2014
KU Summer
african language
institute the program The Kansas African Studies Center and the Department of African and AfricanAmerican Studies at the University of Kansas (KU) will hold a Summer African Language Institute on the Lawrence campus from June 3-July 25, 2014. The institute will offer expert instruction in beginning and intermediate Arabic, beginning and intermediate Kiswahili, and beginning Somali. All language courses will be supplemented with a variety of activities including guest lectures, field trips, films, language tables, and cultural immersion. You are invited to join us for a rigorous yet fun summer of learning without boundaries!
details In eight weeks, experience the equivalent of one year of university-level language instruction by enrolling in: Elementary Arabic 110 & 120 Intermediate Arabic 210 & 220 Elementary Kiswahili 110 & 120 Intermediate Kiswahili 210 & 220 Elementary Somali 110 & 120
languages Arabic, spoken widely across Africa and the Middle East, is one of the fastest growing languages. The Arabic language is key to understanding the culture and history of more than 22 nations and over 280 million speakers. Arabic is also the liturgical language of more than a billion Muslims around the world. Kiswahili is the most widely studied indigenous African language, with up to 10 million people speaking it as their native language, and over 130 million using it as either a first or second language in eastern and central Africa. It is spoken by various peoples living along the Indian Ocean coastline from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique. Somali is spoken by an estimated 17-19 million people worldwide, with the majority living in the Horn of Africa. More than half a million people outside of Northeast Africa and the Middle East also speak Somali as a mother tongue, including a substantial Somali-speaking population in the Kansas City metro area. In southwest Kansas, there is a growing Somali population located in Garden City, Liberal, and Dodge City.
engage.
connect.
communicate. CONTACT:
www.kasc.ku.edu/summerlanguage
Daniel Atkinson, Assistant Director Kansas African Studies Center University of Kansas 1440 Jayhawk Blvd Bailey Hall 201 Lawrence, KS 66045 deatkinson@ku.edu