Middle Eastern Studies: Debating a Discipline, 7.5 ECTS
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This course provides an introduction to Middle Eastern studies as an interdisciplinary practice, by highlighting the historical development of the field and its relation to other area studies in the humanities and social sciences, as well as the historical links between the field and other academic disciplines and theoretical perspectives, such as anthropology and postcolonial theory.
The course also highlights contemporary debates within the field, with particular focus on historiographical and methodological discussions. The underlying aim of the course is to examine the extent to which Western social science theories and narratives of Western modernity are suitable for the study of non-Western societies, by examining a wide range of historiographical traditions, theoretical paradigms and methodological debates that so far has shaped Middle Eastern Studies. In connection to this the course will also deal with topics such as fundamentalism, secularism, modernity, patrimonialism, authoritarianism, and transition to democracy.
Area of interests: Human, Social and Political Sciences, and Law
Are you interested in human beings and society? How we function individually and together, what drives us, our learning processes, how rules and laws have been established, and how we interact with each other? If that is the case we have a lot to offer. This area of interest covers anything from Pedagogy, Psychology and Gender Studies, to Statistics, Political Science, Law and many other subjects. Their common denominator is the relation between human beings and society, independent analytical thinking and often an international perspective.