Courses
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Gurmukhi script. Survey of grammar. Graded exercises, leading to a mastery of basic language patterns, essential vocabulary, and achievement of basic reading and writing skills.
Introductory Punjabi: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 1A is prerequisite to 1B
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Punjabi/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Ubhi, Upkar
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Gurmukhi script. Survey of grammar. Graded exercises, leading to a mastery of basic language patterns, essential vocabulary, and achievement of basic reading and writing skills.
Introductory Punjabi: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 1A
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Punjabi/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Ubhi
Terms offered: Summer 2000 10 Week Session, Summer 1998 10 Week Session, Summer 1997 10 Week Session
A comprehensive introduction to modern standard Punjabi as spoken in India and Pakistan. The Gurmukhi writing system; pronunciation; asquisition of grammar and basic vocabulary through graded exercises and readings; special emphasis on the ability to speak and understand Punjabi.
Intensive Elementary Punjabi: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Summer: 8 weeks - 20 hours of lecture and 5 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Punjabi/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Singh
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Focus on reading, writing and speaking Punjabi more fluently in formal and informal contexts. Selected readings vary every semester. These form the starting point to stimulate students' own writings which include a long interview with a Punjabi elder from the wider community. These may be recorded in the students' own voices and form a contribution to the ongoing "Punjabi Voices" project. Review of grammar provided as needed in addition to the introduction of more complex grammatical structures. Grading based on performance in class and final presentation, weekly quizzes, two midterms, and a final.
Intermediate Punjabi: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 1B is prerequisite to 100A; 100A is prerequisite to 100B
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Punjabi/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Ubhi, Upkar
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Focus on reading, writing and speaking Punjabi more fluently in formal and informal contexts. Selected readings vary every semester. These form the starting point to stimulate students' own writings which include a long interview with a Punjabi elder from the wider community. These may be recorded in the students' own voices and form a contribution to the ongoing "Punjabi Voices" project. Review of grammar provided as needed in addition to the introduction of more complex grammatical structures. Grading based on performance in class and final presentation, weekly quizzes, two midterms, and a final.
Intermediate Punjabi: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100A
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Punjabi/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Ubhi
Terms offered: Not yet offered
Students may enroll in more than one section of 290, but the total number of units of Special Study in any one semester may not exceed 12.
Special Studies: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-5 hours of independent study per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 2.5-12.5 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Punjabi/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Not yet offered
Normally reserved for students directly engaged in writing the doctoral dissertation.
Dissertation Preparation and Related Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-12 hours of independent study per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 2-24 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Punjabi/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Dissertation Preparation and Related Research: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Not yet offered
Individual study for the comprehensive or language requirements in consultation with the graduate adviser.
Individual Study for Masters Students: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0-0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Punjabi/Graduate examination preparation
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Not yet offered
Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required for candidates for the Ph.D.
Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0-0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Punjabi/Graduate examination preparation
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.