MALA 10100-10200-10300. First-Year Malayalam I-II-III.

This sequence focuses on building basic reading, writing, speaking, and listening comprehension skills in Malayalam. The Malayalam script is introduced at the beginning of Autumn Quarter. Students are presented a range of materials, including audio and video material.

MALA 20100-20200-20300. Second-Year Malayalam I-II-III.

This sequence continues to build up student’s skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening comprehension in Malayalam. This sequence transports students beyond basic Malayalam and widens vocabulary/register by providing deeper grammatical knowledge of the more complex levels of language.

MALA 30100-30200-30300. Third-Year Malayalam I-II-III.

MALA 30100-30200-30300 is offered based on demand. Interested students should consult with the director of undergraduate studies. This sequence typically provides an overview of modern Malayalam literature (starting with the late nineteenth century). We then read actual literature, which enhances the Malayalam skills acquired in the two previous years of basic language study.

MALA 40100-40200-40300. Fourth-Year Malayalam I-II-III.

MALA 40100-40200-40300 is offered based on demand. Interested students should consult with the director of undergraduate studies. This sequence typically expands the students’ familiarity with modern Malayalam literature by concentrating on selected readings from this period.

TLGU 10100-10200-10300. First-Year Telugu I-II-III.

First-year Telugu is designed to deal with all of the necessary language skills (i.e., speaking, writing, reading, oral comprehension). The primary goal is to equip students with basic communicative competence in Telugu. By the end of the first quarter, students are expected to be able to carry out day-to-day conversational situations with ease. Through this gradual learning process, students should be capable of reading simple authentic texts. The goal is to tune students to a native speaker’s proficiency.

TLGU 20100-20200-20300. Second-Year Telugu I-II-III.

Second-year Telugu is designed to expand the language skills in the four areas of speaking, writing, reading, and oral comprehension. To enhance these skills, students are required to read Telugu texts, according to their academic interests. Students are introduced to a different native speaker every other week as part of a luncheon discussion. Students watch popular Telugu films to gain overall understanding of vernacular cultural attitudes, and they are expected to give weekly oral presentations during the discussion session.

BANG 10100-10200-10300. First-Year Bangla (Bengali) I-II-III.

This sequence concentrates on developing skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing Bangla at the novice and intermediate low levels. It is designed both for scholars who want to do research on Bengal and for those who want to gain proficiency in elementary Bangla for communication purposes. Evaluation will be based on classroom performance, attendance, homework assignments, projects, quizzes and final examination.

BANG 20100-20200-20300. Second-Year Bangla (Bengali) I-II-III.

This sequence is a continuation of First-Year Bangla and aims at gaining intermediate high proficiency in the language. Students who have prior knowledge of elementary Bengali can join the course. The course concentrates equally on speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. At the end of the course the learner is supposed to have a command of Bengali language and culture that allows him/her to communicate with native speakers with ease. He/she will have sufficient reading abilities to comprehend non-technical modern texts. Evaluation will be based on classroom performance, homework assignments, projects, tests, and final examination.

BANG 30100-30200-30300. Third-Year Bangla (Bengali) I-II-III.

When joining this sequence the student is expected to demonstrate the ability to narrate in all time frames of the language. He/She should be able to provide a simple though articulate discourse on familiar topics and subjects directly related to the student's interests. He/She will learn to provide a full account of events and to use appropriately complex sentences in Bangla. We will also focus on some aspects of the technical language pertaining to various domains. The student will be invited to discuss orally on written material studied in class and at home, and he/she will have to produce two to three pages long essays on a given topic. By the end of the Spring Quarter the student will have the necessary tools to expand significantly his/her abilities in order to reach the superior level.

BANG 40100-40200-40300. Fourth-Year Bangla (Bengali) I-II-III.

Students attending this sequence must be able to produce an articulate discourse on subjects related to history and literary criticism. They should also have a good command of Bengali grammar. The course is mainly devoted to the study of selected premodern Bangla texts (narrative literature, devotional and courtly poetry, treatises) in their historical contexts. We propose various readings in the historiography of Bangla literature, philology, and traditional performance of Bangla poetry. According to the corpus studied in class, a basic introduction to the neighboring Oriya and Assamese premodern literary languages may be provided. Besides, material from all periods will be studied according to the student’s scholarly interests.

HIND 10100-10200-10300. First-Year Hindi I-II-III.

