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Study Abroad Study Abroad Art 3375 "Contemporary Indian Art and Popular Culture," In this January term course, ART 3375 "Contemporary Indian Art and Popular Culture," will provide first-hand knowledge of Indian art, ranging from early historical works to the most important contemporary artists working in Delhi and Mumbai today. In the Royal “Pink City” of Jaipur in Rajasthan, will be the opportunity to take lessons from a traditional painter of Indian miniatures. The trip will include an excursion to the Taj Mahal in Agra. Kathryn Myers has been a professor of Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Connecticut since 1984. She is a recipient of a 2002 Fulbright Fellowship to India, and has organized several important exhibitions and panels on Contemporary Indian Art. See link on the UConn Study Abroad site: For a more extensive list contact dorothea.hast@uconn.edu in the Study Abroad Office.
Study: Hindi, Sanskrit, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, Tamil, or Telegu for 10 weeks during Summer 2010 AIIS Language programs are conducted in environments where the languages are commonly spoken, so that formal instruction is supplemented by the experience of using the language in daily life. The students normally stay with host families arranged by the AIIS to enrich their knowledge of the target language and experience the local culture. The Institute maintains well-equipped language-training centers and has been offering the following Language Programs regularly: Bengali in Kolkata, Hindi in Jaipur, Urdu and Persian in Lucknow, Sanskrit and Marathi in Pune, Gujarati in Ahmedabad, Tamil in Madurai, and Telegu in Visakhapatnam. For more information on these language programs: http://www.aiislanguageprograms.org/aiis.php |
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