{"id":10470,"date":"2025-11-06T22:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/?p=10470"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:09:48","slug":"south-asia-center-course-list-winter-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/south-asia-center-course-list-winter-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"South Asia Center Course List | Winter 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0<span class=\"il\">list<\/span> contains courses explicitly on a South Asian topic <i>and\u00a0<\/i>courses with an international or relevant thematic focus taught by South Asia Center affiliated faculty. Always double-check the UW\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/students\/timeschd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/students\/timeschd\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1707248162766000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1K-a8PFR8FY2T73CrVz6zK\">Time Schedule<\/a>\u00a0for the most current\u00a0<span class=\"il\">course<\/span> information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/ART%20H%20209?id=64692601-ef42-4300-bb32-558cbf090504&amp;sectionFilters=%7B%22queryString%22%3A%22Akshaya%20Tankha%22%2C%22selectedDays%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22startTime%22%3A%220630%22%2C%22endTime%22%3A%222230%22%2C%22openOnly%22%3Afalse%2C%22noEnrollmentRestrictionsOnly%22%3Afalse%2C%22noTbaOnly%22%3Afalse%2C%22pceOnly%22%3Afalse%2C%22instructorSearch%22%3Atrue%2C%22terms%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22inPerson%22%3Afalse%7D&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAIwAMAbAEwA0yY62YACllCmSljSUArAwAcAXxASgA\"><b>ART H 209: Photography\u2019s Histories in India<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Akshaya Tankha<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H, W) | SLN 10506<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\nDominant accounts of the history of photography invariably center Europe, positioning the Global South as a site of its outward spread. This course challenges this narrative by highlighting how colonial rule and surveillance made South Asia central to the development of photography. Explore photography\u2019s role in regional processes of decolonization, its place in the history of postcolonial modernism and popular culture, and recent developments in photography&#8217;s exhibitionary and published forms in contemporary South Asia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/ART%20H%20314?id=950edefc-4f74-4a35-9bee-0565e930a80c&amp;sectionFilters=%7B%22queryString%22%3A%22Akshaya%20Tankha%22%2C%22selectedDays%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22startTime%22%3A%220630%22%2C%22endTime%22%3A%222230%22%2C%22openOnly%22%3Afalse%2C%22noEnrollmentRestrictionsOnly%22%3Afalse%2C%22noTbaOnly%22%3Afalse%2C%22pceOnly%22%3Afalse%2C%22instructorSearch%22%3Atrue%2C%22terms%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22inPerson%22%3Afalse%7D&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAIxUAMtANMmOtmAApZQpkpZqUArFQCcAXxBigA\"><b>ART H 314: Modern and Contemporary Art in India<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Akshaya Tankha<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H) | SLN 10522<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Surveys the visual arts of India from the late colonial through the postcolonial period. Topics include impact of colonialism, anti-colonial nationalist claims for art, shifting status of oil paintings, emergence of a national style, new art movements in urban centers, and art in the service of forge postcolonial identities and alliances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/ASIAN%20207?id=90dc5729-df31-4d82-86f4-48eb693bf04d&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAIwBMAnAAwA0yY62YACllCmSljSUA7MIDMAXxASgA\"><b>ASIAN 207: Namaste: Language Politics and South Asia<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Sravanthi Kollu<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H or SSc) | SLN 10546<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Explore South Asia through the politics of language in this introductory course. Whether you are curious about the region, have been greeted with a \u2018namaste\u2019 at your local yoga class, or grew up around South Asian languages, this course invites you to bring your curiosity and questions. We will put these in conversation with essays, poetry and academic texts by South Asian and diasporic authors to explore language\u2019s links to postcolonial literature, history and identity. Across three modules on representation, colonialism, and speech and accent, we will study how debates about language have shaped the region and its diaspora.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/ASIAN%20223?id=2b913f83-c07d-4190-91b7-0ae887818a27&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJxUCMANMmOtmAApZQpkpZqUBmAAwAmAL4gxQA\"><b>ASIAN 223: Buddhist Literature<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Joseph Marino<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H or SSc) | SLN 10549<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Introduction to Buddhist literature in India, China, and Japan including biographies, poetry, narratives, ritual manuals, doctrinal treatises, and historical accounts. Attention also given to issues of textual composition, transmission, authorship, audience, context, and function. Taught in English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/BIO%20A%20450?id=a7cc2ca1-26ce-40fc-b7b6-04bbf3a0738c&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJwDsAbADTJjrZgAKWUKZKWalAKwBmGgF8QYoA\"><b>BIO A 450: Biodemography<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Darryl Holman<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (SSc or Nsc) | SLN 11237<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Introduction to theory, methods, and literature of biodemography. Examines biological mechanisms underlying patterns of aging, mortality, fertility, and population growth and decline. Includes readings from anthropology, sociology, demography, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, and epidemiology. Covers prehistoric, historic, and modern human populations, and non-human model systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/COM%20383?id=575b6506-1a4f-4207-b96e-d5dc5eb89ab1&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAIwAMATAMwA0yY62YACllCmSljSUArFQYBfEOKA\"><b>COM 383: Qualitative Communication Research Methods\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Anis Rahman<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (SSc) | SLN 12596<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Introduces students to a range of qualitative research methods for