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Starting this year, eligible students at UCLA will be able to obtain a new Graduate Certificate in Global Islam and Muslims, offered by UCLA Islamic Studies Program. This pioneering program is ideal for students who will benefit from literacy about Islam and Muslims for their professional goals and/or research trajectories. While achieving this certificate, students will work with affiliated faculty whose regional specializations include North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia and whose interests span the rise of Islam up to the modern period. They will be given the opportunity to complete coursework across a variety of academic fields and disciplines including anthropology, Arabic, art history, comparative literature, history, law, philosophy, sociology, and the study of religion.
This certificate program builds upon a long legacy of Islamic Studies at UCLA, a program established by the founding director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES), the late Gustave E. von Grunebaum. It also stems from the ongoing and highly-successful annual year-long cluster on Global Islam, developed by CNES affiliated faculty with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that was awarded to the Center for Near Eastern Studies back in 2019.
The graduate certificate program in Global Islam and Muslims provides a four-to-five course, 16-credit certification for students who wish to integrate literacy about Islam and Muslims into their degree programs. It will offer core courses common to all certificate students as well as more specialized courses that will meet the needs of students from different professional and disciplinary perspectives. It is intended to be completed within 1–2 academic years.
For more information about the program, please visit this page.