南亚研究
Academic Program Introduction
Our program focuses on the 历史, 文化, and people of South Asia and its diaspora. Students explore both European and South Asian theories of knowledge. Majors concentrate on a single method, such as literary analysis, 或者是单一主题, such as international development, and become proficient in a South Asian language such as Hindi or Urdu.
学习目标
- Think in a multicontextual way and at the intersection of disciplines.
Engage in rigorous encounters with a crucial but underrepresented area of the world.
Gain broad understanding of the 文化, 历史, 宗教, 社会, 政治, and people of the region and in the diaspora.
Learn to speak and comprehend, and to write and read, 印地语或乌尔都语, or in another South Asian language.
课程强调
Intermediate Hindi/Urdu I
HNUR201
Intermediate Hindi/Urdu will build on the reading, 写作, and speaking skills acquired in Elementary Hindi/Urdu (HNUR 101-HNUR 102). 阅读, drawn from simple literary texts as well as from social and journalistic 写作s, will reinforce the grammar learned in the introductory course and introduce new grammar topics. The 写作 exercises-mainly in essay formats-will stress usage of idioms and sentence constructions by students. The class will be conducted in Hindi/Urdu with a part of every class dedicated to conversation on the theme of the day in the language.
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South Asian Diasporas
SOC232
If any mention of South Asian 文化 conjures for you Bollywood films, 或是舞者, 和谷歌工程师, then this course will prompt you to reconsider. Adopting a sociological perspective that examines 文化 from the specific context of 迁移, we will study the 历史 of Punjabi-Mexican families in California, Gujarati motel owners across the United States, South African Indians at the end of apartheid, and Bangladeshi garment workers in London’s East End, 等. 通过我们的研究, we develop a nuanced understanding of race, 文化, 迁移, and upward mobility in the United States and beyond, while also considering the power of mobile South Asian 文化, 包括电影, 音乐, 跳舞, 和宗教. (SAS 232 and SOC 232 are cross-listed courses.) -
This course examines the history of interaction of Africans, 阿拉伯人, 波斯人, and South Asians in the coastal regions of East Africa, the Arabian/Persian Gulf, 和印度, which together enclose the western Indian Ocean. In the period under study (1500 to the present), European imperial expansion and a globalizing economy played an increasingly transformative role. We will read about the port cities connecting these shores; the movements and networks of people; the objects and patterns of trade; the intensifying slave trade; shared environmental and health hazards, and the exchange of legal and commercial practices, and religious and political ideas. (HIST 367 and SAS 367 are cross-listed courses.)
研究突出了
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Professor Neelima Shukla-Bhatt’s book 印度教:基础 (劳特利奇, 2023) digs into the variety of philosophical schools, 祭司仪式, and popular practices common in the Hindu faith, looking in particular at the diversity of Hinduism’s traditions and how they function in everyday life.
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The Islamic Welfare State: Muslim Charity, Human Security, and Government Legitimacy in Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 2023), by Professor 克里斯托弗Candland, explores the relationship between government legitimacy, 日常安全, and lived Islam in Pakistan, a Muslim-majority country.
机会
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Student organizations
Students run three organizations centered on South Asian communities: Al-Muslimat, 韦尔斯利’s Muslim Student Association; Darshana, for 韦尔斯利’s Hindu community; and the 韦尔斯利 Association for South Asian Cultures, which hosts a cultural show, 舒如提Laya，每年秋天.
在韦尔斯利
在韦尔斯利
Our graduates pursue a wide range of careers in health care, consulting, government, and advocacy. Recent employers include ATASK (Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence), Druk Holding and Investments, the National Institutes of 健康, 阳狮集团有见识的, the National Cancer Institute, Singapore’s Ministry of National Development, 和世界银行.
最近的雇主
南亚研究 Program
中央街106号
韦尔斯利，马萨诸塞州02481