Shankar Nair

san2k@virginia.edu

Average Ratings

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    3.89

  • Difficulty

    3.25

  • GPA

    3.5

College Advising Seminar

COLA 1500 | College Advising Seminars
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  • GPA

    3.66

  • Last Taught

    Fall 2024

Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures

MESA 3120 | Classics of Islamic Literature: Islamic Mystical Writing
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  • GPA

    3.38

  • Last Taught

    Fall 2024

MESA 3345 | Islam, Science, and the Environment
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  • GPA

    3.67

  • Last Taught

    Spring 2023

MESA 3559 | New Course in Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies
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  • GPA

    3.59

  • Last Taught

    Spring 2023

MESA 4999 | Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Senior Thesis II
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  • Last Taught

    Spring 2025

MESA 5120 | Classics of Islamic Literature: Islamic Mystical Writing
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  • Last Taught

    Spring 2023

MESA 5559 | New Course in Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies
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    Spring 2023

MESA 6559 | New Course in Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies
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  • Last Taught

    Spring 2015

Persian

PERS 4993 | Independent Study in Persian
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  • Last Taught

    Spring 2025

Religion-Hinduism

RELH 5221 | Hindu-Muslim Encounters
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  • Last Taught

    Spring 2024

Religion-Islam

RELI 2070 | Classical Islam
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    4.11

  • Difficulty

    3.44

  • GPA

    3.52

  • Last Taught

    Fall 2024

RELI 2080 | Global Islam
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  • GPA

    3.56

  • Last Taught

    Spring 2025

RELI 2085 | Modern Islam: From the Age of Empires to the Present
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    2.67

  • Difficulty

    2.5

  • GPA

    3.51

  • Last Taught

    Spring 2022

RELI 3110 | Muhammad and the Qur'an
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  • GPA

    3.51

  • Last Taught

    Fall 2024

RELI 3120 | Sufism: Islamic Mysticism
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    3.45

  • Last Taught

    Fall 2022

RELI 5221 | Hindu-Muslim Encounters
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  • Last Taught

    Spring 2024

RELI 5425 | Islamic Philosophy & Theology
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  • GPA

    3.3

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    Fall 2024

RELI 5540 | Seminar in Islamic Studies
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  • GPA

    3.28

  • Last Taught

    Fall 2022

RELI 5559 | New Course in Islam
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  • GPA

    3.66

  • Last Taught

    Spring 2025

RELI 8703 | Advanced Readings in Arabic
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    Spring 2024

RELI 8707 | Advanced Readings in Persian
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    Spring 2025

Religion-Special Topic

RELS 4995 | Independent Research
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    Spring 2025

RELS 8500 | Topics for Supervised Study and Research
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    Spring 2025

RELS 8960 | Thesis Research
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    Spring 2025

RELS 8995 | Research
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    Spring 2025

RELS 8998 | Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
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    Spring 2025

RELS 8999 | Non-Topical Research
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    Spring 2025

RELS 9998 | Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
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    Spring 2025

RELS 9999 | Non-Topical Research
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  • Last Taught

    Spring 2025

South Asian Literature in Translation

SATR 3350 | Languages of Love in South Asia: Bhakti and Beyond
  • Rating

    4.33

  • Difficulty

    3.0

  • GPA

    3.36

  • Last Taught

    Fall 2024

SATR 3559 | New Course in South Asian Literature in Translation
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  • Last Taught

    Spring 2018

SATR 5559 | New Course in South Asian Literature in Translation
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  • Last Taught

    Fall 2023