Spring 2027

Topics in Spanish Linguistics

Advanced descriptive, historical, or applied topics in Spanish linguistics.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Catherine Stafford3.6/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.92 GPA, 91.9% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.64 GPA, 88.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Investigate and describe in-depth a specific linguistic phenomena characteristic of Spanish-speaking communities throughout the world and/or the languages they are in contact with.

  • Summarize and interpret books, articles and multimedia on linguistic descriptions, theories and opinions of Spanish and/or languages in contact with Spanish.

  • Develop informed research questions and proposals about a specific linguistic topic in the Spanish-speaking world.

  • Critique existing ideas about linguistic phenomena in Spanish and languages it is in contact with and propose novel analyses.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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SPANISH 225

SPANISH 446

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Raw average: 3.38/5 from 8 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.52 GPA, 77.3% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.75 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CATHERINE STAFFORD is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Spring 2018, Fall 2021, Spring 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.92 GPA, 91.9% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.64 GPA, 88.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Descriptive, historical, or applied topics in Spanish linguistics
  • Linguistic phenomena in Spanish-speaking communities and contact languages

Skills

  • Investigate and describe linguistic phenomena
  • Summarize and interpret linguistic literature
  • Develop research questions and proposals
  • Critique existing ideas and propose novel analyses

Grades

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Catalog & offerings

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SPANISH 446 · Spring 2027

Topics in Spanish Linguistics

Recorded 2026-10-14
SPANISH 446 · Spring 2027

Spanish-speaking Bilingualism

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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