Minor in South Asian Studies

 

The following are approved introductory Asian civilization courses for the Asia minors in the Jackson School:  SISA 209, 210; SISEA/HSTAS 212 (Korea); SISEA/HSTAS 241 (Japan); SISEA 242 (Japan); SISSE/HSTAS 221 (Southeast Asia); HSTAS 201 (India), HSTAS 202 (India); HSTAS 211 (China).

Requirements

30 credits, to include the following:

  1. HSTAS 202 or SISSA 200 (5 credits)

  2. One additional introductory Asian civilization course from those listed above (5 credits)

  3. 15 credits of electives taken at the UW, chosen from the approved list*

  4. 5 additional credits in South Asian language beyond second-year level, or in upper-division transfer courses on South Asia, or in additional electives chosen from the approved list*

  5. Minimum grade of 2.0 required in each course applied toward the minor.

Electives List

 

*South Asia Electives

 

  Any SISSA-prefix course or its joint-listed equivalent

ANTH 437

Political Anthropology and Social Change (5)

ANTH 471

Colonialism and Culture (5)

ANTH/ENVIR 371

Anthropology of Development (5)

ANTH/ENVIR 451

Compar Historical and Social Ecology of
    Tropics (5)

ANTH/RELIG 321

Comparative Religion (3)

ART H 204

Survey of Asian Art (5)

ASIAN 203

Literature and Culture of Ancient and
    Classical India (5)

ASIAN 206

Lit and Culture of So Asia from Tradition to

    Modernity (5)

ASIAN 263

Great Works of Asian Literature (5)

ASIAN 411

Buddhist Literature (5)

HSTAS 401

History of Ancient India (5)

HSTAS 402

History of Medieval and Mughal India (5)

HSTAS 403

History of Modern India to 1900 (5)

HSTAS 404

History of Twentieth-Century India (5)

HSTAS 431

Tibetan History (3)

MUSIC 428

Music of North India (3)

MUSIC 447

Music of Southern India (3)

PHIL 412

Indian Philosophy (5)

PHIL 418

Indian Buddhist Philosophy (3)

RELIG 202

Introduction to World Religions: Eastern Traditions (5)

RELIG 350/ANTH 352

Buddhism and Society (5)

RELIG 352

Hinduism (5)

RELIG 354

Buddhism (5)

SIS/POL S 337

Collective Violence and the State (5)

SIS/POL S 436

Ethnic Politics & Nationalism in Multi-Ethnic Societies (5)

WOMEN/SIS 333

Gender and Globalization: Theory and Process (5)

WOMENSIS/ANTH/ 345

Women and International Economic Development (5)

 




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