South Asia Related Course Listings For Fall 2007

Cultural Politics and the Indian Cinema - South Asia (ANTHRO) C184 [4 units] / South Asian C145.
Location: TuTh 930-11A, 213 Wheeler
Instructor: Cohen, L
Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Credit option: Students will receive no credit for C184 after taking 184.
Description: Cultural traditions, social organization, and social change, with an emphasis on India and Pakistan.

Introduction to Asia -- Asian Studies (ASIANST) 10 [4 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.
Location: TuTh 11-1230P, 2040 Valley Lbs
Instructor: Yamanaka, K
Description: This course is designed to interest students in Asian cultures early in their undergraduate studies. Topics such as trade, social and political formations, religions, food, and expressive culture that have been important in history as well as in contemporary times in East, South, and Southeast Asia will serve as unifying themes. Comparative thinking across regions of Asia and the perspectives of multiple disciplines will be brought to bear on the themes.

Introductory Bengali -- (BANGLA) 1A [5 units]
Course Format: One and one-half hours of lecture and two and one-half hours of reading/writing per week.
Location: MTWTF 1-2P, 262 Dwinelle
Instructor: Paul, A
Prerequisites: 1A is prerequisite to 1B, or consent of instructor.
Description: Students will be expected to acquire knowledge of the basic grammar of Bengali, such that they learn to read simple graded texts and to speak at the "low intermediate" level by the end of the year.

Seminar in Buddhism and Buddhist Texts -- Buddhist Studies (BUDDSTD) C220 [2,4 units] / East Asian Languages and Cultures (EA LANG) C220 [2,4 units]
Course Format: Three hours of seminar per week.
Location: Tu 3-6P, 204 Dwinelle
Instructor: The Staff
Description: Content varies with student interests. The course will normally focus on classical Buddhist texts that exist in multiple recensions and languages, including Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan.

Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Global Political Issues -- Gender and Women's Studies (GWS) 14 [4 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Location: TuTh 11-1230P, 155 Donner Lab
Instructor: The Staff
Description: The production of gender, sexuality, and processes of racialization in contemporary global political issues. Topics and geographical foci may vary. Examples: the post-9-11 situation in the U.S. and U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; Hindu-Muslim conflict in India; the wars in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; the Israel/Palestine situation; global right-wing movements; state and social movement terrorisms and transnational "security" measures.

Introductory Hindi -- Hindi-Urdu (HIN-URD) 1A 001 [5 units]
Location: MTWTF 8-9A, 254 Dwinelle
Instructor: The Staff
Description: Hindi writing systems. Survey of grammar. Graded exercises and readings drawn from Hindi literature, leading to mastery of grammatical structures and essential vocabulary and achievement of basic reading and writing competence.

Introductory Hindi -- Hindi-Urdu (HIN-URD) 1A 002 [5 units]
Location: MTWTF 12-1P, 255 Dwinelle
Instructor: The Staff
Description: Hindi writing systems. Survey of grammar. Graded exercises and readings drawn from Hindi literature, leading to mastery of grammatical structures and essential vocabulary and achievement of basic reading and writing competence.

Intermediate Hindi -- Hindi-Urdu (HIN-URD) 100A [5 units]
Location: MWF 3-4P, 242 Dwinelle
Instructor: The Staff
Description: This course acquaints students with representative readings from Hindi texts on pivotal cultural issues from a wide variety of sources, to enable them to acquire cultural competence in the language. Systematic training in advanced grammar and syntax, reinforced by exercises in composition, both oral and written. Special attention to developing communication skill.

Intermediate Hindi -- Hindi-Urdu (HIN-URD) 100A 101 Dis [4 units]
Location: F 1-2P, 140 Barrows
Instructor: The Staff
Description: This course acquaints students with representative readings from Hindi texts on pivotal cultural issues from a wide variety of sources, to enable them to acquire cultural competence in the language. Systematic training in advanced grammar and syntax, reinforced by exercises in composition, both oral and written. Special attention to developing communication skills.

