Sanskrit is spoken in a surprising number of traditional schools, ashrams and colleges throughout India, but especially in holy centres and pilgrimage sites in the North. In addition, there is a small but growing community of Sanskrit speakers outside India. This two-week residential course, run intensively over the Australian summer, will give students immersion experience in Spoken Sanskrit. Students will acquire basic facility with introoductory conversational patterns, and will improve their aural comprehension through story telling, and their pronunciation through chanting and singing.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Fluency in basic conversational patterns.
2. High level of comprehension in basic conversational patterns.
3. Accuracy in prounciation in recitation of subhashitas (verses).
4. Intermediate level of aural comprehesion of simple spoken narratives.
Other Information
This is a co-taught course. Any cap on enrolments in one course applies to both courses combined.
Indicative Assessment
Participation (10%) (LO 1,2,3,4)
Conversation test (30%) (LO 1)
Subhashita test (30%) (LO 3)
Aural comprehension test (30%) (LO 4)
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Workload
Six contact hours, five days per week, for two weeks =total 60 hours contact
Conversation test
Subhashita test
Aural comprehension test
Written assignment
Requisite and Incompatibility
You will need to contact the School of Culture History and Language to request a permission code to enrol in this course.
Prescribed Texts
Subhashita Manjari (S.Das)
Little Red Book of Sanskrit Paradigms (M.Taylor)
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
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- 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 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2018 | $2820 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2018 | $4320 |
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