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3650 Syllabus3 Professor Chester Spring 2013 Hellems 225 Office Hours: Thursday 1-3pm and by appointment [email protected] IAFS/JWST 3650: HISTORY OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT <www.colorado.edu/history/chester/IAFS-JWST3650.htm> This course explores the origins and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Beginning with Arab-Jewish relations in the late-nineteenth century, it examines the development of conflict between the two groups during the period of the Palestine Mandate, the evolution of Arab and Jewish nationalisms, the creation of Israel, subsequent international conflicts, and present-day relations. Themes include conflicting narratives; borders, boundaries, and cartography; the role of images such as maps and photographs in the formation of public opinion; and the international context. Students will acquire critical thinking and writing skills and develop a better understanding of the roots of contemporary conflict. Prior knowledge of Jewish, Muslim, or Middle Eastern history or international affairs will be helpful but is not required. The course is organized in four sections: an introduction to reading conflicting narratives, early Arab-Jewish relations, the Palestine Mandate period, and post-1948 Arab-Israeli relations. Lecture topics are indicated below. Course requirements include a map/plagiarism quiz, midterm exam, final exam, and 10-15 page research paper, with a paper proposal and primary source exercise to be submitted during the semester. The workload for this course is heavy, with close to 100 pages of reading during some weeks. REQUIRED READING Textbooks (available at CU bookstore): Benny Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 (New York: Vintage Books, 2001) Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 8th ed (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013) Ereserves (available on library website): Musa Alami, “The Lesson of Palestine,” Middle East Journal 3:4 (Oct 1949): 372-405 Guy Ben-Porat, “Markets and Fences: Illusions of Peace,” The Middle East Journal 60:2 (Spring 2006): 311-328 Moshe Dayan, “Israel's Border and Security Problems,” Foreign Affairs 33:1/4 (1954/1955): 250-267 Laura Sittrain Eisenberg and Neil Caplan, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities, 2nd ed (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2010): 1-31, 253-299 Gregory Harms with Todd Ferry, The Palestine-Israel Conflict, 3rd ed (London: Pluto Press, 2005): xviii-xxi, 1-43 Eric Hobsbawm, “The Nation as Invented Tradition,” in The Invention of Tradition, eds Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (Cambridge: CUP, 1992): 1-14 Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin, eds, The Israel-Arab Reader, 7th ed. (New York: Penguin, 2008): excerpts IAFS/JWST 3650 DRAFT SYLLABUS 2 Paul Charles Merkley, The Politics of Christian Zionism, 1891-1948 (London: Frank Cass, 1998): 37-58 Ernst Renan, "What is a Nation?", Nation and Narration, ed. Homi Bhabha (London: Routledge, 1990): 8-22. Jonathan Rynhold, “Israel’s Fence: Can Separation Make Better Neighbours?” Survival 46:1 (Spring 2004): 55-76 Paul L. Scham, “The Historical Narratives of Israelis and Palestinians and the Peacemaking Process,” Israel Studies Forum 21:2 (2006): 58-84 “Successive Drafts and Final Version of the Balfour Declaration,” in Leonard Stein, The Balfour Declaration (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961): 664 Online reading: CU Honor Code <honorcode.colorado.edu/student-information/what-violation> ASSIGNMENTS MAP/PLAGIARISM QUIZ—JANUARY 22 Students will have an opportunity to retake this quiz (Jan 31); those who do will receive the average of the two quiz grades. PAPER PROPOSAL (1-2 pages)—DUE FEBRUARY 26 Identify a topic in Arab-Israeli history that you will address in your final paper. Specify the question or questions you will attempt to answer and the methods you will use to do so. Include a preliminary bibliography of relevant secondary accounts. MIDTERM EXAM—MARCH 12 The midterm will include short-answer questions and one essay selected from several choices. PAPER DRAFT AND IN-CLASS WORKSHOP (5-8 pages)—DUE WEEK THIRTEEN FINAL PAPER (10-15 pages)—DUE APRIL 25 This is a research paper and you must make an argument based on primary sources and/or secondary readings. The paper must include a literature review. You may not use internet sources for this paper, with the exception of news accounts and scholarly journal articles, unless you have my permission to do so (in other words, don’t rely on Wikipedia). FINAL EXAM—MONDAY, MAY 6, 1:30-4:00PM The format of the final will be similar to that of the midterm exam. Be warned: If attendance and/or attention flags, I may conduct in-class quizzes or add other assignments. In this case, I will adjust the grading percentages accordingly and announce the new percentages in class. GRADING Grades will be determined on the basis of map/plagiarism quiz (10%); paper proposal (10%); midterm exam (20%); paper draft (10%): final paper (30%); and final exam (20%). If you need an extension, discuss it with me in advance. I do not offer makeup exams except under extraordinary circumstances (e.g. a medical emergency or death in the family). IAFS/JWST 3650 DRAFT SYLLABUS 3 Late work will be penalized one-third of a letter grade for each day it is late. For example, a B+ paper submitted two days late would receive a B-. Papers submitted after the beginning of class will be considered one day late. RELIGIOUS OBLIGATIONS AND CLASS CONFLICTS Campus policy regarding religious observances requires that faculty make every effort to deal reasonably and fairly with all students who, because of religious obligations, have conflicts with scheduled exams, assignments or required attendance. In this class, if you have a conflict with exams, assignments, or class meetings because of religious obligations, please let me know at least two weeks in advance. We will work together to arrange appropriate accommodations. See full details at http://www.colorado.edu/policies/fac_relig.html CU DISABILITY SERVICES If you qualify for accommodations because of a disability, please submit to me a letter from Disability Services in a timely manner (for exam accommodations provide your letter at least one week prior to the exam) so that your needs can be addressed. Disability Services determines accommodations based on documented disabilities. Contact Disability Services at 303-492-8671 or by e-mail at [email protected]. If you have a temporary medical condition or injury, see Temporary Injuries under Quick Links at Disability Services website (http://disabilityservices.colorado.edu/) and discuss your needs with me. PLAGIARISM Plagiarism will not be tolerated. As a violation of the CU Honor Code and the university’s policy on Academic Integrity, it is punishable by dismissal from the university. We will discuss proper citation in class, but you are responsible for familiarizing yourself with the meanings of plagiarism; “Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement,” published by Dartmouth College, is an excellent resource, available online at <www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/sources>. A key element of the university Honor Code is that CU students will not plagiarize (that is, use the words or thoughts of others as their own). As part of the effort to control plagiarism and to ensure that submitted works from students are fully their own, the university has subscribed to TurnItIn.com. As the Honor Code website notes, “This service allows faculty to submit sentences, paragraphs, or entire term/research papers or other scholarly works to the TurnItIn.com website for review. After the service scans more than 1.5 billion pages on the Internet, the faculty member will receive a report including the percentage of the material that has been identified as drawn from other sources, the degree of similarity in the matching material, and live hyperlinks to the original source material so that each faculty member can determine for themselves whether plagiarism has indeed occurred.” The electronic files submitted will then become part of the TurnItIn “closed database.” According to the Honor Code website, “This procedure not only ensures that multiple submissions of the same material can be detected, regardless of the passage of time or the location of the submission, but protects the integrity of each student's scholarly efforts. No additional access to, use, or publication of the material in this paper bank is made by TurnItIn.com.” IAFS/JWST 3650 DRAFT SYLLABUS 4 It is my intention to submit all student papers to TurnItIn.com, to give a grade of F in the course to any student in violation of the CU Honor Code, and to refer incidents of plagiarism to the Honor Code Council. Note that you cannot submit the same paper for two different classes without the express permission of both instructors. All students of the University of Colorado at Boulder are responsible for knowing and adhering to the academic integrity policy of this institution. Violations of this policy may include: cheating, plagiarism, aid of academic dishonesty, fabrication, lying, bribery, and threatening behavior. All incidents of academic misconduct shall be reported to the Honor Code Council ([email protected]; 303-735-2273). Students who are found to be in violation of the academic integrity policy will be subject to both academic sanctions from the faculty member and non-academic sanctions (including but not limited to university probation, suspension, or expulsion). Other information on the Honor Code can be found at http://www.colorado.edu/policies/honor.html and at http://honorcode.colorado.edu. If you have any questions about this procedure or about any matter regarding proper citation and the Honor Code, ask me. OFFICE HOURS AND EMAIL Coming to my office hours (listed above) is the best way to get immediate feedback. Email should be reserved for questions I can answer in a sentence or two. I aim to reply to emails within 3 business days.
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