Courses for Fall 2019

Whether your interests are in history, art, language, culture, or religion, you can study Asia through a whole range of courses scheduled for Fall 2019. If you need core curriculum courses, you can take the History of Asia sequence (Asia Civilization to 1400 or Modern Asia Since 1400) or Fine Arts / Humanities courses in […]

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Tales from Asia

The Monkey King and the god Rama have both played significant roles in the storytelling traditions of different regions of Asia. REL 322, Tales from Asia, is a seminar that considers both Journey to the West and the Ramayana and the various ways that people have told these stories, both historically and in contemporary media, […]

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Akhil Sharma at UA

Award-winning Indian-American author Akhil Sharma will visit UA on October 11. He will present a reading in Gorgas Library at 7:30 that evening.  His first novel, An Obedient Father (2000), won the Pen Hemingway Award and the Whiting Award. His second novel, Family Life (2014) won the Folio Prize (the most lucrative literary award for a single […]

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