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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Islamic & Middle East Stud.
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Liat Kozma
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Prof. Liat Kozma
Course/Module description:
The course will examine th history of public health, medicine and disease in the Middle East and North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will examine how political processes (such as the demise of the Ottoman Empire, colonial occupations and the foundation of nation states), epidemics, migrations and scientific breakthroughs affected health and sanitation in our region
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Reading skills:
How to read an academic article.
Finding the article's structure and argument.
Analysing primary sources of various types.
Location secondary source for academic assignments.
Writing skills:
Writing a clear and well-structured paragraph.
Properly writing references and bibliography.
Building and argument and structuring the assignment according to the argument.
Summarizing and paraphrasing article without plagiarism.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
Introduction: structure and goals, the definition of the historical discipline
Reading an article: Facts and historical writing
Reading an article: Summary and argument structure
Reading an article: A critical reading and underlying assumptions
Reading a primary source
Reading a primary source in comparison to a secondary source
Looking for secondary sources, plagiarism.
A visit to the libary
Different sources on the same historical questions
Using digital tools for data analysis
Conceptualizing historical questions
Required Reading:
Davidovitch, Nadav, and Zalman Greenberg. “Public Health, Culture, and Colonial Medicine: Smallpox and Variolation in Palestine during the British Mandate.” Public Health Reports 112 (2007), 398-406.
Jennifer Derr, “The Body of the Nile: Environmental Disease in the Long Twentieth Century,” The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History, edited by Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), 89-103.
Khayat, Nicole, and Liat Kozma. “Medicine and Arabic Literary Production in the Ottoman Empire during the Nineteenth Century.” British Journal for the History of Science 55 (2022): 515–24.
Stolz, Daniel A. 2017. “The Voyage of the Samannud: Pilgrimage, Cholera, and Empire on an Ottoman-Egyptian Steamship Journey in 1865-66.” International Journal of Turkish Studies 23 (1/2): 1–18.
Baron, Beth. “Midwives and Childbirth During Colonial and Semi-Colonial Rule,” The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History, edited by Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), 32-55.
Strachan, John. 2006. “The Pasteurization of Algeria?” French History 20 (2006): 260–75.
Additional Reading Material:
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 40 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 60 %
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