Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George
NMC278H1
Modern Middle East: A Historical Introduction
What was the average?
A-
3.7 GPA across 1 observed term. Most recent: Fall 2023.
How is it graded?
Not yet verified
No syllabus we can lawfully use has been verified for this course.
How confident is this?
Low
A small number of terms, so read it as a range. The most recent observation is several years old.
From the calendar
Official source · Faculty of Arts & ScienceSpanning the early nineteenth century to the present, this course examines how state-building, reform, imperialism, nationalism, capitalism, and mass politics reshaped Arabic-speaking societies alongside Ottoman/Turkish and Iranian worlds. We situate local histories within global currents such as European empires, oil, migration, the Arab–Israeli wars, and the Cold War, asking how authority, community, and citizenship were made and contested. Attending to borderlands and diasporas, we also foreground Armenians, Kurds, Azeris, Jewish communities, and Greeks, tracing the entangled histories of genocide, displacement, and memory that continue to shape the region’s intellectual and political landscape. Organized chronologically around weekly themes—imperial reform, colonial rule, sectarianism, resistance, public culture, technocracy, and citizenship—the course integrates primary sources, maps, images, and short films. In later weeks, we consider the politics of representation and violence in the age of globalization and the “war on terror.” Students build historical and media literacy, practice comparative analysis, and reflect critically on the category “Middle East”: what counts as the region, and what lies beyond its conventional boundaries.
- Prerequisite
- None listed
- Contact hours
- 24 lecture · 12 tutorial
- Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.
Recommended preparation — not required
NMC103H1
The calendar advises these before taking NMC278H1. You can enrol without them.
What people actually got
Last observed Fall 20231 term observed
This is a student-contributed aggregate, not an official University of Toronto record. It is also not a measure of how hard the course is — a course average moves with who enrols in it, not only with the material.
The newest observation is from Fall 2023. Instructors, weighting and exam format may all have changed since — treat this as history, not a forecast.
This rests on 1 reported term. It is shown because hiding it would not make it less true, but one or two results are a datapoint, not a distribution — a single unusual cohort moves this number a long way.
What we don’t have yet
Source ledger
Report an error →| Claim | Source | Captured | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours | Faculty of Arts & Science | 2026-07-25 | public fact |
| Historical average across 1 term | Student contributions, consented | 2026-07-25 | user contributed aggregate |
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