Summer 2025 Asian Humanities UN1399 section 001

COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/I

MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/

Call Number 00027
Day & Time
Location
MW 3:00pm-7:00pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Matthew L Keegan
Type COLLOQUIA
Course Description

This seminar is an exploration of some "great books" from the Middle East and South Asia. We will read books, plays, stories, and poems in English translation that were originally written in Arabic, Persian, Bangla, Sanskrit. From the Thousand and One Nights to an Arabic epic about a warrior princess to the Bhagavad Gita, we will examine themes of storytelling, gender, politics, and the nature of divinity. With the exception of one Sudanese novel, we will be focusing on texts from the premodern period, and our focus will be on how to interpret texts, develop arguments about those texts, and learning about cultures of reading and writing in the past.

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Subterm 07/07-08/15 (B)
Department BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
Enrollment 0 students (15 max) as of 10:06AM Saturday, February 22, 2025
Subject Asian Humanities
Number UN1399
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard College
Note BC students register for Section 001. CU students register f
Section key 20252AHUM1399W001