Asian Languages & Civilization 359 - Inside Iran

Spring
2020
01
4.00
Monica Ringer
TTH 10:00AM-11:20AM
Amherst College
ASLC-359-01-1920S
CHAP 204
mmringer@amherst.edu
HIST-392-01,ASLC-359-01

(Offered as HIST 392 [ME/TC/TE] and ALSC 359) This seminar explores contemporary Iran from a historical and interdisciplinary perspective. The aim of the course is both to provide an overall understanding of the history of Iran, as well as those key elements of religion, literature, legend, and politics that together shape Iran's understanding of itself. We will utilize a wide variety of sources, including Islamic and local histories, Persian literature, architecture, painting and ceramics, film, political treatises, Shiite theological writing, foreign travel accounts, and U.S. state department documents, in addition to secondary sources. Two class meetings per week.

Recommended requisite: a survey course on the modern Middle East. Admission with consent of the instructor. Limited to 18 students. Not open to first-year students. Spring semester. Professor Ringer.

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