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6.00 Credits
This course introduces Mandarin Chinese and emphasizes development of oral profciency as well as gradual acquisition of reading and writing skills. Supplements class work with lab. Meets language requirement; does not meet a distribution requirement Y.Wang 6 credits
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6.00 Credits
Introduces listening, speaking, reading, and writing modern Japanese; hiragana, katakana, and approximately 50 kanji during both semesters. Supplements class work with audio and video. Meets language requirement; does not meet a distribution requirement N. Nemoto 6 credits
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4.00 Credits
The curriculum introduces learners to a variety of functional tasks carefully sequenced to help them cope with the real-world communication demands they will face in an Arabic environment. Topics include the Arabic alphabet and elementary vocabulary for everyday use, including courtesy expressions; speaking and listening skills; and basic reading and writing. Meets language requirement; does not meet a distribution requirement M. Jiyad 4 credits
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4.00 Credits
This course continues first-semester Asian Studies 30f. Students expand their command of basic communication skills, including asking questions ormaking statements involving learnedmaterial. Readingmaterials (messages, personal notes, and short statements) contain formulaic greetings, courtesy expressions, queries about personal well-being, age, family, weather, and time. Students also learn to write frequently-used,memorizedmaterial, such as names and addresses. Meets language requirement; does not meet a distribution requirement M. Jiyad 4 credits
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to Sanskrit, the classical language of India. Related to other Indo-European languages (including English) and the ancestor of most of the sixteen major Indian languages (e.g., Hindi), Sanskrit is the medium of the literary classics, and of the texts of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religions. The first-semester course covers Sanskrit grammar. The emphasis is on sentence construction, recognition and production of grammatical forms, and translation. Attention is also given to script, chanting, and pronunciation. The goal is proficiency in reading sentences and sustained passages in Sanskrit, in preparation for reading authentic texts in the second semester. Meets language requirement; does not meet a distribution requirement I. Peterson 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course continues Asian Studies 4 f, Elementary Sanskrit I. Beginning with a review of grammar, the course will treat advanced topics in grammar, including syntax and word order. The remainder of the semester is devoted to readings from the following texts: the epic Mahabharata ( fourth century B.C.), the Bhagavad Gita ( first century), Hitopadesa (a book of didactic tales and animal fables, ninth century), and anthologies of verse. The goal is to prepare students to be able to read epic-level texts independently with the help of a dictionary. Meets language requirement; does not meet a distribution requirement I. Peterson Prereq. Asian Studies 141 or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
(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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4.00 Credits
(Taught in English) An introduction to modern Indian fiction in English and in translation. Authors covered include Rabindranath Tagore and Mahasweta Devi (Bengali); Premchand (Hindi); Ismat Chugtai and S. H. Manto (Urdu); and Anita Desai, R. K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, and Arundhati Roy (English).We will study the novels and short stories of these writers with reference to the themes, problems, and discourses of tradition and modernity, nationalism, and colonial and postcolonial identities.We will pay attention to issues of gender and writing and to the implications of writing in English or in Indian languages. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement I. Peterson 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course continues elementary Chinese. Emphasizes equally speaking, listening, reading, and writing modern Chinese. Supplements class work with audio- and videotapes and multimedia materials. Meets language requirement; does not meet a distribution requirement A. Kao, F. Kuo Prereq. Asian Studies 111 or equivalent; 6 credits
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4.00 Credits
(Taught in English; Same as Gender Studies 204) Critical study of women's writing in India, in genres ranging from classical and medieval poems, tales and songs (e.g., Tiruppavai) to novels, plays, and personal narratives by modern women writers (e.g., Rokeya Hossain's Sultana's Dream , Arundhati Roy' The God of Small?ings), in translation from Indian languages and in the original English. We will focus on women's perspectives and voices, women's agency, and resistance to dominant discourses. Attention is paid to historical contexts, the socioreligious constructions of women and gender, and the role of ideologies such as colonialism and nationalism in the production and reception of women's writing. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement I. Peterson 4 credits
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