Mar 28, 2024  
2019-2020 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2019/Spring 2020) 
    
2019-2020 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2019/Spring 2020) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)

PSCI 257 - Muslims and the West

4 credits
While situating Muslim experiences in the broader scholarship on racial and religious minorities in western democracies, the course engages with a framework that puts forward the view that the West and Islam are irreconcilable.  This course is a comparative analysis that draws upon Muslim experiences in the United States and Europe.  The social, cultural, religious and political inclusion of Muslim immigrants has been contentious and these countries have adopted similar as well as divergent approaches to deal with it.  The language of global war on terror in the post9/11 period has brought many of the lingering questions regarding Muslim inclusion to the fore.  this course is aimed not only at understanding some of the salient issues faced b Muslim communities, but also looks at the ways in which a particular set of discourses on Islam has come to define the Muslim immigrant experiences in the West. CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary



Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)