This five-day-a-week sequence presents an introduction to the world’s second most spoken language through reading, writing, listening, memorizing, and speaking. We begin with the Devanagari script, and we then introduce the Urdu script in Winter Quarter.

HIND 20100-20200-20300. Second-Year Hindi I-II-III.

This intermediate Hindi sequence presupposes knowledge of the basic grammar of Hindi and requires substantial reading and translating of Hindi prose, alongside exposure to advanced Hindi grammar topics. Regular attention is given to conversation and composition. Texts in Hindi.

HIND 30100-30200-30300. Third-Year Hindi I-II-III.

Third-Year Hindi I-II-III

HIND 40100-40200-40300. Fourth-Year Hindi I-II-III.

Readings from Hindi literary and journalistic texts and a wide array of other sources depending on student interests, with continuing grammar review and practice in listening comprehension, composition and speech.

MARA 10100-10200-10300. First-Year Marathi I-II-III.

This sequence follows the textbook Marathi in Context (with its online supplement Marathi Online) in its focus on developing the basic skills—comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing—of Marathi language use. It covers all the fundamentals of Marathi grammar, but only as they are encountered in context, within a wide array of social and conversational “situations.”

MARA 20100-20200-20300. Second-Year Marathi I-II-III.

This sequence significantly extends both the breadth and the depth of the social and conversational situations introduced in the first year and includes numerous readings, largely from An Intermediate Marathi Reader. It covers all the grammar required for reading most kinds of modern Marathi prose texts.

MARA 30100-30200-30300. Third-Year Marathi I-II-III.

MARA 30100-30200-30300 is offered based on demand. Interested students should consult with the director of undergraduate studies. Students in this course read from An Advanced Marathi Reader and a wide array of other sources depending on their interests. This course also includes continuing grammar review and practice in composition and speech. This course typically is offered in alternate years.

MARA 40100-40200-40300. Fourth-Year Marathi I-II-III.

MARA 40100-40200-40300 is offered based on demand. Interested students should consult with the director of undergraduate studies. Directed readings are selected (based on student interests and research needs) from the entire range of genres (verse and prose) and periods, excluding Old Marathi (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries), with continuing grammar review and practice in composition and speech.

PALI 10100-10200-10300. First-Year Pali I-II-III.

This sequence introduces the language of the Theravada Buddhist tradition. Essentials of grammar are emphasized, with readings in simpler texts by the end of the first quarter.

PALI 20100-20200-20300. Second-Year Pali I-II-III.

Students in this intermediate Pali sequence read Pali texts that are chosen in accordance with their interests. The texts read in the introductory course are usually taken from a single, early stratum of Pali literature. The intermediate course takes examples of Pali from different periods and in different styles. Texts in Pali.

PALI 30100-30200-30300. Third-Year Pali I-II-III.

PALI 30100-30200-30300 is offered based on demand. Interested students should consult with the director of undergraduate studies.

PALI 40100-40200-40300. Fourth-Year Pali I-II-III.

PALI 40100-40200-40300 is offered based on demand. Interested students should consult with the director of undergraduate studies. Readings are drawn from all styles and periods of Pali literature, in prose and verse, chosen according to student interests.

SANS 10100-10200-10300. First-Year Sanskrit I-II-III.

The first half (about fifteen weeks) of this sequence is spent mastering the reading and writing of the Devanagari script and studying the grammar of the classical Sanskrit language. The remainder of the sequence is devoted to close analytical reading of simple Sanskrit texts, which are used to reinforce the grammatical study done in the first half of this course. The aim is to bring students to the point where they are comfortably able, with the help of a dictionary, to read simple, narrative Sanskrit. Texts in Sanskrit.

SANS 20100-20200-20300. Second-Year Sanskrit I-II-III.

This sequence begins with a rapid review of grammar learned in the introductory course, followed by readings from a variety of Sanskrit texts. The goals are to consolidate grammatical knowledge, expand vocabulary, and gain confidence in reading different styles of Sanskrit independently.

SANS 30100-30200-30300. Third-Year Sanskrit I-II-III.

Reading selections introduce major Sanskrit genres, including verse and prose narrative, lyric poetry, drama, and the intellectual discourse of religion, philosophy, and the sciences. Analysis of the language and style employed in commentarial texts and practice in reading such texts is also emphasized.

SANS 40100-40200-40300. Fourth-Year Sanskrit I-II-III.

