Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: BILINGUALISM

Department: Spanish

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: LING 419, SPAN 540, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 540. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.