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2.00 Credits
Quereshi. This is a two-semester course offered through the Penn Language Center. This is a systematic introduction to Urdu language and culture for beginners. the course aims at developing listening and comprehension and a real life interactive speaking ability in a variety of everyday topics. The urdu script is introduced from the beginning. The target language is presented in its total socio cultural context for achiving a meaningful and operational control of languages. Students aquire basic rules for structural ans socio - cultural appropriateness.Students are expected to learn a vocabulary of about 1200 words during the semester. the final evaluation will be based on class participation, performance in quizzes and tests and completed assignments.
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2.00 Credits
Suthar. This is a two-semester course offered through the Penn Language Center. During the first year of Gujarati, major emphasis is placed on acquiring phonetics, grammatical patterns, and basic vocabulary. These goals are accomplished through guided drills and conversations accompanied by formal instruction on Gujarati grammar. From the outset, students are also taught the Gujarati writing system, which is used for all materials. By the end of the first year of instruction, student should be able to carry on coherent conversations on selected topics, read simple texts and compose short pieces in Gujarati.
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2.00 Credits
Banerjee. This is a two-semester course offered through the Penn Language Center. This course introduces students to colloquial Bengali. It gives equal emphasis to each of the four skills, reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Language will be studied in the context of socio-cultural aspects of West Bengal and Bangladesh. Besides lessons from the text, a major portion of the syllabus will be based on topics drawn from films, cultural events, festivals, food, and religion.
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2.00 Credits
Gahunia. This is a two-semester course offered through the Penn Language Center. This course emphasizes speaking and reading skills in Punjabi. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to interact meaningfully and in a socially acceptable manner in a variety of simple situations involving everyday conversational topics. Further, students should be able to read and understand the main idea and most details of simple connected texts. This course will utilize authentic printed, audio, and video materials and will provide opportunities for natural communication both within and outside the classroom.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Prerequisite(s): For advanced students . Offered through Penn Language Center.
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2.00 Credits
Renganathan. This is a two-semester course offered through the Penn Language Center. This course introduces students to colloquial Tamil and formal written Tamil. A balance between production skills, viz. writing and speaking, and comprehension skills, viz. reading and listening, will be maintained throughout the course. Reading materials will introduce students to customs and habits of the Tamil speakers in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore. Lessons in the class will be based on a set of Tamil learning software made available at the MMETS Server. This software will be customized to the needs of students.
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2.00 Credits
Rajagopalan. Offered through Penn Language Center. This is a two-semester course.
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2.00 Credits
Kurichi. This is a two-semester course offered through the Penn Language Center. This course is designed to develop skills in reading, writing, and speaking. It will focus on the alphabet, basic vocabulary, nouns (cases, gender and number), verbs and their basic tenses, numerals, rules of joining words, adjectives, adverbs, and sentence structure. Guided conversation will be a part of every class. Students will receive considerable training in speaking and writing their own sentences and paragraphs.
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2.00 Credits
Magier.A. This is a two-semester course offered through the Penn Language Center. This course introduces students to the basic telugu language skills, with an emphasis on practice for listening comprehension, and speaking telugu. Combined with exposure to Andhra culture, the classroom and online work in this course w ill enable interested students to pursue further language study in Telugu at the intermediate level, to carry out field research in Andhra Pradesh, or to prepare them to advanced work in Telugu Studies. An introduction to telugu like this will also be useful for students who just want to acquire basic telugu langauge skills for learning a new language or being able to communicate with telugu - speaking family and friends or to enjoy Telugu music and films.
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2.00 Credits
Ranade. Offered through Penn Language Center. This is a two-semester course. The first year course in Marathi begins with learning the Devnagari script which is common for other important languages like Hindi and Nepali. With proper emphasis on grammar, vocabulary, and phonetics, the syllabus will see the student becoming able to speak conversational Marathi, read Marathi data from the Internet, and compose simple short essays on selected topics.
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