Hindi-Urdu Minor
Hindi-Urdu is critical to global culture. South Asia is now a major economic and geopolitical power, and home to one-fifth of the world’s population. By conservative estimates, over half a billion people speak the language in South Asia, and depending on chosen parameters, it is variously ranked as the second- to fourth-most widely spoken language in the world. To directly communicate with this vast population of Hindi-Urdu speakers and have unfettered and unfiltered access to the rich cultural history of North India and Pakistan, fluency in Hindi-Urdu is essential. There a rich literary tradition in Hindi-Urdu and its dialectal ancestors, going back about a thousand years. There is also a thriving popular culture of South Asia — one which is very much dependent on Hindi-Urdu.
Requirements
In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:
- take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
- earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.
For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.
The undergraduate minor in Hindi-Urdu consists of four courses.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirements | ||
| Three courses are language courses beyond HNUR 203 chosen from among the following: | 9-10 | |
| Intermediate Hindi-Urdu II | ||
 Advanced Hindi-Urdu I | ||
| Advanced Hindi-Urdu II | ||
| South Asian Society and Culture | ||
| South Asian Media and Film | ||
| Sex and Social Justice in South Asia | ||
| Seminar on the Urdu-Hindi Ghazal | ||
| Health and Medicine in South Asia | ||
| Topics in Hindi-Urdu Literature and Language | ||
| The other course must be chosen from among the following: | 3 | |
| First-Year Seminar: Media Masala: Popular Music, TV, and the Internet in Modern India and Pakistan | ||
| First-Year Seminar: A Tour of South Asia's Regional Art Cinemas | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Wars and Veterans: Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Emperors, Courts, and Consumption: The Mughals of India | ||
| Iranian Post-1979 Cinema | ||
| Introduction to Persian Literature | ||
| Iranian Women Writers | ||
| History of the Indian Subcontinent to 1750 | ||
| History of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: South Asia since 1750 | ||
| Survey of South Asian Cultural History | ||
| Hindi-Urdu Poetry in Performance | ||
| Music of South Asia | ||
| Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice in South Asia | ||
| Contested Souls: Literature, the Arts, and Religious Identity in Modern India | ||
| Bollywood Cinema | ||
| Love in Classical Persian Poetry | ||
| Iranian Prison Literature | ||
| India through Western Eyes | ||
| Nation, Film, and Novel in Modern India | ||
| Modern South Asia | ||
| Hindu Gods and Goddesses H | ||
| The Buddhist Tradition: Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka | ||
| The Buddhist Tradition: India, Nepal, and Tibet | ||
| Sex, Religion, and Violence: Revolutionary Thought in Modern South Asia | ||
| Cracking India: Partition and Its Legacy in South Asia H | ||
| The Story of Rama in India | ||
| The Mahabharata: Remembered and Reimagined | ||
| Community in India and South Asia | ||
| Religions of South Asia | ||
| The Story of Rama in Indian Culture–Experiential | ||
| The Mahabharata: Remembered and Reimagined–Experiential | ||
| Dance and Embodied Knowledge in the Indian Context | ||
| Persian Sufi Literature | ||
| Gender in Indian History | ||
| Religion, Co-existence, and Conflict in Pre-Colonial India | ||
| Global Shangri-La: Tibet in the Modern World | ||
| Sex, Gender, and Religion in South Asia | ||
| Beauty and Power in the Classical Indian World | ||
| Fiction and History in India | ||
| Sufism | ||
| Islam and Islamic Art in South Asia | ||
| Religion and Culture in Iran, 1500-Present | ||
| Religious Conflict and Literature in India | ||
| Total Hours | 12-13 | |
| H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
HNUR 308 does not count toward the minor.
Placement credit (PL) may not be used to meet minor requirements.
See the program page here for special opportunities.
Department Programs
Majors
- Asian Studies Major, B.A.–Interdisciplinary Concentration
- Asian Studies Major, B.A.–Arab Cultures Concentration
- Asian Studies Major, B.A.–Chinese Concentration
- Asian Studies Major, B.A.–Japanese Concentration
- Asian Studies Major, B.A.–Korean Studies Concentration
- Asian Studies Major, B.A.–South Asian Studies Concentration
Minors
- Arabic Minor
- Asian Studies Minor
- Chinese Minor
- Modern Hebrew Minor
- Hindi-Urdu Minor
- Japanese Minor
- Korean Minor
- Middle Eastern Languages Minor
- Persian Minor
- Southeast Asian Studies Minor
Graduate Programs
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
New West 113, CB# 3267
(919) 962-4294
