Global Language Issues
Global Language Issues explores how language intersects with culture, examining topics like extinction and revival, nationhood, linguistic diversity, worldview, literacy, and inequality.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2016: 3.41 GPA, 70.0% A/AB (n=40 letter grades); Fall 2019: 3.28 GPA, 53.1% A/AB (n=32 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.80 GPA, 84.8% A/AB (n=33 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Identify ways that geographic, social, and political events, movements, and trends shape the sociolinguistic context of the world’s languages
Demonstrate an understanding of subfields of global sociolinguistic inquiry, including language contact, variation, change, and death; language revitalization; the intersections of language, race, and ethnicity; the intersections of language and gender, and sexuality
Critically evaluate specific examples of language use in a variety of linguistic and cultural contexts
Design and conduct a sociocultural linguistic research project, including: identify a research question; collect appropriate resources and data; conduct data analysis and interpretation; draw conclusions, and summarize results
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2· UW Guide 3· UW Guide 4
Grade history
↗All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors
Prerequisites
Course mapNone
- None
This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.
Prerequisite text tree
- None
Professors
Spring 2027No instructors recorded for this selection.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections.
Meeting source records
No records available.
Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2016: 3.41 GPA, 70.0% A/AB (n=40 letter grades); Fall 2019: 3.28 GPA, 53.1% A/AB (n=32 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.80 GPA, 84.8% A/AB (n=33 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
No workload feedback recorded.
Topics
- Extinction and revival
- Language and nationhood
- How widely and deeply languages differ
- Language and worldview
- Writing systems and literacy
- Language discrimination and inequality
- Language contact, variation, change, and death; language revitalization; intersections of language with race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality
Skills
- Identify ways that geographic, social, and political events shape the sociolinguistic context of the world’s languages
- Understand global sociolinguistic subfields including language contact, variation, change, death, revitalization, and intersections with race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality
- Critically evaluate specific examples of language use in a variety of linguistic and cultural contexts
- Design and conduct a sociocultural linguistic research project from question formulation through data analysis and summarizing results
Grades
Latest available · Fall 2022— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
Grades over time
Through Fall 2022
More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data
Sources & history
Catalog & offerings
Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.
Catalog observation history
Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.
Selected offering source records
No offering records for the selected term.
Raw records
[]
Student reviews
Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.
Read original reviews
No records available.
Grade history
Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.
Explore recorded gradesRecorded 2026-10-14
Model outputs & technical records
LLM outputs across runs
Full model traces
Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.
Model & dataset provenance
{
"model": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
"model_revision": "1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0",
"task_version": "17",
"output_id": "5305d52d57d4129ab067325e8848e909d67fbc3dd46b5dc17c28458f98e6b2cc",
"requirements_status": "valid",
"dataset_revision": "fc1811fa52e581ea57a35c0cf3343f8740a8ffbf",
"observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00"
}