Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Contemporary South Asia

Courses

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Pre-Approved courses for Spring 2024

MAJOR CONTENT HUMANITIES

ANTH 1253 | The Visual and the Written in Anthropology: Fruzzetti’s Documentary Films and Ethnographic Research | L. Fruzzetti | T 4-6:30p

ARTS 1008 | Heart as Vector: Thinking Across the Arts with Shahzia Sikander | H. Shaffer | F 12-2:30p

COST/RELS 0035 | Saints and Mystics of India | S. Reddy | TTh 10:30-11:50a 

COST/RELS 0525 | The History and Practice of Yoga in India and Beyond | F. Moore-Gerety | T 4-6:30p

HIST 0690C | Cities of the Global South | O. Ahmad | F 3-5:30p

HIST 1958C | History beyond Empires and Nations: Kashmir 1846-2020 | S. Yaseen | T 4-6:30p

RELS 0980Q | Contestations Within Political Islam | S. Yaseen | M 3-5:30p

RELS 2400D | Islamic Pasts and Futures | S. Bashir | Th 4-6:30p

SAST 0700C | Current Debates in Modern South Asia | Nomaan Hasan | M 3-5:30p

MAJOR CONTENT SOCIAL SCIENCES

IAPA 1001 | Foundations of Development | A. Varshney | TTh 2:30-3:50p

SOC/HIST 1954H | The City in Strife: Mapping Segregations, Inequality, Insurrection | Zamindar / Heller | M 3-50p

MINOR CONTENT HUMANITIES

AMST 2221C | Afro-Asian America: Intraminority Relations in Historical Perspective | S. Lee | Th 2-4:30p

ARCH 2635 | An Empire without Bounds: The Roman Empire in its ‘Global’ Context | T. Franconi | W 3-5:30p

COST/RELS 0032 | Music and Meditation | S. Reddy | T 4-6:30p

ETHN 1200N | Introduction to Asian American History | S. Lee | TTh 9-10:20a  

HIAA 0077 | Revolutions, Illusions, Impressions: A History of Nineteenth-Century Art | H. Shaffer | T/Th 9-10:20a

HIST 1267 | The Global British Empire, 1600-The Present | T. Bains | MWF 10-10:50a

RELS 1425 | Buddhist Poetry | J. Protass | W 3-5:30p    

MINOR CONTENT SOCIAL SCIENCES

POLS 0200 | Introduction to Comparative Politics | G. Dipoppa | TTh 10:30-11:50a

SOC 2050 | Contemporary Sociology | P. Heller | W 9a-12p

URBN 0215 | Urban Life in the Global South | L. Yapp | TTh 1-2:20p

LANGUAGE

HNDI 0200 | Beginning Hindi or Urdu | A. Koul | MTWTHF 12-12:50p

HNDI 0400 | Intermediate Hindi-Urdu | A. Koul | MTWTHF 1-1:50p

HNDI 1080 | Advanced Hindi-Urdu | A. Koul | MWF 9-9:50a

SANS 0100 | Elementary Sanskrit I | D. Buchta | MWF 1-1:50p

SANS 0300 | Sanskrit Epic Narrative | D. Buchta | TBA

Prior Semesters: 

Fall 2023 — Spring 2023 — Fall 2022 — Spring 2022 — Fall 2021 — Summer 2021 — Spring 2021 — Fall 2020 — Spring 2020 — Fall 2019 — Spring 2019 — Fall 2018 —  Spring 2018 — Fall 2017