The Bilingual Mind

Catalog description

This course exposes students to the psycholinguistics of bilingualism, by presenting a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of bilingualism, language processing, language acquisition, as well as cognition and the bilingual brain. This course is accessible to students with little or no previous exposure to the field, but it will also challenge and expand the knowledge of students who already took SPA 305 (intro de Hispanic Linguistics) and/or SPA 306 (Bilingual Hispanic Communities, which focuses on the social and educational aspects of bilingualism). This course will be taught to a group of bi/multilingual students (as it will be conducted in Spanish). Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirements Satisfies Pyschology major requirements. Satisfies Social-Scientific Thought requirement. Prerequisites & Notes SPA 260