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MODERN MIDDLE EAST (HIS 347)

Term: 2020 - Spring

Faculty

Nick J. SteneckShow MyInfo popup for Nick J. Steneck
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Schedule

Mon-Wed-Fri, 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM (1/13/2020 - 5/12/2020) Location: MAIN TATE 224

Description

347: Modern Middle East
Goals: This course will give students a basic understanding of the Middle East and its history and political systems.
Content: The course begins by examining emergence and spread of Islam and then turns to the era of Ottoman domination. The bulk of the course focuses on the era of European imperialism in the Middle East and its legacy. Through scholarly studies, literature, and films students will examine the structural factors that transformed the Middle East during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including culture, modernization, industrialization, nationalism, war and evolution, racism, gender, and religion.
Taught: Summer. Alternate Years.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 3 hours; cross-listed as POL 347.