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

Courses

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SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES

FALL 2024 CLASSES

Language Classes:
HNDI 100 – Beginning Hindi or Urdu | Ashok Koul
HNDI 300 – Intermediate Hindi or Urdu | Ashok Koul
HNDI 1080 – Advanced Hindi or Urdu | Ashok Koul
PRSN 100 – Basic Persian | Michelle Quay
PRSN 300 – Intermediate Persian Language | Michelle Quay
SANS 100 – Elementary Sanskrit | David Buchta
SANS 300 – Sanskrit Epic Narrative | David Buchta


Major Content in the Humanities:
COLT 0812Y – Love and Longing across the Indian Subcontinent | Namrata
Kanchan
RELS 1510 – Islam in South Asia | Suvaid Yaseen
HIAA 0023 – South Asian Art and Architecture | Holly Shaffer
Major Content in the Social Sciences:
HIST 1973Q – Environmental Pressures of South Asia | Aparajita Majumdar


Minor Content in the Humanities:
ENGL 0202B – What Monks Want: Asceticism and Austerity Across the Global
Anglophone | Arunav Jain
ENGL 0202D – Poetic Justice: Literature on Colonialism | Chi Le
ENGL 0700E – Postcolonial Literature | Olakunle George
ENGL 1762K – Migration and its Discontents: Asian American Literature and
Culture | Rebecca Liu
TAPS 1230 – Global Theatre and Performance: Paleolithic to the Threshold of
Modernity | J Dellecave
ETHN 0601A – Introduction to Asian American History | Shelley Lee
HIAA 1721 – Real and Unreal Landscapes | Holly Shaffer
RELS 0600E – Islamic Modernities: Religion, Culture and Power | Nancy Khalek


Minor Content in the Social Sciences:
HIST 150L – Ecological Imperialism | Brian Lander
HIST 1120 – At China’s Edges | Rebecca Nedostup
HIST 1953S – Costs of Resistance: History through Film | Suvaid Yaseen

HIST 1974E – The Intellectual History of Imperialism | Tiraana Bains
IAPA 1700M – Comparative Politics of Urban Development | Saul Wilson
SOC 1010 – Classical Sociological Theory | Andrew Schrank

Prior Semesters: 

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