NELC5999 - Abrahamic Faiths & Cultures: Create Community Course

Status
A
Activity
IND
Section number integer
12
Title (text only)
Abrahamic Faiths & Cultures: Create Community Course
Term
2024A
Subject area
NELC
Section number only
012
Section ID
NELC5999012
Course number integer
5999
Level
graduate
Instructors
Talya Fishman
Description
Independent study in courses with Near Eastern content for MA students
Course number only
5999
Use local description
No

NELC5999 - Independent Study: Classics of Hebrew Poetry

Status
A
Activity
IND
Section number integer
4
Title (text only)
Independent Study: Classics of Hebrew Poetry
Term
2024A
Subject area
NELC
Section number only
004
Section ID
NELC5999004
Course number integer
5999
Level
graduate
Instructors
Nili R Gold
Description
Independent study in courses with Near Eastern content for MA students
Course number only
5999
Use local description
No

TURK0200 - Elementary Turkish II

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
402
Title (text only)
Elementary Turkish II
Term
2024A
Subject area
TURK
Section number only
402
Section ID
TURK0200402
Course number integer
200
Meeting times
TR 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Meeting location
WILL 220
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Feride Hatiboglu
Description
This course is a continuation of Elementary Turkish I and is designed to strengthen and extend students' listening, speaking, reading and writing competence and to deepen an understanding of Turkish people in Turkey. By the end of this course, students will be able to handle a variety of day to day needs in Turkish-speaking settings and engage in simple conversations. Students can expect to be able to order food and drinks, purchase things, and to be able to be familiar with current social topics. Students will be able to talk about all tenses, present, future, past, past continuous, make comparisons, describe people and things in detail, make travel plans, make reservations in hotels and holiday resorts, write complaint letters. By the end of the course, students will be able to talk about their studies and their plans for the future. Also, students will develop reading strategies that should allow them to understand the general meaning of articles, and short literary texts. Students will learn practical life in Turkey and will explore Turkish culture on the internet.
Course number only
0200
Use local description
No

NELC6414 - Jerusalem: Holy City

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Jerusalem: Holy City
Term
2024A
Subject area
NELC
Section number only
401
Section ID
NELC6414401
Course number integer
6414
Meeting times
MW 3:30 PM-4:59 PM
Meeting location
WILL 218
Level
graduate
Instructors
Timothy Hogue
Description
This course will survey the cultural history of Jerusalem over three millennia with a special focus on its configuration as contested, sacred space in multiple traditions (including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and others). The course will address how Jerusalem acquired its “holy” status on both a micro-level (via sacred spaces within the city) and macro-level (as a target for pilgrimage in competition with other cities in the region). These aspects of the city will be analyzed both as they are depicted in texts and as they are attested in the art and architecture found in Jerusalem and in similar cities in the broader Mediterranean/Middle East. The course will examine how sacred space and sacred urbanism are produced through interactions with texts, artifacts, and built environments.
Course number only
6414
Cross listings
JWST0014401, JWST6414401, NELC0014401, RELS0250401
Use local description
No

NELC6020 - Iraq: Ancient Cities and Empires

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Iraq: Ancient Cities and Empires
Term
2024A
Subject area
NELC
Section number only
401
Section ID
NELC6020401
Course number integer
6020
Meeting times
W 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Meeting location
EDUC 114
Level
graduate
Instructors
Richard L Zettler
Description
Iraq: Ancient Cities and Empires is a chronological survey of the ancient civilization that existed in the drainage basin of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers from the early settled village farming communities of the 7th millennium BCE to the middle of the 1st millennium BCE, when Nebuchadnezzar II ruled Babylon and much of the Middle East. Though organized period by period, NELC 241 explores various social, political, economic, and ideological topics, exposing students to various strands of evidence, including settlement survey data, excavated architectural remains, artifacts, and documentary sources, as well as an eclectic mix of theoretical perspectives. The course aims to provide students with a strong foundation for the further study of the ancient and pre-modern Middle East.
Course number only
6020
Cross listings
ANTH1020401, NELC1000401, URBS1020401
Use local description
No

