College Offers Choctaw Language Course
The College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas is offering a class this semester on the Choctaw language and culture. Freddie Bowles, assistant professor of foreign language education, is facilitating the course being taught by Curtis Billy, a Choctaw language teacher at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
The class meets from 10 to 10:50 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday in room 340 of the Graduate Education Building.
Bowles, the faculty adviser for the Native American Student Association on campus, has developed educational materials for the Oklahoma School of Choctaw Language and Culture in Durant and prepared teachers to teach Choctaw as a foreign language in public schools. She presented initial results of the teacher-training program to the 2008 international conference of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages.
Contact Bowles at 479-575-3035 for more information about the course, which is CDIS 490v 901 for three hours.
Contacts
Heidi Wells, director of communications
College of Education and Health Professions
479-575-3138,
heidisw@uark.edu
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