THE QUR'AN: RELIGIOUS SCRIPTURE & LITERATURE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Breadth - Literature Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the content of the complete Qur’an through reading English-language interpretation (“translation”), focused writing assignments, and close listening exercises Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify parameters of Qur’an’s study in Muslim and other academic contexts Audience: Undergraduate 3. Demonstrate an appreciation of the complexities of the interpretative process within multiple historical contexts, such as key issues and debates Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate knowledge of major movements, trends, or events in the development of Muslim cultures with respect to the Qur'an and Islamic global experience, early period to contemporary expression Audience: Undergraduate 5. Apply critical approaches to the "texts"/works and alternative ways of considering them, as per the approach of the academic study of religion Audience: Undergraduate 6. Critically and constructively examine "culture," hybridity, and global community in a comparative sense Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the content of the complete Qur’an through reading English-language interpretation (“translation”), focused writing assignments, and close listening exercises Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify parameters of Qur’an’s study in Muslim and other academic contexts Audience: Undergraduate 3. Demonstrate an appreciation of the complexities of the interpretative process within multiple historical contexts, such as key issues and debates Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate knowledge of major movements, trends, or events in the development of Muslim cultures with respect to the Qur'an and Islamic global experience, early period to contemporary expression Audience: Undergraduate 5. Apply critical approaches to the "texts"/works and alternative ways of considering them, as per the approach of the academic study of religion Audience: Undergraduate 6. Critically and constructively examine "culture," hybridity, and global community in a comparative sense Audience: Undergraduate