Courses
310 courses since 2014
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7 courses
- 01
Natural and Social Sciences
Philosophy of science is the realm in which natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities can meet to expose the basic foundations of the human-being-in the world. As a philosophical inquiry into the nature of science and its “truth,” this field deals with the ultimate goa…
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Humanities and Arts
The Humanities are the vast areas of research and study that comprise all human-centric disciplines, from philosophy, the oldest of disciplines, to history, anthropology, literature, art, ancient and modern languages, law, politics, and religious studies. Overall, the humaniti…
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On Political Ideologies and Artistic Practices
If any saying was to be true about the 20th century, it would be that it was a century of ideologies and great narratives, and it might be said now that the 21st century is about the death of ideologies and the end of great narratives. Although we can find that ideologies did…
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Modern Science - Its Promises and Limitations
The core course in the Sciences takes a close a look at the promises and limitations of modern science. It does so by adopting historical, philosophical and sociological lenses on modern science. We will begin our journey by outlining the conventional accounts of Islamic Scien…
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Waste
The world is experiencing a crisis of waste. Growing populations, changing lifestyles and consumption habits are leading to the creation of alarmingly high levels of waste. Generally waste is referred to as unwanted materials or things. At the same time we can imagine the usef…
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Identities
The course looks at identity as a performance. Since childhood we are expected to perform in certain ways. In the course we examine where these expectations stem from. In particular, we re-visit ongoing debates and ideas about national identity, class and caste, masculinity an…
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Civil Society
What is this seemingly important thing called civil society? In order to gain a solid understanding of civil society, in this course we go back to its modern day roots. Indeed, we get up from our seats, pick up our garden tools and head to the garden. Together, we sit and dig.…
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