Hindi-Urdu Minor
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
New West 113, CB# 3267
(919) 962-4294
Pamela Lothspeich, South Asia Program Advisor
Morgan Pitelka, Chair
Pamela Lothspeich, Associate Chair and Fall 2020 Director of Undergraduate Studies
Robin Visser, Spring 2021 Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ash Barnes, Student Services Specialist
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.
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
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 of 12 hours of C or better in the minor (some minors require more)
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 | |
| Community in India and South Asia | ||
| Introduction to South Asian Art | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Media Masala: Popular Music, TV, and the Internet in Modern India and Pakistan | ||
| First-Year Seminar: India through the Lens of Master Filmmakers | ||
| Iranian Post-1979 Cinema | ||
| Introduction to Persian Literature | ||
| Survey of South Asian Cultural History | ||
| Hindi-Urdu Poetry in Performance | ||
| Contested Souls: Literature, the Arts, and Religious Identity in Modern India | ||
| Bollywood Cinema | ||
| Nation, Film, and Novel in Modern India | ||
| The Story of Rama in India | ||
| The Mahabharata: Remembered and Reimagined | ||
| Persian Sufi Literature | ||
| Global Shangri-La: Tibet in the Modern World | ||
| The Beauty and the Power of the Classical Indian World | ||
| Love in Classical Persian Poetry | ||
| Iranian Prison Literature | ||
| India through Western Eyes | ||
| Dance and Embodied Knowledge in the Indian Context | ||
| History of the Indian Subcontinent to 1750 | ||
| History of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: South Asia since 1750 | ||
| Contemporary India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh | ||
| Gender in Indian History | ||
| Religion, Co-existence, and Conflict in Pre-Colonial India | ||
| Bandits, Rebels and Storytellers: Fiction and History in India | ||
| Sex, Religion, and Violence: Revolutionary Thought in Modern South Asia | ||
| Cracking India: Partition and Its Legacy in South Asia | ||
| Music of South Asia | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Wars and Veterans: Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan | ||
| Hindu Gods and Goddesses H | ||
| The Buddhist Tradition: Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka | ||
| The Story of Rama in Indian Culture–Experiential | ||
| The Mahabharata: Remembered and Reimagined--Experiential | ||
| Sufism | ||
| Islam and Islamic Art in South Asia | ||
| Religion and Culture in Iran, 1500-Present | ||
| The Buddhist Tradition: India, Nepal, and Tibet | ||
| Sex, Gender, and Religion in South Asia | ||
| Iranian Women Writers | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Emperors, Courts, and Consumption: The Mughals of India | ||
| Religious Conflict and Literature in India | ||
| Religions of South Asia | ||
| 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. |
Placement credit (PL) may not be used to meet minor requirements.
See the program page here for special opportunities.
