Course Descriptions

Term:

Global Middle East

Spring Quarter (S18)

Dept/Description Course No., Title  Instructor
HISTORY (S18)132E  ARMENIANS MODERNBERBERIAN, H.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Asias (Nation, Culture, and Diaspora), Global Middle East

This course covers the most important themes in the history of Armenians and Armenia in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and does so within a regional (i.e., Middle East and Caucasus) and global context. It focuses on the Armenians living in ancestral lands within the Russian and Ottoman empires as well as those living outside, especially in the post-genocide period. It examines the problems and impact of imperialism, revolution, and genocide on the development of the history of Armenians. This course will proceed in chronological order from imperial rule in the nineteenth century through twentieth-century genocide, brief independence, sovietization, and independence again, but it will also have a strong thematic approach. As we explore this history, we will focus not only on Armenians as imperial and national subjects in ancestral lands but also as transimperial and transnational subjects in a diaspora that has had a complex relationship with the idea and reality of homeland. Readings include secondary and primary sources by and about Armenians themselves.
Days: MO WE  12:30-01:50 PM

HISTORY (S18)130F  JEWS AND POWERKOPSTEIN, J.
GLBL ME (S18)60C  SOCECO PROB&METHODSLE VINE, M.
Emphasis/Category: Global Middle East

Introduces students to the broad set of approaches to studying the Middle East as a global zone of cultural, political, and economic interaction, focusing on the disciplines related to Social Ecology.
Days: TU TH  09:30-10:50 AM

HISTORY (S18)131B  ANCIENT PERSIAMOUSAVI, A
Emphasis/Category: Locating Asias (Nation, Culture, and Diaspora), Global Middle East

This survey course is designed to introduce students to the history of ancient Iran, from the earliest times to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the seventh century. In a chronological sequence, we will look at the history of Iran before the Iranians, the formidable Elamite civilization and the history of its rise, apogee, and decline; the emergence of Iranian speaking people on the Plateau, and the formation of ancient Iranian empires and their development and expansion throughout the late Sasanian period. For this purpose a selection of ancient Iranian texts will be studied in translation based on the relevant archaeological, historical, and geographical sources.
Days: MO WE  08:00-09:20 AM

GEN&SEX (S18)155  GEN&SOCIAL MID EASTSAMEH, C.
Emphasis/Category: Global Middle East

This course will explore social movements in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) that mobilize a politics of gender and/or feminism. While the focus will be on 20th and 21st century movements, we will also consider these efforts as part of particular historical legacies, contexts, and conditions. What issues have been central to the political organization of women and others concerned with gender justice? What strategies and methods have activists and citizens used to create social change? How have social movements contended with colonialism, nationalism, war, religion, patriarchy, globalization, modernization, and The War on Terror? In what ways has gender been central to social and political change? We will investigate movements coming out of specific countries, and examine regional and transnational collaborations and networks. Along with required readings, class lectures and discussions, and guest speakers, we will watch and analyze films and other forms of visual culture that explore and represent gender and social change in the Middle East.
Days: TU TH  09:30-10:50 AM

Courses Offered by Global Cultures or other Schools at UCI

Global Middle East

Spring Quarter (S18)

Dept Course No., Title   Instructor
INTL ST (S18)161A  POLITICAL ISLAMPETROVIC, B.

Emphasis/Category: Global Middle East
Political Islamd is a diverse phenomenon. While noticeable barriers exist to "Islamist democracy," it is the Islamists who will define the political future of much of the Muslim world. Reviews the experience of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey, and Indonesia.

INTL ST (S18)179  GEN&SOCIAL MID EASTSAMEH, C.

Emphasis/Category: Global Middle East
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