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ARBC 100 Arabs Encountering the West 6 credits
The encounter between Arabs and Westerners has been marked by its fair share of sorrow and suspicion. In this seminar we will read literary works by Arab authors written over approximately 1000 years–from the Crusades, the height of European imperialism, and on into the age of Iraq, Obama and ISIS. Through our readings and discussions, we will ask along with Arab authors: Is conflict between Arabs and Westerners the inevitable and unbridgeable result of differing world-views, religions and cultures? Are differences just a result of poor communication? Or is this “cultural conflict” something that can be understood historically?
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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ARBC 100.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Zaki Haidar 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 242 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 242 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARBC 100.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Zaki Haidar 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 335 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 335 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARBC 100.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Zaki Haidar 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 136 9:40am-10:40am
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ARBC 185 The Creation of Classical Arabic Literature 6 credits
In this course we will explore the emergence of Arabic literature in one of the most exciting and important periods in the history of the Islamic and Arab world; a time in which pre-Islamic Arabian lore was combined with translated Persian wisdom literature and Greek scientific and philosophical writings. We will explore some of the different literary genres that emerged in the New Arab courts and urban centers: from wine and love poetry, historical and humorous anecdotes, to the Thousand and One Nights, and discuss the socio-historical forces and institutions that shaped them. All readings are in English. No Arabic knowledge required.
In Translation.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARBC 185.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARBC 185.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARBC 185.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 231 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 231 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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 more advanced readings, including literary texts (prose and poetry, classical and modern) and op-ed articles from current media. Class discussions will be in Arabic.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
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Arabic 205 or equivalent
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ARBC 206.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Zaki Haidar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:40am-10:40am
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ARBC 206.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Zaki Haidar 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 302 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 302 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARBC 206.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 8:30am-9:40am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 8:30am-9:30am
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ARBC 206.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:40am-10:40am
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ARBC 206.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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ARBC 206.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:40am-10:40am
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ARBC 206.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Zaki Haidar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 8:30am-9:40am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 8:30am-9:30am
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ARBC 206.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Zaki Haidar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 8:30am-9:40am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 8:30am-9:30am
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ARBC 212 Colloquial Egyptian Arabic 6 credits
In this course we will focus on acquiring conversational and listening comprehension skills, and building vocabulary in Egyptian Arabic, the spoken dialect of Egypt and one of the most widely understood dialects across the Arab world. Building upon the foundation of Modern Standard Arabic, we will focus upon points of grammatical and semantic convergence and divergence, and work to develop strategies for fluidly navigating our ways between and within these two linguistic registers. We will study the language systematically, but we will also incorporate a range of written and audiovisual materials–music, films, television and web series–as well as other popular culture from the region.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2022
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Arabic 205 or equivalent
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ARBC 212.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARBC 212.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 244 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.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARBC 222.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARBC 222.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 231 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 231 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARBC 222.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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ARBC 222.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- Arts Practice
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Concurrent enrollment in Arabic 222
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ARBC 223.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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ARBC 223.01 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLocation To Be Announced TBA 8:30am-9:40am
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ARBC 223.02 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-3:00pm
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ARBC 245 Modern Arab Environments 6 credits
In this course we will study representations of the environment in modern Arab culture, across the media of film and literature. In our approach to Egyptian culture we will study depictions of the exemplary space of the cityscape and the village, and their entanglement with myths of nation. In the film and fiction of North Africa and the Persian Gulf we will explore representations of the desert, and a literary and visual approach that defies the typical casting of arid spaces as barren. We will explore how works from Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon envision the relationship of their societies to the mountain and sea. Through our close study of Arab fictions we will think about how environments have shaped those societies, and how members of those societies have made claims of their own about and upon their surroundings. In translation, no Arabic required. All course readings will be in English.
