Check out the courses being offered at Northwest Campus this Spring!
The schedule is available now! (.pdf 196kb)
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with Bernadette Yaayuk Alvanna-Stimpfle
Mondays & Wednesdays / 7-8:30pm / Jan 30 - April 18
Ten 90-minute sessions / 1 credit / ESK F115
Cost: $157
REGISTER BY: January 27th
Continuation of the Fall 2011 introductory course for students who wish to acquire the ability to speak Inupiaq. Students first learn to understand simple spoken language, then to speak simple Inupiaq, developing a beginning level of communicative competence in the language.
If you weren't in the Fall 2011 class contact the instructor for permission to participate.
Bernadette Yaayak Alvanna-Stimpfle directs the Kawerak Heritage Program. She has a bachelor's degree in Inupiaq Eskimo and a master's degree in Education. Yaayuk is a fluent King Island Inupiaq speaker who says she is still learning from her elders.
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 with Joan Kane
4-day Intensive Writing Workshop
Friday/ Feb 3 / 6-9pm
Saturday / Feb 4 / noon - 5pm
Sunday / Feb 5 / noon - 5pm
Monday / Feb 6 / 6-8p
REGISTER BY: 1/27 / ENGL F193 & ED F593 / 1 credit
This multi-genre writing workshop involves critical analysis of student writing as well as reading and discussion of works by established identity-writers. In-class exercises will get students writing. Students will then work with their own and others' poems, prose, or plays and the practical issues in writing (syntax, diction, rhetorical devices) they bring to light. This course is open to everyone.
Joan Kane is an award winning Alaska Native writer with roots in the Bering Strait region.
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 with Kirsten Bey
Mondays / Jan 17, Jan 30 - May 4 / 6:30-7:30pm
The Jan 17 class is a pre-meeting to choose pattern and determine yarn needs.
1 credit/ APAR F250 / Cost: $157 + materials
REGISTER BY Jan 30
Knit a traditional Norwegian sweater yourself, a loved one, or even your dog. The traditional "lice coat" of Norway is a design recognized around the world. Knit a traditional Norwegian sweater using 2-color stranded knitting techniques, knit in the round, make and cut a steek, and assemble the garment. Students can choose a sweater pattern complete with designs or create their own designs.
Students must already know how to knit with 2 colors, knit in the round and be willing to commit to a fairly large project.
Kirsten Bey learned to knit Norwegian sweaters from her mother, she has knit more than a dozen adult size Norwegian sweaters and recently taught a beginning Scandinavian Knitting class.
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Thursday & Friday / 6-10pm / February 9 & 10
Saturday / 10am-3pm / February 11
Sunday / 1-4pm / February 12
Intensive schedule / 1 credit / APAR F150
Cost: $157 + materials
REGISTER BY: 2/2
Gain knowledge and hands-on experience turning the raw material of the muskox undercoat (qiviut) into an income. Students will participate in harvesting, processing, combing, dyeing, spinning and making/selling qiviut fiber or knitted items. Contact campus prior to class for a materials list.
Marie Tozier, life long Nome resident, has been crafting, sewing and knitting for years.
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 with Michael Hannigan
Feb 16 – Mar 4
Tuesdays and Thursdays / Feb 16 - Mar 1 / 7-10pm
Friday, Mar 2, 9am-5pm (day-long field activity)
Saturday, Mar 3, 9am through Sunday, Mar 4, 10am (overnight field activity)
REGISTER BY: Feb 2
1 credit for classroom + day-long field activity / 1 additional credit for overnight field activity / ARSK F147A/B /
Cost: $157for one credit, $314 for two credits
If you travel or recreate in the arctic, you need knowledge, skills and preparation to cope with survival situations. This class covers survival kits, clothing, nutrition and hydration, how to build a shelter, sending signals, cold weather injuries, and safe travel. Build a snow shelter—and sleep in it!
Michael Hannigan is associate professor of social work and has been teaching a variety of social science and human service courses at Northwest Campus since April 1985—as well as arctic survival!
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