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Twin Cities Campus
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics M.A.Spanish & Portuguese Studies
College of Liberal Arts
Link to a list of faculty for this program.
Contact Information
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, 214 Folwell Hall, 9 Pleasant Street S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455 (612-625-5858; fax: 612-625-3549)
Email:
spptgrad@umn.edu
Website: http://spanport.umn.edu
Along with the program-specific requirements listed below, please read the
General Information section of
this
website for requirements that apply to all major fields.
The master's degree in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics is a free-standing, two-year degree with three formal tracks: Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, Lusophone Literatures and Cultures, and Hispanic Linguistics. The M.A. is designed as a preparatory degree for students planning to obtain a Ph.D. in the field. The M.A. program is built around 11 core classes taught by graduate faculty and designed to give the student a solid intellectual and professional preparation upon which they can build further in a Ph.D. program in the field or in a related career. The M.A. program also features professional training in the field, including a methodology class that focuses on the teaching of foreign languages and cultures. Students are encouraged to pursue deeper knowledge of related fields through courses taken with graduate faculty outside of the department. In addition to the 11 core courses, 2 courses in a field outside of the major program are required.
Program Delivery
Prerequisites for Admission
The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the program
is 3.00.
Other requirements to be completed before admission:
Prospective students generally have completed an undergraduate degree or substantial coursework in the fields of Hispanic literatures and cultures, Lusophone literatures and cultures, or Hispanic linguistics, although individuals with other backgrounds may be admitted.
Students admitted to the program are required to be fluent in Spanish or Portuguese. The Graduate Studies Committee may require completion of background coursework, without graduate degree credit, for admitted students with insufficient preparation.
Special Application Requirements:
All application materials must be submitted electronically through the ApplyYourself application system by December 15. Applicants are accepted for admission for fall semester only. Please refer to the Application Checklist for important details. The following is required for the application: the Departmental Application; a personal statement; a writing sample representative of the applicant's level of scholarly development; three letters of recommendation; five-minute voice sample; a Curriculum Vitae; GRE or TOEFL (or MELAB or IELTS) test scores; and transcripts. For more information, see the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies Applying page: http://spanport.umn.edu/grad/applying.html
Applicants must submit their test score(s) from the following:
International applicants must submit score(s) from one of the following tests:
Key to test
abbreviations
(GRE, TOEFL, IELTS, MELAB).
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the
General Information section of this
website.
Program Requirements
Plan A: Plan A requires
21
major credits,
6
credits outside the major,
and
10
thesis credits.
The final exam is oral.
Plan B: Plan B requires
27
major credits and
6
credits outside the major.
The final exam is written and oral.
This program may not be completed with a minor.
Use of 4xxx courses toward program requirements is permitted under certain conditions with adviser approval.
Language Requirement: Reading knowledge of a foreign language.
A minimum GPA of 3.50
is required for students to remain in good standing.
For the master's degree, students must have a reading knowledge of a foreign language outside of their principal area of study. Competence in both Spanish and Portuguese satisfies this requirement. Students who wish to continue to the Ph.D. after the M.A. are strongly encouraged to begin their study of Portuguese immediately so as to be prepared for the Ph.D. requirement of two Portuguese courses.
Program Sub-plans
Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.
Students may not complete the program with more than one sub-plan.
Hispanic Linguistics
This track is centered on the relation between language and its context of use, encompassing social, pragmatic, and discourse factors. It provides students with a strong background in the following areas of Hispanic linguistics: phonetics, phonology, syntax, pragmatics and discourse, historical linguistics, language variation, and second language acquisition.
Hispanic Literature and Cultures
Students receive a solid intellectual and professional preparation in Iberian and Latin American literatures and cultures. Works and intellectual movements are studied in their historical, social, and cultural contexts, combining the approaches of literary and cultural criticism with those of intellectual history, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, among others.
Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
This track prepares students in Portuguese studies, understood as an interdisciplinary critical formation through which the cultures and literatures of Portugal, Brazil, and Lusophone Africa are approached. Students are trained in the main historical periods, cultural movements, and social issues pertaining to the Portuguese-speaking world, both nationally and transnationally, within relevant comparative frameworks.
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