Spanish for Heritage Speakers

Catalog description

This course celebrates students' multilingual and multicultural skills while supporting their competency in reading, writing, and grammar in Spanish. Students achieve these goals by understanding linguistic diversity and social responsibility through the lens of language awareness. The course focuses on the many varieties of Spanish that exist, how these varieties are accepted or stigmatized in the context of the United States, and what this means for the speakers of these varieties. This is a Spanish writing proficiency course. Prerequisite: SPA 202 or SPA 221 or placement based on UW System Placement Test scores. Consent of department. Offered Occasionally.