| FLN 100 | High School Hindi | UNITS: 0 |
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| FLN 101 | Elementary Hindi-Urdu I | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Corequisite: FLN 103 |
| Introduction to standard Hini-Urdu. Emphasis on speaking and listening, and on reading and writing in the Hindi writing system (Devanagari). Readings in South Asian culture and civilization. Offered jointly in teleconferencing format with HIND 101 at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. |
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| FLN 102 | Elementary Hindi-Urdu II | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: FLN 101, Corequisite: FLN 104 |
| Continuation of FLN 101. Emphasis on oral communication and reading and writing in the Hindi writing system (Devanagari). Further readings in South Asian culture and civilization. Offered jointly in teleconferencing format with HIND 102 at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. |
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| FLN 103 | Elementary Hindi-Urdu I Conversation | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Corequisite: FLN 101 |
| Required conversational practice for FLN 101. Special attention to individual pronunciation and intonation. Introduction of formal and informal speech. Use of audiovisual materials. |
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| FLN 104 | Elementary Hindi-Urdu II Conversation | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: FLN 101, Corequisite: FLN 102 |
| Required conversational practice for FLN 102. Extensive use of speaking skills in variety of situations. Attention to supplemental non-verbal communication. Use of audiovisual materials. |
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| FLN 201 | Intermediate Hindi-Urdu I | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: FLN 102, Corequisite: FLN 203 |
| Continuation of basic language skills. Introduction of Urdu writing system (Nastaliq) through Hindi writing system (Devanagari). Introduction to grammatical divergence of Hindi and Urdu. Readings in South Asian culture and civilization. Offered jointly in teleconferencing format with HIND 103 at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. |
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| FLN 202 | Intermediate Hindi-Urdu II | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: FLN 201, Corequisite: FLN 204 |
| Continuation of FLN 201. Further practice of both Urdu (Nastiliq) and Hindi (Devanagari) writing systems. Further distinction of spoken and literary Urdu and Hindi. Further readings in South Asian culture and civilization. Offered jointly in teleconferencing format with HIND 103 at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. |
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| FLN 203 | Intermediate Hindi-Urdu I Conversation | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: FLN 102, Corequisite: FLN 201 |
| Required conversational practice for FLN 201. Advancement of speaking skills through role playing, interviews, debates. Further Hindi and Urdu non-verbal communication. Use of audiovisual materials, including responses to commercial television and movies. |
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| FLN 204 | Intermediate Hindi-Urdu II Conversation | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: FLN 201, Corequisite: FLN 202 |
| Required conversational practice for FLN 202. Refinement of speaking skills through role playing, interviews, debates. Further Hindi and Urdu non-verbal communication. Use of audiovisual materials, including responses to commercial television andmovies. |
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| FLN 208 | Intermediate Hindi Conversation | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: FLN 201 |
| Intensive practice in speaking and understanding Hindi through role playing, debates, interviews, and use of audio-visual materials. |
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| FLN 301 | Advanced Hindi: Readings in Literature I | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: FLN 202 |
| Reading and discussion of representative works with attention to literary analysis as well as to historical and cultural background. Taught through interactive TeleVideo. |
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| FLN 302 | Advanced Hindi: Readings in Literature II | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: FLN 301 |
| Reading and discussion of representative works with attention to literary analysis as well as to historical and cultural background. Taught through interactive TeleVideo. |
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| FLN 308 | Advanced Hindi Conversation | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: FLN 208 |
| Conversation and reading emphasizing idiomatic and practical usage with attention to contemporary civilization and cultures of the Hindi speaking world. Emphasis on social structures, political features, events, world views and modes of communication. |
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| FLN 401 | Hindi Literature and South Asian Cultural Contexts | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Selected topics in Hindi literature and/or South Asian literature in Hindi, such as drama in modern South Asia, the twentieth-century novel, literature and the nation, narratives of pain and resistance, gender and social reform. Readings and discussion in Hindi, with emphasis on the examination of formal literary characteristics and the inter0connections of tects and relevant South Asian cultural contexts. Topics will be rotated so that students can take this course for credit up to three times. |
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