SPAN 445History of the Spanish Language
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- Spring 2021
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2021. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
In the course catalog from Winter 2020 to Spring 2021; Open Data has no classes for it in that time.
This course presents a detailed study of the external and internal history of the language. Topics treated include a brief outline of factors involved in linguistic evolution and language formation. The main features of the phonetic evolution from Latin to Spanish are studied with emphasis on the formation of speech sounds and the factors that spearheaded the mutations.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: One of SPAN 352W, 362W, 401
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 2020–21Its last calendar entry, on uwloo
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1980–81 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1980–81 to 1994–95 11 calendars
Origins and development from pre- Roman substratae through vulgar Latin to old Spanish and thence to modern Spanish. Basic sound and grammatical changes as well as word order and vocabulary.
(WLU 312/462-20).
Prereq: SPAN 351A
- 1980–81 PDF p. 465
- 1981–82 PDF p. 476
- 1982–83 PDF p. 414
- 1983–84 PDF p. 427
- 1984–85 PDF p. 427
- 1985–86* PDF p. 439
- 1986–87 PDF p. 447
- 1987–88* PDF p. 462
- 1991–92* PDF p. 470
- 1993–94* PDF p. 462
- 1994–95 PDF p. 465
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.