN2209ARABIC HERITAGE SPEAKERS II MDES GU4210THIRD YEAR ARABIC I MDES GU4211THIRD YEAR ARABIC II MDES GU4212FOURTH YEAR MODERN ARABIC I MDES GU4213FOURTH YEAR MODERN ARABIC II MDES GU4214FOURTH YEAR CLASSICAL ARABIC I MDES GU4216ADVANCED ARABIC GRAMMAR REVIEW MDES GU4218SPOKEN ARABIC I MDES GU4219SPOKEN ARABIC II Armenian MDES UN1301ELEMENTARY ARMENIAN I MDES UN1309INTEN ARMENIAN/HERITAGE SPKRS MDES UN2301INTERMEDIATE ARMENIAN I MDES GU4314Readings in Armenian Texts Hebrew MDES UN15011ST YR MOD HEBREW: ELEM I MDES UN15021ST YR MOD HEBREW:ELEM II MDES UN25012ND YR MOD HEBREW:INTER I MDES UN25022ND YR MODERN HEBREW II MDES UN2517HEBREW FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS I MDES GU4501READINGS IN HEBREW TEXTS I MDES GU45103RD YR MODERN HEBREW I MDES GU45113RD YR MODERN HEBREW II Persian MDES UN1701ELEMENTARY PERSIAN I MDES UN2701INTERMEDIATE PERSIAN I MDES UN2702INTERMEDIATE PERSIAN II MDES GU4710ADVANCED PERSIAN I MDES GU4711ADVANCED PERSIAN II MDES GU4712Reading and Grammar Review in Persian Turkish MDES UN1901ELEMENTARY MODERN TURKISH I MDES UN1902ELEMENTARY MODERN TURKISH II MDES UN2901INTERMEDIATE MODERN TURKISH I MDES UN2902INTERMEDIATE MODERN TURKISH II MDES GU4910ADVANCED TURKISH I MDES GU4911ADVANCED TURKISH II MDES GU4921Elementary Ottoman Turkish I MDES GU4922Elementary Ottoman Turkish II MDES GU4926READINGS IN OTTOMAN TEXTS I MDES GU4927READINGS IN OTTOMAN TEXTS II South Asian Language Courses (Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Tamil)
