PUNE SOCI 360 - Contemporary India

Institution:

Arcadia University

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Description:

The program's core courses is a political, historical and social survey of post-Independence India as a complex yet unified multi-cultural, multi-linguistic, religiously pluralistic democracy, a rising major global power and soon to be the world's most populous country. This course gives students the ability to understand what they are seeing around them, on the news, and in th newspaper, contextualized within a historical framework. Topics include: colonialism, nationalism, and independence; Gandhi, social activism and the 1960s; gender and caste; formative literary, religious and philosophical movements, and recent history from 1990 to the present. AUC Designation: Ss

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.arcadia.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 572-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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