Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures

Departmental Chair: Marc Van De Mieroop, 603 Kent; 854-4702; [email protected]

Departmental Adviser: Fran Pritchett, 607 Kent; 854-4370; [email protected]

Departmental Office: 602 Kent; 854-2556

Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Language Placement:

Arabic: Taoufik Ben Amor, 601A Kent; 854-2895; [email protected]
Hebrew: Ruth Raphaeli, 611 Kent; 854-6519; [email protected]
Hindi-Urdu: Frances Pritchett, 607 Kent; 854-4370; [email protected]
Persian: Manouchehr Kasheff, 612 Kent; 854-4739; [email protected]

Subject Areas

Language Placement

Enrollment in language courses is, in some cases, determined by placement examinations. Contact the department for additional information.

Courses in Comparative Cultures

Fall 2000

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Asian Civilization-Middle East Studies V2001x. Introduction to major topics in the civilizations of the Middle East and India. 4 pts. Al-Nowaihi. TuTh 4:10-5:25, and an additional hour to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP, AUD, LLL.
Total tuition: credit $3,072; auditing $375; LLL $225
Required of all majors. A general introduction to major cultures in the Middle East and South Asia. The range of cultural issues, institutional forces, textual sources, and figures of authority who have historically defined and symbolically distinguished Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, from their earliest origins to our own time. A representative sample of sacred and secular sources is closely examined in order to guide the students toward a comprehensive conception of what constitutes these distinct cultures and how they have been redefined in the process of their contemporary adaptations.

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies G4000x. Theory and methods in comparative cultures. 3 pts. N. Sohrabi. W 9-10:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Open to undergraduates with the permission of the instructor. A critique of the traditional methods associated with the study of the languages and cultures of India and the Middle East and their presentation in philological and positivist narratives. Examines the discourse of Asian and Middle East studies and its relation to the broad epistemological and ethical questions that now engage the philosophical and critical communities in the university and society as a whole. Primarily discussion with some lectures.

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies W4041x. Reform and revolution: Middle East in historical, comparative perspective. 3 pts. N. Sohrabi. TuTh 9:10-10:25.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
An interdisciplinary course concerned with two issues: 1) general concerns of social movements theories within social sciences (sociology, political science, and anthropology in particular); 2) area studies and historical concerns about the long-range patterns of development of social movements within the Middle East.

Advanced Graduate Courses
(Instructor's permission required)

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies W6031x. Nationalism in the Middle East as idea and practice. 3 pts. J. Massad. Tu 4:10-6.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Spring 2001

Advanced Undergraduate Courses

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies W3000y. Theories of culture: Middle East and South Asia. 4 pts. M. Nichanian. MW 11-12:15 and additional hour to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Required of all majors. A critical introduction to theories of culture as they are particularly related to the Middle East and South Asia. A spectrum of theoretical debates on the nature and function of culture as a symbolic reading of human collectivities. A representative sample of critical cultural studies of the Middle East and South Asia is closely examined. Enables students to articulate their emerging knowledge of Middle East and Asian cultures in a theoretically informed language.

Advanced Graduate Courses
(Instructor's permission required)

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies G6020y. Colonialism. 3 pts. H. Dabashi.W 9-11.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Asian Civilization and Middle East Studies

Fall 2000

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Asian Civilization-Middle East Studies V2001x. Introduction to major topics in the civilizations of the Middle East and India. 4 pts. Al-Nowaihi. TuTh 4:10-5:25, and an additional hour to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP, AUD, LLL.
Total tuition: credit $3,072; auditing $375; LLL $225
Required of all majors. A general introduction to major cultures in the Middle East and South Asia. The range of cultural issues, institutional forces, textual sources, and figures of authority who have historically defined and symbolically distinguished Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, from their earliest origins to our own time. A representative sample of sacred and secular sources is closely examined in order to guide the students toward a comprehensive conception of what constitutes these distinct cultures and how they have been redefined in the process of their contemporary adaptations.

Asian Civilization-Middle East Studies V2003x. Introduction to Islamic civilization. 3 pts. G. Saliba. MW 1:10-2:25.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Islamic civilization and its characteristic political, social, and religious institutions and intellectual traditions.

