Welcome to the History Program at Qatar University
We currently have more than thirty faculty members with teaching and research expertise covering the breadth of the discipline. Our mission is to cultivate students’ awareness of the historical causes that shape our present, and to provide them the necessary skills to identify and scrutinize the disparity between historical myths and realities. Our introductory and advanced courses, offered within a liberal education framework, emphasize critical analysis and reasoning, as well as written and oral communication skills that will prepare students to enter a variety of careers such as journalism, education, museum work, business, politics and public service, or to pursue graduate studies.
Students in the program can choose between three focus areas: History of the Gulf, Islamic History, and History of Europe. This diversity offers a unique range of opportunities, in line with the program’s primary educational objective, to provide high quality undergraduate education to QU students.
Students in our program are equipped with valuable knowledge, as well as with technical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, research, communication, and teamwork skills. This will empower them for their future careers in the educational and industrial sectors.
You will find on this website all the important details about this program. If you cannot locate it or you need more information, please contact the department office.
Educational objectives
- Encourage students to see cause and effect relationship over time and across civilizations by using a mixed chronological, thematic, and topical approach.
- Expand students’ ability to understand the chronological relationship between geography and history, resulting in an understanding of difference of lifestyles, cultures, and patterns of social interactions.
- Enhance students’ recognition and understanding of major turning points in history.
- Improve students’ communication skills by encouraging them to interpret, analyze, defend, and advocate positions via writing and oration, based on their study of global and regional history.
Learning Outcomes
Graduates of the History major will succeed in achievement and mastery of the program level learning outcomes below:
- Analyze the evolution and distinctive characteristics of global societies and cultures across different periods in history.
- Recognize the impact of interactions among major civilizations.
- Analyze the persistent pattern of continuity and change across world and regional history periods.
- Compare instances of equality and disparity, and human successes and failures in history.
- Interpret historical facts to draw conclusions.
- Develop information gathering, reasoning and synthesizing abilities through the examination of primary sources.
The program provides graduates opportunities in governmental organizations such as ministries, diplomatic offices, the media sector, authorities and councils, and also non-governmental organizations including hotels, tourism agencies and publishing houses. In addition, graduates are highly demanded for work at museums, libraries and research centers. Also, Qatar University, as well as other universities, have employment openings for graduates.
Items | CHs | Number of Courses |
|---|
| University Core Curriculum | 33 | 11 |
| Major Compulsory | 27 | 9 |
| Focus Area | 15 | 5 |
| Major Elective | 6 | 2 |
| Language Requirement | 6 | 2 |
| General Elective | 9 | 3 |
| Minor | 24 | 8 |
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Total |
120 |
40 |
MAJOR COMPULSORY
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HIST 103: An Introduction to History
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HIST 111: History of the Muslim World I (600-1187 C.E.).
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HIST 121: History of Qatar
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HIST 131: World History
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HIST 204: Historiography
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HIST 212: History of the Muslim World II 1187-1516 CE
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HIST 213: Modern Arab History I 1516-1919
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HIST 370: Modern Arab History since 1919
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HIST 407: Capstone Course
ISLAMIC HISTORY FOCUS
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HIST 217: Islamic Civilization
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HIST 314: Economic & Social History of the Muslim World
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HIST 318: History of Al-Andulus
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HIST 319: History of the Crusades (the Franks’ Invasion)
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HIST 320: History of Islamic Sects and Movements
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HIST 415: History of Science in Islam
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HIST 416: History of Islamic Arts and Architecture
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HIST 417: Topics in Islamic History
- The Spread of Islam in the World
- Military History in Islam
- History of Women in Islam
MODERN GULF HISTORY
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HIST 222: The Gulf in Modern Period
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HIST 322: Iran and its Neighbors
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HIST 323: Gulf -South Asian Relations in Modern and Contemporary History
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HIST 324: Economic History of the Gulf
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HIST 421: The Gulf and the Arab World
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HIST 425: Topics in Modern Gulf
- The Making of Modern State in the Gulf
- Gulf - Africa Relations
- Reform Movements in the Gulf
- Social and Cultural Trends in the Arabian Gulf
- Women and Society in the Arabian Gulf
EUROPEAN HISTORY
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HIST 231: Europe and the World since 1500 CE
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HIST 331: Ancient Greece and Rome 1200 BCE to 500 CE
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HIST 332: Medieval Europe, 500 to 1400 CE
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HIST 333: The Renaissance and Reformation 1400- 1648
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HIST 337: The Age of Absolutism and Revolution 1648 to 1815
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HIST 431: Nationalism and its Consequences 1815 to 1914
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HIST 432: Europe Between the Two World Wars 1914-1945
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HIST 434: Topics in European History
MAJOR ELECTIVES
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HIST 334: Arabian Gulf in Antiquity
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HIST 336: Women and Gender in the Ancient Near East
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HIST 380: The Making of Modern America
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HIST 390: The History of Modern China and Japan
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HIST 426: Oil and Politics
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HIST 427: Muslim Minorities in the World
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HIST 436: Intellectual History of Europe in the 20th Century
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HIST 470: Modern Latin American History
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INTA 345: Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict