Interdisciplinary Minor in Muslim Studies
MinorInterdisciplinary Minor in Muslim Studies
The minor in Muslim Studies provides the opportunity to study Muslim beliefs, practices, thought, and history in a variety of geographic locales and timeframes.
The minor in Muslim Studies provides the opportunity to study Muslim beliefs, practices, thought, and history in a variety of geographic locales and timeframes.
Students are required to complete 24 units in total for the minor. A minimum of six units are required from list A, which includes courses focused wholly on Muslims and Islam. A minimum of six units are required from list B, which includes courses in which the study of Muslims and Islam comprise one part of the course material. The remaining units are to be taken from list A, B, or C, which includes courses that provide key background for understanding Islamic history and Muslims in wider contexts. It is the student’s responsibility to check carefully for prerequisites, co-requisites and enrolment restrictions for all courses on these lists.
The academic objectives of this minor include fostering students’ understanding of the diversity and pluralism found in Muslims' beliefs and practices in:
- historical contexts;
- regional locations;
- the globalized world; and
- in relationship to other religions.
24 units total
A minimum of 6 units from List A
- RELIGST 2Q03
- RELIGST 2TA3
- RELIGST 3C03
- RELIGST 3FA3
- RELIGST 4SR3/SOCIOL 4SR3
- SCAR 2Q03 Introduction to Islam
- SCAR 2TA3 Islam in North America
- SCAR 3C03 Islam in the Modern World
A minimum of 6 units from List B
- RELIGST 3FF3
- ARTHIST 2Y03 Early Islamic Art to the Middle Ages
- HISTORY 2A03 Modern Middle Eastern Societies
- HISTORY 2HH3/SCAR 2FF3 Pirates, Pilgrims and Slaves in the Mediterranean, 1450-1750
- SCAR 3GH3 Interdisciplinary Global Health Field Course: Maternal and Infant Health in Morocco in combination with ARABIC 3GH3 - Spoken Moroccan Arabic 3 unit(s)
List C
- ANTHROP 3ET3 Anthropology of Ethics
- ANTHROP 4MM3 Borders, Migration, Refuge
- CMST 3RR3 Race, Religion and Media
- CMST 4D03 International Communication
- ENGLISH 3R06 A/B
- HISTORY 1CC3 Empires and Colonialism 1000-1950
- HISTORY 2J03 Africa up to 1800
- HISTORY 2JJ3 Africa since 1800
- PEACEST 3B03
- PEACEST 3D03
- PEACJUST 3B03 Peace-building and Health Initiatives
- PEACJUST 3D03 Globalization and Peace
- RELIGST 1B03
- RELIGST 1B06A/B
- RELIGST 2DD3
- RELIGST 2M03
- RELIGST 2RN3
- RELIGST 2WW3
- RELIGST 3AR3/ANTHROP 3AR3
- RELIGST 3CC3/POLSCI 3LA3
- RELIGST 3EE3/ANTHROP 3CC3
- RELIGST 3F03
- RELST 3FF3/WOMENST 3FF3
- RELIGST 3RH3
- SCAR 1B03 What on Earth is Religion
- SCAR 2M03 Death and Dying: Comparative Views
- SCAR 2RN3 Frenemies: Science & Religion in the News
- SCAR 2WW3 Health, Healing and Religion: Western Perspectives
- SCAR 2WX3 Health, Healing and Religion: Comparative Views
- SCAR 3AR3 Culture and Religion (or ANTHROP 3AR3)
- SCAR 3CC3 Religion and Politics (or POLSCI 3LA3)
- SCAR 3EE3 Sacred Journeys (or ANTHROP 3SS3)
- SCAR 3F03 Approaches to the Study of Religion
- SCAR 3FF3 Gender and Religion (or GENDRST 3FF3)
- SCAR 3X03 Mysticism
- SOCIOL 2DD3 Immigration and the Canadian Mosaic
- SOCIOL 2FF3 The Sociology of “Race” and Ethnicity
- SOCIOL 3RI3 Racism and Racial Inequality
- SOCIOL 3Z03
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