I am delighted to see that Sanskrit survives at Harvard. Here in Toronto it is all but over. No first year at University of Toronto this year, and not likely next. A single 2nd year was/is offered this academic year with no suit to follow.The chair of my department (a Japanese historian from the US) forbade me to offer Advanced Sanskrit courses (a former student used to teach the 1st and 2nd years) if I couldn't have an enrolment of minimum 25 students. Have you ever seen a Advanced Sanskrit course with that number of students even in India?! We are now entirely a corporate university where only numbers, i.e. fees, count.
So I choose to retire. Effective January 1, this year.
Vive la liberté!
All the best
Stella
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Professor Stella Sandahl
Department of East Asian Studies
130 St. George St. room 14087
Toronto, ON M5S 3H1
On 2013-01-30, at 6:57 PM, Witzel, Michael wrote:
As over the past 20 years, Harvard will again offer an Introduction to Sanskrit, equivalent to 2 semesters. Please see the background information for the Harvard Summer School at: http://dceweb.harvard.edu/
And search for the Course at: http://www.summer.harvard.edu/courses/course-search
Time: June 22 - August 10.
Please let your students/friends know...
Best wishes,
M.W.
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Michael Witzel
Wales Prof. of Sanskrit &
Director of Graduate Studies,
Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
1 Bow Street,
Cambridge MA 02138, USA
phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, fax 617 - 496 8571;
my direct line: 617- 496 2990