LAN 104 - Hindi 1 and North Indian Culture

Hindi 1 and North Indian Culture is designed for beginning students of modern standard Hindi. The object of the course is to introduce the student to Hindi-Urdu, its basic structures, and literacy in devanagari script through the development of all four communicative skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. Students will also be introduced to several signature cultural elements of South Asian Hindi and Hindi-Urdu speaking society.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

- Read, write, comprehend and speak Hindi at ACTFL/OPI novice HIGH level.
- Develop the cultural literacy to interact effectively with Hindi speakers, whether in South Asia or in the diaspora, in simple social situations.
- Identify several signature cultural elements of South Asian Hindi and Hindi-Urdu speaking society.
- Compare and contrast some key elements of students? own cultures and North Indian Hindi-speaking culture.

General Education Elective(s): Humanities
Note(s): As a beginners class, this course is not open to native speakers of Hindi. Heritage students with some previous informal exposure to the language are welcome. A student must achieve a grade of C- or better in this course to be eligible for the next course in the series of future Hindi and North Indian Culture courses.

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