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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: Discourse Analysis

Instructor: Prof. Natasha Shrikant

Time: T 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. (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 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. (From catalogue, please consult Dr. Palmer for details specifically to Fall 2024)

From Dr. Palmer: This course “welcomes MA students with an interest in the history, politics, policy and programs of bilingual education in the US contexts”

EDUC 5615: Second Language Acquisition: Principles and Practices

Instructor: Prof. Sue Hopewell

Time: 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. (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: 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: LING 5610 or LING 5620. Same as LING 4630. (From catalogue; please consult Dr. Hopewell for details specific to Fall 2024)

SPAN 5440/7440: Trends in Hispanic Linguistics, Special topic: Spanish applied linguistics from a critical perspective

Instructor: Prof. Tracy Quan

Time: TTh 2:00-3:15 pm

What does it mean to know a language? Why is 90% or more target language-use in the classroom the language teaching standard? Who is a native speaker? What constitutes an error? Which Spanish(es) 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. This course will be conducted primarily in Spanish, with readings, assignments, and discussions in English, Spanish, and Spanglish. 

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. 

ANTH 7000: 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. 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. 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: 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—religion, art, science, the law, journalism and politics.

MDST 6871: Special Topics: Decoloniality and Media

Instructor: Prof. Nabil Echchaibi

Time: T 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: Prof. C. Meyers

Time: M 9:05-11:45 am

Students 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: Prof. 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.