[Runasimi] [Fwd: clacs: Quechua at NYU]]

[Michele Back]

FYI. Ashtawan jatun yachana wasi runa simita yachachinka.

Michele Back

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Subject: 	clacs: Quechua at NYU
Date: 	Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:48:28 -0400
From: 	Patricio Navia <patricio.navia en nyu.edu>
Reply-To: 	Patricio Navia <patricio.navia en nyu.edu>
To: 	CLACS Announcements <clacs en lists.nyu.edu>




Dear colleagues, we are very pleased to announce that CLACS has hired a
Quechua Language Lecturer, (who will also teach Spanish language courses
for the Spanish Department), starting in Fall 2008.

Overall, we are excited about the support that NYU has shown toward this
initiative. The Spanish Department approved the study of Quechua to
satisfy the language requirement of the undergraduate Latin American
Studies major. Just this past week, CAS also approved the study of four
semesters of Quechua to satisfy the CAS undergraduate language requirement.

For those of you who are not familiar with Quechua, below is some
information on this indigenous language spoken by millions in the Andean
region of South America. I have also attached a flyer that has been
disseminated around several NYU departments and schools.

We ask that you support this initiative as well and help us by
forwarding this email and flyer to relevant individuals who teach
courses in indigenous, language, or any other relevant topic that may be
appropriate to the study of Quechua and ask them to make an announcement
in their classrooms.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation,

Thomas Abercrombie
Director, CLACS



*QUECHUA AT NYU
*Beginning Quechua I - Fall 2008 (V95.0950)
M, T, W 9:30am – 10:45m
Taught by *Odi Gonzales*, a native speaker and experienced teacher of
the language from Cuzco, Peru, and a poet published in both Spanish and
Quechua.

*What is Quechua? *Quechua is the most important and most
widely-distributed indigenous language in South America, with over10
million speakers living from the high mountains to the tropical lowlands
in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. Those who
speak it call the language /runa simi or runa shimi/, “human speech.” It
was the principal language of the Inca empire and the key language of
cultural interaction during the colonial era. Quechua has remained
central to indigenous peoples' efforts to preserve their cultural
autonomy. It has gained greater force in recent years, during which
indigenous movements have swept Quechua speakers into national politics,
where they have succeeded in transforming constitutions to recognize
cultural diversity, making Quechua an official language of state, and
successfully promoting schooling in the language.
*
Why Study Quechua? *Studying Quechua opens a window onto alternative
ways of thinking about social worlds, about space and time, family, and
humans' relationship with the natural world. Quechua is recommended for
students anticipating travel to the Andean region, those interested in
language and linguistics, and those interested in indigenous literatures
and cultures. Students who satisfactorily complete introductory Quechua
I and II will be well-prepared for intensive summer study at one of many
summer study abroad programs in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia that will put
them in closer contact with the indigenous world.

*Undergraduate students*: the projected four-semester sequence of
Quechua will satisfy both CAS’ foreign language requirement and the
language requirement of the Latin American Studies major. Please refer
to CAS Spanish Department course listings for days and times.

*Graduate students:* Quechua at NYU is FLAS approved (see CLACS webpage
on FLAS fellowships):
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/latin/FLAS_PAGE.htm

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Patricio Navia
* General Studies Program and Center for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies
New York University, 726 Broadway, Room 641, NY, NY 10003
347-834-2017 (work/cell) 212-995-4163 (fax)
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~pdn200/
<http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Epdn200/>* Instituto de Investigación en
Ciencias Sociales (ICSO), Universidad Diego Portales
Ejército 333, Santiago, Chile. (W) 56-2-676-8141/ 469-1756 (Cell)
569-9235-5350

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