PAH 310 - Urban Multilingualism: An Introduction to Exploring Diverse Cities

Tucson is a multilingual city, an urban space in which many cultures and languages coexist, interact, and stake claims on inhabitants and space alike. This course seeks to clarify the distinctive characteristics of multilingual cities by focusing on Tucson and its heterogeneous cultural and linguistic context. Throughout the semester, we will use a variety of critical, theoretical, and cultural lenses to expand student understanding of the relationship between the spatial organization of a city and its linguistic profile. The course will balance readings and in-class/online discussions with guest lectures and off-campus field trips to help students develop the necessary tools and competences needed to engage with multilingualism in Tucson and in other large and diverse cities.