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Requirements

In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:

  • take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
  • earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.

For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.

The undergraduate minor in Hindi-Urdu consists of four courses.

Core Requirements
Three courses are language courses beyond HNUR 203 chosen from among the following:9-10
HNUR 204
Intermediate Hindi-Urdu II
HNUR 305
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Advanced Hindi-Urdu I
HNUR 306
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Advanced Hindi-Urdu II
HNUR 407
IDEAs in Action General Education logo South Asian Society and Culture
HNUR 408
IDEAs in Action General Education logo South Asian Media and Film
HNUR 409
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Sex and Social Justice in South Asia
HNUR 410
Seminar on the Urdu-Hindi Ghazal
HNUR 411
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Health and Medicine in South Asia
HNUR 490
Topics in Hindi-Urdu Literature and Language
The other course must be chosen from among the following:3
ASIA 59
IDEAs in Action General Education logo First-Year Seminar: Media Masala: Popular Music, TV, and the Internet in Modern India and Pakistan
ASIA 61
IDEAs in Action General Education logo First-Year Seminar: A Tour of South Asia's Regional Art Cinemas
ASIA/PWAD 69
IDEAs in Action General Education logo First-Year Seminar: Wars and Veterans: Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan
HIST 74
IDEAs in Action General Education logo First-Year Seminar: Emperors, Courts, and Consumption: The Mughals of India
ASIA 124
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Iranian Post-1979 Cinema
ASIA 126
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Introduction to Persian Literature
ASIA/WGST 127
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Iranian Women Writers
ASIA/HIST 135
IDEAs in Action General Education logo History of the Indian Subcontinent to 1750
ASIA/HIST 136
History of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: South Asia since 1750
ASIA 152
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Survey of South Asian Cultural History
ASIA 163
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Hindi-Urdu Poetry in Performance
ASIA/MUSC 164
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Music of South Asia
ASIA/WGST 167
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice in South Asia
ASIA 228
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Contested Souls: Literature, the Arts, and Religious Identity in Modern India
ASIA 231
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Bollywood Cinema
ASIA/CMPL 256
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Love in Classical Persian Poetry
ASIA/CMPL 258
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Iranian Prison Literature
ASIA/CMPL 261
IDEAs in Action General Education logo India through Western Eyes
ASIA 262
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Nation, Film, and Novel in Modern India
ASIA/HIST 272
Modern South Asia
ASIA/RELI 280
Hindu Gods and Goddesses H
ASIA/RELI 285
IDEAs in Action General Education logo The Buddhist Tradition: Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka
ASIA 300/RELI 283
IDEAs in Action General Education logo The Buddhist Tradition: India, Nepal, and Tibet
ASIA 304/HIST 331
Sex, Religion, and Violence: Revolutionary Thought in Modern South Asia
ASIA 331/HIST 335/PWAD 331
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Cracking India: Partition and Its Legacy in South Asia H
ASIA 332
IDEAs in Action General Education logo The Story of Rama in India
ASIA 333
IDEAs in Action General Education logo The Mahabharata: Remembered and Reimagined
ANTH 361
Community in India and South Asia
RELI 381
Religions of South Asia
ASIA/RELI 382
IDEAs in Action General Education logo The Story of Rama in Indian Culture–Experiential
ASIA/RELI 383
IDEAs in Action General Education logo The Mahabharata: Remembered and Reimagined–Experiential
ASIA/COMM/RELI 386
Dance and Embodied Knowledge in the Indian Context
ASIA 431
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Persian Sufi Literature
ASIA/HIST 440
Gender in Indian History
ASIA 441/HIST 442
Religion, Co-existence, and Conflict in Pre-Colonial India
ASIA 453
Global Shangri-La: Tibet in the Modern World
ASIA/RELI/WGST 482
Sex, Gender, and Religion in South Asia
ASIA 522
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Beauty and Power in the Classical Indian World
ASIA/HIST 557
Fiction and History in India
ASIA/RELI 581
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Sufism
ASIA/RELI 582
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Islam and Islamic Art in South Asia
ASIA/RELI 583
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Religion and Culture in Iran, 1500-Present
HNUR/RELI 592
Religious Conflict and Literature in India
Total Hours12-13
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Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply.

HNUR 308 does not count toward the minor. 

Placement credit (PL) may not be used to meet minor requirements.