Guest guest Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 >Bal Ram Singh <bsingh> >bsingh >Center for Indic Studies offers a 3-credit course on Indian Ocean and Tsunami, spring 2005 >Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:05:08 -0500 > >Dear Friends and Colleagues, > >I hope you will let people at least in the UMass Dartmouth area know >of this opportunity in case they would like to take advantage of >this course. Those of you in institutions in the vicinity of UMass >Dartmouth might like to encourage students to take this course >through satellite teaching. If there is sufficient interest in >satellite teaching, we will schedule in one of the satellite >broadcast rooms at UMass Dartmouth. > >Bal Ram Singh > >Press Release > > >UMass Dartmouth's Center for Indic Studies offers a course on Indian >Ocean Tsunami > >The tsunami that hit several countries on December 26, 2004 created >unprecedented devastation. > > "It is a disaster that has stunned the global community and people >are lost for words to express their anguish", said Professor Bal Ram >Singh, Director, the Center for Indic Studies. > >The global community quickly responded to this tragedy by helping in >the relief and reconstruction activities in the affected countries. >However, there are many questions to be answered and many things to >know about Tsunami and affected people. > > "This disaster has also created a need among Americans to know >more about the countries and peoples of the Eastern Indian Ocean >region", pointed out Dr. Sengupta. > >This region assumes critical importance because of the rapid growth >rates of the countries involved and the consequent rise in terms of >trade and commerce with the US. > >The Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts >Dartmouth has developed a 3-credit course IST 441 entitled, >"Eastern Indian Ocean Region: Before and After the Tsunami", which >is being offered in the Spring 2005, on Thursdays at 2-5 PM. > >This course will be taught by a team of UMD faculty with expertise >in individual countries affected by the tsunami, ocean sciences, >physical environment of the region, history, economics, cultural >exchanges, languages, etc., and will be supplemented by guest >lecturers. > > "We have major resource of faculty expertise in a wide range of >topics related to sciences, environment, and culture, all relevant >to this very timely course", said Singh. > >"Steps are being taken to get this course approved as a general >education course for global awareness", according to Singh. > >Indic Center also has set up a Tsunami Relief Fund with the UMass >Dartmouth Foundation to which contributions can be made. > >Activities are being planned to continue with awareness program on >Tsunami throughout the semester, and the course will act as a >rallying point on the campus. > >Further details on the course can be obtained by Prof. Suku Sengupta >[ssengupta or (508) 999-8470]. > > >Bal Ram Singh, Ph.D. >Director, Center for Indic Studies >University of Massachusetts Dartmouth >285 Old Westport Road >Dartmouth, MA 02747 > >Phone: 508-999-8588 >Fax: 508-999-8451 >Email: bsingh > >Internet address: http://www.umassd.edu/indic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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