Asian Civilization-Middle East Studies V2357x. Introduction to the civilization of India. 3 pts. F. Pritchett. TuTh 9:10-10:25.
Available to SSP, SMP, AUD, LLL.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*; auditing $375; LLL $225
An introduction to Indian civilization with attention to both its unity and its diversity across the Indian Subcontinent. Consideration of its origins, formative development, fundamental social institutions, religious thought and practice (Vedic, Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh), literary and artistic achievements, and modern challenges.

Arabic and Islamic Cultures

Fall 2000

Advanced Undergraduate Courses

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies W3220x. Negotiating identity in modern Arabic literature. 3 pts. M. Al-Nowaihi. TuTh 2:40-3:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
An introduction to modern Arabic literature in translation, with special emphasis on its centrality in the process of negotiating identity within and against dominant cultural structures. Some of the issues to be discussed are: gender construction, tensions between individualism and collectivism, and ambivalent relationships with the past and competing visions of the future. No knowledge of Arabic required.

Advanced Graduate Courses
(Instructor's permission required)

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies G6231x. Seminar: studies in modern Arabic literature. 3 pts. M. Al-Nowaihi. Tu 11-12:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Spring 2001

Advanced Undergraduate Courses

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies W3042y. Palestinian and Israeli politics and societies. 3 pts. J. Massad. TuTh 2:40-3:55 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
This course covers the history of the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskala) in 19th-century Europe and the development of Zionism at the turn of the 19th century through the current "peace process" between the state of Israel and the Arab states and the Palestinian national movement. The purpose of the course is to provide a thorough historical overview of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict to familiarize undergraduates with the background of the current situation.

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies W4240y. Gender issues in Middle East studies. 3 pts. M. Al-Nowaihi. TuTh 4:10-5:25.
Available to SSP, SMP, AUD, LLL.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*; auditing $375; LLL $225
Gender issues will be studied through five central locations that will ultimately be seen as overlapping: Religion and spiritual practices, politics, economics and material production, family relations. and cultural production. There will be movement back and forth between overtly discursive and non-discursive texts, sensitizing students to the messiness of reality and how it does not necessarily conform to neat categories of either prescriptive or scholarly paradigms, which are useful but not immutable epistemological lenses.

Advanced Graduate Courses
(Instructor's permission required)

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies W6234y. Politics of desire: representations of sexuality in the Arab world. 3 pts. J. Massad. Tu 4:10-6.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Literatures and Cultures

Fall 2000

Advanced Undergraduate Courses

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies W3220x. Negotiating identity in modern Arabic literature. 3 pts. M. Al-Nowaihi. TuTh 2:40-3:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
An introduction to modern Arabic literature in translation, with special emphasis on its centrality in the process of negotiating identity within and against dominant cultural structures. Some of the issues to be discussed are: gender construction, tensions between individualism and collectivism, and ambivalent relationships with the past and competing visions of the future. No knowledge of Arabic required.

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies W4322x. Literature and catastrophe. 3 pts. M. Nichanian. MW 5-6:15 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP, AUD, LLL.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*; auditing $375; LLL $225
Reading of survivors' testimonies and philosophical accounts focusing on the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian Catastrophe, with a particular emphasis on the failures of memory and the limits of literary representation.

Spring 2001

Advanced Undergraduate Courses

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies W3524y. Contemporary Israeli short story. 3 pts. G. Anidjar. F 10-12.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
This course explores what history (literary, political) looks like in Israeli fiction and how literature looks at itself, and at its others (literary others: European and Middle Eastern literatures--as well as political others: Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, etc.).

Advanced Graduate Courses
(Instructor's permission required)

Comparative Literature-Middle East Studies G6526y. Hebrew between philosophy and literature. 3 pts. G. Anidjar. F 10-12.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Akkadian

Fall 2000

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Akkadian G4112x. Intermediate Akkadian, I. 3 pts. Instructor to be announced. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Spring 2001

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Akkadian G4112y. Intermediate Akkadian, I. 3 pts. Instructor to be announced. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Arabic

Fall 2000

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Arabic W1210x. Elementary Arabic, I. 4 pts. Sec 1: Instructor to be announced, MWF 9-10:50; sec 2: T. Ben Amor, MWF 11:10-1; sec 3: T. Ben Amor, TuThF 9-10:50; sec 4: Instructor to be announced, TuThF 11:10-1.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
An introduction to the language of classical and modern Arabic literature.

