S ASIAN 110AElementary Sanskrit
South Asian · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to script and grammar, with reading exercises and attention to significance of Sanskrit for understanding of other Indo-European languages.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
S ASIAN 110A
- S ASIAN 110BIntermediate Sanskrit
- S ASIAN 110CAdvanced Sanskrit
- S ASIAN 115Readings in Sanskrit
- S ASIAN 234AIntroduction to Panini's Grammar
- S ASIAN 234BIntroduction to Panini's Grammar
- S ASIAN 243Translation Workshop: Premodern Sanskrit, Pali, and/or Prakrit Texts
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 6 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.