The goal of this sequence is to provide students with strong reading expertise in a wide range of Sanskrit texts in literature (poems and plays, verse and prose) and the scientific and philosophical discourses (e.g., grammar, logic, poetic theory, Buddhist thought), and commentarial literature on both.

SALC 20100-20200. Introduction to the Civilizations of South Asia I-II.

This sequence introduces core themes in the formation of culture and society in South Asia from the early modern period until the present. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. These courses must be taken in sequence.

SALC 20400. The Mahabharata in English Translation. 100 Units.

A reading of the Mahabharata in English translation (van Buitenen, Narasimhan, Ganguli, and Doniger [ms.]), with special attention to issues of mythology, feminism, and theodicy. (C)

Instructor(s): W. Doniger     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 26800,FNDL 24400,HREL 35000,SALC 48200

SALC 20508. Radical Cinema in India: A Historical Introduction. 100 Units.

 At the same time as Hindi films emerged as the dominant idiom of a "national" cinema, the cinematic landscape of postcolonial India was dramatically transformed by the works of a handful of filmmakers who emerged out of the ranks of newly established film clubs and and the Film Institute in India.  Variously described as the proponents of "alternative" "art" or parallel cinema in India, filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Basu Chatterji, Adoor Gopalakrishnan chose cinema as the form through which they commented on politics and society.  Their cinematic style and idiom was however markedly different from that of Bollywood. This course introduces students to ideas of cinematic cosmopolitanism through a close reading of these exponents of "radical cinema" in India.  

Instructor(s): R. Majumdar     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 30508

SALC 20605. Reading Panjabi. 100 Units.

This course is intended for people who can already speak Panjabi (either partially or fully), but cannot read and/or write it.  It will teach students how to read Panjabi in either Gurmukhi or Perso-Arabic script (Shahmukhi) or both, depending on student interest.  Specific materials chosen for the course will depend on the students who enroll.

Instructor(s): E. Bashir
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 30602

SALC 20700. Critics of Colonialism. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): HIST 26600,HIST 36600

SALC 20701. Postcolonial Theory. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): HIST 26601,HIST 36601,SALC 30701

SALC 20702. Colonizations III. 100 Units.

The third quarter considers the processes and consequences of decolonization both in the newly independent nations and the former colonial powers.

Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): These courses can be taken in any sequence.
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 24003,ANTH 24003,HIST 18303,SOSC 24003

SALC 20800. Music of South Asia. 100 Units.

This course examines the music of South Asia as an aesthetic domain with both unity and particularity in the region. The unity of the North and South Indian classical traditions is treated historically and analytically, with special emphasis placed on correlating their musical and mythological aspects. The classical traditions are contrasted with regional, tribal, and folk music with respect to fundamental conceptualizations of music and the roles it plays in society. In addition, the repertories of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as states and nations bordering the region, are covered. Music is also considered as a component of myth, religion, popular culture, and the confrontation with modernity.

Instructor(s): K. Mason     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Any 10000-level music course or consent of instructor
Note(s): This course typically is offered in alternate years.
Equivalent Course(s): MUSI 23700,MUSI 33700,RLST 27700

SALC 20900. Cultural Politics of Contemporary India. 100 Units.

Structured as a close-reading seminar, this class offers an anthropological immersion in the cultural politics of urban India today. A guiding thread in the readings is the question of the ideologies and somatics of shifting "middle class" formations; and their articulation through violence, gender, consumerism, religion, and technoscience.

Instructor(s): W. Mazzarella     Terms Offered: Not offered 2012–13; will be offered 2013–14
Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 25500,ANTH 42600,SALC 30900

SALC 20901. Indian Philosophy I: Origins and Orientations. 100 Units.

A survey of the origins of Indian philosophical thought, emphasizing the Vedas, Upanisads, and early Buddhist literature. Topics include concepts of causality and freedom, the nature of the self and ultimate reality, and the relationship between philosophical thought and ritual or ascetic religious practice. (B)
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Instructor(s): M. Kapstein     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 24201,DVPR 30200,HREL 30200,SALC 30901

SALC 20902. Indian Philosophy II: The Classical Traditions. 100 Units.

Continuing and building upon SALC 20901/30901, we focus on the development of the major classical systems of Indian thought. The course emphasizes Indian logic, epistemology, and philosophy of language. (B)
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Instructor(s): D. Arnold     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): RLST 24201
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 24202,DVPR 30300,HREL 30300,SALC 30902

SALC 22900. Performance and Politics in India. 100 Units.

