SAST 452 - Readings in Urdu

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Behl. Prerequisite(s): Two years of Hindi and/or Urdu instruction and a knowledge of the Urdu script. Readings in the various genres of Urdu prose and poetry, including short and long narrative fiction, drama, the ghazal, the masnavi, the qasida, and the elegiac styles of marsiya and shahrashob. Selections will be drawn from the early Dakani authors as well as from those representing the Urduliterary tradition as developed in Delhi and Lucknow in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Contemporary Urdu writers are also included, both in classical and modern genres, as well as some Urdu critical and commentatorial prose. Depending on student and faculty interest, topics may change from year to year;; students may repeat the course for credit with the permission of the instructor.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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