South and Southeast Asian Studies

Department of History
201 Humanities
(831) 459-2982
http://history.ucsc.edu

Program Description

South Asian studies has its focus on India, but course work and research on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are also encouraged. Southeast Asian studies has as its focus the nations of insular Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines), but course work and research in other areas such as Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam are also encouraged.

The India and South Asia component of the program has three special resources in support of study of the traditional and contemporary civilization and cultures of India: the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection (Ray FASC) at McHenry Library , the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment , and the Talat and Kamil Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music . Hindi/Urdu is offered as part of the core curriculum.

Students interested in pursuing a broad social, political, and cultural understanding of South or Southeast Asia and their place in the world context through the creation of a Individual Major should discuss these possibilities with a listed faculty member and with their College office.  A student who undertakes the individual major in South or Southeast Asian studies is expected to complete a double major in conjunction with a discipline such as anthropology , one of the arts , Earth sciences , economics , education , environmental studies , feminist studies , history , linguistics, politics , or sociology .

Study Abroad

Students may apply to spend their junior year in Delhi or Hyderabad through the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP). Students can seek internships and enroll in special study abroad programs in addition to the ones in Delhi or Hyderabad through initiatives undertaken by UCSC in cooperation with institutions in India.

Students may apply to the Volunteers in Asia program to teach English in Indonesia or other Southeast Asian countries; contact the Kresge College office for more information on this program.

The Minor in Southeast Asian studies

Students must complete Anthropology 130E, Ethnographic Area Studies: Culture and Politics of Island Southeast Asia , and four additional upper-division courses (20 credits), on the area of Southeast Asia, one of which may be an individual study (course 199). For details on the minor program, contact the History Department 831-459-2982 located at 201 Humanities . For details on the individual major, contact your college academic preceptor.

The following are among the courses that meet the upper-division requirement. (Check the Schedule of Classes or consult with the program coordinator for courses added during the academic year that meet the requirement.)

Anthropology 129    Other Globalizations: Cultures and Histories of Interconnection

History 106    Vietnam War Memories

History 194N    Comparative Studies in Modern Asian History

History of Art and Visual Culture 105E    Ritual in Asian Religious Art

History of Art and Visual Culture 160    Storytelling in Asian Art

Music 180A    Studies in World Music: Asia and the Pacific

Politics 140D    Politics of East Asia

Politics 156    Asian Women in Politics

Porter 121D    Sudanese Gamelan and Dance Theater

Theater Arts 161D    Asian Theater: An Anthropological Approach

Associated Faculty

Anjali Arondekar, Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies; Dilip K. Basu, Associate Professor of History, Director, Ray Film and Study Collection; Donald Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology; Edmund Burke III, Professor of History; Linda C. Burman-Hall, Professor of Music; Annette Clear, Assistant Professor of Politics; Vilashini Cooppan, Assistant Professor of Literature; Ben Crow, Associate Professor of Sociology; Shelly Errington, Professor of Anthropology; M. Kathleen Foley, Professor of Theater Arts; Patty Gallagher, Assistant Professor of Theater Arts; Jorge Hankamer, Professor of Linguistics; Aashish Khan, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Music; Fredric Lieberman, Professor of Music; Paul M. Lubeck, Professor of Sociology; John Mock, Lecturer in Hindi and Urdu; Radhika Mongia, Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies; Dard Neuman, Assistant Professor of Music, Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music; Annapurna Pandey, Lecturer in Anthropology; Triloki Nath Pandey, Professor of Anthropology; S. Ravi Rajan, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies; Vanita Seth, Assistant Professor of Politics; Eli A. Silver, Professor of Earth Sciences; Nirvikar Singh, Professor of Economics; Undang Sumarna, Lecturer in Music; Kirtana Thangavelu, Lecturer in History of Art and Visual Culture; Megan Thomas, Assistant Professor of Politics; Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology