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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 SE, 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.
Note: Students are admitted only to the PhD program.
The Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics MA program provides students with a focused and rigorous formation in the literatures, languages, and cultures of Spain, Latin America, and the Portuguese speaking world. Students choose one of three areas of emphasis: Hispanic Literatures & Cultures, Lusophone Literatures & Cultures, or Hispanic Linguistics
The Hispanic Literatures and Cultures track provides 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.
The Linguistics 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.
The Lusophone Literatures & Cultures 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.
Program Delivery
Prerequisites for Admission
The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the program
is 3.00.
Other requirements to be completed before admission:
Required: Fluency in Spanish or Portuguese
Preferred: Undergraduate degree or substantial coursework in the fields of Hispanic literatures and cultures, Lusophone literatures and cultures, or Hispanic linguistics
Special Application Requirements:
The application deadline is December 15 for the following fall semester. Application materials include:
the departmental application;
personal statement;
writing sample representing level of scholarly development
three letters of recommendation;
a 5-minute voice sample;
a curriculum vitae;
TOEFL, MELAB, or IELTS scores; and
transcripts.
For more information, refer to http://spanport.umn.edu/grad/applying.html.
International applicants must submit score(s) from one of the following tests:
Key to test
abbreviations
(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 B: Plan B requires
30
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.
A minimum GPA of 3.50
is required for students to remain in good standing.
Students must have reading knowledge of a foreign language outside of their principal area of study. With advisor approval, students may take one 5xxx-level course outside the department S/N; one course within the department outside the area of study S/N; and language courses S/N.
Outside Coursework (6 Credits)
Select at least 6 credits of outside coursework in consultation with the advisor. Directed study, directed readings, and topics courses must be approved by the advisor.
ADDS 5081 - Multicultural Foundations of Behavioral Health
(3.0 cr)
AFRO 5101 - Seminar: Introduction to Africa and the African Diaspora
(3.0 cr)
AFRO 5910 - Topics in African American and African Studies
(3.0 cr)
AFRO 5993 - Directed Study
(1.0-3.0 cr)
AFRO 8202 - Seminar: Intellectual History of Race
(3.0 cr)
AFRO 8910 - Topics in Studies of Africa and the African Diaspora
(3.0 cr)
AMES 5920 - Topics in Asian Culture
(3.0 cr)
AMES 8001 - Critical Approaches to Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
(3.0 cr)
ANTH 5041 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
ANTH 8005 - Linguistic Anthropology
(3.0 cr)
ARAB 5040 - Readings in Arabic Texts
(2.0-4.0 cr)
ARAB 5993 - Directed Studies
(1.0-5.0 cr)
CHIC 5920 - Topics in Chicana(o) Studies
(3.0 cr)
CI 5608 - CARLA Summer Institute Seminar
(1.0-4.0 cr)
CI 5628 - Analyzing Learner Language in Second Language Acquisition
(3.0 cr)
CI 5656 - Teaching Literacy in Second Language Classrooms
(3.0 cr)
CI 5670 - Foundations of Dual Language and Immersion Education
(3.0 cr)
CI 8416 - Speculative Fiction, Radical Imagination, and Social Change
(3.0 cr)
CI 8671 - Sociolinguistic Research Approaches to Education
(3.0 cr)
CI 8689 - Language and Education Policy
(3.0 cr)
CI 8695 - Problems: Second Languages and Cultures Education
(1.0-6.0 cr)
CNRC 5071 - Greek and Hellenistic Religions
(3.0 cr)
CNRC 8513 - Scripture and Interpretation
(3.0 cr)
COMM 5211 - Critical Media Studies: Theory and Methods
(3.0 cr)
CSCL 5833 - Marx, Freud, Nietzsche: Intellectual Foundations
(3.0 cr)
DSSC 8111 - Approaches to Knowledge and Truth: Ways of Knowing in Development Studies and Social Change
