Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies
Minor
About this program
The Minor in Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) explores the histories, cultures and experiences of Arab and Muslim communities. Through engagement with the larger community, with activists and scholars engaged in critical and decolonizing work in the field, through its efforts toward documentation, analysis and skilled pedagogy, AMED Studies provides an intellectual home to scholarship and analysis on pertinent issues affecting Arab and Muslim communities. Students examine these issues of race, migration, identity, and social justice while learning how these communities navigate changing political and social landscapes.
Program Curriculum and Requirements
Program Scope
The Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) program is framed within a justice centered perspective that is grounded in the need for accountability and service to multiple publics, including those within, as well as outside of the academic community. AMED generates and advances a counter narrative that views Arab and Muslim communities as communities of color within the United States, in the Americas, and transnationally across other diasporas. AMED's intellectual focus and framing will complement and build on the Comparative Ethnic Studies approach that is central to the Race and Resistance Studies Program in the College of Ethnic Studies.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Learn how to apply a justice-centered analysis to the experiences of Arab and Muslim communities.
- Identify the socio-political contexts that Arab and Muslim communities have faced.
- Identify how structural inequalities, such as those of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, citizenship, age, and ability, impact Arab and Muslim communities.