Arabic W1214x. Intermediate Arabic, I. 4 pts. Sec 1: instructor to be announced, MWF 9-10:50; sec 2: T. Ben Amor, TuTh 4:10-6 and F 1:10-3.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Prerequisite: Middle East W1210-W1211 or the equivalent. A continuation of the study of the language of contemporary writing.

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Arabic W4214x. Composition and style in Arabic literature, I. 3 pts. T. Ben Amor. TuTh 2:40-3:55.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: Middle East W1214-W1215 or W1216-W1217, or the instructor's permission. Emphasis on improving writing skills through weekly compositions, as well as class discussions and presentations in Arabic on a variety of topics of interest. A review of some grammatical and syntactic rules is also included.

Spring 2001

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Arabic W1211y. Elementary Arabic, II. 4 pts. Sec 1: instructor to be announced, MWF 9-10:50; sec 2: T. Ben Amor, MWF 11:10-1; sec 3: T. Ben Amor, TuThF 9-10:50; sec 4: instructor to be announced, TuThF 11:10-1.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of Arabic W1210x (see fall listing).

Arabic W1215y. Intermediate Arabic, II. 4 pts. Sec 1: instructor to be announced, MWF 9-10:50; sec 2: T. Ben Amor, TuTh 4:10-6 and F 1:10-3.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of Arabic W1214x (see fall listing).

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Arabic W4215y. Composition and style in Arabic literature, II. 3 pts. Instructor to be announced. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Continuation of Arabic W3214x (see fall listing).

Aramaic

Fall 2000

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Aramaic W4101x. Elementary Aramaic, I. 4 pts. Instructor to be announced. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
This course is part of the language exchange program with New York University (NYU). Classes will be held at NYU.

Spring 2001

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Aramaic W4102y. Elementary Aramaic, II. 4 pts. Instructor to be announced. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
This course is part of the language exchange program with New York University (NYU). Classes will be held at NYU.

Armenian

Fall 2000

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Armenian W1312x. Intermediate Armenian, I. 4 pts. L. Takvorian. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Prerequisite: Middle East W1310-W1311 or the equivalent. The study of reading, writing, and speaking Armenian.

Spring 2001

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Armenian W1313y. Intermediate Armenian, II. 4 pts. L. Takvorian. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Prerequisite: Middle East W1310-W1311 or the equivalent. A continuation of the study of reading, writing and speaking Armenian.

Hebrew

Fall 2000

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Hebrew W1510x. Elementary modern Hebrew, I. 4 pts. T. Ben Vered. MTuWThF 9-9:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
An introduction to modern Hebrew, with equal emphasis on listening, speaking, reading, writing, and grammar.

Hebrew W1512x. Intermediate modern Hebrew, I. 4 pts. N. Bersohn. Sec 1: MTuWThF 9-9:50; sec 2: MTuWThF 10-10:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Prerequisite: Middle East W1510-W1511 or the equivalent. Vocabulary building, grammar, practice in conversation, reading comprehension, and composition. Sections are separated according to students' language proficiency.

Hebrew W1514x. Upper intermediate modern Hebrew, I. 4 pts. T. Ben Vered. MTuWTh 10-10:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
For students who have acquired basic knowledge of Hebrew at Hebrew school. Review of grammar, reading, writing, and conversation in Hebrew.

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Hebrew W4510x. Advanced modern Hebrew, I. 3 pts. R. Raphaeli. MTuTh 12-12:50. Language laboratory: hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: Middle East W1512-W1513 or W1514-W1515, or the equivalent. Readings in fiction and nonfiction modern Hebrew texts. Discussions and compositions in Hebrew. Unadapted texts are gradually introduced in the second semester of this course.

Hebrew W4512x. Readings in Hebrew texts, I. 3 pts. R. Raphaeli. TuTh 1:10-2.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: Middle East W4510-W4511 or W1514-W1515, or the equivalent. Readings of unadapted fiction and nonfiction Hebrew texts as a preparation for courses in Hebrew literature or for graduate work in Jewish studies. Discussions and compositions in Hebrew.

Spring 2001

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Hebrew W1511y. Elementary modern Hebrew, II. 4 pts. Instructor to be announced. MTuWThF 9-9:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of Hebrew W1510x (see fall listing).

Hebrew W1513y. Intermediate modern Hebrew, II. 4 pts. N. Bersohn. Sec. 2: MTuWThF 9-9:50; sec. 2: MTuWThF 10-10:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of Hebrew W1512x (see fall listing).

