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Beginning Quechua Language and Culture I
QUEC 1010-002
Meetings:
Monday & Wednesday: synchronous class 10:10 - 11:00 a Kitt Central S161
Tuesday & Thursday: asynchronous class
Office Hours: Thursdays 11-1 pm, Muezinger E420 or by appointment
Intermediate Quechua Language and Culture I
QUEC 2010-001
Meetings:
Monday & Wednesday: synchronous class 11:15 - 2:15 p.m. Kitt Central S161
Tuesday & Thursday: asynchronous class
Office Hours: Thursdays 11-1 pm, Muezinger E420 or by appointment
Instructor Doris Loayza
Meet the Instructor:
Doris Loayza is a native Quechua and Spanish speaker, educator, and multimedia producer from Peru. She teaches high school Spanish (in Bloomington, IN), is a Quechua language partner for the Center for Language Study at Yale, and works as a language consultant and translator for films.
Doris grew up in Llamellin, Ancash in the Peruvian Andes. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima and worked as a social psychologist. IN 2007 she moved to New York City, and in 2014, earned an M.A. in Latin American & Caribbean Studies from NYU, where she helped to organize Andean cultural activities and produced a Quechua language podcast. After graduating, Doris studied documentary storytelling at the Bronx Documentary Center and made a short film “Bronx Llaktamanta,” about a Kichwa radio show in New York, that showed at the UN, universities, and other venues.
In 2017, Doris moved to Bloomington, IN, where she worked for The Language Conservancy, a non-profit working to revitalize Native American languages. She began teaching Quechua language and culture online for The Quechua Program when it launched in 2021. In fall 2023 moved to Boulder to teach in-person classes, organize outreach programs like Quechua Films Series and Quechua Games Night. Nearly one hundred students from diverse backgrounds have studied Quechua with Doris.
Doris is active with the Quechua Alliance, a national organization that promotes Andean culture, and enjoys sharing her culture through music and food (she grows Peruvian peppers, potatoes and herbs, and her pisco sours are legendary).
“Maymanpis quichwa shunquntsiwan purikullantsi” DorizWherever we go, we carry our Quechua hearts with us
Interested auditors: Please email Continuing Education at ceregistration@colorado.edu for more information on registering through the Community Auditing program.
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