5 courses with the subject SOU, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SOU 101Introduction to South Asian Studies
Instructor Gouri Suresh SOU 101 is an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of South Asia. The course draws on the expertise of faculty across multiple disciplines to examine the region’s historical, social, cultural, religious, and economic contexts. It explores South Asia’s significance in global history and contemporary society, considering how its traditions, histories, and communities have shaped and been shaped by the wider world. Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement. Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in South Asian Studies: Themes, Topics, and Perspectives
Instructor Visthar Institute Staff (graded Pass/Fail by Dr. Martin) This course investigates how an understanding and experience of religion has influences the history and culture of modern India and its people. Attention will be given to the social, political, and cultural milieu in which religion is practiced in India. Central to the course is a contextual examination of religion and its influence on social relations, and how religion ameliorates or impedes social change for the common good. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Offered as part of the Semester-in-India Program.
Instructor Staff Lectures and field trips focusing on some of the pressing problems faced by contemporary India and institutions that address those problems. Topics include the environment, the status of women, implications of the population explosion, economic conditions, and the political process. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Offered as part of the Semester-in-India program.
Instructor Staff This course is offered as part of the Davidson College semester-in-India Program. Using Hyderabad as the site from which to contextualize Indian cities, students will explore a diverse array of issues facing cities in the global South. Through guest lectures on the history of Hyderabad’s urbanization, students will learn about the city’s many transformations in the twentieth and twenty-first century, focusing specifically on: labor flows and migration; geographical dislocations of the urban poor; intersection between linguistic, religious, caste, and regional communities; urban political economy; transportation; waste management; gender and public space; environmental and ecological impacts of urbanization; mapping urban developments over time. Satisfies a minor requirement in South Asian Studies. Satisfies a requirement in the History major. Satisfies the methodology course requirement for students in the social science track of the Enironmental Studies major. Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Instructor Staff A series of lectures on various aspects of public health in India delivered by scholars and medical professionals. Field trips relating to the lectures will be part of this course. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Offered as part of the Semester-in-India program.
