Course Offerings

The University of Virginia regularly offers a diversity of courses focused on South Asia, at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.  

Benares Hindu University
Benares Hindu University, Uttar Pradesh (India) [Photo courtesy of John Nemec.]

To see a current list of course offerings for the most recent semester, please follow this link to HoosList, from where the offerings of previous semesters may also be accessed by toggling the drop-down menu at the top-left of the page.

There is no major or minor in South Asian Studies currently offered directly by the South Asia Center, but the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (MESALC) offers both a major and minor with a concentration in South Asia.

Religious Studies also allows for a range of major concentrations focused on South Asia, as well as a minor that permits the same. 

MESALC also hosts an M.A. Program in the subject area, and M.A./Ph.D. courses of study that engage in South Asian Studies may be pursued in the Departments of Anthropology, Art, English, History, Media Studies, Politics, Religious Studies, and Sociology.