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India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization

Pune, India

Orientation

The program in India begins on August 17 with an orientation in the Pune area, during which students take an intensive Marathi language course and a Foundation course that provides an overview of Indian history, society, and culture. Marathi, the major language of Maharashtra, is an Indo-Aryan language with a vibrant tradition of literature and theatre. For the first few weeks, students live together in a hotel. After this time they live with host families.

India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization

Katie Blanchard Although spending five months in Pune, India was one of the most challenging things I have ever done, it was also one of the most fulfilling. India is a place where intense beauty and sadness are both intertwined and inseparable to an extreme that I have yet to see anywhere else. I felt such a sense of empowerment and success when I became able to navigate the streets of Pune by myself, or when I could hold a conversation in Marathi with my host mother or a rickshaw driver. Those little things caused me to gain a much broader understanding of the world.

—Katie Blanchard, India, Fall 2008

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