Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LIFE ON THE NILE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Egyptian society, culture, and religion from the 18th to 20th centuries. Course will use travel accounts, ethnographies, novels, historical chronicles, and movies, to examine the position of Egypt in the Ottoman and British Empires. Focus will be the long-term Egyptian cultural and social structures and their transformation in different political contexts.