TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL & MODERN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES

GRADUATE PROGRAM IN SPANISH

PH.D CURRICULUM  W/ EMPHASIS IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

60 total hours of credit including 30 hrs. Spanish; 18 hrs. Comp Lit

Three required courses: 6-9 hrs:
5352-Methods of Literary Criticism
5354-Hispanic Literary Concepts
LING 5322-Teaching Foreign Language (Required for TAs & GPTIs; encouraged for all others; comparable coursework from other universities will be evaluated)

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.)

(Substitutions for required courses permitted when courses are not available.)

Electives (in specialization & supporting areas; study abroad strongly recommended): 15-18 hrs:
5348-Study abroad culture course
5347- Study abroad language course
Spanish 53–- (all other courses)
7000-Research (maximum 6 hours)
Minor: 15 hrs. min.; 18 hrs. strongly recommended & required by SACS to teach minor at college level

Requirements  not counting toward the 60 needed:
Reading Knowledge Language Requirement covered by minor
8000-Dissertation hrs (minimum 12)
5100-Special Problems (as determined by TA/GPTI supervisor)

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