CWL 205
Islam & West Through Lit

Credit:  3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Literature and the Arts course.

Organized around major cultural/historical/religious topics presented in literature through Western and Islamic eyes, beginning with the Crusades and proceeding into the present. This course will examine stereotypes, fantasies, identifications and political opportunism promoted by the encounter between the West and the Islamic World. Prerequisite:CWL 241 and CWL 242 or one year of college literature.