analyzing communication. Students design and execute a qualitative communication research project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/GWSS%20305?id=914943a1-abb4-4fb2-926c-f7cfcc9ef644&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJwAcVANMmOtmAApZQpkpZqUAWKgFYAviFFA\"><b>GWSS 305: Gender and Feminism in an International Context\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: TBD<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN22186<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critical feminisms from global theoretical perspectives. Introduces how gender is constructed through global power relations and operates differently across scales including the body, city, nation, and globe. Examines how gender intersects with other social phenomena including race, class, and nationality. Explores how women are situated and represented differently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/G%20H%20593?id=9e350406-0f41-4bf1-9899-51c8b58e2c2c&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJwBsA7ADTJjrZgAKWUKZKWalAExUArAF8QYoA\"><b>GH 593: Rethinking Global Health\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Deepa Rao<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1 credit | SLN 15114<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Focuses on building a global health Master of Public Health cohort with a sense of camaraderie, confidence, and communication skills to participate effectively in future work in global health. Topics covered include social injustice, inequity, and a deep examination of our roles as public health professionals within the field of global health. We use an open forum for exchange of viewpoints. Students are considered co-developers of the course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/GWSS%20556?id=beca3912-fa74-413c-b5a1-9cc498e0ddd9&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJwCsVANMmOtmAApZQpkpZqUAmAGxCAviFFA\"><b>GWSS 556: Decolonial Feminist Theory and Practice<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Cricket Keating<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits | SLN 22241<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Examines relationships among colonialism, imperialism, and occupation and racial, gender, and sexual hierarchies. Students focus on successful struggles for justice, freedom, and sovereignty. Develops skills to understand approaches to research and the politics of knowledge production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/HSTAS%20402?id=a80e7038-5341-4fd1-99e1-548c3fa5340b&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAGxUDsANMmOtmAApZQpkpZqUAmAMy0AviFFA\"><b>HSTAS 402: History of Medieval and Mughal India<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Purnima Dhavan<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (SSc) | SLN 15639<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Medieval India; emphasis on forms of political organizations and economic life, social organizations, and cultural developments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/JSIS%20B%20329?id=14b93b75-90ef-45fa-a4d1-5f863f51c001\"><b>JSIS B 329\/CHID 329\/LABOR 329: Introduction to Capitalism\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Sunila Kale<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (SSc) | SLN 16203, 12390, 16293<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Defines and differentiates between capital and capitalism. Examines the evolution of the global capitalist system and the framework shaping our world today. Analyzes historical and contemporary links between capitalism&#8217;s development and social and political processes. Covers events from the late nineteenth century to the present, emphasizing perspectives from history, economics, sociology, anthropology, and literature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/JSIS%20B%20330?id=9982aa21-8d24-412b-a882-25f44f3af162\"><b>JSIS B 330: International Political Economy<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Debamanyu Das<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (SSc, W) | SLN 16204<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Explores how political systems shape trade, finance, and development, and how economic trends affect global politics. Studies globalization, debt crises, international trade and finance, trade wars, and how politics and economics connect globally. Dives into how global economic decisions are made and their impact on countries in both the Global North and South.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/JSIS%20511?id=96b2f479-6647-485c-b6f8-f7974ce39ce3\"><b>JSIS 511: Research Design And Methods For International Studies<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Scott B. Radnitz<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits | SLN 16137<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Review of the approaches to posing and answering research questions in the disciplines affiliated with international studies. Explores epistemological approaches and associated methodologies to prepare students to effectively read across the literature of international studies, develop their own research design based on a research question, and write a research proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/MUSIC%20269?id=3051563a-7a61-4a53-b52e-e275e8222b2e&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAIwAMAbFQDTJjrZgAKWUKZKWaSgFYAzHQC%2BIcUA\"><b>MUSIC 259\/MELC 269: Music Cultures of the Silk Road\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Talant Mawkanuli<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (DIV, A&amp;H or SSc) | SLN 17967, 17587<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Explores music cultures of the Silk Road lands of Central Eurasia, China, and the Middle East from anthropological perspectives. Examines the interconnections between music and culture, and the political ramifications and the sociohistorical contexts of colonization, imperialism, and sovereignty on the production of musical expressions. Topics include culture, ethnicity, diversity of musical expression, literature, religion, and colonialism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/POL%20S%20403?id=9336adab-d331-4f62-bb0a-3502e68507f7&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJxUAsANMmOtmAApZQpkpZqUAmAGxCAviFFA\"><b>POLS 403: Advanced Seminar in International Relations\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: James Kim<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (SSc) | SLN 19544<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Examination of contemporary developments in the field of international relations. Content varies according to the nature of developments and research interests of the