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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Spooner. Islam reached South Asia in the eighth century and Muslim rulers held sway over large parts of the Subcontinent for much of the period from the late 12th century until the colonial period. However, the majority of the population never converted to Islam, and since independence in 1947 Islam--its interpretation, realization, and influence--has been a major factor underlying many difficult political issues. This has been true not only in the largest country, India, where Muslims form 12% (unevenly distributed) of the population, but in Bangladesh and Pakistan where non-Muslims are relatively insignificant minorities. This course explores the realities and the perceptions related to Muslim identities and the Islamic heritage in the Subcontinent, and sets it in global context by comparison with other parts of the world which share various aspects of the South Asian experience. The course will conclude with an assessment of the larger significance--social, economic and political, as well as cultural--of Islam in South Asia today.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. An examination of the fundamentals of Buddhist thought and practice. In addition to reading and discussing selected primary Buddhist sources (in English Translation), we shall review the history and development of Buddhism from its Indian origins through its spread to Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Tibet, China, Korea, and Japan. Primary sources and historical materials will be supplemented by some ethnographic readings dealing with the actualities of Buddhist life in contemporary Southeast and East Asia. This course provides basic background for more advanced courses on Buddhism.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. A survey of the theories and realities of polities in South Asia, , from the first emergence of states, via the empires of Asoka and of dynastiessuch as the Guptas, up to the late medieval kingdoms of both North and South India. Inscriptional records will be read and juxtaposed with the prescriptionsof texts such as the famously Machiavellian Arthasastra, and we will also consider the mechanics of taxation, the maintenance of armies, and the realities of armed conflict in pre-modern South Asia.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. An introductory course that shows a film each week and includes reading, discussion, and writing to explore film as a medium for representing history. It includes popular films, documentaries, educational films, and art films; and we will also when possible read books that generated the films, particularly novels. I think this class will have a nice clientele in itself but I also want it to serve as a resource for other courses, for example, my own introduction to South Asian history, in which I can ask students to see some of the films as part of the course. Various South Asian Studies courses might also use this resource, and I will gather some ideas from faculty about films that suit various purposes, toward that end.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Directed Study for Undergraduates
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Meister/Staff. This course is a survey of sculpture, painting and architecture in the Indian sub-continent from 2300 B.C., touching on the present. It attempts to explore the role of tradition in the broader history of art in India, but not to see India as 'traditional' or unchanging. The Indian sub-continent is the source for multi-cultural civilizations that have lasted and evolved for several thousand years. Its art is as rich and complex as that of Europe, as diverse. This course attempts to introduce the full range of artistic production in India in relation to the multiple strands that have made the cultural fabric of the sub-continent so rich and long lasting.
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3.00 Credits
Novetzke. We will explore the world's largest film industry, India's 'Bollywood' centerinBombay(Mumbai), to see how the shared dreams, and nightmares,of Indian public culture light up the silver screen. Through a combination of weekly screenings and readings from fiction, biography, journalism, criticism, and scholarship, will carried out a dialogue on the utopias and dystopias that Bollywood has created since Indian independence in 1947.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Novetzke. In this course we will explore how religious life and ideals are expressed through various media, and how these media have affected cultural life in India. Our aim is two-fold: to acquire a familiarity with a variety of intriguing media forms-including traditional architecture, devotional poetry-music, visual-sensorial worship, modern film, recorded music, and television-and to situate these media within important cultural fields-religion, primarily, but also politics, popular culture, and global culture. Though much of our study will immerse us in India's past, our aim is to understand contemporary India and its religious culture through media.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will meet for three hours to view and discuss a variety of films/videos in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Urdu (with English subtitles), and English, which bring up issues of social, political, and cultural significance. Readings for the course will include articles in various fields ranging from film studies and communication to sociolinguistics and women's studies. Discussions will focus on cinema as a means of expression and as an instrument for social change, examining the various ways in which films both reflect and influence contemporary culture. Screenings will be held.
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3.00 Credits
Miner. This course works with selected primary and secondary sources to explore the place of music, musicians, and others associated with music in the temple, shrine, court and salon environments of Hindu and Muslim South Asia. The periods covered extend from the early centuries A.D.to the modern period. Specific topics will be chosen each semester.
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