HISP-S 498 Readings for Honors (3 credits)       LINGUISTICS
Prerequisite:  Prerequisite: S310 or equivalent for those students
who matriculated prior to Summer 2003.
S326 for those students who matriculated Summer 2003 or after.

This course is for majors who are doing Honors in Spanish.  This
HISP-S 498, #10004 meets with HISP-S 429 Hispanic Sociolinguistics.
If you are leaning toward Linguistics for your background on your
honors thesis, you may want to consider taking this HISP-S 498
course.

HISP-S 498 #10004  By Permission Only  2:30P-3:45P  TR  Room=TBA
Prof. Manuel Díaz-Campos
Contact Karla Allgood in BH 844 for permission or e-mail
kallgood@indiana.edu.

Description for HISP-S 429 follows:
HISP-S 429 Hispanic Sociolinguistics (3 credits)
Prerequisite: S310 or equivalent.

This undergraduate course provides an introduction to the basic
concepts in sociolinguistics. Notions such as speech community,
sociolinguistic variable, phonological and syntactic variation, and
field methods will be included. The course also surveys other
related topics such as discourse analysis, language and power,
language ideology, language attitudes, languages in contact,
language and gender, and language and the law. We will focus on
research examining the use of Spanish in Latin America and Spain as
well as in the US. Class time will be divided in lectures,
discussion, and analysis of problem solving cases. The evaluation
will be based on participation, homework activities, experimental
activities, and exams.