Fall 2024
Note: This list may not be comprehensive. Should you know of other CLASP-related courses not on this list, please contact kira.hall@colorado.edu.
COMM 6410:聽Discourse Analysis
Instructor: Prof. Natasha Shrikant
Time: T聽3:30-6:00 pm
Acquaints students with the main types of discourse analysis: conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, and rhetorically informed discourse approaches. Teaches how to conduct discourse analysis, including transcribing, selecting excerpts, documenting inferences, and linking findings to scholarly controversies.聽(From catalogue; please consult Dr. Shrikant for details specific to Fall 2024)
EDUC 4425/5425: Introduction to Bilingual/Multicultural Education
Instructor: Prof. Deb Palmer
Time: T聽5:00-7:30 pm
Provides an introduction for currently practicing K-12 teachers and non-specialists to bilingual and multicultural education programs for emergent bilingual students. Includes an overview of the history and legislation related to the education of emergent bilingual students, identification and placement, as well as the various models, theoretical and philosophical underpinnings, and pedagogical practices that constitute sound educational practices for emergent bilingual students.聽(From catalogue, please consult Dr. Palmer for details specifically to Fall 2024)
From Dr. Palmer:聽This course 鈥渨elcomes MA students with an interest in the history, politics, policy and programs of bilingual education in the US contexts鈥�
EDUC 5615: Second Language Acquisition: Principles and Practices
Instructor: Prof. Sue Hopewell
Time:聽M 5:20-7:50 pm
Presents a broad survey of second-language acquisition research. Stresses theoretical concerns and research findings and practical applications to teaching second languages. Gives special emphasis to second-language acquisition.聽(From catalogue; please consult Dr. Hopewell for details specific to Fall 2024)
LING 5630: TESOL and Second Language: Principles and Practices
Instructor: Prof. Rai Farrelly
Time:聽T 3:30-6:00 pm
Provides an overview of methods and materials for teaching English as an additional language, along with opportunities for students to observe, discuss and analyze these in relation to language teaching principles, linguistic considerations, and global and local contexts. Aimed primarily at the teaching of English to nonnative speaking adults, the course also addresses second and foreign language teaching generally. Recommended prerequisite:聽LING 5610聽or聽LING 5620. Same as聽LING 4630.聽(From catalogue; please consult Dr. Hopewell for details specific to Fall 2024)
SPAN 5440/7440: Trends in Hispanic Linguistics,聽Special topic:聽Spanish applied linguistics from a critical perspective
Instructor: Prof.聽Tracy Quan
Time:聽TTh 2:00-3:15 pm
What does it mean to聽know聽a language? Why is聽90% or more target language-use聽in the classroom the language teaching standard? Who is a聽native speaker? What constitutes an聽error? Which聽Spanish(es)聽do we teach? This graduate seminar explores foundational questions and taken-for-granted concepts that underlie and have shaped the field of Spanish applied linguistics. We will learn about key language acquisition constructs (e.g., input, corrective feedback) and the canonical studies that have contributed to their popularity in the discipline. We will then draw on critical, sociolinguistic, and sociocultural research and theoretical frameworks (e.g., critical language awareness, translanguaging, raciolinguistics) to problematize the generalizability of these constructs for the teaching and learning of Spanish as an additional and heritage language.聽This course will be conducted primarily in Spanish, with readings, assignments, and discussions in English, Spanish, and Spanglish.聽
OTHER CLASP-RELATED COURSES TO CONSIDER!
Note: These are not officially approved as CLASP courses, but you may be able to talk with the instructor to see if you can do a project on language and society as your emphasis for CLASP credit. In addition, they may count as a theory or methods course for the theory/methods requirement of the CLASP certificate, which need not be specifically about language and society.聽
ANTH 7000:聽Seminar: Current Research Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Politics of Numbers and Data
Instructor: Prof. Alison Cool
Time: W 10:30 am-1:00 pm
Course description:
Discusses current research and theoretical issues in the field of cultural anthropology. May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours.
ENGL 5169: Multicultural/Postcolonial Studies: Sound Study, Race, Indigeneity
Instructor: Prof.聽C Higashida
Time: T 1:00-3:30 pm
Course varies; consult instructor for description specific to Fall 2024
MDST 5001: Connected Media Practcies
Instructor: Prof.聽Steven Frost
Time: M 9:05-11:35 am
Provides a crucial frame through which students understand the evolution of film, television and gaming in the digital era. Explores an impending revolution in how screen media are created, circulated and consumed. Relates to a larger trend across the media industries to integrate digital technology and socially networked communication with traditional screen media practices.
MDST 6241: Visual Epistemologies: Theory and Practice
Instructor:聽Prof. Sandra Ristovska
Time: M 1:25-3:55 pm
Examines visuals as a form of knowledge on its own terms with an emphasis on both theory and practice. It first considers how social, cultural and cognitive mechanisms shape visual ways of knowing, and it discusses methodological approaches for working with and in images. Then it traces the complicated status of visual knowledge over time and across institutional contexts鈥攔eligion, art, science, the law, journalism and politics.
MDST 6871: Special Topics: Decoloniality and Media
Instructor:聽Prof. Nabil Echchaibi
Time: T聽1:55-4:25 pm
Decoloniality, Media & Theories from the Global South. This course explores foundational and recent theoretical trends in postcolonialism, postcolonial media theory, decoloniality, and theories on and from the South. The goal is to purge Theory from its narrow ethnic and singular universalism and reclaim neglected or decimated voices, worldviews, and epistemologies as they relate to critical theory and media studies. This course mobilizes another archive of readings, films, poetry, and art to make room for other ways of thinking about the world.
SLSH 5555: Advanced Topics in Social Communication: Autism Spectrum Disorders
Instructor:聽Prof. C. Meyers
Time: M 9:05-11:45 am
乐播传媒 will acquire knowledge and skills in the appropriate selection, application and evaluation of interventions for children, adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their families. Evaluation and diagnosis, including development of the IFSP and IEP, will be addressed.
WGST 6796: Queer Theories
Instructor:聽Prof.聽Emmanuel David
Time: F 11:00 am-1:30 pm
Explores key concepts and debates in the field of queer theory with an interdisciplinary focus on crosscutting issues (aesthetic, cultural, legal, medical, political and social) that shape queer subjectivities, practices and relations.