Overview | Summary of Courses

Offered By:	ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Academic Contact:	Richard Barz
Areas of Interest:	Asian Languages

Description

Hindi is the primary official language of India, and as such is crucial for a student with a passion for India and its culture and society. India lies just over the horizon of most Australians’ perceptions, but the coming rise of this massive nation and its concomitant importance for Australia means that a knowledge of Hindi will be economically invaluable in the very near future.

A student may not take a course if that course is a prerequisite for another course which they have already passed.

Students with prior knowledge of the language will be required to take a placement test.

 

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the Hindi language major students should be able to:

1. express themselves well in a formal or informal register, appropriate to the situation and to the people to whom one is speaking.
2. read and understand newspapers and other texts in Hindi
3.  engage with authentic Hindi language media
4.  write in Hindi in an appropriate style in the Devanagari script using the correct grammar and the vocabulary appropriate the genre, contents and audience
5. Write, perform and record presentations or interviews in Hindi either individually or in cooperative groups, and answer questions based on those performances or interviews

 

Course Lists

The course lists in the "Requirements" section below is a definitive list and includes all courses that can be counted towards the major, whether or not they are offered in the current year. For a list of courses that will be offered in the current year, please see the Summary of Courses page.

 

 

Requirements

This minor requires the completion of 24 units from the following course list:

 

HIND 1008           Hindi 1A in-country

HIND 1009           Hindi 1B in-country

HIND 1100           Hindi 1A

HIND 1200           Hindi 1B

HIND 2002           Hindi 2 A-B in-country

HIND 2300           Hindi 2A

HIND 2400           Hindi 2B

HIND 3002           Hindi 2 C-D in-country

HIND 2500           Hindi 2C

HIND 2600           Hindi 2D

HIND 2108           Readings in South Asian Cultures

HIND 2150           Filmi Hindi

HIND 3108           Advanced Readings in South Asian Cultures

HIND 3501           Seminar on Hindi Language and Literature

The information published on the Study at ANU 2011 website applies to the 2011 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2010 website.