South Asia Studies

2026–2027

129 courses

SAST 0001Introduction to Modern India
SAST 0002The City in South Asia
SAST 0003History, Culture, and Religion in Early India
SAST 0004India's Literature: Love, War, Wisdom and Humor
SAST 0006Hindu Mythology
SAST 0007Introduction to Modern South Asian Literatures
SAST 0008India: Culture and Society
SAST 0009Introduction to Hinduism
SAST 0010Musical Cultures of Modern India
SAST 0050Introduction to Indian Philosophy
SAST 0053Religion and Politics in South Asia
SAST 0057Planning to be Off-shore
SAST 0058Doing Research: First-Year Seminar
SAST 0059India, South Asia, and the American University (First-Year Seminar)
SAST 0060Modern South Asia and the World
SAST 0063East & West: Commodities and Culture in Global History
SAST 0104Beginning Tabla I
SAST 0106Beginning Sitar I
SAST 0107Beginning Sitar II
SAST 0108Intermediate Sitar I
SAST 0109Intermediate Sitar II
SAST 0110Beginning Tabla II
SAST 0116American Race: A Philadelphia Story (SNF Paideia Program Course)
SAST 0511Global Inequalities: A Comparative History of Caste and Race.
SAST 0519Benjamin Franklin Seminar: Postcolonial Literature
SAST 0570Colonial South Asia, 1700 - 1950
SAST 1000South Asians in the United States
SAST 1111Religions of South India: Narratives and Ritual Performance
SAST 1112Religion and Cinema in India
SAST 1115American Race: A Philadelphia Story (SNF Paideia Program Course)
SAST 1120Community, Freedom, Violence: Writing the South Asian City
SAST 1124Narrative Across Cultures
SAST 1160Democracy and Development in India
SAST 1169Merchants, Saints, Slaves and Sojourners: the Worlds of the Indian Ocean
SAST 1171Devotion's New Market: Religion, Economics, and the City
SAST 1190Introduction to Postcolonial Literature
SAST 1400Asian American Gender and Sexualities
SAST 1410Asian American Women: Nation, Self and Identity
SAST 1430Introduction to Islam
SAST 1540Religion and Politics in South Asia, c. 1000-2000
SAST 1560Economic Histories of Modern South Asia, c. 1600 - Present
SAST 1561Contemporary South Asia
SAST 1615Migration and the Middle East
SAST 1730Introduction to Buddhism
SAST 1781Silk Road: From the Mediterranean to the Pacific
SAST 1800Psychology of Asian Americans
SAST 1999Independent Study
SAST 2200Creating New Worlds: The Modern Indian Novel
SAST 2208Doing Research: Qualitative Methods and Research Design
SAST 2211Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Science in South Asia: Perspectives from the Past and Present
SAST 2217CU in India - Topics Course
SAST 2225Imagining New Futures: Science Fiction and the Fantastic in South Asian Literature
SAST 2231The Sanskrit Epics
SAST 2232Africa in India and Arabia
SAST 2251Muslim Sainthood Practices
SAST 2260Women and the Making of Modern South Asia
SAST 2262The Making of Medieval India
SAST 2324Sanskrit Literature in Translation
SAST 2334A Survey of Sanskrit, Pakrit, and Classical Tamil Literature in Translation
SAST 2350Eastern Christianities
SAST 2452Urdu Literature in Translation
SAST 2462Urdu Topics Course
SAST 2550Modern Southeast Asia
SAST 2551Media and Religion in South Asia
SAST 2554Religion and Resistance in South Asia
SAST 2600Asian American Food
SAST 2610The Asian Caribbean
SAST 2661Introduction to Marxist Historical Concepts: Traditions and Debates
SAST 2680Art and Empire in India, 1750-1900
SAST 2714Monsoons, Migration and the Making of the Indian Ocean
SAST 2715Beyond Race: a Conceptual Framework for the 21st Century
SAST 2716Color, Caste and Global Resistance Movements 1920-2020s
SAST 3120Indian Art Seminar
SAST 3121Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern South Asia
SAST 3122Health & Society in South Asia
SAST 3650Themes of Indian Philosophy: Yoga and the Bhagavad Gita
SAST 3992SAST Transfer Credit
SAST 4998UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
SAST 5110Topics in South Asian Art
SAST 5121Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern South Asia