Module ARA3129 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA3129: Nationalisms in the Middle East
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Aims
By the end of this module students will:
- have gained an understanding of a variety of political, cultural and ideological dimensions associated to the historical development of nationalist movements in the Middle East;
- be able to appreciate the development of nationalism by evaluating the links between historical change and the transformation of Middle Eastern identities; and
- be able to apply abstract theoretical concepts about sociological and political understanding to concrete case studies, and to discuss how such concepts contribute (or not) to understanding of social and political behaviours.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. understand a variety of political, cultural and ideological dimensions associated to the historical development of nationalist movements in the Middle East; 2. appreciate the development of nationalism by evaluating the links between historical change and the transformation of Middle Eastern identities; |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. demonstrate the ability to work on primary sources under tutor guidance; 4. demonstrate the ability to relate case studies to conceptual and theoretical frameworks in order to foster original and independent thinking; 5. demonstrate the ability understand historical change from a multi-disciplinary perspective; |
Personal and Key Skills | 6. work independently and within a group, including participation in oral discussion; 7. demonstrate the ability to organise and process data to produce a coherent and argument, both orally and in writing. |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Smith, Anthony D. Nationalism, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, USA, 2001
I.Gershoni/J-Jankowsi, Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East, Columbia UP., 1997
M-J.Esman/I.Rabinovic, Ethnicity, Pluralism and the State in the Middle East, Ithaca Press, 1988
Arjomand, S.A. From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam, SUNY Press, 1984
Vali, Abbas (ed.) Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism, Costa Mesa, Mazda. 2003
Said, Edward W. The Questions of Palestine, Vintage, 1992.
Rose, Jacqueline, The Question of Zion, Princeton University Press, 2005.
see also the ELE page for the module at http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/