Beginning Navajo for students with no previous exposure to the language. Development of all four language skills, with emphasis on listening and speaking.

Beginning Navajo for students with no previous exposure to the language. Development of all four language skills, with emphasis on listening and speaking. Prerequisite: 101.

Fundamentals of Navajo for students in the medical profession. Does not satisfy language requirement of College of Arts and Sciences. {Offered upon demand}

Intermediate Navajo for students who have completed NVJO 201 or equivalent. Continued exploration of Navajo sentence and word structure. Course work will involve extensive reading, writing as well as situational speaking and listening skills. Prerequisite: 201.

The course continues study of the verb paradigms in Navajo and introduces the perfective, usitative, iterative, progressive and future modes. Extensive discussion on Navajo aspectual variation, stem alternations and conjugation patterns and verb parsing. Prerequisite: 311.

Introduction to Navajo linguistics including examination of the nature and structure of the language. Linguistics areas including phonetics and phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics will be covered. Prerequisite: 202 and 206.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Original independent study project approved by instructor. Restriction: permission of instructor.