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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with MEST Supporting Group 1 · returned 20 results
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ARCN 395 Archaeology: Science, Ethics, Nationalism and Cultural Property 6 credits
This seminar course will focus on a wide range of contemporary issues in archaeology, including case studies from many continents and time periods that shed light on archaeological theory and practice. Specific course content varies. The course serves as the capstone seminar for the Archaeology Minor; enrollment is also open to non-minors.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
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ARCN 395.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤 · Mary Savina 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TAnderson Hall 122 1:15pm-5:00pm
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ARCN 395.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- THAnderson Hall 122 1:00pm-5:00pm
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CLAS 122 The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory: From the Beginning to the Classical Age 6 credits
“Never say that prehistory is not history.” The late Fernand Braudel had it right. Over 99 percent of human history predates the written word, and this course examines one of the world’s most diverse, yet unifying environments–the Mediterranean Sea–from the earliest populations around its shores to the emergence of the Classical world of the Greeks and Romans. Neanderthals and modern humans, the first artists and farmers, multiculturalism among Greeks, Phoenicians, Etruscans, and others… These are some of the topics to be covered as we study the precursors and roots of what would become “Western” civilization.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry
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CLAS 122.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 230 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CLAS 122.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 131 Saints, Sinners, and Philosophers in Late Antiquity 6 credits
In Late Antiquity, Christians and pagans asked with particular intensity: How should I live? What should be my relationship to wealth, family, power, and the world? How are mind and body related in the good life and how can this relationship be controlled and directed? What place had education in the pursuit of the good life? Was the best life to be achieved through material renunciation, psychological transformation, or both? We will ask these and many other questions of a wide array of primary sources written originally in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, and Armenian while employing the insights of modern scholarship.
Extra time
- Winter 2017, Winter 2021, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 131.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
- FLeighton 301 2:20pm-3:20pm
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 131.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 305 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 131.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 305 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 233 Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 843-1453 6 credits
Heir to the Roman Empire, Byzantium is one of the most enduring and fascinating polities of the medieval world. Through a wide variety of written and visual evidence, we will examine key features of Byzantine history and culture such as the nature of imperial rule; piety and religious controversy; Byzantium’s evolving relations with the Latin West, Armenia, the Slavic North, and the Dar al-Islam (the Abbasids and Seljuk and Ottoman Turks); economic life; and Byzantine social relations. Extra time may be required for group projects.
Extra Time
- Fall 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 233.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 233.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 260 The Making of the Modern Middle East 6 credits
A survey of major political and social developments from the fifteenth century to the beginning of World War I. Topics include: state and society, the military and bureaucracy, religious minorities (Jews and Christians), and women in premodern Muslim societies; the encounter with modernity.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 260.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 260.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 260.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 260.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 265 Central Asia in the Modern Age 6 credits
Central Asia–the region encompassing the post-Soviet states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, and the Xinjiang region of the People’s Republic of China–is often considered one of the most exotic in the world, but it has experienced all the excesses of the modern age. After a basic introduction to the long-term history of the steppe, this course will concentrate on exploring the history of the region since its conquest by the Russian and Chinese empires. We will discuss the interaction of external and local forces as we explore transformations in the realms of politics, society, culture, and religion.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 265.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 265.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:27
- T, THLeighton 304 1:45pm-3:30pm
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HIST 265.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 267 Muslims and Modernity 6 credits
Through readings in primary sources in translation, we will discuss the major intellectual and cultural movements that have influenced Muslim thinkers from the nineteenth century on. Topics include modernism, nationalism, socialism, and fundamentalism.
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HIST 267.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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Through readings in primary sources in translation, we will discuss the major intellectual and cultural movements that have influenced Muslim thinkers from the nineteenth century on. Topics include modernism, nationalism, socialism, and fundamentalism.
