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.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Recognize and produce the sounds of Chinuk Wawa
2. Speak using memorized phrases and everyday expressions, identify familiar objects, hold basic conversations using simple sentences, and give short presentations in Chinuk Wawa
3. Respond appropriately when listening to words, phrases, sentences, and questions
4. With help, read both brief and extended texts in Chinuk Wawa
5. Write Chinuk Wawa words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs with emerging accuracy in spelling and word order conventions
6. Describe elements of the history and culture of Chinuk Wawa speaking peoples
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