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2014-2015 University Catalog 
    
2014-2015 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

LING 57600 - Latin American Indigenous Languages And Cultures


Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will help students to learn the importance of understanding the diversity of Latin American indigenous languages and cultures as well as the intercultural understandings gained when these indigenous languages are valued within the global context. Moreover, this course will provide a general cultural and linguistic framework to understand the sociolinguistic status of the language within the context where it exists. In this course, students will deepen their knowledge of Latin American indigenous cultures and their historics, as a means to achieving a greater understanding of both a shared humanity and the variety of human experiences. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.