BA South Asian Studies (3 years) Structure for students who enrolled in 2011/12 or before Year 1 • Language 1 (a course unit at a suitable level in a South Asian language: core course) • South Asian Culture (compulsory course) • A further course from List A or List B at an appropriate level • A further course from List B or an Open Option at an appropriate level Year 2 • Language 2 (a course unit at a suitable level in a South Asian language: core course) • A further course from List A (compulsory course) • A further course from List A or List B at an appropriate level • A further course from List B or an Open Option at an appropriate level Year 3 • Language 3 (a course unit at a suitable level in a South Asian language: compulsory course) • A further course from List A at an appropriate level • A further course from List A or List B at an appropriate level • A further course from List B or an Open Option at an appropriate level List A Elementary Level Language courses • Bengali Language 1 - 155900491 (1 Unit) • Hindi Language 1 - 155900501 (1 Unit) • Nepali Language 1 - 155900535 (1 Unit) • Sanskrit Language 1 - 155901303 (1 Unit) • Urdu Language 1 - 155900512 (1 Unit) • Basic Pali - 155900948 (1 Unit) • Gujarati Language 1 - 155900496 (1 Unit) • Sinhala Language 1 - 155900520 (1 Unit) • Tamil Language 1 - 155900526 (1 Unit) • Introduction to Prakrit - 155901323 (0.5 Unit) • Elementary Written Persian - 155901053 (1 Unit) Intermediate Level Language courses • Bengali Language 2 - 155900492 (1 Unit) • Hindi Language 2 - 155901183 (1 Unit) • Nepali Language 2 - 155900609 (1 Unit) • Sanskrit Language 2 - 155901304 (1 Unit) • Urdu Language 2 - 155900513 (1 Unit) • Urdu Literacy - 155901247 (1 Unit) • Intermediate Pali - 158000124 (1 Unit) • Sinhala Language 2 - 155900521 (1 Unit) • Tamil Language 2 - 155900527 (1 Unit) • Readings in Prakrit - 155901324 (0.5 Unit) Advanced Level Language courses • Advanced Bengali - 155901264 (1 Unit) • Directed Readings in a South Asian Literature or Culture (Bengali) - 155901298 (0.5 Unit) • Hindi Language 3 - 155901269 (1 Unit) • Hindi Language 4 - 155901384 (1 Unit) • Literature & Colonialism in North India - 155901295 (0.5 Unit) • Narratives of Mobility in Contemporary Hindi Literature - 155901296 (0.5 Unit) • Directed Readings in a South Asian Literature or Culture (Hindi) - 155901299 (0.5 Unit) • Nepali Language 3 - 155901283 (1 Unit) • Directed Readings in South Asian Literature or Culture (Nepali) - 155901300 (0.5 Unit) • Classical Sanskrit Court Literature I - 155900860 (1 Unit) • Selected Texts from the Sanskrit Epic - 155900787 (1 Unit) • Readings in Sanskrit Systematic Thought - 155901297 (1 Unit) • Vedic Sanskrit - 158000128 (1 Unit) • Directed Readings in Sanskrit - 155901302 (0.5 Unit) • Directed Readings in a South Asian Literature or Culture (Urdu) - 155901301 (0.5 Unit) Non-Language South Asian Courses • Cinema and Society in South Asia - 155900826 (1 Unit) • Modern Bengal: the Evolution of Bengali Culture & Society from 1690 to the Present - 155901271 (1 Unit) • Imagining Pakistan: culture, politics, gender - 155901391 (1 Unit) • Society, Culture and Politics in Nepal - 155901305 (1 Unit) • South Asian Literature in English - 155900927 (1 Unit) • Extended Essay in South Asian Studies – 155901101 (0.5 Unit) • Independent Study Project in South Asian Studies – 155900955 (1 Unit) List B Introductory Courses on Aspects of South Asian History and Culture • Buddhism: Foundation - 158000110 (0.5 Unit) • Hinduism: Foundation - 158000118 (0.5 Unit) • Introduction to Jainism - 158000053 (1 Unit) • H140 Introduction to the History of South Asia - 154800231 (1 Unit) • Introduction to the Art and Archaeology of South and Southeast Asia - 154900156 (0.5 Unit) • Legal systems of Asia and Africa - 155200029 (1 Unit) School of Law • Law and society in South Asia - 155200032 (1 Unit) • Law, Multiculturalism and Intercultural Human Rights - 155200040 (1 Unit) Department of Politics and International Studies • Government and politics of South Asia - 153400020 (1 Unit) Department of History • H335 Gandhi and Gandhiism - 154800103 (1 Unit) • H432 Body, Power and Society in Early India (I) - 154800225 (1 Unit) • H234 Culture and Identity in Modern South Asia 1800-2000 - 154800264 (1 Unit) • H437 Histories of Partition: India and Pakistan 1947 (I) - 154800282 (1 Unit) • H431 Nehru and India's Modernity, 1936-64 (I) - 154800199 (1 Unit) • H432 Body, Power and Society in Early India (I) - 154800225 (1 Unit) • H434 Religion, State and Society in Mughal North India (I) - 154800238 (1 Unit) Department of Art and Archaeology • Traditional Art and Modern South Asia - 154900161 (0.5 Unit) • Art and Ritual in Buddhist South Asia - 154900147 (0.5 Unit) • Hindu Art in Medieval India - 154900162 (0.5 Unit) • Temple, City and Empire in South India 1300-1800 - 154900153 (0.5 Unit) Department of Music • Music in the Cultures of South Asia - 155800036 (1 Unit) • Indian Classical Music - 155800046 (1 Unit) Department of the Study of Religions • Religious Philosophies of Ancient and Medieval India - 158000123 (1 Unit) • Textual Sources of Classical Hinduism - 158000023 (1 Unit) Department of Anthropology and Sociology • Ethnography of a Selected Region - South Asia - 151802047 (1 Unit) Department of Economics • Economic development of South Asia - 153400011 (1 Unit) .