Courses

Courses offered at NW5C

Lewis & Clark College 

• Arabic 101
• Arabic 102
• Arabic 201
• History 228 Middle East in Modern Times.
• History 325 History of Islam in Europe.
• International Affairs 290 Middle East Politics
• Religious Studies 224 Jewish Origins.
• Religious Studies 273 Islamic Origins.
• Religious Studies 274 Islam in the Modern World.
• Religious Studies 355 Sufism: Islamic Mysticism.
• Religious Studies 376 Religious Fundamentalism.
• Religious Studies 453 Seminar in Islamic Studies.
• Religious Studies 453 Seminar in Islamic Studies.
• Sociology/Anthropology 285 Culture and Power in the Middle East.

Reed College

• Anthropology 336 - Anthropology through Morocco 
• Anthropology 361 - The Middle East: Culture and Politics 
• POL 401 Dangerous Speech 
• Religion 121 - The Rise and Formation of Islam  
• Religion 123 - Islam in the Modern World 
• Religion 256 - Islam in U.S. Religious History 
• Religion 321 - Islamic Thought in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 
• Religion 322 - Semantics of Love in Sufism 
• Religion 325 - The Mosque in Islamic History 

University of Puget Sound

• Art & Art History - Islamic Art.
• Asian Languages and Cultures - Islam and the Media.
• International Political Economy - God, Guns, and Oil in the Middle East.
• Politics & Government - Sovereignty and Political Community in Muslim Politics.
• Politics & Government - United States Foreign Policy .
• Politics & Government - Israel, Palestine and the Politics of the Middle East: 
• Politics & Government - Iran and the Politics of the Persian Gulf.
• Religious Studies The History and Literature of Ancient Israel.
• Religious Studies - Islam in America: 
• Religious Studies - The Religion of Islam: 
• Religious Studies - Islamic Law (Shariah).
• Religious Studies Sufism

Whitman College

• Film and Media Studies 345 The Middle East in Cinema & Media.
• History 127 Islamic Civilization I: The Early and Medieval Islamic World.
• History 128 Islamic Civilization II: The Modern Islamic World: The Ottomans to Arafat.
• History 180 Cities and Empires: An Introduction to the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean.
• History 213 United States and the Wars with Iraq:
• History 220 The Ottoman Empire.
• History 225 Ancient Mediterranean — Near East.
• History 230 International Relations of the Middle East.
• History 235 The Arab Spring in Historical Context.
• History 305 World War I: Nationalism, Genocide, and the Imperial Mappings of the Modern Middle East.
• History 322 History of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
• History 325 Women and Gender in Islamic Societies.
• History 332 Conversion, Crusade, and Conquest: European Cultural Encounters, c. 400-1600.
• Music 218 Music of the Balkans and the Middle East.
• Religion 207 Introduction to Islam: 
• Religion 217 The Qur’an: 
• Religion 310 Hearing Islam:  
• Religion 321 Islamic Mysticism: 
• Rhetoric Studies 344 The Rhetoric of Social Protest: Exploring the Arab Spring 4.

Willamette University

• Religion 150 -  Introduction to Islam