Skill Level: Beginner
Skill Level: Beginner

This course provides graphical communication as a tool for documenting the results of an engineering design. This is achieved through the ability to visualize and understand spatial relationships, and the competence to select and use appropriate graphical methods for representing design concepts. Topics include orthographic projection (multi-view and auxiliary) and pictorial drawing. Students combine the practice of hand sketching along with computer-based solid modeling (AutoCAD) to produce a parametric design.

Skill Level: Beginner

CIV 203 tackles important questions regarding the human condition within their historical

context. It examines how perceptions, ideas and social organizations have changed over time as

well as the ways in which people in different places and times have sought to answer certain ‘big

questions.’ Such questions transcend ‘civilizational’ divides and are part of our common

humanity; hence, this course takes a comparative approach. Students will engage with questions

that are relevant to present-day dilemmas in their society.

This particular iteration of CIV 203 will be devoted to an examination of liberal education about justice and the gods through a close study of four texts – Plato’s Republic Book I and Book II, Averroes Commentary on Plato’s Republic, selected chapters of Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed, and Aristotle’s Politics Book VIII.

Skill Level: Beginner

This course approaches religions from an interdisciplinary perspective. It investigates religions in Iraq, historically, philosophically, and politically. The course offers a comparative overview of Iraq’s religious history. It is organized roughly chronologically and discusses all the major religious groups, including Zoroastrianism Judaism, Christianity, Sunnism, Shi‘ism, Sufism, and Yezidism. Moreover, we will cover some philosophical and political dimensions of the role of religion in Iraq and in general. We will be investigating subjects like morality and religion, faith and reason, citizenship, and theocracy. We will also be discussing religion in 20th-century Iraq and the roots and effects of contemporary sectarianism. The course will cover religious laws, rituals, doctrines, and gender issues. After having taken this course, students will appreciate the impacts of religions on societies and be able to think critically about the dependability of morality on religion, religious experiences, the debate around faith and reason, and religious fundamentalism and sectarianism in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan today.

Skill Level: Beginner

This course aims to equip students with the ability to read and write from a critical stance. Using their understanding of argumentation, students will begin to see logical fallacies as tools they can control, not just as argumentative shortcomings. They will continue developing their skills of literary analysis, becoming readers of what resides between the lines of a text.  Each of the requisite composition courses also gives additional focus to each student’s continued progress with oral and written expression of ideas.

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Skill Level: Beginner