Program and rough topic outline:
1) Intro meeting
2) Concepts of bilingualism and multilingualism
3) Multilingual communication, code-switching and mixing, translanguaging and
crossing
4) Types of bilingual/multilingual situations, diglossia, language maintenance and
shift
5) Multilingualism in the workplace, in organizations and families
6) Language diversity, linguistic minorities and language rights
7) Multilingualism in the EU and in the world, autochthonous minorities vs.
international migration
8) Acquisition of bilingual competence, language attrition
9) Multilingualism and cognitive development, the multilingual brain
10) Bilingual education
11) Selected topics based on student interest 1
12) Selected topics based on student interest 2
13) Wrapping up