Romance Languages, M.A. - Spanish
The program course outline and graduation requirements for this catalog year are listed below. 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 Sequence - 30 Credits
Students must earn a 'B' or better in each course.
Category Electives - 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
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: 2 Semester Sequence - 6 credits
Select one of the following tracks:
Thesis Track
WLL 590 – Writing the Thesis Proposal
WLL 591 – Writing the Thesis: Prerequisite is WLL 590
Special Project Track
WLL 592 – Special Project I
WLL 593 – Special Project II: Prerequisite is WLL 592
Comprehensive Exam Track
WLL 594 – Comprehensive Exam Seminar I
WLL 595 – Comprehensive Exam Seminar II