The Duke Department of Romance Studies, with the support of CLACS, Global Health, and the Franklin Humanities Institute, is pleased to offer a course to prepare current and future participants in the Haitian recovery from the January 12 earthquake for a culturally sensitized and linguistically prepared experience. Relief and reconstruction efforts in Haiti will be underway for years, with anticipated heavy participation from sectors including medicine, law, urban planning, architecture, education, and religion, as well as construction, logistics, and communications.
French 199.01
Haitian Creole for the Haitian Recovery
Cross-listed with Cultural Anthropology, AAAS, and Latin American Studies
Monday and Wednesday evening, 6:00-7:15
Starts Monday January 25: Room TBA
This course is particularly geared toward preparation for interactions within the health care sector, but students’ diverse work plans will be integrated into the class structure. The textbook, Haitian Creole for Health Care, helps students to acquire basic communicative competency in Creole with an emphasis on oral expression and listening comprehension, in tandem with proficiency in reading and basic written interactions. Language learning will be contextualized with reference to contemporary Haitian culture, including commercial culture, transportation, geographic orientation, and historic heritage. Course taught in Kreyòl, developed by Deborah Jenson and taught by Reginald Patterson with Laura Wagner.
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