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Since English is spoken widely in most parts of India, MIT-India has no language requirement. In lieu of a language requirement, however, you must take at least one course on India that introduces you to the important cultural, social, and political aspects of the country, preferably:
Fall
- 21F.011 Topics in India Popular Culture (2009)
- 21F.041 Topics in South Asian Literature and Culture (2009)
- 21H.571 History of Modern South Asia (2009)
- 21H.575 - Women in South Asia 1800-Present
- 15.229 'China and India: Opportunities and Issues'.
Spring
- 21F.040 'A Passage to India : Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and Society'
- 15.225 'China and India: Opportunities and Issues' (half semester 6 units only)
- 21H.573 "Religion and Politics in Modern South Asia' (Spring 2010)
- 21H.577J/CMS.882J "Re-Casting the Past: Film, Fiction, and History in India, 1905-2005" (Spring 2010)
Courses at Harvard
MIT students may cross-register at Harvard to fulfill the requirement.
9206LA: Reimagining India: A New Urban Enterprise
Department of Landscape Architecture
Independent Research Study
4 credits
limited enrollment
Thursday 11:30 - 2:00
104 Sumner Road
INSTRUCTOR(S)
Nazneen Cooper, Niall Kirkwood
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will attempt to build a current view of the physical condition of modern urban India. In particular it will assemble the primary sites for emerging forms of urbanism through both an investigation of the urban spaces and built environments in which projects, experiments and interventions have been undertaken, as well as the discursive writings and organizations in which new ideas and theories are being discussed. Topics under review include industrial clusters, new residential townships, metropolitan peripheries, and the inner cities including new forms of bazaars, colonies and wadis. Students will prepare and present case studies based on course materials and individual research.
List of additional courses at Harvard below: (Please refer to Harvard's Website)
- Historical Study A-16. The Making of Modern South Asia
- Social Analysis 36. Religion and Modernization: Cultural Revolutions and Secularism
- Freshman Seminar 44p. Contemporary India: Fact and Fiction
- Economics 1312. India in the Global Economy
- English 90ix. India in English
- Indian Studies 107. Tradition and Modernity in the Urdu-Hindi Short Story
- Religion 1600. Introduction to the Hindu Traditions of India
- Sanskrit 101a. Elementary Sanskrit
- Urdu 101. Introductory Urdu-Hindi
- Urdu 106r. Advanced Oral Proficiency in Urdu-Hindi
- Bengali for Beginners
- First Year Tamil