This seminar considers and pushes beyond such recent instances as the alleged complicity between the televised "Ramayana" and the rise of a violently intolerant Hindu nationalism. We consider the potentials and entailments of various forms of mediation and performance for political action on the subcontinent, from "classical" textual sources, through "folk" traditions and "progressive" dramatic practice, to contemporary skirmishes over "obscenity" in commercial films.

Instructor(s): W. T. S. Mazzarella     Terms Offered: Not offered 2012–13; will be offered 2013–14

SALC 23002. Gender and Literature in South Asia. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): CMLT 23500,GNDR 23001,GNDR 33001,SALC 33002

SALC 23101. Love, Conjugality, and Capital: Intimacy in the Modern World. 100 Units.

A look at societies in other parts of the world demonstrates that modernity in the realm of love, intimacy, and family often had a different trajectory from the European one. This course surveys ideas and practices surrounding love, marriage, and capital in the modern world. Using a range of theoretical, historical, and anthropological readings, as well as films, the course explores such topics as the emergence of companionate marriage in Europe and the connections between arranged marriage, dowry, love, and money. Case studies are drawn primarily from Europe, India, and Africa.

Instructor(s): J. Cole, R. Majumdar     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Prerequisite(s): Any 10000-level music course or consent of instructor
Note(s): This course typically is offered in alternate years.

SALC 23105. Women, Gender, and Power in Contemporary South Asia. 100 Units.

This is an interdisciplinary course that explores how particular historical, social, cultural, economic, and political factors shape the lives, work,  activism and politics of women. While the course will particularly focus on women and societies in contemporary South Asia it will also provide comparative perspectives on other regions of the world. It will examine constructions of class, religion, gender and sexuality along with the ways in which global capitalism, ideas about development and underdevelopment, nationalism, the gendered division of labor, urbanization, and the  commodification of women’s bodies, all contribute to the way women experience their lives, their work,  and their politics. Through the readings, films, lectures, and discussions, we will address how these various issues affect women’s lives in South Asia, as well as explore the transnational connections between South Asia and the United States with regard to many of these issues.

Instructor(s): Tarini Bedi     Terms Offered: Autumn 2012

SALC 23900. Phil. Edu. Indo-Tib. Buddhism. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): RLST 23901

SALC 25701. Rel/Sex/Pol/Release Anc India. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): FNDL 23601,GNDR 32200,HREL 32200,RLST 27300,SALC 35701,SCTH 35600

SALC 25900. South Asia Before the Buddha. 100 Units.

South Asia has a rich historical record, from the very beginnings of our species to the present, and yet the earlier part of this record is surprisingly little-known outside specialist circles. This course provides a broad overview of South Asian archaeology and early history, from the beginnings of agricultural production to the expansion of states and empires in the early days of textual records.  We cover critical anthropological processes such as the origins and expansion of agriculture, the development of one of the world’s first urban societies – the Harappan or Indus civilization– the growth and institutionalization of social inequalities, and changing contexts of social and religious life. While the course actually extends a bit beyond the time of the Buddha, its major focus is on the periods up to and including the Early Historic.  No prior experience of either South Asia or archaeology is assumed; indeed, we will think quite a bit about the nature of evidence and about how we know about the more distant past.

Instructor(s): K. Morrison     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 39400

SALC 26703. Colonial Rule in South Asia. 100 Units.

This course is a survey of the Colonial period in South Asian History (c. 1757 to 1947), with a particular focus on the imperial technique of rule.

Instructor(s): D. Chakrabarty     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 26802

SALC 26903. History and Literature of Pakistan: Postcolonial Representations. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): C.R. Perkins     Terms Offered: Autumn 2012
Equivalent Course(s): NEHC 26903,HIST 26608,SALC 46903

SALC 26910. Orality, Literature, and Popular Culture of Afghanistan and Pakistan. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): C. R. Perkins     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Equivalent Course(s): CMLT 26901,CMLT 36901,HIST 26905,HIST 36905,NEHC 20901,NEHC 30901,SALC 36901

SALC 27000. Survey/Lang/Lit of Pakistan. 100 Units.

SALC 27301. Buddhism in South Asia. 100 Units.

Buddhism has been an important presence in South Asian religion and culture since its origins in northern India some 2500 years ago. In this course, we will survey the history of ideas and practices in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism from its earliest traces to the present. (C)
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Instructor(s): C. Wedemeyer     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 27302

SALC 27701. Mughal India: Tradition and Transition. 100 Units.

