South Asia Studies courses for Spring 2016

	Title	Instructor	Location	Time	Description	Cross Listings	Fulfills	Registration Notes
SAST 001-401	Introduction to Modern India	SEVEA, TERENJIT	STITELER HALL B21	TR 1200PM-0130PM	This introductory course will provide an outline of major events and themes in Indian history, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the re-emergence of India as a global player in the 21st century. The course will discuss the following themes: society and economy in Mughal India; global trade between India and the West in the 17th century; the rise of the English East India Company's control over Indian subcontinent in the 18th century; its emergence and transformation of India into a colonial economy; social and religious reform movements in the 19th century; the emergence of elite and popular anti-colonial nationalisms; independence and the partition of the subcontinent; the emergence of the world's largest democracy; the making of an Indian middle class; and the nuclearization of South Asia.	HIST089401	History & Tradition Sector (all classes)	CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; HISTORY & TRADITION SECTOR; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
SAST 006-401	HINDU MYTHOLOGY	PATEL, DEVEN	ANNENBERG SCHOOL 110	MW 0100PM-0200PM	Premodern India produced some of the world's greatest myths and stories: tales of gods, goddesses, heroes, princesses, kings and lovers that continue to capture the imaginations of millions of readers and hearers. In this course, we will look closely at some of these stories especially as found in Purana-s, great compendia composed in Sanskrit, including the chief stories of the central gods of Hinduism: Visnu, Siva, and the Goddess. We will also consider the relationship between these texts and the earlier myths of the Vedas and the Indian Epics, the diversity of the narrative and mythic materials within and across different texts, and the re-imagining of these stories in the modern world.	RELS066401	Arts & Letters Sector (all classes)	SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED; ARTS & LETTERS SECTOR
SAST 008-050	DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE				What makes India INDIA? Religion and Philosophy? Architectural splendor? Kingdoms? Caste? The position of women? This course will introduce students to India by studying a range of social and cultural institutions that have historically assumed to be definitive India. Through primary texts, novels and historical sociological analysis, we will ask how these institutions have been reproduced and transformed, and assess their significance for contemporary Indian society.		Hum & Soc Sci Sector (new curriculum only)	HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE SECTOR; STUDY ABROAD
SAST 012-301	SPICES, GUNPOWDER, AND PAGODAS: A HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA	SEVEA, TERENJIT		CANCELED	This undergraduate course introduces students to the history of Southeast Asia from the earliest centuries of the Common Era to c.1950. It introduces students to Southeast Asia as religion, constituent historical societies of the region, and to the major academic literature and debates pertaining to the hsitorical development of Southesast Asian societies and the region. Key themes explored include the origins and character of early civilazations, ideas and ideology about power and prowess, material culture, the transformation of ethnic, class,and gender relations, the impact of the arrival of world religions and early European expansion, and the nature of indegenous responses to the diffusion of new beliefs and ideas and intercultural contact.
SAST 066-601	DIGITAL HUMANITIES	SEGUY, ROBIN	FISHER-BENNETT HALL 25	R 0600PM-0900PM	Among the recent trends in the humanistic disciplines, "Digital Humanities" has without any doubt been at the forefront in the past few years, but the fact remains that, beyond buzz-words such as data, metadata, text-mining or information extraction, few people know what exactly this label encompasses, and even fewer have tried to apply its methods and principles to their work. This course proposes a structured approach to some of the main tools used by digital humanists in real-life textbased projects; students will be introduced to XML and the TEI, to XSLT, to R (through the Stylo package) and to simple Python scripts (through NLTK, the Natural Language Tool Kit). All classes will be divided into two parts: a theoretical introduction and application exercises, and a hands on section. The corpora we will use together will be mostly literature texts, but students are welcome to bring their own research material, if they are exploitable with the tools we'll be learning.	COML066601 ENGL278601 RUSS066601
SAST 105-001	BEGINNING TABLA II	BHATTI, AQEEL	WILLIAMS HALL 812	MW 0500PM-0630PM	A continuation of Tabla I, also open to beginning students.
