Hindi-Urdu Minor
Afroz Taj, South Asia Program Advisor
Morgan Pitelka, Chair
Robin Visser, Associate Chair and 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.
