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Open house for prospective students

Interested in study abroad in India? Want to learn a critical language that will complement your current major and enhance your professional career? The Hindi Urdu Flagship is hosting an open house for interested undergraduate UT students this Friday, August 26 from 12pm to 4pm.

HUF to host teacher training workshop

At the beginning of each year, the Hindi Urdu Flagship holds a workshop on teaching South Asian Languages to undergraduate students. The primary purpose of this workshop is to train our new TAs, but it also provides an excellent opportunity for a general exchange of views on language teaching, and we encourage anyone involved in South Asian language teaching at UT to attend. The schedule includes a useful session on the use of Blackboard (the full schedule is listed below). The workshop will be held on Monday, August 22nd from 2-5pm in the Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118).

HUF to host teacher training workshop

HUF student awarded presidential scholarship

Leena Warsi, a member of HUF’s 2008 cohort, has just been awarded the extremely prestigious Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship (UEPS). The UEPS program was created in 1973 to make available substantial scholarships for outstanding students at The University of Texas at Austin. Selection is made by a presidentially appointed scholarship committee.

K-12 Hindi-Urdu students visit HUF

On Tuesday, May 3, the Hindi Urdu Flagship had the pleasure of hosting over 30 ninth-grade students from the Dallas-area Hurst-Euless-Bedford (HEB) school district. HEB is one of the few K-12 school districts in the nation to teach Hindi at multiple grade levels.  HUF students, teaching assistants, and faculty met with the HEB Hindi students… Read More

The workshop featured experienced K-12 educators and administrators, such as Elva Gladney (above), discussing strategies for better incorporating South Asia in the social studies curriculum

HUF to celebrate new graduates

The Hindi Urdu Flagship is hosting a celebration to honor the HUF scholars who have graduated since last May. The event will be held on Wednesday, May 18th at 6:00pm in the HUF center. All HUF students, alumni, faculty, staff, and teaching assistants are welcome to attend.