To complement students’ course work, the South Asia Studies Program hosts biweekly luncheons on careers that would be relevant to students concentrating in South Asia. Here students have the opportunity to network with academics, policymakers, journalists, businesspeople and NGO representatives and to research career options. South Asia students will be invited to all career luncheons and will be given a schedule of upcoming speakers during orientation. Lunch will be provided by the program and attendance and active participation is encouraged.
It is the goal of the program to ensure that while studying at SAIS students have the ability to visit the region and experience firsthand many of the themes discussed in the classroom. In recent years the South Asia Studies Program has organized a study trip to India and Bangladesh to discuss economic development and energy policy (winter 2010) and a trip to China and India to compare the economic development models of those two countries (winter 2012).
This year the program plans to organize two separate trips. One will be a trip to China to study Sino-Indian relations (winter 2013), and the other will be a trip to Sri Lanka to discuss post-conflict reconstruction and development (spring 2013).
Students will be given more information about applying during orientation. Priority will be given to second-year South Asia Studies students.