(3.0 cr)
DSSC 8112 - Scholarship and Public Responsibility
(1.0 cr)
DSSC 8211 - Doctoral Research Workshop in Development Studies and Social Change
(3.0 cr)
DSSC 8310 - Topics in Development Studies and Social Change
(1.0-3.0 cr)
EMS 8100 - Workshop in Early Modern Studies
(1.0-3.0 cr)
EMS 8250 - Seminar in Early Modern Studies
(3.0 cr)
ENGL 5140 - Readings in 18th Century Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr)
ENGL 5510 - Readings in Criticism and Theory
(3.0 cr)
ENGL 5805 - Writing for Publication
(3.0 cr)
ENGL 8090 - Seminar in Special Subjects
(3.0 cr)
ENGL 8170 - Seminar in 19th-Century British Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr)
EPSY 5261 - Introductory Statistical Methods
(3.0 cr)
EPSY 5262 - Intermediate Statistical Methods
(3.0 cr)
FREN 5350 - Topics in Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr)
FREN 5470 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
FREN 8110 - Topics in Early Medieval French Literature
(3.0 cr)
FREN 8190 - Old French Workshop
(1.0 cr)
FREN 8230 - Critical Issues: Criticism and Thought
(3.0 cr)
FREN 8240 - Critical Issues: French and Francophone Cinema
(3.0 cr)
FREN 8420 - Critical Issues: Francophone Literature
(3.0 cr)
FREN 8992 - Directed Readings for Graduate Students
(1.0-5.0 cr)
GEOG 8230 - Theoretical Geography
(3.0 cr)
GIS 5573 - Introduction to Digital Mapping: ArcGIS Basics
(2.0 cr)
GLOS 5993 - Directed Studies
(1.0-4.0 cr)
GRAD 5102 - Preparation for University Teaching for Nonnative English Speakers
(2.0 cr)
GRAD 5105 - Practicum in University Teaching for Nonnative English Speakers
(2.0 cr)
GRAD 8101 - Teaching in Higher Education
(3.0 cr)
GRAD 8200 - Teaching and Learning Topics in Higher Education
(1.0 cr)
GWSS 5104 - Transnational Feminist Theory
(3.0 cr)
GWSS 5190 - Topics: Theory, Knowledge, and Power
(3.0 cr)
GWSS 8109 - Feminist Knowledge Production
(3.0 cr)
GWSS 8220 - Seminar: Science, Technology & Environmental Justice
(3.0 cr)
GWSS 8230 - Seminar: Cultural Criticism and Media Studies
(3.0 cr)
GWSS 8490 - Seminar: Transnational, Postcolonial, Diaspora
(3.0 cr)
GWSS 8993 - Directed Study
(1.0-6.0 cr)
HIST 5540 {Inactive}
(1.0-4.0 cr)
HIST 5900 - Topics in European/Medieval History
(1.0-4.0 cr)
HIST 5901 - Latin America Proseminar: Colonial
(3.0 cr)
HIST 5910 - Topics in U.S. History
(1.0-4.0 cr)
HIST 5932 - The Production of Knowledge, Negotiating the Past, and the Writing of African Histories
(3.0 cr)
HIST 5993 - Directed Study
(1.0-16.0 cr)
HIST 8025 - Politics of Historical Memory
(3.0 cr)
HIST 8900 - Topics in European/Medieval History
(1.0-4.0 cr)
HIST 8960 - Topics in History
(1.0-4.0 cr)
HIST 8993 - Directed Study
(1.0-16.0 cr)
ITAL 5289 - The Narrow Door: Women Writers and Feminist Practices in Italian Literature and Culture
(4.0 cr)
ITAL 5502 - Making of Modern Italy: From the Enlightenment to the Present
(3.0 cr)
ITAL 5970 - Directed Readings
(1.0-4.0 cr)
LAT 5003 - Intermediate Latin Prose for Graduate Student Research
(4.0 cr)
LAT 5004 - Intermediate Latin Poetry for Graduate Research
(4.0 cr)
LING 5201 - Syntactic Theory I
(3.0 cr)
LING 5202 - Syntactic Theory II
(3.0 cr)
LING 5302 - Phonological Theory I
(3.0 cr)
LING 5303 - Phonological Theory II
(3.0 cr)
LING 5461 - Conversation Analysis
(3.0 cr)
LING 5601 - Historical Linguistics
(3.0 cr)
LING 5900 - Topics in Linguistics
(3.0 cr)
MIMS 5910 - Topics in Moving Image Studies
(2.0-4.0 cr)
MIMS 8001 - Theories of the Moving Image
(3.0 cr)
MIMS 8003 - Historiography of the Moving Image
(3.0 cr)
OLPD 5056 - Case Studies for Policy Research
(3.0 cr)
PHIL 8510 - Seminar: Aesthetics Studies
(3.0 cr)
PHIL 8660 - Seminar: Social and Cultural Studies of Science
(3.0 cr)
POL 8660 - Topics in Comparative Politics -- Comparative Political Economy of Development
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 7402 - Biostatistics Modeling and Methods
(4.0 cr)
SCMC 5002 - Advanced Film Analysis
(4.0 cr)
SOC 8190 - Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance
(3.0 cr)
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 Literatures and Cultures
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan B.
