Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: FROM EMPIRE TO NATION STATES: THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar explores the transformation of the Middle East in 19th and early 20th centuries through themes and debates of state and nation formation, religion and modernity, secularization, urban reforms, and gender. Concentrates on various approaches to this period, when the political, social, economic, and cultural dynamics of today's Middle East were formed.