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About Hindi Studies at the ANU

Welcome to Hindi Studies Hindi can be studied at diploma, undergraduate, honours and post-graduate levels. Courses can be studied either at the Australian National University or at the University of Sydney. Dr Richard Barz South and West Asia Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU

Aim

The aim of the Hindi course is to provide students with the skills necessary to communicate in spoken Hindi as well as to read a wide range of materials written in Hindi, including novels, newspapers and scholarly works.

Subjects

• Introductory Hindi A (HIND1002 & HIND1006)
  Mastery of the fundamentals of Hindi usage and the aquisition of basic conversational skills.
• Introductory Hindi B (HIND1003 & HIND1007)
  Mastery of the fundamentals of Hindi usage and the aquisition of basic conversational skills.
• Applied Hindi (HIND2002)
  A n intensive six week course offered each year in January-February in a city in northern India.
• Contemporary Hindi Literature (HIND2004)
• Hindi Bhakti Poetry (HIND2005)
• Advanced Hindi Conversation A (HIND2006)
• Advanced Hindi Conversation B (HIND2007)
• 19th Century Hindi Literature
• 20th Century Hindi Literature
• The Urdu Gazal
• Urdu Prose
• Seminar on Hindi Language & Literature
• Year in India

Texts/Resources

• An Introduction to Hindi and Urdu by Richard Barz and Yogendra Yadav (Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi:2000)
• Hindi Exercise Manual with set of CD Recordings by Richard Barz and Yogendra Yadav (Canberra:1994)

(Purchase the texts)

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