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University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania has at various times has
at various times offered Pashto classes at all levels. For the academic year 2006-2007, the class was taught by Mr. Sanad Shah and for 2007-2008 by Mr. Manzoor Ahmed Khattak under the auspices
of the Penn Language Center
(http://www.plc.sas.upenn.edu).
Prior to 2006-2007, classes during the academic year were taught for seven years by
Dr. Benedicte Grima Santry using materials prepared by the Center for Applied
Linguistics. A summer reading course in Pashto classical and folk literature
was taught by Dr. Wilma Heston; some texts and tapes of materials from this
class are on this website.
Indiana University
Introductory Pashto will be offered at Indiana University in Summer, 2007, as
part of a Workshop including nine other languages. Information on the summer
workshop is available at: http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/index.shtml
The class will again be
taught by Dr. Rahmon Inomkhojaev. Rahmon is the author, with the significant
help of Khwaga Kakar (now back in Afghanistan) of a textbook, Pashto:
an Elementary Textbook, which has a related CD. A Fulbright Language
Teaching Assistant from Kabul is also at Indiana during 2006-7,
and web-based intermediate reading and listening modules are being produced.
The Center’s web site includes an extensive list of links to Pashto web resources
as well as a link to on-line Pashto conversation tapes (http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar
).
Further information about the Center’s activities in Pashto, other languages,
and possible funding is available from the Center’s director, Dr. Paul M.
Foster, Jr. (pamfoste@indiana.edu
).
SOAS
For the 2003-4 academic year, the University
of London’s School of Oriental
and
African Studies (http://www.soas.ac.uk
) was not staffed to offer Pashto as
part of a degree program. Its Language Centre can provide classes or
one-to-one teaching: see http://www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre/home.html
Defense
Language Institute
Pashto Basic Course at Defense Language Institute (DLI)
DLI provides a 47-week basic course in Pashto of about 30 contact hours/week.
The maximum class size is 10 people. It is intended for military and related
government personnel.
For more information, see:
http://www.dliflc.edu/
University of Peshawar
Department of Pashto
University of Peshawar http://www.upesh.edu.pk/ has offered degrees in Pashto in its Department of Pashto, beginning with M.A.s in 1963. It now offers degrees through the Ph.D. level; its faculty and courses are listed at: http://www.upesh.edu.pk/academics/Departments/pushto/pushto.htm.
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