Hebrew W1515y. Upper intermediate modern Hebrew, II. 4 pts. T. Ben Vered. MTuWTh 10-10:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of Hebrew W1514x (see fall listing).

Hebrew W1516y. Intermediate Hebrew, intensive grammar review. 4 pts. Instructor to be announced. MTuWTh 12-12:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
An intensive review of the Hebrew verb system, conducted in Hebrew. Students placed in this course are required to take only one semester of Hebrew to fulfill their language requirement.

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Hebrew W4511y. Advanced modern Hebrew, II. 3 pts. R. Raphaeli. MTuTh 12-12:50. Language laboratory: Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Continuation of Hebrew W4510x (see fall listing).

Hebrew W4513y. Readings in Hebrew texts, II. 3 pts. R. Raphaeli. TuTh 1:10-2.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Continuation of Hebrew W4512x (see fall listing)

Hindi-Urdu

Fall 2000

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Hindi-Urdu W1610x. Elementary Hindi-Urdu, I. 4 pts. Sec 1: Instructor to be announced, MTuWTh 8:45-10; sec 2: Instructor to be announced, M 5:10-7 evening, TuWTh 5:10-6; sec 3: S. Parveen, M 4:10-6 and TuWTh 5:10-6.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
An introduction to the most widely spoken language of South Asia. Along with an understanding of the grammar, the course offers practice in listening and speaking. The Hindi (Devanagari) script is used for reading and writing.

Hindi-Urdu W1612x. Intermediate Hindi-Urdu, I. 4 pts. Sec. 1: instructor to be announced, MW 2:10-4; sec. 2: S. Parveen, MW 2:10-4.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Prerequisite: W1610-W1611 or the permission of the instructor. Continuing practice in listening, speaking, and grammatical understanding. Along with the Hindi (Devanagari) script, the Urdu (Perso-Arabic) script is taught in the class; both scripts are used for reading and writing.

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Hindi-Urdu W4610x. Readings in Hindi Literature, I. 3 pts. S. Bedi and S. Parveen. M 5-6 and Th 2:30-4.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: Middle East W1613 or the permission of the instructor. Conducted largely in Hindi. Includes reading and discussion of selected literary, social science, historical, and/or journalistic texts. Since the content changes each term, the course may be repeated for credit.

Hindi-Urdu W4635x. Readings in Urdu literature, I. 3 pts. F. Pritchett. T 6:10-8 evening and Th 6:10- 7 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: Middle East W4630 or the permission of the instructor. Conducted largely in Urdu. Includes reading and discussion of selected literary, social science, historical, and/or journalistic texts. Since the content changes each term, the course may be repeated for credit.

Spring 2001

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Hindi-Urdu W1611y. Elementary Hindi-Urdu, II. 4 pts. Sec 1: S. Parveen, MTuWTh 8:45-10; sec 2: Instructor to be announced, M 5:10-7 and TuWTh 5:10-6; sec. 3: Instructor to be announced, M 4:10-6 and TuWTh 5:10-6.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of Hindi-Urdu W1610x (see fall listing).

Hindi-Urdu W1613y. Intermediate Hindi-Urdu, II. 4 pts. Sec 1: instructor to be announced, MW 2:10-4; sec 2: S. Parveen, MW 2:10-4.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of Hindi-Urdu W1612x (see fall listing).

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Hindi-Urdu W4611y. Readings in Hindi Literature, II. 3 pts. S. Bedi and S. Parveen. M 5-6 and Th 2:30-4.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Continuation of Hindi-Urdu W4610x (see fall listing).

Hindi-Urdu W4636y. Readings in Urdu Literature, II. 3 pts. F. Pritchett. T 6:10-8 evening and Th 6:10-7 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Continuation of Hindi-Urdu W4635x (see fall listing).

Persian

Fall 2000

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Persian W1710x. Elementary Persian, I. 4 pts. M. Kasheff. MWTh 6:10-8 evening, plus conversation hour to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
An introduction to the spoken and written language of contemporary Iran.

Persian W1712x. Intermediate Persian, I. 4 pts. M. Kasheff. MW 4:10-6, plus conversation hour to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Prerequisite: Middle East W1710-W1711 or the equivalent. A general review of the essentials of grammar; practice in spoken and written Persian; Arabic elements in Persian; selected readings emphasizing Iranian life and culture; materials from Tajikistan and Afghanistan, Indari.

