This course is for you if you've completed 1387 Farsi: Level I or have equivalent conversation and grammar skills. Improve your basic communication skills, including vocabulary, grammar, sentence …
Farsi: Level I
No prior knowledge of Farsi is needed to take this Level I course. It uses intensive class participation to teach you everyday interactions by focusing on phonetics, the spoken word and simple …
Farsi for Beginners
No prior knowledge of Farsi is needed to take this beginners course. It uses intensive class participation to teach you everyday interactions by focusing on phonetics, the spoken word and simple …
Gardens, Homes, and Palaces in the Muslim World
How did Muslims live in the pre-modern world, and, how did they interact with their surrounding environment? This course introduces examples of homes, palaces, and gardens dating from the 8th to the …
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Premodern World Literatures
This course approaches the premodern period by examining early British literatures alongside literary works of the period c.500-1650 from the continents of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. …
Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
A comparative study of the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Phoenician and Punic, Celtic, Palmyrene, Persian, Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian religious beliefs and practices. Special attention will be …
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