2013 Yale Summer Nahuatl Institute

[John Sullivan]

The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at Yale University, in partnership with IDIEZ (the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas, Mexico) offer the opportunity to study Classical and Modern Nahuatl at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels in a summer intensive course that will be held at Yale in 2013. 
Dates of Course:  June 24 – August 2, 2013.
Please apply for NHTL 125 through the Yale Summer Sessions online application at:  https://apply.summer.yale.edu
 
Tuition for three credits is $5,000 and must be paid to Yale University by May 1, 2013.  Room and Board are not included.  Financial aid is available (see below). 
Financial Assistance: Yale’s CLAIS and its partners make every effort to ensure that financial constraints are not an obstacle for participating in the Summer Nahuatl Language program. If you are in need of financial assistance for the Summer Nahuatl Language course, please send a short statement of need to Jean Silk at Yale.  Financial aid may also be available in the form of FLAS fellowships through your own institution or another Title VI funded National Resource Center for Latin American Studies. 

Housing:  Housing is available on campus in undergraduate dorms through Yale Summer Sessions.  Students can find information about apartments off campus to sublet through University Housing http://www.yale.edu/livingnh/community/rental.html and through various websites, including apartmentslist at panlists.yale.edu and YaleInternational at yahoogroups.com.
For more information, contact Jean Silk, at jean.silk at yale.edu or by phone at 203/432-3420 or John Sullivan at john.sullivan at yale.edu or by phone at +52 (492) 925-3415.


 Course Description:
The course seeks to: 1) develop students' oral comprehension, speaking, reading, writing and knowledge of language structure, as well as their cultural wisdom and sensibility, in order to facilitate their ability to communicate effectively, correctly and creatively in everyday situations; 2) provide students with instruments and experiences that demonstrate the continuity between past and present Nahua culture, through the study of colonial and modern texts and conversation with native speakers 3) penetrate into the historical, economic, political, social and cultural aspects of Nahua civilization; and 4) prepare students to take university level humanities courses taught in Nahuatl alongside native speakers.
Students will have class five hours per day, Monday through Friday: three hours of Modern Nahuatl immersion with native speaking instructors, and two hours of Classical Nahuatl taught by John Sullivan. Additionall,y each student will have three hours per week of individual tutoring with a native speaker in order to work on a research project of the student’s choice. Students who wish to enroll at the intermediate or advanced level must demonstrate that they have worked a minimum of two hours per week on Modern Nahuatl conversation with a native speaker during the entire previous academic school year. Contact John Sullivan (john.sullivan at yale.edu) for options concerning the completion of this requirement.

Full class attendance is required. Students who are absent for reasons other than illness will be asked to withdraw from the Institute.

Course materials: All students must have personal copies of the following texts:
Karttunen, Frances. 1983. An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl. Texas Linguistics Series. Austin: University of Texas Press. $26.95 @ amazon.com
Lockhart, James. 2001. Nahuatl as Written. Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl,with Copious Examples and Texts. Stanford: Stanford University Press. $25.43 @ amazon.com

Molina, Alonso de. 1977(1555-1571). Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana. Colección “Biblioteca Porrúa” 44. México: Porrúa. Students may purchase this book directly from Editoria Porrúa or through IDIEZ at a cost of approximately $25.

Two weeks before class begins students will be sent, free of charge, electronic copies of the exercise manuals, grammar charts, vocabulary lists and manuscripts which will be studied.
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