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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with ASST South Asia · returned 32 results
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ECON 240 Microeconomics of Development 6 credits
This course explores household behavior in developing countries. We will cover areas including fertility decisions, health and mortality, investment in education, the intra-household allocation of resources, household structure, and the marriage market. We will also look at the characteristics of land, labor, and credit markets, particularly technology adoption; land tenure and tenancy arrangements; the role of agrarian institutions in the development process; and the impacts of alternative politics and strategies in developing countries. The course complements Economics 241.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 111
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
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Held for students participating in Winter Break Bangladesh program
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ECON 240.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Participation in Winter Break OCS Program
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ECON 240.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 240.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 241 Growth and Development 6 credits
Why are some countries rich and others poor? What causes countries to grow? This course develops a general framework of economic growth and development to analyze these questions. We will document the empirical differences in growth and development across countries and study some of the theories developed to explain these differences. This course complements Economics 240.
- Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Social Inquiry
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Economics 110
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ECON 241.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Ethan Struby 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ECON 241.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Ethan Struby 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 241.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Ethan Struby 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 203 10:10am-11:55am
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ENGL 245 Bollywood Nation 6 credits
This course will serve as an introduction to Bollywood or popular Hindi cinema from India. We will trace the history of this cinema and analyze its formal components. We will watch and discuss some of the most celebrated and popular films of the last 60 years with particular emphasis on urban thrillers and social dramas.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 245.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Arnab Chakladar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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ENGL 251 Contemporary Indian Fiction 6 credits
Contemporary Indian writers, based either in India or abroad, have become significant figures in the global literary landscape. This can be traced to the publication of Salman Rushdie’s second novel, Midnight’s Children in 1981. We will begin with that novel and read some of the other notable works of fiction of the following decades. The class will provide both a thorough grounding in the contemporary Indian literary scene as well as an introduction to some concepts in post-colonial studies.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022, Fall 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 251.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Arnab Chakladar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 344 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENGL 252 Caribbean Fiction 6 credits
This course will examine Anglophone fiction in the Caribbean from the late colonial period through our contemporary moment. We will examine major developments in form and language as well as the writing of identity, personal and (trans)national. We will read works by canonical writers such as V.S Naipaul, George Lamming and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as by lesser known contemporary writers.
- Spring 2019, Fall 2021
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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HIST 161 From the Mughals to Mahatma Gandhi: An Introduction to Modern Indian History 6 credits
This is an introductory survey course; no prior knowledge of South Asian History required. The goal is to familiarize students with some of the key themes and debates in the historiography of modern India. Beginning with an overview of Mughal rule in India, the main focus of the course is the colonial period. The course ends with a discussion of 1947: the hour of independence as well as the creation of two new nation-states, India and Pakistan. Topics include Oriental Despotism, colonial rule, nationalism, communalism, gender, caste and race.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 161.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 161.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 161.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 161.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 161.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Brendan LaRocque 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 10:00am-11:10am
- FWeitz Center 230 9:50am-10:50am
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HIST 161.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 161.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 263 Plagues of Empire 6 credits
The globalization of disease is often seen as a recent phenomenon aided by high-speed communication and travel. This course examines the history of the spread of infectious diseases by exploring the connection between disease, medicine and European imperial expansion. We consider the ways in which European expansion from 1500 onwards changed the disease landscape of the world and how pre-existing diseases in the tropics shaped and thwarted imperial ambitions. We will also question how far Western medicine can be seen as a benefit by examining its role in facilitating colonial expansion and constructing racial and gender difference.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 263.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 263.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 263.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 263.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 236 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 263.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 268 India Program: History, Globalization, and Politics in Modern India 6 credits
Indian democracy presents a complicated social and political terrain that is being reshaped and remapped by a wide variety of efforts to bring about economic development, social change, political representation, justice, and equality. In this course we will examine, among other topics, the history of modern India with a focus on political movements centered on issues of colonialism, nationalism, class, gender, and caste. We will also examine changes in contemporary India brought about by globalization, and study how particular groups and communities have reacted and adapted to these developments.
