MAHABHARATA CERTIFICATE PROGRAM | HINDU UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
Hindu University of America offers many courses such as: Vedic Courses, Sanskrit Courses, Vedic Study Courses, Hindu Vedas.
The Mahabharata is a complex literary and aesthetic work comprising 18 major books full of narrative action and contemplation. In addition to being an important sourcebook for Indian culture—which influenced sculpture, painting, music, literature, drama, and dance throughout Asia—the Mahabharata’s philosophical and narrative arc represents a sophisticated and thorough analysis of the human condition. This certificate program systematically covers the text of the Sanskrit epic in translation.
Designed for individuals seeking a deeper understanding of the Indian tradition, it provides a bridge between everyday cultural knowledge of the characters and events in the epic and a learned understanding of the text’s literary and philosophical project. Ritual, iconographic, literary and art-historical perspectives complement the philosophical evaluation of the epic. The goal is to lead the student on a journey of discovery not only through one of the classics of world civilization, but also through the literary structure and deep philosophical rigor of the epic, to provide plural paths for cultural and self-discovery.
The Mahabharata Certificate Program embraces the ideal of a global humanities discipline that is characterized not only by the breadth of its curriculum, but also challenges Eurocentric notions of the nineteenth-century “canon.” It seeks to understand the world’s cultures as living, mature and continuing traditions on their own terms. We will therefore read the texts of the Indian tradition from a literary, theological, and philosophical perspective rather than from a privileged ethnological or historical mode that served to objectify and dehumanize the non-Western and non-Christian world.
Mahabharata Certificate Program
This can be taken as a separate certification program. Credits earned in this program can also be counted toward the master’s and Ph.D. Hindu Studies program offered at HUA – Hindu University of America for students who wish to pursue this program.
Program structure
The certificate program consists of six quarter-semester courses that cover the major parts of the epic. Each course will address the philosophy, historical and textual issues, and contemporary influence of the epic. The courses can be taken in any order, but Mahabharata I must be taken first as it is a prerequisite for all other courses.
Audience for the program
This course assumes no prior knowledge of the epic, although a cultural familiarity with the basic ideas of Hinduism is beneficial. The certificate program is designed for everyone—undergraduate and graduate students, continuing education candidates, and professionals in fields such as science, technology, or the humanities. The course introduces students to academic scholarship on the epic and the issues with that scholarship.
However, its goal is not “research” but understanding and philosophical insight. We will therefore be primarily interested in questions of method, narrative, ethics, ecology and the preservation of traditional wisdom; and to investigate how and whether it can contribute to the improvement of human life here and now. Special attention will be paid to the messages of individual self-cultivation and service to the community found not only in the Mahabharata’s Bhagavad Gita but also in the rest of the epic.
CONTACT – 407-205-2118
WEBSITE- Hindu university of America
EMAIL- saksham.mangwana@hua.edu
Address- 5200 Vineland Rd 125 Orlando, FL 32811
Follow us-
Quora: bit.ly/3TZLvuV
Reddit: bit.ly/3EpJpPw
FB: bit.ly/3tJgnp7
Twitter: bit.ly/3ViUIQl
External link-
0
0
0
0
