Outreach

The Institute provides a broad range of resources and activities to serve elementary and secondary schools, and college teachers. As a National Resource Center, we organize teacher training events with faculty and advanced graduate students from Columbia and other area universities. We regularly offer After School Professional Development courses in conjunction with the New York City Board of Education. The Institute maintains an Outreach Collection, containing films and videos, slides, teaching materials, and publications that can be used -- and sometimes borrowed -- by qualified teachers and scholars (contact: contact: William Carrick). Most of the conferences and lectures, workshops, and other events listed on our events page are open to the public. The South Asia Institute provides other outreach activities for business, media, and local communities organizations.

New York City Department of Education
After School Professional Development Program
Spring 2009 P-Credit Course
Islam in the Middle East and South Asia


Course #: P18-209S09
Time: Thursdays, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Dates: February 12 – May 21, 2009
Location: Room 1118 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street

The South Asia Institute has organized a teacher training course for Spring 2009, “Islam in the Middle East and South Asia,” which has been approved by the New York City Department of Education's After School Professional Development Program. The course is available for 3 P-Credits which may be used towards a salary differential as a NYCDOE teacher. The course is co-sponsored by the Middle East Institute.

"Islam in the Middle East and South Asia" will offer an introduction to the origins, history and spread of Islam out of the Arabian peninsula; the belief systems and practices of Muslim communities in the Middle East and South Asia; the Qur’an; Islamic Law; Islam and Gender in the Middle East and South Asia; Religious and Secular Education in the Muslim world; and to encounters between Islam and the West, as images of Muslims in western media, and as Muslim immigration to the West. Pedagogy sessions will focus on strategies for teaching about Islam, the Middle East, and South Asia; and on Muslim minority youth in the U.S.

The course has been organized by SAI Assistant Director William Carrick and Columbia Religon Department PhD candidate Sajida Jalalzai. It will feature a series of 14 guest lecturers including faculty from Baruch College, Columbia University, NYU, and Teacher’s College. All readings and materials for the course will be provided by the South Asia Institute.

For additional information and a course syllabus, or to register for the course for professional development credit, please visit the website of the NYC Board of Education After School Professional Development at www.nycenet.edu/aspdp. Registration begins Tuesday, January 13, 2009.

Click here for a copy of the syllabus.

If you have questions, please contact William Carrick at wac2112@columbia.edu.

Links:

A weblinks directory to South Asian history, cultures and literatures from Frances Pritchett's website on South Asia:
http://www.outreachworld.org/resource.asp?Curriculumid=357

Aamir Mufti
Teach-In on Thirty Years of Indian and Pakistani History: A Tryst with Destiny; from the Midnight's Children Humanities Festival.
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/broadcast/ramfiles/mchf2003/03_06_b.ram

Gyan Pandey
Teach-In on Thirty Years of Indian and Pakistani History: A Tryst with Destiny; from the Midnight’s Children Humanities Festival.
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/broadcast/ramfiles/mchf2003/03_06_b.ram

Gowher Rizvi and Tariq Banuri
Teach-In on Thirty Years of Indian and Pakistani History: Bangladesh; from the Midnight’s Children Humanities Festival
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/broadcast/midnightschildren