Intensive course in Nahuatl

[John F. Schwaller]

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From: lasc at umd.edu
Date: 17 Feb 2010

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Dear Colleague:

The Latin American Studies Center at the University of Maryland,
College Park is pleased to announce an intensive course in Nahuatl to
be held from June 14 to July 23, 2010.  Please help us inform
interested students about this course.  We have designed the course to
meet the requirements for the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)
Fellowship.  If your institution awards FLAS fellowships, students may
apply for this funding through your Latin American Studies Center. 
Students at non-FLAS granting institutions may seek funding through the
institutions in the attached list.

The course will be held at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania and will be taught by Jonathan Amith.  Dr. Amith has
previously taught Nahuatl at the University of Chicago and is the
founder of the Yale Nahuatl Summer Language Institute, where he taught
from 1998 to 2008.  He currently works with the cooperative Tosepan
Titikaniski in Cuetzalan, Puebla on Nahuatl language and cultural
documentation.  He is the recipient of multiple grants from the
National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the Ford Foundation and other institutions.

The course will focus on modern Nahuatl from San Agustín Oapan and
neighboring villages in central Guerrero, but it will familiarize
students with colonial and classical Nahuatl by using a wide range of
texts and workbooks.  As teaching is focused not only on developing
conversational skills, but on imparting an understanding of the general
grammatical structure of Nahuatl, students will be able to apply their
knowledge to their own thematic interests in any Nahuatl dialect that
they might work with (ancient or modern).

An effort will be made to address the specific needs of students
in different disciplines (e.g., art history, anthropology, history,
linguistics) and at different levels of expertise.  Students who have
previously acquired skills in Nahuatl will be given the flexibility to
concentrate their efforts on translation, individual projects, or to
work in new Nahuatl variants such as that spoken in the Sierra Norte de
Puebla.  Thus, although it is a beginning course, students with
previous experience in Nahuatl are encouraged to apply.  Formal classes
will meet for five (5) hours per day, Monday through Friday, including
three (3) hours of morning instruction in grammar and two (2) hours of
afternoon work on drills to apply knowledge and acquire basic speaking
skills.

Applications must be postmarked by March 15, 2010. 
A limited number of tuition fellowships will be
available from the University of Maryland, College Park to cover the
remainder of tuition for students who are awarded FLAS fellowships.

We hope you may have students interested in taking this course and we trust you will spread the word.



Best wishes,



Mary Kay Vaughan

Acting Director, Latin American Studies Center



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