Readings in Modern Hindi -- Hindi-Urdu (HIN-URD) 101A
Location: MWF 12-1P, 109 Dwinelle
Instructor: Jain, U R
Prerequisites: Two years of Hindi or consent of instructor.
Description: This course introduces students to a variety of contemporary literary styles. Weekly readings and discussions of short stories, poems, and dramatic sketches from representative authors. Short written assignments on themes suggested by the readings required. Special attention to matters of style and idiom. 101B is devoted to viewing films based on well-known literary texts, such as those of Premchand, and also to reading scripts and oral and written exercises. Students will acquire language skills sufficient to approach literary texts on their own.

Introductory Urdu -- Hindi-Urdu (HIN-URD) 2A [5 units]
Course Format: Five hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory per week.
Location: MTWTF 11-12P, 340 Moffitt
Instructor: Ahmad, A
Description: The course concentrates on developing skills in reading, writing, speaking, and aural comprehension. Evaluation is based on attendance, written homework assignments, quizzes, dictations, and examinations. Conventional teaching materials may be supplemented by popular songs and clips from contemporary Indian cinema.

Intermediate Urdu -- Hindi-Urdu (HIN-URD) 103A [5 units]
Location: MWF 12-1P, 106 Wheeler
Instructor: Ahmad, A
Prerequisites: Successful completion of Urdu 2A-2B.
Description: Introduces various types of written and spoken Urdu; vocabulary building, idioms, and problems of syntax; and conversation. Reading of selected fiction and nonfiction in modern Urdu, including fables, short stories, and poetry. Exercises in grammar, conversation, and composition.

Advanced Urdu -- Hindi-Urdu (HIN-URD) 104A [5 units]
Location: MWF 3-4P, 262 Dwinelle
Instructor: Ahmad, A
Prerequisites: Two years of Urdu or consent of instructor.
Description: Reading of Urdu prose and poetry in a variety of literary and scholarly styles; composition. Topics in advanced grammar; designed to improve proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students will be expected to converse in a clearly participatory fashion, initiate, sustain, and bring to closure a wide variety of communicative tasks using diverse language strategies.

Modern South Asia -- History (HISTORY) 114B [4 units]
Location: MW 2-3P, 160 Dwinelle
Instructor: Irschick, E F

California -- History (HISTORY) 127AC [4 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.
Location: TuTh 2-330P, 105 Stanley
Instructor: Klein, K L
Description: The history of California from pre-European contact to the present, with emphasis on the diversity of cultures and the interplay of social, economic, and political developments.

The Art of Southeast Asia -- History Of Art (HISTART) 137 [4 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.
Location: TuTh 1230-2P, 106 Moffitt
Instructor: Williams, J G
Description: The art of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, and Indonesia focusing on the period from 400 to 1500 A.D. Sculpture and architecture will be considered as a balance of Indian and indigenous elements.

Art of India - History Of Art (HISTART) 192A [4 units]
Location: M 1-4P, 425 Doe Library
Instructor: Williams, J G
Description: A survey of Hindu sculpture and architecture in India from the sixth to fourteenth centuries.

Global Poverty: Hopes and Challenges in the New Millennium -- International And Area Studies (IAS) 115 [4 units]
Location: Tu Th, 5-6:30 pm, 155 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Ananya Roy
Description: This class seeks to provide a rigorous understanding of 20th-century development and thus 21st-century proverty-alleviation. Students will take a look at popular ideas of poverty-alleviation, the institutional framework of poverty ideas and practices, the social and political mobilizations that seek to transform the structures of poverty.

The Indian Diaspora In Silicon Valley-- International And Area Studies (IAS) 150 [4 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.
Location: TuTh 11-1230P, 200 Wheeler
Instructor: Zook, D C
Description: This course presents a unique opportunity to explore a fascinating aspect of Californian history and global, transnational culture by putting together an audio-visual narrative of the Indian experience in Silicon Valley. Students in this course will learn and master the research methods necessary to conduct effective interviews and research in audio-visual format, and will apply these methods to the specific task of creating as a final product a documentary film that tells the narrative of pioneering Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. This two-semester course does not require a background in audio-visual media. The research methods and production techniques will all be learned in the classroom, and will then be applied to the "real world" by conducting research and interviews in a wide variety of media formats. The audio-visual elements of this course will be combined with more traditional research methods and sources, and so this course will help to build a powerful research and methodological toolkit for each individual student. Aside from learning methodology, the content of the course will consist of an in-depth study of the Indian diaspora in Silicon Valley, focusing on Indian entrepreneurs. When did the diaspora begin, and why? What difficulties and challenges occurred along the way, and how were they overcome? How has the experience challenged, changed, or enriched what it means to be Indian? To be American? Students will be assigned, or will choose, their own individual projects, and then will collaborate on the final documentary project at the conclusion of the course.
Enrollment: 10 students.

Introduction to Improvisation -- Music (MUSIC) 43 [3 units]
Location: Tu 1230-330P, 134 Morrison
Instructor: Melford, M J
Description: This course will serve as an introduction to performance practices in contemporary improvisation. Several approaches to improvising will be presented including African American jazz and blues traditions, North Indian Raga, gaming strategies, graphic notation, and conducted improvisation or "sound painting." Class activities will include improvisation exercises and games and repertoire development. Assignments will include listening to and analysis of recorded and live performances and the creation of student works.

Introductory Punjabi -- Punjabi (PUNJABI) 1A [5 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week.
Location: TuTh 930-11A, 54 Barrows
Instructor: Ubhi, U K
Prerequisites: 1A is prerequisite to 1B.
Description: Gurmukhi script. Survey of grammar. Graded exercises, leading to a mastery of basic language patterns, essential vocabulary, and achievement of basic reading and writing skills.

Intermediate Punjabi -- Punjabi (PUNJABI) 100A [5 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week.
Location: TuTh 11-1230P, 289 Dwinelle
Instructor: Ubhi, U K
Prerequisites: 1B is prerequisite to 100A; 100A is prerequisite to 100B.
Description: Readings in Punjabi texts exploring a variety of issues. Emphasis on developing written communicative skills and cultural competence. Systematic study of grammatical and lexical problems arising from readings.

Religion in Early India -- Religious Studies (RELIGST) C161 [4 units] / South Asian (S ASIAN) C127 [4 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Location:
Instructor: The Staff
Description: Designed as a two-semester sequence, these courses are an introduction to the religions that have their origin on the Indian subcontinent--Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, and tribal religions--as well as those that originated in other regions such as Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. Organizing this material chronologically rather than teaching it by separate religious traditions facilitates comparisons and promotes an understanding not only of the differences among these religions but also some of their commonalities in philosophy, theology, and praxis.

Hindu Mythology -- Religious Studies (RELIGST) C165 [4 units] / (S ASIAN) C140
Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Location: MWF 11-12P, 101 Morgan
Instructor: Goldman, R P
Description: Literary and religious aspects of Hindu myths. Reading of selected mythological texts in translation. Also listed as Religious Studies C165.

Elementary Sanskrit -- Sanskrit (SANSKR) 100A [5 units]
Course Format: Five hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory per week.
Location: MWF 8-10A, 106 Dwinelle
Instructor: Goldman, S J
Description: Elements of Sanskrit grammar and practice in reading Sanskrit texts.

Intermediate Sanskrit -- Sanskrit (SANSKR) 101A [5 units]
Course Format: Four and one-half hours of lecture per week.
Location: MF 12-2P, 89 Dwinelle
Instructor: Goldman, S J
Description: Readings from the Sanskrit epics and puranas; introduction to the kavya style of classical Sanskrit poetry; readings in the sastras.

Sanskrit Literature -- Sanskrit (SANSKR) 200A [4 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.
Location: MF 2-330P, 346B Dwinelle
Instructor: Goldman, R P
Prerequisites: 101B or equivalent.
Credit option: Course may be repeated for credit.
Description: Formerly 200, 201 and 202. Advanced readings in Sanskrit literature, including Sanskrit ornate poetry with emphasis on the canons of poetic analysis of the Indian aesthetic tradition.

Great Books of India -- South Asian (S ASIAN) R5A
• P 001 [4 units]
Location: MWF 8-9A, 125 Dwinelle
• P 002 [4 units]
Location: TuTh 8-930A, 125 Dwinelle
• P 003 [4 units]
Location: MWF 3-4P, 224 Wheeler
• P 004 [4 units]
Location: TuTh 330-5P, 125 Dwinelle
• P 005 [4 units]
Location: MWF 3-4P, 223 Wheeler
Instructor: The Staff
Description: Reading and composition based on 10 classic works of Indian literature ranging from the ancient Sanskrit epics to modern novels by Indian and western authors. Weekly composition on texts and topics read and discussed in class. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.

Readings in Indian Buddhist Texts -- South Asian (S ASIAN) 215A [2,4 units]
Location: W 2-5P, 630 2223 Fulton
Instructor: von Rospatt, A
Prerequisites: 215A is prerequisite to 215B. One year of Sanskrit and/or consent of instructor.
Description: This graduate seminar focuses on reading a wide spectrum of Indian Buddhist texts in the Sanskrit (or Pali) original introducing the students to different genres, and different aspects of Indian Buddhism. The students taking the course for 2 units (rather than 4) will be expected to prepare thoroughly every week for the reading of Buddhist texts in the original. They will also be expected to read all related secondary literature that is assigned to supplement the study of the primary source material. In contrast to the students taking the course for 4 units, they will not be expected to write a term paper or to prepare special presentations for class.

Elementary Sanskrit (SANSKR) 100A [4 units]
Location: MWF 8-10A, 106 Dwinelle
Instructor: Goldman, S J
Description: Elements of Sanskrit grammar and practice in reading Sanskrit texts.

Intermediate Sanskrit (SANSKR) 101A [4 units]
MF 12-2P, 89 Dwinelle
Instructor: Goldman, S J
Description: Readings from Sanskrit epics & puranas; introduction to the kavya style of classical Sanskrit poetry; readings in the sastras.

Sanskrit Literature -- Sanskrit (SANSKR) 200A [4 units]
Location: MF 2-330P, 346B Dwinelle
Instructor: Goldman, R P
Prerequisites: 101B or equivalent.
Description: Formerly 200, 201 and 202. Advanced readings in Sanskrit literature, including Sanskrit ornate poetry with emphasis on the canons of poetic analysis of the Indian aesthetic tradition.

Elementary Tibetan -- Tibetan (TIBETAN) 1A [5 units]
Location: MTWTF 9-10A, 87 Dwinelle
Instructor: Ngodup, K T
Prerequisites: 1A is prerequisite to 1B.
Description: This course is an intensive introduction to both standard spoken Tibetan (Lhasa dialect) and written literary Tibetan. As such, it will serve the needs of students who intend to continue the study of modern Tibetan so as to function in a Tibetan-speaking environment, as well as the needs of students who will concentrate on classical Tibetan and it's rich literature.

Intermediate Tibetan -- Tibetan (TIBETAN) 1B [5 units]
Location: MWF 10-11A, 105 Dwinelle
Instructor: Ngodup, K T
Prerequisites: 1B; 10A is prerequisite to 10B.
Description: This course, a continuation of 1A-1B (elementary Tibetan), is designed to further develop the student's skills in modern standard Tibetan (Lhasa dialect). The emphasis is on communication skills in vernacular Tibetan, as well as grammar, reading, and writing. Students with a particular interest in reading classical literature, particularly Buddhist texts, are encouraged to enroll simultaneously in 110A-110B.

Intensive Readings in Tibetan -- Tibetan (TIBETAN) 110A [2 units]
Location: TuTh 10-11A, 233 Dwinelle
Instructor: Ngodup, K T
Description: This course is an intensive course in reading modern and classical Tibetan literature, with an emphasis on classical Buddhist texts. It builds on basic reading skills acquired in 1A-1B (elementary Tibetan), and is designed to be taken either concurrently with 10A-10B (intermediate Tibetan) or independently.