Fall 2025
Ethno-Religious Identity and Politics in the Middle East and South Asia
Dates: September 01, 2025 - December 15, 2025Day/Time: Monday; Wednesday 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Level: 200-Level
Certificate: Democracy*
Instructor: Karen Barkey, Bard College
This course is designed for undergraduates. It is a comparative course intended to bridge areas and disciplines in the social sciences. It will bring expertise in sociology, political science, and history together, but beyond these fields, we also bring together different methodological approaches to the comparisons between regions and cases. Both the Middle East and South Asia are areas of democratization and conflict around issues of ethnic, religious, and communal organization.
Credits: 4 US / 8 ECTS