SAST 107-401	BEGINNING SITAR II	MINER, ALLYN	WILLIAMS HALL 812	TR 0430PM-0600PM	This is the second semester of a performance course in the North Indian sitar Students who have not taken the first semester but play any musical instrument are permitted to join. Principles of composition and improvisation will be explored in practice and supplemented by readings and listening. The class gives a group performance at the end of the semester.	MUSC063401		CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
SAST 124-401	NARRATIVE ACROSS CULTURE: Narrative Across Cultures	ALLEN, ROGER	ANNENBERG SCHOOL 111	W 0200PM-0500PM	The purpose of this course is to present a variety of narrative genres and to discuss and illustrate the modes whereby they can be analyzed. We will be looking at shorter types of narrative: short stories, novellas, and fables, and also some extracts from longer works such as autobiographies. While some works will come from the Anglo-American tradition, a larger number will be selected from European and non-Western cultural traditions and from earlier time-periods. The course will thus offer ample opportunity for the exploration of the translation of cultural values in a comparative perspective.	COML125401 ENGL103401 FOLK125401 NELC180401	Arts & Letters Sector (all classes)	CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS; SENIOR ASSOCIATES
SAST 142-401	INTRO BUDDHISM	MCDANIEL, JUSTIN	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 402	MW 0200PM-0300PM	This course seeks to introduce students to the diversity of doctrines held and practices performed by Buddhists in Asia. By focusing on how specific beliefs and practices are tied to particular locations and particular times, we will be able to explore in detail the religious institutions, artistic, architectural, and musical traditions, textual production and legal and doctrinal developments of Buddhism over time and within its socio-historical context. Religion is never divorced from its place and its time. Furthermore, by geographically and historically grounding the study of these religions we will be able to examine how their individual ethic, cosmological and soteriological systems effect local history, economics, politics, and material culture. We will concentrate first on the person of the Buddha, his many biographies and how he has been followed and worshipped in a variety of ways from Lhasa, Tibet to Phrae, Thailand. From there we touch on the foundational teachings of the Buddha with an eye to how they have evolved and transformed over time. Finally, we focus on the practice of Buddhist ritual, magic and ethics in monasteries and among aly communities in Asia and even in the West. This section will confront the way Buddhists have thought of issues such as "Just-War," Women's Rights and Abortion. While no one quarter course could provide a detailed presentation of the beliefs and practices of Buddhism, my hope is that we will be able to look closely at certain aspects of these religions by focusing on how they are practiced in places like Nara, Japan or Vietnam, Laos.	EALC015401 RELS173401		SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED; CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
SAST 147-401	LOVE,SEX & POWER	ELIAS, JAMAL	FISHER-BENNETT HALL 231	TR 1030AM-1200PM	This course explores the ways in which some of the biggest issues in human life are dealt with across religious traditions. Beginning with important questions of sexual identity, politics, religion and the individual in contemporary life, we will examine questions of eroticism, sex and love as they are reflected in religious literature, art and history. The concept of divine love and religious devotion will be explored in relation to acts of violence, including human sacrifice and self-sacrifice in the form of martyrdom seen in pre-modern concepts of saintly martyrdom and religious chivalry as well as the religious legitimacy of modern self-sacrifice of soldiers in war and terrorist suicides. The course focuses in particular on examples drawn fromChristianity, Hinduism, Islam and Mesoamerican Religion, although discussions of contemporary issues will be conducted with a broader sweep. Important questions considered in this course include: how does the body function as the locus in which religion is enacted? What is the conflic between our agency over our bodies and socioreligious claims over the individual? Is violence an integral part of religion? What are religious understandings of the relationship between love and sex? How can a human being love gods erotically?	RELS069401
SAST 150-601	Indian Philosophy: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism	PATEL, DEVEN	DAVID RITTENHOUSE LAB 3C4	T 0530PM-0830PM	This course will take the student through the major topics of Indian philosophy by first introducing the fundamental concepts and terms that are necessary for a deeper understanding of themes that pervade the philosophical literature of India -- arguments for and against the existence of God, for example, the ontological status of external objects, the means of valid knowledge, standardsof proof, the discourse on the aims of life. The readings will emphasize classical Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain philosophical articulations (from 700 B.C.Eto 16th century CE) but we will also supplement our study of these materials with contemporary or relatively recent philosophical writings in modern India.	PHIL050601 RELS155601	History & Tradition Sector (all classes)	CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; HISTORY & TRADITION SECTOR; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
SAST 161-401	ANTH & THE MODERN WORLD: AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, PAKISTAN, SYRIA, AND THE REFUGEE PROBLEM	SPOONER, BRIAN	FISHER-BENNETT HALL 231	M 0200PM-0500PM	This course relates anthropological models and methods to current problems in the Modern World. The overall objective is to show how the research findings and analytical concepts of anthropology may be used to illuminate and explain events as they have unfolded in the recent news and in the course of the semester. Each edition of the course will focus on a particular country or region that has been in the news.	ANTH100401 ANTH654401 NELC281401 NELC681401		CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
SAST 161-411	AFGHANISTAN & ISLAMISM	SPOONER, BRIAN		CANCELED	This course relates anthropological models and methods to current problems in the Modern World. The overall objective is to show how the research findings and analytical concepts of anthropology may be used to illuminate and explain events as they have unfolded in the recent news and in the course of the semester. Each edition of the course will focus on a particular country or region that has been in the news.
