The Spanish Language Program offers the possibility of completing all MAT course requirements in three summers, depending on enrollment. The MAT in Spanish is designed for individuals already teaching Spanish, but also is open to prospective teachers at the K-12 school level. Credits from World Languages Institute courses may be applied towards state certification and/or continued professional development. Teachers are required to complete successfully at least two Spanish courses in the World Languages Institute before applying to the MAT program. Details are available at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese or its web site at http://span-port.rutgers.edu.FALL 2021
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CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION OF LATIN AMERICA: LANG AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN LATIN AMERICA (CR. 3)
16:940:506:01:16323
Cross-listed with 01:940:404:01:23544
T; 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM; SPR-403
THOMAS STEPHENS
This class will confront issues of language and cultural norms in greater Latin America that have varied from related models of social justice in North America. It will consider the many ways in which language varieties are associated with discrimination and attempt to answer to specific instances in which language upholds discrimination and injustice. Topics will include the fairness of bilingual education in multilingual settings, racial epithets in civil society, gendered pronouns, discourses regarding migrants/migrations/immigration, patterns of communication that create more just societies, historical views of feminist speech, unconsciously misogynist and paternal language patterns, and accounts of BLM-related movements in Spanish America and Brazil. There will be invited guest speakers. Projects will revolve around real speech and its connection to a civil and just world. Taught in Spanish.