The focus of this course is on the period of Mughal rule during the late sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, especially on selected issues that have been at the center of historiographical debate in the past decades.

Instructor(s): M. Alam     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing and consent of instructor. Prior knowledge of appropriate history and secondary literature.
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 26602,HIST 36602,SALC 37701

SALC 27904. Wives, Widows, and Prostitutes: Hindi Literature and the "Women's Question," 1870 to 1940. 100 Units.

From the early nineteenth century, the debate on the status of Indian women formed an integral part of the discourse on the state of civilization, Hindu tradition, and social reform in colonial India. This course explores how Hindi literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with the "women's question." Caught between middle class conservatism and the urge for social reform, Hindi authors thematized controversial issues (e.g., female education, child marriage, widow remarriage, prostitution) in their fictional and discursive writings. We explore the tensions of a literary and social agenda that advocated the "uplift" of women as a necessary precondition for the progress of the nation, while also expressing patriarchal fears about women's rights and freedom. Texts in English and the original (in excerpts).

Instructor(s): U. Stark     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor based on demonstrated knowledge of Hindi

SALC 28700. The State In India. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 28700,ANTH 48300,SALC 38700

SALC 29800-29801-29802. BA Paper.

Students register for this sequence for two quarters. One quarter is for directed reading; and the second quarter is for writing and submission of the BA paper, which can be credited toward the SALC major requirements.

SALC 29900-29901-29902. Informal Reading Course.

This individual reading course with faculty may be used for topics not requiring use of a South Asian language, for independent study, and by nonmajors who wish to explore a South Asian topic.

SALC 30508. Radical Cinema in India: A Historical Introduction. 100 Units.

 At the same time as Hindi films emerged as the dominant idiom of a "national" cinema, the cinematic landscape of postcolonial India was dramatically transformed by the works of a handful of filmmakers who emerged out of the ranks of newly established film clubs and and the Film Institute in India.  Variously described as the proponents of "alternative" "art" or parallel cinema in India, filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Basu Chatterji, Adoor Gopalakrishnan chose cinema as the form through which they commented on politics and society.  Their cinematic style and idiom was however markedly different from that of Bollywood. This course introduces students to ideas of cinematic cosmopolitanism through a close reading of these exponents of "radical cinema" in India.  

Instructor(s): R. Majumdar     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 20508

SALC 30602. Reading Panjabi. 100 Units.

This course is intended for people who can already speak Panjabi (either partially or fully), but cannot read and/or write it.  It will teach students how to read Panjabi in either Gurmukhi or Perso-Arabic script (Shahmukhi) or both, depending on student interest.  Specific materials chosen for the course will depend on the students who enroll.

Instructor(s): E. Bashir
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 20605

SALC 30608. Persian Poetry: Masavi of Rumi I. 100 Units.

The Masnavi of Mowlânâ Jalâl al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) constitutes the single most influential text in the Persian mystical tradition, read in the original from Bosnia to Bengal. This course will consider the literary background and achievement of the text; its poetic representation of Qur'an, hadith and mystical theosophy; its reception, commentary and translation history; and above all the structure and meaning of the poem. The first quarter will survey a select anthology of individual stories and themes in the Masnavi; while the second quarter will focus on a through-reading of at least one of the six books of this 25,000-line poem.

Instructor(s): F. Lewis     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Prerequisite(s): 2 years Persian
Equivalent Course(s): PERS 30324,ISLM 30324

SALC 30609. Persian Poetry: Masnavi of Rumi II. 100 Units.

The Masnavi of Mowlânâ Jalâl al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) constitutes the single most influential text in the Persian mystical tradition, read in the original from Bosnia to Bengal. This course will consider the literary background and achievement of the text; its poetic representation of Qur'an, hadith and mystical theosophy; its reception, commentary and translation history; and above all the structure and meaning of the poem. The first quarter will survey a select anthology of individual stories and themes in the Masnavi; while the second quarter will focus on a through-reading of at least one of the six books of this 25,000-line poem.

Instructor(s): F. Lewis     Terms Offered: Spring 2013
Equivalent Course(s): PERS 30325

SALC 30610. Rumi's Masnavi and the Persian Sufi Tradition. 100 Units.