Spanish Peninsular and/or Spanish American Literatures and Cultures (24 Credits)
Select at least 24 credits from the following in consultation with the advisor:
SPAN 5150 - Contemporary Spanish Literature
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5160 - Medieval Iberian Literatures and Cultures
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5170 - The Literature of the Spanish Empire and Its Decline
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5180 - Don Quixote
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5190 - The Crisis of the Old Regime: Spanish Literature of the Enlightenment and Romanticism
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5550 - Caribbean Literature: An Integral Approach
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5560 - Global Colonial Studies in the Hispanic World
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5570 - Nineteenth Century Latin America: Enlightened Thought, Nation Building, Literacy, Cultural Discourse
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5580 - Latin American Cultural Integration in the Neocolonial Order
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5590 - The Impact of Globalization in Latin American Discourses
(3.0 cr)
Hispanic Linguistics
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan B.
Required Courses (24 Credits)
Phonology (6 credits)
Select at least 6 credits from the following in consultation with the advisor:
LING 5302 - Phonological Theory I
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5711 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5721 - Spanish Laboratory Phonology
(3.0 cr)
Syntax/Pragmatics (6 credits)
Select at least 6 credits from the following in consultation with the advisor:
LING 5201 - Syntactic Theory I
(3.0 cr)
LING 5206 - Linguistic Pragmatics
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5714 - Theoretical Foundations of Spanish Syntax
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5716 - Structure of Modern Spanish: Pragmatics
(3.0 cr)
Electives (12 Credits)
Select at least 12 credits from the following in consultation with the advisor:
SPAN 5701 - History of Ibero-Romance
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5717 - Spanish Sociolinguistics
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5718 - Spanish Language Contact
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5930 - Topics in Ibero-Romance Linguistics
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5985 - Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Spanish in the United States
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5991 - The Acquisition of Spanish as a First and Second Language
(3.0 cr)
Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
This sub-plan is limited to students completing the program under Plan B.
Required Courses (24 Credits)
Lusophone Literatures and Culture (12 credits)
Select at least 12 credits from the following in consultation with the advisor:
PORT 5520 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
PORT 5530 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
PORT 5540 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
PORT 5910 - Topics in Lusophone Cultures and Literatures
(3.0 cr)
or
PORT 5930 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
Spanish Peninsular or Spanish-American Literatures & Cultures (12 credits)
Select at least 12 credits from the following in consultation with the advisor:
SPAN 5150 - Contemporary Spanish Literature
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5160 - Medieval Iberian Literatures and Cultures
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5170 - The Literature of the Spanish Empire and Its Decline
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5180 - Don Quixote
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5190 - The Crisis of the Old Regime: Spanish Literature of the Enlightenment and Romanticism
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5550 - Caribbean Literature: An Integral Approach
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5560 - Global Colonial Studies in the Hispanic World
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5570 - Nineteenth Century Latin America: Enlightened Thought, Nation Building, Literacy, Cultural Discourse
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5580 - Latin American Cultural Integration in the Neocolonial Order
(3.0 cr)
SPAN 5590 - The Impact of Globalization in Latin American Discourses
(3.0 cr)
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