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The Committee on Southern Asian Studies/South Asia Language & Area Center |
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| The Committee on Southern Asian Studies,
http://southasia.uchicago.edu/,
is an interdepartmental committee that coordinates research and teaching
dealing with the countries of South and Southeast Asia. The committee works
cooperatively with the South Asia Language and Area Center, inaugurated
in 1959 with grants from the Ford Foundation and the United States Department
of Education under the National Defense Education Act, Title VI.
The committee and the center do not offer degrees, but cooperate with the several departments, committees, and schools within which specialized work on South or Southeast Asia may be combined with a degree program. These include the College; the Departments of Anthropology, Art History, Comparative Literature, Economics, History, Linguistics, Music, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and South Asian Languages & Civilizations; the Committees on History of Culture, Human Development, International Relations, and Social Thought; in the Divinity School, the fields of History of Religions, Church History, Philosophy of Religions; and, in the Law School, International and Comparative Legal Studies. A joint A.M. in Southern Asia Studies/M.B. is administered through the Graduate School of Business and the Division of the Social Sciences. Advanced degree programs with specialization in Bengali, Hindi, Pali, Sanskrit, Tamil, Tibetan, and Urdu languages, literatures, and civilizations are available in the Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations. Persian and Arabic are available through the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations. A limited number of fellowships, scholarships, and grants-in-aid are awarded by the committee in support of training or research dealing with South or Southeast Asia. Students in all disciplines interested in training in South Asian languages may also apply for Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships under Section 602 of Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965 as amended. For further information, please write to Director, South Asia Language and Area Center. The University of Chicago Library has a very strong and well-balanced collection of South Asian books, government documents, journals, and maps. It includes extensive holdings in all South Asian languages, as well as publications on the subcontinent from major publishing centers around the world. The library has been a comprehensive participant since 1962 in the Library of Congress Foreign Acquisitions Program for South Asia. The library's membership in the nearby Center for Research Libraries, and in its South Asia Microfilm Project (SAMP), provides ready access to additional valuable research materials. The library's South Asia Collection staff coordinates acquisition and processing, and provides specialized reference service. A smaller collection of Southeast Asian materials is limited to Western language works on the area from Burma to the Philippines. CoursesFor faculty course offerings see departmental course listings in these Announcements, as well as in the Announcements: The Divinity School. This text was last revised on 2/27/2003. |
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