Faculty : Faculty of International Business and Humanities

School : School of Humanities

Course Description :

This course explores the changing nature of work and social relations at work, with a particular focus on the significance of work for power and social inequality. The course both provides an historical overview of work in capitalist societies, and explores the link between work and social inequality, especially along the dimensions of gender and race / ethnicity.

Faculty : Faculty of International Business and Humanities

School : School of Humanities

Course Description :

This course takes into account the fact that the study of Africa and the Middle East has grown into a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural academic phenomenon, attracting strong interest for political, cultural and social reasons. It takes on board academic developments in fields such as globalization, cultural identity, diaspora and migration studies, gender studies, and post-colonial studies all of which are based on techniques in the analysis of evidence across several African and Middle Eastern languages, and uses original sources in English translation as well as secondary sources in English. The interplay of disciplines and skills involved in achieving a balanced view of the history, literatures, cultures, and religions of the Middle East and Africa is broad and complex.

Faculty : Faculty of International Business and Humanities

School : School of Humanities

Course Description :

This course aims to emphasize the connection between fundamental principles of Biology and other life sciences. Lectures and lab sessions cover topics such as the cell as basic unit of life, biological molecules to understand energy flow and nutrition, tissues and organ systems (with a focus on human health), and ecological and evolutionary processes explaining biodiversity.

Faculty : Faculty of International Business and Humanities

School : School of Humanities

Course Description :

The focus will be on the basic principles of environmental biology, ecology, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. This is a course in biology for non-majors, therefore, the discussion will begin broadly, but by the end of the course it is hoped that students will understand and appreciate the natural forces that generate and maintain the diversity of life we see on our planet, as well as the myriad interactions among both biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems. The course is hoped to objectively assess the role that humans have played in changing the natural environment, especially during the last few centuries.

Faculty : Faculty of International Business and Humanities

School : School of Humanities

Course Description :

This course will look into the importance of water, minerals, land and the climate as sources of conflict and cooperation within and across these countries. There will be discussions of the international and national laws related to water, minerals and climate, with a specific emphasis on how the problems and weaknesses in such laws and tenancies can bring very complex cultural and international stresses. The many economies, polities, cultures and societies of the countries will be discussed in the context of natural resources problems and solutions. Various forecasts and projects of natural resource security issues in the regions will also be discussed and analyzed. There will be a special focus on water issues related to the Nile, the Jordan River Basin, the Tigris and Euphrates, and underground aquifers in North Africa. The international effects of national projects, such as the GAP project in Southeastern Turkey, the National Water Carrier in Israel, and the damming of certain rivers in Sub-Saharan Africa will be debated.