Course Descriptions
Spring Quarter (S22)
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HISTORY (S22) | 132H SOC MOBILZTN ISRAEL | BURSTEIN, A. |
This course applies the scholarship on collective action and social movements to the case of Israel, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of the social, religious, and ethnic conflicts that have shaped Israeli society and politics through a focus on the diverse movements that drove them. The course is divided into three parts: part one, Introduction to Social Movements and Contentious Politics, provides an overview of the theoretical foundations of social movement theory; part two, Israel: A Movement Society, explores the development of a range of movements which have shaped Israeli society since the pre-state era; and part three, Between War and Peace, involves an examination of the different types of mobilization that have developed around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Throughout the course students will be challenged to consider the shared patterns of mobilization reflected across cases, the connections between the development of Israeli social movements past and present, and the cumulative impact of the emergence of these movements on the shape of Israeli political institutions, governance and society. This course has no prerequisites, however students are expected to come to class having done the readings and prepared to actively engage in discussion. | ||
HISTORY (S22) | 130C JEWS OF SPAIN | LEHMANN, M. |
Spain was once home to the largest Jewish community in Europe. Throughout the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was a place of coexistence and conflict between Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Then, in 1492, as Spain was emerging as a unified state, defeated the last remaining Muslim kingdom on Iberian soil, and began to build its Atlantic empire, the Jews were expelled. Those Spanish Jews and their descendants, known as Sephardim, found new homes around the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic seaboard. They formed a diaspora within a diaspora – a unique Hispano-Jewish culture within the larger Jewish world – and formed a closely interconnected network, from Italy to North Africa, and from the Ottoman Empire to the Caribbean. This course will explore the history of the Sephardic Jews, from the beginnings in medieval Spain, the Inquisition, and the expulsion of 1492, to the emergence of a global diaspora in the early modern period, all the way to the disruptions and displacements of the age of colonialism, nationalism, and genocide in the twentieth century. | ||
COM LIT (S22) | 100A ARABS, JEWS, AND ARAB JEWS | MOR, L. |
CL100A: Arabs, Jews, and Arab Jews |
Courses Offered by the Jewish Studies Minor or other Schools at UCI
Spring Quarter (S22)
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