Asian Architecture: Sacred and Urban Spaces
ARTH 253
Select built forms in Asia, such as temples, tombs, palaces, cities and gardens, and their relations to cultural, social and political systems.
Instructor: Katherine Hacker
Ethnography of South Asia
ANTH 302
A specialized study of ethnographic and theoretical problems relating to South Asia.
Instructor: Sara Shneiderman
Nepal and Tibet: Art, Ritual and Performance
ARTH 353
Art of the Himalayan region situated within social and religious practices, festivals, and performances.
Instructor: Katherine Hacker
Kathmandu in Ruins
ARTH 455
Heritage sites, settlements and reconstruction in post-earthquake Nepal.
Instructor: Katherine Hacker
Religion and Society
ANTH 415A / 505A
Comparative study of religious beliefs, practices, and movements; relations between religious, social, and political institutions; religion as a force for stability and change; anthropological/sociological theories of religion.
Instructor: Sara Shneiderman
Philosophical and Ethical Foundations for Public Policy
GPP 508
Inter-cultural communication skills, entrepreneurship, and effective community engagement in policy work.
Instructor: Tsering Shakya
Development Discourses and Practices
GPP 522
What is development? How can the micro and macro aspects of engineering progress be balanced to yield the best possible results? This course draws upon critical social science literatures, as well as writings by development practitioners, to address key questions of development theory and practice. It offers an overview of the rise of development thought, and an assessment of the outcomes of development for countries and communities across the world under different regimes, from authoritarian states to plural democracies in political transitions and into and out of communism and socialism.
Instructor: Sara Shneiderman
Studies in South and Southeast Asian Art
ARTH 555A
Instructor: Katherine Hacker
Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnic Conflict in Asia
GPP 565
Ethnic and religious conflict in Asia related to historical and dialectic development of different forms of nationalism; the confluence between religion, ethnicity, and nationalist ideologies in the escalation of conflicts in different Asian societies.
Instructor: Tsering Shakya |
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