Fall 2024 NYU Consortium Classes

LATC-GA 2537-002 – Feminisms from the South
Date/Time: Tuesday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Instructor: Djamila Ribeiro

This seminar calls upon Lélia Gonzalez's concept of Améfrica in order to identify its role as an intellectual category in thinking through new civilizatory frameworks. We will discuss the work of theorists from Brazil, the Caribbean, and South and Central America, where women writers of the Global South struggle to amplify their work in the face of a colonial politics of translation that exports critical work from the North to the South according to a primarily uni-directional model. By elevating the visibility of some of these contributions, this seminar proposes a dialogue between Feminisms. The course will be conducted in English with readings in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

LACTC-GA – 2965-001 – Elementary Haitian Creole I
Day/Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12:30pm – 1:45pm
Prof. Wynnie Lamour
Location:

These courses introduce students to the language of Haitian Kreyòl, also called Creole, and is
intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of the language. Haitian Kreyòl is spoken by Haiti’s population of nine million and by about one million Haitians in the U.S. Including over 190,000 in the New York City area. In fact, New York City has the second largest population of Kreyòl Speakers after Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Through this course, you will develop introductory speaking, reading, and writing skills. We use a communicative approach, balanced with grammatical and phonetic techniques. Classroom and textbook materials are
complemented by work with film, radio, and especially music (konpa, rasin, twoubadou, rap, raga, levanjil, vodou tradisyonèl, etc.), as well as with resources from city museums and institutions related to Haiti.

LACTC-GA – 2965 – 002 – Intermediate Haitian Creole I
Day/Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00am – 12:15 pm
Prof. Wynnie Lamour
Location:
These courses introduce students to the language of Haitian Kreyòl, also called Creole, and is
intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of the language. Haitian Kreyòl is spoken by Haiti’s population of nine million and by about one million Haitians in the U.S. Including over 190,000 in the New York City area. In fact, New York City has the second largest population of Kreyòl Speakers after Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Through this course, you will develop introductory speaking, reading, and writing skills. We use a communicative approach, balanced with grammatical and phonetic techniques. Classroom and textbook materials are
complemented by work with film, radio, and especially music (konpa, rasin, twoubadou, rap, raga, levanjil, vodou tradisyonèl, etc.), as well as with resources from city museums and institutions related to Haiti.

LACTC-GA 10-001 - Elementary Quechua I
Day/Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9:30am – 10:45am
Prof. Odi Gonzales
Location: TDB

Quechua is the most important and most widely distributed indigenous language in South America, with about 10 million speakers living from the high mountains to the tropical lowlands in Colombia (where the language is called Ingano), Ecuador (where it is called kichwa or runa shimi, "human speech"), Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina (where it is usually spelled Quechua and called, by its speakers, runa simi). 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 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.

LATC-GA 20-001 - Intermediate Quechua I
Day/Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Prof. Odi Gonzales Location: Rubin Hall, Room 109

Quechua is the most important and most widely distributed indigenous language in South America, with about 10 million speakers living from the high mountains to the tropical lowlands in Colombia (where the language is called Ingano), Ecuador (where it is called kichwa or runa shimi, "human speech"), Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina (where it is usually spelled Quechua and called, by its speakers, runa simi). 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 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.