Asian Studies 150f - First Year Seminar:Stories and Storytelling in India

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Mount Holyoke College

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(First-year seminar; speaking- and writingintensive course; taught in English) India is a treasure house of tales and the home of vibrant traditions of storytelling in classical Sanskrit as well as in modern languages. Indian tales have been transmitted around the world and have parallels in such collections asThe Arabian Nights and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. We will study, in English translation, the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, animal fables, and women's stories and folktales in a variety of forms including puppet plays, song, and dramatic performance.We will examine who tells stories, why, and when, and we will compare Indian stories with tales from other parts of the world. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement I. Peterson Prereq. fy or permission of instructor; 4 credits

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.mtholyoke.edu

Phone Number:

(413) 538-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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