SAST 166-401	HISTORY OF INDIAN BUSINESS	CHAUDHRY, FAISAL	WILLIAMS HALL 215	TR 0300PM-0430PM	With annual growth rates between 5-10 percent for much of the last fifteen years, it may seem that the turn of the millennium has marked a fundamental shift in the state of Indian business. Yet at the same time stories continue to abound about the dark side of India's recent "shining" where matters such as distributional justice and the fate of social strata like the subaltern poor and agrarian are concerned. Moreover, broader intra-regional forces continue to affect the state of business in a way that constantly reminds us that traditionally lacked any absolutely clear cut geographical correlate. How then should we think of the history of Indian business? In what ways is such a history different from or the same as the economic history of the South Asian subcontinent, its borderlands, and the broader Indian Ocean world it was long connected to? Can isolating something to be thought of as business in the past illuminate the structure or challenges of what we all so intuitively think of as the financial, commercial, and industrial aspects of business in the present? In this course we will consider these and other questions by tracing the interactions between the three-fold forces of entrepreneurialism, labor, and kinship/sovereignty--considered as the underlying conditions of business activity's possibility--from ancient to modern times in South Asia. By looking at topics ranging from merchants and their bills of exchange in South Asia's antiquity to the impacts of colonial rule to the current fervor over liberalizing independent India's retail sector, the course will thus be both a history of the past as well as a history of the present.	HIST156401
SAST 170-401	PSYCHOLOGY OF ASIAN AM	KUMAR, MEETA	WILLIAMS HALL 301	TR 0430PM-0600PM	Using a cultural perspective, this course is intended to provide knowledge of Asian American personality, identity, and its relationship to mental well being; analyze psycho-social research pertinent to Asian Americans; and develop critical thinking skills on Asian American issues through experential learning/discussions.	ASAM170401		CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN US; CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE US
SAST 189-401	ISLAM IN MODERN SOUTH ASIA	TAREEN, SHERALI	WILLIAMS HALL 318	M 0330PM-0630PM	This course will examine Islam in modern South Asia, particularly in Pakistan, from multiple disciplinary perspectives. In popular discourse and media, Pakistan is usually presented as a volatile Muslim country primarily of interest as a "security problem". Most Western discussions and commentaries about Pakistan abound with stereotypical depictions of religious fundamentalism and/or the threat of the country's nuclear weapons to global security. This course will complicate and bring into question such stereotypes and alarming narratives. It will do so by examining the complexity of Pakistan's religious and political past and present. The focus of this course is on the intellectual history and traditions, as well as the lived practice of Islam in Pakistan. By drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources including film, literature, and anthropological texts, we will explore the diversity of Islam and Muslims in Pakistan. We will begin with the context of colonial India, and interrogate transformations in South Asian Islam during the 19th and early 20th century, before moving to Pakistan in the contemporary period.Among the major themes discussed in this course include modern South Asian Muslim reform movements, intra-Muslim polemics on questions of normative practice and ethics, contestations of religious authority, sectarianism, minorities, Madrases (Islamic seminaries) and Muslim traditions of education, religion and the state, Cyber Islam, and religion and the media. While focusing on modern South Asia and Pakistan, this course will also engage Islam in Afghanistan in both historical and contemporary contexts.	ANTH189401 SAST589401
SAST 217-050	SOCIAL CHANGE: GENDER & EMPOWERMENT				C.U. in India is a hybrid, domestic/overseas course series which provides students with the opportunity to have an applied learning and cultural experience in India or South East Asia where students participate in 1) 28 classrom hours in the Fall term 2) a 12-day trip to India or South East Asia with the instructor during the winter break visiting key sites and conducting original research (sites vary) 3) 21 classroom hours at Penn in the Spring term and 4) a research paper, due at the end of the Spring term. Course enrollment is limited to students admitted to the program. For more information and the program application go to http://sites.sas.upenn.edu/cuinindia This is a 2-CU yearlong course DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS MARCH 31st			STUDY ABROAD
