Brings together central issues, concepts, and themes that define linguistics, while focusing on a specific case-study or case-studies, that allow for the necessary depth and rigor to produce a research paper on a particular topic of interest. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: One of the following: Spanish 327C, 327N, 327V (or 327W); and 328C; and twelve hours of upper-division coursework in Spanish.