South Asian Migrations

Studies how and why South Asians, who have migrated to America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East, are considered a model minority in some countries and unwanted strangers in others. Through literature, memoirs, films, music, and historical writing, follows migrants as they discovered the world beyond their countries of origin: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Students complete final projects on different aspects of MIT’s relationship with the Indian subcontinent including research on South Asian students and alumni.

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Offered Fall 2024

Catalog	Subject	Faculty	Level	HASS	Category
21H.009	World History and Its Fault Lines Since 1800 TR 9:30-11, 56-180	Sana Aiyar Hiromu Nagahara	Introductory	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.107 21G.043	Asian American History: 1865 to 1965 TR 1-2:30, 14E-310	Emma Teng	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.151	Dynastic China MW 3:30-5; 4-149	Tristan Brown	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.186	Nature and Environment in China T 2-5, E51-390	Tristan Brown	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.S01	Special Subject: The Dutch in the World, 1600-1950: From Small Republic to Empire (and Back!) R 1-4, E51-385	Marjoleine Kars Anne E. C. McCants	Graduate

Not Offered This Term

Catalog	Subject	Faculty	Level	HASS	Category
21H.001	How to Stage a Revolution	Staff	Introductory	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.144 21G.087	Introduction to Russian Studies	Elizabeth A. Wood Maria Khotimsky	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.152	Modern China	Tristan Brown	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.154	Inventing the Samurai	Hiromu Nagahara	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.155	Modern Japan: 1600 to Present	Hiromu Nagahara	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.156 21G.045	Global Chinese Food: A Historical Overview Not offered regularly; consult department	Emma Teng	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.157	Modern South Asia	Sana Aiyar	Introductory	HASS-S
21H.185 12.386 STS.031	Environment and History	Staff	Introductory	HASS-S	CI-H
21H.242 21G.322	Frenchness in and Era of Globalization Not offered regularly; consult department	Catherine Clark	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.247	Looking East/Looking West	Catherine Clark Hiromu Nagahara	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.253 21G.075	Global Chinese Migration, 1567- Present Not offered regularly; consult department	Emma Teng	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.265	Humanitarianism in Africa: A Critical History	Kenda Mutongi	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.285 STS.025	Making the Modern World: The Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective	Merritt Roe Smith	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.350	Business in China Since 1800 Not offered regularly; consult department	Staff	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.351 11.153	Shanghai and China’s Modernization Not offered regularly; consult department	Staff	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.352 21G.042	Three Kingdoms: From History to Fiction, Comic, Film, and Game	Emma Teng	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.354	World War II in Asia	Hiromu Nagahara	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.361	Echoes of Slavery: Recovering the Histories of Enslaved People (NEW)	Marjoleine Kars	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.383 U 21H.982 G	Technology and the Global Economy	Anne E. C. McCants	Graduate Seminar	HASS-S
21H.388 U 21H.988 G	Global Commodities, American Dreams	Megan A. Black	Graduate Seminar	HASS-H