Quechua Summer Course
INTENSIVE QUECHUA LANGUAGE COURSE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN DURING SUMMER 2008
Program dates: June 9 - August 2, 2008
THE COURSE
From June 9 to August 2, 2008, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, will offer an intensive course in Quechua for undergraduate and graduate students from any university. The eight-week course will cover the equivalent of beginning and intermediate levels. Eight credits will be awarded upon the completion of the course. Classes will be four hours a day, five days a week with Prof. Sixto Clodoaldo Soto.
The course will combine classroom work and computer-assisted practice. The communicative function of language and the preparation of the student to successfully interact within a Quechua-speaking community will be emphasized. Visual aids, songs, passages of real speech will be used to set up and adequate context of language use. The course teaches Ayacucho Quechua, from south-central Peru, often considered an especially clean and most apt variant to further learn the other dialects with ease. Students who have taken this course with Professor Soto before have been highly satisfied.
THE INSTRUCTOR
A native speaker of Ayacucho Quechua from Peru, Prof. Soto is a linguist with vast experience in teaching. He is regularly recognized as an outstanding teacher by students at the University of Illinois. One of the most respected Quechua pedagogues, he is the author of highly regarded grammars, dictionaries and language course materials published with prestigious publishing houses in Peru. In cooperation with University of Illinois web-technology staff, he is currently developing a state-of-the-art on-line Quechua course sequence.
THE SETTING
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the flagship public university in the country’s fifth most populous state, and regularly ranked as one of the nation’s eight best public universities. Its sprawling campus supports world-class research and scholarship in fields as diverse as agricultural economics, computer science, biochemistry, psychology, anthropology and ethnomusicology.
The university library is the third largest university research library in the country, and it has the sixth largest collection on Latin America. The university has been known for its excellence in Latin American Studies at least since the 1960s, and today has one hundred faculty members working on Latin American themes in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. It has a diverse student body, with a very large number of minority and international students.
Champaign-Urbana is a dynamic and growing college and high-tech town of about 130,000 people, with a lively music and arts scene, an inviting array of restaurants – from Afro-American to Korean and Thai - , and an active art movie house. It is located two hours south of Chicago, 100 minutes west of Indianapolis and three hours northeast of St. Louis. Springfield, with its historic Lincoln sites, is 45 minutes west of Champaign-Urbana. All these cities can be easily reached by train or bus.
REGISTRATION
Students need to register in two different classes:1. LAST 445 - Intensive Quechua (Course Reference Number or CRN 33046) which meets M, Tu, Wed, Th, and F from 10-12pm, for 4 credit hours and
2. LAST 490 section CSS -Quechua Lab (CRN 33047) which meets M, Tu, Wed, Th, and F from 1-3pm, for 1-4 credits (total of 8 for FLAS students). This is a laboratory section.
Both classes are taught by Prof. Sixto Clodoaldo Soto.
Non-U of I graduate students must register here: https://www-s.continuinged.uiuc.edu/ao/registration/student/index.cfm%20
Non-U of I undergraduate students must contact the Office of Admission and Records (217-333-0302) regarding the nondegree admissions and registration process: http://www.oar.uiuc.edu/future/application/pdf/app06_nd.pdf
TUITION
The cost of tuition for undergraduates will be approximately (estimated and subject to change) $1,800 for Illinois residents and $5,300 for nonresidents; fees for undergraduates will be approximately $600.Tuition for graduate students will be approximately (estimated and subject to change) $2,000 for Illinois residents and $5,500 for nonresidents. Fees for graduate students will be approximately $700. The $1,500 tuition exceeding portion for FLAS recipients, who are awarded $4,000 for tuition, is waived.
Fees include a free pass for the Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Transit District, health insurance, and access to state of the art fitness and recreational facilities and swimming pools.
Graduate students enrolled at one of the other twelve campus of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC; Big Ten plus University of Chicago) may apply for Traveling Scholar status, through which tuition will only be assessed at their home institution (for more information go to http://www.cic.net/programs/TravelingScholars/index.shtml).
FLAS SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS
This course meets the requirements for U.S. Department of Education Summer FLAS fellowships for intensive language study, awarded through Centers for Latin American Studies at selected universities in the United States. Summer FLAS awards from any US university may be used to pay for this course. The fellowship covers the full cost of tuition and fees and provides $2,500 for stipend, funded under Title VI of the U.S. Higher Education Act. Eligibility for FLAS awards is restricted to U.S. citizens and permanent residents; applicants must be students enrolled for graduate study at an accredited university in the U.S.HOUSING
On-campus housing is available for approximately $1,200 (double occupancy) or $1,370 (single) for the length of the program. If desired, a meal plan may be purchased for use on and off campus at participating eateries. For further information and to request dormitory housing, go to http://www.housing.uiuc.edu.This course is sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For further information, contact Outreach Coordinator Renata Johnson, renata@uiuc.edu, or Prof. Clodoaldo Soto, s-soto3@uiuc.edu, or call the Center at 217-333-3182.