Have you ever wanted to learn the language spoken by the Native peoples of Seattle and southern Puget Sound?

The American Indian Studies department is very excited to be able to offer a full year of Lushootseed language again next year. If a student already has their foreign language credit, they are also open to offering the classes as VLPA credit.

Highlights include:

• Fulfills Foreign Language requirement
• Especially good for non-traditional learners - uses games like Bingo and storytelling
• No final exams
• Learn the language spoken by the Native peoples in this area
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DIS ST / CHID 430 A Topics in Disability Studies
History of Human Differences
Autumn 2019
M/W 2:30-4:20

Instructor: Joanne Woiak

No prerequisites

This course will address the history of disabled people along with the ways that disability intersects with race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality in justifications for discrimination in American society. Disability has often been used as shorthand to represent things that are negative and undesirable. We will examine historical episodes in which groups were oppressed by having disability attributed to them, including through scientific and medical knowledge used for...

Musap 389b/589b Autumn 2019
SPANISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC
with Visiting Artist Paco Diez

TTh 5:30-6:50
(plus a weekly individual lesson)

Singer and multi-instrumentalist
Paco Diez is a master of traditional Spanish song, including Sephardic music (a tradition of Jewish song in Spain) and romancero. His teaching will focus on voice, guitar, percussion and the gaita (a type of Spanish bagpipe), and students also will have the opportunity to play Spanish music on their own instruments.

Schedule: In TTh ensemble meetings, students will learn to perform a repertoire of songs and instrumental music. Each student will also schedule a weekly one-hour individual or small group lesson, choosing from time slots on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.

Choices: Students can choose to focus on singing, percussion, gaita, or guitar, or some combination of these, depending on...