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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

HIS 356 - The Modern Middle East


3-0-3

Examination of the intellectual, political, and cultural transformations that have informed the modern Middle East since 1800.  Course will focus on 19th century reforms in the face of increasing western intervention, the effects of WWI on the Middle East, decolonization, and the competing ideologies of secular nationalism and Islamism in the 20th century.

PR: One 100 or 200 level history course or CI.