GP
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
Office location and address
139 New Cabell Hall
510 Massie Rd
Charlottesville,
Virginia
22903
Publications
Courses
Credits: 4
Introductory training in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing Hindi and Urdu.
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: HIND 1010.
Credits: 4
Introduction to various types of written and spoken Hindi; vocabulary building, idioms and problems of syntax; and conversation in Hindi. Prerequisite: HIND 1020 or equivalent.
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: for URDU 2020: URDU 2010 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
Readings are drawn from areas of particular interest to the students involved, and include readings from various disciplines. Prerequisite: HIND 2020 or equivalent or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: HIND 2020 or equivalent or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
Epistemologies, methodologies and methods currently used in Global research as well as emerging alternatives. We will examine: pressures for knowledge production that is co-authored with non-academic actors; historical and contemporary uses of research methods by global actors; the differing audiences for research that our students speak to across global spaces; and interest in knowledge that contributes more directly to social action.
Credits: 3
This class will focus on cinema produced by the industry in Mumbai, popularly called Bollywood. Topics will include the relationship between fiction and documentation, between melodrama and realism, music and affect. Students will be taught the tools of film analysis and will be expected to watch and unpack films each week. They will also be expected to consider films in the social, political and economic contexts in which they were made.
Placeholder course for students studying abroad
Credits: 1–6
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in Global Studies.
Credits: 1–4
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of South Asian studies.
Credits: 3
South Asia, the region which stretches from Afghanistan to Burma and down to Sri Lanka, has been the center of thousands of years of trade and finance. In this course we will investigate the early history of this vast flow through the following: the highlights of the history of business and banking, trade and finance from about 1500 B.C to the early European merchant adventurers , the worlds and cultures that were implicated in that history.
Credits: 3
Introduces students to some key & controversial theoretical texts that make up the emerging field of queer theory. The approach will be interdisciplinary, w/ an emphasis on literary, social, & aesthetic criticisms that may shift according the instructor's areas of expertise. Active reading & informed discussion will be emphasized for the often unseen, or submerged, aspects of sexuality embedded in cultural texts, contexts, & litterateurs.
Credits: 1–4
Independent Study
Credits: 1–4
Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality vary by semester.
Credits: 1–6
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in Global Studies.
Credits: 3
The course integrates mindfulness training with interpretation of art, literature, and writing. Course material is global in scope, incorporating diverse works from Urdu poetry to Japanese haikus, including texts and mindfulness exercises from Tibet. Students will practice mindfulness to enhance their understanding of writers' and artists' personal, historical, cultural, and gender perspectives.
Credits: 1–3
Independent Study course
Credits: 1–6
Independent study to be arranged by student in consultation with professor.
Credits: 1–3
Independent study in a special field under the direction of a faculty member in MESALC. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of South Asian studies.
Credits: 3
South Asia, the region which stretches from Afghanistan to Burma and down to Sri Lanka, has been the center of thousands of years of trade and finance. In this course we will investigate the early history of this vast flow through the following: the highlights of the history of business and banking, trade and finance from about 1500 B.C to the early European merchant adventurers , the worlds and cultures that were implicated in that history.