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Program
The department of Spanish and Portuguese of the University of Arizona offers a program of studies in Hispanic Linguistics conducent to an MA degree-- with the possibility of continuing towards a PhD in Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) and soon Hispanic Linguistics.
The program focuses on theoretical linguistics and provides training in Spanish Phonetics/ Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching. In particular it stresses connections between:
--> Spanish and other Romance Languages
--> Spanish and the variable social and geographic
Both of which are environments it flourishes in and around Tucson and
the Southwest US.
Linguistics in Tucson
The University of Arizona has the highest concentration of linguists per student of any Research-1 University in the United States. Linguists are part of an increasing number of Departments and Programs including Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Spanish and Portuguese, English, French and Italian, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), Anthropology, to name a few-- and they form a tightly related resource for theoretical, applied and multidisciplinary studies.
The University of Arizona is situated in the midst of Native American Territory and very close to the border with Mexico. Tucson hosts an extensive community of native speakers of Spanish making it a vibrant and endless source of linguistic reflection and research.
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Academic Life
Academic life in the Department is vibrant. Periodic appointments of visiting scholars and writers in residence, distinguished speakers, conferences and colloquia nourish in intellects of faculty and students and provide for stimulating interchanges of ideas. Among those to visit recently are Iciar Bollaín, -as writer in residence- Debra Castillo, Francisco Marcos Marín, John Lipski, David Herzberger, Tey Diana Rebolledo, Edward Friedman, Carol Klee and Guadalupe Valdés. Recent Conferences sponsored or hosted by the Department include: Hispanic Cultural Studies: The State of the Art, Portuguese for Spanish Speakers: Acquisition and Teaching and the MPA Latin American Film Tour. The Department is also one of the sponsors of the Jornadas Metropolitánas de Estudios Culturales held annually in Mexico City. Graduate students in the Department organize the Annual Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Language, Literature and Culture and publish the Selected Proceedings of the Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Language, Literature and Culture. The Department is also home to the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies and the Journal of Latin American Popular Culture and the new graduate student e-journal Divergencias. Students have the opportunity to gain valuable experience working on the graduate student journal and the conference or through appointment to an editorial position on the AJHCS or SLAPC.
The University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is an AAU Research-1 University with an enrollment of 35,000 and a faculty and staff of 12,000. The University library system contains more than nine million items, including more than four million books and ranks among the top twenty research libraries in the country. The library holdings include extensive collections in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literature, linguistics and history as well as a wide range of original and microfilmed manuscripts and documents dealing with the Southwest US.
Campus Life
The campus offers an environment that nourishes and enriches the lives of graduate students and strengthens their intellectual development. The Department collaborates actively with the Center for Latin American Studies whose designation as a Title VI National Resource Center provides substantial resources for graduate students. Some important cultural dimensions on campus include the Poetry Center and the The Center for Creative Photography which houses the archives of world-renowned photographers. Major art collections are housed in the University of Arizona Museum of Art. A wide variety of dance, theater and music is presented throughout the year by the departments of the College of Fine Arts.
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