History 499: Americans and the Middle East
Class Schedule
last revised: 8/20/09
Note: C&B refers to the Cleveland and Bunton textbook
Week One

Aug. 27 Introduction to class
Theme: Late Nineteenth-early Twentieth Century Beginnings
Week Two:  Context and background to Middle East history
Sep. 1- Sep. 3 
Read: C&B,  Ch.1-2 and Ch. 7-9.  Take the ungraded quiz. 
Week Three: Beginnings of a relationship
Sep. 8-Sep. 10
Read: Anti-Americanism in the Arab World; Mark Twain, "Selections"; American Orientalism (all on eres)
Hold a class discussion; Forum discussion #1 due by Sep. 11th
Week Four: Missionaries
Sep. 15- Sep. 17 Read: American Evangelicals, Ch. 2; Fifty Three Years in Syria; Evangelization or Education; The Modern Missionary; Liberal Education at the American University of Beirut (all on eres)
Hold a discussion; Forum discussion #2 due by Sep. 18th
Theme: Post World War I "fair dealings" (?)
Week Five: American intervention
Sep. 22-Sep. 24:  Read: Wilson's Fourteen points; The Report of the King-Crane Commission; the Balfour Declaration; The Ironic Legacy of the King-Crane Commission; (eres)
Hold a discussion; Forum discussion #3 and news response #1
Week Six

Sep. 29
Oct. 1

Hold a discussion; Forum discussion #4
Week Seven

Oct. 6
Oct. 8 No class: October break

 
Week Eight

Oct. 13
Oct. 15
Hold a discussion; Forum discussion #5
Week Nine

Oct. 20
Oct. 22
Hold a discussion; Forum discussion #6
Week Ten

Oct. 27
Oct. 29
 
Week Eleven

Nov. 3
Nov. 5
Week Twelve

Nov. 10
Nov. 12
Week Thirteen

Nov. 17
Nov. 19
Week Fourteen
Nov. 24
No class: Middle East Studies Association and Thanksgiving
 
Week Fifteen
Dec. 1
Dec. 3
Week Sixteen

Dec. 8 No class: Christmas on campus and Feast of the Assumption
Dec. 10