Modules CA HL

CASI and its graduate program – the Master of Arts in Central Asian Studies – were made part of AUCA’s Humanities Division in 2020 to foster closer cooperation between the Institute and units with a focus on the arts and humanities. The CASI director has worked particularly closely with Nicholas Walmsley – the head of Core Humanities at AUCA – to leverage CASI’s Literature and History Workshop to benefit instruction in the First (FYS) and Second-Year Seminars (SYS).

CASI HLW participants will work with AUCA faculty to put together modules on Central Asian history and literature – stand-alone explorations of seminal literary texts or historical documents – that can then be introduced into existing classes and in particular into the rich offerings of AUCA’s Second Year Seminars, many of which are oriented towards the Central Asian arts and humanities.