REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:

 1.  Reference secondary and tertiary sources to construct knowledge and to develop context.

 2.  De-construct complex and multiple sources of information into basic historical concepts.

 3.  Recognize the impact of continuity and change of historical perspective in context of time and space in the Modern Middle East.

 4.  Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.

 5.  Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in the Modern Middle East.

 6.  Analyze events in the Modern Middle East in historical context to illustrate how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality, and other identities affect historical perspectives.

 7.  Use diverse resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies, and archives.

 8.  Identify perspectives in historical interpretation using secondary sources.

 9.  Identify types of primary sources, their perspective, and purpose of their author.

 10. Create substantive writing samples that employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources with appropriate citations.

 11. Construct knowledge by developing historical narratives from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts.

 12. Identify historiography and evaluate many points of view to build historical arguments within the Modern Middle East.

 REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 I.    Introduction

        A.  Defining the Middle East

        B.  History of Islam to 1800

 II.    Europe and the Middle East

        A.  The Late Ottoman Empire

        B.  European colonialism

        C.  Responses to colonialism

 III.  The struggle for independence

        A.  World War I and its aftermath

        B.  Nationalist movements in the Middle East

        C.  Other reform movements

        D.  World War II in the Middle East

 IV.   The independent Middle East, 1942-1967

        A.  Israel and Palestine

        B.  Arab nationalism

        C.  The Cold War in the Middle East

 V.    The independent Middle East, 1967-1991

        A.  Consolidation of authoritarian regimes

        B.  OPEC and the politics of oil

        C.  Iranian Revolution and Islamic fundamentalism

        D.  Gulf War

 VI.   Revolution and reform in the Middle East, 1991-2013

        A.  Challenges to the existing order

        B.  Intifada and Middle East politics

        C.  Iraq War

        D.  “Arab Spring”