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HIST 284 History, Culture and Commerce Program: Heritage in Africa and Arabia 6 credits
Through lectures, readings, and extensive site visits to museums and archaeological sites, this course examines the rich cultural heritage of East Africa and Arabia. Students will investigate Persian, Arab, Indian, and Islamic sites in Zanzibar, Oman, and Bahrain, reflecting on the deep influence of the Indian Ocean on the region’s historical trading systems and modern-day relations. The course also examines the influence of various European colonial powers during the era in which they ruled or wielded influence.
Requires participation in OCS Program: History, Culture, and Commerce: Africa and Arabia
- Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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100 or 200 level Africana Studies or History course and participation in OCS program
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HIST 284.07 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
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HIST 284.07 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
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HIST 285 History, Culture and Commerce Program: Critical Historical Research 6 credits
This course focuses on ethnographic research and writing with an emphasis on the practice of fieldwork. Students will conduct group research projects that include actively guiding and evaluating the work of their peers. The content of these projects will include maritime activities, health, music, economics, and heritage. Students will learn the benefits and challenges of examining oral tradition, oral history, poetry, visual art, material culture, and embodied practice. Service or experiential learning is another major point of emphasis. Students will develop their ability to question their knowledge, method, evidence, interpretation, experience, ethics, and power.
Requires participation in OCS Program: History, Culture, and Commerce: Africa and Arabia
- Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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100 or 200 level Africana Studies or History course and participation in OCS program
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HIST 285.07 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
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HIST 285.07 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
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HIST 360 Muslims and Modernity 6 credits
Through readings in primary sources in translation, we will discuss the major intellectual and cultural movements that have influenced Muslim thinkers from the nineteenth century on. Topics include modernism, nationalism, socialism, and fundamentalism.
Not open to first year students. First year students should register in HIST 267.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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At least one prior course in the history of the Middle East or Central Asia or Islam
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HIST 360.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 360.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 360.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 235 The Endless War on Terror 6 credits
In the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. launched the Global War on Terror to purportedly find, stop,and defeat every terrorist group with a global reach. Without question, the Global War on Terror has radically shaped everything from U.S. foreign policies and domestic institutions to civil liberties and pop culture. In this course, we will examine the events of 9/11 and then critically assess the immediate and long-term ramifications of the endless Global War on Terror on different states and communities around the world. While we will certainly spend time interrogating U.S. policies from the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, we will also examine reactions to those policies across both the global north and the global south.
- Winter 2021, Winter 2022
- International Studies Writing Requirement
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POSC 235.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 235.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 280 Feminist Security Studies 6 credits
Feminist security studies question and challenge traditional approaches to international relations and security, highlighting the myriad ways that state security practices can actually increase insecurity for many people. How and why does this security paradox exist and how do we escape it? In this class, we will explore the theoretical and analytical contributions of feminist security scholars and use these lessons to analyze a variety of policies, issues, and conflicts. The cases that we will cover include the UN resolution on women, peace, and security, Sweden’s feminist foreign policy, violence against women, and conflicts in Syria, Uganda, and Yemen.
- Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 280.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 280.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 282 Terrorism and Counterterrorism 6 credits
This course focuses on the historic and modern use of violence or the threat of violence by non-state actors to secure political outcomes. We will review the strategy and tactics of various terror groups, use case studies to understand the logic of terrorism, assess why some groups succeed while others fail, and study terrorist organizations’ efforts at recruitment and indoctrination. These topics will be addressed from theoretical and practical perspectives, with input from expert guest speakers. Finally, we will assess counterterrorism measures, including the moral, ethical, legal, and practical approaches to creating security in the modern world.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 282.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 282.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 8:15am-10:00am
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RELG 162 Jesus, the Bible, and Christian Beginnings 6 credits
This course introduces students to the diverse literature and theologies of the New Testament and to the origins and social worlds of early Christianity. Possible topics include: Jesus and his message; Paul and women’s spiritual authority; non-canonical gospels (Mary, Thomas, Judas, etc.); relations between Christians and Jews in the first century; and conflict with empire. Attention is given to the interpretation of New Testament texts in their ancient historical setting, and to the various ways contemporary scholars and groups interpret the New Testament as a source for theological reflection.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 162.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 344 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 162.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 162.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 221 Judaism and Gender 6 credits
Questions raised by feminism and gender studies have transformed religious traditions and dramatically changed the way scholars approach the study of religion. In this course, we will consider how reading Jewish tradition with attention to gender opens up new ways of understanding Jewish history, texts, theology and ritual. We will also consider how women and feminism have continually and newly envisioned Jewish life. We will interrogate how Jewish masculinity and femininity have been constituted through, reinforced by, and reclaimed/transformed in Jewish texts, law, prayer, theology, ethics and ritual, in communal as well as domestic contexts.
