CW 203 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 the people who spoke and still speak the language. Chinuk Wawa 203 is the third course of a three-term sequence in which students achieve intermediate oral, literate, and cultural competency in Chinuk Wawa at the second-year college level. Enrollment in Chinuk Wawa 203 requires previous completion of CW202 or comparable language knowledge.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

CW 202 or instructor consent

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Accurately recognize and produce the sounds of Chinuk Wawa for clear communication
2. Describe the basic grammatical structure of Chinuk Wawa
3. Use a broad vocabulary in Chinuk Wawa
4. Converse in Chinuk Wawa with emerging fluency
5. Read and demonstrate comprehension of extended texts in Chinuk Wawa
6. Write narrative, descriptive, and opinion texts in Chinuk Wawa 
7. Describe elements of the history and culture of Chinuk Wawa-speaking peoples