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Open courses in South & Southeast Asia
Wolverine Access Subject listing for SSEA
Take me to the Fall Term '00 Time Schedule for South & Southeast Asia.
To see what first-year courses have been added or changed in South & Southeast Asia this week go to What's New This Week.
Note: The Department Waitlist policy for all courses is 2 – Go to the department office to get on a waitlist, and then attend the first class meeting. Policies and procedures for handling the waitlist will be explained there.
Students wanting to begin language study, at a level other than first year, must take a placement exam to be held on Tuesday, September 5, 1-3 p.m.
The room assignments are as follows:
Chinese 3520 FB
Japanese Lec Rm 2 MLB
Korean Lec Rm 1 MLB
Students wanting to be tested in any of the other languages we teach
(Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Tagalog, Punjabi, Urdu,
Tibetan) should contact the department to schedule an individual test.
The same is true for students who want to be tested in a language we do
not teach, but can certify (Gujarathi, Marathi).
S&SEA 101. Beginning Thai.
S&SEA Language Courses
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (5). (LR).
Credits: (5).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
Standard Thai, the language of Thailand, is typical of several Asian languages in its grammar and tonal pronunciation. The class teaches the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing of Thai. Focus of the course is the use of language in everyday situations. Upon successful completion of the two-term sequence, students will be able to conduct conversation dealing with several survival concerns, e.g., introduction, ordering food, transportation, banking, post-office trip, shopping, etc. From the first day of class, students will learn Thai scripts and will be able to read course materials and short passages in Thai at the end of the term. Writing assignments are also assigned. Thai cultures, history, geography, etc., will be offered both in the content of the language lessons and supplementary presentations. This is an introductory course for students who have never had any exposure to the Thai language. Students who can speak, understand, or read Thai already cannot take this course.
S&SEA 103. Beginning Indonesian.
S&SEA Language Courses
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (5). (LR).
Credits: (5).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
This course is an introduction to the speaking, reading, and writing of modern Indonesian. Students with previous experience with Indonesian or Malay should contact the department for placement into course. Indonesian is the national language of Indonesia, a country noted for its rich and deep cultural heritage as well as for its remarkable cultural diversity. With its 200 million speakers, Indonesian is the sixth most prevalently spoken of the world’s languages. The relatively simple syntactic and grammatical structures that characterize Indonesian make it an accessible language for native speakers of English. The elementary course comprises a two-term sequence designed to provide the student with a basic working knowledge of the Indonesian language. The course aims at the acquisition of the four basic language skills – listening, speaking, reading, and writing – in modern Indonesian. The class emphasizes aural-oral exercises and practice and the learning of culture throughout the course. The text used is keyed to a set of tapes for use in the language lab and concentrates on practical knowledge of the language. Evaluation is based on classroom performance, homework assignments, tests, and a final project.
S&SEA 107. Beginning Tagalog.
S&SEA Language Courses
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (LR).
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
Tagalog/Filipino is the national language of the Philippines. Beginning Tagalog is a two-term sequence designed to give the student who has little or no knowledge of Tagalog the necessary basis for learning to speak it and to have an acquaintance with the cultural context in which it functions. Tagalog is particularly interesting in the way it has integrated the broad influences of both Spanish and English into its own syntactic and semantic systems. The oral approach is greatly emphasized in the classroom, using questions and answers and short dialogues to develop active use of the language in the most natural way possible. This is complemented by the use of taped lessons. There are occasional short quizzes, short dialogues, and a final examination. At the end of the first year, the student should be able to handle brief exchanges in common social situations and to read and write simple dialogues and essays in Tagalog. Text is Conversational Tagalog: A Functional-Situational Approach by Teresita Ramos. Supplementary readings and audiovisual presentations will be provided when appropriate.
S&SEA 109. Beginning Sanskrit.
S&SEA Language Courses
Section 001.
Instructor(s): Madhav Deshpande (mmdesh@umich.edu)
Prerequisites & Distribution: No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in S&SEA 369. (4). (LR).
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
This course will work toward developing a proficiency with the basic tools necessary to read and write Sanskrit, the classical language of India. Lessons will include study of the script (Devanagari), elementary grammar and vocabulary. The grade will be based on completion of regular homework assignments, weekly quizzes, a midterm, and a final exam.
S&SEA 113. Elementary Tamil.
S&SEA Language Courses
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in S&SEA 373. (4). (LR).
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
This course begins an introduction to the language, land, history, culture, and traditions of Tamil Nadu, one of the states in India. Tamil, the major Dravidian language spoken in Tamil Nadu and by the largest minority in Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia, is one of the oldest languages of the world with a rich literary tradition beginning in 3 B.C. All major language skills – listening, speaking, reading, and writing – are covered. The aim of this course is achieving proficiency in speaking comprehension; to enable the student to function effectively in everyday situations. Class meets in a computer lab once or twice a week to practice listening and reading using a multimedia HyperCard software implemented for Tamil. A standard textbook is used, supplemented by reference texts and additional materials selected or specially prepared by the instructor. Recitation sections emphasize speaking and listening in native contexts at normal speed with near-native pronunciation, intonation, rhythm, and appropriate body language. Students learn to handle the script in which Tamil is written. Reading materials introduce the students to the culture and the religion of Tamil-speaking people. Evaluation is based on classroom performance, homework assignments, tests, and a final exam.
S&SEA 115. Beginning Vietnamese.
S&SEA Language Courses
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (5). (LR).
Credits: (5).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
Vietnamese 115-116 is the introductory course in reading, listening, speaking and writing the only language of more than 74 million speakers, from the South to the utmost northern part of Vietnam. This country now adopts the free market economy and needs foreign capital and know-how. With the normalization of U.S.-Vietnamese relations, a knowledge of the Vietnamese language and culture will be a crucial asset in enabling one to participate in many opportunities. This first half of the two-term sequence course is designed to accommodate students with no knowledge of the Vietnamese language, as well those with some knowledge who want to develop the four basic language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) and to improve their knowledge in Vietnamese history and culture. The format will be as follows: four class hours a week will be focused on the aural-oral approach in reading, dialoguing, translating, and responding to the content of the texts using a question-and-answer format. One class hour a week will be devoted to quizzes and tests. In addition, there will be written assignments and works in the language lab. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to communicate in Vietnamese, and classes will be largely conducted in Vietnamese to develop the students' ability to acquire sufficient automaticity and fluency in spoken Vietnamese. Students will be graded on classroom performance, class attendance, homework assignments, and a final examination.
S&SEA 224/Asian Studies 224. Traditions of Poetry in India.
Culture Courses
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU).
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/ssea250.html
See Asian Studies 224.001.
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