Course Description
Intermediate Hindi will cover select grammatical constructions, advanced vocabulary and excerpts from Hindi literature to promote reading and speaking proficiency.
Athena Title
INTERMEDIATE HINDI
Prerequisite
HNDI 2001-2001L
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The aim of the course will be to promote communicative competence in Hindi by incorporating most of the grammatical concepts and reading material considered important for the intermediate level of instruction. The course material will be selected and designed with a view to provide students with a wide range of vocabulary including near synonyms from Sanskritic('Tatsama' and 'Tadbhava') and Perso-Arabic sources. Conversational interaction with and among students will be facilitated through the use of varied topics that incorporate and highlight typically South Asian cultural and social contexts.
Topical Outline
Week 1:The 'WALA' construction. Reference guide to selected tense forms. Week 2: Compound verbs ('KAFI SE') Week 3: The Conjunctive Participle ('AADAT' and 'AADI') Week 4: Adjectives 'LAGNA' and 'AA REHNA' Week 5: 'KI VAJAH SE', 'KE KARAN', 'BINA' and 'BAGER' Week 6: Reduplicative expressions, a further use of 'BANANA' Week 7: Interrogatives as exclamations, Clause final 'NA' and 'KYA' Week 8: Participles+'REHNA', Indirect Commands Week 9: Stylistic shift of words, Politeness formulae Week 10: 'ZARA' and 'KYON NA', Expressions of Compulsion Week 11: 'VAISE TO' and ' AA KARNA' Week 12: Indirect Quotation and Unexpressed General Nouns Week 13: Further properties of 'HI', Compound subjects Week 14: Imperfective participles + 'JANA' Week 15: Derivational suffixes denoting gender, the use of English in Hindi
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global Culture