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

Courses

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SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES

Spring 2025 Undergraduate Classes

Language Classes:

HNDI 200 – Beginning Hindi or Urdu | A. Koul
HNDI 400 – Intermediate Hindi or Urdu | A. Koul
HNDI 1080 – Advanced Hindu-Urdu | A. Koul
PRSN 105 – Accelerated Persian | M. Quay
PRSN 200 – Basic Persian | M. Quay
PRSN 400 – Intermediate Persian | M. Quay
SANS 200 – Elementary Sanskrit | D. Buchta


Major Content in the Humanities:

COLT 1310 – Interpreting Literature on Stone, Paper, and Film | N. Kanchan
CLAS 855 – The Bhagvad Gita | D. Buchta
RELS 600F – Contestations in Political Islam | S. Yaseen
SANS 1020 – Early Sanskrit Philosophy and Religion | D. Buchta


Major Content in the Social Sciences:

IAPA 1001 – The Foundations of Development | P. Heller
POLS 1280 – The Rise of India: History, Politics, Economics and Society | A. Varshney
SAST 740 – Anticolonial Perspectives from South Asia | S. Yaseen
SAST 745 – The Making of Modern South Asia | O. Ahmed


Minor Content in in the Humanities:

COLT 611D – Third World Literature and Thought 1950-1970 | M. Pabon
Minor Content in the Social Sciences:
ENVS 722 – Multispecies History and Decolonial Thought | A. Majumdar
HIST 1267 – The Global British Empire, 1600-The Present | T. Bains
POLS 200 – Introduction to Comparative Politics | D. Choi
URBN 215 – Urban Life in the Global South | L. Yapp

Prior Semesters: 

Fall 2024 — Spring 2024 — 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