Course Details

Course offered Autumn 2011

Honors 240 A: Issues in Bilingualism (A&H)

Honors 240 A: Issues in Bilingualism (A&H)

SLN 21301 (View UW registration info »)

Katarzyna Dziwirek (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Office: Padelford A217, Box 354335
Phone: 206-543-7691
Email: dziwirek@uw.edu

Credits: 5
Limit: 10 students

Honors Credit Type

Cross-listed with SLAV 470 and 570.
The course offers several perspectives on bilingualism: from personal to global, from the linguistic structure of code-switching to cultural aspects of living in two languages. We examine how bilingual children acquire two languages, consider the experiences of bilingual adults, and study bilingualism as a societal phenomenon (diglossia and language choice, language policies, language and national identity, linguistic minorities, etc.). We will pay attention to Slavic languages (e.g., language policies in Slovakia and Poland, the language situation in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and former Yugoslavia, etc.), but students do not need to speak a Slavic language. The bilingual experience of emotions and language maintenance and diversity in the Pacific Northwest are a special focus of the course.

http://faculty.washington.edu/dziwirek/slavic470/slav470syllabus.shtml