Course Description

BASQUE LANG/CULT, SPAN W154A

An intensive course for students with no previous study of the Basque language.

This course offers the opportunity to learn about the Basque language while understanding and exploring one of the oldest and richest culture in Europe. Students will be able to learn basic notions in Cultural Studies while acquiring basic skills in colloquial Basque.

Key Information

Credit: 4 quarter units / 2.67 semester units credit
UC Santa Barbara, Spanish and Portuguese

Course Credit:

Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.

If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.

UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit

UC Davis:
General Education: AH, WL, WC.

UC Irvine:
General Education: VIII

UC Los Angeles:
Major Preparation: ENGLISH major/American Literature & Culture major (foreign language level 1)

UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)

UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units

UC San Diego:
General Education: Warren - Transfer students may use for UD noncontiguous GE depending on major; Sixth - 1 NAHR GE; TMC 1 course toward upper division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; ERC - one course towards European Regional Specialization, Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Humanities

UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Barbara:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit

Prerequisites

Upper-division standing.

Course Creators

Viola Miglio
(Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 1999)
 
Prof. Miglio is a linguist whose main interests are phonetics/phonology, language change, and translation. Recently she has been active in the field of Basque Studies, as a result she has been entrusted with the Barandiarán Endowed Chair of Basque Studies, through which she organizes Basque Studies courses and events. She has published a number of articles on Romance languages and Icelandic, as well as two books: Las Antiguas Literaturas Celtas y Germánicas (México, D.F.: U.N.A.M., as editor, 1995), and Markedness and Faithfulness in Vowel Systems (New York: Routledge, 2005). She is currently working on a book about Basque whaling in Iceland in the XVII century (with Xabier Irujo, University of Nevada), and is one of the authors of the Íslensk-spænsk orðabók (Icelandic-Spanish Dictionary, in press for Edda Publishing, Reykjavík).
 
She heads the Department's Program in Hispanic Linguistics and its Phonetics Lab. Current projects in the lab are a contrastive study of L2 Spanish/German vowels (with Prof. D. Chun), typology of Romance languages and a comparison among different Spanish dialects.
(Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 1999)   Prof. Miglio is a linguist whose main interests are phonetics/phonology, language change, and translation. Recently she has been active in the field of Basque Studies, as a result she has been entrusted with the Barandiarán Endowed Chair of Basque Studies, through which she organizes Basque Studies courses and events. She has published ...

(Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 1999)
 
Prof. Miglio is a linguist whose main interests are phonetics/phonology, language change, and translation. Recently she has been active in the field of Basque Studies, as a result she has been entrusted with the Barandiarán Endowed Chair of Basque Studies, through which she organizes Basque Studies courses and events. She has published a number of articles on Romance languages and Icelandic, as well as two books: Las Antiguas Literaturas Celtas y Germánicas (México, D.F.: U.N.A.M., as editor, 1995), and Markedness and Faithfulness in Vowel Systems (New York: Routledge, 2005). She is currently working on a book about Basque whaling in Iceland in the XVII century (with Xabier Irujo, University of Nevada), and is one of the authors of the Íslensk-spænsk orðabók (Icelandic-Spanish Dictionary, in press for Edda Publishing, Reykjavík).
 
She heads the Department's Program in Hispanic Linguistics and its Phonetics Lab. Current projects in the lab are a contrastive study of L2 Spanish/German vowels (with Prof. D. Chun), typology of Romance languages and a comparison among different Spanish dialects.

Iker Arranz
Ph.D. Cultural Studies, UNR
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of the Basque Country
Basque Lecturer, UCSB
Spanish and Portuguese Department 
Ph.D. Cultural Studies, UNR Ph.D. Philosophy, University of the Basque Country Basque Lecturer, UCSB Spanish and Portuguese Department 
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