Derek Haywood

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Primary Title:  
Third Cook
Institution:  
Amherst College
Department:  
Dining Services - Culinary
Email Address:  
dhaywood@amherst.edu

Reflection/Experience Abroad

The purpose of this course is to help students reconsider their experience abroad, in an internship or in community service learning, understanding this experience to include their preparation, travel, return and future possibilities. We will consider the relationship between these experiences and students daily lives. We will explore the ways in which people with different training and life histories have approached issues of intercultural and international exchanges while considering the possibilities and constraints of learning across boundaries.

Spanish in the US

This course offers an exploration of Spanish in the United States from a sociolinguistic perspective. Students will delve into the linguistic, historical, demographic, social, educational, and political dimensions of Spanish as it exists in this country. The course examines both the formal linguistic structures of Spanish in the U.S. and the vibrant everyday social lives of Spanish speakers, with a specific focus on varieties spoken in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Spanish Pronunciation

This course offers a comprehensive review of the pronunciation of Spanish. The sound system of Spanish is introduced in a simple and concise manner in order to better understand how Spanish sounds are produced, how they fall into patterns, and how they change in different environments. Major attention is devoted to practice with corrective exercises, introductory training in phonetic transcription and, to a lesser extent, the problems of teaching pronunciation.
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