A highlight of UnboxEd Learning is our signature courses, most of which have been taught in real settings. In keeping with our fivefold purpose and competencies, our courses integrate state standards with our Islamic framework.

Our signature courses can be purchased individually or as part of a curriculum package.

You also have the option to avail instructional coaching for each course to train your faculty to deliver the course.

Islamic Studies

Spiritual Development

An introduction to Islamic spiritual development and practices that cultivate a healthy relationship with Allah, oneself, and others.Students explore tazkiyah (spiritual purification), ikhlas (sincerity), tawakkul (reliance on Allah), and self-discipline through Qur’an and Hadith and the insights of scholars such as Imam al-Ghazali and Imam al-Haddad. Class discussions, readings, reflective journals, text analysis, daily short dhikr sessions, and practical exercises connect patience, gratitude, humility, sincerity, and self-discipline to everyday life.

Foundations of Sacred Sciences

Investigates how early Muslims preserved, understood, and protected the message of Islam and why Islamic scholarship developed into distinct fields. Students study the ʿulūm al-naqliyyah—the transmitted or revealed sciences—through Qur’an, Tafsir, Hadith, Fiqh, and Tazkiyah/Tasawwuf. The course emphasizes not only what scholars concluded, but how these sciences emerged, how their methods developed, and how knowledge was transmitted and preserved across generations.

Religion and Story Creation

An introduction to religious anthropology, philosophy of religion, and literary analysis. Students learn the techniques of symbolism, metaphors, personification, analogical reasoning, and allegories. Stories are selected from the Japanese, Peruvian, Incan, Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Jewish, and Christian. The course ends by evaluating the Qur'anic approach to creation and its particular style of communication.

Divine Storytelling: Prophets, Purpose, and the Human Experience

An exploration of the Prophetic stories in the Qur'an as powerful accounts of faith, struggle, leadership, doubt, perseverance, and the human experience. Through close reading, discussion, and critical reflection, students will examine how Allah uses narrative in the Qur'an to shape hearts, challenge societies, inspire resilience, and communicate timeless truths. Students will be equipped to read stories more deeply, recognize the profound wisdom embedded within revelation, and develop a richer understanding of how stories shape individuals, communities, and civilizations—both in the Qur'an and in the world around them.

The Worldview of the Qur'an

A journey through the Qur’an through select readings in order to appreciate the heart that it cultivates, the mind that it develops, the imagination that it forms, the character it inculcates, and the society it seeks to construct. Structured around the four themes in Surah Al-’Asr, the course introduces students to the Qur’anic discourse on iman (faith), ‘amal salih (righteous practice), the ideal of sharing faith, and the commitment to perseverance in adversity. .

Modern Muslim Thinkers

Each period of history brings its own unique challenges and questions. In each new period, Muslim thinkers have risen to the occasion to respond to the challenges of their time. The modern period spanning the 19th to the 21st centuries is one of the most prolific periods of Muslim intellectual thought. The course covers the major modern thinkers.

The course’s central questions are as follows:

• How did the colonial context influence modern Muslim thinkers.

• What central problems occupy modern Muslim thought?

• How do the differences in culture and history influence different thinkers?

• How can we draw on the ideas of modern Muslim thinkers toward addressing contemporary concerns.

Muslim Scientists and Engineers

No civilization can endure for long or prosper without engaging in science and engineering. It is the scientists and the engineers who design and build critical infrastructure to facilitate communication, transportation, and commerce, and construct the necessary technology for the purposes of defense. In this course, we look at the contributions Muslim scientists and engineers made toward civilizational advancement.

The course’s central questions are as follows:

• What were the salient ideas that Muslim scientists and engineers employed in their work?

• What kind of materials did scientists and engineers utilize the most in their inventions?

• What novel concepts and inventions did scientists or engineers produce?

• How did the work of scientists and engineers contribute to material culture and civilizational advancement?

Humanities

Make America Think Again

Logic and Critical Reasoning

Aligned with our Critical Reasoning competency, the course is an introduction to the basics of semiotics, logic, and critical reasoning. Logic underlies all rules of critical reasoning applicable to a specific domain. This course introduces students to the basic rules of logic and applied reasoning in different subjects. Topics span the axioms of identity, non-contradiction, excluded middle, and the principles of sufficient reasoning, analogical reasoning, deduction, induction, abduction, and binary logic. Special attention is given to application in the Qur'anic scripture.

Food for Thought

Food for Thought is an exploration of literature, history, and culture through the lens of food. During this course, you will read poetry, memoirs, and essays from a variety of diverse voices to uncover how writers use food to tell their stories. You will examine how food reflects migration, resistance, community, and justice across cultures, while developing your own voice as a writer and critical thinker. Students will pay particular attention to personal experiences of their own cultural cuisine.

Voice and Silence (ELA)

In this course, students are invited to explore literature, poetry, and nonfiction through the lens of those who have been marginalized or silenced. Students will engage in discussions, Socratic seminars, reading, and writing that focuses on diverse perspectives and voices. We will also focus on student writing and speaking skills as they analyze texts addressing social justice, identity politics, power, and the human experience.

World History 1

The Silk Roads

Religion, Commerce, and Cultural Diffusion in the Agricultural Age, 500-1800

Journey along the Silk Roads, one of the longest, long-lasting, and consequential trade network ever created. Explore some of the greatest achievements in land and maritime commerce, discover powerful empires, marvel at the grand projects constructed by manual labor, and comprehend the religious motivations behind the making of history in the agricultural age. Students are introduced to both modern and Islamic historiography. Special attention is paid to Muslim achievements, for example, the Ummayds and the Abbasids.

World History 2

The Making of the First Global Civilization:

Science, Technology, and Colonialism, 1700-Present

The modern Western civilization is the first global civilization in the world whose influence has reached far corners of the world. This course traces the important events, personalities, and processes that made the modern civilization possible. We will study the transition from Christianity to a secular-liberal order, the rise of the scientific enterprise, the proliferation of technology, the industrial revolution, revolutionary wars, colonialism, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, capitalism, and modern warfare. Special attention is paid to the fate of the Muslim world. In addition, we will add depth to the modern and Islamic historiography we learned in World History 1.