Native Peoples of Hawaii  
COMM 3943
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Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Oahu
May 20 -- 26 2011 (tentative for now)
 

    
  Course Description
This Northwest University course will address two aspects of Hawaiian culture:
language and history and will also address issues in cross cultural communication.

Students will also study Hawaiian history in order to understand the current political issues
that effect Hawaii residents today. Students will focus on cross cultural communication theory and identify
those traits which make communication effective in a multicultural state.

Students will study the basic fundamentals of the Hawaiian language and work on pronunciation and core vocabulary and work up to short dialogs.
 


Dr. Suzan Kobashigawa, Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Linguistics, Indiana University of  Pennsylvania, M.A.T.,
School for International Training. She taught English in Japan, Japanese in the United States and is currently
an Associate Professor at Northwest University, Kirkland, WA. She is a consultant with the Tulalip Tribe in
efforts to restore their traditional language.

Suzan wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on Hawaiian native peoples. She grew up in Hawaii and will lead the group on site visits to
culturally significant locations around the Oahu.

Tentative Course Plan
Students will meet once a week for a fifty minute session for eight weeks until the Spring Break trip to Hawaii.
The sessions will probably be in the evenings on Tuesdays. (Class times before the travel to be announced.)

On the Island, students will devote four days of traveling to research sites with one night for oral reports.
Two of the research trips to sites on the Island will be in the morning, giving the afternoons and evenings free.
Two full days will be devoted to sightseeing on your own.

After the travel portion of the course, students do not meet and spend the rest of the semester writing their
final paper.

Depart the first weekend of Spring Break for six days in Honolulu, Oahu. Depart March 6 and return 12, 2009.


On the water


The students and professors will stay at the Queen Kapiolani Hotel on Waikiki Beach. This hotel is across the
street from the Kapiolani Park and has a view of Diamond Head. It is three blocks from the beach. Student will
sleep two to a room in double or twin beds. Single rooms can be arranged for an additional $50 a day.


We will rent seven person mini vans. The trip fee includes museum fees, a luau, one group lunch and dinner.
Other meals on your own. There are many lower cost places to eat near our hotel.
Plan to bring $240 cash for extras and food.

Course Fee: $1,800
NOTE: Fees are covered by your financial aid so it is added to your total bill.

Contact the NU Financial Aid Office regarding the availability of financial aid for this educational trip.

.$150 Deposit to reserve your spot due before January 12, 2011. Make checks to Northwest University and
turn it into the College of Arts and Science secretary Esther Harmon (Second Floor Health Science Building, call 5226).
This deposit will be used to book your airline ticket and hotel room. We must have everyone in the class submit the
deposit to get our group rate. This non-refundable deposit is included in the $1,800 fee.


In the taro fields
Contact Pre Course Coordinator Gary Gillespie to reserve your spot now.

Don't pass up this opportunity to learn about culture and experience this once in a life time academic adventure.

Plan now to join us in Hawaii in March 2010

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