Welcome to Spring 2022!

Dear Students,

Everyone can learn.

Let education open your life to new experiences, new ways of seeing the world, the new you. Who do you want to be? Where do you want go? What do you want to change? "Be the change you want to see in the world" Mahatma Gandhi.

Face-to-Face Classes

I teach in multiple departments. ESL is my home department. I teach English as Second Language (ESL) at the Chinatown Center. These are face-to-face classes and non-credit ESL classes.

On-Line Classes

I also team-teach an online class: Islam: Identity and Culture. Did you want learn more about culture of Islam? Take the course.

IDST 29. Islam: Identity & Culture (3)

ADVISE: ESL 186 or ENGL 88 or placement in ESL 188 or readiness for college-level English

An interdisciplinary survey of Muslim identity and the origins, principles, and practices of Islam, comparing and contrasting them with those of other major religions. Focus on the historical development and current practices of Islam and its impact on philosophy, art, music, architecture, gender, media, popular culture, and politics.

UC/CSU

Islamic Art and Architecture

I teach Islamic art and architecture section of the course. This portion of the course surveys artifacts of early Islamic states and to explore the ways in which these are used to understand the societies that produced them. Religious and secular architecture, ceramics, metalwork, calligraphy, and textiles will be examined to reveal their economic, social, cultural, and ideological context. We will consider changes and the continuities in Islamic religious architecture and the influence of Islamic design on U.S. architecture.