By the end of this language course, students should be able to say:
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Interpretive Reading</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Interpersonal Speaking</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Presentational Writing</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I can understand main points in a conversation on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. I can understand the main point of sources such as radio and TV programs when the delivery is relatively slow and clear.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I can deal with most situations likely to arise when speaking with native speakers not used to interacting with non-native speakers. I can enter unprepared into conversation on topics that are familiar, of personal interest, or pertinent to everyday life (e.g., family hobbies, work, travel, and current events).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I can deal with most situations likely to arise when speaking with native speakers not used to interacting with non-native speakers. I can enter unprepared into conversation on topics that are familiar, of personal interest, or pertinent to everyday life (e.g., family hobbies, work, travel, and current events</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I can connect phrases in a simple way in order to describe things such as personal experiences, events, dreams, and hopes. I can briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans. I can, for example, narrate a story or the plot of a book or film and describe my reaction.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I can write simple connected texts on topics that are familiar or of personal interest. such as personal letters describing experiences and impressions</span></p>
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<p><em>Goals for Cultural Competence</em></p>
<p>The goals for cultural competence are not organized hierarchically as are the linguistic goals for the course. By the end of the semester, I will be able to say that I can:</p>
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<li>Identify, discuss, and analyze such intangible products of the culture I am studying, as social, economic, and political institutions, and explore relationships among these institutions and the perspectives of the culture;</li>
<li>Give examples of social behaviors that express the target culture's underlying value system;</li>
<li>Interpret social phenomena within the context of the target culture;</li>
<li>Describe instances of major change within the culture I am studying.</li>
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<br />Spring 2007 Textbook(s)<br />
<p style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Introduction to</span> <span style="font-size:10.0pt">Hindi <span style="color:black">Grammar: By Usha R. Jain</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">ISBN:0-944613-25-X</span></p>
<p style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Beginning</span> <span style="font-size:10.0pt">Hindi<span style="color:black">: Part 2 (Reading Writing Conversation): </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">By Arun Prakash</span></p>
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