University of Virginia
Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
 
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  DEGREE PROGRAM COURSE LISTINGS IN SOUTH ASIA

List of courses available to be taken for credit in the Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures degree programs. See Course Offering Directory 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
Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
History
Music
Politics
Religious Studies

Sociology

Anthropology

ANTH 109 - (3) (Y)
Colloquia for First-Year Students

ANTH 234 - (3) (IR)
Anthropology of Birth and Death

ANTH 243 - (3) (IR)
Languages of the World

ANTH 260 - (3) (Y)
Introduction to Civilization of India

ANTH 325 - (3) (E)
Anthropological Perspectives on the Third World

ANTH 329 - (3) (Y)
Marriage, Fertility, and Mortality

ANTH 362 - (3) (IR)
Cinema in India

ANTH 364 - (3) (E)
Ethnology of Southeast Asia

ANTH 522 - (3) (E)
Economic Anthropology

ANTH 529 - (3) (Y)
Selected Topics in Social Anthropology

ANTH 539 - (3) (SI) Selected Topics in Symbolic Anthropology

ANTH 556 - (3) (IR)
Topics in Ethnology of South Asia

ANTH 558 - (3) (IR)
Topics in Ethnology of Southeast Asia

ANTH 575 - (3) (Y)
Buddhism, Politics and Power Architectural History

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Architectural History

ARH 381-581 - (3) (Y)
East-West Architecture

ARH 585 - (3) (O)
World Buddhist Architecture

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Art History

ARTH 261 - (3) (IR)
Buddhist Art From India to Japan

ARTH 264 - (3) (O)
The Arts of India

ARTH 491 - (3) (S)
Seminar in Asian Art

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Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

AMEL 101 - (3) (Y)
Literatures of Asia and the Middle East

AMEL 493, 494 - (1-3) (SI)
Independent Study
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AMTR 301 - (3) (SI)
Men and Women of Asia and the Middle East

