Variedades del español

3 ECTS credits
75 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1021000BNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Students must have taken 'Morfosintaxis del español', before they can enroll in this course. If you are enrolled in a preparatory programme you can register this course without restrictions.

Taught in

Spanish

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Sofia Pérez Fernández (course titular)
An Vande Casteele

Activities and contact hours

13 contact hours Lecture
13 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
38 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This course discusses linguistic variation across the Spanish speaking world. The students will be familiarized with the history of the language, by analysing the origins of Spanish, the linguistic changes that took place and the peculiarities of varieties of Spanish around the world. It covers central topics in phonological and morphosyntactic variation of Spanish, analysed from a historical, geographical and a social perspective.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Documenten ter beschikking in de lessen of via het leerplatform + eigen notities

Additional info

Because this course is taught and evaluated in Spanish, advanced command of this language is required.

Study material will be provided over the course of the semester in the lessons or by the means of the learning platform. Additionally, students are required to take notes during the course.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Students are able to analyze diatopic, diachronic and diastratic variation in Spanish in a scientific way, using the appropriate linguistic terminology and concepts.

Students are able to carry out, under supervision, a small-scale study on a particular variety of Spanish.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 60% of the final mark.
PRAC Presentation determines 40% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Mondeling examen with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 60% of the final mark.

Note: mondeling examen met schriftelijke voorbereiding

Within the PRAC Presentation category, the following assignments need to be completed:

presentatie with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 40% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Students can only pass the course as a whole, if they achieved a minimal score of 8/20 for each of the separate evaluation criteria. If a student scored less than 8/20 for one or more of the separate evaluation criteria, he or she cannot receive a final score higher than 9/20. If a student does not participate in all of the separate evaluation criteria of the course, he or she will be marked absent for the course as a whole.

Partial grades can be transferred to a later exam session within the same academic year, at the written request of the student.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context