$1,500.00
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In this course, the students will be able t0:
Edward Said’s Orientalism is a landmark text which has led to creation of the field of postcolonial studies in academia. His contentions in the text have been widely used in the continued emancipation of the erstwhile colonized people across the world; however, before his contentions could be applied to the Indian and the Hindu contexts on a significant scale, the western academia loaded them with such scathing critiques that they have been rendered almost ineffective for their use in the postcolonial Hindu situation.
This course introduces the students to Said’s Orientalism and its various critiques and criticisms. This will pave the way for the reclamation of Orientalism for its application in the Hindu and Indian contexts.
The class will meet every week for 3 hours. Every week there will be assigned readings which the students are required to study and come prepared to the class to hold discussions with the instructor and with one another in a self-reflective and engaging manner. The readings will not take more than six hours of study and reflection, though the student is free to devote more than six hours if he or she feels inspired to engage in additional research and reflection.
Students will be required to write a mid-semester paper and a final-term paper. The mid-semester paper should be 4-5 pages long, describing key learnings in the course. In the final week of the class, the student is required to submit a final 15–20-page research paper (minus bibliography) on a topic which agrees with the theme of the course. Both the papers should be double spaced and written in Times New Roman.
$1,500.00
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