Write down 5 questions by reading the Chapter "Rasha"equirements for the Discussion Questions:
These questions should incite students to think critically about the readings and the relationship between their arguments made by the authors and their implications for youth.
You should reference material from previous weeks. At least one of the questions should engage students in making connections between, or comparing and contrasting with, the current week's material and previously covered authors and concepts.
Peace Studies 2255/ Sociology 2255 Introduction:
This course is intended to promote MU students' understanding and awareness about Islamic youth and their diverse cultures around the world. The course is also meant to be a general education offering that raises basic issues in the behavioral and social sciences and the humanities, about Orientalization and the construction of stereotypes, problems, and trouble; post-colonial analysis of global culture and power; tradition and paths of modernization; and population movements, including immigration to the US and Americanization.
The course will begin a conversation exploring the common issues faced by American youth and youth in Islamic nations today. This course is a journey into complex and manifold aspects of Muslim youth identities in various contexts.
Such a journey seeks to challenge homogenizing and monolithic depictions of Muslim youth and essentially raises the question, "how does ‘knowing' of another group occur?" Most readings for the course shed light on first-hand accounts of experiences characterizing the lives of Muslim youth in Western and Muslim-majority societies. It will appeal to the many students who have taken the sociology course, "Youth in Today's World."
The book you need:
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi, Penguin Books
The first week discussion questions should read:
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America, "Rasha" 13-44