$ 1 million gift to help meet growing demand for courses on Islam
Funding to create York University’s first Chair in Islamic studies
“The main survey course in Islam attracts more students every year, and in past the demand has been such that we’ve had to turn students away,” says Robert Drummond, Dean of York University’s Faculty of Arts. “This gift will help to strengthen both the existing offerings and open up new possibilities for undergraduate and graduate students to pursue the study of Islamic religion and culture, and will place York on the map in regard to the innovative and interdisciplinary study of Islam.”
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I know they have an Islamic art history course which I wanted to take but it conflicted with my mandatory classes :(
they also have:
islamic civilization (630-1400)
the islamic gunpowder states
as well as
intro to arab culture
intro to modern standard arabic
Yeah this is the only one that would fall under my major though. The others do seem interesting.. if only I had electives :)
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