The Masnavi of Mowlana Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) is perhaps the most widely read and commented upon poem from Bosnia to Bengal, and Rumi has been hailed by more than one modern scholar as the “greatest mystical poet” of Islam, or even the world. This course centers around a close-reading in English of the six books of his "Spiritual Couplets." Through discussion and lectures we will consider the narrative techniques and sources of the tales, the morals drawn from them, the organizational structure of the whole, and the literary achievement of the Masnavi, viewing the text as a lens on to Rumi's theology, Persian Sufism and his place within the mystical tradition.

Instructor(s): F. Lewis     Terms Offered: Autumn 2012
Equivalent Course(s): NEHC 20750,NEHC 30750,FNDL 20750,ISLM 30750,SALC 20610,CMES 30750

SALC 30701. Postcolonial Theory. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): SALC 20701,HIST 26601,HIST 36601

SALC 30705. Readings in the Bhakti Literatures of North India. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): V. Paramasivan     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Note(s): Open to advanced undergraduates with consent of instructor and 2-3 years of Hindi
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 41705

SALC 30800. Music of South Asia. 100 Units.

This course examines the music of South Asia as an aesthetic domain with both unity and particularity in the region. The unity of the North and South Indian classical traditions is treated historically and analytically, with special emphasis placed on correlating their musical and mythological aspects. The classical traditions are contrasted with regional, tribal, and folk music with respect to fundamental conceptualizations of music and the roles it plays in society. In addition, the repertories of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as states and nations bordering the region, are covered. Music is also considered as a component of myth, religion, popular culture, and the confrontation with modernity.

Instructor(s): K. Mason     Terms Offered: Autumn 2012

SALC 30900. Cultural Politics of Contemporary India. 100 Units.

Structured as a close-reading seminar, this class offers an anthropological immersion in the cultural politics of urban India today. A guiding thread in the readings is the question of the ideologies and somatics of shifting "middle class" formations; and their articulation through violence, gender, consumerism, religion, and technoscience.

Instructor(s): W. Mazzarella     Terms Offered: Not offered 2012–13; will be offered 2013–14
Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 25500,ANTH 42600,SALC 20900

SALC 30901. Indian Philosophy I: Origins and Orientations. 100 Units.

A survey of the origins of Indian philosophical thought, emphasizing the Vedas, Upanisads, and early Buddhist literature. Topics include concepts of causality and freedom, the nature of the self and ultimate reality, and the relationship between philosophical thought and ritual or ascetic religious practice. (B)
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Instructor(s): M. Kapstein     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): DVPR 30200,HREL 30200,RLST 24201,SALC 20901

SALC 30902. Indian Philosophy II: The Classical Traditions. 100 Units.

Continuing and building upon SALC 20901/30901, we focus on the development of the major classical systems of Indian thought. The course emphasizes Indian logic, epistemology, and philosophy of language. (B)
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Instructor(s): D. Arnold     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): RLST 24201
Equivalent Course(s): DVPR 30300,HREL 30300,RLST 24202,SALC 20902

SALC 33002. Gender and Literature in South Asia. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): SALC 23002,CMLT 23500,GNDR 23001,GNDR 33001

SALC 33101. Love, Conjugality, and Capital: Intimacy in the Modern World. 100 Units.

A look at societies in other parts of the world demonstrates that modernity in the realm of love, intimacy, and family often had a different trajectory from the European one. This course surveys ideas and practices surrounding love, marriage, and capital in the modern world. Using a range of theoretical, historical, and anthropological readings, as well as films, the course explores such topics as the emergence of companionate marriage in Europe and the connections between arranged marriage, dowry, love, and money. Case studies are drawn primarily from Europe, India, and Africa.

Instructor(s): J. Cole, R. Majumdar     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): This course typically is offered in alternate years.
Equivalent Course(s): GNSE 23102,ANTH 21525,ANTH 32220,CHDV 22212,CHDV 32212,SALC 23101

SALC 36901. Orality, Literature, and Popular Culture of Afghanistan and Pakistan. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): C. R. Perkins     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 26910,CMLT 26901,CMLT 36901,HIST 26905,HIST 36905,NEHC 20901,NEHC 30901

SALC 37701. Mughal India: Tradition and Transition. 100 Units.

The focus of this course is on the period of Mughal rule during the late sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, especially on selected issues that have been at the center of historiographical debate in the past decades.

