Course Description
An introductory course in Hindi covering the fundamentals of Hindi pronunciation, reading, writing, and grammar.
Athena Title
ELEM HINDI I
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The objective of Elementary Hindi is to develop the communicative skills in spoken and written Hindi as it is defined by ACTFL. At the end of the course, students will be able to handle successfully communicative tasks and social situations, read and respond to simple discourse and interact with Hindi speakers according to Indian cultural norms.
Topical Outline
Week 1 Devanagari script Week 2 Devanagari continued Greetings and leave taking Week 3 nouns and adjectives for numbers Week 4 pronouns Week 5 imperatives and interrogatives Week 6 postpositions and possessives Week 7 present habitual and progressive, oblique case Week 8 dative and posposition KO Week 9 past tense, past habitual Week 10 past progressive Week 11 psychological predicates, possession Week 12 reflexive pronouns Week 13 subjunctive and future Week 14 simple tenses Week 15 cases
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global CultureSyllabus