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SKT 100a | The Devanāgarī Seminar
Instructor: Dr. Seth Powell
This course is designed to teach you the Sanskrit alphabet, the Devanāgarī "script" within just 6 weeks or less.
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SKT 100b | Sanskrit for Yogis
Instructor: Dr. Seth Powell
This course provides a clear and accessible introduction to Sanskrit—designed especially for yoga teachers and practitioners. Along with SKT 100a, it makes for a great preparation for our SKT Elementary series.
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SKT 101 | Elementary Sanskrit I
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
This is the first of three terms for our renowned online Elementary Sanskrit program with Dr. Antonia Ruppel. In this three-term sequence spanning 9 months, you will be introduced to all regular Sanskrit grammar, will acquire a vocabulary of aroun...
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SKT 102 | Elementary Sanskrit II
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
This is the second of three terms for our renowned online Elementary Sanskrit program with Dr. Antonia Ruppel. In this three-term sequence spanning 9 months, you will be introduced to all regular Sanskrit grammar, will acquire a vocabulary of arou...
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SKT 103 | Elementary Sanskrit III
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
This is the third of three terms for our renowned online Elementary Sanskrit program with Dr. Antonia Ruppel. In this three-term sequence spanning 9 months, you will be introduced to all regular Sanskrit grammar, will acquire a vocabulary of aroun...
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SKT 201 | Intermediate Sanskrit I
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
This course builds on our foundational Elementary Sanskrit program and provides students the opportunity to reinforce the principles of Sanskrit grammar, build vocabulary, and gain more confidence through reading original Sanskrit texts.
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SKT 202 | Intermediate Sanskrit II
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
This course builds on our foundational Elementary Sanskrit program and provides students the opportunity to reinforce the principles of Sanskrit grammar, build vocabulary, and gain more confidence through reading original Sanskrit texts.
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SKT 203 | Intermediate Sanskrit III
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
This course builds on our foundational Elementary Sanskrit program and provides students the opportunity to reinforce the principles of Sanskrit grammar, build vocabulary, and gain more confidence through reading original Sanskrit texts.
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SKT 204 | Spoken Sanskrit I
Instructor: Dr. Varun Khanna
This is the first of two courses in Spoken Sanskrit. This series of courses takes a natural approach to learning Sanskrit. As a baby learns language for the first time by being immersed in it without the scaffolding of grammar, students too will l...
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SKT 205 | Spoken Sanskrit II
Instructor: Dr. Varun Khanna
This is the second of two courses in Spoken Sanskrit. This series of courses takes a natural approach to learning Sanskrit. As a baby learns language for the first time by being immersed in it without the scaffolding of grammar, students too will ...
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SKT 206 | Reading the Devīmāhātmya
Instructor: Dr. Anya Golovkova
Step into the world of ancient Sanskrit storytelling with the Devīmāhātmya, a powerful hymn of devotion, philosophy, and cosmic battle. In this course, we follow the journey of King Suratha and Merchant Samādhi, two exiles searching for meaning af...
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SKT 301 | Pātañjalayogaśāstra I: Samādhi Pāda
Instructor: Dr. Philipp Maas
This course offers the opportunity for students with basic knowledge of Sanskrit to gain access to the Pātañjalayogaśāstra by reading and interpreting selected sūtra and bhāṣya passages from the first chapter of this work.
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SKT 302 | Pātañjalayogaśāstra II: Sādhana Pāda
Instructor: Dr. Philipp Maas
This course offers the opportunity for students with basic knowledge of Sanskrit to gain access to the Pātañjalayogaśāstra by reading and interpreting selected sūtra and bhāṣya passages from the second chapter of this work.
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SKT 303 | Vedic Sanskrit
Instructor: Dr. Caley Smith
This course will introduce students to the vast and ancient world of Vedic Sanskrit. It is aimed at a student competent in Classical Sanskrit. The course modules will introduce students to a range of readings in Vedic Sanskrit that grow in difficulty
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SKT 304 | Vedic Sanskrit: Defense Against the Dark Arts
Instructor: Dr. Caley Smith
This course is aimed at a student competent in both Classical and Vedic Sanskrit. The topic of this course is primarily the mantras of the Paippalāda Atharvāṅgirasa, or the words of the Atharvans and the Aṅgirases, the name given to the Atharvaved...
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SKT 305 | Introduction to Pāṇinian Grammar
Instructor: Dr. Varun Khanna
This course will give students a taste of real śāstra study—the systematic study of a subject in the traditional Sanskrit world—by taking them through a simple and organized introduction to vyākaraṇa. Though it is introductory in nature, the depth...
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SKT 306 | Pāṇinian Grammar Level II
Instructor: Dr. Varun Khanna
This course is a continuation from SKT 305 where we studied the sārvadhātuka architecture of word formation. In this course, we will tackle its counterpart, the ārdhadhātuka architecture of word formation, to construct the full gamut of verbal for...
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SKT 307 | Kāvya: Meghadūta of Kālidāsa
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
This course will read the first half of Kālidāsa’s poem Meghadūta, or Cloud Messenger. Kālidāsa, who lived around 1,500 years ago, is one of the early masters—and many say: the master—of kāvya. Kāvya is a traditional literary term for what is ofte...
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SKT 308 | Pātañjalayogaśāstra Pāda 3: Vibhūti Pāda
Instructor: Dr. Philipp Maas
The present course offers the opportunity for students with basic knowledge of Sanskrit to gain access to the Pātañjalayogaśāstra by reading and interpreting the third chapter of this work in the earliest so-far known text version under the guidan...
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SKT 501 | Sanskrit Graduate Seminar
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
The Sanskrit Graduate Seminar is the capstone of the Sanskrit Advanced Certificate Program (SACP). The Sanskrit Graduate Seminar is designed to solidify and integrate this vast learning, and is an opportunity to develop and carry out a personalize...
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HINDI 101 | Elementary Hindi I
Instructor: Dr. Rajiv Ranjan
This is the first of a three-term sequence of Elementary Hindi with Dr. Rajiv Ranjan. The focus of the course is to develop students’ linguistic (grammar and vocabulary), communicative (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), and cultural comp...
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HINDI 102 | Elementary Hindi II
Instructor: Dr. Rajiv Ranjan
This is the second of a three-term sequence of Elementary Hindi with Dr. Rajiv Ranjan. The focus of the course is to develop students’ linguistic (grammar and vocabulary), communicative (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), and cultural com...
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HINDI 103 | Elementary Hindi III
Instructor: Dr. Rajiv Ranjan
This is the third of a three-term sequence of Elementary Hindi with Dr. Rajiv Ranjan. The focus of the course is to develop students’ linguistic (grammar and vocabulary), communicative (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), and cultural comp...
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HINDI 201 | Intermediate Hindi I
Instructor: Dr. Rajiv Ranjan
This is the first of a three-term sequence of Intermediate Hindi with Dr. Rajiv Ranjan. The focus of this course is to further develop students’ linguistic (grammar and vocabulary), communicative (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), and cu...
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PALI 101 | Elementary Pali I
Instructor: Dr. Aleix Ruiz-Falqués
This is the first of three terms in Elementary Pali. This first course will introduce you to Pali, the language of the earliest canonical collection of Buddhist scriptures as preserved in the Theravada tradition. Our focus will be quickly developi...
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PALI 102 | Elementary Pali II
Instructor: Dr. Aleix Ruiz-Falqués
This is the second of three terms in Elementary Pali. At this point, students are familiar with the declension system and the basic structure of the Pali sentence. We have also made some incursions into the Suttas, but there are a few areas that s...
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PALI 103 | Elementary Pali III
Instructor: Dr. Aleix Ruiz-Falqués
This is the third of three terms in Elementary Pali. At this point, students are familiar with the declension system and the basic structure of the Pali sentence. We have also made some incursions into the Suttas, but there are a few areas that st...
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PALI 200 | Pali Variations: Theory of an Imperfect Grammar
Instructor: Dr. Aleix Ruiz-Falqués
In this course we are going to explore variation as the core of Pali grammar, we will problematize it, to see why it is there and why it is important. More specifically, we will focus on how classical grammarians deal with variation and exception,...
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PALI 201 | Intermediate Pali I
Instructor: Dr. Aleix Ruiz-Falqués
In this course we are going to further our Pali grammatical skills by plunging into the fascinating literature of the Pali nikāyas. The Pali nikāya texts contain the discourses of the historical Buddha. Sometimes these teachings are presented in a...
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TIBETAN 101 | Elementary Tibetan I
Instructor: Kunsang
This course is the first of a three term Elementary Tibetan program. In this first trimester you will learn the Tibetan alphabet, how to read, how to spell, basic word formations, and how to use the Wylie system of transliteration to be able to se...
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TIBETAN 102 | Elementary Tibetan II
Instructor: Kunsang
This is the second of a three term Elementary Tibetan Program. In this second trimester you will learn the main particles used in Tibetan grammar to connect words and ideas, creating grammatical cases. At the end of this term, you will have a good...
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TIBETAN 103 | Elementary Tibetan III
Instructor: Kunsang
This is the third and final term of the Elementary Tibetan Program. In this third trimester you will expand your dharma vocabulary and understanding of technical terms. You will also explore different structures and word formations and apply the k...
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LATIN-S 101 | Latin for Sanskritists
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
If you have ever completed an introduction to Sanskrit and are interested in learning Latin, this course is for you. Over twelve weeks, LATIN-S 101 aims to introduce you to all Latin grammar – all forms, their uses, how they are combined to form s...
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LATIN 102 | The Writings of Ovid
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
This class is a continuation of LATIN-S 101 | Latin for Sanskritists, an intensive introduction to Latin aimed at students with prior knowledge of (grammatically greatly parallel) Sanskrit. LATIN 102 is aimed at Latin learners who were first intro...
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LATIN 103 | Seneca — A Stoic at Home
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
This class is a continuation of LATIN-S 101 | Latin for Sanskritists, an intensive introduction to Latin aimed at students with prior knowledge of (grammatically greatly parallel) Sanskrit, and LATIN 102 | The Writings of Ovid.
Lucius Annaeus Sen...
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GREEK-S 101 | Greek for Sanskritists
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
GREEK-S 101 | Ancient Greek for Sanskritists aims to take 12 weeks to offer an overview of Ancient Greek (i.e. Classical Attic) grammar to anyone with some prior ancient-language skills: whether you already know some Sanskrit, some Latin, or have ...
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GREEK 102 | Plato’s Apology of Socrates
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
If you have taken an introductory Greek course and would now like to work on your reading fluency in a supportive environment with custom-made resources, you will enjoy this class. Over the course of nine weeks, with two ninety-minute meetings per...
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GREEK 103 | Antigone of Sophocles
Instructor: Dr. Antonia Ruppel
What do you do when what is lawful is at odds with what is right? And what do you do when you are a representative of the law, and your niece has decided to do not what is lawful, but what is (or at least: what she perceives as) right? These quest...
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