Dear Dominik, That our BA in Sanskrit includes a few courses without Sanskrit requirement does not disqualify our BA as one in Sanskrit! It definitely focuses on the Sanskrit language, as is specified on the first page to which I sent a link:
son objet principal est le sanskrit et ses littératures, dont elle met en évidence la richesse: l’apprentissage du sanskrit s’y fait avant tout par la lecture et la traduction intensives de textes appartenant à des genres très différents (contes, épopée, poésie savante, littérature historiographique, traités philosophiques, traités d’esthétique, etc.). With all best wishes, Isabelle Le ven. 25 juin 2021 à 04:44, Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]> a écrit : > What about > > *l’histoire de la société, des philosophies et des religions indiennes*, > ou encore* l’histoire de la connaissance de l’Inde*. > > Those would not be courses involving reading Sanskrit as such, would > they? They would be in French, about India? > > Similarly at UT Austin, it looks like students have to take lots of > courses called, > > Asian Studies related to South Asia > > Again, that wouldn't be actual reading of Sanskrit texts, would it? And > there appear to be a lot of courses under "Core" that are not Sanskrit. (US > History; Social and Behavioural Science, etc.). Presumably students take a > few of these? So it's a general humanities degree with a high Sanskrit > content. Would that be right, or am I misunderstanding? > > I was thinking about a degree that focussed on Sanskrit language and > literature, not a course where Sanskrit was a component (even a large > component). I'm thinking of the Oxford BA, or the BA at SOAS, when it > existed, in the days when it was taught by Mr J. E. B. Gray with his > legendary cyclostyled, typewritten, four-year course. Or the courses > taught at German universities in the days of the old MA system. > > Best, > Dominik > >
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