South Asian Studies

2026–2027

37 courses

SAST 0034Dharma: A History of Classical Indian Civilization
SAST 0037Sensing the Sacred: Sensory Culture in South Asian Religions
SAST 0067Divine Drugs: Psychedelics, Religion, and Spirituality
SAST 0110Beginning Hindi or Urdu (HNDI 0100)
SAST 0111Beginning Hindi or Urdu (HNDI 0200)
SAST 0112Intermediate Hindi-Urdu (HNDI 0300)
SAST 0113Intermediate Hindi-Urdu (HNDI 0400)
SAST 0115Elementary Sanskrit I (SANS 0100)
SAST 0116Elementary Sanskrit II (SNAS 0200)
SAST 0120Sanskrit Epic Narrative (SANS 0300)
SAST 0140Food, Religion and Politics in South Asia
SAST 0145Karma, Rebirth and Liberation: Life and Death in South Asian Religions
SAST 0525The History and Practice of Yoga in India and Beyond
SAST 0526This Whole World is OM: Mantras in Indian Religions
SAST 0601Home and Away: South Asian Literature in the Global Diaspora (COLT 0711U)
SAST 0700Introduction to Modern South Asia
SAST 0700AIntroduction to Modern South Asia: The Politics of States, Society, and Development in South Asia
SAST 0700BIntroduction to Modern South Asia: Public Health From Theory to Practice
SAST 0700CCurrent Debates in Modern South Asia
SAST 0725Political Ecology in South Asia
SAST 0730Economic and Human Development in South Asia
SAST 0735South Asia in the World and the World in South Asia
SAST 0740Anticolonial Perspectives from South Asia
SAST 0745The Making of Modern South Asia
SAST 0750Understanding the Indian Economy
SAST 0755Introduction to Modern South Asia
SAST 1050Contemporary Bollywood: The Cultural Logic of Popular Indian Cinema
SAST 1100Intermediate Hindi-Urdu (HNDI 1080)
SAST 1101Advanced Hindi-Urdu (HNDI 1080)
SAST 1120The Sanskrit Grammatical Tradition (SANS 1400)
SAST 1121The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Text and Reception (SANS 1030)
SAST 1125Classical Philosophy of India (CLAS 1140)
SAST 1200Resisting Empire: Gandhi and the Making of Modern South Asia (HIST 1620)
SAST 1201The Global British Empire, 1600-The Present (HIST 1267)
SAST 1203Environmental Pressures of South Asia (HIST 1973Q)
SAST 1250Lover, Mother, Warrior: Women in Premodern Indian Literature (COLT 0711V)
SAST 1970Independent Study