Spanish for Heritage Speaker

4.0 credits

A Spanish heritage speaker has personal and familial, as well as community connections to an environment where Spanish is spoken. This course has been developed specifically for heritage speakers of Spanish with oral proficiency but little or no formal training in the language. The goal of this course is to develop oral, written, and readings skills in order to achieve an academic register in Spanish, starting with the language foundation students already possess, and building on the rich experiences and influences of bilingual and bicultural upbringing. We address the study of progressively complex grammatical structures in order to attain communicative competence, and to expose students to different forms of cultural production in the Spanish language. Limited to 12 students. Major, minor, and cluster credit.