SPAN 6070 - Variations and Changes in Spanish

Recommended for graduate students of Spanish with little or no prior experience in linguistics. This course provides a foundation in the areas of Spanish linguistics that study how the Spanish language and its usage vary and change through time, place, context, and circumstance. Areas covered may include temporal variation (history of the Spanish language), regional variation (Spanish dialectology, Spanish in contact), contextual variation (Spanish pragmatics), social variation (Spanish sociolinguistics), as well as issues in the documentation of such variation (Spanish documentary linguistics). The course prepares students for the advanced study of more specialized topics in Spanish linguistics.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Acceptance into M.A. or Ph.D. in Spanish, or PTG status and instructor approval.

Credits: 3 hours

Notes: Open to Graduate students only.