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Program checklist · Minor

Islamic Studies

Fordham University · Bronx, NY

A checklist is the list of requirements to complete this program and receive the award, as the college publishes it in its catalog. It is the same for everyone. It does not say what you have completed; that comes from applying your own record.

Program
Award
Minor
CIP
05.0207
Credits (computed from items)
171
Catalog edition
2026
Checklist type
degree-program
SOC
25-1062
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
191241
CourseShelf checklist
CK_191241_a4ce4cdf
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Learning Goals

0 items

    Required Courses

    3 items
    1. One course on Islamic sacred texts or Islam's foundational history 1
      Not resolved to a course
      3 to 4
    2. One course on Islamic theology/history/philosophy 1
      Not resolved to a course
      3 to 4
    3. One course on Islamic arts/culture/politics 1
      Not resolved to a course
      3 to 4

    Electives

    electives · 1 item
    1. Choose three courses drawn from any of the three categories above (one Arabic course may be included) 2
      Not resolved to a course
      9 to 12

    Sacred Texts/Foundational History courses

    5 items
    1. As published: “Understanding Historical Change: Mideast”
      3
    2. As published: “Understanding Historical Change: Islamic History and Culture”
      3
    3. As published: “Islamic History, 1000–1600”
      4
    4. As published: “Classic Islamic Texts”
      3
    5. As published: “Islam and Modernity”
      3

    Theology/Philosophy/History courses

    14 items
    1. As published: “The Modern Middle East”
      4
    2. As published: “The Islamic World and the Crusades, 1099-Ca.1700”
      4
    3. As published: “Apocalypticism and Messianism in Islamic Thought and History”
      4
    4. As published: “Ottoman Empire/ 1300-1800”
      4
    5. As published: “Religion and Politics in Islamic History”
      4
    6. As published: “Islam and Italy”
      4
    7. As published: “Medieval Islam”
      4
    8. As published: “The Philosophy of al-Fārābī”
      4
    9. As published: “Philosophy of the Islamic World”
      4
    10. As published: “Seminar: Contemporary Politics and Cultures in the Islamic World”
      4
    11. As published: “Sufism: Islam's Mystical Tradition”
      3
    12. As published: “The Ethics of Life”
      4
    13. As published: “Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Feminist Theologies: Discourses of Difference”
      4
    14. As published: “Islam in Modern Egypt”
      4

    Arts/Culture/Politics courses

    22 items
    1. As published: “Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X”
      4
    2. As published: “Urbanism and Change in the Middle East”
      4
    3. As published: “Gender and Islam”
      4
    4. As published: “Arab-Americans and the Diasporic Experience”
      4
    5. As published: “Anthropology of Palestinian Communities”
      4
    6. As published: “The Short Story of Arabic Literature”
      4
    7. As published: “Topics in Arabic Cultures”
      4
    8. As published: “Human Rights in Arabic Literature”
      4
    9. As published: “Topics in Arabic Literature”
      4
    10. As published: “Islamic Art”
      4
    11. As published: “Bath Cultures and Bathing Rituals From Antiquity to Brooklyn”
      4
    12. As published: “The History of Islam in the U.S.”
      4
    13. As published: “Oppositional Thought in Islamic Literature”
      4
    14. As published: “Islam in America”
      4
    15. As published: “Islamic Political Thought”
      4
    16. As published: “Political Philosophy between Islam and the West”
      4
    17. As published: “Islam, Art, and Resistance”
      4
    18. As published: “Islamic Culture and Politics in Spain”
      4
    19. As published: “Seminar: Contemporary Politics and Cultures in the Islamic World”
      4
    20. As published: “Medicine and Healing in Islam”
      4
    21. As published: “Women, Gender, and Islam”
      3
    22. As published: “Bath Cultures and Bathing Rituals From Antiquity to Brooklyn”
      4

    Arabic courses

    4 items
    1. As published: “Intermediate Arabic I”
      3
    2. As published: “Intermediate Arabic II”
      3
    3. As published: “Arabic Language and Literature”
      3
    4. As published: “Approaches to Arabic Culture”
      4
    Source. Fordham University, catalog 2026 — https://bulletin.fordham.edu/undergraduate/islamic-studies/minor/. Captured page pages/0268.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.