Teaching
Fall 2024 Courses at Rutgers
Professor Truschke’s courses are open to all Rutgers University students.
Syllabi
Professor Truschke teaches a wide range of courses on South Asian history and religions at Rutgers University-Newark; check out her recent syllabi.
History of South Asia I, Fall 2024, syllabus
History of Hinduism, Fall 2024, syllabus
History of South Asia II, Spring 2024, syllabus
Religion, Politics, and Society, Spring 2024. syllabus
South Asian Religions, Rutgers-Newark, Fall 2023, syllabus
Archiving COVID-19, Rutgers-Newark, Fall 2020 (remote course), here
Muslim Lives, Rutgers-Newark, Spring 2020, here
Pedagogy
Teaching about Hindu traditions
“Imaginative Outsiders: Empowering Undergraduates to Analyze Religion,” in “Forum: Insiders, Outsiders, and Disclosure in the Undergraduate Classroom.” Teaching Theology & Religion. 19.3 (2016): 282-286. download
2023 Article by Professor Truschke titled “Hearing Hindu Stories” that explores why Hindu traditions continue to be marginalized in the modern academy.
Teaching about COVID-19
A unique class, offered in fall 2020, that archived the pandemic in real time
Full website on this unique course.
Highlights
Interview with Professor Truschke about journaling as a way to create valuable historical records of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dec 3, 2020. here
Discussion of Professor Truschke’s Archiving COVID-19 class in Vox article on journaling during the pandemic, November 9, 2020. here.
“Pedagogy and the Pandemic: Professor Audrey Truschke Meets the Moment,” October 26, 2020. here.
Discussant on COVIDCalls, “Teaching COVID-19,” September 4, 2020. video and audio only
