PSC 3379 - Middle Eastern Cultures

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020 or ANT 1310 or PSC 1020

Description: This course introduces students to various aspects of Middle Eastern cultures, including family life, marriage, kinship, religious practices, communal, ethnic, class, and gender identities. Using anthropological approaches of holism and cultural relativism to studying cultures, the course highlights the region’s diverse ethnic, religious, linguistic and economic groups, its visual, popular, national, gender, and social cultures, and how colonial history and foreign powers have influenced it using ethnographic case studies and cultural histories from Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Global Diversity

Cross Listed Course(s): ANT 3379