Modern Armenian History Course to be Offered at UC Irvine
By Asbarez
Mar 19th, 2010

IRVINE-The University of California at Irvine has scheduled a course
in modern Armenian history for this spring quarter. The 4-unit class
was offered for the first time last spring and it will be taught again
this year by Dr. Levon Marashlian, professor of history at Glendale
Community College.

History 183, Modern Armenian History, is a survey of major
developments from 1800 to the present. Topics that the course covers
include Armenians in the Ottoman and Russian empires, the Armenian
Question, the Armenian Genocide and its consequences, the first
Republic of Armenia, the treaties of Sèvres and Lausanne, Soviet
Armenia, the Karabakh conflict, re-establishment of Armenia’s
independence in 1991 and its relations with the Diaspora, Turkey, and
the United States up to 2010.

The class is centered on extensive use of specially compiled video
material, including rare material from years and decades ago. Using
the video screen as a sort of interactive blackboard to augment the
lectures and reading assignments, the instructor moves from one
segment to another, pausing frequently to provide further explanation
and spark discussion with students.

Professor Marashlian explains that `the learning experience is
enhanced by the real footage of people and events in documentaries and
television news reports that not only provide historical information,
but themselves become part of the historical record because they
reflect the contrasting ways a particular event or issue was
interpreted at a particular time.’

The course is scheduled for Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 to 6:20 pm,
beginning March 30. For more information, please contact the UCI
Department of History at 949-824-6521 or the instructor directly at
818-240-1000 ext. 5463.