Study Programmes 2015-2016
| LLOR0095-1 | ||
| Sanskrit 1 | ||
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Duration :
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| 60h Th | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Philippe Swennen | ||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||
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Organisation and examination :
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| All year long, with partial in January | ||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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Course contents :
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| The course of Sanskrit I is dedicated to the learning of the devanagari alphabet and to the discovery of the grammar of classical Sanskrit. | ||
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| At the end of the year, the student is able to transliterate a sanskrit text edited in devanagari. Helped by a dictionary and a grammar, he can analyse a brief sanskrit text after a few days of preparation. | ||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| There is no formal preriquisite, but the fact to alerady have good notions of an other indo-european language with nominal flexion is a great advantage. | ||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Each lesson consists in the description of a grammatical problem. Students receive exercices to prepare. The exercices are solved during the next lesson. | ||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The mode of delivery is only face-to-face. | ||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| recommended book:"Grammaire sanskrite à l'usage des étudiants hellénistes et latinistes", Francine Mawet, Peeters, 2012. | ||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| At the end of the course, students receive a brief text (20 lines around). the grammar. They have a few days to transliterate the text, identify the vocabulary and solve the grammatical problems. They present this work during their oral examination.
The mark of the midterm exam in January will count for 5% of the June final mark if > or = 10/20. The mark will have no effect on the final grade if it doesn't reach 10/20 and the final exam will then be cumulative. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| The course is given in P. Swennen's office, desk A3/4. | ||
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Contacts :
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| Philippe.Swennen@ulg.ac.be | ||