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Learn The Sanskrit Alphabet, Varun Khanna Oct 2020

Learn The Sanskrit Alphabet, Varun Khanna

Digital Humanities Curricular Development

This assignment is to navigate through a webapp designed to teach students of Sanskrit everything they need to know about the Sanskrit alphabet. It is structured in such a way such that students will encounter each letter, its pronunciation, script, and special properties in turn. Students will also learn how to write the Devanāgarī script through a writing practice platform integrated into the webapp.


Introduction To Sanskrit (Clst 023) Syllabus, Varun Khanna Oct 2020

Introduction To Sanskrit (Clst 023) Syllabus, Varun Khanna

Digital Humanities Curricular Development

Introduction to Sanskrit (CLST 023) is designed to give students novice-mid to novice-high proficiency in Sanskrit according to the NCSSFL-ACTFL foreign language proficiency standards. It introduces students to the language of Sanskrit, approaching it as a spoken as well as a written language. The course will include a weekly spoken Sanskrit session followed by reading and writing. Throughout this course, students will be covering fundamental grammatical concepts in order to develop a working knowledge of the most common forms and constructions one is likely to encounter in readings of the language. The course will mainly use handouts and external audio/video …