Overview
Description
This course focuses on issues related to the Spanish spoken in the U.S. including heritage speaker bilingualism and language acquisition, exploring how prevalent misconceptions affect the lives of Spanish-speaking people in the U.S.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing
- Co-requisite: SPAN 227
SPAN 226SPAN 305SPAN 227
Corequisites
SPAN 227
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing; SPAN 226 or SPAN 305 or Co-requisite: SPAN 227.
Corequisites
SPAN 227
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Core
CO10, CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- interpret data, synthesize arguments, think analytically about sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic phenomena found in U.S. Spanish-speaking communities.
- summarize fundamental notions of the study of language in contact.
- identify and critique misconceptions about bi/multilingualism, language contact, and language change.
- articulate ways in which misconceptions about bi/multilingualism have affected educational policies in the U.S.
- analyze social conditions in order to formulate solutions for problems related to multi/bilingual education for bilingual communities.
- discuss how language shapes and is shaped by one’s identity through its intersections with social variables such as age, gender, race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status.
- carry out and transcribe an ethnographic interview with a native/heritage speaker of Spanish.