Romance Languages, M.A. - Spanish

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The program course outline and graduation requirements for this catalog year are listed below. In addition, a 3.0 cumulative GPA is required for graduation.  The department website provides an overview of the program, including admission requirements, faculty biographies, learning outcomes, and careers: https://www.southernct.edu/academics/world-languages-and-literatures/programs.

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (30 CREDITS)

Students must earn a 'B' or better in each course.

Core Requirements (15 Credits)
Students must take at least one course from each of the four categories.

Category I: Premodern Spain to the Era of the Discoveries and Exploration
SPA 533 – Early Encounters: Culture and Literature of the Colonization of Latin America 
SPA 560 – Literature and Culture of Al Andalus
SPA 561 – Women Healers, Messengers, and Intermediaries 

Category II: Baroque and neo-Classical Literature and Cultures
SPA 521 – The Picaresque Literary Tradition 
SPA 528 – Cervantes and the Birth of the Modern Narrative and Drama
SPA 567 – The Golden Age Spanish Theater: Texts and Cultural Contexts 

Category III: The Emergence of Modern Nations, Post-nationalism, and Border Studies
SPA 525 – Cinema of Transitional Democracies 
SPA 548 – Modernism in Spanish America and Spain 

Category IV: Recent Trends in Hispanic Studies: Hispanic Pluralisms
SPA 516 – Gabriel Garcia Márquez Seminar on One Hundred Years of Solitude
SPA 531 – Literature and Cinema in Latin America 
SPA 566 – Literature of the Caribbean Diaspora
SPA 562 – Arts and Activism in Latin American Social Movements 
SPA 563 – Ghosts in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies
SPA 564 – Dictatorship and Performance in the Southern Cone
SPA 565 – Caribbean Women's Historical Fictions
SPA 566 – Literature of the Caribbean Diaspora

Directed Electives (9 Credits)
WLL 515 – Translation Studies in the Romance Languages
WLL 520 – The Historical Avant-Garde 
WLL 581 – Introduction to Graduate Studies in Romance Languages
WLL 582 – Popular Culture and Cultural Studies 

Capstone (6 credits)

Option 1: Thesis Track
WLL 590 – Writing the Thesis Proposal 
WLL 591 – Writing the Thesis: Prerequisite is WLL 590 

Option 2: Special Project Track
WLL 592 – Special Project I
WLL 593 – Special Project II: Prerequisite is WLL 592 

Option 3: Comprehensive Exam Track
WLL 594 – Comprehensive Exam Seminar I 
WLL 595 – Comprehensive Exam Seminar II