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From San Diego State University: Mixtec and Zapotec
Introductory and Intermediate Mixtec
Mixtec is an indigenous language of Mexico spoken by people living in the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Puebla, and by a large number of Mixtec migrants who have settled in northern Mexico and the United States. SDSU’s program offers four hours a day of instruction at beginning and intermediate levels. Language courses are taught by native Mixtec speakers from the faculty of the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Oaxaca and from the Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca (ITO).
The Summer Intensive Language Program is focused on acquiring sufficient linguistic skills to communicate within the dialect taught in the classroom as well as establishing a foundation for understanding dialectic differences that one will encounter as they move among Mixtec speakers.
The Program is also supported by the faculty, library, and community resources of local Oaxacan institutions, including CIESAS, ITO, the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juarez Oaxaca (UABJO), the Network of Community Museums, the Welte Institute, and others. In addition to language instruction, guest lecturers provide background on Mixtec culture and society. Students have the opportunity to spend several days in one or more Mixtec speaking communities.
These courses are open to undergraduates, graduates, professors and independent scholars. Please visit the Website for more information and applications: http://latinamericanstudies.sdsu.edu
Introductory Zapotec
Zapotec is one of the most widely spoken indigenous languages of Oaxaca, Mexico with some speakers of Isthmus Zapotec in Chiapas and Veracruz. This intensive program is taught by native Isthmus Zapotec speakers and linguists through the Casa de La Cultura in Juchitán. The course, taught in Spanish, includes five hours of classroom instruction, four to five days per week, over a six week period with workshops and fieldtrips to market centers, elementary and secondary schools, hospitals, and other community-based centers of social interaction. Participants will experience a full immersion in Zapotec culture and language through homestays with Zapotec speaking families. Juchitán is located in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and is a coastal marketing center located between Oaxaca City and the state of Chiapas, allowing students to easily travel to both areas. Dr. Eda Saynes-Vazquez, Directora of Colegio Superior para la Educación Integral Intercultural de Oaxaca coordinates the program in Oaxaca along with Dr. Ramona Pérez, a Oaxacan scholar from the Department of Anthropology at SDSU.
FLAS fellowships available through SDSU.
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Click here for this year's flyer (Also includes Zapotec program)
For more information contact:
Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann at (619) 594-1104
Or esaenz@mail.sdsu.edu
