Sun, Jul 28
|TDAF Studio
Auraaq اوراق Urdu 101 Certificate Course
This four-day offline course aims to teach participants how to read and write Urdu using Nastaleeq script, led by subject experts. No prior knowledge of Urdu script required.
Time & Location
Jul 28, 2024, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
TDAF Studio, 402, The Pearl Apartments, Bahadur Yaar Jung Colony Rd, Khader Bagh, Indira Nagar, Toli Chowki, Hyderabad, Telangana 500006, India
About the event
This four-day offline course aims to teach participants how to read and write Urdu using Nastaleeq script, led by subject experts.
The workshop is spread over two consecutive weekends, each session will be conducted in a span of two hours which includes Urdu script course, sessions on Urdu Ghazal and prosody, introduction to the world of Chronograms and collective listening sessions of Urdu Classics from the likes of Iqbal Bano and Madam Noor Jahan.
We want you to learn Urdu to appreciate its inevitable presence around us, for it apparently answers to the poets and birds of this land.
What will you get?
- Opportunity to acquire and enhance Urdu reading and writing skills under the guidance of subject experts.
- Lifetime access to recorded lectures from EUL’s beginner-level Urdu reading and writing course.
- Access to a comprehensive course package featuring concepts in Urdu reading and writing, along with worksheets and supplementary notes on poetry and prosody.
- Bonus Urdu-themed merchandise from Gawan Academy and Deccan Archive.
- A certificate attested by Gawan Academy upon successful completion of the course.
- Opportunity to connect with a community of Urdu enthusiasts and history buffs to discuss language and culture during lunch and coffee breaks (food and coffee provided).
- Chance to perform your own poetry with guidance from subject experts at the end of course.
What will you learn?
- Urdu script
- Reading and Writing Techniques and Rules of Nastaleeq
- Hands on practice of Nastaleeq with the experts
- Urdu Prosody - scansion of metres through tradtional and modern methods
- Different forms and genre of Urdu Poetry
- History of Urdu Language & Literature
- Urdu Poetics
- Composing Urdu Ghazals
- Bonus session: Deciphering Chronograms