SAST 217-401	GNDR, DVLPMNT, EMPWRMNT: C.U. IN INDIA TOPICS: GENDER, DEVELOPMENT, AND EMPOWERMENT IN INDIA	ROY, RAILI	WILLIAMS HALL 741	T 0300PM-0430PM	C.U. in India is a hybrid, domestic/overseas course series which provides students with the opportunity to have an applied learning and cultural experience in India or South East Asia where students participate in 1) 28 classrom hours in the Fall term 2) a 12-day trip to India or South East Asia with the instructor during the winter break visiting key sites and conducting original research (sites vary) 3) 21 classroom hours at Penn in the Spring term and 4) a research paper, due at the end of the Spring term. Course enrollment is limited to students admitted to the program. For more information and the program application go to http://sites.sas.upenn.edu/cuinindia This is a 2-CU yearlong course DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS MARCH 31st	SAST517401		CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
SAST 217-403	CU IN INDIA: CU IN INDIA TOPICS: TEMPLES & SHRINES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA	ALI, DAUD	WILLIAMS HALL 826	T 0130PM-0300PM	C.U. in India is a hybrid, domestic/overseas course series which provides students with the opportunity to have an applied learning and cultural experience in India or South East Asia where students participate in 1) 28 classrom hours in the Fall term 2) a 12-day trip to India or South East Asia with the instructor during the winter break visiting key sites and conducting original research (sites vary) 3) 21 classroom hours at Penn in the Spring term and 4) a research paper, due at the end of the Spring term. Course enrollment is limited to students admitted to the program. For more information and the program application go to http://sites.sas.upenn.edu/cuinindia This is a 2-CU yearlong course DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS MARCH 31st	SAST517403		CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
SAST 252-401	MUSIC, RELIGION,& RITUAL: IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA	SYKES, JAMES	MUSIC BUILDING 210	F 0200PM-0500PM	What role does music play in articulating religious identities and spaces? What is the importance of ritual musics as they persist and change in the modern world? How does music reflect and articulate religious ways of thinking and acting? In this course, we explore these and other questions about the interrelations between music, religion, and ritual in South and Southeast Asia. Focusing on India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia, the course emphasizes musics from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian traditions; nevertheless, it draws widely to touch upon sacred musics in Pakistan, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, and among some indigenous peoples in the region. Throughout, we explore ontologies of sound; sonic occurrences in religious structures, public processions, and pilgrimage sites; the construction of religion and ritual as ideas forg ed through colonial encounter and modern scholarship on religion; the politics of sacred sounds in today's public spaces and contemporary media, such as television and online; and the surprising fluidity between popular and sacred musical genres.	ANTH242401 MUSC252401
SAST 298-050	SPOKEN SINHALA 1							SENIOR ASSOCIATES
SAST 298-051	SPOKEN SINHALA 2							SENIOR ASSOCIATES
SAST 298-052	DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE							STUDY ABROAD
SAST 298-053	NEPALI							STUDY ABROAD
SAST 298-054	INDEPENDENT STUDY PROJECT							STUDY ABROAD
SAST 406-680	BEGINNING PASHTU II	ADEEL, UMME		CANCELED		PERS512680
SAST 408-680	BEGINNING KANNADA II	SWAMINATHAN, VIJAYALAKSHMI	WILLIAMS HALL 826	MW 0430PM-0630PM	This is a systematic introduction to the Kannada language and culture for beginners. The course aims at developing listening and comprehension and a real life interactive speaking ability in a variety of everyday topics. The Kannada script is introduced from the beginning and the language is presented in its socio-cultural context for achieving a meaningful and operational control of the language. Students acquire basic rules for structural and socio-cultural appropriateness. Students learn vocabulary related to a variety of topics during the semester. Class activities include watching videos, role-playing, language games and group work. Evaluation is based on class participation, performance in quizzes and tests and completed assignments.
