Upcoming Events
2006/2007
Thursday, Sept. 18 @ 4 pm: South Asia Seminar Series, Book Discussion with Dr. Joyce Flueckiger and Dr. Ruby Lal. Saturday, Sept. 23 @ 7 pm: "Seven Graces of Tara" Bharat Natyam dance performance with Anita Ratnam. White Hall 208. Free and open to the public. Sunday, Sept. 24 @ : Classical Indian Music Concert. White Hall 208. Free and open to the public. Monday, October 30 @ 4 pm: South Asia Seminar Series, Afghanistan Panel. Jones Room, Woodruff Library. Free and open to the public. Friday, December 8 @ 4pm: South Asia Seminar Series, "Delhi College: Intellectual Nexus of the Mughal-British Encounter." Free and open to the public. Room TBA. Friday, February 16 (Time TBA): Conference: "What's Indian about HIV/AIDS in India" Location TBA. |
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Languages
Emory offers a variety of South Asian languages. The Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies(MESAS) Department offers Sanskrit and Hindi courses, along with a minor in Hindi.
With the addition of new faculty, Asian Studies is also now proud to offer Tibetan language courses.
Click on the links below for more information on these language offerings.
Tibetan
TBT 101: Tibetan Language 101
McClintock, MWF 9:35-10:25,Tu 10:00-11:15
(Max: 15)Content: This course is an introduction to spoken and literary Tibetan for students with little or no prior exposure to the language. The emphasis in the first semester will be on oral expression and comprehension, as well as on learning to accurately read and write the most common Tibetan script (dbu can). Students will also be introduced to aspects of Tibetan culture that impact social interaction, such as the use of honorific speech and particular gestures and body language. Classroom activities will include skits, dialogues, games and songs to remind us that learning a foreign language can be fun!
Required Texts: Tournadre, Nicolas and Sangda Dorje. Manual of Standard Tibetan: Language and Civilization. Translated from the French by Charles Ramble. Snow Lion Publications, 2003. Dunne, John and Sara McClintock. First Year Primer of Literary Tibetan. Unpublished manuscript to be distributed in class.
Recommended Text: Goldstein, Melvyn C., ed. The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press, 2001. [This text will be required in subsequent semesters.]
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TBT 192: Tibetan Conversation
McClintock, Time and Dates TBA
(Max: 15)Content: This one-credit conversation course is designed to help students maintain or improve their conversation skills in colloquial Tibetan. All students must have at least one semester of prior Tibetan language instruction to register. Students returning from Emory’s Tibetan Studies Abroad Program in Dharamsala who wish to enter Tibetan 102 in the Spring semester are especially encouraged to attend. The course will meet for one hour each week, with day and time to be determined. Please contact Dr. Sara McClintock (slmccli@emory.edu) to find out more about this course.
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Deepika Bahri, Director: dpetrag@emory.edu, 404-727-5114
Dr. Rakesh Ranjan, Director of Undergraduate Studies, rranjan@emory.edu,
Angie Brewer, Program Coordinator, angie.brewer@emory.edu, 404-727-2108