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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2015 through Summer 2017
- Course Number:
- HST 104
- Course Title:
- History of the Middle East
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Surveys the Middle East from ancient to modern times. Includes political, diplomatic, economic, social, religious and cultural themes. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion students should be able to:
- Articulate and interpret an understanding of key historical facts and events in the history of the Middle East.
- Identify the influence of culturally based practices, values, and beliefs to analyze how historically defined meanings of difference affect human behavior.
- Identify and investigate historical theses, evaluate information and its sources, and use appropriate reasoning to construct evidence-based arguments on historical issues.
- Construct a well organized historical argument using effective, appropriate, and accurate language.
Social Inquiry and Analysis
Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to apply methods of inquiry and analysis to examine social contexts and the diversity of human thought and experience.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Assess by using any combination of the following:
- Exams
- Essays
- Oral presentations
- Research projects
- Service-learning projects
- Class participation and discussion
- Other creative assignments
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Competencies and Skills:
- Identify the characteristics of Middle Eastern civilization
- Identify key political, geographical, social, economic and cultural aspects of Middle Eastern civilization
- Appraise how civilization changed over time
- Analyze and evaluate primary and secondary sources
- Connect evidence to its relevant historical context
- Evaluate different interpretations of past events and construct your own
- Recognize and understand the basis for various interpretations and views of historical issues
- Identify an historian's thesis and supporting evidence
- Select what is important from a large body of material
- Connect past and present
Themes, Concepts, Issues:
- Geography and natural environment of Southwest Asia and North Africa
- Pre-Islamic Middle East
- Political and religious development of the Hebrews
- Mohammed and the emergence of Islam
- The early Caliphate and the expansion of Arab Culture
- Umayyad and Abbasid eras
- The evolution of Islam and Islamic civilization
- Fatimid and Mamluk Egypt
- Forces of fragmentation such as Shiism, Crusades, Mongols
- Rise of the Ottoman Empire
- Evolution and decline of the Ottoman Empire
- The Safavid Dynasty
- Imperialism and impact of WWI on the Middle East
- Emergence of the modern states of the Middle East
- Zionism and Arab Nationalism
- Arab-Israeli conflict and the peace process
- Oil and economic development in the twentieth century
- Iranian Revolution and Islamism
- United States and the Middle East
Considering such factors as:
- Geography
- Social hierarchy
- Institutions
- Political and economic structures
- Law
- Cultural contributions
- Philosophies and religions
- Gender
- Diversity