• Offered by School of Culture History and Language
  • ANU College ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
  • Course subject Sanskrit
  • Areas of interest Asian Languages
  • Academic career UGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr McComas Taylor
  • Mode of delivery Online or In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in Second Semester 2014
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(a) Further studies in the grammar of classical Sanskrit

(b) Reading of classical texts

(c) Living Sanskrit - conversation, chanting and singing

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

By the end of this unit, you will have a good mastery of the basic grammatical topics covered in Volume 2 of Egenes. You will have a working vocabulary of over 200 simple words and phrases, a good command of basic conversational patterns, and will be familiar with about 24 verses in Sanskrit. You will be able to conduct a simple conversation in Sanskrit.

Other Information

The course will include classes delivered by video conferencing from the University of Sydney.

Indicative Assessment

Assignment 1 Week 4 20%

Assignment 2 Week 8 20%

Assignment 3 Week 12 20%

Take-home Examination  Week 14 20%

Verses, etc  Continuous  10%

Weekly exercises Continuous 10%

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Workload

Three hours per week.

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have completed SKRT1002.

Prescribed Texts

Egenes, T., Introduction to Sanskrit vol. 1 and 2

Majors

Minors

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Students continuing in their current program of study will have their tuition fees indexed annually from the year in which you commenced your program. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Student Contribution Band:
1
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee Description
1994-2003 $1164
2014 $2478
2013 $2472
2012 $2472
2011 $2424
2010 $2358
2009 $2286
2008 $2286
2007 $2286
2006 $2190
2005 $2190
2004 $1926
International fee paying students
Year Fee
1994-2003 $2574
2014 $3246
2013 $3240
2012 $3240
2011 $3240
2010 $3240
2009 $3240
2008 $3240
2007 $3240
2006 $3240
2005 $3234
2004 $2916
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
6827 21 Jul 2014 01 Aug 2014 31 Aug 2014 30 Oct 2014 In Person N/A

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