By the end of the course the students will be able to:

- Identify and analyze major impacts of Tanzimat reforms on the state apparatus, institutions, and society in the late Ottoman Empire.

- Demonstrate the impact of the 19th century revolutionary ideologies on the Ottoman state and society, constitutional experiences, emergence of nationalisms, and nationalist political organizations in the Ottoman Empire (1850-1914). 

- Identify effects of the late 19th and early 20th century wars on the Ottoman crisis, changes, and on foreign relations.