CLC 119 - Arab Culture Through Literature and Film

Semester Hours: 4

Arab Culture through Literature and Film is a course that provides students with knowledge and tools to analyze and understand the Middle East and North Africa region-MENA. The materials utilize a student-centered pedagogical approach that promotes critical thinking, respects, and encourages engaged global citizenship. Through this curriculum, students will recognize shared themes across the region and gain a sense of the rich diversity inherent to the multidimensional cultures of the Arab world. Students will study life and culture in the Arab world and engage with primary sources including films, short stories, and poems. Exposing students to Arab voices and putting human faces on the Arab world will increase understanding and tolerance. The course is in English and will have four lecture hours per week.

Intellectual Perspective: HC