AMEL7300 - Sumerian Daily Texts

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Sumerian Daily Texts
Term
2025C
Subject area
AMEL
Section number only
401
Section ID
AMEL7300401
Course number integer
7300
Level
graduate
Instructors
Stephen J. Tinney
Description
Reading administrative and economic texts in the Sumerian Language from ancient Mesopotamia.
Course number only
7300
Cross listings
AMEL4420401
Use local description
No

AMEL6200 - Beginning Sumerian

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Beginning Sumerian
Term
2025C
Subject area
AMEL
Section number only
401
Section ID
AMEL6200401
Course number integer
6200
Level
graduate
Instructors
Stephen J. Tinney
Description
An introduction to the grammar and writing system of the Sumerian language
Course number only
6200
Use local description
No

AMEL4420 - Sumerian Daily Texts

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Sumerian Daily Texts
Term
2025C
Subject area
AMEL
Section number only
401
Section ID
AMEL4420401
Course number integer
4420
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Stephen J. Tinney
Description
Reading administrative and economic texts in the Sumerian Language from ancient Mesopotamia.
Course number only
4420
Cross listings
AMEL7300401
Use local description
No

AMEL4200 - Beginning Sumerian

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Beginning Sumerian
Term
2025C
Subject area
AMEL
Section number only
401
Section ID
AMEL4200401
Course number integer
4200
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Stephen J. Tinney
Description
An introduction to the grammar and writing system of the Sumerian language
Course number only
4200
Use local description
No

AMEL6202 - Middle Egyptian

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Middle Egyptian
Term
2025C
Subject area
AMEL
Section number only
401
Section ID
AMEL6202401
Course number integer
6202
Level
graduate
Description
Introduction to the grammar of Middle Egyptian.
Course number only
6202
Use local description
No

MELC5720 - Iran and the West Through the Lens of Fiction

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Iran and the West Through the Lens of Fiction
Term
2025C
Subject area
MELC
Section number only
401
Section ID
MELC5720401
Course number integer
5720
Meeting times
W 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili
Description
This graduate level course explores key tropes and themes of Iranian modernity through a close reading of Persian novels, short stories, travelogues, and memoirs. Various literary genres from social realism, to surrealism, magic realism, naturalism, and absurd literature will be introduced with specific reference to Iran's literature and in light of literary theory of novel. This course does not require any prior knowledge of Persian language and literature. Throughout the course, we will be particularly concerned with the relationship between Persian fiction and the West. We will investigate this curious relationship through themes of gender, religion, politics, and war.
Course number only
5720
Cross listings
COML2017401, GSWS2130401, MELC1710401
Use local description
No

MELC1710 - Modern Iran and the West Through the Lens of Fiction

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Modern Iran and the West Through the Lens of Fiction
Term
2025C
Subject area
MELC
Section number only
401
Section ID
MELC1710401
Course number integer
1710
Meeting times
W 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili
Description
This undergraduate level course explores key tropes and themes of Iranian modernity through a close reading of Persian novel, short story, travelogue, and memoir. Various literary genres from social realism, to surrealism, magic realism, naturalism, and absurd literature will be introduced with specific reference to Iran's literature and in light of literary theory of novel. This course does not require any prior knowledge of Persian language and literature. Throughout the course, we will be particularly concerned with the relationship between Persian fiction and the West. We will investigate this curious relationship through themes of gender, religion, politics, and war.
Course number only
1710
Cross listings
COML2017401, GSWS2130401, MELC5720401
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No

TURK5800 - Advanced Turkish Culture & Media I

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
680
Title (text only)
Advanced Turkish Culture & Media I
Term
2025C
Subject area
TURK
Section number only
680
Section ID
TURK5800680
Course number integer
5800
Meeting times
T 5:15 PM-7:14 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Feride Hatiboglu
Description
This course is for students who are from all different levels of Turkish knowledge. They are expected to write and talk about Turkish movies, culture, politics according to their own level and pace. They will talk to Turkish visitors and interview them. Turkish movies will be the part of the course and once a month, students will watch a Turkish movie and analyze it. Discussions will take place and students will write essays about the movie. This course is designed with a technology-rich, project based approach. The materials will go beyond instruction in grammar and vocabulary to support the acquisition of socio-cultural pragmatics, and intercultural learning.
Course number only
5800
Cross listings
TURK4200680
Use local description
No

TURK5300 - Intermediate Turkish I

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Intermediate Turkish I
Term
2025C
Subject area
TURK
Section number only
401
Section ID
TURK5300401
Course number integer
5300
Meeting times
TR 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Feride Hatiboglu
Description
A continuation of elementary Turkish, with emphasis on grammar and reading. This course is for students who have previous knowledge of Turkish or students who have completed Elementary Turkish I and II. This course is designed to improve students' writing and speaking competence, to increase vocabulary, to deepen grammar usage and to help develop effective reading and listening strategies in Turkish. Students' Turkish language proficiency and cultural awareness and knowledge will increase by exposing to autentic materials and coursework. and in order give them cultural knowledge, students are exposed to authentic materials.
Course number only
5300
Cross listings
TURK0300401
Use local description
No

TURK5100 - Elementary Turkish I

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Elementary Turkish I
Term
2025C
Subject area
TURK
Section number only
401
Section ID
TURK5100401
Course number integer
5100
Meeting times
TR 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Feride Hatiboglu
Description
This is a course for graduate students who have no previous knowledge of Turkish. Using a communicative approach, Elementary Turkish introduces basic vocabulary and grammar rules and focuses on building language competencies in listening, reading, speaking and writing. By the end of the course, students will be able to participate in simple conversations, to know daily expressions, and will understand simple dialogues in day-to-day context and will be able to count and tell time. Will be able to speak about events that happened in the past and express plans for the future. Students will also develop writing strategies that will allow them to write simple letters and fill in commonly-used forms.
Course number only
5100
Cross listings
TURK0100401
Use local description
No