A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required in all courses taken for the certificate. Introductory survey of Inner Asian history and civilization. Concepts of the non-sedentary world, focusing on history, geography, pastoral nomadism, and shamanism. Inner Asian history from the rise of the non-Iranian peoples down to the present day. This course explores both native and foreign traditions, explaining basic concepts and describing interactions over time.
Topic varies each semester.
May be repeated twice for credit. SHSI Uralic peoples in central, northern, and eastern Europe and Siberia. Their history, social organization, traditional economy, literature, folklore, sociolinguistic patterns. Survey of the ecology of the area including Siberia, the Far East, the former Soviet Central Asian republics, Mongolia, and Northern China, examining the socio-economic influences on the environment and the reasons for and consequences of catastrophic ecological situations in these regions. AHTI Explores some of the historical and doctrinal developments in Buddhism between the borderlands of India and China.