7 courses with the subject SATR, 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.
SATR 2110Cultural Translation: Travel Writing in South Asia3
Effective Date 04/15/2009 Travel writing is among the oldest forms of literature, especially in Asia. This course explores depictions of the Indian sub-continent by travel writers from Buddhist pilgrims to Arab geographers to colonial and post-colonial writers.
SATR 3000Women Writing in India & Pakistan: 1947-Present3
Effective Date 01/01/2010 We will read and critique the fiction and poetry of culturally specific regions while reflecting on the assumption that experiences and identities are fundamentally gendered. We will explore issues associated with women writing in regional languages to writing in mainstream languages like Hindi, Urdu and English. We will also examine how the publication and dissemination of women’s texts are related to the women movements in India and Pakistan.
Completion of First Writing Requirement Credits: 3
SATR 3040Poetry of Love and Devotion3
Effective Date 01/29/2025 What is love? How is it articulated? Is love devotion? What is passion? What are the different forms of desire? The object of desire may be human (male or female), divine, abstract or ambiguous; its defining trait is its inaccessibility. Poets through the ages have expressed love and devotion through language. We will read and ponder the poetics of love.
Effective Date 01/01/2012 This upper level course will comprise readings that will cover a broad spectrum of what constitutes the “modern” in Urdu and Hindi Literature. The course will track the historical beginning of Urdu-Hindi as a language, its development as a literary language and the complexities of the divide form one to two distinct languages: modern Hindi and modern Urdu.
SATR 3300Literature & Society in South Asia: Breaking the Cast(e)3
Effective Date 01/01/2023 Dalit literature is perhaps the most remarkable literary movement to emerge in post-independence India. It is the voice of the most marginalized section of India’s population, those formerly known as untouchables. Until the advent of Dalit literature, the lives of Dalits had seldom been recorded in Indian literature. We will read fictional and non-fictional narratives of Dalit writers, and watch films to visualize and comprehend their lives.
SATR 3350Languages of Love in South Asia: Bhakti and Beyond3
Effective Date 03/27/2023 The course explores some of the most influential literatures of love and devotion to emerge from the Indian subcontinent. Starting with the Bhagavad-Gita – the first South Asian text to dwell upon the idea of bhakti or “devotion” – then to various other “classics” of South Asian love literature, spanning the Sanskrit, Persian, Hindi-Urdu, Tamil, Punjabi, Kashmiri, and other languages. Emphasis will be placed on Hindu and Islamic literature. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SATR 3559 topic #3 Literatures of Love
