Current course offerings on SIS
Note: You must receive prior approval from an advisor before a course may count towards a degree program.
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Anthropology
ANTH 3700 - (3) Globalizing India
ANTH 5750 - (3) Buddhism, Politics and Power
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Architectural History
ARH 3601 - (3) East Meets West
ARH 3602 - (3) World Buddhist Architecture
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Art History
ARTH 2862 - (3) Arts of the Buddhist World - India to Japan
ARTH 2871 - (3) The Arts of India
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History
HISA 1501 - (3) Introductory Seminar in South Asia
HISA 1559 - (3) New Course in South Asian History
HISA 2001 - (3) History and Civilization of Classical India
HISA 2002 - (3) History and Civilization of Medieval India
HISA 2003 - (3) History of Modern India
HISA 2559 - (3) New Course in South Asian History
HISA 3001 - (3) History of Muslim India
HISA 3002 - (3) India From Akbar to Victoria
HISA 3003 - (3) Twentieth Century India
HISA 3111 - (3) Social and Political Movements in Twentieth Century India
HISA 3121 - (3) History of Women in South Asia
HISA 3559 - (3) New Course in South Asian History
HISA 4501 - (4) Seminar in South Asia
HISA 4511 - (4) Colloquium in South Asia
HISA 4559 - (3) New Course in South Asian History
HISA 4591 - (3) Topics in South Asian History
HISA 4993 - (1-3) Independent Study in South Asia
HISA 5021 - (3) Historiography of Early Modern South Asia
HISA 5101 - (3) Economic History of India
HIST 5559 - (3) New Course in South Asian History
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Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
HIND 1010, 1020 - (4) Elementary Hindi-Urdu
HIND 1060, 2060 - (3) Accellerated Elementary and Intermediate Hindi
HIND 2010, 2020 - (4) Intermediate Hindi
HIND 3010, 3020 - (3) Advanced Hindi
HIND 3230, 3240 - (3) Readings in Hindi
HIND 4993 - (1-3) Independent Study in Hindi
PASH 1010, 1020 - (4) Elementary Pashto I & II
PASH 2010, 2020 - (4) Intermediate Pashto I & II
PERS 1010, 1020 - (4) Elementary Persian
PERS 2010, 2020 - (4) Intermediate Persian
PERS 3010 - (3) Readings in Modern Persian Poetry
PERS 3020 - (3) Readings in Modern Persian Prose Fiction
PERS 3230 - (3) Introduction to Classical Persian Literature
PERS 3240 - (3) Introduction to Modern Persian Literature
PERS 3559 - (3) New Course in Persian
PERS 4240 - (3) Advanced Readings in Sufi Texts
PERS 4993 - (1-3) Independent Study in Persian
PETR 3210 - (3) Persian Literature in Translation
PETR 3220 - (3) Twentieth-Century Persian Literature in Translation
PETR 3320 - (3) Life Narratives & Iranian Women Writers
PETR 3345- (3) Revolution and Social Reform Iran's Politcal Cinema
PETR 3559 - (3) New Course in Persian Literature in Translation
SANS 1010 - (3) Elementary Sanskrit I
SANS 1020 - (3) Elementary Sanskrit II
SANS 2012 - (3) Selections from the Mahabharata
SANS 2014 - (3) Selections from the Ramayana of Valmiki
SANS 2016 - (3) Selections from the Kathasaritsagara of Somadeva
SANS 2022 - (3) The Bhagavadgita
SANS 2024 - (3) Selections from the Upanisads
SANS 2026 - (3) Selections from the Puranas
SAST 1100 - (3) Introduction to South Asia
SAST 1300 - (3) Under the Colonized Gaze: British Empire & its Indian Subjects
SAST 2050 - (3) Classics of Indian Literature
SAST 2060 - (3) Bollywood Dreams: Indian Cinema
SAST 2280- (3) Introduction to the Literature ,Culture,Arts of the Indian Subcontinent
SAST 2200 - (3) Delhi: The Gateway to India
SAST 2559 - (3) New Course in South Asian Studies
SAST 2700 - (3) Indian Politics and Society
SAST 2800 - (3) The World According to South Asia
SAST 3300 - (3) The Pleasures of Bollywood: Melodrama, Realism, Mythos
SAST 3400 - (3) Pop Culture in South Asia: Advertising, Visual Aesthetics, Posters & Photography
SAST 3450 - (3) The Languages of India
SAST 3490- (3) Knowing South Asia: The Forms of Apprehension
SAST 3559 - (3) New Course in South Asian Studies
SAST 3640 - (3) Women & Politics in South Asia
SAST 3701 - (3) Business and Banking in South Asia
SAST 4559 - (3) New Course in South Asian Studies
