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Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ARAM188: The Middle East Since 1945
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Overview
| NQF Level | 7 | ||
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| Credits | 30 | ECTS Value | 15 |
| Term(s) and duration | This module ran during term 2 (11 weeks) | ||
| Academic staff | Professor William Gallois (Convenor) | ||
| Pre-requisites | None | ||
| Co-requisites | None | ||
| Available via distance learning | No | ||
This module deals with the history, culture and politics of the Arab World, Turkey and Iran after the Second World War. Its main aim is to study, in a general manner, the interaction between civil society and Islam, on the one hand, and the emergence of new ideologies, such as nationalism on the other. Moreover, Middle Eastern Societies are studied in the context of European rivalries, the Cold War and the onset of globalisation as defining characteristic s of a new world order. In this sense, modernity is understood to constitute a cluster of political, cultural and socio-economic developments which affected the internal dynamics of Middle Eastern history as well as the responses it elicited to meet the new challenges.
| Module created | 01/10/2007 | Last revised | 08/04/2013 |
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