This course provides a sampling of of classical Islamic literary texts in a variety of genres, including religious writings, poetry, maqamat, frame tales, scientific writings, travel accounts, epistles, and other rich primary sources. The course also addresses cultural exchange and influences in areas of ceramics, metalworks, calligraphy, textiles, and architecture.

This course provides an introduction to Islamic educational thought, concepts and practices as developed within classical Islamic civilization. Through evaluation of translated primary sources and reflection on contemporary best practices, educators integrate knowledge and skills to facilitate religious education in Muslim school contexts.

Educators are increasingly expected to utilize technology effectively to facilitate learning. This course helps students develop their skills in authoring and publishing lesson plans, activities, rubrics, and resources for their elementary/secondary students, and in designing and facilitating interactive peer engagement in service to learning objectives. This is an online course.

This course introduces Islamic principles for leadership and management, and elaborate on their application in the context of modern non-profit organizations. School leadership, governance, board structure and management, meeting management and fundraising will be addressed.

In this course, educators develop ideas, lessons and projects that offer interdisciplinary learning opportunities for their students. Appropriate opportunities for involving religious teachings and outlooks within a critical academic approach are also explored.

Educators apply learning theories and practices that cultivate a lifelong love of learning as well as the intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual capacities of their students to be individuals discovering their own paths and to be of service to the world.