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

Description

Urdu is the national language of Pakistan and is also spoken in parts of India. It is mutually intelligible with Hindi though they differ in their writing systems and in their higher level vocabulary. Given the mutual intelligibility the combined number of speakers of Urdu and Hindi is the fourth largest in the world. As well as being the key that unlocks a knowledge of modern Pakistani culture and society to the student, an understanding of Urdu in the Perso-Arabic script allows the student access to the largest collection of work on Islamic literature after that in Arabic.

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 and may be exempted from the compulsory courses.

 

Learning Outcomes

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

1. express themselves well in a formal, neutral 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 Urdu
3. engage with authentic Urdu language media
4. write in Urdu in the Perso-Arabic script in the appropriate style using the correct grammar and the vocabulary appropriate the genre, contents and audience
5. Write, perform and record presentations or interviews in Urdu 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 major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:

 12 units from the completion of the following courses:

URDU2300         Urdu 2A

URDU2400         Urdu 2B

 

A maximum of 36 units from the completion of courses from the following list:

ASIA2103            Language in Asia (L)

ASIA3006            Practical Assignment in Asia and the Pacific

HIND1008           Hindi 1A in-country

HIND1009           Hindi 1B in-country

HIND1100           Hindi 1A

HIND1200           Hindi 1B

HIND2002           Hindi 2 A-B in-country

HIND2300           Hindi 2A

HIND2400           Hindi 2B

HIND2500           Hindi 2C

HIND2600           Hindi 2D

HIND3002           Hindi 2 C-D in-country

URDU2500         Urdu 2C

URDU2600         Urdu 2D

The information published on the Study at ANU 2012 website applies to the 2012 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2011 website.