Hmong Culture & Language Immersion

Course Length: Two Semesters (Year Long)

Prerequisite: Hmong Language & Culture 1, 2, & 3 or see teacher for evaluation

This course is taught in the target language and further explores the history of Hmong arts, culture, and language.  Students immerse in the Hmong language and design independent theme projects. Students build leadership skills through community involvement opportunities and develop social racial identity and increase civic engagement through in-depth designs of their own textile art projects. Themes include Hmong clothing, embroidery, literary works, articles, films, and healing arts through a historical context. This course will cover all modalities with extensive grammatical patterns and use poetic language and literary arts with authentic texts.