{"id":4348,"date":"2004-07-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/07\/07\/2004-07-07-sanskrit-classes-being-offered-on-line-from-florida\/"},"modified":"2004-07-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T12:00:00","slug":"2004-07-07-sanskrit-classes-being-offered-on-line-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/07\/07\/2004-07-07-sanskrit-classes-being-offered-on-line-from-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanskrit Classes Being Offered On-Line From Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"mailto:katzn@fiu.edu\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>FLORIDA, USA, July 7, 2004: Florida International University, the State University in Miami, Florida and Hindu University of America, located in Orlando, Florida will begin offering on-line Sanskrit courses this fall. The four-course sequence is fully accredited by FIU and is available to students worldwide. The classes begin August 30. The courses have been developed by Dr. B. V. Venkata Krishna Shastry, a professor at HUA and an adjunct faculty at FIU, and will carry technical support from FIU. &#8220;This is a pioneering partnership between a public university and America&#8217;s only Hindu university,&#8221; says Dr. Nathan Katz, Chair of FIU&#8217;s Religious Studies Department, also an adjunct professor at HUA. This Fall&#8217;s course is SAL 2101: Sanskrit I. It is open to anyone; students may simply go to http:\/cas.fiu.edu\/outreach\/NonDegreeSeeking.pdf and print out the form, complete it and return it &#8211; with all required documentation &#8211; to the Department of Religious Studies, Florida International University, Miami FL 33199, U.S.A. Tuition is $950 for non-Florida residents. For those residing in the Sunshine State, the cost is the regular in-state tuition (which has not been determined at this point) &#8212; plus $275. Registration for Fall courses begins August 18-25. For assistance with registration or any other questions, go to http:\/\/online.fiu.edu or call 305-348-3630, toll free 1-866-379-3835, or e-mail &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceFLORIDA, USA, July 7, 2004: Florida International University, the State University in Miami, Florida and Hindu University of America, located,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}