Duration
60h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course of Sanskrit I is dedicated to the learning of the devanagari alphabet and to the discovery of the grammar of classical Sanskrit.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
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.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
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.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Each lesson consists in the description of a grammatical problem. Students receive exercices to prepare. The exercices are solved during the next lesson.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
The mode of delivery is only face-to-face.
Recommended or required readings
recommended book:"Grammaire sanskrite à l'usage des étudiants hellénistes et latinistes", Francine Mawet, Peeters, 2012.
Assessment methods and criteria
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.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The course is made in desk A2/2/3.