TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL & MODERN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES

GRADUATE PROGRAM IN SPANISH

M.A. CURRICULUM IN SPANISH, NON-THESIS:  Thirty-six total hours of credit**

I. Required courses, 6-9 hours:
5352-Methods of Literary Criticism
5354-Hispanic Literary Concepts
Linguistics 5322-Teaching Foreign Language (Required for TAs & GPTIs; encouraged for all others)

II. 27-30 hours  from the courses listed below. Students are required to take  two courses in Penninsular literature,  two  in Latin American literature and a fifth course from  Other Areas.

Students should take courses in the three main genres and in a variety of periods in order to acquire a broad general background  in literature in preparation for the Masters exams (see Procedures for M.A. Exams in Spanish
and Masters Exam Reading List). They may choose a minor consisting of 6  hours and/or any other courses from the lists to complete 36 hours.

Penninsular Literature

Latin American Literatue

Other Areas

5355-Seminar in Hispanic Literature (Penninsular: content varies; may be repeated for credit)

5361-Medieval Literature

5362-Golden Age Literature (content varies; may be repeated for credit)

5364-19th-Century Spanish Literature

5366-20th-Century Spanish Prose

5368-20th-Century Spanish Theater & Poetry

5348 - Study abroad in Spain- Culture & Literature

5355-Seminar in Hispanic Literature (Spanish American: content varies; may be repeated for credit)

5370-Colonial Spanish American Literature

5374-19th-Century Spanish American Literature

5375-Modernism

5376-20th-Century Spanish American Prose (consists of 2 separate courses on first & second half of 20th Century; each counts separately)

5378-20th-Century Spanish American Theater & Poetry

5348 - Study abroad in Mexico- Culture & Literature

5304, 5305-Advanced Business Spanish I & II

5353- Methods in Research & Bibliography

5340-Span. Lang. & Linguistics

5345-History of the Span. Lang.

5350-Theory of the Novel

5355-Seminar in Theory (content varies; may be repeated for credit)

5381-Hispanic Lit. of the Southwest

5392-The Play in Spanish

5347 - Study abroad- Language Development

7000-Research (maximum 6 hours)

(Comparable coursework from other universities will be evaluated.)

**Requirement  not counting toward the 36 hours: Reading knowledge of a language other than Spanish or English

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