Instructor(s): M. Alam     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing and consent of instructor. Prior knowledge of appropriate history and secondary literature.
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 27701,HIST 26602,HIST 36602

SALC 39400. South Asia Before the Buddha. 100 Units.

South Asia has a rich historical record, from the very beginnings of our species to the present, and yet the earlier part of this record is surprisingly little-known outside specialist circles. This course provides a broad overview of South Asian archaeology and early history, from the beginnings of agricultural production to the expansion of states and empires in the early days of textual records.  We cover critical anthropological processes such as the origins and expansion of agriculture, the development of one of the world’s first urban societies – the Harappan or Indus civilization– the growth and institutionalization of social inequalities, and changing contexts of social and religious life. While the course actually extends a bit beyond the time of the Buddha, its major focus is on the periods up to and including the Early Historic.  No prior experience of either South Asia or archaeology is assumed; indeed, we will think quite a bit about the nature of evidence and about how we know about the more distant past.

Instructor(s): K. Morrison     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 25900

SALC 40000. South Asia As A Unit Of Study. 100 Units.

For course description contact South Asian Languages.

SALC 41705. Readings in the Bhakti Literatures of North India. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): V. Paramasivan     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Note(s): Open to advanced undergraduates with consent of instructor and 2-3 years of Hindi
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 30705

SALC 42501. Many Ramayanas. 100 Units.

This course is a close reading of the great Hindu Epic, the story of Rama's recovery of his wife, Sita, from the demon Ravana on the island of Lanka, with special attention to the changes in the telling of the story throughout Indian history. Readings are in Paula Richman, Many Ramayanas and Questioning Ramayanas; the Ramayanas of Valmiki (in translation by Goldman, Sattar, Shastri, and R. K. Narayan), Kampan, and Tulsi; the Yogavasistha-Maharamayana; and contemporary comic books and films.

Instructor(s): W. Doniger     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor
Equivalent Course(s): FNDL 22911,HREL 42501,SCTH 40701

SALC 43103. Love, Capital, and Conjugality in Africa and India. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): R. Majumdar, J. Cole     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Equivalent Course(s): CDIN 45001,HIST 45001,chdv 42212,anth 42221

SALC 46902. South Asia From the Peripheries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Transnational. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): C.R. Perkins     Terms Offered: Autumn 2012
Equivalent Course(s): NEHC 46902,CMLT 46902,HIST 46601

SALC 46903. History and Literature of Pakistan: Postcolonial Representations. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): C.R. Perkins     Terms Offered: Autumn 2012
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 26903,NEHC 26903,HIST 26608

SALC 48200. The Mahabharata in English Translation. 100 Units.

A reading of the Mahabharata in English translation (van Buitenen, Narasimhan, Ganguli, and Doniger [ms.]), with special attention to issues of mythology, feminism, and theodicy. (C)

Instructor(s): W. Doniger     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 26800,FNDL 24400,HREL 35000,SALC 20400

SALC 48400. Second-Year Sanskrit II. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): W. Doniger     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): SANS 10300 or comparable level of language skills
Equivalent Course(s): SANS 20200,HREL 36000

SALC 48601. Readings in Indo-Persian Literature II. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): M. Alam, T. d'Hubert     Terms Offered: Autumn 2012
Equivalent Course(s): NEHC 48601

SALC 60100. Teaching South Asia. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): S. Collins     Terms Offered: Autumn 2012

TAML 10100-10200-10300. First-Year Tamil I-II-III.

The grammar of modern Tamil, in its manifestation both in colloquial and formal styles, and a good amount of vocabulary needed for referring to the immediate environment and using in day today transactions will be acquired. The four language skills acquired will be at different levels of proficiency with listening and speaking at the top followed by reading of formal texts and ending with basic writing skills in the formal style. The gradual progression in listening will be from teacher–student to speaker-speaker; in speaking it will be from articulation of sounds and intonation to expressing personal needs and interests, performing practical tasks, narrating experience and expressing emotions; in reading it will be from alphabet and spelling in the two styles to sign boards, controlled texts, factual news stories, interpretive reports and jokes; in writing from conversion of colloquial style into conventional style to personal letters, paraphrasing and translation of sentences.  The tools used are classroom conversations, conversational tapes, videos, graded print materials, select materials from the print media including tales, which are complemented by exercises and quizzes.

TAML 20100-20200-20300. Second-Year Tamil I-II-III.

