| Course ID: | SPAN(LING) 3050E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Spanish Linguistics |
Course
Description: | Fundamentals of language in general and Spanish in particular. Linguistic knowledge, language variation, and language contact phenomena. Representative Spanish sound systems, syllabic structure, sentence patterns, and structure and meaning of words. Analysis of data from oral and written registers. Given in Spanish. |
| Oasis Title: | Introduction to Spanish Ling |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in SPAN 3050, LING 3050 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Prerequisite: | (SPAN 3010 or SPAN 3010H or SPAN 3011) and (SPAN 3020 or SPAN 3020H) |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This course introduces students to the basics of linguistic analysis with a focus on the analysis of Spanish in all of its rich diversity. Successful completion of this course will enable students to move on to specialized 4000-level courses in Spanish linguistics. Given in Spanish. |
| Topical Outline: | The following is a typical progression of the course:
- Introduction to the study of language
- Introduction to the Phonetics of Spanish
- Introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet
- Introduction to Spanish Phonology
- Introduction to Syntactic analysis of Spanish
The following is a non-inclusive selection of example topics that may be included at the discretion of the instructor of record:
- Introduction to the Morphological analysis of Spanish
- Introduction to the Semantics of Spanish
- Introduction to the Pragmatics of Spanish
- Introduction to the Dialectology of Spanish
- Introduction to First Language Acquisition of Spanish
- Introduction to Second Language Acquisition of Spanish
- Introduction to Variation in Spanish
- Introduction to Heritage Spanish
- Introduction to the History of the Spanish Language |