15334: Toussaint: Haitian Creole Language and Culture Summer Institute in Boston (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Jill Netchinsky Toussaint <netchins@fas.harvard.edu>

Announcement for the Corbett List:

Haitian Creole Language and Culture
Summer Institute
program runs: June 23-July 11, 2003 application deadline: June 2, 2003

The Program
The Haitian Creole Summer Institute has been offered in Massachusetts
for the past eighteen years. Since the summer of 1995, the Institute
has been conducted at the Harbor Campus of UMass Boston under the
joint collaboration of the Africana Studies Department, the Haitian
Studies Project, and the Division of Corporate, Continuing, and
Distance Education.

This year the Institute will have three components. There will be a
three-week intensive program in different levels of Haitian Creole.
Also offered is a course in techniques of translation for advanced
students.

In addition to class work, all courses make use of a language
laboratory and cultural activities to enhance the study of the
language. Evaluation of student achievement and proficiency for
placement and progress will be conducted both informally and formally
during and at the conclusion of the course.

To give participants an additional immersion in the Haitian-speaking
environment they will have an opportunity to participate, on a
voluntary basis, in field work activities in different Haitian
community-based organizations and agencies outside the classroom time.

Participants for the Institute come from a variety of settings across
the United States looking to develop or improve their language
skills. The program is designed to meet the needs of those who plan
to conduct research in Haiti or in the Haitian diaspora, or who work
in a volunteer or professional capacity either in Haiti or with
Haitians abroad.

Although many of the Institute participants come from the Boston
area, the Institute staff will assist in providing information to
help out-of-town participants locate appropriate accommodations.

courses & credits
Haitian Creole I-Beginner
This intensive beginning-level course is intended for students with
no knowledge of Haitian Creole. In small-group teaching sessions,
students will be prepared for conversational fluency with basic
reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as
well as grammatical and phonetic techniques.

June 23-July 11, M-F 5:00-8:30pm
Schedule # 17411-53
Fee: $550

Haitian Creole II-Intermediate
Skills acquired in this intermediate level course will enable
students to participate actively in most social and cultural
conversations. Sufficient writing and reading comprehension skills
will be practiced and studied with the use of intermediate vocabulary
and grammatical forms.

June 23-July 11, M-F 5:00-8:30pm
Schedule # 17412-53
Fee: $550

Haitian Creole III-Advanced
At the advanced level, students will achieve a high degree of fluency
and precision of vocabulary, enabling them to perform sophisticated
activities. Students will be able to speak, read, and write as well
as use colloquialisms, proverbs, riddles, and "contes" (jokes).

June 23-July 11, M-F 5:00-8:30pm
Schedule # 17413-53
Fee: $550

Techniques of Haitian Creole Translation
This non-credit course is geared towards the native or advanced
Creole language speaker who wishes to be certified as a translator or
as a court interpreter. It provides participants with ample
opportunities to apply techniques and skills through a series of
translation assignments which form the basis for class discussion.
Participants will have intensive practice in translating a variety of
genres and styles both literary and non-literary. They will also be
trained in techniques of consecutive and simultaneous interpretation
and sight translation. Emphasis is given to accuracy, speed,
delivery, command of professional lexicon, and awareness of the
relationship between language and culture.

June 23-July 11, M-F 5:00-8:30pm
Schedule # 17821-53
Note: Optional credit for this course is available from the Africana
Studies Department.
Fee: $615

Staff

*	Professor Marc Prou, Director
*	Lionel Hogu, Co-director
*	Michel DeGraff, MIT, Guest Lecturer
*	Lyonel Primé
*	Lunine Pierre-Jérôme
*	Renote Jean-Francois
*	Jean L. René


More info
Please contact at the Africana Studies Department:

Professor Marc Prou
Tel: 617.287.6796;
marc.prou@umb.edu

To Apply
Registration begins April 7. You may register by phone, fax, mail, or
in person. The registration deadline is June 2.

If you have questions about registration, please call our information
hotline at 617.287.7914.