HIND 101, 102 - (4) (Y)
Elementary Hindi-Urdu

HIND 201, 202 - (4) (Y)
Intermediate Hindi

HIND 301/501, 302/502 - (3) (Y)
Advanced Hindi

HIND 323, 324 - (3) (IR)
Readings in Hindi

HIND 493, 494 - (1-3) (Y)
Independent Study in Hindi

PERS 101, 102 - (4) (Y)
Elementary Persian

PERS 201, 202 - (4) (Y)
Intermediate Persian

PERS 301/501 - (3) (IR)
Readings in Modern Persian Poetry

PERS 323 - (3) (Y)
Introduction to Classical Persian Literature

PERS 324 - (3) (Y)
Introduction to Modern Persian Literature

PERS 302/502 - (3) (IR)
Readings in Modern Persian Prose Fiction

PERS 493, 494 - (1-3) (Y)
Independent Study in Persian

PETR 321/521 - (3) (IR)
Persian Literature in Translation

PETR 322/522 - (3) (IR)
Twentieth-Century Persian Literature in Translation

SANS 101/501 - (3) (Y)
Elementary Sanskrit I

SANS 102/502 - (3) (Y)
Elementary Sanskrit II

SANS 201A/503 - (3) (IR)
Selections from the Mahabharata

SANS 202A/504 - (3) (IR)
The Bhagavadgita

SANS 201B/505 - (3) (IR)
Selections from the Ramayana of Valmiki

SANS 202B/506 - (3) (Y)
Selections from the Upanisads

SANS 201C/507 - (3) (IR)
Selections from the Kathasaritsagara of Somadeva

SANS 202C/508 - (3) (IR)
Selections from the Puranas

SAST 110 - (3) (IR)
Introduction to South Asia

SATR 200 - (3) (IR)
Introduction to South Asian Literature

SATR 300 - (3) (IR)
South Asian Literature Across Borders

SATR 301 - (3) (Y)
Gender Issues in South Asian Literature

URDU 201, 202 - (4) (Y)
Intermediate Urdu

URDU 301, 302 - (3) (Y)
Readings in Urdu

URDU 493, 494 - (1-3) (IR)
Independent Study in Urdu History

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History

HISA 100 - (3) (IR)
Introductory Seminar in South Asia

HISA 201 - (3) (IR)
History and Civilization of Classical India

HISA 202 - (3) (IR)
History and Civilization of Medieval India

HISA 203 - (3) (IR)
History of Modern India

HISA 301 - (3) (IR)
History of Muslim India

HISA 302 - (3) (IR)
India From Akbar to Victoria

HISA 303 - (3) (IR)
Twentieth Century India

HISA 311 - (3) (IR)
Social and Political Movements in Twentieth Century India

HISA 312 - (3) (IR)
History of Women in South Asia

HISA 401 - (4) (IR)
Seminar in South Asia

HISA 402 - (4) (Y)
Colloquium in South Asia

HISA 403 - (4) (Y)
Topics in South Asian History

HISA 404 - (1-3) (Y)
Independent Study in South Asia

HISA 502 - (3) (IR)
Historiography of Early Modern South Asia

HISA 510 - (3) (E)
Economic History of India

HIST 100 - (3) (Y)
Introductory Seminar in History Music

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Music

MUSI 226 - (3) (IR)
Music as Culture: India

MUSI 307 - (3) (IR)
Worlds of Music

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Politics

PLCP 101 - (3) (Y)
Introduction to Comparative Politics

PLCP 212 - (3) (Y)
The Politics of Developing Areas

PLCP 313 - (3) (Y)
Political Economy of Development

PLCP 363 - (3) (Y)
Politics in India and Pakistan

PLCP 401 - (3) (IR)
Theories of Comparative Politics

PLCP 424 - (3) (S)
Seminar: Topics in Comparative Politics

PLCP 525 - (3) (Y)
Politics of Economic Reform

PLCP 567 - (3) (IR)
Comparative Science and Technology Policy

PLIR 360 - (3) (Y)
Political Economy of Asia

PLIR 375 - (3) (IR)
South Asia in World Affairs

PLIR 595 - (3) (S)
Selected Problems in International Relations

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Religious Studies

RELB 210 - (3) (Y)
Buddhism

RELB 212 - (3) (Y)
Buddhist Literature

RELB 245 - (3) (Y)
Zen

RELB 315 - (3) (Y)
Seminar in Buddhist Studies

RELB 317 - (3) (Y)
Buddhist Meditation

RELB 500, 501 - (4) (E)
Literary and Spoken Tibetan I & II

RELB 502 - (3) (O)
Tibetan Perspectives on Tantra

RELB 526 - (3) (E)
Seminar in Tibetan Buddhism II

RELB 535, 536 - (4) (E)
Literary and Spoken Tibetan III & IV

RELB 543, 544 - (3) (SI)
Sanskrit Religious Texts

RELB 546 - (3) (O)
Seminar in Mahayana Buddhism

RELB 547, 548 - (4) (O)
Literary and Spoken Tibetan V & VI

RELB 555 - (3) (E)
Buddhist Philosophy

RELB 560 - (3) (SI)
Elementary Pali

RELB 561 - (1-3) (IR)
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit

RELB 566 - (3) (SI)
Approaches to Buddhist Studies

RELB 599 - (3) (SS)
South Asian and Inner Asian Buddhist Bibliography

RELG 104 - (3) (S)
Introduction to Eastern Religious Traditions

RELG 575 - (3) (SI)
Myth and Ritual

RELH 209 - (3) (Y)
Hinduism

RELH 211 - (3) (E)
Popular Hinduism

RELH 314 - (3) (O)
The Jain Tradition

RELH 371 - (3) (O)
Hindu Traditions of Devotion

RELH 374 - (3) (E)
Hinduism Through Its Narrative Literatures

RELH 553 - (3) (E)
Hindu Philosophical Systems

RELH 554 - (3) (O)
Hindu Ethics

RELH 589 - (3) (IR)
Vedic Hinduism

RELI 207 - (3) (Y)
Classical Islam

RELI 208 - (3) (Y)
Islam in the Modern Age

RELI 312 - (3) (O)
Sufism

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Sociology

SOC 338 - (3) (O)
India and South Asia

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