In translation
- Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARBC 245.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Zaki Haidar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 344 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARBC 315 Readings in Premodern Arabic Anthologies 3 credits
The concept of adab as the liberal arts education of the premodern Arab world presents itself most vividly in the adab anthology. Authors writing in this genre collected and classified the knowledge of their time, drawing on material from a large variety of disciplines: literature (poetic, proverbial, historical-anecdotal), Religion (Quran, prophetic tradition, jurisprudence, theology), linguistics, as well as philosophy and the sciences. This encyclopedic genre represented the ideal of a broad-based erudition, and the perception that education should be entertaining as it is edifying. In this class we will read excerpts from the works of some of the major premodern anthology writers: Ibn Abd Rabbihi, Abu l-Faraj al-Isfahani, al-Ibshihi and al-Nuwayri.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Arabic 206 or equivalent
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ARBC 315.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- TLibrary 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARBC 315.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- THLibrary 305 10:10am-11:55am
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ARBC 387 The One Thousand and One Nights 6 credits
This course is an exploration of the world of the Thousand and One Nights, the most renowned Arabic literary work of all time. The marvelous tales spun by Shahrazad have captured and excited the imagination of readers and listeners–both Arab and non-Arab–for centuries. In class, we will read in Arabic, selections from the Nights, and engage some of the scholarly debates surrounding this timeless work. We will discuss the question of its origin in folklore and popular culture and the mystery of its “authorship,” as well as the winding tale of its reception, adaptation and translation. Readings and class discussions will be in both Arabic and English.
- Spring 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Arabic 206 or equivalent
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ARBC 387.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARBC 387.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 303 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARBC 387.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 231 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 231 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARBC 387.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARTH 155 Islamic Art and Architecture 6 credits
This course surveys the art and architecture of societies where Muslims were dominant or where they formed significant minorities from the seventh through the nineteenth centuries. It examines the form and function of architecture and works of art as well as the social, historical and cultural contexts, patterns of use, and evolving meanings attributed to art by the users. The course follows a chronological order, where selected visual materials are treated along chosen themes. Themes include the creation of a distinctive visual culture in the emerging Islamic polity; cultural interconnections along trade and pilgrimage routes; and westernization.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 155.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 155.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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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. Evening Screenings.
- Spring 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 236.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CCST 100 Cross Cultural Perspectives on Israeli and Palestinian Identity 6 credits
How have Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel shaped their senses of personal and collective identity since the early twentieth century? We will explore mental pictures of the land, one’s self, and others in a selection of Israeli Jewish and Palestinian short stories, novels, and films. We will also explore some of the humanistic roots of U.S. involvement in Israeli-Palestinian relations today, particularly in the realm of American initiated bi-cultural youth camps such as Seeds of Peace. Students will enrich our class focus by introducing us to perspectives on Israel/Palestine in their home countries or elsewhere. In translation.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2017, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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CCST 100.02 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 231 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 231 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CCST 100.02 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CCST 100.02 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CCST 100.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 360 The Algerian War of Liberation and Its Representations 6 credits
Over fifty years after Algeria’s independence from France, discourses and representations about the cause, the violence, and the political and social consequences of that conflict still animate public life in both France and Algeria. This class aims at presenting the Algerian war through its various representations. Starting with discussions about the origins of French colonialism in North Africa, it will develop into an analysis of the war of liberation and the ways it has been recorded in history books, pop culture, and canonical texts. We will reflect on the conflict and on its meanings in the twenty-first century, and analyze how different media become memorial artifacts.
- Spring 2020, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 360.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MELA 230 Jewish Collective 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.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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MELA 230.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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MELA 230.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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MELA 230.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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SPAN 318 Islamic Spain 6 credits
Muslims conquered Spain in 711 and lived in the country roughly until 1614. This course will examine the Islamic origins of Spain from a variety of disciplines, including literature, religion, history, and art history. Topics covered include:Hispano-Arabic literature, the fall of Granada, the repression of Moriscos under Philip II, aljamiado literature (literature written in Spanish with Arabic characters), the expulsion of Moriscos, and the diaspora in Tunisia. We will also devote two weeks to the study of the representation of Turks, Muslims, and Moriscos in Cervantes’ plays and novels, including several chapters of his famous Don Quixote. All texts are in Spanish, including Arab sources by Ibn Hazm, Wallada, Muhya, and other Hispano-Arabic and Morisco writers.
- Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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Spanish 205 or above
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SPAN 318.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Humberto Huergo 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 9:40am-10:40am