14 courses with the subject SAST, 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.
SAST 1559New Course in South Asian Studies3
Effective Date 11/07/2014 The course will focus in on the period since 1990, when India took dramatic steps to reform its economic policies and re-set its relationships with other world powers. Students will be introduced to a wide range of initiatives taking place in a variety of public and privates sectors, and be encouraged through focused case studies to learn about opportunities for them to discover their own interests, possibly by studying in India with the UVa.
Effective Date 02/26/2015 The course will not be a conventional “introduction” to India which customarily emphasizes cultural history. Though there will be a short section at the beginning of the course that provides an overview of India’s history, we will quickly move, after 6 class meetings, to the post-independence era, and focus in on the period since 1990, when India took steps to reform its economic policies and re-set its relationships with other world powers
Effective Date 08/01/2009 A survey of the foundational, formative and paradigmatic classic texts of the Indian Vedic, Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Islamic and Sikh religio-literary-cultural traditions.
SAST 2280Introduction to the Literature, Culture, and Arts of the Indian Subcontinent3
Effective Date 10/22/2021 This course is an overview of the cultural dynamics as evident in the languages, literature and the arts from 2500BCE to the present. Drawing on a selection from the literary as well as writings on cultural history, miniature painting, music and cinema, the course will guide the students through the landmarks in the development of literature and the arts within a historical-cultural backdrop.
SAST 3300The Pleasures of Bollywood: Melodrama, Realism, Mythos3
Effective Date 03/29/2010 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.
SAST 3490Knowing South Asia: The Forms of Apprehension3
Effective Date 10/22/2021 In this class we will examine how South Asia (primarily India, Pakistan, and Bangla Desh) came to be a legitimate area of academic investigation within the modern American and European university. How did the various disciplinary discourses pertaining to South Asia (anthropology, religious studies, art history, literature, etc.) get their starts? A close look at the history of British colonialism will serve as our point of departure.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 From NBC’s The Office to Netflix’s Never Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling has been a presence on television and computer screens for more than two decades. This course, named after The Mindy Project, follows Kaling’s career as an actor, writer, director, and producer. We will read and watch Kaling’s work and think critically about her impact on South Asian representation in American popular culture, especially comedy.
Effective Date 04/14/2014 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.
SAST 3702Business and Banking in South Asia II: Gold, Cotton, Rice, Debt3
Effective Date 03/03/2022 In this course we will investigate the history of this vast flow through the following: the highlights of the history of business and banking, trade and finance that include the early European merchant adventurers, joint stock companies and other collectives, the beginnings of share markets, the worlds and cultures that were implicated in that history, and some of the theoretical questions that help us understand how business and banking worked.
Effective Date 11/11/2011 This is the fourth-year capstone seminar for students majoring in South Asian Studies. This course will draw on the multidisciplinary interests of the students who participate to create a collaborative and collegial environment in which to investigate some of the foundational concepts and categories involved in the construction of “South Asia” as unified area of academic discourse.
