Creole Language and Culture Beginning II

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course celebrates the vivid, sonorous language of Kreyòl and the histories, cultures and agencies of its speakers. Students in the class gain communicative competence in the language through development of basic conversational, reading and writing skills. Meanwhile, we engage a critical, anthropologically informed study of Haitian experiences of colonialism, revolution, development, education, race, gender, kinship, and transnational migration. Audio recordings, music, film, art, and food enhance our study of the language and culture. The class welcomes students who have some familiarity with Kreyòl, have taken Beginning I Creole Language and Culture, or have competence in French. The course is the second segment of a four-course sequence through the Intermediate II level.