Intro to Spanish Linguistics: Presents the principal branches of linguistic study, as it pertains to Spanish: the sound system (phonetics and phonology), the structure of words (morphology), and the structure of sentences (syntax). Additionally, attention is paid to bilingualism, especially Spanish in the US, and how Spanish is spoken/written differently by various social groups (sociolinguistics) and in various Spanish-speaking countries (dialectology).
Narrative: While taking SPAN 301 gave me an insight on general use of the Spanish language, the real fun began in this linguistics course. There were many rules that I did not know about and learning them here really help out when it came time to do my capstone. This class was expanded on topics that I was vaguely familiar with and concepts that were introduced in a class, but only to clarify a certain point. Like how many Spanish words come from Arabic, I’ve only heard about that in couple of my classes, but in this class, we looked at the history as well. This was very important to know when you are trying to learn about the language. Dialects was the final topic of discussion and it was what our final project was focused on.