Students take graduate courses in our Department -- Romance Languages and Literatures -- as well as in the Program in Linguistics. Regular Hispanic Linguistics course offerings in our Department include the following:

• SPN 6xxx Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics 
• This course offers an overview of the main areas of Hispanic linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, history of the language, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition. Issues of research methodology for the different areas are also discussed.

 
• SPN 6715 Formal Instruction and the Acquisition of Spanish 
• This course examines the effects of formal instruction on the acquisition of Spanish as a second or foreign language through presentation of general theoretical issues and the analysis of various aspects of teaching and learning Spanish grammar. 

 
• SPN 6735 Special Study in Spanish Linguistics
• This seminar offers varying topics of Spanish linguistics relevant to second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics. Recent topics have included: Technology in Foreign Language Education; Spanish Language in Society; Research Methods in Second Language Acquisition, Input and Interaction in Second Language Acquisition, among others.

 
• SPN 6785 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology 
• This advanced phonetics course has many purposes. Primarily, it serves as an introduction to and analysis of the sound system of Spanish from both an articulatory and an acoustic perspective. Throughout the semester, we will discuss the difference between phonetics and phonology, different models for studying Spanish phonology (rule-based, Optimality Theoretic, etc.), and the representation of the sound patterns of a language (phonetic transcription). We also study some of the most important processes that affect sounds in Spanish. In addition, the course discusses dialectal variation between varieties of Spanish insofar as the phonetic and phonological inventories are affected.

 
• SPN 6827 Sociolinguistics of the Spanish-Speaking World 
• This course provides a general overview of issues in sociolinguistics in the contemporary Spanish-speaking world. General topics include language variation and change, language contact, language attitudes, policy and planning, discourse analysis, and social factors in Spanish language acquisition.

 
• SPN 6835 Spanish and Spanish-American Dialectology 
• This course describes the principles and methods applied to the study of regional varieties of Spanish in Spain and Spanish America.

 
• SPN 6845 History of the Spanish Language 
• This course addresses the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical evolution of the Spanish language from its Latin origins.

 
• SPN 6848 Medieval Spanish Linguistics 
• This course is an in-depth examination of medieval Spanish. Students will be familiarized with all spects of language, primarily through analysis of non-literary texts of the medieval period.

 
• SPN 6855 Structure of Spanish 
• This course explores morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects of the Spanish language.

 
• SPN 6856 Spanish in Contact: Issues in Bilingualism 
• This course provides analysis of structural, sociocultural, and political aspects of the Spanish language in contact with other major languages: Quechua, Guaraní, Portuguese, English, Basque, Catalan, and African languages.