Special Topics in Cajun French

During the course of the semester we will study the particularities of the French spoken by Cajuns and Creoles in Louisiana and apply this knowledge to an authentic language documentation project. The project will allow you to apply and enhavnce your linguistic skills as you interview fluent senior citizen Cajun French speakers, then preserve representative samples of their French speech in their oral histories and other narratives. You will transcribe, edit and translate these samples, and incorporate them with visual support into a multimedia presentation that you.will present to the Cajun speakers as a family heirloom and to the T. Harry Williams Oral History Collection as a linguistic and historic artifact.