Faculty of Education
The Faculty of Education is committed to the highest standards of research and teaching and is a significant contributor to the improvement of educational policy and practice in partnership with schools, colleges and other educational agencies .
Programs
The Faculty of Education provides degree programs in the following areas :
- Department of Arabic language
- Department of Islamic studies.
- Department of Social studies (by English).
- Department of Chemistry & Biology
- Department of Physics and Mathematics
Department of islamic studies
The Faculty of Islamic Studies is designed for opening up professional development pathways for those working in religious and/or academic institutions. This program aims to enable students to become reflective practitioners in both religious and/or academic while facilitating further creative and critical thinking. Meanwhile, our doctoral program in Islamic Studies is designed to produce alumni who are critical both to confessional faith-based and scientific academic scholarships, producing originality. The Ph.D. in Islamic Studies aims to enable students to transform the richness of diverse scholarship and practices into distinct critical knowledge.
MA in Islamic Studies
The faculty of Islamic Studies at UIII offers a Master’s program (MA) for the academic year of 2022-2023. The program is designed to produce experts in Islamic studies, who are able to critically combine Islamic sciences with classical and contemporary approaches through interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary perspectives with a focus on Islam and Muslim societies. Students are encouraged to critically engage with the diversity of academic knowledge constructions and to creatively dialogue these constructions with the changing reality to produce creative and critical thinking. The program employs a critical and analytical approach to the study of Islam and Muslim societies. It is designed to open professional development pathways for those working in academic institutions. It is also intended to serve as a platform for future scholars in Islamic studies to explore diverse discourses and practices that have developed in Islam in order to see their subjectivity vis-à-vis universal Islamic values and thus apply the broad knowledge to praxis.
Expected Learning Outcomes/Competency of MA in Islamic Studies
Upon the program completion, students are expected to:
- Understand basic issues in the development of scholarship on Islam and Muslim societies by critically examining the foundational and non-foundational sources of Islam.
- Understand the interconnectivity between major canonical texts both in classical and contemporary scholarship and the contexts in which the texts are interpreted and translated into a variety of forms.
- Build critical analyses of how basic issues on Islam and Muslim societies are translated into a wide variety of institutions.
- Build skills to communicate their critical understanding of Islam to a variety of audiences.
- Apply research methods and contemporary
Degree Requirements
To qualify for the M.A. degree, students must complete 42 credits. The credits include core and elective courses, an independent project on Islam and Muslim societies, a journal article publication, and a thesis. The program is offered on a full-time (24 months, over four-semester) basis.
Course Structure
The program offers courses that examine the sources and origins of Islamic thought and practice, in particular the foundational texts in Islam, together with a knowledge and understanding of the history and Islamic civilization. In addition, it offers a wide range of optional modules that will prepare students to contextualize Islamic Studies and be able to critically analyze contemporary debates and issues concerning Islam and Muslims. The taught modules are delivered through a model of blended learning, which combines traditional class-based methods and guided independent study with online learning. Lectures, tutorials, seminars, occasional workshops, peer group learning (such as delivering presentations to the class), journal article publication, and independent study are incorporated into the program. The thesis allows students to choose their own area of interest as a focus for research.
During the program’s four semesters, students must complete a total of 42 credits, consisting of:
- 12 credit foundation courses
- 9 credit core courses
- 6 credit electives courses
- 3 credit independent project
- 3 credit proposal seminar
- 3 credit journal article publication
- 6 credit thesis
Courses are grouped into four components:
- Intensive reading of the foundational texts and discourses in Islam
- Historical and contemporary Muslim context
- Theoretical perspectives to understanding Islam and Muslim society
- Research methodology and skill
Semester 1 (15 Credits)
Semester 2 (12 Credits)
Semester 3 (9 Credits)
Semester 4 (6 Credits)
MA in Takhassus Turats Consentration
Takhassus Fi Dirasat Al-Islamiyya Al-Turathiyya (Special Program for the Study of Classical Islam) is a concentration in the Islamic Studies Masters Study Program (S2) at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII). This concentration focuses on classical Islamic studies through analyzing the Kitab Kuning and Turats with an interdisciplinary approach, in addition, complemented by a competency-based curriculum. This program will become a center of excellence in classical Islamic studies through the development of visionary and relevant Islamic studies in responding to contemporary socio-religious challenges and problems. The mission of the Takhassus Fi Dirasat Al-Islamiyya Al-Turathiyya concentration is:
- Organizing education and developing studies and research on classical Islamic studies.
- Opening and enhancing international scientific and research collaborations.
- Carrying out groundbreaking assignments that contribute to community empowerment and the world of Islamic boarding schools and all of their sub-cultures.
Meanwhile, the main goal is to promote classical Islamic studies in Indonesia related to the Kitab Kuning and Turats to the wider community and global audience, as well as to produce master’s graduates with international scientific competence.
The profile of graduates of the Takhassus Fi Dirasat Al-Islamiyya Al-Turathiyya concentration is expected to become visionary Islamic scholars, lecturers, researchers and practitioners who master the Kitab Kuning and Turats with global insight, and have the ability to think analytically and critically about classical Islamic studies.
The curriculum applied to the concentration of Takhassus Fi Dirasat Al-Islamiyya Al-Turathiyya focuses on studying and researching classical Islamic studies contained in the Kitab Kuning and Turats.
| Category | No | Course Subject | Credits |
| Foundation | 1. | Wasatiyyatul Islam | 3 |
| 2. | Discourse on Al-Qur’an & Hadis | 3 | |
| 3. | History of Islamic Civilization | 3 | |
| 4. | Islamic Studies Methods and Approaches | 3 | |
| Total | 12 | ||
| Core | 1. | Al-Thurath al-Fiqhi | 3 |
| 2. | Al-Thurath al-kalami wa al-Falsafi | 3 | |
| 3. | Thurath al-Isyari (al-Shufi) | 3 | |
| 4. | Thurath al-Tafsir | 3 | |
| 5. | Thurath al-Hadits al-Nabawi | 3 | |
| 6. | Manhaj al-Bahth wa al-Tahqiq fi al-Thurath al-Islami | 3 | |
| 7. | Risalah Al-Bahts | 6 | |
| Total | 24 | ||
| Elective | 1. | Islamic Law and Contemporary Issues | 3 |
| 2. | Manahij Fatwa | 3 | |
| 3 | Ta’lif | 3 | |
| 4. | Tahqiq Thurath Nusantara | 3 | |
| 5. | Tarjamah | 3 | |
| 6. | Digital Islam | 3 | |
| 7. | Islam, Democracy, and Human Rights | 3 | |
| 8. | Islam and Global Issues | 3 | |
| 9. | Gender Studies in Turats | 3 | |
| Total | 9 | ||
| GRAND TOTAL | 45 Credits | ||