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1.00 Credits
South Asian musicians and their instruments, genres, performance traditions, and contexts. Study of the relationship of music to social, religious, historical, and philosophical trends informed by listening to the musical forms themselves in recorded and live performances. Instructor: Kramer
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1.00 Credits
The emergence of women writers in the Arab world from nineteenth century poets to 21st century bloggers. Novels, short stories, autobiographies and poetry dealing with Arab women's rights in the home and in politics, war, colonialism, religion and sexuality. Writers include Syrian Idilbi and Samman, Egyptian El Saadawi and Bakr, Lebanese al-Shaykh, Palestinian Khalifa, Iraqi Riverbend, Algerian Djebar. Instructor: Cooke
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Explore & examine the tradition of mysticism in literature of the Arab/Muslim world and among British and American writers. Introduce students to numerous genres and literary works that manifest a deep religious attitude or experience as a way of life and cross-cultural phenomenon. Focus on selected works from Muslim writers, American & British writers as example of mystics- or Sufis outside the traditional Church. Reveal the recurrent theme of direct, intuitional experience of God through unifying love. Instructor: Jawad
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Films, documentaries, television series, and soap operas produced in Mainland China in the post-Mao era, modern and contemporary Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Topics include the history and aesthetics of the new wave cinema, soap operas as the new forum for public debate o popular culture, and debate over the relationship between Euro-American modernist and the national cinema. C-L Film Video. Instructor: Hong
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Iraqi cultural production from independence in 1932 until today (poetry, fiction, and visual arts). Connection between poetry and art in emergence of modernist movement that spread to the rest of the Arab world. Exposure to leading writers including Tekerli, Ayyub and Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and also to Jewish authors who migrated to Israel in the 1950s. Later short fiction, films and blogs will reflect on the literary impact of state violence under Saddam Hussein and of international wars on life in Iraq: the Iran-Iraq war (1980¿88), the Gulf War (1991) and the US invasion of 2003. Instructor: Cooke
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0.50 Credits
Individual research in a field of special interest under the supervision of a faculty member, the central goal of which is a substantive paper or written report containing significant analysis and interpretation of a previously approved topic. Consent of instructor and director of undergraduate studies required. Instructor: Staff
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1.00 Credits
Individual research in a field of special interest under the supervision of a faculty member, the central goal of which is a substantive paper or written report containing significant analysis and interpretation of a previously approved topic. Consent of instructor and director of undergraduate studies required. Instructor: Staff
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1.00 Credits
Individual research in a field of special interest under the supervision of a faculty member, the central goal of which is a substantive paper or written report containing significant analysis and interpretation of a previously approved topic. Consent of instructor and director of undergraduate studies required. Instructor: Staff
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1.00 Credits
Research and field studies culminating in a paper approved and supervised by the resident director. Includes field trips on cultural and societal changes in contemporary China. Offered at the Duke in China Program. Instructor: Staff
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1.00 Credits
Topics vary each semester. Instructor: Staff
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