SAST 411-680	BEGINNING MARATHI II	RANADE, MILIND	WILLIAMS HALL 217	TR 0600PM-0800PM
SAST 413-680	INTERMEDIATE MARATHI II	RANADE, MILIND	WILLIAMS HALL 217	TR 0430PM-0600PM				SEE SPECIAL MESSAGE IN DEPARTMENT HEADER
SAST 426-680	INTERMEDIATE PASHTU II	ADEEL, UMME		CANCELED		PERS114680 PERS514680
SAST 428-680	INTERMEDIATE KANNADA II	SWAMINATHAN, VIJAYALAKSHMI		CANCELED				SEE SPECIAL MESSAGE IN DEPARTMENT HEADER
SAST 447-680	ADVC KANNADA: TPCS	RALLAPALLI, SUNDARAM		TBA TBA-				PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR
SAST 511-401	SOUTH ASIAN SCULPTURE: Icons and Narrative in South Asian Sculpture	MEISTER, MICHAEL	JAFFE BUILDING B17	TR 0300PM-0430PM	Spring 2016: We will examine Icons and Narratives in South Asian Sculpture. India's crafts of stone carving and bronze casting have produced one of the most distinct and accomplished sculptural traditions in the world. This workshop will look at two aspects of this history, the development of narrative sculpture and that of the religious 'icon' through specific case histories.	ARTH411401
SAST 517-050	FIELD METHODS AND ETHICS				C.U. in India is a hybrid, domestic/overseas course series which provides students with the opportunity to have an applied learning and cultural experience in India. The 2-CU course requires: 1) 15 classroom hours at Penn in the Fall term 2) A 12-Day trip to India with the instrucotrduring the winter break to visit key sites and conduct original research (sites vary) 3) 15 classroom hours at Penn in the Spring term and 4) A research paper, due at the end of the spring term. Course enrollment is restricted to students admitted to the program. For more information, and the program application, go to http://sites.sas.upenn.edu/cuinindia This is a 2-CU yearlong course			STUDY ABROAD
SAST 517-401	GNDR, DVLPMNT, EMPWRMNT: C.U. IN INDIA TOPICS: GENDER, DEVELOPMENT, AND EMPOWERMENT IN INDIA	ROY, RAILI	WILLIAMS HALL 741	T 0300PM-0430PM	C.U. in India is a hybrid, domestic/overseas course series which provides students with the opportunity to have an applied learning and cultural experience in India. The 2-CU course requires: 1) 15 classroom hours at Penn in the Fall term 2) A 12-Day trip to India with the instrucotrduring the winter break to visit key sites and conduct original research (sites vary) 3) 15 classroom hours at Penn in the Spring term and 4) A research paper, due at the end of the spring term. Course enrollment is restricted to students admitted to the program. For more information, and the program application, go to http://sites.sas.upenn.edu/cuinindia This is a 2-CU yearlong course	SAST217401		CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
SAST 517-403	CU IN INDIA: CU IN INDIA TOPICS: TEMPLES & SHRINES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA	ALI, DAUD	WILLIAMS HALL 826	T 0130PM-0300PM	C.U. in India is a hybrid, domestic/overseas course series which provides students with the opportunity to have an applied learning and cultural experience in India. The 2-CU course requires: 1) 15 classroom hours at Penn in the Fall term 2) A 12-Day trip to India with the instrucotrduring the winter break to visit key sites and conduct original research (sites vary) 3) 15 classroom hours at Penn in the Spring term and 4) A research paper, due at the end of the spring term. Course enrollment is restricted to students admitted to the program. For more information, and the program application, go to http://sites.sas.upenn.edu/cuinindia This is a 2-CU yearlong course	SAST217403		CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
SAST 541-401	Islam and the Religious Image			CANCELED	This seminar explores the place of visual religious arts in Islam; we will attempt to get beyond conventional ideas regarding the im/propriety of visual representation to examine how Muslims have understood and deployed visual art in a number of historical and cultural contexts. In the process, we will explore the ways in which visuality as a process renders the act of seeing into a religious experieence. As such, we will also examine the role of the arts in relation to religion: how does vision affect the understanding and practice of religion,, and what do visual arts tell us about religion in ways that texts of speech cannot? Simultaneously, what does the study of religion tell us about visual art that art history cannot?
