410/Spanish 410. Spanish Phonetics and Phonology. Spanish 275 and 276. (3). (Excl).
Offers a solid theoretical foundation in Spanish phonetics and phonology, including articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, phonological theory, distinctive feature analysis, practice in transcription, contrastive analysis of English and Spanish, the consonantal system and its process, syllable, linguistic atlases, metrics, origins.

413/Spanish 413/Education D455. Teaching Spanish/Applications of Linguistics. Spanish 275 and 276. (3). (Excl).
Principles of phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic analyses applied to the teaching of Spanish.

414/Spanish 414. Background of Modern Spanish. Spanish 275 and 276, and three additional 300-level courses. (3). (Excl).
A general history of the Spanish language based on the political and cultural history of Spain and Spanish America. The history of the sounds and forms, word borrowings, and changes in meaning.

450. Independent Study. Permission of department. (1-3). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for credit.
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member.

456/French 438/EducationD 456. Topics in Learning and Teaching French. French 232, and 8 credits in courses numbered between French 250 and 299. (3). (Excl).
Study of theories of language acquisition, teaching methods, and practical applications to the learning and teaching of language, literature, and culture.