OCS India Program
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Acceptance into the India OCS Program required
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HIST 269 Religion, Race & Caste in Modern India 6 credits
This course will examine the history of religious beliefs, practices, and community, European imperialist and Orientalist ideologies, and the socio-political implications of anti-colonial nationalist movements in India. We will address questions including: How did the European powers justify their imperial undertaking through specific concepts of race, religion, science and technology? How did the imperial experience impact Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, and caste, race, and gender in India? In the post-colonial period we will examine the powerful growth of low-caste and anti-caste social movements and political parties, as well as religious nationalist, pluralist, and secular mass-movements.
- Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 269.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Brendan LaRocque 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 236 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 270 Nuclear Nations: India and Pakistan as Rival Siblings 6 credits
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947 India and Pakistan, two new nation states emerged from the shadow of British colonialism. This course focuses on the political trajectories of these two rival siblings and looks at the ways in which both states use the other to forge antagonistic and belligerent nations. While this is a survey course it is not a comprehensive overview of the history of the two countries. Instead it covers some of the more significant moments of rupture and violence in the political history of the two states. The first two-thirds of the course offers a top-down, macro overview of these events and processes whereas the last third examines the ways in which people experienced these developments. We use the lens of gender to see how the physical body, especially the body of the woman, is central to the process of nation building. We will consider how women’s bodies become sites of contestation and how they are disciplined and policed by the postcolonial state(s).
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 270.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 270.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 270.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 270.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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MUSC 180 Raga: Vocal or Instrumental Study of Hindustani Music 1 credits
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of voice, guitar, violin, flute, clarinet, etc., approach raga from their current level of musicianship. In all cases, traditional practical instruction is complemented by some theoretical and philosophical exploration of the underpinnings of the music.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 180J Raga: Vocal or Instrumental Study of Hindustani Music 1 credits
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of voice, guitar, violin, flute, clarinet, etc., approach raga from their current level of musicianship. In all cases, traditional practical instruction is complemented by some theoretical and philosophical exploration of the underpinnings of the music.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 181 Sitar 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study of sitar in the gayaki ang style of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Sitars are provided.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 181J Sitar (Juried) 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study of sitar in the gayaki ang style of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Sitars are provided.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 280 Raga: Vocal or Instrumental Study of Hindustani Music 2 credits
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of voice, guitar, violin, flute, clarinet, etc., approach raga from their current level of musicianship. In all cases, traditional practical instruction is complemented by some theoretical and philosophical exploration of the underpinnings of the music.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 280J Raga:Voc/Instr Study Hindustani (Juried) 2 credits
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of voice, guitar, violin, flute, clarinet, etc., approach raga from their current level of musicianship. In all cases, traditional practical instruction is complemented by some theoretical and philosophical exploration of the underpinnings of the music.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 281 Sitar 2 credits
Beginning through advanced study of sitar in the gayaki ang style of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Sitars are provided.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 281J Sitar (Juried) 2 credits
Beginning through advanced study of sitar in the gayaki ang style of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Sitars are provided.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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POSC 170 International Relations and World Politics 6 credits
What are the foundational theories and practices of international relations and world politics? This course addresses topics of a geopolitical, commercial and ideological character as they relate to global systems including: great power politics, polycentricity, and international organizations. It also explores the dynamic intersection of world politics with war, terrorism, nuclear weapons, national security, human security, human rights, and the globalization of economic and social development.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 235 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 235 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 204 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 170.01 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 230 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority
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POSC 170.02 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 170.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 8:30am-9:40am
- FWillis 204 8:30am-9:30am
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- T, THWeitz Center 233 8:15am-10:00am
