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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.

Spring 2025

Language Courses:

Elementary Hindi II
HNDI 120/520 | Mansi Bajaj

Intermediate Hindi II
HNDI 140/540 | Mansi Bajaj 

Accelerated Hindi II
HNDI 142/542 | Mansi Bajaj 

India's Historical Journey: From the Maurya Empire to the Mughal Era
HNDI 151/551 | Swapna Sharma 

Modern Hindi Literature
HNDI 160/560 | Swapna Sharma

Introductory Sanskrit II
SKRT 120/520, LING 125/525 | Aleksandar Uskokov

The Bhagavad-Gita
SKRT 142/542 | Aleksandar Uskokov

Advanced Sanskrit: Readings in Wordly Arts and Sciences
SKRT 151/551 | Christopher Minkowski

 

South Asian Studies (SAST) Courses:

India and Pakistan since 1947
SAST 224, HIST 396 | Rohit De 

Music of South Asia
SAST 259, MUSI 280 | Ameera Nimjee

Astrology in India
SAST 264, NELC 136, HSHM 231, RLST 225 | Christopher Minkowski

In Ordinary Fashion
SAST 303, ANTH 383 | Jane Lynch

Peril and Possibility in the South Asian City
SAST 308, ANTH 318, URBN 412 | Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan

Delightful Dangers: Cultures of Consumption in South Asia (1850-1945)
SAST 328, HIST 331, URBN 334, WGSS 329 | Siddhartha Chandra Mukherjee

Mutual Dependence: Journalism and Democracy in South Asia
SAST 347 | Sushant Singh

Music and Well-Being: A Sound Lab of Sacred Music
SAST 357, MUSI 116 | Suhail Yusuf

From Yajnavalkya to Schopenhauer: The Philosophy of the Upanishads
SAST 370/570, RLST 240/540 | Aleksandar Uskokov

Water and Society: Culture, Life, and Values
SAST 383, ANTH 373 | Lav Kanoi

Exploring South Indian Rhythmic Design
SAST 473, MUSI 406 | Fugan Dineen

Law and Society in Modern South Asia
SAST 901, HIST 903 | Rohit De 
 

Other Courses Relating to South Asia:

Words and Whys: Premodern South Asian and Contemporary Readings in Metaphysics and Language
PHIL 362/562 | Michael Della Rocca and Angela Vettikkal
 
Tibet in the Modern World—A 20th Century History
EAST 423, HIST 385 | Ugyan Choedup
 
GSE India: Global Social Entrepreneurship
MGT 529, GLBL 7261 | Tony Sheldon
 
Adaptive Reuse in Karachi: History, Documentation, & Intervention
HSAR 845, ARCH 3307 | Kishwar Rizvi and Sunil Bald