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Your search for courses · during 24FA, 25WI, 25SP · tagged with MEST Supporting Group 2 · returned 11 results
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ARBC 206 Arabic in Cultural Context 6 credits
In this course students will continue to develop their Arabic language skills, including expanding their command of Arabic grammar, improving their listening comprehension, reading and writing skills. In addition to more language-focused training, the course will introduce students to moreáadvanced readings, including literary texts (prose and poetry, classical and modern) and op-ed articles from current media. Class discussions will be in Arabic.
- Spring 2025
- No Exploration
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARBC 205 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 206 on the Carleton Arabic Placement exam.
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ARBC 206.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Zaki Haidar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARBC 222 Music in the Middle East 6 credits
The Middle East is home to a great number of musical styles, genres, and traditions. Regional, ideological, and cultural diversity, national identity, and cross-cultural encounters–all express themselves in music. We will explore some of the many musical traditions in the Arab world, from early twentieth century to the present. Class discussions based on readings in English and guided listening. No prior music knowledge required, but interested students with or without musical background can participate in an optional, hands-on Arab music performance workshop, on Western or a few (provided) Middle Eastern instruments throughout the term.
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ARBC 222.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARBC 223 Arab Music Workshop 1 credits
Through music making, this workshop introduces students to Arab music and some of its distinctive features, such as microtonality, modality (maqam), improvisation (taqsim) and rhythmic patterns (iqa’at). Students may elect to participate playing on an instrument they already play, or elect to study the oud (the Arab lute). Ouds and percussion instruments will be provided.
ARBC 222 required.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
- ARBC 222: Music in the Middle East, MEST 222
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ARBC 223.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TWeitz Center M027 10:45am-11:55am
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ARBC 223.02 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WWeitz Center M027 1:50pm-3:00pm
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ARBC 310 Advanced Media Arabic 6 credits
Readings of excerpts from the Arabic press and listening to news editions, commentaries and other radio and TV programs from across the Arab world. Emphasis is on vocabulary expansion, text comprehension strategies, and further development of reading and listening comprehension. Class includes oral discussions and regular written assignments in Arabic.
- Winter 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARBC 206 or equivalent with a grade of C- or received a score of 206 on the Carleton Arabic Placement exam.
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ARBC 310.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Zaki Haidar 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 216 Revolutionary Image Regimes: Curating Middle Eastern Photographs and Prints after the Digital Turn 6 credits
The Middle East participated in the global revolutionary moment at the turn of the century, when photography and print played a crucial role in the mobilization and memorization of political, social, and cultural change. This course examines a vast range of revolutionary images at the beginning of the twentieth century, their specific contexts, and expressions in the Middle East. The course also investigates the impact of the Digital Turn in Art History and the intricacies of digital exhibitions. The students contribute to a digital exhibition on comparative revolutions hosted by Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online in 2025-26.
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ARTH 216.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Mira Xenia Schwerda 🏫
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 250 The Coded Gaze: AI and Art History 6 credits
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support or subvert human intelligence and it affects art and art history already today. This course will connect existing discourses in art history and the history of photography to recent AI questions and themes, demonstrating that many topics, which appear novel, have in fact a long and complex history. We will focus on questions of ethics that affect both AI and art history, including ownership of images, surveillance, and the representation of race and gender, while also exploring possible uses of AI in art history, e.g. the detection of forgeries, and the curation of AI artworks.
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ARTH 250.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Mira Xenia Schwerda 🏫
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 257 Modern Art and the Museum in the Middle East 6 credits
This course focuses on modern art, the museum, and the politics of display and curation in the Middle East. It will examine the development of modern art in the Middle East and take a closer look at specific modern artists and avantgarde movements, including Osman Hamdi Bey, Kamal al-Mulk, Fahrelnissa Zeid, and the Iranian Saqqakhaneh movement. We will examine the institution of the museum and its history. Furthermore, we will explore how modern Middle Eastern art is presented in the Middle East versus the United States or Europe. The course will include guest lectures by curators.
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ARTH 257.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Mira Xenia Schwerda 🏫
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 236 Israeli Society in Israeli Cinema 6 credits
This course will introduce students to the global kaleidoscope that is Israeli society today. Since the 1980s the Israeli public has increasingly engaged with its multicultural character, particularly through films and documentaries that broaden national conversation. Our approach to exploring the emerging reflection of Israel's diversity in its cinema will be thematic. We will study films that foreground religious-secular, Israeli-Palestinian, gender, sexual orientation, and family dynamics, as well as Western-Middle Eastern Jewish relations, foreign workers or refugees in Israel, army and society, and Holocaust memory. With critical insights from the professor's interviews with several directors and Israeli film scholars. Conducted in English, all films subtitled. Evening film screenings.
In Translation. Extra Time required for Evening Screenings.
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CAMS 236.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 350 Middle East and French Connection 6 credits
Persepolis, Syngue Sabour, Le rocher de Tanios—three prize-winning texts written in French by authors whose native tongue was not French but Arabic or Farsi. In this class we will direct our attention to the close—albeit problematic—relations between France and the Middle East (broadly considered) through an analysis of cultural and literary objects. What has this “French connection” meant for the Middle-Eastern and for French culture?
- Fall 2024
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 200 or 300 level FREN course excluding FREN 204 and Independent Studies with a grade of C- or better.
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FREN 350.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 242 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 242 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MELA 230 Worlds of Jewish Memory 6 credits
Judaism emphasizes transmitting memory from one generation to the next. How have pivotal events and experiences in Jewish history lived on in Jewish collective memory? How do they continue to speak through artistic/literary composition and museum/memorial design? How does Jewish collective memory compare with recorded Jewish history? We will study turning points in Jewish history including the Exodus from Egypt, Jewish expulsion from medieval Spain, the Holocaust, and Israeli independence, as Jews in different times and places have interpreted them with lasting influence. Research includes work with print, film, and other visual/ performative media.
CCST 230 is equivalent to MELA 230.
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MELA 230.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 244 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MUSC 304 Party Politics: Popular Music in the Middle East 6 credits
In this research-based course, students will develop listening and analytical skills specific to music in Turkey, Iran, and Arab-majority societies. We will listen to indie rock, hip-hop, mahraganat, Arab pop, techno-dabke, and other popular styles. Topics include the role of radio technology in the Egyptian music industry; the relationship between music and nationalism; how class and gender inform musical performance; and the pleasures and politics of partying. Students will develop individual research topics related to the course (e.g., focusing on a song or artist), with the course culminating in a final research paper. No previous musical experience required.
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MUSC 304.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Melissa Scott 🏫
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 1:15pm-3:00pm
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