University of Virginia
Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
Degree Programs
Degree Programs - Undergraduate

DEGREE PROGRAM COURSE LISTINGS IN SOUTH ASIA

List of courses available to be taken for credit in the Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures degree programs. Consult SIS for current course offerings.

Note: You must receive prior approval from an advisor before a course may count towards a degree program.

Anthropology
Architectural History
Art History
History
Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures

Politics
Religious Studies

Sociology

Anthropology

ANTH 3700 - (3)
Contemporary 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 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 2200 - (3)
Delhi: The Gateway to India

SAST 2559 - (3)
New Course in South Asian Studies

SAST 2700 - (3)
Indian Politics and Society

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 3559 - (3)
New Course in South Asian Studies

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 Bhaleti Revolution

URDU 2010, 2020 - (4)
Intermediate Urdu

URDU 3010, 3020 - (3)
Advanced Urdu I - II

URDU 3559 - (3)
New Course in Urdu

URDU 4993 - (1-3)
Independent Study in Urdu

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

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

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