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Credits: 1
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A historical, sociological, and theological analysis of the Secular Idea with special attention to the issues of non-belief and church state separation. The class also concentrates on American secularism, in particular its political and âspiritualâ predicament.
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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This course will be built on the foundation of "Introduction to Beginners Swahili I." It will address more advanced grammar, vocabulary expansion and overall language proficiency. It will be highly interactive, conversational, and multifaceted in nature. The sociocultural underpinnings of Swahili will be explored through selected readings on story telling, education, family life, travel, and other topics. Different genres of Swahili, for example, poems, riddles, and proverbs will be covered.
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Credits: 3
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This introductory two course sequence of level one is designed for students who do not have any previous knowledge of Hindi. It offers an introduction to the Hindi language and culture with an acquisition of vocabulary and grammatical concepts through active communication. The activities are conducted in a way so students interact in Hindi with their classmates from the beginning of the class in pairs and small groups. They also receive exposure to the language via a variety of authentic sources such as audio and video clips of Hindi film songs, dialogues and use the Internet and the printed media which help them develop the cultural awareness and gradually enhance their linguistic proficiency. In this course the attention is given to all four basic language skills; aural comprehension, speaking, reading and writing. The course incorporates a variety of activities that directly deal with survival Hindi situations and different socio-cultural dialogues. The course work of Hindi initiates the language in the consciousness of the students with its antiquity and its modern usefulness which will help them to connect with the largest democracy of the world and they will be able to converse in the most widely spoken language of the of South Asia and which is spoken by the second largest population of the world.
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Credits: 3
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When was Judaism born and what were the circumstances surrounding its emergence? This course explores competing ideas of Judaismâs entrance onto the civilizational stage, focusing on the biblical, rabbinic and Medieval period. We seek to identify when, if ever, a ânormativeâ Judaism appeared and what its essential features were. Special attention is paid to the Second Temple Judaism, the Pharisees, the rise of early Christianity, âhereticalâ communities such as Karaites, the role of the classic rabbinic sages, and the subsequent process of the codification of Jewish law, as all gradually giving rise to something which we now identify as âJudaism.â
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An exploration of the fundamental political, cultural, and religious ideas that have served to define Jewish Civilization from biblical times to the present. Special attention is paid to stasis and dynamism in Jewish thought, the interaction of Jews with their host societies, and tensions within national and transnational Jewish communities. By reading religious texts, philosophical treatises, works of literature, as well as scholarly appraisals of them, this course attempts to understand what Jewish civilization is, how it has changed and/or evolved, and how it has influenced the Occident.
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This course will deal with the extension of grammatical concepts and structures and vocabulary expansion. In order to cover the language competency areas of speaking, listening, reading and writing, students will learn to initiate and sustain conversations, transcribe, translate and summarize news broadcasts, read excerpts from the book and newspaper articles, and give summaries, and write 3-4 page essays. This multifaceted approach will enable students to enhance their communication skills in Swahili, and handle a variety of topics that tremendously reflect the sociocultural environment and current events in East Africa.
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This two part beginning Hindi Course addresses the need of the students who are exposed to Hindi and in few cases may converse in Hindi, however: they are not acquainted with reading, writing and proper grammar and want to improve their oral proficiency. This course features all the four language modalities: reading, writing, listening and speaking. This course will be mainly conduced in Hindi and students will get the exposure of authentic media, Internet and popular and classic Hindi film songs and various movies clips and educational movies. The Course work will have skits based on the cultural themes and short stories from history and modern popular Hindi media. The interesting short skit presentation, simple but vivacious short monologues and brief Hindi news in broadcasting style will be a part of this course to enhance the oral proficiency of the students. This course presents comprehensive Hindi in the most entertaining and thought provoking way. The contents of this course will render the many shades of Hindi in its natural forms and will help the students to get in the core of the language. This study of Hindi will avail opportunities for students to connect with India and its culture at the deeper level and will enhance their literary awareness in the most poignant way.
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Credits: 3
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This course will analyze the formal and informal roles that women play in politics in sub-Saharan Africa. Women have always had a role in influencing political life and we will consider the historical context of African womenâs political participation, activism and leadership. In the contemporary period, women in Africa are increasingly assuming formal political leadership as elected officials in national and local governments, as government ministers and political party leaders and as directors of civil society organizations, lobby groups and other politically-focused organizations and institutions. At the same time, women citizens in Africa face distinct political and social challenges. These include marriage, divorce and inheritance laws, land reform, as well as domestic and sexual violence, and access and opportunity in education and employment. Women and girls also face distinct threats in the context of war and conflict, including sexual violence and displacement. The course will consider specific political agendas of women, and the ways in which women and men mobilize to address these issues through both formal and informal political means. This is done through a focus on specific countries, including Kenya, South Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria and Somalia.
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 3
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Credits: 1 to 4
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One of the interesting features of how humans think is that we like defining concepts and things--putting boxes around them that both offer their attributes and separate them from other concepts and things. One of the more interesting and difficult-to-define concepts is "Judaism": is it a religion, a nation, an ethnic group, a body of customs and traditions, a culture, a people, a civilization? When exactly does the concept "Jewish"--as opposed to "Hebrew," "Israelite," or "Judaean"--become the operative descriptive term for the people of Judaism? The difficulty of definition becomes more pronounced if we apply the adjective "Jewish" to certain nouns and phrases, such as the phrase "visual art." For what defines visual art? How is the definition affected by applying the adjective "Jewish" to it and vice versa? This course will wrestle with this fascinating, layered problem as it sweeps through a history that may be seen to go back 2,000--but in some respects 3,000 or 4,000--years and ultimately includes ceremonial objects, architecture, and works of sculpture, painting and drawing. Diverse works of art will be referred to as "Jewish" for diverse reasons in diverse times and places. And so our focus in the course will be diverse--as well as both conceptually and historically broad and turned toward an array of visual exquisite images.
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Credits: 3
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This continuation of Introduction to Language and Culture is a student âcentered course that incorporates various facets of the East, Central, and Southern cultures where Swahili as a first and/or lingua franca. A basic philosophy of this class is that one cannot become sufficiently proficient in a language without understanding the cultural context that has produced that language. At least half of one session per week will be set aside for the study of culture.
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This course will be an examination of the application of the military element of national power to the pursuit of national goals. The purpose of this course is to make School of Foreign Service graduates conversant with the capabilities and limitations of military power in the development and successful implementation of an integrated foreign policy. We will begin with general and theoretical material to form a framework for further discussions. We will progress through a technical section where we will examine the capabilities and limitations of military power in its various forms. Finally, we will review case studies to give our work context. Discussion, vice lecture or formal presentation, will be normal mode of the class. Our emphases will be on research, critical reading, analytical thinking, and their communication through seminar discussion, oral presentation, and discursive writing.
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What is Kabbalah? What does Madonna have to do with Kabbablah? How does it fit into the history of Jewish Mysticism? How does it fit into non-mystical Judaism? How is it similar or dissimilar from Christian and Muslim mysticism? This course will address these questions.
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INAF 243 examines the relationship between the United States and the Middle East from 1945 to the present, with a particular focus on the ongoing tension between long term interests and short term expediency in U.S. policy. For the purposes of this course, the Middle East is defined as extending from Morocco in the west to Iran in the east (Turkey, Pakistan, and Afghanistan will not be covered in depth). The primary aim of the course is to enhance students' ability to understand and interpret new developments in U.S. relations with the Middle East and to reflect on major policy questions. The course is organized according to topics related to U.S. involvement in the region: early U.S.encounters and the context of European colonialism; petroleum; the Arab-Israeli conflict; terrorism; Gulf security; and democracy and reform. The course will also explore U.S. relations with key states including Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iran. Class sessions will be divided into lecture and discussion; in addition there will be exercises in which students write and debate short papers on current policy topics. There will be several guest lecturers, including foreign diplomats, scholars,and U.S. officials.
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The course will explore concepts of gender, gender inequality and poverty in modern-day South Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan). The first module of the course will focus on providing an overview of these concepts in the context of South Asia. Trends in gender inequality and poverty across this region, comparisons of countries and states within the region, and comparisons with the rest of the world will be analyzed. The second module of the course will provide a diverse set of perspectives on the drivers of gender inequality and poverty in this region. Insights will be drawn from history, economics, demography, sociology, anthropology and religious studies. The roles of marriage systems, agricultural and industrial production systems, and cultural and religious institutions will be highlighted. The final module of the course will focus on policy. Students will examine a variety of policies that have intended to improve the status of women and alleviate poverty in South Asia, and evaluate their strengths and limitations.
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Credits: 3
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