Description: This course analyzes bilingualism from a variety of perspectives including cognitive, linguistic, and socio- cultural 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.