instructor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/SOC%20508?id=62e033f9-0a1f-4f16-a6ef-313f601f9bd8&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJwBMAjADTJjrZgAKWUKZKWalGgA4ADAF8QYoA\"><b>SOC 508: Logic of Social Inquiry\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Julie Brines<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits | SLN 20270<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research design for social inquiry. Includes topics from problem formulation, conceptualization, and planning for high quality data collection, analysis, and interpretation of data for social science studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>LANGUAGE COURSES<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/HINDI%20102?id=c8a6b682-9cb7-43a0-a45a-a8d7ed3b109f&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJwCsAzADTJjrZgAKWUKZKWalAEwAGAIwBfEOKA\"><b>HINDI 102: Elementary Hindi<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Amruta Chandekar<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H) | SLN 15495<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Modern literary Hindi. Reading, writing, and conversation. Introduction to Devanagari script. Second in a sequence of three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/HINDI%20202?id=716469cd-3700-49d9-9a2f-7857547c8329&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJwDsATADTJjrZgAKWUKZKWalAKwBmKgF8QYoA\"><b>HINDI 202: Intermediate Hindi\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Amruta Chandekar<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H) | SLN 15496<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Systematic expansion of vocabulary and grammar. Intermediate-level prose and poetry readings. Oral drills. Second in a sequence of three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/HINDI%20317?id=26cb88a0-f8f1-4b2f-9c5c-857cc649a5b1&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAIwAMATAMwA0yY62YACllCmSljSU6AFgAcAXxASgA\"><b>HINDI 317\/417: Hindi Popular Songs\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: TBD<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H) | SLN 15497<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discussion and analysis of popular songs from movies, folk, devotional, seasonal, and festival songs within their cultural context with attention to rhetoric and aesthetics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/HINDI%20323?id=f5bfd252-5208-4501-9a0b-b355a6f03629&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJxUCMANMmOtmAApZQpkpZqUAmAKwB2AL4gxQA\"><b>HINDI 323: Advanced Hindi Third Year: The Novel<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Jennifer Dubrow<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H) | SLN 15498<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Surveys the development of the novel in Hindi, with readings of representative texts and discussion of their historical and cultural contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/HINDI%20423?id=230c7e50-0791-4d00-a2e0-065e998b4eae&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJxUCMANMmOtmAApZQpkpZqUAmAMwB2AL4gxQA\"><b>HINDI 423: Survey of Modern Hindi Literature: Novel<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Jennifer Dubrow<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H) | SLN 15500<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Survey of Hindi literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. Includes readings from representative novels, situated in their socio-historical context, and related to popular perception, a. o. Bollywood films.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/HINDI%20504?id=1bfa1832-adfb-4903-9563-14dc5ed15b6e&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJwCsVANMmOtmAApZQpkpZqUAmACwA2AL4gxQA\"><b>HINDI 504: Studies in Classical Hindi Literature (Rajasthani)<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Heidi Pauwels<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (SSc or A&amp;H) | SLN 15502<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Introduction to the literary language of Rajasthan. Includes reading of extracts from representative selections from Rajasthani literature, situated in their socio-historical context, and related to popular perception in contemporary music recordings, theatrical performances, and Bollywood films.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/PRSAN%20102?id=aacfdcc9-c958-4bbc-9369-7a64cc55c504&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJwDsAbADTJjrZgAKWUKZKWalAEwAOKgF8QYoA\"><b>PRSAN 102: Elementary Persian<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Elham Monfaredi<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H) | SLN 19595<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conversation, pronunciation, and graded reading. Persian alphabet and basic sentence constructions. Offers rudimentary conversational and reading ability with a vocabulary of about two thousand words. Second in a sequence of three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/PRSAN%20202?id=986a1135-0648-4015-a5d5-965ca93ad9ca&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJwDsAbADTJjrZgAKWUKZKWalALQAmAIwBfEOKA\"><b>PRSAN 102: Elementary Persian<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Elham Monfaredi<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H) | SLN 19596<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reading of simple texts with emphasis on reading and writing, conversation skills, grammar, and syntax. Builds a vocabulary of standard Persian in preparation for advanced reading and comprehension of literary texts. Second in a sequence of three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/SNKRT%20102?id=7ed05169-0a34-4c2b-9d26-39cb08b4abfe&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJxUCMANMmOtmAApZQpkpZqUAmAGwBmAL4gxQA\"><b>SNKRT 102: Elementary Sanskrit<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: David Fowler<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H) | SLN 20193<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basic grammar and vocabulary of the classical language. Reading of elementary texts from the epic or Puranic literature. Second in a sequence of three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/SNKRT%20202?id=8e6558ca-86cc-4cd3-bf67-8df22f1df1c1&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJwDsATADTJjrZgAKWUKZKWalOgA4ArAF8QYoA\"><b>SNKRT 202: Intermediate Sanskrit\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: David Fowler\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H) | SLN 20194<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Further study of classical grammar; introduction to classical literature and Vedic language and texts. 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