Center for Indic Studies offers a 3-credit course on Indian Ocean and Tsunam

[Guest guest]

>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