PhD in Spanish w

60 total hours of credit, a minimum of 45 in Spanish. (Hours earned for the MA are applicable. Also may include transfer credit. However MA thesis hours, required courses and minor courses do not count as part of the doctoral hours).

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. Complete hours from the courses listed below. Students are required to take at least two courses in Penninsular literature, two in Latin American literature and a fifth course from Other Areas.

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)

III. A minor consists of 15 hrs. minimun; 18 hrs. strongly recommended & required by SACS to teach minor at college level

Requirements not counting toward the 60 needed:
Reading knowledge of two languages other than English or Spanish. (A graduate minor in a language other than English or Spanish may be substituted for this requirement.)
8000-Dissertation hours (minimum 12)