INTRODUCTION TO THE PROFESSION

SPANISH 319

Intensive oral and written practice in major areas of Spanish professional usage. Each offering will focus on an important field in which students tend to apply their language skills (journalism, commerce, medicine, law, social services, etc.).

SPANISH 225

Introduction to the basic concepts of linguistics as a discipline and explore real-world Spanish use (e.g., blogs and vlogs, language corpora, press, film, recorded conversations, class visitors, etc.) and how that use varies across regions, speakers, and communicative contexts. Through examination of how different Spanish speakers deploy language in contexts such as confronting social taboos, expressing humor, being polite (or impolite), persuading particular audiences, and negotiating individual and cultural identities, students will gain a foundational understanding of several areas of linguistic study, including phonetics/ phonology, morphosyntax, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language ideologies, and language variation and change.

SPANISH 771

Overview of relevant academic genres through readings and extensive practice in writing, critiquing and editing. Genres include conference paper writing and delivery; grant applications; how to prepare an article for submission, how to choose a journal or a press, and the editorial process from consideration of a manuscript until final publication; to prepare a dissertation proposal, write a dissertation chapter, and an abstract for the job market. Students will work on their choice projects throughout the semester.

SPANISH 327

Introduction to the linguistic analysis of Spanish, including morphology, syntax, dialectology, history of the language, language acquisition, and sociolinguistic variation.

SPANISH 815

Seminar focusing on theoretical, methodological, and applied approaches to a specific topic related to current Spanish (e.g,, Second Language acquisition, Applied Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics, Phonetics, Phonology, Language variation and change).