Spanish 260BL - Being Bilingual

This course will introduce students to key issues;and concepts in the study of bilingualism with a;focus on communities in which Spanish interacts;with other languages in Latin America, Spain, and;the United States. One of the main goals of the;course is to create awareness about the;multidimensional nature of bilingualism as an;individual, socio-political, cultural, and a;psycholinguistic phenomenon. Topics will include;degrees of bilingualism and the notion of;"bilingual continua", language acquisition and;language processing, relations between language;and identity, the linguistic effects of other;languages in different Spanish varieties,;language maintenance and language loss, language;policies and bilingual education.

Prereq: SPAN-209.