Language, Arts & Humanities
We offer a variety of credit programs, courses and certificates in the area of Language, Arts & Humanities. Browse the list below to find the right match for you.

2025 - Asia Pacific Dance Festival - Conference Attendee - May 31 Only
Asia Pacific Dance Festival Conference May 30-June 1, 2025 University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and East-West Center Join us for a three-day conference centered on theories and practices of dance in Asia and the Pacific Registration is available for attending…

2025 Asia Pacific Dance Festival - Conference Attendee - June 1 Only
Asia Pacific Dance Festival Conference May 30-June 1, 2025 University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and East-West Center Join us for a three-day conference centered on theories and practices of dance in Asia and the Pacific Registration is available for attending…

2025 Asia Pacific Dance Festival - Full Conference Attendee
Asia Pacific Dance Festival Conference May 30-June 1, 2025 University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and East-West Center Join us for a three-day conference centered on theories and practices of dance in Asia and the Pacific Registration is available for attending…
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Creative Writing: Writing Self, Land, and Memory
“Memory begins to qualify the imagination, to give it another formation, one that is peculiar to the self …. If I were to remember other things, I should be someone else” – N. Scott Momaday. How do personal history and…

Introduction to Writing the Short Story: The Power of Words
Want to begin or finish your novel? Are your lived experiences calling for a memoir? Do you want to try your hand at short story writing? This class is for you! This is an intensive four-week class that meets for…

Introduction: Language Endangerment, Globalization, and Indigenous Peoples
This unit will introduce students to the concept of language endangerment: what is an endangered language, and how is endangerment measured? What causes languages to become endangered, or even to fall silent? What’s the definition of an “Indigenous language” or…

Language Endangerment & Ecological Knowledge in Hawai?i and the Pacific
This unit will highlight language diversity across the Pacific, and some of the issues affecting Indigenous languages across the region in the last three centuries. In this week, we will explore the close connections between language, knowledge of land and…

Language Endangerment & Identity in Africa
This unit will explore the complex, playful, and fascinating ways that language shapes our identities, our social roles, and our ways of seeing the world - and how language endangerment in Africa has affected, or been affected by, these factors.…

Language Endangerment & Policy in Asia
This unit will highlight the vast language diversity of Asia, and explore the many different pressures leading to language endangerment in Indigenous communities. We’ll learn about some of the policy issues affecting Indigenous language communities in Asia, including which languages…

Language Endangerment & Well-being in North America
This unit will spotlight the languages of Turtle Island (North America), and how language is interwoven with physical and mental health, societal well-being, and Indigenous resurgence. We’ll learn about the many innovative ways Indigenous communities in North America are reclaiming…

Resisting Language Endangerment: Indigenous Language Reclamation Around the World
In the final unit, we’ll take a tour of the many ways global Indigenous language communities are working to revitalize, reclaim, promote, and advocate for their languages - and the successes (and challenges) emerging from the global language revitalization movement.