Taught in Spanish, this course serves to further familiarize students with formal approaches to bilingualism in the context of Spanish-speaking individuals and communities. Topics covered from a societal-level sociolinguistic standpoint include global language diversity, linguistic vitality, language death, pidgin and creole languages, linguistic identity and ideologies, bilingual education, and government-level language planning. Topics covered from an individual-level psycholinguistic standpoint include language processing and localization in the brain, acquisition and attrition, impairments, transfer effects between speakers’ languages, and models of phonological, morphosyntactic, and lexical processing.

Spanish 100 is a prerequisite for this course.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.