[INDOLOGY] Where can you do a BA in Sanskrit?

[Isabelle Ratie]

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 <wujastyk at gmail.com> 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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