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CLASSICS
AND WORLD RELIGIONS
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CLWR
311 - Islam
Four Quarter Hours
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| PREREQUISITES: No specific courses are required prerequisites; however, this course is intended for students at the junior level. Students must have adequate reading, writing, and analysis skills. Previous courses in history or philosophy are helpful. |
| COURSE OVERVIEW: This course is intended as an introduction to Islam as a philosophical system, a religion, a social and legal system, a cultural tradition, and a style of life. |
| METHODS OF COURSE INSTRUCTION: All material for this course is print-based. Instructor and students communicate and exchange materials through postal mail. If students have access to e-mail, they may use this method to send lesson assignments and receive the instructor's feedback. Students may use any e-mail provider and any standard e-mail software. E-mail accounts are not provided for Independent and Distance Learning Programs by Ohio University. |
TEXTBOOKS
AND SUPPLIES:
ISBN 0131835637 Denny, Frederick Mathewson, An Introduction to Islam, 3rd ed., Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2006
ISBN 0915957221 Pickthall, Mohammed M. (trans.), The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, Beltsville, MD: Amana Publications, 1996
Students also need access to a college-level English dictionary, a standard encyclopedia, a Jewish Bible or Christian Old Testament, and a Christian New Testament.
...available
from EdMap's distance-learning online
bookstore.
| STUDENTS
ARE STRONGLY ADVISED NOT TO BUY TEXTBOOKS UNTIL
REGISTERED IN COURSES AS REQUIRED EDITIONS CAN CHANGE
WITHOUT NOTICE. |
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| LESSONS
AND WRITING ASSIGNMENTS: The
course has twelve lessons, including two supervised examinations.
Each lesson has a writing assignment consisting of terms to
define from the reading and several short essays which require
students to analyze and integrate information and ideas from
the reading. |
EXAMINATIONS:
The
course has supervised midcourse and final examinations. Two
hours is allowed for each examination; questions are similar
in format to those in the lesson writing assignments. No books,
notes, or supplementary aids are permitted for the examinations.
The final examination is comprehensive, although it emphasizes
material from the second half of the course.
If you reside near an Ohio University campus, you must take your examination at the nearest campus. Others can arrange to have their examinations proctored at another accredited college or university or, if it is more convenient, at an accredited local high school. Ohio University reserves the right to reject a proposed examination supervisor. Detailed information about examination procedures will be included with your enrollment material. Examinations may not be taken online nor by e-mail. |
| GRADING CRITERIA: Letter grades will be assigned for lesson writing assignments, reflecting the instructor's overall impression of how well the issues in the questions have been addressed. Grades for all lesson assignments will be averaged and will count 30 percent of the final grade for the course. The examinations will be given numerical grades based on a 100-point scale. These grades will be averaged with the lesson assignments grade; the midcourse exam grade will count 30 percent and the final exam grade will count 40 percent toward the course grade. Course grades will be assigned on a twelve-point scale, that is, using plus and minus grades. |
| ENROLLMENT INFORMATION: Active Terms: Not term-based; self-paced study. Eight months to finish.
Registration Dates: Enroll at any time.
Call
Independent
and Distance Learning Programs at 1-800-444-2910
if you have questions about this course, the enrollment
process, or Ohio University degree opportunities.
Ohio
Learning Networkers: Always check with your home campus
advisor to make certain that a course from another school
will fulfill your degree requirements.
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