This sequence is structured in a similar fashion as in the first year to develop  the higher order of the four language skills. All materials, aural and visual, will be uncontrolled and unedited. The student will be introduced to web sources and dictionaries for self-reference and to using Unicode for writing. Also will be exposed to dialects to have a taste of them. At the end of the course, the student will be able to converse in Tamil about specific topics of interest, to understand programs in the visual media including lyrics, to ask questions in field work situations,  to read and understand texts on current events in newspapers and magazines, to understand and appreciate modern fiction and poetry, to read and understand public communications such as pamphlets, invitations, announcements, advertisements and public speeches, and to write short essays and reports. If there is interest, web pages will be added to printed pages for reading and e mail and chat groups will be media added for practicing writing.

TAML 30100-30200-30300. Third-Year Tamil I-II-III.

On the basis of a variety of readings, such as short stories, poems, excerpts from novels or non-fiction, this course addresses those issues of modern written Tamil grammar which have not been covered during the previous two years. Readings are typically selected with a view to providing important cultural information, and they are supplemented by film clips and other media. Class content may be chosen or adapted based on particular student needs. Further work on listening and speaking proficiency is also part of the course. Based on prior consultation with instructor regarding placement, this course might be an appropriate starting point for speakers of Tamil with previous knowledge (e.g., heritage students).

TAML 40100-40200-40300. Fourth-Year Tamil I-II-III.

This course typically includes an introduction to Classical Tamil grammar and literature, with sample readings reaching from the oldest known Tamil literature (Sangam poetry) via bhakti poems to the magnificent courtly compositions of the high and late medieval periods. Various other types of linguistic variation may also be studied, e.g. inscriptional Tamil or dialects/regional language registers. Depending on the students’ needs, an overview of Tamil literary history is also given. Native or heritage speakers of Tamil are required to have a solid knowledge of modern Tamil grammar.

TBTN 10100-10200-10300. First-Year Tibetan I-II-III.

The Tibetan language, with a history going back more than one thousand years, is one of Asia’s major literary languages. At the present time, it is the first language of close to seven million people in Tibet, as well as in India, Nepal, and Bhutan. The textbook is "The Manual of Standard Tibetan by Nicolas Tournade & Sangda Dorje." This introductory sequence covers the script and pronunciation, the grammar of the modern Lhasa dialect, as well as basic reading and speaking skills.

TBTN 20100-20200-20300. Second-Year Tibetan I-II-III.

This intermediate sequence covers second-level pronunciation and grammar of the modern Lhasa dialect, as well as intermediate-level reading and speaking skills.

TBTN 30100-30200-30300. Third-Year Tibetan I-II-III.

Third-Year Tibetan

TBTN 40100-40200-40300. Fourth-Year Tibetan I-II-III.

The third- and fourth-year sequence is meant to expose students to a range of genres in Tibetan literature, including religious, historical, philosophical, scientific, and literary works. Instruction consists in guided readings, with continuing grammar review, practice in speaking, and application of philological methods.

URDU 10100-10200-10300. First-Year Urdu I-II-III.

These courses must be taken in sequence. This three-quarter sequence covers basic grammar and vocabulary. Spoken by thirty-five million people in South Asia, Urdu is the national language of Pakistan and one of the official languages of India. Our text is C. M. Naim’s Introductory Urdu, Volumes I and II. Students learn to read and write the Urdu script, as well as to compose/write in Urdu. We also emphasize aural and oral skills (i.e., listening, pronunciation, speaking). These courses must be taken in sequence.

URDU 20100-20200-20300. Second-Year Urdu I-II-III.

This sequence is a continuation of URDU 10100-10200-10300. There is increased emphasis on vocabulary building. Depending on ability levels and interests of the students, readings can include selections from various original sources.

URDU 30100-30200-30300. Third-Year Urdu I-II-III.

Third-Year Urdu

URDU 40100-40200-40300. Fourth-Year Urdu I-II-III.

URDU 40100-40200-40300 is offered based on demand. Interested students should consult with the director of undergraduate studies. This third- and fourth-year sequence consists of courses primarily in Urdu prose, meant for students who have already mastered the grammar and control vocabulary past the basic level. The two-year cycle includes passages/selections from noted Urdu writers from the late eighteenth through the twentieth century. The sequence has two major goals. The first goal is to emphasize training in comprehension, reading, writing, philology and discussion (in Urdu). A second goal is to encourage analysis of the widely acknowledged masters of Urdu style by locating them within the larger context of early modern and modern South Asian social and intellectual history.