CW 101 Chinuk Wawa

Chinuk Wawa is the original universal language of the Pacific Northwest, spoken in intertribal settings and multi-lingual homes from Southeast Alaska to Northern California. In collaboration with the language education program of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, this course teaches Chinuk Wawa through daily listening, speaking, writing, and reading of Chinuk Wawa, as well as discussion of the cultures of people who spoke and still speak the language. Chinuk Wawa 101 is the first course of a three-term sequence in which students achieve beginning oral, literate, and cultural competency in Chinuk Wawa at the first-year college level.

Credits

4

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Recognize and produce some sounds of Chinuk Wawa

2. Speak using memorized phrases and everyday expressions, identify familiar objects, hold very basic conversations, and give a short presentation in Chinuk Wawa

3. Begin to respond appropriately when listening to words, phrases, sentences, and questions

4. Read both brief and extended texts in Chinuk Wawa, with extensive help

5. Write Chinuk Wawa words, phrases, and sentences with initial accuracy in spelling and word order conventions

6. Describe selected elements of the history and culture of Chinuk Wawa speaking peoples