History

• CAS HI 591: The Making of the Modern Middle East
  Examines the modern Middle East, with its new and old states and its current contested frontiers, as a product of European rivalries in the region in war and peace, 1798-1922. Also offered as CAS IR 591.
• CAS HI 594: The Armenian Genocide
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor.
  Examines the emergence of the Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire as a national and international issue. Analysis of Armenian-Turkish relations after the Young Turk revolution in 1908. Focuses on the processes of genocide, survivor memory, and international responses.
• CAS HI 595: Morocco: History on the Cusp of Three Continents
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor.
  Explores the range and limits of social mixture - cultural, political, economic - as three civilizations met at the northwest corner of Africa and influenced one another from the eighth to the twenty-first centuries.
• CAS HI 596: Muslim Societies: An Interdisciplinary History
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor.
  Examines the states, empires, faiths, and ideologies of the Muslim world over a 1500-year period, including states from North and West Africa, through the Middle East, to Turkey, Iran, and then to Central and Southeast Asia. Also offered as CAS AH 539, AN 548, and RN 563.
• CAS HI 597: Diasporas and Identity
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor
  History of diasporan commercial networks during the past four centuries in the West and other parts of the world, and emergence of modern global political economy. Focuses on transformation from exilic nationalism to diasporization, transnationalism, and deterritorialization of diasporic identity.