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HIST 337 Multiculturalism in the Ottoman Empire Units: 3.00
For nearly half a millennium, the Ottoman Empire ruled large parts of Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. In this course, we will consider the diversity of people and places within the Ottoman Empire through first-hand accounts by the Sultan's Muslim, Christian, and Jewish subjects. We will also study the commentaries of European visitors and others outside the Sultan's rule. The course also examines how the Ottomans succeeded in holding these diverse populations together for so long and how the empire came to unravel over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Learning Hours: 144 (36 Seminar, 108 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a HIST Major or Joint Honours Plan and a minimum grade of C+ in 6.0 units from HIST 300-330.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Acquire an understanding of the rise and development of tri-continental Ottoman Empire.
- Develop a critical and complex understanding of the challenges of multi-religious and multi-ethnic societies.
- Study individual Ottoman communities in the empire and their relationship to one another.
- Interpret memoirs and primary source materials that document life in a multi-religious society.
- Learn to extrapolate historically specific examples of multiculturalism as a means of comparison and contrast with other historical contexts.