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Persian W4710x. Advanced Persian, I. 3 pts. M. Kasheff. TuTh 4:10-6, plus conversation hour to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: the instructor's permission. Review of some aspects of Persian grammar; introductory readings from contemporary and classical Persian writing; materials from Tajikistan and Afghanistan, Indari.

Noncredit Courses

Persian N0710x. Elementary Persian, I. 0 pts. M. Kasheff. MWTh 6:10-8 evening, plus conversation hour to be arranged.
Available to FLP.
Total tuition: noncredit $1,060
An introduction to the spoken and written language of contemporary Iran.

Persian N0712x. Intermediate Persian, I. 0 pts. M. Kasheff. MW 4:10-6, plus conversation hour to be arranged.
Available to FLP.
Total tuition: noncredit $1,060
Prerequisite: Middle East W1710-W1711 or the equivalent. A general review of the essentials of grammar; practice in spoken and written Persian; Arabic elements in Persian; selected readings emphasizing Iranian life and culture; materials from Tajikistan and Afghanistan, Indari.

Spring 2001

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Persian W1711y. Elementary Persian, II. 4 pts. M. Kasheff. MWTh 6:10-8 evening, plus conversation hour to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of Persian W1710x (see fall listing).

Persian W1713y Intermediate Persian, II. 4 pts. M. Kasheff. MW 4:10-6, plus conversation hour to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of Persian W1712x (see fall listing).

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Persian W4711y. Advanced Persian, II. 3 pts. M. Kasheff. TuTh 4:10-6, plus conversation hour to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Continuation of Persian W4710x (see fall listing).

Noncredit Courses

Persian N0711y. Elementary Persian, II. 0 pts. M. Kasheff. MWTh 6:10-8 evening, plus conversation hour to be arranged.
Available to FLP.
Total tuition: noncredit $1,060
Continuation of Persian N0710x (see fall listing).

Persian N0713y Intermediate Persian, II. 0 pts. M. Kasheff. MW 4:10-6, plus conversation hour to be arranged.
Available to FLP.
Total tuition: noncredit $1,060
Continuation of Persian N0713x (see fall listing).

Sanskrit

Fall 2000

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Sanskrit W4810x. Elementary Sanskrit, I. 4 pts. Instructor to be announced. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
An introduction to classical Sanskrit. Grammar and reading of texts.

Sanskrit W4812x. Intermediate Sanskrit, I. 4 pts. Instructor to be announced. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Reading and grammatical analysis of a literary text, chosen from the dramatic and narrative tradition.

Spring 2001

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Sanskrit W4811y. Elementary Sanskrit, II. 4 pts. Instructor to be announced. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of Sanskrit W4810x (see fall listing).

Sanskrit W4813y. Intermediate Sanskrit, II. 4 pts. Instructor to be announced. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of Sanskrit W4813x (see fall listing).

Tibetan

Fall 2000

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Tibetan W4411y. Elementary Tibetan, I. 3 pts. R. Thurman. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Tibetan W4413y. Intermediate Tibetan, I. 3 pts. R. Thurman. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Spring 2001

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Tibetan W4411y. Elementary Tibetan, II. 3 pts. R. Thurman. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Tibetan W4413y. Intermediate Tibetan, II. 3 pts. R. Thurman. Hours to be arranged.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Turkish

Fall 2000

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Turkish W1911x. Elementary Turkish, I. 4 pts. Instructor to be announced. MTuWTh 11:55-1:10.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
This course is part of the language exchange program with New York University (NYU). Classes will be held at NYU.

Turkish W1913x. Intermediate Turkish, I. 4 pts. Instructor to be announced. MTuWTh 9:55-11:10.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
This course is part of the language exchange program with New York University (NYU). Classes will be held at NYU.

Spring 2001

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

Turkish W1912y. Elementary Turkish, II. 4 pts. Instructor to be announced. MTuWTh 11:55-1:10.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
This course is part of the language exchange program with New York University (NYU). Classes will be held at NYU.

Turkish W1914y. Intermediate Turkish, II. 4 pts. Instructor to be announced. MTuWTh 9:55-11:10.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
This course is part of the language exchange program with New York University (NYU). Classes will be held at NYU.