Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Some Ideas For Graduate Courses for Students of the Middle East






Soc.& Pol. Anthropology 501:
The next 100 year History of Islam, Conflict, Confusion, Collusion, Consensus and Cohesion in the Middle East.

Pol.Sci.402:
The unbearable weight of the cultural addiction to being ruled authoritatively  and rewarded for being subservient.

 Pol.Sci. 401:
 If, in a Country, the majority of the population vote to be subjected to authoritarian rule with limitations on Human Rights at elections, is this Democracy?

Pol.Sci. 412:
Case of Egypt  2013:  Do you support freedom of opinion and protest for Islamists wishing to prohibit those rights?

Phil. 422:
The ethics of introducing human rights, democracy and concepts of compassion and empathy to a culture and a geographical region which may have lived without such ideas for thousands of years.

Soc.Psych. 423:
Attitude and Behavioral Change And Effects of Social Media in  Societies Which Have Traditionally Resisted Change.

Pol.Sci. 599:

International Intelligence Operations Group Study: The Multi-Disciplinary Requirements of Social Engineering in Subject Countries and/or Regions and Problems and Issues in Their Applications.