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Garifuna Language: Using Music as a Vehicle

Enroll/Register Course Schedule: TBD 2022 Objectives: This is an introductory course to reading, writing, speaking and singing in the Garifuna Language. Students will engage in basic conversations in Garifuna, such as Salutations/greetings and counting from 1-100. Students will master the pronunciation of the Garifuna words by repeating each syllable, and will be reiterated by singing […]

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Introduction to Garifuna Leadership

Instructor James Eligio, MA Leading Innovation and Change Not currently scheduled Garifuna Leadership Course Description:Garifuna Leadership is empowerment and consciousness rising based on the unifying and liberating mental model exercised and propagated by ancestral Garinagu leaders which facilitates knowledge, skills, and attitudes relevant to living a lifestyle that is beneficial to oneself, to families, to […]

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Crafting a Garifuna Drum Using Garifuna Cultural Practices

Course Schedule: TBD 2022 Objectives: This course guides students as they create a Garifuna drum using Garifuna cultural practices. It is a pass/fail course. Students will be assessed on the quality of the drum they created based on predefined Garifuna culture based criteria. The reason for this course is to preserve the craft of Garifuna […]

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Introduction to Marine Biology

Course Schedule: TBD 2022 Objectives: The Garifuna Marine Biology is Committed to the conservation of the natural resources,biodiversity, and cultural values of our Garifuna communities where ever they arearound the world. This course incorporates the Ancestral Garifuna Mental Model, (the good practices and values of our ancestors)in the principles of conserving our natural resources. Course Schedule: […]

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English as a Second Language for Spanish and Garifuna Speakers

Sessions planned for 2022. Date, Time and other information pending. This beginning level ESL course is designed to cover listening, speaking reading, and writing,  while focusing primarily on pronunciation and vocabulary in simple English sentences. Course Schedule: Pending 6 sessions

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Garifuna Critical Thinking

This course is intended to develop the ability to analyze, criticize critique, and advocate ideas. The lecture will show relationship of language to logic, induction and deduction, facts, inferences, judgments, and formal and informal fallacies of language and thought. A little journal writing about issues of higher level critical thinking to develop reading for understanding […]

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