Spanish Learning and its Influence on English Vocabulary

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Solana Messerly and Dr. Jeffrey Turley, Spanish and Portuguese The Spanish and English languages share many cognates because Latin greatly influenced both of them. Spanish is a neo-Latin language; although English is a Germanic language, many of its words have Latin origins. As a result, there are thousands of Latinate words in both languages, but […]

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a College Preparation Course for Hispanic High School Students

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Dayan Bernal and Dr. Thomas E. Lyon, Director of Latin American Studies This thesis examines the effectiveness of a college preparation course for Hispanic students at Provo High School. Studies indicate that the majority of Hispanic students in the United States are not enrolled in postsecondary institutions. As a result, their education is discontinued after […]

A HISTORY OF THE LARA FAMILY: THEIR LIFE IN MEXICO AND THEIR EXODUS TO THE UNITED STATES

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Jennifer M. Derby and Dr. Douglas Weatherford, Spanish and Portuguese The Office of Research and Creative Activities funded research into the history of my family and their experiences as Mexican-Americans. I was able to investigate what life in Mexico was like for my great-grandparents and their children. Through investigating the manner in which they lived, […]

Report on ORCA-Funded Interpretation Research

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Brian L. Price and Professor Mariam B. Labrum, Spanish and Portuguese Introduction Last year I submitted a proposal for funding to support a research project aimed at improving the quality of interpreter training at the undergraduate level for all those students with demonstrated interest in the field of interpretation. I claimed that such improvements would benefit […]

Translation and Commentary of Manuel Canete’s Prologue to the Obras Completas del Duque de Rivas

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Emily Bishop Milner and Dr. Dale Pratt, Spanish and Portuquese My project had two phases: first, to translate approximately twenty-five pages of flowery and rather difficult Spanish into clear English; and second, to provide a commentary explaining the relationship of the translated prologue to other similar works within Spanish Romanticism as well as continental Romanticism. […]

Roots of the Spanish Enlightenment: ILUSTRACIÓN and the Fruits of Philip II’s Administrative Policy and Personal Ideology

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John Brandon Fowles and Dr. Alvin F. Sherman, Jr., Spanish and Portuguese The Ilustración, or Spanish Enlightenment, followed in the footsteps of the general European Enlightenment but with a decidedly national flare. Enlightened thinkers in Spain, no less interested in neoclassical motifs than their European forerunners, also looked back to periods of Spanish history that […]