HIST 111B
Topics in Middle Eastern History: Early Modern
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of Istanbul in Ottoman period (1453 to 1923); relationship between history and literary imagination and view of history as dialogue between past and present; scholarly debate on urban history of early-modern Middle East; introduction to corpus of theories (world economy paradigm) through discussion of Ottoman port cities. May be repeated for maximum of 16 units with topic and/or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2019 - This class was broken down into two quizzes (5% each), attendance and participation (15%), midterm (20%), Papers (25% but you write 3), and a take home final (30%). Her lectures were interesting and easy to follow along. The papers were only 3-4 pages with the final being a 4-6 page paper. She gave enough information in class and the assigned readings posted on ccle that the papers were quite simple to write. She's a generous grader. I would take a class with her again and I would recommend a class with her. Her accent can be difficult to understand on some words if you don't know or aren't familiar with Arabic so it's better to sit in the front. She posts all her slides on ccle and she cares more that people understand the culture and concepts she is presenting rather than being an aggressive tester. Very nice during office hours and helpful.
Fall 2019 - This class was broken down into two quizzes (5% each), attendance and participation (15%), midterm (20%), Papers (25% but you write 3), and a take home final (30%). Her lectures were interesting and easy to follow along. The papers were only 3-4 pages with the final being a 4-6 page paper. She gave enough information in class and the assigned readings posted on ccle that the papers were quite simple to write. She's a generous grader. I would take a class with her again and I would recommend a class with her. Her accent can be difficult to understand on some words if you don't know or aren't familiar with Arabic so it's better to sit in the front. She posts all her slides on ccle and she cares more that people understand the culture and concepts she is presenting rather than being an aggressive tester. Very nice during office hours and helpful.
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Good Lecturer and a funny guy who really knows his stuff on Arab Provinces in the Ottoman Empire, the experience only got better with Nefertiti as my TA, she was awesome! Anyways, discussion section, final, midterm make up the grade in this class, and it's not a terribly hard class, but the readings were very complex, nevertheless take him, he's really cool!
Good Lecturer and a funny guy who really knows his stuff on Arab Provinces in the Ottoman Empire, the experience only got better with Nefertiti as my TA, she was awesome! Anyways, discussion section, final, midterm make up the grade in this class, and it's not a terribly hard class, but the readings were very complex, nevertheless take him, he's really cool!
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