| Week 1 | Orientation, Introduction to the Okinawan language and culture; pronunciation practice with useful expressions |
| Week 2 | Linguistic rules for sound changes and structural characteristics of the Okinawan language; rules of the standard orthographic system; pronunciation practice, Okinawan map with place-names |
| Week 3 | Lesson 1 & 2. Using the text Hajimirana Uchinaaguchu (Let's Start Okinawan Language); Topics: greetings, family, friends and people's Okinawan names |
| Week 4-5 | Language and culture through proverbs (Selected readings from Kotowaza ni miru Okinawa no kokoro (The Okinawan mind in proverbs)); Lessons 3, 4, & 5. Numbers, Food and Clothes |
| Week 6-7 | Annual events, Okinawan traditional cultural practices: Relationships dealing with cultural products, practices, and their underlying value system |
| Week 8-9 | Annual festival: Eisaa, Kachaashii. Lesson 6: Animals. More useful expressions, Okinawan Karuta game, Hoogen News |
| Week 10 | Reading practice (Text: The Hoogen Shinbun (Okinawan Dialect Newspaper). Toyama Kyuzo, Father of Okinawan Immigrants, Okinawan tea gathering: Bukubukuu cha |
| Week 11 | Okinawan song:
(Text: "Tinsagu nu hana" [Hoosenka || The touch-me-not song]) |
| Week 12 | Small Group Projects: Survey on Okinawan language, local news in Okinawan language, and culture in Hawai'i; Small Group Projects: Group discussions for choosing group projects |
| Week 13 | Example Projects: (1) Interviewing and meeting community people for interaction in the use of Okinawan language and culture; (2) Visiting Okinawan cultural organizations; and (3) Announcing 'hoogen news', etc. |
| Week 14-15 | Presentations / Reports of Small Group Projects/Video taking / Feedback; Okinawan folk tales, John Shirota's works |
| Week 16 | Student-Teacher course assessment and evaluation (for improvement in following years), and semester-end party with Kachaashii and Okinawan dishes |