Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: BILINGUALISM

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course analyzes bilingualism from a variety of perspectives including cognitive linguistic, and sociocultural viewpoints. Topics to be covered include conceptual representations of the lexicon, sentence parsing, levels of activation of bilingual modes, lexical, phonological, syntactic, and pragmatic interference, code- switching, cultural identity, bilingual education, language and thought, etc. Cross-list: SPAN 440, SPAN 540. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.