Spanish Sociolinguistics

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Prerequisites: Completion of the Core Curriculum Research & Professional Writing requirement, SPN 302, SPN 315 or permission from instructor. This class helps students to be acquainted with the different dialects of the Spanish speaking world, as well as with some linguistic phenomena that characterize some of the dialects. Students will be familiarized with Spanish dialectology and sociolinguistics research, and will be capable of doing field work to collect data for their own linguistic project. In addition, students will be able to collaborate in a major research project with the supervision of the professor, who will function as the main researcher.