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POSC 170.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 170.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 236 11:30am-12:40pm
- FWeitz Center 236 11:10am-12:10pm
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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POSC 170.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 204 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 235 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 170.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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Extra time: Departmental Simulation Evening May 19th and Daytime May 20th
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POSC 170.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 170.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THHasenstab 002 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 170.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 241 Ethnic Conflict 6 credits
Ethnic conflict is a persistent and troubling challenge for those interested in preserving international peace and stability. By one account, ethnic violence has claimed more than ten million lives since 1945, and in the 1990s, ethnic conflicts comprised nearly half of all ongoing conflicts around the world. In this course, we will attempt to understand the conditions that contribute to ethnic tensions, identify the triggers that lead to escalation, and evaluate alternative ideas for managing and solving such disputes. The course will draw on a number of cases, including Rwanda, Bosnia, and Northern Ireland.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 241.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 241.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 100 Buddhism, Science, Society 6 credits
This course will examine Buddhism’s engagement with the modern world in global and local contexts from Asia to North America. How do Buddhists draw on the resources of their tradition to change the social structures of gender, class, and race without invalidating that tradition? How do Buddhist teachings provide tools to combat and reinforce racism and violence while empowering and oppressing individuals? Do the Buddhist and scientific views of the mind agree or disagree? Can the effects of meditation be scientifically explained? In exploring these questions, students will be introduced to the multiplicity of Buddhisms.
Held for new first year students
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RELG 100.02 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 100 Christianity and Colonialism 6 credits
From its beginnings, Christianity has been concerned with the making of new persons and worlds: the creation of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It has also maintained a tight relationship to power, empire, and the making of modernity. In this course we will investigate this relationship within the context of colonial projects in the Americas, Africa, India, and the Pacific. We will trace the making of modern selves from Columbus to the abolition (and remainders) of slavery, and from the arrival of Cook in the Sandwich Islands to the journals of missionaries and the contemporary fight for Hawaiian sovereignty.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 100.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:00pm
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RELG 100.02 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 100.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 301 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 122 Introduction to Islam 6 credits
This course provides a general introduction to Islam, as a textual and lived tradition. Students will read from the Qur’an and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad, engaging them both as historical resources and as dynamic and contested objects that have informed Muslim life in diverse ways throughout the centuries. Through following a thread from scripture, through the interpretive sciences (chiefly law and theology), and into an analysis of Muslim life in the contemporary world, students will explore answers Muslim thinkers have given to major questions of our shared existence, with both fidelity to the texts and flexibility to present demands. Though the focus of this course is not on Islam’s role in current events, through attaining a solid introduction to the tradition–its sociology, its history, and its modes of reasoning–students will attain the knowledge necessary to begin to engage those events with a critical and informed mind.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 230 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 122.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 122.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 122.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 153 Introduction to Buddhism 6 credits
This course offers a survey of Buddhism from its inception in India some 2500 years ago to the present. We first address fundamental Buddhist ideas and practices, then their elaboration in the Mahayana and tantric movements, which emerged in the first millennium CE in India. We also consider the diffusion of Buddhism throughout Asia and to the West. Attention will be given to both continuity and diversity within Buddhism–to its commonalities and transformations in specific historical and cultural settings. We also will address philosophical, social, political, and ethical problems that are debated among Buddhists and scholars of Buddhism today.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 153.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 153.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 153.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 153.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 153.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 155 Hinduism: An Introduction 6 credits
Hinduism is the world’s third-largest religion (or, as some prefer, “way of life”), with about 1.2 billion followers. It is also one of its oldest, with roots dating back at least 3500 years. “Hinduism,” however, is a loosely defined, even contested term, designating the wide variety of beliefs and practices of the majority of the people of South Asia. This survey course introduces students to this great variety, including social structures (such as the caste system), rituals and scriptures, mythologies and epics, philosophies, life practices, politics, poetry, sex, gender, Bollywood, and—lest we forget—some 330 million gods and goddesses.
