Intermediate Creole I

CREOLE 203

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This course is part of the Community-Based Language Initiative (CBLI). The goal of CBLI is to integrate community into academic language learning. CBLI connects Duke language students to communities that have educational assets and resources that complement learning outcomes. Students engage in many types of interactions with the community members and critically reflect on their experiences.

First semester of intermediate Haitian Creole or Kreyol. This course moves beyond survival skills in Creole to more complex social interactions and expressions of analysis and opinion. Intermediate skills in understanding, speaking, writing, reading will be contextualized within a broad range of issues such as rural life in Haiti, religion, frenchified Creole vs popular Creole, through texts, poems, and excerpts taken from novels in Haitian Creole. Students will learn to carefully follow contemporary events and debates in Haitian culture using internet resources in Creole. Pre-requisite: Creole 102 or equivalent. Taught in Haitian Creole.

Notes

Instructor: Pierre

Curriculum Codes
  • FL
Typically Offered
Fall Only