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Survey of Bengali Culture
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Students are expected to appreciate the tradition of Bengali Culture in general and have an insight in some specific trends in Bengali Culture.
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This course offers general introduction to the tradition of Bengali Culture, one of the major cultures of Asia. Further, in-depth introduction to a few contemporary trends will be offered.
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Bengali Culture, Feminism, LGBT, Baul, Public Deliberations.
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1st Class: Geography of Bengal, Anthropological and Religious Features of Bengali People. Student input on their interests, preferences and past exposure. Modification of teaching plan and finalization of thrust areas through group discussion based on inputs. 2nd Class: Bengali Film I. 3rd Class: Bengali Comics and Animation. 4th Class: Public Deliberation Cultures. 5th Class: Bengali Film II. 6th Class: Bengali Music I. 7th Class: Bengali Music II. 8th Class: Group Discussion on topics discussed so far. 9th Class: Baul Culture and Baul Songs. 10th Class: Folk Traditions and Folk Songs. 11th Class: Popular Political Culture. 12th Class: Feminist and LGBT Movements. 13th Class: Folk and Popular Visual Arts. 14th Class: Bengali Festivals. 15th Class: Group Discussion on topics discussed so far.
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Based on Group Discussions and level of participation.
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Students will be provided with excerpts from critical and literary texts one week ahead of each class, selected on the basis of inputs collected in the first class on participating students’ interests, preferences and past learning. The input will also be used for deciding on the thrust of each class.
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