Course Descriptions

FNLG 100 will take a communicative approach to language learning and will focus on comprehension. It will incorporate effective language learning strategies such as TPR (Total Physical Response) and TPR Storytelling. In this course, students will acquire basic vocabulary in Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim (the Squamish language) for describing the self and family. The family, as seen from a Skwxwú7mesh perspective, will be the central theme of this course.

This course will continue utilizing the communicative approach to language learning and will focus on both comprehension and speaking. It will incorporate effective language learning strategies such as TPR (Total Physical Response) and TPR Storytelling. In this course, students will acquire the vocabulary in Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim (the Squamish language) from a short story entitled “Hussa”.

This course will take a communicative approach to language learning and will focus on comprehension. It will incorporate effective language learning strategies such as TPR (Total Physical Response) and TPR Storytelling. In this course, students will acquire basic vocabulary in Ucwalmicwts (the Lil’wat language) for describing the self and family. The family, as seen from a Lil’wat perspective, will be the central theme of this course.

This course will continue utilizing the communicative approach to language learning and will focus on both comprehension and speaking. It will incorporate effective language learning strategies such as TPR (Total Physical Response) and TPR Storytelling. In this course, students will acquire basic vocabulary in Ucwalmicwts (the Lil’wat language) for describing the living world, from a Lil’wat perspective.

In this course, students will acquire basic vocabulary in Ucwalmícwts (the Lil'wat language) for describing cycles (the seasonal round, the cycles of life, the life cycle of salmon), from a Lil'wat perspective.

In this course, we will focus on selected master works of the Lil'wat oral tradition, as well as study the grammar of complex constructions.

This course will take a communicative approach to language learning and will focus on comprehension. It will incorporate effective language learning strategies such as TPR (Total Physical Response) and TPR Storytelling. The course will use as its guide the short story “Sealiya”.

This course will take a communicative approach to language learning and will focus on comprehension. It will incorporate effective language learning strategies such as TPR (Total Physical Response) and TPR Storytelling. The course will use as its guide the short story “Sinulhk’ay’”.

This course will take a communicative approach to language learning and will focus on comprehension. It will incorporate effective language learning strategies such as TPR (Total Physical Response) and TPR Storytelling. In this course, students will acquire basic vocabulary in Sháshíshálhem (the Sechelt language) for describing the self and family. The family, as seen from a Sechelt perspective, will be the central theme of this course.

This course will continue utilizing the communicative approach to language learning and will focus on both comprehension and speaking. It will incorporate effective language learning strategies such as TPR (Total Physical Response) and TPR Storytelling. In this course, students will acquire basic vocabulary in Sháshíshálhem (the Sechelt language) for describing the living world, from a Sechelt perspective.

This course utilizes the communicative approach to language learning and will focus on both comprehension and speaking. It incorporates effective language learning strategies such as TPR (Total Physical Response) and TPR Storytelling. In this course, students will acquire basic vocabulary in Sháshíshálhem (the Sechelt language) for describing cycles (the seasonal round, the cycles of life, the life cycle of salmon), from a Sechelt perspective.

This course utilizes the communicative approach to language learning and will focus on both comprehension and speaking. It incorporates effective language learning strategies such as TPR (Total Physical Response) and TPR Storytelling. In this course, we will focus on selected master works of the oral tradition.