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South Asian Studies

Director of Undergraduate Studies: Lloyd Rudolph, P 422A, 702-8056

Program of Study

The Bachelor of Arts program in South Asian studies offers students an opportunity to study a major civilization from the perspective of the social sciences. The humanities are by no means ignored or neglected; students are required to take at least a year of a South Asian language, as well as the South Asian civilization sequence, and certain humanities courses may be used to meet the electives requirement (see below). But the advanced work in the program--the upper-level course work and the B.A. paper--all stress a social sciences perspective.

Program Requirements

The concentration program requires eleven courses and a B.A. paper. Required courses include (1) the South Asian civilization sequence (Social Sciences 230-231-232); (2) three courses in a South Asian language, the level depending on previous achievement and on how the Common Core requirement is met; (3) three courses in the social sciences, preferably from a single discipline; and (4) two electives, preferably courses that strengthen students' chosen disciplinary emphasis or reading courses for the B.A. paper. The B.A. paper shall be from thirty to forty pages in length and is normally initiated in the autumn quarter of the senior year in consultation with the faculty supervisor and the director of undergraduate studies. Students should consult the director of undergraduate studies about the appropriate language sequence for this requirement.

Summary of Requirements

3 SocSci 230-231-232

3 courses in a South Asian language

3 approved social sciences courses

2 approved electives

- B.A. paper

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Grading. The nine nonelective courses in the South Asian studies program must be taken for quality grades.

Faculty

ARJUN APPADURAI, Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor, Departments of Anthropology and South Asian Languages & Civilizations

PHILIP V. BOHLMAN, Assistant Professor, Department of Music and the College

CAROL BRECKENRIDGE, Senior Lecturer, Division of the Humanities

DIPESH CHAKRABARTHY, Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

BERNARD S. COHN, Professor, Departments of Anthropology and History

STEVEN COLLINS, Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

NORMAN J. CUTLER, Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

WENDY DONIGER, Mircea Eliade Professor, the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, Committee on Social Thought, and the College

PAUL J. GRIFFITHS, Associate Professor, the Divinity School and Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

RONALD B. INDEN, Professor, Departments of History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations, and the College

D. GALE JOHNSON, Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics and the College; Chairman, Economics Program in the College

MCKIM MARRIOTT, Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College

COLIN P. MASICA, Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

HESHMAT MOAYYAD, Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

C. M. NAIM, Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

RALPH W. NICHOLAS, Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College; Director, Center for International Studies; President, International House

JAMES H. NYE, Bibliographer, Southern Asian Collection, Joseph Regenstein Library

SHELDON POLLOCK, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College; Chairman, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

FRANK E. REYNOLDS, Professor, the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, and the College

LLOYD I. RUDOLPH, Professor, Department of Political Science and the College; Chairman, Committee on International Relations

SUSANNE HOEBER RUDOLPH, William Benton Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Political Science and the College; Director, South Asian Language & Area Center

CLINTON BOOTH SEELY, Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations; Chairman, Committee on South Asian Studies

RICHARD A. SHWEDER, Professor, Department of Psychology (Human Development and Mental Health), Committee on South Asian Studies, and the College

RICHARD P. TAUB, Paul Klapper Professor of Social Sciences in the College; Professor, Departments of Sociology and Human Development; Chairman, Public Policy Studies in the College; Research Associate, Ogburn/Stouffer Center for the Study of Population and Social Organization at the National Opinion Research Center; Director, South Arkansas Rural Development Study

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