BA in Shia Studies

The Bachelor of Shia Studies consists of 140 units, We expect one online session and 16 hours of activity/research from students each week during the course. During each online session, 5 subjects are taught/discussed in 180 minutes.

The activities are virtual for all online and offline classes, research, and workshops, no traveling is needed.

You are expected to complete the course in 6 years, during which you will attend to 1 online session each week. The table of units are as following:

#	General Subject	Subject	Units	Hours	Classroom Activity	Workshop or Offline Activity
1	Fundamental of Islam	Monotheism	6	96	64	32
2		Justice	6	96	64	32
3		Prophecy	6	96	64	32
4		Imamate	6	96	64	32
5		After life	6	96	64	32
6		Mahdiism	6	96	64	32
7	Islamic Morals 1 to 6	Morals	6	96	96	0
8	History	Great Prophet & Califs	3	48	32	16
9	History	11 Imams	3	48	32	16
10	The Holy Qur’an	Reading	2	32	16	16
11		Intonation & Fluency	2	32	16	16
12		attitude towards Qur’an	2	32	16	16
13		Keys to understanding	2	32	16	16
14		Concepts	2	32	16	16
15		Intro. to interpretation	2	32	16	16
16		History of Quran	2	32	16	16
17		Nahjul Balaghah	2	32	16	16
18	Languages Study	Arabic study 1, 2 & 3	8	128	80	48
19	Languages Study	English 1 & 2	6	96	64	32
20	Religion and cults	Christianity	3	48	32	16
21		Wahhabism	3	48	32	16
22		Sufism	3	48	32	16
23		Baha’ism	6	96	64	32
24		Islamic Sects	3	48	32	16
25	Islamic Methods	Study fast reading methods	3	48	32	16
26		Study fast reading methods	3	48	32	16
27		Summarizing, note writing	3	48	32	16
28		Research, Bibliography	3	48	32	16
29		Essay writing, translation	3	48	32	16
30		Rhetoric & Lecture methods	3	48	32	16
31		Promoting Islam methods	3	48	32	16
32		Modification and guidance	3	48	32	16
33		Teaching & Class management	3	48	32	16
34		Management	3	48	32	16
35	Islamic Rules and Laws	Obedience	1	16	16	0
36		Introduction to Religion science	1	16	16	0
37		Islamic Rules & Laws 1	1	16	16	0
38		Islamic Rules & laws 2	1	16	16	16
39	Islamic Supplication	Supplication	3	48	32	16
40	The Divine Prophets’ era Study	The Divine Prophets	3	48	32	16
41	Final Project	A defined project	6	96	0	96
total			140	2240	1408	832