- Winter 2017, Fall 2018, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 221.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Shana Sippy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 221.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WGoodsell 03 9:50am-11:00am
- FGoodsell 03 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 221.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 235 Religion and Identity in the Medieval Middle East 6 credits
This course explores the emergence and formation of Islam as a faith in the medieval Middle East (sixth-eleventh centuries) and its impact on social relations and identities in the complex and evolving cultural and religious communities that populated this multifaceted region. Through close reading and discussion of primary sources (in translation) (Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Persian, Greek, and Latin) and scholarship, we will situate the development of Islam in the context of religious and social change in this period and to understand Islam’s role in the transformation of life in the region.
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RELG 235.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤 · William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 266 Modern Islamic Thought 6 credits
Through close reading of primary sources, this course examines how some of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Middle East and South Asia conceptualized God and the ideal God-human relationship to address such pressing questions as: How should religion relate to modern technological and scientific advancements? Can Islam serve as an ideology to counter European colonialism? Can Islam become the basis for the formation of social and political life under a nation-state, or does it demand a transnational political collectivity of its own? What would a modern Islamic economy look like?
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RELG 285 Islam in America: Race, Religion and Politics 6 credits
This course examines the history of Islam in America from the colonial period to the present. It contextualizes American Islam at the cross section of American religious history and modern Islamic history. While primarily focused on the politics of race and religion in America, the course also explores the influence of comparative theology and religious studies on conceptions of religious diversity; the relationship between race, religion and ideas of progress; the role of Islam in the civil rights movement and in nationalist movements in Muslim-majority societies; and the rise of militant Islam as a matter of global concern.
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RELG 285.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
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RELG 322 Apocalypse How? 6 credits
When will the world end, and how? What’s wrong with the world—morally, politically, naturally—such that people have seen its destruction as necessary or inevitable? Are visions of “The End” a form of sophisticated resistance literature, aimed at oppressive systems of power? Or are they evidence of a disturbed mind disconnected from reality? This seminar takes a deep dive into the contours of apocalyptic thought, which in its most basic form is about unmasking the deceptions of the given world by revealing the secret workings of the universe. We will begin with the earliest apocalypses, found in ancient Jewish and Christian texts, and move into modern religious and “secular” visions of cosmic collapse. Our approach will be historical and comparative, and we will explore topics ranging from doomsday cults to climate catastrophe, visions of heaven to tours of hell, malevolent angels to meddling UFOs, all the while asking how the apocalyptic imagination creates, as one thinker put it, “another world to live in.”
- Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 322.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 344 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 322.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 9:50am-11:00am
- FLibrary 344 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 322.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 303 12:00pm-1:00pm
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SOAN 201 Colonialism, Oil, And The War On Terror: The Global Middle East 6 credits
Through processes like colonialism, oil extraction, and the war on terror, the Middle East forms an important pivot, shaping global political and economic structures. This course will examine how the Middle East has developed in dynamic interaction with the wider globe. Yet, we will resist the urge to treat the Middle East merely as an object of Western intervention. Rather, we will explore how the West and wider globe are also shaped by this interaction. In particular, we will examine how ideas about modernity, secularism, and liberalism—key elements of contemporary Western identity—are shaped through dynamic interconnection with Middle East.
- Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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SOAN 201.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm