Andrew Ollett (firstname dot lastname at gmail dot com)
Eduardo Acosta (eacosta at uchicago dot edu)
MWF 10:30–11:20 (Foster 209)
MWF 11:30–12:30 (Foster 410)
Homework and quizzes | 30% |
Discussion and participation | 30% |
Final assessment | 40% |
Absences. Since this course is based on in-class participation and discussion, it is important that you attend each session. Please let me know in advance if you need to miss class. Each absence will impact the participation portion of your final grade, although absences can be made up with a short written assignment, the nature of which will depend on the class you have missed.
Academic Integrity. The College’s statement on academic integrity defines plagiarism as “[submitting] the statements or ideas or work of others as one’s own,” and makes clear that the penalties for plagiarism “may range up to permanent expulsion from the University of Chicago.” If you are concerned as to what precisely constitutes plagiarism, see the University of Chicago Student Manual’s guidelines on honesty, and if you have any further concerns, please ask me.
Accommodations. If you have specific physical, psychiatric or learning disabilities and require accommodations, please let me know early in the quarter so that your learning needs may be appropriately met. You will also need to meet with the Office of Student Disability Services located at 5501 S. Ellis Avenue.
Use of Technology in the Classroom. You can use your computers, phones, or tablets to access course resources in class, use dictionaries, consult your notes, etc., as long as it is not a distraction to you or others. “If you aren’t using it to perform a task specifically related to what we are doing in class at that very moment, put it away.”
samasyā atitiś ca |
kāryakramaḥ
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Session and Date | Agenda |
Week 1 – March 26–30, 2018svāgatam!Welcome back to first-year Sanskrit.
Monday, 3/26:
Wednesday, 3/28:
Friday, 3/30:
Topics for this week: Abstract suffixes
KtavatU
The Optative (liṅ)
Exercises: google forms, pdf, solutions Flashcards: The Future (lr̥ṭ)
ReadingRāmāyaṇamThere will be a quiz on Monday covering these topics! |
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Week 2 – April 2–6, 2018
Monday, 3/26:
Wednesday, 3/28:
Friday, 3/30:
Eduardo will teach today’s class.
Topics for this week: The Perfect (liṭ)
There will be a quiz on Monday covering these topics! |
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Week 3 – April 9–13, 2018
Monday, 4/9:
Wednesday, 4/11:
Friday, 4/13:
Topics for this week: Governing Compounds (upapadatatpuruṣaḥ)
Class 3 Verbs (hvādiḥ)
Reading: adhyayanavidhi Exercises: google forms; pdf; solutions Flashcards: (all in the present indicative) bhr̥ “bear” (pa.) dā “give” (pa.) ā-dā “take” (ā.) hā “abandon” (pa.) mā “measure” (ā.)There will be a quiz on Monday covering these topics! |
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Week 4 – April 16–20, 2018
Monday, 4/16:
Wednesday, 4/18:
Friday, 4/20:
Topics for this week: The Aorist (luṅ)
Exercises:
Flashcards: √dr̥ś (parasmai.) [s] √kr̥ (parasmai.) [s] √kr̥ (ātmanē.) [s] √ji (parasmai.) [s] vi-√ji (ātmanē.) [s] √kram (parasmai.) [iṣ] √kram (ātmanē.) [iṣ] √ram (parasmai.) [siṣ] √viś (parasmai.) [sa] √viś (ātmanē.) [sa] √kr̥ (parasmai.) [reduplicated] √kr̥ (ātmanē.) [reduplicated] √dhā (parasmai.) [root] √dhā (parasmai.) [root] √budh (ātmanē.) [root] √gam (parasmai.) [root]VocabularyVālmīkīyapañcaviṁśatiḥThis is a list of the 25 most frequent verbal roots in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇam, with what information I could gather about their aorist stems. (Verbs that don’t have aorist stems, like as, arh, and brū, have been omitted.) There will be a quiz on Monday covering these topics! |
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Week 5 – April 23–27, 2018
Monday, 4/23:
Wednesday, 4/25:
Friday, 4/27:
Topics for this week: The Desiderative (san)
Comparison of Adjectives
Reading: adhyayanavidhi The paradigm of śrēyas- is given under s-stem nominals in adhyayanavidhi. Flashcards: śrēyas- ‘better’ Note that the flashcards for prāñc- and pratyañc- from last week will be useful since these kinds of words are on this week’s vocabulary list. Their paradigms are explained under stems ending in palatal consonants in the textbook. VocabularyVālmīkīyapañcaviṁśatiḥThis is a list of the 25 most frequent verbal roots in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇam, with what information I could gather about their aorist stems. (Verbs that don’t have aorist stems, like as, arh, and brū, have been omitted.) There will be a quiz on Monday covering these topics! |
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Week 8 – May 14–18, 2018
Monday, 5/14:
Wednesday, 5/16:
Friday, 5/18:
Topics for this week: The Denominative (KyaṄ)
Review (punarīkṣaṇam)
VocabularyVālmīkīyapañcāśatThis is a list of the 50 most frequent verbal roots in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇam. All of these verbs should be memorized. |
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Week 9 – May 21–25, 2018
Monday, 5/21:
Wednesday, 5/23:
Friday, 5/25:
Topics for this week: VocabularyVālmīkīyapañcāśatThis is a list of the 50 most frequent verbal roots in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇam. All of these verbs should be memorized. |
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Week 10 – Final Exam
Date
Format
Coverage
Review (punarīkṣaṇam)
General review materials:
Specific review materials: VocabularyVālmīkīyapañcāśatThis is a list of the 50 most frequent verbal roots in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇam. All of these verbs should be memorized. |
For each category, I have ordered the list according to what I think will be most useful ot beginning students, although the judgement is of course subjective and, in some cases, arbitrary.
Many dictionaries are now available online from a number of sources, including the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia at the University of Chicago, and the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries at the University of Cologne. The best way to access these dictionaries, in my opinion, is through the open-source program Goldendict (formerly Stardict), and detailed instructions for setting up these dictionaries are provided by Guy Leavitt.
The Sanskrit Library has a multi-dictionary search, but the dictionaries need to be selected by changing one’s preferences.