This course is a survey of the histories, cultures, and religions of mainland Southeast Asia from the period of the early Khmer empire until the 2000s. It surveys the countries of Cambodia, Myanmar/Burma, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

This course surveys the history, culture and religion of the Indian Subcontinent, starting with the archaeological evidence from the Indus Valley Civilization in the third millennium B.C.E. and ending with the period preceding the cultural and political ascendancy of Islam in the thirteenth century.