The Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies offers a comprehensive language program featuring beginning, intermediate, and advanced Quechua language. Quechua was the language of the Inca Empire, and under Spanish colonial rule became the lingua franca of the Andes. Today it is the most widely spoken indigenous language of the Americas, with some 10 million speakers in Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina.
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| Martín Castillo Collado hails from Cusco, Perú, and heads up the University of Michigan Quechua program. |
Study Quechua in Cuzco, Peru
For more than a dozen years LACS has cosponsored the summer Quechua study program, most recently in collaboration with Centro Tinku which is directed by Dr. Jean-Jacques Decoster. This program is open to any undergraduate or graduate student who wishes to learn Southern Quechua. The program combines high quality intensive language instruction from the experienced faculty at Centro Tinku with the experience of living and learning in Cusco.
The program at Centro Tinku offers the same three levels (beginning, intermediate, advanced) of Quechua language offered in Ann Arbor, but each course is compressed into just seven weeks. Classes meet daily for four hours per day, for a total of 140 language instruction contact hours per course--the equivalent of a full academic year on campus. To complement the language training, participants also experience a series of lectures on Quechua culture and history and are guided on an extensive program of excursions and cultural events. Enrollment will be limited to 10 at each level.
Previous knowledge of Spanish is not required, though of course some familiarity with Spanish is useful for getting around Perú.
For more information, please visit the Quechua Language Program website
For more than a dozen years LACS has cosponsored the summer Quechua study program, most recently in collaboration with Centro Tinku which is directed by Dr. Jean-Jacques Decoster. This program is open to any undergraduate or graduate student who wishes to learn Southern Quechua. The program combines high quality intensive language instruction from the experienced faculty at Centro Tinku with the experience of living and learning in Cusco.
The program at Centro Tinku offers the same three levels (beginning, intermediate, advanced) of Quechua language offered in Ann Arbor, but each course is compressed into just seven weeks. Classes meet daily for four hours per day, for a total of 140 language instruction contact hours per course--the equivalent of a full academic year on campus. To complement the language training, participants also experience a series of lectures on Quechua culture and history and are guided on an extensive program of excursions and cultural events. Enrollment will be limited to 10 at each level.
Previous knowledge of Spanish is not required, though of course some familiarity with Spanish is useful for getting around Perú.
For more information, please visit the Quechua Language Program website