SAST 4991 - (3) South Asian Studies Capstone Seminar
SAST 4993 - (3) Colonial Indians in the West: Negotiation, Appropriation, and Assimilation
SATR 2000 - (3) Introduction to South Asian Literature
SATR 2010 - (3) Remembering India's Partition through Literature & Poetry
SATR 2110 - (3) Cultural Translation: Travel Writing in South Asia
SATR 2300 - (3) Colonial and Postcolonial Literature in Translation
SATR 3110 - (3) Modern Urdu-Hindi Literature
SATR 3280 - (3) Poetry of Passionate Devotion: The Ghazal
SATR 3000 - (3) Women Writing in India & Pakistan: 1947 - Present
SATR 3010 - (3) Colors of Loneliness: Literature of Diasporic Imagination
SATR 3300 - (3) Literature and Society in South Asia: Breaking the Cast(e)
SATR 3559 - (3) New Course in South Asian Literature in Translation
SATR 3700 - (3) Medieval Indian Literature: Vernacular and Bhakti Revolution
URDU 2010, 2020 - (4) Intermediate Urdu
URDU 3010, 3020 - (3) Advanced Urdu I - II
URDU 3300 - (3) Readings in Urdu Poetry: An Ongoing Mahfil
URDU 3559 - (3) New Course in Urdu
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URDU 4993 - (1-3) Independent Study in Urdu
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Politics
PLCP 2700 - (3) Indian Politics and Society
PLCP 3630 - (3) Politics in India and Pakistan
PLCP 3640 - (3) Women and Politics in South Asia
PLIR 3750 - (3) South Asia in World Affairs
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PLIR 4260 - (3) War and Peace in South Asia
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Religious Studies
RELB 1559 - (3) New Course in Buddhism
RELB 2054 - (3) Tibetan Buddhism Introduction
RELB 2100 - (3) Buddhism
RELB 2120 - (3) Buddhist Literature
RELB 2559 - (3) New Course in Buddhism
RELB 3150 - (3) Seminar in Buddhism and Gender
RELB 3170 - (3) Buddhist Meditation
RELB 3408 - (3) Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy
RELB 3559 - (3) New Course in Buddhism
RELB 4559 - (3) New Course in Buddhism
RELB 5000, 5010- (4) Literary and Spoken Tibetan I & II
RELB 5020 - (3) Tibetan Perspectives on Tantra
RELB 5170 - (3) The Dalai Lamas of Tibet
RELB 5260 - (3) Seminar in Tibetan Buddhism II
RELB 5350, 5360 - (4) Literary and Spoken Tibetan III & IV
RELB 5390 - (3) Tibetan Buddhist Tantra Dzokchen
RELB 5430, 5440 - (3) Sanskrit Religious Texts
RELB 5460 - (3) Seminar in Mahayana Buddhism
RELB 5470, 5480 - (4) Literary and Spoken Tibetan V & VI
RELB 5490 - (3) Religious History of Tibet
RELB 5559 - (3) New Course in Buddhism
RELB 5600 - (3) Elementary Pali
RELB 5610 - (1-3) Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
RELB 5660 - (3) Seminar on Indian Buddhism
RELB 3680 - (3) Pure Land Buddhism
RELB 5800, 5810 - (3) Literary Tibetan VII & VIII
RELB 5870, 5880 - (3) Colloquial Tibetan VII & VIII
RELB 5990 - (3) South Asian and Inner Asian Buddhist Bibliography
RELH 1559 - (3) New Course in Hinduism
RELH 2090 - (3) Hinduism
RELH 2110 - (3) Popular Hinduism
RELH 2559 - (3) New Course in Hinduism
RELH 3140 - (3) The Jain Tradition
RELH 3440 - (3) Gandhi to Terrorism: Religion and Violence in Modern India
RELH 3559 - (3) New Course in Hinduism
RELH 3710 - (3) Hindu Traditions of Devotion
RELH 3740 - (3) Hinduism Through Its Narrative Literatures
RELH 4559 - (3) New Course in Hinduism
RELH 5053 - (3) Hindu Philosophical Systems
RELH 5054 - (3) Hindu Ethics
RELH 5450 - (3) Hindu - Buddhist Debates
RELH 5559 - (3) New Course in Hinduism
RELH 5890 - (3) Vedic Hinduism
RELI 1559 - (3) New Course in Islam
RELI 2070 - (3) Classical Islam
RELI 2080 - (3) Islam in the Modern Age
RELI 2559 - (3) New Course in Islam
RELI 3110 - (3) Muhammad and the Qur'an
RELI 3120 - (3) Sufism: Islamic Mysticism
RELI 3559 - (3) New Course in Islam
RELI 3670 - (3) Religion and Politics in Islam
RELI 4559 - (3) New Course in Islam
RELI 5400 - (3) Muslim Comparative Theologies: Sunni - Shi'i Creeds
RELI 5410 - (3) Islamic Theology: The Shi'i Creed
RELI 5420 - (3) War and Peach in Islam: A Comparative Ethics Approach
RELI 5540 - (3) Seminar in Islamic Theology
RELI 5559 - (3) New Course in Islam
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Sociology
SOC 3450 - (3) Women, Islam and Modernity