an undergraduate program at the University of Texas at Austin designed for students who wish to achieve advanced professional proficiency in Hindi and Urdu while majoring in a wide variety of programs, including Business, Communications, Engineering, and Liberal Arts.
Hindi Urdu Flagship student Chelsea Aldridge is featured in the current edition of Discourse, the quartely magazine of the national Language Flagship. To read Chelsea's reflections on her first year in the Hindi Urdu Flagship program you can access the electronic version of the newsletter from the Language Flagship website.
Throughout the spring, the Flagship played host to a series of notable Hindi Urdu scholars and artists. These included Ali Mir, a Bollywood lyricist and script writer; Frances Pritchett, a renowned scholar of classical Urdu poetry; Mehr Farooqi, a scholar of the Urdu language and its history; and Susham Bedi, a well known Hindi poet and fiction writer. The series will resume this September with a seminar by Shams Farooqi, perhaps the most prominent living writer of Urdu. View videos of the seminars online...
Want to know what faculty and students think of the Flagship? Our informational video provides an introduction to the people and places that form the Flagship experience. If you are unable to visit campus this is a great way to catch a glimpse of the academic and social environment created by the Flagship.
You can watch our video online or download it (Quicktime required). A in-depth film is available on DVD. Email us and we'll send you a free copy!
The Flagship has just launched Hamaarii Bolii, a new web-based database of self-produced, video interviews with Hindi-Urdu speakers. The site features clusters of short video responses to questions covering a wide variety of topics from conversational strategies to social issues. The database continues to grow with new material recorded regularly in India, Pakistan, and the United States. Hindi-Urdu students and teachers everywhere are free to use the site to enhance their own classroom experience.