SAST 589-401	ISLAM IN MODERN SOUTH ASIA	TAREEN, SHERALI	WILLIAMS HALL 318	M 0330PM-0630PM	This course introduces students to Islam in modern South Asia, with a particular focus on the development of 'new' Muslim religious idioms, orientations, pedagogies and movements in 19th and 20th century South Asia. This course is divided into three parts. In the first part of this course, students are provided with an overview of: Muslim institutions and spaces in pre-colonial South Asia, the historical emergence of South Asia as a prominent global center of Islam, and the development of Urdu as an Islamic idiom. The second and main part of this course introduces students to academic literature concerning sophisticated encounters between the Muslim elite in north India and modern political and technological developments. The intimate interactions of the 'Mullah' and the 'Englishman' from the 19th to 20th century will thus be revealed to students. This part focuses upon, on the one hand, the role of Islam and pious Muslims in the colonial army, and on the other hand, Muslim initiatives to educate an Islamic 'modernism', 'traditionalism', 'fundamentalism' and 'Sufism', and appropriate print technologies for the creation of public spheres. Students will be introduced to historical scholarship revelatory of how these Muslim pedagogies and print initiatives were based upon sophisticated transcultural networks and exchange. In the third part of this course, students will be encouraged to engage with contemporary literature on South Asian Muslim political philosophy and nationalism, and the transcultural intellectual exchanges that produced key Muslim political ideologies.	ANTH189401 SAST189401
SAST 623-401	LIT HISTORY & AESTHETICS: LITERARY THEORY, AESTHETICS, AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN SOUTH ASIA	PATEL, DEVEN	WILLIAMS HALL 203	R 0300PM-0600PM	This seminar surveys the multiple components of literary culture in South Asia. Students will engage critically with selected studies of literary history and aeshetics from the past two millennia. In order to introduce students to specific literary cultures (classical, regional, contemporary) and to the scholarly practices that situate literature in broader contexts of culture and society, the course will focus both on the literary theories - especially from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - that position South Asia's literary cultures within broader disciplinary frameworks that use literary documents to inform social, historical and cultural research projects. The aim is to open up contexts whereby students can develop their own research projects using literary sources.	COML623401
SAST 711-401	TOPICS IN INDIAN ART: South Asian Architecture: Practice and Symbolism	MEISTER, MICHAEL	JAFFE BUILDING 104	F 1200PM-0200PM	Research seminar. Topics change. Spring 2016: We will examine the practice and symbolism of South Asian Architecture with case studies of how to build and how to make buildings meaningful.	ARTH711401
SAST 762-401	GENDER, KINSHIP, AND HOUSEHOLD HISTORIES	SREENIVASAN, RAMYA	MCNEIL BUILDING 582	M 0330PM-0630PM	This course on women in South Asian history has several objectives. To comprehend the genres of narratives in which South Asian women between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries have spoken and have been spoken about. To gain an understanding of evolving institutions and practices shaping womens lives, such as the family, law and religious traditions. To understand the impact of historical processes -- the formation and and breakdown of empire, colonialism, nationalism and decolonization -- upon South Asian women between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. We will read primary sources in addition to familiarizing ourselves with the historiography of women in South Asia.	GSWS762401
SAST 799-011	CANDIDACY EXAM PREP	ALI, DAUD		TBA TBA-				PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR