ENGL 362 - Partition, War, Dislocation: Mid-Twentieth-Century South Asia and Historic Palestine

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 2 HU, 2 SS, CD, WRi

This cross-divisional team-taught course focuses on the cultural, social, historical, and political dimensions and consequences of the partitions, wars, and dislocations that occurred with the withdrawal of the British Empire from historic Palestine and India and the establishment of Pakistan and Israel in 1947 and 1948. The course will be reading-intensive, include a film component, and organized in a seminar style that requires significant student engagement. Students will be expected to complete a number of papers, including one based on the analysis of primary source materials. Diversity, Post-1900. Enrollment Limit 26.
Instructor: F. Hasso, A. Needham
Prerequisites & Notes

Identical to GAWS and SOCI 362.

Enrollment in this interdisciplinary course requires consent of the instructors and will generally be limited to third- and fourth-year students who have completed some relevant coursework.

Declared majors in any of the following departments/programs will have enrollment priority: English, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Sociology.