HUM 195-03 - Special Topic: Modern Arab World Through Literature

4 credits Spring

This course studies the global significance of the 380 million Arabs as the fourth largest community in the world and Arabic as the fifth most widely spoken language from a historical and thematic perspective (1400 CE to the present) through literary selections covering the periods of premodernity, Arab renaissance, colonialism, state-building, and globalization.

Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Obiedat