Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: History

Meeting: 1:00PM - 3:30PM T (25-AUG-2025 - 5-DEC-2025) 

Part of Term: Full Term

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Method of Instruction: Face to Face

Credit Hours: 3

 

Section Max Enrollment: 15

Section Enrolled: 2

Waitlisted: 0 (Max 99) 

Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.

Enrollment data as of: 20-APR-2025 12:06PM

 

 

Final Exam: No Final Exam

 

Description: The question of Palestine has received more sustained international attention than any other colonial issue in modern history. Due to the territory’s religious significance, cultural provenance, and geopolitical importance, its trajectory has been deeply intertwined with the ebbs and flows of European imperial politics; US foreign policy; the Jewish question in Europe; Arab, Middle Eastern, and Islamic regional forces; and Afro-Asian dynamics in the high era of anti-colonialism and beyond. This course places modern Palestinian history within this global context. It examines the profound ways in which the world intervened in Palestine, fundamentally transforming the territory’s politics, demographics, and social dynamics. Equally, it explores how the Palestinians intervened in the world, with profound implications for tricontinental anti-colonial thought and revolutionary practice; international legal norms; global regimes on war, displacement, decolonization, and genocide; transnational solidarity; metropolitan and subaltern intellectual cultures; and domestic politics in the US, Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere.