SPL 14 - Oriental Studies, African Studies, Indology, Tibetan Studies

14.01. African Studies

Introductory Phase

• 140077 VO Introduction to general linguistics I and comparative historical linguistics / African studies
• 140079 UE Tutorial: Introduction to linguistics I and comparative historical linguistics / African Studies
• 140080 VO Introduction to literature I / African Studies
• 140082 UE Tutorial: Introduction to linguistics I / African Studies
• 140083 VO Introduction to history I / African Studies
• 140084 UE Tutorial: Introduction to history I / African Studies

First Stage of Degree Programme

Languages

1. Bambara

• 140209 VO Introduction to the Bambara language I - Basic grammar and the tonal system
• 140093 UE Bambara I: Texts
• 140213 UE Bambara I: Exercises and practice
• 140216 UE Bambara language III - advanced grammar
• 140210 UE+VO Bambara III: Advanced level, texts A
• 140075 UE Bambara conversation I

2. Hausa

• 140207 VO+UE Hausa I: Basic studies
• 140278 UE Hausa I: Texts
• 140208 UE Hausa III: Advanced level
• 140092 VO+UE Intermediate Hausa: Texts A

3. Swahili

• 140204 VO+UE Swahili I: Mazoezi / Exercises
• 140205 VO Swahili I: Sarufi / Grammar
• 140212 UE Swahili texts A
• 140279 UE Swahili conversation I
• 140206 VO+UE [ en ] Swahili: Advanced level, texts A
• 140097 UE Swahili conversation III

4. Second African Languages

• 140076 VO Fula Language I
• 140085 UE Fula Language I: Exercises
• 140094 VO Kanuri language III
• 140358 VO Wolof I
• 140114 VO Wolof I: Exercises

Second Stage of Degree Programme

• 140089 VO+UE The evolution of Creole Studies in the context of European expansion and colonial rule
• 140357 VO+UE Discourse Analysis: Language strategies in political speeches
• 140211 PS Introductory Seminar: Applied linguistics: communication, power & development
• 140198 SE Seminar in applied research: 'Interpreter's role in legal matter' II
• 140046 VO+UE Fundamentals of linguistics: syntax and semantics
• 140098 PS Phonology of African languages
• 140086 SE Language planning in Africa: status planning and politics
• 140111 VO Overview: African languages Part I.
• 140099 VO+UE Comparative historical linguistics: Comparison of grammar
• 140100 VO Linguistic and cultural stratification in the Euro-African context
• 140203 PS Introductory seminar of comparative historical linguistics: Language and history
• 140133 VO Overview: African literature II
• 140214 VO Literature in African Languages I: Swahili
• 140488 VO West African French Literature - Analysis and discussions of some writings
• 140024 AR [ en ] Transcultural Theatre Work with participants from different countries of origin - Focus Africa - T
• 140117 PS Narrative strategies and techniques in contemporary literature of African women
• 140026 VO African history 3: Africa in the age of colonialism
• 140218 VO Introduction to the history of Eastern Africa I
• 140219 VO Introduction to the history of Eastern Africa II
• 140072 VO+UE Africa - Willing and unwilling travellers
• 140090 AR (UniStG) Africa - Colonialism, mission and development
• 140005 AR International Migration
• 140047 AR (UniStG) Democracy in Africa. Utopia or reality?
• 140487 VO+UE History of missions in Africa
• 140330 VO+UE Racisms
• 140029 VO+PR Selected Topics in African Art: Art from the Grassland of Cameroon
• 140274 VO+UE Eurocentrism in historical perspective
• 140071 VO Introduction to the history of Northeast Africa I
• 140328 VO Man and environment in the Meroitic kingdom Sudan in the 19th century
• 140050 PS Introductory Seminar: African History
• 140087 PS Sudan in the 19th century
• 140515 SE Youth movements and youth culture in Africa
• 140088 SE Seminar in African history: Colonial legacy, authoritarian state and democratization
• 140355 SE Seminar communication and development: The 'self' of development agencies

Third Stage of Degree Programme

• 140074 SE Seminar for diploma and doctoral candidates
• 140102 SE Seminar for diploma and doctoral candidates

14.02. Oriental Studies

1. Ancient Semitic Philology and Oriental Archaeology

• 140151 VO+UE Phoenician and Old Hebrew Epigraphy I
• 140193 PS Introductory Akkadian Seminar
• 140199 PS Mesopotamian Representation of Rulers
• 140283 UE Akkadian I
• 140381 VO Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Studies II: History of Mesopotamia until the time of Hammurapi
• 140388 VO+UE Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Studies IV
• 140389 UE Exercises to Akkadian I
• 140390 UE Akkadian Exercises: Building Rituals
• 140391 SE Akkadian Seminar
• 140392 PS Sumerian Texts and Grammar for Beginners
• 140393 SE Sumerological Seminar
• 140395 VO+UE Middle Aramaic I: Introduction to Syriac
• 140396 SE Archaeology of Cities: Assur and Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta

2. Arabic Studies and Islamic Studies

• 140040 PS Introductory Seminar 1
• 140081 SE Seminar for Postgraduate Students
• 140118 PR Oral Modern Standard Arabic Drills for Advanced Students
• 140127 VO Islamic Law
• 140191 UE Readings in Modern Arabic Literature 1
• 140228 SE Seminar on Modern Arabic Literature
• 140243 SE Seminar on Classical Islamic Studies: Ibn al-Arabi
• 140247 SE Seminar on Modern Islamic Studies: Criticism of the Wahhabi Movement
• 140251 SE Islamic Theology and Philosophy, 1250-1850
• 140254 VO Arabic Language 3
• 140255 UE Bedouin Culture in Tunisia
• 140256 VO Arabic Language 1
• 140258 PR [ ar ] Conversations in Arabic 3
• 140259 VO Geography of the Arab World 1
• 140266 UE Arabic Language 3 - Tutorial
• 140270 PR [ ar ] Conversations in Arabic 1
• 140280 PR Arabic Language 1 - Practical Training
• 140282 VO Commerce and Trade in the Arab World 1
• 140284 UE Islamic Criminal History 1
• 140285 PR Conversations in Tunisian Arabic 1
• 140287 PR Arabic Language 1 - Practical Training
• 140288 VO Cinemas and Films in the Arab World 1
• 140289 PR Arabic Language 3 - Practical Training
• 140290 PR Arabic Language 1 - Practical Training
• 140291 UE Arabic Language 3 - Tutorial
• 140292 VO Modern Arabic Literature 1-2
• 140293 UE Arabic Language 1 - Tutorial
• 140294 UE Arabic Language 1 - Tutorial
• 140295 VO+UE Political Theory and Social Philosophy in Islam 1
• 140299 PR Arabic Language 3 - Practical Training
• 140300 SE Urban Culture in Tunisia
• 140308 SE Islam in South and South East Asia
• 140312 VO+UE Arabic Language 5
• 140314 SE Seminar for Postgraduate Students
• 140418 VO Moorish architecture: Cordoba and Granada

3. Turkish Studies

• 140030 VO Ottoman Social and Economic History
• 140035 UE Persian I
• 140036 UE Reading Classical New Persian Texts
• 140105 SE MA and PhD Students' Seminar
• 140107 UE Reading Modern Turkish Texts
• 140109 SE Seminar on Ottoman Studies
• 140123 SE Seminar on Ottoman Satire
• 140124 UE Turkish Conversation Class I
• 140125 UE Social, Political, and Economic Change in Modern Turkey, 1923-2007
• 140298 VO Turkish Grammar III
• 140301 PS Introductory Seminar II: Methods of Research
• 140304 VO Turkish Grammar I
• 140305 VO Ottoman Literary History
• 140307 UE Reading Ottoman Literature I
• 140382 VO History of the Ottoman Empire
• 140383 UE Translating Turkish Texts I
• 140384 VO+UE Ottoman Turkish I
• 140385 UE Turkish Conversation Class III
• 140386 SE Seminar on Ottoman Literature
• 140387 UE Reading Persian Poetry I
• 160029 VO+UE Reading and Linguistic Analysis of Early Modern Persian Texts I

14.03. South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

1. Indology

• 140375 VO+UE Introduction to Classical Sanskrit I(A)
• 140379 VO+UE Introduction to Classical Sanskrit I(B)
• 140376 VO+UE Classical Sanskrit for Advanced Learners
• 140359 VO Introduction to Hindi I
• 140361 UE Introduction to Hindi I (a)
• 140364 UE [ en ] Introduction to Hindi I (b)
• 140362 UE Advanced Hindi I
• 140368 UE [ en ] Hindi Conversation I
• 140370 UE [ en ] Hindi Readings I
• 140365 VO+UE [ en ] Introduction to Nepali I
• 140366 UE [ en ] Introduction to Nepali I: Accompanying Exercises
• 140378 VO A Comprehensive Survey of the Prakrit Languages and Literatures
• 140374 VO Islamic (Sufi) Movements on the Indian Subcontinent until the End of the Delhi Sultanat
• 140380 VO The Classical Age of South Asia from a Historical Perspective
• 140343 VO Representations of Caste
• 140348 PS Representations of Caste
• 140344 PS Introduction to the History of Hindu Nationalism (Hindutva)
• 140350 PS Popular Culture in South Asia
• 140345 PS Social Reform, Politics or Religion? Ambedkar and the Buddhist Conversion Movement in India
• 140335 PS [ en ] The Bawd's Counsel. Selections from the Kuttanimata, an 8th-c. Sanskrit Satirical Poem
• 140351 PS Goddesses in the Epic and Puranic Literature
• 140371 PS Class and Caste according to Brahminical Orthodoxy (Readings in Dharmashastra)
• 140377 PS The Gathas of the Jataka and their Veyyakarana
• 140363 PS Readings in the Bhagavadgita
• 140349 SE Configurations of Modernity in Nepal
• 140372 SE Central Problems of Sankhya Philosophy as Treated in the Yuktidipika (Phil.-Rel. SE)
• 140373 PV Colloqium for M.A. and Ph.D. Students (Phil.-Rel./La.-Lit. SE)
• 080051 SE Seminar: Narrative art and intercultural context
• 080198 AR Work Group: Methodology of field research in the Indo-Tibetan cultural zone
• 080042 SE Privatissimum
• 160089 VO+UE [ en ] Trends in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics

2. Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

• 140329 VO+UE Introduction to Classical Tibetan I
• 140220 VO Modern Tibetan I
• 140221 UE Modern Tibetan I
• 140067 UE Modern Tibetan for Advanced Students I
• 140053 VO+UE Introduction to Mongolian
• 140116 PS Introductory Seminar
• 140045 VO Introduction to the Social and Political Structures of the Tibetan Cultural Area
• 140408 VO Tantric Literatur and Arts
• 140321 VO+UE Tongue Diagnosis in Tibetan Medicine
• 140334 VO [ en ] Deities of landscape
• 140412 UE Discovery of Tibet: Missionaries, Traders, Adventurists, Agents and Scholars
• 140320 UE Buddhist Texts II: Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara, Chapter 9
• 140063 UE Buddhist Texts IV: An Introduction into the Terminology of Buddhist Logic
• 140069 UE Tibetan Texts I: Selected Passages on the History of Buddhism
• 140068 UE Tibetan Texts III: Selected Jatakas from Rang byung rdo rje's Skyes rabs brgya pa
• 140409 SE Exploration of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon
• 140061 SE Buddhist Theory of Language I: Dharmakirti
• 140315 SE Dharmottara's Explanation of Dharmakirti's Proof of Momentariness
• 140327 SE Selected Passages from Mipham's Norbu keta ka
• 140059 SE Working group: History of Literature
• 140033 SE Graduate Colloquium
• 140411 SE Graduate Colloquium
• 080042 SE Privatissimum
• 080051 SE Seminar: Narrative art and intercultural context