Spring 2025 Middle East UN1630 section 001

Introduction to South Asia

Introduction to South Asi

Call Number 17554
Day & Time
Location
MW 1:10pm-2:25pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Jonathan Peterson
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This course introduces students to South Asia through
an analysis of the heterogeneity, richness, and
complexity of the region’s conflicted pasts. Our
historical scope is vast and ambitious, starting with the
earliest urban settlements in about 2000BCE and
ending in the present. Though focused on “South
Asia,” the course problematizes the bounded areal
model by emphasizing the region’s enduring
connections to Eurasia, Africa, Southeast Asia, and
the broader Indian Ocean world. With connected
history as our method, the course asks students to
grapple with South Asia’s literary, religious, and
political histories as kinetic processes. This allows us to
ask probing questions about issues that have had, and
continue to have, major implications for the region––
and the world––today: sovereignty, power, gender,
community, devotion, piety, secularism, democracy,
violence, and the nation itself.

Web Site Vergil
Department Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Enrollment 90 students (90 max) as of 9:06PM Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Status Full
Subject Middle East
Number UN1630
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Note Students in MDES UN1630 must register for MDES UN1631.
Section key 20251MDES1630W001