HIST 0687 - US IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers the history of political, economic, and cultural interaction between the United States and the Middle East beginning in the interwar period and continuing forward to the modern day. This course would concentrate on the history of American political and economic ambitions in the region from the 1920s and 1930s to the present. Themes to be explored in this course would include (in no specific order) oil and politics, Islam and the west, hard power versus soft power in diplomacy, American culture and politics post-9/11, and Palestine-Israel as it is conceived in the American mind. Course topics would proceed in a chronological order with details of each major political, diplomatic or military intervention in the Middle East in the twentieth century covered at length in course modules. Course topics would include analyses of the ramifications of American interventions in the region as well as a critique of contemporary U.S. foreign policy in the region.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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