{"id":3333,"date":"2017-04-24T16:40:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:27","slug":"digital-islamic-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/24\/digital-islamic-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Islamic studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pauline Jones<\/strong>,\u00a0director of the U-M\u00a0International Institute, is passionate about the need for education around some of the most complex topics in the world, like Islam. \u201cIslam is much more than a religion. It\u2019s also a civilization, a variety of cultural traditions and sometimes a basis for political ideologies,\u201d said Jones. \u201cIts diversity, complexity, and geographical expansiveness makes it nearly impossible for one university to offer enough courses to cover it all.\u201d To fill the gaps in education, U-M has taken the lead in coordinating with several other universities in the Big Ten Academic Alliance to establish the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum<\/a> (DISC). The initiative allows students to take courses about Islam not offered at their own institutions.\u00a0In the last few years, more than 250 students across 10 universities have taken courses through DISC.
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