[Soasiastudents] Two new South Asia Courses

[Juned Shaikh]

ANNOUNCING TWO EXCITING NEW COURSES SUITABLE FOR GRADUATES OR UNDERGRADUATES:
The following courses will appear on the time schedule for next quarter by 
Thursday 11/9.

SISSA 490A Childhood and Youth in South Asia
Dr. Jane Dyson, Visiting Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies

Winter Quarter 2007, Tuesdays and Thursdays 2.30-4.20 Thomson 134

This inter-disciplinary course explores childhood and youth in South Asia. The 
course is divided into three parts. In the first part - ‘Orientations’ - we 
discuss theoretical approaches to studying childhood and youth in South Asia. 
The second part of the course is built around a set of themes relevant to an 
understanding of children’s and young people’s lives in the South Asian region, 
namely: work, education, violence, and health. Students will be asked to apply 
the theoretical frameworks discussed in the first part of the course to explore 
how these key topics might be approached. The final part of the course – 
‘Representing Youth’ – is concerned with issues of how young people are 
represented and represent themselves, and the political implications of these 
representations.
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SISSA 490B Himalayan Worlds
Dr. Jane Dyson, Visiting Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies

Winter Quarter 2007, Wednesday 2.30-4.20 Savory 153

This course provides a broad and inter-disciplinary perspective on aspects of 
political change, social transformation and environmental dynamics in the 
Himalayan region. The course begins by considering how global change is 
reshaping the Himalayan region politically, socially, culturally and 
environmentally. We then examine how people within the Himalayas are remaking 
their region ‘from within’. In the final part of the course, we discuss 
different representations of the Himalaya within scholarly work, the media and 
popular culture.

Dr. Craig Jeffrey
Assistant Professor in Geography and International Studies
University of Washington
Department of Geography Box 353550
Seattle, WA 98195
USA

Phone 001 206 543 5870
Fax 001 206 543 3313