The Ottoman Empire was one of the most significant world empires in history beginning in the Medieval period and finally collapsing just over one hundred years ago. The empire spanned, for much of its history, the Balkans, North Africa, the Arab world, Anatolia, and the Island of the Eastern Mediterranean. The empire was composed of diverse sets of peoples including Orthodox Greeks, Sephardic Jews, Armenians, and Turkish and Arab Muslims. The spatial and social diversity of the Ottoman Empire highlights the empire’s historic importance for any student who wishes to understand the pre-histories of the modern Middle East, the Balkans, or the Mediterranean world. This course will provide a survey for students on the history of the Ottoman Empire from its inception at the end of the 13th century to its collapse at the end of the first world war in 1918. The course will provide an overview of the political, social, and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire using both secondary and primary source material. Topics which this course covers include the following; empire, orientalism, gender, law, conversion, nationalism, and identity formation.
- Instructor: Tyler Kynn
Category: Fall 2019-2020
elcome to MTH 153! We're going to be learning about discrete mathematics this
semester, which means that we get to talk about a variety of different
subjects like combinatorics, number theory, and graph theory. We're also
going to be talking about mathematical logic and proof-writing, and
spending some time learning to typeset math using LaTeX code.