- Fall 2017, Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 155.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 155.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 155.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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RELG 155.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 155.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 237 Yoga: Religion, History, Practice 6 credits
This class will immerse students in the study of yoga from its first textual representations to its current practice around the world. Transnationally, yoga has been unyoked from religion. But the Sanskrit root yuj means to “add,” “join,” or “unite”—and in Indian philosophy and practice it was: a method of devotion; a way to “yoke” the body/mind; a means to unite with Ultimate Reality; a form of concentration and meditation. We will concentrate on texts dating back thousands of years, from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras to the Bhagavad Gita—and popular texts of today. Come prepared to wear loose clothing.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THCowling DANC 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 237.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 257 Asian Religions and Ecology 6 credits
How “eco-friendly” are Asian religious traditions? What does “eco-friendly” even mean? This course begins with an overview of the major religious traditions of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. From this foundation, we turn to modern and contemporary ecological thinkers, movements, and policies and discuss their indebtedness to, and divergence from, various religious heritages. We will also explore how modernity, capitalism, industrialization, climate collapse, and Western environmental movements have influenced eco-advocacy in contemporary Asia.
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RELG 257.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 266 Modern Islamic Thought 6 credits
Through close reading of primary sources, this course examines how some of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Middle East and South Asia conceptualized God and the ideal God-human relationship to address such pressing questions as: How should religion relate to modern technological and scientific advancements? Can Islam serve as an ideology to counter European colonialism? Can Islam become the basis for the formation of social and political life under a nation-state, or does it demand a transnational political collectivity of its own? What would a modern Islamic economy look like?
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RELG 269 Food, Justice and Nonviolence: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Perspectives 6 credits
This course introduces students to the history of the South and East Asian religious ethic of nonviolence (ahiṃsā). We will discuss nonviolence and vegetarianism in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions, including critical perspectives from inside and outside of those traditions. The course will explore the philosophical and cultural aspects of nonviolence, with a focus on its relationship to karma, self-purification, animal welfare, and food practices. We conclude by examining modern deployments of the ethic in charged discourses concerning agriculture, nationalism, environmental destruction and conservation, and social justice.
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RELG 269.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 109 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 109 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 289 Global Religions in Minnesota 6 credits
Somali Muslims in Rice County? Hindus in Maple Grove? Hmong shamans in St. Paul hospitals? Sun Dances in Pipestone? In light of globalization, the religious landscape of Minnesota, like America more broadly, has become more visibly diverse. Lake Wobegon stereotypes aside, Minnesota has always been characterized by some diversity but the realities of immigration, dispossession, dislocation, economics, and technology have made religious diversity more pressing in its implications for every arena of civic and cultural life. This course bridges theoretical knowledge with engaged field research focused on how Midwestern contexts shape global religious communities and how these communities challenge and transform Minnesota.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 289.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 289.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 289.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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RELG 289.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 362 Spirit Possession 6 credits
This course considers spirit possession in relation to religion, gender, and agency. Through surveying a number of works on spirit possession–recent and past, theoretical and ethnographic–we will analyze representations of the female subject in particular and arguments about agency that attend these representations. This class will explicitly look at post-colonial accounts of spirit possession and compare them to Euro-American Christian conceptions of personhood. We will consider how these Euro-Christian conceptions might undergird secular-liberal constructions of agency, and contribute to feminist ideas about the proper female subject.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 362.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 3:10pm-4:55pm
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RELG 362.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 301 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 362.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Kristin Bloomer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 257 India Program: Culture and Politics in India 6 credits
India is a region of immense diversity where more than one billion people live. We will explore social structures in India–through a focus on key areas of everyday life such as family, religion, economy, systems of stratification and social movements. Close attention will be given to religious nationalism, globalization and militarism as dominant trends affecting contemporary India. We will consider: How has India been represented in the Western imagination and why do such representations matter? What are the forces of modernity and tradition in India? What are the similarities and differences in systems of stratification in India and the United States?
- Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry