SAST Courses
Courses relating to South Asia on offer at Yale during the current or upcoming semester are listed below. For detailed course descriptions, visit Yale Course Search.
Fall 2025
Language Courses
Elementary Hindi I
HNDI 1100/5100 | Swapna Sharma
Intermediate Hindi I
HNDI 1300/5300 | Mansi Bajaj
Accelerated Hindi I
HNDI 1320/5320 | Mansi Bajaj
Advanced Hindi I
HNDI 1500/5500 | Swapna Sharma
Introductory Sanskrit I
SKRT 1100/5100, LING 1150/5150 | Aleksandar Uskokov
Intermediate Sanskrit I
SKRT 1300/5300, LING 1380/5380 | Aleksandar Uskokov
Advanced Sanskrit: Readings in Philosophy and Aesthetics
SKRT 1500/5500 | Aleksandar Uskokov
South Asian Studies (SAST) Courses
Buddhist Thought: The Foundations
SAST 2610, RLST 1270, HUMS 4501, PHIL 1118 | Eric Greene
Digital War
SAST 2620, AMST 3303, ER&M 3530, FILM 2980 | Madiha Tahir
Philosopher Queens of Hinduism and Buddhism
SAST 2690, RLST 2820 | Sonam Kachru
In Ordinary Fashion
SAST 3030, ANTH 4833 | Jane Lynch
Mobile South Asians and the Global Legal Order
SAST 3340, HIST 3461, ER&M 3633 | Rohit De
National Security in India in the Twenty-first Century
SAST 3450, PLSC 3108 | Sushant Singh
Health, Medicine and Science in Modern South Asia
SAST 3646, HSHM 4740, HIST 3415 | Gourav Krishna Nandi
Religion, Place, and Space
SAST 3760, ANTH 2252, RLST 3300 | Harini Kumar
Readings in South Asia: Across the Disciplines
SAST 8200, HIST 8600 | Sunil Amrith and Rohit De
Other Courses Relating to South Asia
Nation and Empire in British Art
HSAR 0024 | Tim Barringer
Pacific Bridges: Asian Diasporas Across Latin America
LAST 2605, SPAN 4605 | Inês Forjaz de Lacerda and Anibal González-Pérez
Self-Determination, Secession & Accommodation
GLBL 4405, PLSC 3456 | Maria Jose Hierro
Edmund Burke and the Age of Empire
ENGL 6721, PLSC 6720 | David Bromwich