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COURSE SYLLABUS: Law and Culture in the Middle East


Course Title: MES260 – Law and Culture in the Middle East
Department: Middle Eastern Studies
Instructor: Dr. John D. Theodore, Ph.D., D.B.A., CMC - E-Mail - Vita


Course Description:
This course describe the omnipresent and omnipotent power of Islamic Law in the Culture of the Islamic Nations in the Middle East.

Required book: Online Bookstore

The Anthropology and Justice: Law as Culture in Islamic Society, by Lawrence Rosen. Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1989. ISBN-13: 9780521367400 ISBN: 0521367409

Course Requirements:
  1. Mid-term Exam. Essay. 2-4 pages. The student must contact the professor to arrange for the topic. 25%
  1. Final Exam. Essay. 2-4 pages. The student must contact the professor to arrange for the topic. 25%
  1. Term Paper. The topic will be selected by the student. APA Style. Minimum eight references. 50%
Grading Scale:

90 - 100%
80 - 89.99%
70 - 79.99%
60 - 69.99%
below 60% 		A
B
C
D
F


Grading:
Your grade in this course will be based on the following:

Mid-term Exam
Final Exam
Term Paper 		25%
25%
50%


SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Week #1
Chapter One. Law and Culture: The Appeal to Analogy. Part One.

Submit to the professor via e-mail a 1-2-page summary of the chapter.

Week #2
Chapter One. Law and Culture: The Appeal to Analogy. Part Two.

Submit to the professor via e-mail a 1-2-page summary of the chapter.

Week #3
Chapter Two: Determining the Indeterminable. Part One.

Submit to the professor via e-mail a 1-2-page summary of the chapter.

Week #4
Chapter Two: Determining the Indeterminable. Part Two.

Submit to the professor via e-mail a 1-2-page summary of the chapter.

Mid-term Examination

Week #5
Chapter Three. Reason, Intellect, and the Logic of Sequence. Part One.

Submit to the professor via e-mail a 1-2-page summary of the chapter.

Week #6
Chapter Three. Reason, Intellect, and the Logic of Sequence. Part Two

Submit to the professor via e-mail a 1-2-page summary of the chapter.

Week #7
Chapter Four. Judicial Discretion , State Power, and Concept of Justice. Part One.

Submit to the professor via e-mail a 1-2-page summary of the chapter.

Week #8
Chapter Four. Judicial Discretion , State Power, and Concept of Justice. Part Two.

Submit to the professor via e-mail a 1-2-page summary of the chapter.

Submit Final Exam
Submit the Term Paper