HEBR6000 - Advanced Modern Hebrew: Conversation & Writing

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Advanced Modern Hebrew: Conversation & Writing
Term
2024A
Subject area
HEBR
Section number only
401
Section ID
HEBR6000401
Course number integer
6000
Meeting times
TR 3:30 PM-4:59 PM
Meeting location
BENN 24
Level
graduate
Instructors
Joseph L Benatov
Description
After four semesters of language study, it's time to enter the vibrant world of contemporary Israeli culture. In this course students read some of the best plays, poems, short stories, and journalism published in Israel today. They also watch and analyze some of Israel's most popular films, TV programs, and videos. Themes include Jewish-Arab relations, the founding of the State, family ties and intergenerational conflict, war and society, and the recent dynamic changes in Israel society. HEBR 054 or permission of instructor. Since the content of this course may change from year to year, students may take it more than once (but only once for credit).
Course number only
6000
Cross listings
HEBR1000401, JWST1000401
Use local description
No

ARAB6100 - Elementary Arabic I

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Elementary Arabic I
Term
2024A
Subject area
ARAB
Section number only
401
Section ID
ARAB6100401
Course number integer
6100
Meeting times
MW 8:30 AM-9:29 AM
TR 8:30 AM-9:59 AM
Meeting location
WILL 202
WILL 202
Level
graduate
Instructors
Abdulrahman Atta
Description
This is the beginners course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It will introduce you to the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in the standard means of communication in the Arab World. The course is proficiency-based, implying that all activities within the course are aimed at placing you, the learner, in the context of the native-speaking environment from the very beginning. Evaluation is done by the more traditional testing methods (vocabulary tests, dictations, grammar and translation exercises). We anticipate that by the end of this course, students will range in proficiency from Novice High to Intermediate Low on the ACTFL scale; in other words (using the terminology of the government's Foreign Service Institute), from 'incipient survival' to 'full' survival' in the native-speaking environment.
Course number only
6100
Cross listings
ARAB0100401
Use local description
No

ARAB0100 - Elementary Arabic I

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Elementary Arabic I
Term
2024A
Subject area
ARAB
Section number only
401
Section ID
ARAB0100401
Course number integer
100
Meeting times
TR 8:30 AM-9:59 AM
MW 8:30 AM-9:29 AM
Meeting location
WILL 202
WILL 202
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Abdulrahman Atta
Description
This is the beginners course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It will introduce you to the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in the standard means of communication in the Arab World. The course is proficiency-based, implying that all activities within the course are aimed at placing you, the learner, in the context of the native-speaking environment from the very beginning. Evaluation is done by the more traditional testing methods (vocabulary tests, dictations, grammar and translation exercises). We anticipate that by the end of this course, students will range in proficiency from Novice High to Intermediate Low on the ACTFL scale; in other words (using the terminology of the government's Foreign Service Institute), from 'incipient survival' to 'full' survival' in the native-speaking environment.
Course number only
0100
Cross listings
ARAB6100401
Use local description
No

NELC0355 - Medieval and Early Modern Jewry

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Medieval and Early Modern Jewry
Term
2024A
Subject area
NELC
Section number only
401
Section ID
NELC0355401
Course number integer
355
Meeting times
TR 5:15 PM-6:44 PM
Meeting location
PCPE 200
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Joshua Teplitsky
Description
Exploration of intellectual, social, and cultural developments in Jewish civilization from the rise of Islam in the seventh century to the assault on established conceptions of faith and religious authority in 17th century Europe, that is, from the age of Mohammed to that of Spinoza. Particular attention will be paid to the interaction of Jewish culture with those of Christianity and Islam.
Course number only
0355
Cross listings
HIST1610401, JWST1610401, RELS1610401
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
History & Tradition Sector
Use local description
No