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Apr 03, 2026
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ES 395 - Muslims in the Americas
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; Diversity
Examines Muslim experience in the Americas from the 16th century to the present. Explores articulations of Islam in sociohistorical context through topics including intersectional identities, political engagement, religious conversion, immigration, community development, racism/Islamophobia, cultural expression, civil rights and activism.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay -Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Identify key themes and events in the history of Muslim American communities since the sixteenth century, from conquest and enslavement to waves of immigration and conversion;
- Contextualize Muslim American experience in global and historical perspective, with attention to religious and cultural features;
- Compare how individuals, ethnicities and organizations have articulated Muslim identity, culture and politics;
- Analyze racialization of American Muslims through discourses of Orientalism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism and xenophobia; and
- Evaluate contemporary Muslim struggles for civil rights, inclusion and justice.
GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes
- analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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